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Design of Codeblocks

Started by AndJSch, January 24, 2015, 01:03:10 AM

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AndJSch

Hello,
I just want to know if there is a design update planned which overhauls the design of codeblocks on windows. Codeblocks looks great on every platform expected Windows. I know that there is the theme option, but this only changes the style of the editor, not the menu. I would highly appreciate if there would come at least an option that let look the whole IDE look more fancier like VisualBasic does. Codeblocks is a so nice and useful IDE which is not overloaded at all, I really like it to use, but the design nowadays has gotten bad. I think the developers shouldn't forget that the design of a program is also important...

I wish that there would be a light and a darker theme with flat design like VisualBasic 2013. Sorry for mentioning a other IDE, but it makes just a good example of how it should like.

oBFusCATed

Won't happen until windows start to provide better design for its native controls or until wxWidgets starts looking fancier on windows.
Sorry there is nothing we can do (except re-writing the ide from scratch using qt or some other toolkit).
(most of the time I ignore long posts)
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stahta01

If you want to spend a lot of effort you can try to build Code::Blocks on windows using wxGTK and see if you like the way it looks.

Note: I failed to get it to run and do anything; because I failed to figure how to get the Plugins to work last time I tried building it under Cygwin. But, it did look different. I have decided that building Code::Blocks using Cygwin is a waste of my time. But, I have also decided it might be useful to build wxWidgets under Cygwin when I next have a lot of free time.

Tim S.
C Programmer working to learn more about C++.
On Windows 10 64 bit and Windows 11 64 bit.
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