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Help => General => Topic started by: Brute on January 17, 2015, 09:20:49 pm

Title: [newcomer] Auto completion
Post by: Brute on January 17, 2015, 09:20:49 pm: Hi, I decided to learn SFML, I used gVim with youcompleteme engine for completion under linux and visual studio completion engine for development under windows (doesn't work with all libraries).

Currently on windows, what would be a good combination to make completion fully work? what setup do you guys use on windows? I don't care which IDE should I use, just want make auto completion fully work with SFML without the need to experiment too much.

For example I don't want completion stop working once I reach 5K lines of code (as usually is the case).

THANKS!

edit:
I forgot to mention... prefering codeblocks and non-comercial solution, but if there is better solution then whatever. :)
Title: Re: [newcomer] Auto completion
Post by: Gambit on January 18, 2015, 03:49:47 am: What do you mean by completion? Do you mean auto complete for function names and stuff? If so, for Windows, Visual Studio Express is free and you can release commercial products with it.
Title: Re: [newcomer] Auto completion
Post by: dabbertorres on January 18, 2015, 06:49:24 pm: Codelite (http://codelite.org/) is an IDE that doesn't get enough attention imo. It comes with a pretty good auto-completion engine. It works just fine on my current project (15k+ lines).
It comes with a bunch of default search paths for the engine, but, depending where you install SFML, you might have to add the path yourself. Works great for me.

And I believe for Visual Studio, the new Community Edition is now preferred over Express.
Title: Re: [newcomer] Auto completion
Post by: Brute on January 19, 2015, 05:18:58 am: Quote from: dabbertorres on January 18, 2015, 06:49:24 pm
Codelite (http://codelite.org/) is an IDE that doesn't get enough attention imo. It comes with a pretty good auto-completion engine. It works just fine on my current project (15k+ lines).
It comes with a bunch of default search paths for the engine, but, depending where you install SFML, you might have to add the path yourself. Works great for me.

And I believe for Visual Studio, the new Community Edition is now preferred over Express.

Thank you, according to your satisfaction with codelite I will definitely try it out!
Title: Re: [newcomer] Auto completion
Post by: Brute on January 19, 2015, 05:20:33 am: Quote from: Gambit on January 18, 2015, 03:49:47 am
What do you mean by completion? Do you mean auto complete for function names and stuff? If so, for Windows, Visual Studio Express is free and you can release commercial products with it.

Thank you for response, Visual studio is absolutely great IDE but development with 3rd party libraries is not well supported by M$ and in most cases suck very bad.
Title: Re: [newcomer] Auto completion
Post by: Gambit on January 19, 2015, 07:34:02 am: What do you mean? It works fine for everything I've used it for including SDL, SFML and Boost. It doesnt work well with GLEW though because the way that GLEW gets the OpenGL functions more or less breaks intellisense.
Title: Re: [newcomer] Auto completion
Post by: Rosme on January 19, 2015, 04:19:55 pm: I'm quite curious which 3rd party you had problems with. Just like Gambit, except for GLEW, never had a problem.