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CodeLite IDE for C/C++, revision 1457

Posted by Eran Ifrah via codelite team on 29 April 2008 - 07:50 · 6 comments & 3151 views

The CodeLite team has released revision 1457. This revision is one of the final released before going into beta.

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:

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
- 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: for Linux | 9.5MB | Freeware

Download: for Windows (Installer) | 9.5MB | Freeware

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#1 Posted by buletov on 29 Apr 2008 - 09:39: It looks like a powerful tool. Coming from the Lua world, it's nice to see that it is understood by this editor.

(1 reply) #2 Posted by Rudy on 29 Apr 2008 - 13:25: ohhhh.... I like what I see....I might have to give it a try

(2 replies) #3 Posted by eilegz on 29 Apr 2008 - 21:48: is it compatible with turbo C or Turbo C++?

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