Bluefish Win32

What is it?

It is an unofficial Bluefish Windows version. With some changes in source code it is possible to compile it withMinGW. Therefore it is not needed for Cygwin for running programm. Only dependency ir msvcrt.dll file which contains C runtime calls (of course additionally there is dependency of GTK+ graphic library).

Whats its features?

Full list - http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/features.html. Few of them:

Customizable syntax highlighting for different file types. By default comes with highhlighting of: html, php, C, Java, Javascript, JSP, SQL, XML, Python, Perl, CSS, ColdFusion, Pascal, R, Octave/Matlab.
Multiple encodings support, can convert between different character sets, supports multibyte characters, unicode, UTF8 etc.
Line numbers along the document, bookmarks in documents and an excellent search function (using regular expressions).
Nice wizards for startup, tables, frames, and others
HTML toolbar and tearable menu\'s
User-customizable toolbar for quick access to often used functions
Open files based on filename patterns and/or content
Thumbnail creation and automatically linking of the thumbnail with the original image
A custom menu, specify your own tags or sets of code, and define your own dialogs
Function reference browser, including reference files for PHP, CSS, Python and obviously HTML
User customizable integration of many programs, including weblint, tidy, make, javac etc. etc.
Auto tag closing for HTML and XML documents
...and many others

Whats needed for using?

To use Bluefish you need to install Windows version of GTK+ library. You can get it here: http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/ (in Downloads->gtk+-win32-runtime->2.6). You can also download directly from sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=98754&package_id=121281

Where to get it?

Download 1.0.2 version: bluefish-1.0.2-win32.zip (951 KB)

Screenshots:

Current bugs and incompletness:

Filebrowser doesn\'t work correctly. If you go to root directory of disk, for exaple C:\\, it changes to /, and if now you click on it, file list in filebrowser dissappears. To get back file list, you need to select previous directory in combobx above it or use Open dialog. I think this bug appears because path sepperator in *nix environment ir / but in Windoows - \\. In source code they are mixed alltogether - in one place one, in another second one. If I will have time spare time I\'ll fix them.. maybe.
Filebrowser can be used only for current disk. It means thatr other files from different disk can not be possible to open from it. To access them you must use Open dialog, after that you can use combobox above it to change current disks. Reason is simple - in *nix environment there is only one root /, that\'s why source code have no choices for different roots.
GTK+ bug - it is impossible to enter latvian symbols (ēūīāšģķļžčņ) using \' dead key. It have two alternatives - pasting for clipboard, or using right ALT key to enter them. This bug is also in GIMP program.

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Mārtiņš Možeiko, 2005