[Geany] New Windows build

[Enrico Tröger]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 12:24:37 -0300, "Diego Jacobi"
<jacobidiego at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

> I downloaded the file:
> http://files.uvena.de/geany/geany-0.13svn_r2091_win32.zip
> and the build menu was disabled with a previously opened project
> ( with only a main.c file ).
> I have to open the main.c to compile it and run it.
Was the main.c opened when starting Geany or was only the project
loaded without any opened files?

> In Project properties, to choose the file to be run (it shoulnd't be
> necessary becouse when compiling the output file should have the
> project name) it opens a windows open-dialog behind the
No, I don't agree. Project name and executable filename are two
different things.

> properties-dialog and makes some drawing problems when moving the
> open-dialog. Also it starts with a filter to geany-project-files and
> it should be all files to select a .exe file.
Yes, this is a bug and will be fixed soon. Thanks. I'll also have a
look at the problem of opening dialogs behind others. This happens also
sometimes with the file open dialog on Windows.

> Second, the open, save, paths-selection, etc. dialogs are gtk'd
> dialogs, i think that there should be some uniform design and in my
> opinion if you could make all of it as windows dialogs it will be
> easier and cleaner for a windows user, becouse gtk'd dialog are too
> diferent to windows dialog and doesn't look or adapt so well as in
> linux. An example. A gtk dialog can not follow shortcuts.
Please read the manual. There were the default Windows dialogs for a
long time but we changed back to default GTK dialogs because there is
no way(at least I don't know it) to add custom widgets to a Windows
file open/save dialog. When using the Windows dialogs, all additional
features of Geany's open/save dialogs are lost. If you really need
them, compile Geany from source and set GEANY_USE_WIN32_DIALOG to 1 in
src/geany.h (see
http://geany.uvena.de/manual/index.html#compile-time-options)

> Third, when compiling or running a python scripts, it needs to be on
> the path, but the python installer doesn't place it on the path. So,
> there are 3 options:
> 1) tell to place the python folder on the windows path.
> 2) ask for the python folder in some config dialog.
Open Build->Set Includes and Arguments and then adjust the Execute
field to the path to your python executable as necessary. 

> 3) ask to the OS where is python installed automatically.
How to do that? Doesn't the $PATH variable exist exactly for that
reason?


Regards,
Enrico

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