What IDE do you use?

[Kenneth Camargo]

cool If I get time, I will give it another go. But great is wxFB compared to wxSmith. One thing I appreciate is that, wxSmith supports much features like AUI but there is a work around for this

Hi, I didn't understand your last sentence, whether you meant that wxSmith has or does not have support fo wxAUI - it does, if you meant to ask that.

In terms of actually designing screens they seem to me to work exactly the same way, the big difference is that wxFormBuilder creates a class that is meant to be derived, whereas wxSmith writes code that you can modify directly. I know that there are good reasons why the wxFB people chose the first approach (as they state in the docs), but I prefer the latter.

In the end, much boils down to personal preference, and in matters of taste, to each its own.

Ken

[evstevemd]

Hi, I didn't understand your last sentence, whether you meant that wxSmith has or does not have support fo wxAUI - it does, if you meant to ask that.

I meant that wxAuiManager is supported by wxS while wxFB doesn't. But there is work around with wxFB to get is done.

In terms of actually designing screens they seem to me to work exactly the same way, the big difference is that wxFormBuilder creates a class that is meant to be derived, whereas wxSmith writes code that you can modify directly. I know that there are good reasons why the wxFB people chose the first approach (as they state in the docs), but I prefer the latter.

Sure, I understand now why we differ. I lobe the wxFB approach to inheritance than mess up with codes. You like the other approach.

In the end, much boils down to personal preference, and in matters of taste, to each its own.

Ken

Voila!

[evstevemd]

Today I was exploring Codelite, viewing demo videos and so forth. I discovered that Codelite have many features than Code::Blocks. I don't say code::Blocks is small IDE but I have to confess the truth. I'm thinking of even Going back give that wxSmith is not my Builder.

I still use C::B in windows and I need to familiarize well with CL.

It is greater than I imagined. I have to be caeful now about statements I make about wxSmith. It might be of what I thought of codelite.

Bravo to C::B & Eran for such great free piece if IDEs I wish that could be the case for PHP

[Muetdhiver]

I'm using Eclipse both on Windows and ubuntu, with the same project and wxwdigets, so my application runs on both plateforms.

I'm really surprise that nobody use Eclipse CDT with wxwdigets, and I want to know why ?

I also want to know wich debugger comes with Codelite, and if it is supporting debugging for wxWidgets base objects ? (for example the ability of reading wxString, wxList content, etc.) ?
If it is GDB, how do you achieve this ?

Thanks.

[eranif]

I also want to know wich debugger comes with Codelite, and if it is supporting debugging for wxWidgets base objects ? (for example the ability of reading wxString, wxList content, etc.) ?
If it is GDB, how do you achieve this ?

codelite is using gdb as its internal debugger.

If you develop on Windows, downloading the package which bundles wxWidgets + MinGW (contains the *official* gcc4.4.0/gdb7.0) is the best option for you.

The bundled wxWidgets is a monolithic build of wxWidgets as DLLs (Debug/Release, both unicode)

codelite uses the GDB MI (Machine Interface) which provides much more powerful debugging capabilities than the normal CLI mode.

However, wxList (from the wxWidgets2.8.X) holds its data as 'void*' - this is why gdb can not display the content only the address, you will need to cast it.

I am attaching 3 screenshots for debugging this simple code:

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#include <string>
#include <wx/list.h>

WX_DECLARE_LIST(std::string, MyList);

#include <wx/listimpl.cpp>
WX_DEFINE_LIST(MyList);

int main(int zargc, char **zargv)
{
	MyList list;
	std::string s1("eran");
	std::string s2("ifrah");
    list.Append(&s1);
    list.Append(&s2);

	wxString wxStr;
	wxStr = wxT("wxstring content");

	return 0;
}

Eran

[frank_frl]

I'm using CodeLite now for more than one year for my daily work (MAC and PC) and for me it's the best IDE I ever had.(Used Code::Blocks before, tried all kind of free IDEs).

CodeLite is quiet small and focused on C++, code completion works well and it has a lot of features which make programmers life easy and productive. But the best thing about it is Eran's endless effort in making this great peace of software better and better.(With success BTW)

Frank

[HJTrost]

I'm really surprise that nobody use Eclipse CDT with wxwdigets, and I want to know why ?

Well, here's another CDT-Ecliptician using it with wx2.8.10, on Windows (XP SP3) only at this time but Linux as a complement is waiting in the wings (Ubuntu 8.04 right now, may become 10.4 when it comes out). Not quite happy with everything yet, though. I'll put a check on Eclipse in the poll anyway.

Cheers, Jochen