I begin to see why some British sitcoms don't work in the US.
On Sunday 31 August 2008 15:22:47 Bobby Garner wrote:
> Richard Gray wrote:
> > On Saturday 30 August 2008 03:51:02 you wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> >> Someone mentioned Code::Blocks earlier. I tried to use it a couple of
> >> years ago, but when I joined the forum and began asking questions about
> >> using it with SDCC, I was ridiculed, marginalized and laughed out of the
> >> process by some of the major players in the program. They have
> >> apparently deleted those older posts to the forum, so I can't prove it.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Proof is quite unecessary, belief meets reality right here. History has a
> > habit of repeating itself.
>
> Failure to learn from our mistakes is a very bad habit, but addiction
> can be safely avoided by dealing with the facts. Diplomacy and
> compromise seek to avoid or conceal the facts.
>
> "Facts that are not frankly faced have a habit of stabbing us in the
> back." - Sir Harold Bowden
>
> Recognizing the recurring nature of history is the first step, and
> unfortunately the last for those who actively seek to perpetuate the
> process.
>
> Now if we wish to talk about Code::Blocks and SDCC, I downloaded and
> installed v8.02 yesterday. The first thing I looked for was the compiler
> settings, and discovered that all options are located on the 'Settings'
> menu, which was once the subject of frolicking laughter as I recall.
> Compiler and Debbuger settings is the third item. When I tried to use it
> before there were at least three dialogs for the compiler alone on
> different menus and they were all similar but different. I selected SDCC
> from the drop down list and set it as the default compiler. My major
> concern is the handling of projects which had serious problems before. I
> haven't tried to set up a project yet.
>
> There is now a CodeBlocks Manuel on the help menu. It looks good, but
> the proof invariably comes when you start looking for something very
> specific. A lot of help systems deal well with the obvious and
> intuitive, but finding specific detail is like working through a maze. I
> have never figured out why key word searches from the Index tab are
> sometimes limited to the index and excludes the text. Happily in this
> case a dialog pops up offering a range of topics to choose from.
>
> BTW, I found the evidence...
> http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,1864.0.html
>
> Bobby
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