[ Outline ] · Standard · Linear+ Compiling with CodeBlocks?, Is it my stupidness or a bug? ;)

[frozen]

Hi there!

I want to start programming GUI-programs. After a lot of searching I decided to try VCF although it currently doesn't seem to have a linux version available. I saw that this is being worked on, so it's not a showstopper. I just want something free being able to run on windows, linux and mac systems..
Most other available GUI-Toolkits looked very complicated to me.. Downloading and compiling dozens of different libraries seems a pain to me..

So I found VCF and thought: Wow! This looks great! But why the §$%$%& are no binarys available??? Ok, no problem, I'll compile them myself.. Codeblocks seems to be supported, even easily.. It says: "Open AllProjects Workspace and build the workspace".. Great! Thats easy! Thats what I thought...

I downloaded VCFSrcOnlyInstaller-0.9.0.exe, started it, disables everything that looked like VC and after short time it was installed.. Great! Changing to this directory, opening the vcfAllProjects.workspace, clicking "Build workspace" - and dozens of errormessages... All complaining about files not found...

..\..\..\src\vcf\FoundationKit\FoundationKit.h:82: vcf/FoundationKit/VCF.h: No such file or directory

49 others follow..

Ok, path not set? Nope, it was set..
Error in the build options? None obvious for me.. I tried adding the path to the include directory myself in case the environment variable might not be resolved but to no avail..
I tried the following path:
J:\Programme\VCF-0.9.0\
edit: J:\Programme\VCF-0.9.0\src\ also didn't work.. That's so frustrating...

I hope someone can give me a hint.. I guess it's rather my fault..

Additional information:
Code::Blocks version is 1.0 revision 2796
Operating system is w2k

frozen

[Fraggle]

Yeah, the docs encourage you to use a nightly rather than RC2 because, well, the nightlies are just miles better! They work better too...

Feel free to ask stupid questions (especially if you can't find the answer in the docs or don't understand the docs), so the documentation can be improved so the next noob has an easier time!

[frozen]

Feel free to ask stupid questions (especially if you can't find the answer in the docs or don't understand the docs), so the documentation can be improved so the next noob has an easier time!

That's what I thought...

My very first (stupid?) question:

Please look at this code:

CODE

Panel* panel = new Panel();
panel->setBounds(&mainWindowBounds);

Container* container = panel->getContainer();
if ( NULL != container ) {
   Label* label = new Label();
   label->setCaption("Testtext");
   container->add( label );
   }

mainWindow->add(panel, AlignBottom);

I took it from the documentation and changed it a little bit. It's listed in the doc in 3.3.8.1
I inserted the shown code below line 88 of helloworld2.cpp but it doesn't show the labeltext..

panel->setBounds(&mainWindowBounds); was inserted, because without this, it would only show small signs that the panel indeed was inserted, but it was very very small, maybe 1 px or so..

Commenting out the if and replacing the container->add( label ); with mainWindow->add( label ); works though, at least the label is shown..

So I suppose something is wrong with the container?

BTW, is VCFBuilder available as binary somewhere? It would even compile it, but it seems, Code::Blocks is not supported.. Dev-cpp isn't too.. And thats all IDEs I can use to compile...

Thanks for your help!

frozen