1 CodeBlocks Project Management

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1 CodeBlocks Project Management

The instructions for chapter 3 and ?? are official documentations of the CodeBlocks Wiki site and available in english only.

The below illustration shows the design of the CodeBlocks user interface.

Figure 1.1: IDE CodeBlocks

Management

This window contains the interface ’Projects’ which will in the following text be referred to as the project view. This view show all the projects opened in CodeBlocks at a certain time. The ’Symbols’ tab of the Management window shows symbols, variables etc..

Editor

In the above illustration, a source named hello.c is opened with syntax highlighting in the editor.

Open files list

shows a list of all files opened in the editor, in this example: hello.c.

CodeSnippets

can be displayed via the menu ’View’ /’CodeSnippets’ . Here you can manage text modules, links to files and links to urls.

Logs & others

. This window is used for outputting search results, log messages of a compiler etc..

The status bar gives an overview of the following settings:

Absolute path of an opened file in the editor.
The editor uses the default character encoding of your host operating system. This setting will be displayed with default.
Row and column number of the current cursor position in the editor.
The configured keyboard mode for inserting text (Insert or Overwrite).
Current state of a file. A modified file will be marked with Modified otherwise this entry is empty.
The permission of a file. A file with read only settings will display Read only in the status bar. In the window ’Open files list’ these files will be emphasised with a lock as icon overlay.

Note:
In the active editor the user can select the context menu properties. In the appearing dialog in the tab ’General’ the option ’File is read-only’ can be selected. This option will result in a read-only access of the corresponding file within CodeBlocks, but the original read and write attributes of the file on the filesystem are not modified.

If you start CodeBlocks with the command line option --personality=<profile> then the status bar will show the currently used profile, otherwise default will be shown. The settings of CodeBlocks are stored in the corresponding configuration file <personality>.conf.

CodeBlocks offers a very flexible and comprehensive project management. The following text will address only some of the features of the project management.

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