Code::Blocks

sethjackson · Post by **sethjackson** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 3:00 pm

Hi for those of you who don't know there is this really cool IDE called Code::Blocks. It is built with wxWidgets.

They are looking for people that can help with the development of the IDE and the associated RAD editor.

Check it out here.

http://www.codeblocks.org/

The wxSmith development thread is here.

http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,372.0.html

jhurtado · Post by **jhurtado** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 9:19 pm

Try wxFormBuilder!

https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxformbuilder/

I use codeblocks for my wx-projects, even for development of wxFormBuilder.

Codeblocks is a great IDE, I really like it and the formula codeblocks+wxFormBuilder works very well for me.

Recently, wxFormBuilder 1.0 has been released and a new branch of this project will be started soon. The future of wxFormBuilder will depend on the interest and colaboration of other people into the project. I plan to create a public forum on sourceforge for all kind of ideas, suggestion, design proposals, etc.

I respect to other people who prefer developing another RAD from scratch instead of helping the wxFB development and I would like to say that there won't be any kind of competence with those projects, if you think that wxFB is useful for you, just use it, and if you want, you can contribute. There are many kinds of contributions: comments, suggestions, tutorials, translations (thanks metalogic), bakefiles, etc, etc.

I'd like to finish with some words for Upcase:
I think that your work (wxRapid) is really interesting, a few times you say that you lack of time for your project and I like to know if you would like to discuss your approach for future wxFB releases because I think that "sizer based" and "free hand" approaches could be compatibles.

Regards,

Jos

buildere · Post by **buildere** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 2:43 am

I'm pro Code::Blocks, I think it is a great tool, and I apreciate a lot the work made by the developers involved in that project. But since the begining, I felt very disapointed that they choosed to make wxSmith for Code::blocks instead of using the already existing at that point wxFormBuilder, making unnecessary reinvent-the-weel-yet-one-more-time work, and forking the options yet one more time for the users, making things more confusing and the efforts less productive: for instance, if wxFormBuilder is abandoned because of lack of interes, it will be just wasted work. I think OSS community cannot afford the luxury of wasting precious volunteer work, specially when almost not a single project has reached the goal that like 10 are trying to met, in the case of wx-GUI designers.

mispunt · Post by **mispunt** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 11:45 am

The making of wxSmith is not a desision that is made by the main developers, it is started by someone else.
the development of Code::Blocks isn't suffer under the development of wxSmith.
And for some people it is a problem that wxFormBuilder is a sepperate application and not a plugin which is integrated in C::B.
And you can't force the main developers of wxSmith to work on an other project. They like to work (and reinvent the wheel) on wxSmith.

buildere · Post by **buildere** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 8:12 pm

mispunt wrote:The making of wxSmith is not a desision that is made by the main developers, it is started by someone else.
the development of Code::Blocks isn't suffer under the development of wxSmith.

That's not the problem. The problem is that
1- GUI Development work is less concentrated -> then, less productive.
2- Users "suffer" because they have so many options, some offer some things, some other things, but ironically, none of the options is complete so they have to use a mixture of tools that complicates work and finally could drive away some people from wxWidgets.
3- Valuable Developers, like Jos

sethjackson · Post by **sethjackson** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:00 pm

LOL. I accepted it because mispunt is a C::B dev.

Sorry I didn't mean to hurt anyone's feelings.

mispunt · Post by **mispunt** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 1:06 pm

I understand you, and I agree with you buildere, I didn't know/remember that Jos

jhurtado · Post by **jhurtado** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 4:51 pm

[quote="mispunt"]I understand you, and I agree with you buildere, I didn't know/remember that Jos

mispunt · Post by **mispunt** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 8:56 pm

I think this is a good idea.

But if I understand you correctly, you are going to make a kind of SDK which the C::B plugin developer can use.

jhurtado · Post by **jhurtado** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:57 pm

The idea consist in to encapsulate wxFormBuilder into a class and build the application into a DLL. This DLL will have one exported function which will create the instance of this class (wxFormBuilderInterface *).

Codeblocks developers will use this instance for sending commands (undo, redo, generate code, etc) to wxFormBuilder and they won't need to know wxFB internals.

Regards.

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