CodeLite 17.0.0

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Downloads

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As always, all downloads are available through our download page

Bug fixes

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• codelite-ctags is now built as part of CodeLite sources and is not provided as a prebuilt binary
• ctagsd finds the wrong definition of a method
• Respect user-supplied/alternate wx-config Alternate wx-config is not respected by ctagsd and codelite-cli subsystems (Uffe Jakobsen)
• Filesystem Workspace: Make Build and Run Project and Rebuild Project work with filesystem workspace (rlbxku1r)
• restore frame attributes: MAXIMIZE, FULLSCREEN
• Editor margin offset with fractional scaling enabled - this fixes issue #3010 and issue #2992
• Fixed: CodeLite crashes when opening the resource dialog when no workspace is opened
• Fixed: CodeLite crashes when the LSP command is invalid
• Fixed the issue that OpenFileAsync would not trigger the callback function to open soft-linked files
• FIX: Git, The first commit failed (liuanlin-mx)
• fix:git plugin: show file diff, file path is incorrect (liuanlin-mx)
• git: add Show file Log (liuanlin-mx)
• Fix: Replace All, Regular expressions don't work (liuanlin-mx)
• Clicking the "Refresh" button in the FSW toolbar, refreshes the entire tree, unconditionally
• Tab control navigation: use the same keyboard on all major platforms
• Tab control navigation dialog: show the dialog when using WSL2 on Windows
• Fix issue with "Open Resource..." searches containing :line[:column] When search pattern includes :line[:column] the current search only uses the filename - paths before the filename are ignored (Uffe Jakobsen)
• fixed: Outline view is unreadable - bad colors
• Add support for Alacritty terminal emulator
• wxCrafter: Subclass of wxSpinCtrl crashes wxCrafter

Improvements

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macOS

• Keyboard shortcuts dialog: let user the shortcuts using either the Ctrl or Cmd keys

Windows

• CodeLite is now using native dark mode (restart required between appearance changes)
• Attempt to locate MSYS2 installation folder by checking the register entries first

All platforms

• Source code formatter: added support for cmake-format
• CodeLite startup time improved
• Windows: clangd version bumped to 14
• Windows: CodeLite is now built with clang-14 toolchain on Windows
• Windows: Installer now uses monolithic build of wxWidgets
• Updated the Replace UI to fit the other controls
• Preferences dialog has been re-written and now fits better on small screen, as a side bonus, it loads instantly
• Reloading a file opened remotely, now loads it from the remote server ( Ctrl+R )
• Language Server plugin: LSP server detection code improvements
• Code Formatter plugin: the plugin was re-written. By default CodeLite now configure code formatters for:
  • C++ clang-format
  • JSON jq
  • XML xmllint
  • Rust rustfmt
  • PHP php-cs-fixer & phpcbf
  • Python black
• Code Formatter plugin: support "Format On Save": the user can now configure that the editor will be formatted after a save operation
• Code Formatter plugin: is now supporting invoking formatting on remote files opened via the Remoty plugin

• Hidden folders are now displayed in the UI using gray text and disabled image
• Remoty workspace tree view: added an option to copy a remote folder path
• File system workspace tree view: the top level folder no longer displays the fullpath, but rather that last dir name
• A modified tab now displays a round circle indicating that the file is modified
• Windows: Upgraded to wxWidgets 3.2
• Windows: CodeLite is now built with clang
• All template files have been updated to use the dap - Debug Adapter Client by default
• Welcome Page has been updated, mainly, the list of Recently opened workspaces now includes list of workspaces opened by other plugins (e.g. Remoty)

Debug Adapter Client

• Since version 16.2.0, we introduced a new plugin: Debug Adapter Client - an implementation for the Debug Adapter Protocol. With this plugin, you can now debug, basically, any language.
• CodeLite auto detects and configures lldb-vscode (an adapter for the excellent lldb debugger) and debugpy (python debugger)
• The plugin supports the following views:
  • Call stack
  • Threads
  • Breakpoints (location & function based)
  • Local variables
  • Watches
  • Output pane
  • Module pane
  • Hover tips

Find in files

• Speed improvement. For example, here is the outupt for searching for clCommandEvent in CodeLite sources:
• Fixed: when starting the search by right clicking a tree item, the search folder is set to the selected folders

====== Number of files scanned: 3717, Matches found: 1015, elapsed time: 1.651 seconds ======

• UI simplified
• Added option for searching in:
  • Hidden folders (off by default)
  • Follow symbolic links (off by default)

Language Server Plugin ("code completion")

• Added support for the Dart language (liuanlin-mx)
• Code Completion Support for vim shortcut to page turning (Ctrl+N, Ctrl+P, or Ctrl+J, Ctrl+K) (liuanlin-mx)
• Fixed Code completion dialog box not showing when cursor is at end of file (liuanlin-mx)

Themes & Colours

• Added new themes:
  • Tokyo light
  • Tokyo dark
  • Tango dark
  • and others
• C++ colouring: support colouring variables using a unique colour in addition to the classes, enums, structs etc

Remoty plugin

• codelite-remote configuration lookup has been updated. See the plugin page doc
• codelite-remote added support for environment variables
• You can now edit the remote codelite-remote.json configuration file by right clicking on the top level folder of the workspace view
• Support workspace reload
• Remoty workspace view: added the following entries:
  • Edit codelite-remote.json
  • Close workspace
  • Reload workspace

Other changes

• Windows: CodeLite is now built using CMake
• macOS: codelite-terminal is no longr shipped with CodeLite
• wxCrafter version is now the same version as CodeLite