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CodeLite revision 1528

The CodeLite team has released revision 1528.

What is CodeLite?
CodeLite is a powerful open-source, cross platform code editor for the C/C++ programming languages (regulary tested on Windows XP sp2, Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, Fedora Core 6 and Debian lenny/sid). CodeLite is distributed under the terms of the GPL license.

CodeLite uses a sophisticated, yet intuitive interface which allows user to easy create and build complex projects.

Here is a sneak peek at CodeLite functionlities:

  • Comes with two editor's themes: BlackTheme and Default
  • Generic support for compilers
  • Can be easily extended with plugins (Several plugins are already included in the installer)
  • Built-in GDB support, with the following features included:
    • Watches table - add persistent watches by a single click
    • Quick Watch - right click on a variable to expand it
    • Locals tree - automatically displays the current stack variables (also displays *this if available)
    • Threads view - provides list of currently running threads and easily switching between then by single click
    • Breakpoint management - add/remove breakpoint management panel
    • Automatic tooltip
    • and more...
  • Subversion plugin (based on the command line tool)
  • cscope plugin
  • Code formatter (based on the excellent AStyle)
  • Makefile based build system
  • Excellent support for custom makefile generators (such as CMake, QMake & Premake)
  • Project explorer (Workspace view)
  • File Explorer
  • Automatically imports MSVS workspace/projects and converts them to GNU based makefile
  • Active document outline
  • Sophisticated database based Code Completion mechanism, a default database is supplied which contains symbols for wxWidgets, STL and the standard headers
    • Function's call tip
    • Hover tip
    • Comments tips
    • Members List
    • Supports C++ templates, namespaces and other advance features of the C++ language
    • Automatically add include statement for symbols
    • Colourise local variables
    • Colourise workspace tags
    • Generate setters / getters for classes
    • Rename class/method/member name in an intelligent way (AKA refactoring)
    • Move function implementation from header to implementation file
    • Implement All un-implemented methods
    • Implement un-implemented methods
  • Quickly open resources in the editor using 'Find Resource in workspace'
  • Quickly open types in the editor using 'Find Type in workspace'
  • XML based syntax highlighting, comes with the following:
    • C/C++
    • Java
    • Perl
    • XML
    • Makefile
    • Lua
    • Diff files
    • PHP
    • javascript
    • Python
    • HTML
    • ASP
  • Text Folding
  • Bookmarks
  • Find In Files
  • Replace In Files
  • Highly Configurable
  • Built-in doxygen comment generator for functions/classes
  • And much more...

Download: Linux Download | 9.5MB | Freeware
Download: Windows Download (Installer) | 11.5MB | Freeware
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