Experience CodeLite on Mac

[rekisum]

Hi Eran,

thanks for the new 3584 Version.
As I have to use my MacBook more frequently I tried to
work with CodeLite under Mac OS X (Snow Leopard).
Unfortunately there are some annoyances that let me search
for another editor under Mac.
For example:
- The fonts select dialog disappears immediately
you are not able to select another font
- The external tools are only visible if you switch to
the 'not single toolbar' view. Independent of you select an icon for it or not.
Icons are somewhat ugly and small, letting you search.
- On the first start there are two popup windows ask you to refresh the tags
database and (can't remember) to add the compiler paths. Selecting the wrong
keeps CL hanging. Did run in this several times.
- The behavior of some shortcuts is not Mac-like. Command(Apple) + Right arrow
should jump to start of line. In CL its different (Ctrl+Arrow ?).

And some other little problems that makes me wonder if you ever
used CL on Mac for some time?
I know that at least some problems arise from the wxWidgets Mac port.
(AFAIK in the 2.9 version some of the bugs have been fixed, and the port
is undergoing some heavy reworking for version 3.0.)
But maybe its possible to fix some of the most annoying bugs just for
the Mac Version of CodeLite?

Regards,
Joerg

[eranif]

I hardly used Mac / CodeLite since most of my daily work involes Linux / Windows.

I know that there are issues with the Mac version.

- The fonts select dialog disappears immediately
you are not able to select another font

This is a known wx widgets bug. and it will be fixed in next releases

- The external tools are only visible if you switch to
the 'not single toolbar' view. Independent of you select an icon for it or not.
Icons are somewhat ugly and small, letting you search.

You can assign shortcut keys to the external tools + they are accessible from the Plugins menu

- On the first start there are two popup windows ask you to refresh the tags
database and (can't remember) to add the compiler paths. Selecting the wrong
keeps CL hanging. Did run in this several times.

Ok, thanks for letting me know about this one

- The behavior of some shortcuts is not Mac-like. Command(Apple) + Right arrow
should jump to start of line. In CL its different (Ctrl+Arrow ?).

All keyboard shortcuts can be re-assigned from 'Settings -> Keyboard Shortcuts'

And some other little problems that makes me wonder if you ever
used CL on Mac for some time?

Nope, I did not more than 30 mins...

However, I know there are some people who are using Mac with CodeLite

But maybe its possible to fix some of the most annoying bugs just for
the Mac Version of CodeLite?

If after what I wrote at the top, you still find some bugs which annoys you, please let me know

Eran