Hi Sharninder,
>>>>> "Sharninder" == Sharninder Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sharninder> HI All, I have been trying to get myself to use one of
Sharninder> the many IDEs available on Linux and have mostly
Sharninder> brought down my choices to between
Sharninder> RHIDE/Anjuta/Kdevelop. I have'nt yet been able to give
Sharninder> RHIDE a shot because of certain dependency problems
Sharninder> but i am an old TurboC/C++ IDE fan and like its clean
Sharninder> interface anyday to any of the GUI editors so i will
Sharninder> give it a shot sometime soon. Anyways, thats a
Sharninder> different story altogether. Now, as far as GUI IDEs
Sharninder> are concerned, Kdevelop and Anjuta both seem pretty
Sharninder> good. Being a Gnome fan I decided to start with Anjuta
Sharninder> for now. The interface seems pretty nice but one thing
Sharninder> i have always missed (and wondered wether it was
Sharninder> really that difficult to implement !!) is the ability
Sharninder> of the IDE to refresh the side window containing the
Sharninder> module/function list as soon as a new
Sharninder> function/module/variable is added to the program. I
Sharninder> have observed that both in Kdevelop and Anjuta one has
Sharninder> to save the project and manually refresh the modules
Sharninder> window to make the newly added code to appear in the
Sharninder> list. This is not the case with MSVC though and as
Sharninder> soon as function is added it appears in the list. Why
Sharninder> can't two of the most famous Linux IDEs do the same ?
Sharninder> Anjuta seemed to be much easier than MSVC in all other
Sharninder> respects expect this one little missing feature..
Sharninder> Well, I decided to explore this a little further and
Sharninder> since I had the source code of Anjuta, I decided to
Sharninder> try and implement this feature myself. Now, Since I
Sharninder> have not written an IDE ever, for the time being i
Sharninder> decided that i would be a start if I was able to
Sharninder> atleast make the modules list refresh whenever the
Sharninder> enter key was pressed ( I know this is not exactly wat
Sharninder> we want, I forgot to save the project and then refresh
Sharninder> .. but u get the idea basically !!). Now, combined
Sharninder> with the ability of auto save and my own little
Sharninder> addition to the code, I have a simple and very very
Sharninder> very crude way to automatically refresh the module
Sharninder> list. It's way too slow to be of any practical use but
Sharninder> it works !! After two hours of fiddling with the code
Sharninder> and grepping the source if I could manage to add the
Sharninder> above feature whats stopping the developers to add
Sharninder> this feature to the IDEs (This is for the first time i
Sharninder> was looking at the source code of Anjuta), why can't
Sharninder> this feature be implemented in the IDE (and properly
Sharninder> implemeted, not my dumb implementation.) Any comments
Sharninder> are welcome.
I'd recommend mailing Naba Kumar (the author of Anjuta) and checking
whether you can work together on implementing this feature.
Naba lives right here in Delhi.
Regards,
-- Raju
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