Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Description of the Main Windows

2.1 The Welcome Dialog
2.2 The Menu Bar
2.3 The Tool Bar
2.4 The Work Space
2.5 The Project Explorer

2.5.1 The explorer views
2.5.2 The configuration variables

2.6 The Messages Window
2.7 The Shell Window
2.8 The Locations Tree
2.9 The Execution Window
2.10 The Status Line

3. Integrated Help

3.1 The Help Menu
3.2 Adding New Help Files

4. Multiple Document Interface

4.1 Selecting Windows
4.2 Closing Windows
4.3 Maximized and Iconified Windows
4.4 Docked Windows
4.5 Floating Windows
4.6 Moving Windows

5. Editing Files

5.1 General Information
5.2 Editing Sources

5.2.1 Key bindings

5.3 The File Selector
5.4 Menu Items

5.4.1 The File Menu
5.4.2 The Edit Menu

5.5 Using an External Editor
5.6 Using the Clipboard

6. Source Navigation

6.1 Support for Cross References
6.2 The Navigate Menu
6.3 Source Navigation Contextual Menus

7. Project Handling

7.1 Description of the Projects

7.1.1 Project files and GNAT tools
7.1.2 Contents of project files

7.2 Scenarios and Configuration Variables

7.2.1 Creating new configuration variables
7.2.2 Editing existing configuration variables

7.3 The Project Explorer
7.4 The Project Menu
7.5 The Project Wizard

7.5.1 Project Naming
7.5.2 VCS Selection
7.5.3 Source Directories Selection
7.5.4 Build Directory
7.5.5 Naming Scheme
7.5.6 Main Units
7.5.7 Switches

7.6 The Project Properties Editor
7.7 The Switches Editor
7.8 The Project Browser

8. Searching and Replacing
9. Compilation/Build

9.1 The Build Menu
9.2 Integrating existing build procedures with the GPS build system

10. Source Browsing

10.1 General Issues
10.2 Call Graph
10.3 Dependency Browser
10.4 Entity Browser

11. Debugging

11.1 The Debug Menu

11.1.1 Debug
11.1.2 Data

11.2 The Call Stack Window
11.3 The Data Window

11.3.1 Description
11.3.2 Manipulating items

11.3.2.1 Moving items
11.3.2.2 Colors
11.3.2.3 Icons

11.4 The Breakpoint Editor

11.4.1 Scope/Action Settings for VxWorks AE

11.5 The Memory Window
11.6 Using the Source Editor when Debugging
11.7 The Assembly Window
11.8 The Debugger Console

12. Version Control System

12.1 The VCS Explorer
12.2 The VCS Menu
12.3 The Version Control Contextual Menu

13. Tools

13.1 The Tools Menu
13.2 Visual Comparison
13.3 Code Fixing

14. Working in a Cross Environment

14.1 Customizing your Projects
14.2 Debugger Issues

15. Customizing and Extending GPS

15.1 The Preferences Dialog
15.2 Customizing the Menu and Tool Bar

15.2.1 Redefining key bindings
15.2.2 Adding menu items
15.2.3 Adding tool bar buttons
15.2.4 Macro arguments

15.3 Adding Support for New Languages
15.4 Defining Text Aliases

15.4.1 Aliases files

15.5 Defining New Styles and Key Bindings

15.5.1 Toplevel declarations
15.5.2 Defining new styles
15.5.3 Defining new key bindings

15.6 Scripting GPS

15.6.1 Scripts
15.6.2 The GPS Shell

16. Environment

16.1 Command Line Options
16.2 Environment Variables
16.3 Files
16.4 Reporting Suggestions and Bugs
16.5 Solving Problems

Index