Developers can work in either a command-line or a graphical IDE environment, and take advantage of many productivity features, such as wizards, code editors, and flexible makefile structures.

Wizards

The QNX Momentics IDE includes built-in project wizards to automate the entire project-creation process. Developers can:

• choose between C, C++, makefile, and QNX projects
• create a project for any combination of target processors with a guide through the steps
• populate the project with build directories, dependency files, and starting source code
• automatically compile the entire project to create a working application

Project wizards

Built-in project wizards automate the entire project-creation process.

Content assist

Editors implement a content assist feature that offers function name suggestion and completion; display of function synopses, arguments and required headers; and insertion of all required "include" statements.

The QNX Momentics IDE code editors offer a large set of the most useful time-saving features, including cut-and-paste, undo, commenting, highlighting, and language-specific indentation, and user-defined preferences.

The IDE uses both embedded and external editors. When a user opens a file, the IDE launches the embedded editor associated with that file. If no embedded editor is available, the IDE attempts to launch an appropriate external editor.

Content assist

Editors implement a content assist feature that offers function name suggestion and completion; display of function synopses, arguments and required headers; and insertion of all required "include" statements.

Content assist

The content assist feature suggests and completes function names, and displays synopses, arguments and required headers.

Code folding

Users can fold (hide) sections of code they are not working on. This folding includes mixed folding, which lets users designate code subsections that will remain visible even when their parent section is folded.

Code templates

Single keystroke insert commonly used code constructs, such as exception handling blocks or "for" loops. Each editor comes with predefined templates that can be edited or cloned.

Markers

Editors display markers associated with the current file, including breaks and errors generated by the build tools. A simple click on the marker indicates the offending line. Users can also insert markers to serve as task reminders or bookmarks.

Source navigator

The source navigator supports context-specific searches for references and definitions; outline views for fast navigation of source code and project header files; and jumps to functional declarations and prototypes.

Local history

The IDE editors maintain local history that facilitates temporary debugging changes. Developers can set editor preferences to automatically keep multiple revisions of working files, compare versions, merge versions, or undo changes.

The IDE lets developers use the build tools they prefer for embedded system development. They can build exactly the same binaries and context with:

• command-line tools invoked from inside the IDE
• IDE tools
• command-line and IDE tools

Build settings control

The IDE allows developers to configure build settings such as compiler and linker options, extra includes, and libraries.

Multi-processor makefiles

The IDE eliminates the need to handcraft makefiles for multi-processor environments. A point-and-click interface lets developers build what they need for the environment, including targeting one or more CPUs and building multi-processor, recursive makefile frameworks. The IDE saves the build settings in a conventional makefile format.

Reuse and port

Developers can reuse existing projects based on makefiles, or port projects based on a build command other than make.

Launch configuration wizard

Build, run, and debug with a single click. Using the launch configuration wizard, quickly specify which programs to launch, on which targets, and with what debug options.

The IDE supports launch groups that allow multiple applications to be downloaded and launched at the same time, or in a user-determined sequence. The IDE remembers launch group preferences, so launching subsequent sessions are quick and easy.

With the IDE, developers can manage all source code in just one environment. The IDE supports:

• Subversion, for seemless integration with Subversion-based repositories, such as Foundry27
• the CVS source-control protocol, with support for both remote pserver and secure SSH repository access
• many other configuration management systems through Eclipse plugins: ClearCase, Perforce, SCWI, etc.

Built-in version and configuration management

Version and configuration management are build right into the IDE framework, so there is no need to switch out of the IDE to manage source code. Developers can work in a heterogeneous source-control environment, using different source-control protocols for different projects — even for different files in a project.

Version control, comparison and merging

Key IDE source control features include:

• version control when updating source base
• version control when releasing changes to team members
• revision history when browsing files to view changes others have made
• graphical file version comparison
• interactive merge capabilities to resolve conflicts from multiple developers modifying the same source

QNX Momentics IDE configuration wizard

The configuration wizard lets developers quickly specify which programs to launch, on which targets, and with what debug options.