Chapter 6
The IDE

The IDE (Integrated Development Environment) provides a comfortable user interface to the compiler. It contains an editor with syntax highlighting, a debugger, symbol browser etc. The IDE is a text-mode application which has the same look and feel on all supported operating systems. It is modelled after the IDE of Turbo Pascal, so many people should feel comfortable using it.

Currently, the IDE is available for DOS, WINDOWS and LINUX.


 6.1 First steps with the IDE
   Starting the IDE
   IDE Command line options
   The IDE screen
 6.2 Navigating in the IDE
   Using the keyboard
   Using the mouse
   Navigating in dialogs
 6.3 Windows
   Window basics
   Sizing and moving windows
   Working with multiple windows
   Dialog windows
 6.4 The Menu
   Accessing the menu
   The File menu
   The Edit menu
   The Search menu
   The Run menu
   The Compile menu
   The Debug menu
   The Tools menu
   The Options menu
   The Window menu
   The Help menu
 6.5 Editing text
   Insert modes
   Blocks
   Setting bookmarks
   Jumping to a source line
   Syntax highlighting
   Code Completion
   Code Templates
 6.6 Searching and replacing
 6.7 The symbol browser
 6.8 Running programs
 6.9 Debugging programs
   Using breakpoints
   Using watches
   The call stack
   The GDB window
 6.10 Using Tools
   The messages window
   Grep
   The ASCII table
   The calculator
   Adding new tools
   Meta parameters
   Building a command line dialog box
 6.11 Project management and compiler options
   The primary file
   The directory dialog
   The target operating system
   Compiler options
   Linker options
   Memory sizes
   Debug options
   The switches mode
 6.12 Customizing the IDE
   Preferences
   The desktop
   The Editor
   Mouse
   Colors
 6.13 The help system
   Navigating in the help system
   Working with help files
   The about dialog
 6.14 Keyboard shortcuts