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Kevin Adrian
Member #7,087
April 2006
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Hello,

A few days ago I have decided to edit my Allegro projects with CodeBlocks. Now I have a question about the code auto completion mechanism. It works fine on classes and functions I have written by myself. But is does not work on elements of the STL, for example. Is there any possibility to configure CodeBlocks so that it becomes able to auto complete functions and classes of external libraries?

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OICW
Member #4,069
November 2003
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You need to enable local and global includes parsing and probably add some priority headers to parse. It's in the editor settings under code completion. Though I must warn you that the parser works from time to time. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, at least that's my impression. I'm using nightly builds via apt repository. You just won't get the comfort of the MSVS with Visual Assist X plugin, hate to say it :(

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SiegeLord
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October 2006
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Code::Blocks's auto-complete sucks. Use a better IDE (e.g. Eclipse works well).

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OICW
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November 2003
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SiegeLord: actually as I'm working with more and more, I'm getting more and more inclined to switch to different IDE for C++ development. I might give Eclipse a try.

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SiegeLord
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October 2006
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That's personally why I switched, I just figured that if I'm going to be using a (bloated) IDE, I might as well use one that actually works well. A test I use to see if an IDE is any good is if it auto-completes Allegro's functions (which are declared using a macro). Code::Blocks could never do that for me, while Eclipse did (I've seen a few other non-MSVC IDEs that also passed this quick test, notably KDevelop, but Eclipse was good enough for me).

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beoran
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March 2011

I can also endorse KDevelop, it's a fine IDE. Only downside is it's tendency to grow unstable and crash occasionally if I leave the application open for days on end, which I am wont to do.

OICW
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November 2003
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Well, I generally hate to switch between programs I'm accustomed to, but as we talk I'm working on the project of mine and disability of C::B to properly parse my namespace and class structure when typing "foo::bar::something" is getting on my nerves. Guess I'll have to switch further projects to Eclipse or something else.

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pkrcel
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February 2012

I also find myself working with C::B and VS2012, C::B has the plugin architecure that's pretty much streamlined and works very well, ALSO with the debugger, but SADLY the codecompletition is somewhat lacking compared to the competition.

That's why recently I worked much more with VS2012. I like the interface fair enuff and the Intellisense works veryveryvery well.

I kind of dislike Eclipse but that's due to some years ago experience at work where I found it to be abismally SLOW, while I was able to integrate codesourcery toolchain in C::B pretty quickly.

I may give Eclipse another try sooner or later...

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LennyLen
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December 2004
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The first time I installed Eclipse, it would crash almost every time I tried to save a file, which made it pretty much useless.

The time after that, which was a while later when I was playing around with Android development, it worked perfectly.

Then a few months later I bought a new primary HDD so reinstalled everything, and this time I couldn't get Eclipse to run for more than a few minutes without it crashing.

I haven't bothered with it since.

Specter Phoenix
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July 2001
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I've been using Qt Creator for my allegro things I've done. I rather like their auto-complete.

OICW
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November 2003
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LennyLen: I remember time when I've been using Eclipse at work for C++ development. During the lunch break I'd restart computer just to get that bloody thing reclaim memory eaten by Java. Not even the "poke garbage collector" plugin helped, at least not very much.

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Kevin Adrian
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April 2006
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Thank you for your comments. I have configured CodeBlocks as mentioned and now it is sufficient for my needs. I think now I can give CodeBlock a try at least for some while ;)

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