IDE Concepts

The IDE help system provides many helpful links about basic concepts to get you familiar with the IDE, including the Documentation Roadmap, Team Support (an important topic if you use CVS or Subversion), Workbench Basics, and the C/C++ Online Documentation.

• What is an IDE?
  
• Building embedded systems using the IDE
  
• Perspectives
  
• Views
  
• Editors
  
• Using alternate editors
  
• Changing editors
  
• Refreshing the resources
  
• Disabling automatic syntax annotation highlighting
  
• Preferences
  
• Importing preferences
  
• Exporting preferences
  
• Setting export options for a BSP
  
• Projects in the IDE
  
• Considerations for project development
  
• How the IDE characterizes projects using natures
  
• The IDE Workspace
  
• Specifying a workspace location
  
• Host and target machines
  
• Target agent (the qconn daemon)
  
• Launcher
  
• Resources
  
• Wizards
  
• Keyboard shortcuts
  
• Version coexistence
  
• Environment variables
  
• Coexistence and PhAB
  
• Specifying which OS version to build for
  

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