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19 years ago

Nios II IDE - making it more user-friendly

Is there a way to make IDE more programmer friendly by hooking it up with some context-sensitive C library reference ?

When I work with Borlad C/C++ tools or MS Visual C/C++ I can press F1 key any time while editing and bring up the screen with the function reference from under the cursor... Same applies for compilation/linker errors - I can click on the error message and hit F1 to get help/suggestion how to deal with the error. Sometimes I miss this feature in Nios II IDE. Is this somewhere there ? Can I have it misconfigured somehow ?

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    19 years ago

    NIOS II IDE is Eclipse with the CDT extensions (http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/) so anything that works with CDT can probably be made to work with NIOS IDE. As far as I know there's no context-sensitive help for CDT.

    I think the main problem would be to find the appropriate reference. How would you know where to search for a given term under the cursor?

    Andrew
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    19 years ago

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    originally posted by queisser@Apr 25 2006, 02:05 PM

    i think the main problem would be to find the appropriate reference. how would you know where to search for a given term under the cursor?

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    Borland tools do it, so it is doable. When your mouse is over "messages" window than they look for the error name, when in the editor, they look in the library reference. There is some support for this in the Eclipse - when your mouse is hovering over your own function name you get a popup window with brief function prototype, but this does not work for library functions nor for compiler error/warning messages.