S60 Open to new features

(…or some not so obvious things in Carbide.c++ that will help you to cruise around your project resources and make you more efficient)

I just got back from a trip to Korea to visit with some customers that are migrating to Carbide.c++. I was tasked with teaching Carbide to new users in just a few short hours so that they would have enough information to begin evaluating the tool. I realized that you can’t possibly teach everything Carbide can do in a few hours so I thought about some of the not-so-obvious things that make the eclipse platform and CDT a joy to work with (or a pain if you don’t know them). These are things you don’t realize from just following a simple HelloWorld tutorial or just playing around with the tool.

I thought about some of the most common questions that I’ve read from my experience on the Carbide Beta group and numerous other news groups. Things like, “It’s so hard to find my sources in the Project view, I just have too many.” Where the answer is, “Just use ‘CTRL + Shift + R’”.

I’ve also had my own, “Woah, eclipse can do that! Cool!”. Something simple like commenting out several lines of source at one time (CTRL + /). And after two years I continue to discover cool and useful things that the eclipse platform can do.

So I took my own experience with source-related tasks that have saved me many hours a day and added those I show to others frequently. I’ve put all these on power point slides, but perhaps the best ones could be consolidated on single cheat sheet?

What do you find saves you time throughout the day when using Carbide?

Here’s the presentation.

Happy Navigating!

–Tim