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About This Guide

You can select a topic from this diagram:

Workflow diagram with preface highlighted

The IDE User's Guide at a glance.

How to use this guide

This User's Guide describes the Integrated Development Environment (IDE), which is part of the QNX Momentics development suite. The guide introduces you to the IDE and shows you how to use it effectively to build your QNX Neutrino-based systems.

The workflow diagram above shows how the guide is structured and suggests how you might use the IDE. Once you understand the basic concepts, you're ready to begin the typical cycle of setting up your projects, writing code, debugging, testing, and finally fine-tuning your target system.

Each chapter begins with the workflow diagram, but with the chapter's bubble highlighted to show where you are in the book. Note that in the online version each bubble is a link.

This release of the IDE is based on Eclipse 3.0. If you have an older version of the IDE, see Appendix C: Migrating from Earlier Releases in this guide.

The following table may help you find information quickly:

To:	Go to:
Learn about the workspace, perspectives, views, and editors	IDE Concepts
Use the IDE's help system	IDE Concepts
Run through the IDE tutorials	Tutorials
Learn about migrating from earlier versions of the IDE	Migrating from Earlier Releases
Connect your host and target	Preparing Your Target
Create projects	Developing C/C++ Programs
Create Photon projects	Developing Photon Applications
Compile your code	Developing C/C++ Programs
Import existing code into the IDE	Managing Source Code
Debug your program	Debugging Programs
Import a QNX BSP source package	Managing Source Code
Set execution options for your programs	Launch Configurations Reference
Check code into CVS	Managing Source Code
Run QNX Neutrino on your target	Building OS and Flash Images
Examine execution stats (e.g. call counts) in your programs	Profiling an Application
Exercise a test suite	Using Code Coverage
Find and fix a memory leak in a program	Finding Memory Errors
See process or thread states, memory allocation. etc.	Getting System Information
Examine your system's performance, kernel events, etc.	Analyzing Your System with Kernel Tracing
Learn how to use one of the IDE's wizards	Common Wizards Reference
Look up a keyboard shortcut	IDE Concepts
Learn where the IDE stores important files	Where Files Are Stored
Learn what utilities the IDE uses	Utilities Used by the IDE
Find the meaning of a special term used in the IDE	Glossary
Look up a word in the keyword index (in most QNX online docs)

Assumptions

This guide assumes the following:

On your host you've already installed the QNX Momentics suite, which includes a complete QNX Neutrino development environment.
You're familiar with the architecture of the QNX Neutrino RTOS.
You can write code in C or C++.