Workbench Views

The Project Explorer is the main utility to work with C/C++ projects. The Project Explorer contains all HighTec IDE projects currently available in the workspace and allows you to open source files for editing or engage other actions, such as build.

The Project Explorer presents the project items in the form of a tree structure. The tree starts with the project name on the first level. The second level contains the project resources. You can group the project resources into folders. Folders reflect the physical structure of the project on the disk. Folders, however, may also be only Virtual, grouping content based on a particular type or location in the file system.

The following picture gives you a comprehensive overview:

The C/C++ editor provides specialized features for editing C/C++ related files.

The editor offers an effective environment to compose your C/C++ code, including:

The most common way to invoke the C/C++ editor is to open a file from the Project Explorer or the C/C++ Project views using pop-up menus or by clicking the file (single or double-click depending on the user preferences).

The C/C++ editor does not contain a toolbar itself but relies on the use of the main toolbar, Edit menu, Search menu and keybinding actions.

The IDE provides default editors for other types of sources as well, such as makefile, linker, and text or map files. The level of supported features may vary.

The memory allocation view provides an overview of the memory footprint of the selected project. The memory allocation view feature is supported by the following toolchains:

If this view is closed, you can open it via the menu Window  Show view  Other…​  HighTec EDV-Systeme  Memory Allocation.

The following picture gives you a comprehensive overview:

The memory allocation view provides information about the memory configuration and memory usage by your application. The view provides this information:

You can see several different elements within the memory allocation view. See the following table for more details.

NOTE: The memory allocation view implementation relly on the parsed output of the generated memory map file. In the case, the memory map file is corrupted or missing the memory allocation view does not show any data.

To make the view better understandable, you can define logical groups and assign the memory regions to them. This way you can minimize the number of regions displayed at one time. The group definition and its regions assignment are accessible via the config window which you can open by click to the config icon ().

If you create a groups configuration, your memory allocation view then can look like the following.

Sooner or later you will run into problems with your code or your project setup. To view the problems discovered in your project, you can use the Problems view which is part of the standard Hightec perspective. The view shows error and warning messages generated by instant code checkers or reported during the build process. If this view is closed, you can open it via Window  Show view  Problems.

The Console view displays the output of a process activated by the user, such as the build process.

Build console provides also highlighting of build problems. You can use double-click on a highlighted line to open code in an editor when error parsers can determine file and line from build output.

The memory overview view provides an overview of the memory utilization of the selected project in other graphical interpretation. This view is a preview of the coming future features and is supported by the following toolchains:

You can open the view it via the menu Window  Show view  Other…​  HighTec EDV-Systeme  Memory Overview.

The following picture gives you a quick overview:

The memory overview can display three different levels of view. The Top-level is represented by the memory regions. By click on any region, the view is switched to a middle-level view providing the information about the output section of the given region. By clicking on any section, the view is switched to the lowest level displaying all the symbols related t the given output section. In each level of the view, you can zoom in/out the displayed blocks by the CTRL + mouse-wheel action to see more details.

The memory regions view shows the memory region, which you defined within the linker script by the command MEMORY. The size of a single block represents the memory region size relative to the whole memory. The section view shows the output section, which you defined in the linker script by the command SECTION. The size of a single block represents the output section size relative to the parent memory region size. The symbols view displays all symbols related to the parent output section. Since the number of symbols can be relatively high, the default view is configured to minimal symbol size. You can see the symbol details either in the tooltip (triggered by mouse-over action) or by zoom-in the whole symbols view. See the details of the displayed elements below.

The notification queue contains all rised and not cleared notifications. You can open the notification queue either by click to the icon in IDE the status bar or from the menu Help  Notification Queue.