Best Graphical C++ editor

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soccerplayer · Post by **soccerplayer** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 8:10 pm

I just want your guys input on what is the best graphical C++ editor for Linux.

scriptkiddie · Post by **scriptkiddie** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 8:13 pm

KDevelop is a great IDE for Linux

Lycander · Post by **Lycander** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 8:19 pm

I agree, KDevelop is great. But I'd like to see a GTK IDE that's just as good because it starts to get quite expensive running Gnome and then having to load kdeinit and such just to run KDevelop.

I'm waiting for someone to make a Scaffold ebuild, I believe that's what is formerly known as Anjuta. Anjuta is ok, not as feature rich as KDevelop and it uses the older GTK widgets so no font AA (on a 12" laptop LCD it matters).

scriptkiddie · Post by **scriptkiddie** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 8:21 pm

I would also like to see a GTK IDE considering the fact that I rarely use KDE and KDevelop runs like crap in flux

Genone · Post by **Genone** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 8:32 pm

Not sure what you mean by graphical. If you're only looking for a GUI based editor (as opposed to an IDE) I'd suggest nedit or scite.

GentooBox · Post by **GentooBox** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 8:36 pm

what about nEdit ?

BradB · Post by **BradB** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 9:15 pm

Anjuta is very nice.

gnac · Post by **gnac** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 9:31 pm

If your just looking for an IDE. Eclipse has a c/c++ plugin that allows you to develop C. It also comes with the handy features like code insight, expression completion, project management etc... It will also allow you to code java (its original intent) and there are plugins for developing OO diagrams and the like.

I know there is a Java GUI development plugin, but I doubt that one exists for C but I could be wrong.

Downside is you have to have java installed which hogs resources when running, but it runs very quickly (without any noticeable lags) on my Athlon 2.6. Upside is that it is gtk/kde independent.

yozik · Post by **yozik** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 10:14 pm

Slickedit is a wonderful IDE to use, and not just for c/c++ it does many other languages as well.
It has dropdown of functions pulls up referrences to API and many other things as well

check it out at slickedit.com

Twink · Post by **Twink** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 11:40 pm

and yet no one mentions gvim yet?..

Anacific · Post by **Anacific** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 2:23 am

When it come to IDEs the best ones I've used are KDevelop (for KDE/Qt) and Anjuta (Gnome/GTK)

Arker · Post by **Arker** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 3:27 am

Lycander wrote: I'm waiting for someone to make a Scaffold ebuild, I believe that's what is formerly known as Anjuta. Anjuta is ok, not as feature rich as KDevelop and it uses the older GTK widgets so no font AA (on a 12" laptop LCD it matters).

If you

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# emerge /usr/portage/dev-util/anjuta/anjuta-1.1.1.ebuild

you get Anjuta that uses GTK2 widgets. I have +gtk2 as a USE flag, however I don't know if it is necessary. Screenshots here.

I assume this is what you meant by old widgets?

Enjoy,
~arker

zhenlin · Post by **zhenlin** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 3:54 am

Anjuta with GTK+2 is very pretty. USE="gtk2" is not needed.

Scaffold sounds interesting... But why the name change?

IvanHoe · Post by **IvanHoe** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 5:10 am

Anjuta is very nice. I personally stay away from anything to do with the K desktop because of the proprietatry nature of Qt.

iwasbiggs · Post by **iwasbiggs** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 5:26 am

zhenlin wrote:Anjuta with GTK+2 is very pretty. USE="gtk2" is not needed.

Scaffold sounds interesting... But why the name change?

I think anjuta is being moved entirely into gnome, perhaps something so monumental requires such a change.

Lycander · Post by **Lycander** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 5:47 am

IvanHoe wrote:Anjuta is very nice. I personally stay away from anything to do with the K desktop because of the proprietatry nature of Qt.

What's proprietary about Qt? The fact that it can coexist as open source and commercial software?

Arker wrote:I assume this is what you meant by old widgets?

I do in fact have gtk2 in my USE flag yet Anjuta still looks like it's using GTK1

xr31Daisy · Post by **xr31Daisy** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 8:56 am

zhenlin wrote:Scaffold sounds interesting... But why the name change?

Anjuta2 was supposed to be a merge between Anjuta and gIDE, which never happened. So the Anjuta Hackers went back to porting Anjuta1 to gtk2. And the gIDE people had no reason to keep the anjuta name. You can have a look at this article on gnomedesktop more something more detailled.

Has anybody given scaffold a try yet ? ( Despite the dependency on Gnome 2.3 ! )

Genone · Post by **Genone** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 9:20 am

xr31Daisy wrote:Has anybody given scaffold a try yet ? ( Despite the dependency on Gnome 2.3 ! )

There is a thread about it, but it seems that there was something broken in the release so you can't build it.

Arker · Post by **Arker** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 10:26 am

Lycander wrote: I do in fact have gtk2 in my USE flag yet Anjuta still looks like it's using GTK1

Well make sure you emerge the right version of Anjuta using the full path to the ebuild as I did up there in my last post. I think just typing "emerge anjuta" still gives you version 1.0.2 or something. That is why you are still getting GTK1 widgets.

Good luck,
~arker

IvanHoe · Post by **IvanHoe** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 10:35 am

What's proprietary about Qt? The fact that it can coexist as open source and commercial software?

Qt is not open source.

Genone · Post by **Genone** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 11:02 am

IvanHoe wrote:
What's proprietary about Qt? The fact that it can coexist as open source and commercial software?
Qt is not open source.

RMS himself said that it is free software.

() · Post by () » Wed Aug 27, 2003 12:22 pm

Ah, people getting into arguments over software licenses ..

Lycander · Post by **Lycander** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 1:57 pm

Arker wrote:Well make sure you emerge the right version of Anjuta using the full path to the ebuild as I did up there in my last post. I think just typing "emerge anjuta" still gives you version 1.0.2 or something. That is why you are still getting GTK1 widgets.

Good luck,
~arker

Come to think of it I think I did just 'emerge anjuta' and took whatever version it gave me. Will try again, thanks. In the meantime I'm getting quite fond of gedit

soccerplayer · Post by **soccerplayer** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 11:52 pm

i just wanna thank everyone for all of their input...I have a few good options it looks like. I just couldnt bear to use windows to program for my computer classes

Torangan · Post by **Torangan** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 9:57 am

Since it's not been mentioned so far: I like Source Navigator best. (ebuild is sourcenav). It's quite lightweight, easy to learn and has all the features I really need while coding. IDEs like Anjuta or KDevelop have too much features for my taste.

Best Graphical C++ editor

Best Graphical C++ editor

why not Visual Slickedit?