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| author | Vivian Kong | 2008-08-28 15:53:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Vivian Kong | 2008-08-28 15:53:52 +0000 |
| commit | 1d5dfa21120936e7a50a25c5860c5363957a2af5 (patch) | |
| tree | d2556ec74accf1edefc9b919692772bda897769c | |
| parent | 4ef80506de9a3bd01004f86d840c9188b5cd6188 (diff) | |
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patch for bug 245421 from Beth Tibbitts
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diff --git a/doc/org.eclipse.cdt.doc.user/concepts/cdt_c_whatsnew.htm b/doc/org.eclipse.cdt.doc.user/concepts/cdt_c_whatsnew.htm index 31338d05715..4b0e9da22c1 100644 --- a/doc/org.eclipse.cdt.doc.user/concepts/cdt_c_whatsnew.htm +++ b/doc/org.eclipse.cdt.doc.user/concepts/cdt_c_whatsnew.htm @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> -<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (c) IBM Corporation and others 2007. This page is made available under license. For full details, see the LEGAL section in the documentation that contains this page."> +<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (c) IBM Corporation and others 2007,2008 This page is made available under license. For full details, see the LEGAL section in the documentation that contains this page."> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> @@ -13,232 +13,71 @@ tr {vertical-align: top;} </style> <title>New and Noteworthy</title> </head> - <body> - - -<h1>CDT 4.0 - New and Noteworthy</h1> -<p>CDT 4.0 includes new features in the editor, - <!-- ****************** START OF N&N TABLE ****************** -->new code navigation tools, debugger enhancements, and other improvements. -<table cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="600"> - <colgroup> - <col width="20%"> - <col width="80%"> - </colgroup> - <tbody> -<!-- ******************** Editor ********************** --> -<tr> - -<td colspan="2"><a name="Projects"></a> -<div style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;">Projects</div></td> -</tr> - -<tr> - <td> - <p align="right"><b>New Project Creation</b></p> </td> - <td><p>Now it's easier to create and configure a new CDT project: </p> - <p><img src="../images/nn_new_project.png"> - </td> - </tr> -<tr> - <td> - <p align="right"><b>Project Templates</b></p> </td> - <td><p>Projects can be created from one of the available templates. Project templates include wizard pages that let you configure basic settings for new project code. </p> - <p><img src="../images/nn_basic_settings.png"> </td> - </tr> -<!-- ******************** Views ********************** --> -<tr> - -<td colspan="2"><a name="Editor"></a> -<div style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;">Editor</div></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<tr> -<tr> - <td> - <p align="right"><b>Semantic Highlighting</b></p> - </td> - <td> - <p>Identifiers in the source code can now be colored according to their role, e.g. typedefs, functions, variables, fields, etc.</p> - <p><img src="../images/nn_codeColoring.png"> </p> - </td> - </tr> - - <td> - <p align="right"><b>Inactive Code Highlighting</b></p> - </td> - <td> - <p>Code being excluded by conditional compilation is marked with grey background.</p> - <p><img src="../images/nn_inactiveCode.png"> </p> - </td> - </tr> - - <td> - <p align="right"><b>Code Folding Improvements</b></p> </td> - <td><p>Now you can collapse and expand blocks of comments and preprocessor branches in C and C++ files in addition to functions, structures, etc. </p> - <p><img src="../images/nn_codeFolding.png"> </p> - </tr> - -<tr> - <td> - <p align="right"><b>Code Formatter</b></p> - </td> - <td> - <p>A configurable code formatter with 4 predefined styles has been added:</p> - <p><img src="../images/nn_codeFormatterPrefs.png"> </p> - </td> - </tr> - -<tr> - <td> - <p align="right"><b>Smart Typing</b></p> - </td> - <td> - <p>Typing assistance has been greatly improved. Options include automatic closing of brackets, smart paste and more:</p> - <p><img src="../images/nn_smartTypingPrefs.png"> </p> - </td> - </tr> - -<!-- ******************** Views ********************** --> -<tr> - -<td colspan="2"><a name="Views"></a> -<div style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;">Code Navigation Views</div></td> -</tr> - -<tr> - <td> - <p align="right"><b>Include Browser</b></p> </td> - <td>The Include Browser now lets you see the hierarchy of included headers in a source file. - <p><img src="../images/nn_include_browser.png"> </p> - </td> - - </tr> - - <tr> - <td> <p align="right"><b>Call Hierarchy</b></p></td> - <td> - The Call Hierarchy view shows you who calls a function. - <p><img src="../images/nn_call_hierarchy.png"> </p></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td> <p align="right"><b>Type Hierarchy</b></p></td> - <td>The Type Hierarchy view shows you how C/C++ types are related. - <p><img src="../images/nn_type_hierarchy.png"> </p></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td> <p align="right"><b>Indexer Improvements</b></p></td> - <td><p>The indexer is greatly improved with more features and accuracy:</p> - <p><img src="../images/nn_indexer_prefs.png"> </p> </td> - </tr> - - -<!-- *********************** Debugger *********************** --> -<tr> -<td colspan="2"><a name="debugger"></a> -<div style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;">Debugger</div></td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td> - <p align="right"><b>GDB Hardware Debugging</b></p> - </td> - <td> - <p>The GDB Hardware Debugging feature provides a specialized debug launch configuration - that allows you to start up GDB using CDT's GDB integration in a specialized manner that - allows for sessions that connect to hardware debugging devices, such as JTAG and BDM, - that support an integration with GDB. In particular it allows you to specify commands that - are executed when GDB connects to the device, optionally specify an image to load onto the - target, and specify commands that set up the target for execution.</p> - <p><img src="../images/nn_gdb_hardware_debug.png"></p> - </td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td> - <p align="right"><b>Breakpoint Actions</b></p> </td> - <td><p>You can now attach actions to a breakpoint. These are additional activities performed when a breakpoint is hit. CDT 4.0 comes with four standard actions that: play a sound, log text to an expression to the console, resume execution, or run an external tool. </p> - <p><img src="../images/nn_bpactions.png"> - <p> </p></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td> - <p align="right"><b>Contextual Launch Support</b></p> </td> - <td> - <p>CDT 4.0 now takes advantage of the contextual launch support in Eclipse 3.3 to make the run and debug commands just "do the right thing" for C/C++ projects.</p> - <p><img src="../images/nn_contextlaunch.png"> - <p>Just click the Debug button to start a debug session instead of manually creating a launch configuration. </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <p align="right"><b>Locating Source Files</b></p> </td> - <td> - <p>When the debugger can't find a source file using the path in the symbol table it now lets you locate it directly instead of having to configure a source lookup path. </p> - <p><img src="../images/nn_missing_file.png"> - - <p> </p></td> - </tr> -<!-- *********************** Other Improvements *********************** --> -<tr> -<td colspan="2"><a name="other"></a> -<div style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;">Other Improvements</div></td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td><p align="right"><b>Project Build Button </b></p></td> - <td><p>The toolbar now includes a button that builds the active configuration of the selected project. It's menu lets you quickly build another configuration.</p> - <p><img src="../images/nn_buildbtn.png"></p></td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td> - <p align="right"><b>MinGW Toolchain Integration</b></p> - </td> - <td> - <p>Support for the GNU toolchain on Windows now specifies two separate toolchains Cygwin and MinGW. - The MinGW toolchain integration automatically detects the location of your MinGW install and sets - the paths appropriately.</p> - <p>MinGW tool chain for new projects:</p> - <p><img src="../images/nn_mingw_project.png"></p> - <p>MinGW debugger launch configuration:</p> - <p><img src="../images/nn_mingw_debug.png"></p> - </td> -</tr> - - <tr> - <td> - <p align="right"><b>Task Tags</b></p> </td> - <td><p>The Task View now includes entries based on tags in your C/C++ source files. </p> - <p><img src="../images/nn_taskTags2.gif"> - <p>Task Tag options: </p> - <p><img src="../images/nn_taskTags.gif"> </p> - <p> </p> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <p align="right"><b>IBM XL C/C++ Toolchain Integration</b></p> </td> - <td><p>If you install the optional CDT feature "XL C/C++ Compiler Support," - xlc and xlC toolchain integration is available. Then when you create a new project, - the XLC project types are available for selection. - <p><img src="../images/nn_xlc.gif"> </p> - <p>xlC compiler options are available in the project properties:</p> - <p><img src="../images/nn_xlcOpt.gif"> </p> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <p align="right"><b>UPC Support</b></p> </td> - <td><p>If you install the optional CDT feature "Unified Parallel C Support," the Unified Parallel C programming language - is supported in the editor. After installing the feature, you can create a source file with extension ".upc" - and the UPC language constructs are recognized. - </p> - <p><img src="../images/nn_upc.png"> </p> - - </tr> -<!-- ****************** END OF N&N TABLE ****************** --> - </tbody> -</table> - +<h1>CDT 5.0 - New and Noteworthy</h1> +<p>CDT 5.0 includes new features in Editor, Call Hierarchy, +Refactoring, Indexer, Projects & Build, and Debug. +<p> +See <a href="wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/User/NewIn50">What's New in CDT 5.0</a> on the CDT Wiki for more information including screen shots. + +<p>Highlights include: + +<h3>Editor</h3> +<ul> +<li>Code and File Templates - user-definable templates can be used in New Class and New Source/Header File wizards. +<li>New preference page for Code Templates +<li>Outline view for assembly files +<li>Code formatter improvements including new whitespace and line wrapping options, Improved GNU coding style compliance +<li>Content assist improvements +<li>Doxygen editor support - auto-generation of tags and a pluggable framework for other documentation tools is now available. +<li>Mark Occurrences - highlights where the selected identifier occurs elsewhere in the editor +<li>Folding of compound statements +<li>Macro Expansion hover and exploration tool +<li>Spell checking available and enabled by default +<li>Scalability mode for working with very large files. +<li>Visual Studio key bindings + +</ul> +<h3>Navigation and Search</h3> +<ul> +<li>Open Declaration for operators, empty macros, element in outline view, etc +<li>Open Element support for static functions/variables, other improvements +<li>Search - for Static functions/variables, macros, references of local variables, Search view usability improvements +</ul> +<h3>Call Hierarchy</h3> +<ul> +<li>Read/write decorators indicate read/write status for variables +<li>Polymorphic method calls (virtual methods) support +</ul> +<h3>Refactoring</h3> +<ul> +<li>Refactoring infrastructure much improved, models transformation on the AST +<li>Generate Getters and Setters +<li>Hide Method +<li>Implement Method +<li>Extract Constant +<li>Extract Function +</ul> +<h3>Indexer</h3> +<ul> +<li>Improved accuracy and performance +<li>Entirely new preprocessor +<li>Improved infrastructure +<li>Visual indication of indexer status +</ul> +<h3>Projects and Build</h3> +<ul> +<li>Project Properties improved usability +<li>Make target locations - make targets at the project level are built in the project build directory +</ul> +<h3>Debug</h3> +<ul> +<li>Executables view +<li>Event breakpoints - added gdb catchpoints support +</ul> + + + </body> </html> diff --git a/doc/org.eclipse.cdt.doc.user/concepts/cdt_o_home.htm b/doc/org.eclipse.cdt.doc.user/concepts/cdt_o_home.htm index b401b44e06a..7e543130e32 100644 --- a/doc/org.eclipse.cdt.doc.user/concepts/cdt_o_home.htm +++ b/doc/org.eclipse.cdt.doc.user/concepts/cdt_o_home.htm @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ <body> <h1>C/C++ Development User Guide</h1> +<p>CDT 5.0</p> <p>The C/C++ Development Toolkit (CDT) is a collection of Eclipse-based features that provides the capability to create, edit, navigate, build, and debug projects that use C and/or C++ as a programming language.</p> diff --git a/doc/org.eclipse.cdt.doc.user/toc.xml b/doc/org.eclipse.cdt.doc.user/toc.xml index 718bd586edc..3ce619184ba 100644 --- a/doc/org.eclipse.cdt.doc.user/toc.xml +++ b/doc/org.eclipse.cdt.doc.user/toc.xml @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ <link toc="topics_Reference.xml" /> </topic> - <!--topic label="What's new" href="concepts/cdt_c_whatsnew.htm"/--> + <topic label="What's new in CDT 5.0" href="concepts/cdt_c_whatsnew.htm"/> <topic label="Legal" href="notices.html"/> |