S60 Open to new features

For those of you out there working on Platform Security integration within your project, we have a tool to help: the Capability Scanner. This scanner checks the APIs used throughout your code and reports the capabilities that you must include in your MMP file. If you're looking for a simple introduction on how the capability scanner feature can be used, you've come to the right place. Take a few minutes to watch the newest screencast:

You can find this and other videos at: http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Carbide_Training_Videos

Got ideas for screencasts you'd like to see? Leave us some feedback here and we'll get on it!

Here's a followup to my previous post about moving the PC while debugging: This week I've been working on integrating a new CDT contribution that will add a "Move To Line" command to compliment the existing "Run to Line" and "Resume at Line." "Move To Line" will let you move the PC to a new location without resuming execution. Look for it in a Carbide 2.0 nightly build next week.

If you're not sure what all those different signing options are for when creating .sis files or if you just want to know what options are available for tweaking the build system to add your own little customizations, this is the screencast for you -- it's a basic overview of the Build Configuration Options dialog, but also includes more advanced info like where to go to put in your own command-line parameters if you've been hacking on the bldmake and abld scripts, or if you just want to change how they behave.

One of the things we have heard about the last couple Carbide releases is how much better the code navigation features have become. Most of those rely on the C++ code indexer built into CDT so the better the indexer gets the better all the code navigation features perform.

While our team tests these features and has fixed a few bugs most of the recent improvement is due to work by other committers on the CDT project. Markus Schorn at Wind River has lead the great improvement in the CDT indexer over the past couple releases and Andrew Ferguson at Symbian has addressed a lot of issues that effect Carbide.c++ users in particular.

The CDT C++ indexer code isn’t easy to just pick up and play around with so there aren’t a lot of people with the skills and experience to work on improvements. So we’re very happy Andrew’s work on CDT has continued: he’s fixed over a dozen bugs in CDT 5.0.x that we’ll be using in the upcoming Carbide 2.0 release. You can see the details by searching the Eclipse bugzilla. Thanks Andrew.

This week I looked at a couple issues with contextual launching: that's what happens when you hit the Debug button and Carbide determines what to launch in the debugger. Carbide 2.0 is based on the new Eclipse 3.4 release and this includes some new APIs for contextual launching. I added support for those and now when you hover over the Debug button it will show you the exact name of the launch configuration you’ll get, not just the project name. I then looked at bug 3904 which asked that the selection in the Symbian Project Navigator View be used to determine which executable would be used by default. So now if you hit "Debug" while an mmp is selected in the SPN view it will launch the executable built by that mmp by default.

Have you ever wondered exactly how to use the CodeScanner tool? Well if so, you're in luck! This week's screencast installment features this topic:

You can find this and other videos at: http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Carbide_Training_Videos

Got ideas for screencasts you'd like to see? Leave us some feedback here and we'll get on it!

So, summer is here and as you may have noticed the number of entries on this blog has dropped a bit in the last few weeks as the team takes some well deserved time off to enjoy the Austin heat with their families. Unlike our corporate headquarters in Finland we don't take the entire summer off, but we do grab a week or two here and there to spend time away from the office recharging ourselves for the next project sprint.