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I'm moving from MAC/XCode C++ developing to Windows platform (please stop asking why?)
I have been programing in XCode for a while and I noticed that it has an amazing hints and autocomplete assistant.
Now in Windows... I feel I'm back to the 80s, I already tried NetBeans, Visual Studio 2012, Dev++, Eclipse... all garbage, to say the least.
They can't even hint or autofill a local var or a local class method, I need to type again every single word, I miss so much real time parsing in XCode.. sniff.
Any "hint"? Or pluging that I may check out?
I also prefer QtCreator to Visual Studio, but if you add the Wholetomato Visual Assist plugin to Visual Studio then it becomes much better.
I'm comfortable with QtCreator, but it gives the best developing Qt specific code.
To be true, I worked a lot in Visual Studio, til 2010, and autocompletion etc worked, a bit slowly. If you consider it garbage, maybe you will dislike QtCreator as well.
I think you need to check more the Refactoring capabilities of Eclipse, Netbeans and Visual Studio, or you can edit Templates of new types .
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Closed 9 years ago.
I've been given the source code to an image classification application that was written in
visual studio 6. I've tried to see if any of the projects can be compiled. There is a project file with a .dsp extension. I'm using Visual C++ Express 2010. When I try to load the dsp file it says it needs a conversion. I reply yes. But this is to no avail: the conversion process seems to fail quietly because I don't see any source file icons appearing in the tree view of the project after this.
I've been wondering as to whether it's worth trying to recompile this old code at all.
After all it's written with an old framework and the latest like WPF are considered much more elegant. And there's Qt that I am quite conversant in as an alternative.
Now I could possibly try to get a hold of an old Visual Studio 6 C++ compiler, but do you think I would be wasting my time? I need ideas to make an informed decision on what to do with this.
If the program uses the MFC library then it can not be ported to an "express" version of Visual C++. Express versions do not support MFC. Higher versions (the ones you have to pay for) can certainly support an older MFC program, typically with a bit of editing.
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Closed 11 years ago.
For Java there is Swing and Eclipse + Window Builder. Is there anything similar for C++ ? Any suggestions of tools or starting points ? Thanks.
UPDATE: I use Mac OS X but any suggestions are welcome
Take a look here. Qt is a C++ cross-platform library. I think that you will find it suitable for your needs. In the given link, you can find many other suggestions (like using Mono), GTK# (those are using C#), but in general, for C++, people usually suggest Qt or GTK (take a look at all posts and comments there).
Microsoft Visual Studio is not bad. It has an interface builder, with all the run-of-the-mill buttons and things like that. Here it is: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-cpp-express
Under the Windows platform, you can use Microsoft Visual Studio.
QT is a cross-platform, under Windows and Linux.
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Closed 11 years ago.
I'm using dev c++ but it has creating some problems while working with windows 7
So want the best compiler which is works with windows 7.
By best I mean whiich will give me the best performance.
well, there are many to choose from:
Visual Studio, works 'best' with MS
OSes
Eclipse or Code::Blocks with
GCC, works 'best' with standard
C99 code
Pelles C works best at being simple
Your choice really boils down to what you require and what your working with, so just look at the above examples, pick what suites you best
Dev c++ is garbage. It is not a compiler BTW.
On Windows use MinGW (with Code::Blocks IDE) or MSVC++2010
You can try borland c++ (with turbo C++ ide..) its pretty old but works fine... :)
or blodshed dev c++ is also goood..
I suggest you install a cygwin and using gcc.
This is a good for leaner.
ANything better? Yeah, I sgguest you install an Ubuntu as dual system.
That's real programmer do.
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I have started learning C++. Which compiler do I choose ? I am using Windows 7. Though i have been using Turbo C++, many people suggest that it is not a good compiler to use.
You may want to try clang. They focus a lot on expressive diagnostics, which may be especially useful to beginners. However, I am not sure how far along they are, and if any important feature are missing yet.
Visual Studio. Free editions are available as well. The compiler is integrated into an IDE, which is the most complete and intuitive around.
http://www.microsoft.com/germany/express/download/default.aspx
I would always recommend Visual Studio- it has the best debugger and you're gonna need a lot of said debugger.
If you are on linux, g++ (gcc) would be an good choice.
In windows I personally would prefer Visual Studio Express, but you could use g++ here too. Thats more an personal choice which IDE / compiler you prefer, as they all should fit your needs.
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The Visual Studio refactoring support for C# is quite good nowadays (though not half as good as some Java IDE's I've seen already) but I'm really missing C++ support.
I have seen Refactor! and am currently trying it out, but maybe one of you guys know a better tool or plugin?
I've been working with Visual Assist X now for a week or two and got totally addicted. Thanks for the tip, I'll try to convince my boss to get me a license at work too.
I've been bughunting for a few days since Visual Assist X kept messing up my Visual Studio after a few specific refactorings, It took me (and customer support) a week to hunt down but let's say for now that Visual Assist X is not a good combination with ClipX.
Visual Assist X by Whole Tomato software is not free, but it's absolutely worth the money if you use Visual Studio for C++.
http://www.wholetomato.com/
I have tried Refactor!, as its features seemed promising, as did its testing with a simple testing project, but it failed to work with our real project at all - a lots of CPU activity, sometimes even frozen VS IDE, Refactoring UI not appearing at all for most of the code.
We are using Visual Assist X instead. While it does not offer than many refactorings and it seems to me somewhat more complicated to use, it works.
I didn't find this post and created another one. There is a great response about VS2010 there.
If you are like me, who wishes VS2010 comes with C++ refactoring support, please visit my Microsoft Connect ticket and vote for it. Hopefully with enough votes, MS may give it a higher priority.
Mozilla's Taras Glek worked the last year or two on C++ analysis and code rewriting tools. His blog is at http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/, you can find links to the tools they created there. They are of course free and open-source. No GUI, but I thought I'd link it in case it's interesting to anybody.
If you like emacs then Xrefactory is a good choice.
I'm not familiar with the tools you mentioned but the refactoring support for C++ in Eclipse 3.4 is getting pretty useful and growing.