Author Topic: IDE recommendation? (Read 6104 times)

Admin · « **on:** December 06, 2006, 06:32:16 PM »

its occured to me that my whole robot making life (4 years) i have rarely needed to ever program my bots on my own laptop.

every computer i used (at work or in the lab) already had code editing software on it, so i never bothered looking into it.

so now the question, anyone recommend some freeware that is good for editing C code? nothing fancy, just with color coding and a simple interface . . . at the moment anything is better than notepad . . .

JonHylands · « **Reply #1 on:** December 06, 2006, 06:51:27 PM »

www.crimsoneditor.com

- Jon

JesseWelling · « **Reply #2 on:** December 06, 2006, 07:04:56 PM »

are you on windows or linux?

I don't think I've written a line of code in any thing but vim for about a year now...
except for codewarrior...which is ok...rather code in vim though.

sdk32285 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 06, 2006, 10:17:15 PM »

emacs is cool for C++

JesseWelling · « **Reply #4 on:** December 06, 2006, 11:40:10 PM »

ahhh vim...emacs...the eternal linux struggle

JonHylands · « **Reply #5 on:** December 07, 2006, 07:33:26 AM »

Not a struggle for me... They both suck equally

- Jon

JesseWelling · « **Reply #6 on:** December 07, 2006, 10:41:24 AM »

well that would be for you

Admin · « **Reply #7 on:** January 23, 2007, 08:36:18 PM »

just ran into this today . . .

Piklab, a free IDE designed for PIC's . . .
http://freshmeat.net/projects/piklab/?branch_id=59135&release_id=245492

some screenshots:
http://piklab.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php

supposedly it supports compiling and linking with a wide range of PIC tool chains . . . i think ill try it out after beta is done

snow · « **Reply #8 on:** February 02, 2007, 05:52:41 AM »

Normally i am using Microchip's MPLAB for project setup, compiler settings, compiling and burning the code into microprocesor.

And usually when i code in C i use notepad++: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm.
It has nice syntax coloring and the thing i like the most is: Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting. See screenshots on the homepage.

Of course both MPLAB and notepad++ are free.

Nyx · « **Reply #9 on:** February 07, 2007, 02:35:54 PM »

Quote from: JesseWelling on December 06, 2006, 11:40:10 PM

ahhh vim...emacs...the eternal linux struggle

I use Microsoft Visual C++ to edit code on Linux systems. I simply mount my home folder as a remote drive on my windows machine and work from there. If I'm on an actual linux system, then I use gedit. It has syntax highlighting, is simple to use, can open multiple files in tabs, etc... Very sufficient.

hgordon · « **Reply #10 on:** February 07, 2007, 03:06:15 PM »

In Windows, I use Programmer's Notepad. It's free, open source, etc ...

http://www.pnotepad.org/

dcole07 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 07, 2007, 05:19:52 PM »

How about Context.

http://www.context.cx/

I've never used it, but my friend says it's great.

JesseWelling · « **Reply #12 on:** February 07, 2007, 07:10:57 PM »

Quote

It has syntax highlighting, is simple to use, can open multiple files in tabs, etc...

That's what I like about vim....even if you have to use a serial terminal....it still does all that....

Nyx · « **Reply #13 on:** February 07, 2007, 07:21:48 PM »

Quote from: JesseWelling on February 07, 2007, 07:10:57 PM

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It has syntax highlighting, is simple to use, can open multiple files in tabs, etc...

That's what I like about vim....even if you have to use a serial terminal....it still does all that....

But you have no mouse, which makes it tedious to use

JesseWelling · « **Reply #14 on:** February 07, 2007, 09:43:35 PM »

Tedious to learn, not to use.

pomprocker · « **Reply #15 on:** April 22, 2008, 01:40:27 PM »

jEdit
http://www.jedit.org/

OR

Eclipse for C/C++ developers
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/moreinfo/c.php

brijesh · « **Reply #16 on:** April 22, 2008, 02:43:05 PM »

Quote from: JonHylands on December 06, 2006, 06:51:27 PM

www.crimsoneditor.com

- Jon

I second this choice. Been using it for 4+ years now. Its main strength is its simplicity and clean interface. Just try it once and you will see.

Brijesh

Admin · « **Reply #17 on:** April 25, 2008, 07:33:10 AM »

Hmmm I made that post 1.5 years ago . . . pomprocker, you are a necromancer (bringing dead posts back to life!)

I didn't like crimsoneditor, and eclipse was just too overblown for what I needed, so I finally settled on Bloodshed.

This was the IDE I used for my wavefront simulation last year (see very bottom of the page):
http://www.societyofrobots.com/programming_wavefront.shtml

MarkBrown · « **Reply #18 on:** August 30, 2008, 02:07:29 AM »

Admin,

I normally use BloodShed for doing my C/C++ coding. With the microcontrollers I have been sticking with AVR Studio. How where you able to link the avr/io.h and other such avr libraries so the code would compile? I have tried looking for the header and source files on my hard drive and I just can't seem to find them.

Thanks,

Mark

Admin · « **Reply #19 on:** August 30, 2008, 10:25:11 AM »

Bloodshed compiles code for your PC, while AVR Studio compiles code for your microcontroller. Code for a microcontroller running on a PC just wouldn't make sense

Basically I just wrote code for the wavefront, and ported that specific block of code over to my microcontroller code when it was ready.

izua · « **Reply #20 on:** August 30, 2008, 12:55:29 PM »

well, code::blocks can write code for both an avr and desktop, it has templates for a lot of compilers and projects types, and it's really configurable.

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