Using the GNAT Programming Studio

Using the GNAT Programming Studio

Version 5.1.1

Date: $Date: 2011-09-12 06:48:54 -0400 (Mon, 12 Sep 2011) $

Copyright © 2001-2011, AdaCore

• Introduction
• Description of the Main Windows
• Online Help
• Multiple Document Interface
• Editing Files
• Source Navigation
• Project Handling
• Searching and Replacing
• Compilation/Build
• Source Browsing
• Debugging
• Version Control System
• Tools
• Working in a Cross Environment
• Using GPS for Remote Development
• Customizing and Extending GPS
• Environment
• GNU Free Documentation License
• Index table

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Description of the main windows

• The Welcome Dialog
• The Tip of the Day
• The Menu Bar
• The Tool Bar
• The Work Space
• The Project View
• The File View
• The Entity View
• The Window View
• The Outline View
• The Clipboard View
• The Callgraph View
• Bookmarks
• The Messages Window
• The Shell and Python Windows
• The Locations View
• The Status Line
• The Task Manager

Online Help

• The Help Menu
• Adding New Help Files

Multiple Document Interface

• Selecting Windows
• Closing Windows
• Splitting Windows
• Floating Windows
• Moving Windows
• Perspectives

Editing Files

• General Information
• Editing Sources
• The File Selector
• Menu Items
• Rectangles
• Recording and replaying macros
• Contextual Menus for Editing Files
• Handling of case exceptions
• Refactoring
• Using an External Editor
• Using the Clipboard
• Saving Files
• Remote Files

Refactoring

• Rename Entity
• Name Parameters
• Extract Subprogram

Source Navigation

• Support for Cross-References
• The Navigate Menu
• Contextual Menus for Source Navigation
• Navigating with hyperlinks
• Highlighting dispatching calls

Project Handling

• Description of the Projects
• Supported Languages
• Scenarios and Configuration Variables
• Extending Projects
• Project View
• Disabling Project Edition Features
• The Project Menu
• The Project Wizard
• The Project Dependencies Editor
• The Project Properties Editor
• The Switches Editor
• The Project Browser

Searching and Replacing

Compilation/Build

• The Build Menu
• The Target Configuration Dialog
• The Build Mode
• Working with two compilers

Source Browsing

• General Issues
• Call Graph
• Dependency Browser
• Entity Browser

Debugging

• The Debug Menu
• The Call Stack Window
• The Data Window
• The Breakpoint Editor
• The Memory Window
• Using the Source Editor when Debugging
• The Debugger Console
• Customizing the Debugger

Version Control System

• The VCS Explorer
• The VCS Activities
• The VCS Menu
• The Version Control Contextual Menu
• Working with global ChangeLog file
• The Revision View

Tools

• The Tools Menu
• Visual Comparison
• Code Fixing
• Documentation Generation
• Metrics
• Code Coverage
• Stack Analysis

Working in a Cross Environment

• Customizing your Projects
• Debugger Issues

Using GPS for Remote Development

• Requirements
• Setup the remote servers
• Setup a remote project
• Limitations

Customizing and Extending GPS

• The Preferences Dialog
• GPS Themes
• The Key Manager Dialog
• The Plug-ins Editor
• Customizing through XML and Python files
• Adding support for new tools
• Customization examples
• Scripting GPS
• Adding support for new Version Control Systems
• The Server Mode
• Adding project templates

Customizing through XML and Python files

• Customization files and plugins
• Defining Actions
• Macro arguments
• Filtering actions
• Adding new menus
• Adding contextual menus
• Adding tool bar buttons
• Binding actions to keys
• Preferences support in custom files
• Creating themes
• Defining new search patterns
• Adding support for new languages
• Defining text aliases
• Defining project attributes
• Adding casing exceptions
• Adding documentation
• Adding stock icons
• Remote programming customization
• Customizing build Targets and Models

Adding support for new tools

• Defining supported languages
• Defining default command line
• Defining tool switches
• Executing external tools

Customization examples

• Menu example
• Tool example

Scripting GPS

• Scripts
• Scripts and GPS actions
• The GPS Shell
• The Python Interpreter
• Subprogram parameters
• Python FAQ
• Hooks

Python FAQ

• Hello World! in python
• Spawning external processes
• Redirecting the output of spawned processes
• Contextual menus on object directories only
• Redirecting the output to specific windows
• Reloading a python file in GPS
• Printing the GPS Python documentation
• Automatically loading python files at startup
• Hiding contextual menus
• Creating custom graphical interfaces

Environment

• Command Line Options
• Environment Variables
• Running GPS on Mac OS X
• Files
• Reporting Suggestions and Bugs
• Solving Problems

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