Summaries of Geany and Dev-C++

The other thing I have been doing is working with Geany in Ubuntu and Dev-C++ in Windows for developing a C++ application. It's partly to supplement my own knowledge, partly for fun, and partly to work on areas of the tutorial section that I'm currently working on. Out of necessity I'm still working in Windows NT, but partly because of that I'm working on a cross-platform, or depending on how it goes, an internet app. If it works out well, then there may be some word games, and other stuff to be added to this site in the near future.

Geany:

This is a nice, simple and straightforward program to use, but it also has some nice features like code-folding and syntax highlighting. There is a version of it for Windows, but the Windows version seems to be in early development as I write this, and have gone for the much used Dev-C++ for Windows.

The features it has, as listed on the Geany website, are:

• Syntax highlighting
• Code completion
• Auto completion of often-used constructs like "if", "for" and "while"
• Auto completion of XML and HTML tags
• Call tips
• Many supported filetypes including C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal, and others
• Tag/Symbol lists

Dev-C++

Dev-C++ has been going a while, and has many good features although it still lacks code-folding in version 4. It's simple, quick and good to use though.

The features listed on the Dev-C++ website are as follows:

• Support GCC-based compilers
• Integrated debugging (using GDB)
• Project Manager
• Customizable syntax highlighting editor
• Class Browser
• Code Completion
• Function listing
• Profiling support
• Quickly create Windows, console, static libraries and DLLs
• Support of templates for creating your own project types
• Makefile creation
• Edit and compile Resource files
• Tool Manager
• Print support
• Find and replace facilities
• CVS support