You need [wiki:Register] and then [http://padre.perlide.org/login login] before you can create tickets or edit the wiki. Registration is locked most of the time, see [wiki:Howto] for details.

Once you are done with that you'll see a link to [http://padre.perlide.org/newticket new ticket].

Before you submit a bug report please make sure 

 * You are using the latest released version of Padre
 * Check if there is already a ticket with the same issue, maybe even fixed in trunk {1}
 * You might want to ask around on our mailing list http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev or on IRC: [irc://irc.perl.org/#padre #padre] on irc.perl.org
 * In the report please provide the details of your Operating system, Perl version number, version of Wx and wxWidgtes
  * From Padre 0.92 you can get system information from Padre Help->About->Information just copy and past it in your ticket. (sample below)
 * In addition please describe how did you install Padre?
   * from CPAN?
   * downloaded binary executable from our web site?
   * ppm?
   * rpm or deb of your operating system vendor?

 * Please try to describe clearly how we can reproduce the bug
 * A very good read is [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html How to Report Bugs Effectively]

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you may find the following helpful:

on Linux:

{{{#!perl
$ perl -v
$ perl -MWx -e'printf(qq(Wx Version=($Wx::VERSION) %s unicode=(%s)\n), Wx::wxVERSION_STRING(), Wx::wxUNICODE())'
}}}

on Windows:

{{{#!perl
c> perl -v
c> perl -MWx -e"printf(qq(Wx Version=($Wx::VERSION) %s unicode=(%s)\n), Wx::wxVERSION_STRING(), Wx::wxUNICODE())"
}}}

on Mac:

{{{#!perl
$ perl -v
$ wxPerl -MWx -e'printf(qq(Wx Version=($Wx::VERSION) %s unicode=(%s)\n), Wx::wxVERSION_STRING(), Wx::wxUNICODE())'
}}}

 * Please also provide a description how to reproduce the bug

Before you submit a feature request, please check

 * that there is no such request yet {1} 
 * It might be easier to find a ticket as they are mostly categorized according to the [wiki:Features feature] they are related to.
 * Please describe a use case for the feature
 * If you have examples of other IDEs or editors providing a similar feature, please let us know and explain the details

You are always welcome to attach a patch implementing the feature or fixing the bug.

When opening a ticket please try to pick the correct '''Component'''. Most of the components are related to the [wiki:Features] of Padre.

**sample output from Help->About->Information**

{{{#!text
                   Padre 0.94
Core...
                  osname linux
                archname i686-linux-thread-multi
            Distribution Ubuntu 11.04 
                  Kernel 2.6.38-13-generic
                    Perl 5.14.2
                 Threads 3
                     RAM 175.2MB
Wx...
                      Wx 0.9903
               WxWidgets 2.8.11
                 unicode 1
        Alien::wxWidgets 0.54
 Wx::Perl::ProcessStream 0.30
           Wx::Scintilla 0.36
Other...
                     PPI 1.215
           Debug::Client 0.16
                  Config /home/kevin/.local/share/.padre
}}}