• 1. Welcome to the GNAT Programming Studio
• 2. Description of the Main Window
  • 2.1. The Workspace
    • 2.1.1. Common features of the views
    • 2.1.2. Common features of browsers
  • 2.2. The Preferences Assistant
  • 2.3. The Welcome Dialog
  • 2.4. The Tool Bar
  • 2.5. The omni-search
  • 2.6. The Messages view
  • 2.7. The Locations View
  • 2.8. The Project view
  • 2.9. The Learn view
  • 2.10. The Scenario view
  • 2.11. The Files View
  • 2.12. The Windows view
  • 2.13. The Outline view
  • 2.14. The Clipboard view
  • 2.15. The Call trees view and Callgraph browser
    • 2.15.1. Call Trees
    • 2.15.2. Callgraph browser
  • 2.16. The Bookmarks view
    • 2.16.1. Basic usage: Creating a new bookmark
    • 2.16.2. Adding more bookmarks
    • 2.16.3. Organizing bookmarks into groups
    • 2.16.4. Adding notes
    • 2.16.5. Add note with drag and drop
    • 2.16.6. Filtering bookmarks
    • 2.16.7. Favorite files
  • 2.17. The Python Console
  • 2.18. The OS Shell Console
  • 2.19. The Execution window
  • 2.20. The Tasks view
  • 2.21. The Project Browser
  • 2.22. The Dependency Browser
  • 2.23. The Elaboration Circularities browser
  • 2.24. The Entity browser
  • 2.25. The File Selector
• 3. The Menu Bar
  • 3.1. The File Menu
  • 3.2. The Edit Menu
  • 3.3. The Navigate Menu
  • 3.4. The Find Menu
  • 3.5. The View Menu
  • 3.6. The Code Menu
  • 3.7. The VCS Menu
  • 3.8. The Build Menu
  • 3.9. The Analyze Menu
  • 3.10. The Debug Menu
  • 3.11. The SPARK Menu
  • 3.12. The CodePeer Menu
  • 3.13. The Window Menu
  • 3.14. The Help Menu
• 4. Multiple Document Interface
  • 4.1. Window layout
  • 4.2. Selecting Windows
  • 4.3. Closing Windows
  • 4.4. Splitting Windows
  • 4.5. Floating Windows
  • 4.6. Moving Windows
  • 4.7. Perspectives
• 5. Editing Files
  • 5.1. General Information
  • 5.2. Editing Sources
    • 5.2.1. Key bindings
  • 5.3. Recording and replaying macros
  • 5.4. Contextual Menus for Editing Files
  • 5.5. Handling of casing
  • 5.6. Refactoring
    • 5.6.1. Rename Entity
    • 5.6.2. Name Parameters
    • 5.6.3. Extract Subprogram
  • 5.7. Using an External Editor
  • 5.8. Using the Clipboard
  • 5.9. Saving Files
  • 5.10. Printing Files
• 6. Source Navigation
  • 6.1. Support for Cross-References
    • 6.1.1. Ada cross-reference heuristics
    • 6.1.2. The cross-reference database
    • 6.1.3. Cross-references and partially compiled projects
    • 6.1.4. Cross-reference and GNAT runtime
  • 6.2. Contextual Menus for Source Navigation
  • 6.3. Navigating with hyperlinks
  • 6.4. Highlighting dispatching calls
• 7. Project Handling
  • 7.1. Description of the Projects
    • 7.1.1. Project files and GNAT tools
    • 7.1.2. Contents of project files
  • 7.2. Supported Languages
  • 7.3. Scenarios and Configuration Variables
    • 7.3.1. Creating new scenario variables
    • 7.3.2. Editing existing scenario variables
  • 7.4. Extending Projects
    • 7.4.1. Description of project extensions
    • 7.4.2. Creating project extensions
    • 7.4.3. Adding files to project extensions
  • 7.5. Aggregate projects
  • 7.6. Disabling Editing of the Project File
  • 7.7. The Project Wizard
  • 7.8. The Project Properties Editor
  • 7.9. The Switches Editor
• 8. Searching and Replacing
  • 8.1. Searching
  • 8.2. Replacing
  • 8.3. Searching in current file
• 9. Compilation/Build
  • 9.1. The Target Configuration Editor
    • 9.1.1. The Targets tree
    • 9.1.2. The configuration panel
    • 9.1.3. Background compilations
  • 9.2. The Build Mode
  • 9.3. Working with two compilers
    • 9.3.1. Interaction with the remote mode
• 10. Debugging
  • 10.1. The Call Stack View
  • 10.2. The Variables View
  • 10.3. The Breakpoint Editor
  • 10.4. The Memory View
  • 10.5. Using the Source Editor when Debugging
  • 10.6. The Assembly Window
  • 10.7. The Debugger Console
  • 10.8. Customizing the Debugger
  • 10.9. Command line interface
• 11. Version Control System
  • 11.1. Setting up projects for version control
  • 11.2. Finding file status (Project view)
  • 11.3. The VCS Perspective
  • 11.4. The Commits view
    • 11.4.1. Viewing modified files
    • 11.4.2. Committing files
    • 11.4.3. Actions in the Commits view
    • 11.4.4. The Commits view local toolbar
  • 11.5. The History view
    • 11.5.1. List of all past commits
    • 11.5.2. Graph of past history
    • 11.5.3. Details on selected commits
  • 11.6. The Branches view
    • 11.6.1. Git and the Branches view
    • 11.6.2. CVS and the Branches view
    • 11.6.3. Subversion and the Branches view
  • 11.7. The Diff View
• 12. Tools
  • 12.1. Coding Standard
  • 12.2. Visual Comparison
  • 12.3. Code Fixing
  • 12.4. Documentation Generation
  • 12.5. Working With Unit Tests
    • 12.5.1. The GNATtest Menu
    • 12.5.2. The Contextual Menu
    • 12.5.3. Project Properties
  • 12.6. Metrics
    • 12.6.1. The Metrics Menu
    • 12.6.2. The Contextual Menu
  • 12.7. Code Coverage
    • 12.7.1. Coverage Menu
    • 12.7.2. The Contextual Menu
    • 12.7.3. The Coverage Report
  • 12.8. Stack Analysis
    • 12.8.1. The Stack Analysis Menu
    • 12.8.2. The Contextual Menu
    • 12.8.3. The Stack Usage Report
    • 12.8.4. The Stack Usage Editor
• 13. Working in a Cross Environment
  • 13.1. Customizing your Projects
  • 13.2. Debugger Issues
• 14. Using GPS for Remote Development
  • 14.1. Requirements
  • 14.2. Setup the remote servers
    • 14.2.1. The remote configuration dialog
    • 14.2.2. Connection settings
    • 14.2.3. Path settings
  • 14.3. Setup a remote project
    • 14.3.1. Remote operations
    • 14.3.2. The remote view
    • 14.3.3. Loading a remote project
  • 14.4. Limitations
• 15. Customizing and Extending GPS
  • 15.1. Color Themes
  • 15.2. Custom Fonts
  • 15.3. The Key Shortcuts Editor
  • 15.4. Editing Plugins
  • 15.5. Customizing through XML and Python files
    • 15.5.1. Customization files and plugins
    • 15.5.2. Defining Actions
    • 15.5.3. Macro arguments
    • 15.5.4. Filtering actions
    • 15.5.5. Adding new menus
    • 15.5.6. Adding contextual menus
    • 15.5.7. Adding tool bar buttons
    • 15.5.8. Binding actions to keys
    • 15.5.9. Configuring preferences
    • 15.5.10. Creating themes
    • 15.5.11. Defining new search patterns
    • 15.5.12. Defining custom highlighters
    • 15.5.13. Adding support for new languages
    • 15.5.14. Defining text aliases
    • 15.5.15. Alias files
    • 15.5.16. Defining project attributes
    • 15.5.17. Adding casing exceptions
    • 15.5.18. Adding documentation
    • 15.5.19. Adding custom icons
    • 15.5.20. Customizing Remote Programming
    • 15.5.21. Customizing Build Targets and Models
    • 15.5.22. Customizing Toolchains
  • 15.6. Adding support for new tools
    • 15.6.1. Defining supported languages
    • 15.6.2. Defining the default command line
    • 15.6.3. Defining tool switches
    • 15.6.4. Executing external tools
  • 15.7. Customization examples
    • 15.7.1. Menu example
    • 15.7.2. Tool example
  • 15.8. Scripting GPS
    • 15.8.1. Scripts
    • 15.8.2. Scripts and GPS actions
    • 15.8.3. The GPS Shell
    • 15.8.4. The Python Interpreter
    • 15.8.5. Python modules
    • 15.8.6. Subprogram parameters
    • 15.8.7. Python FAQ
    • 15.8.8. Hooks
  • 15.9. The Server Mode
  • 15.10. Adding project templates
• 16. Environment
  • 16.1. Command Line Options
  • 16.2. Environment Variables
  • 16.3. Files
  • 16.4. Reporting Suggestions and Bugs
  • 16.5. Solving Problems
• 17. Scripting API reference for GPS
  • 17.1. Function description
  • 17.2. User data in instances
  • 17.3. Hooks
  • 17.4. Functions
  • 17.5. Classes
    • 17.5.1. GPS.Action
    • 17.5.2. GPS.Alias
    • 17.5.3. GPS.Bookmark
    • 17.5.4. GPS.BuildTarget
    • 17.5.5. GPS.Button
    • 17.5.6. GPS.Clipboard
    • 17.5.7. GPS.CodeAnalysis
    • 17.5.8. GPS.Codefix
    • 17.5.9. GPS.CodefixError
    • 17.5.10. GPS.Command
    • 17.5.11. GPS.CommandWindow
    • 17.5.12. GPS.Completion
    • 17.5.13. GPS.Console
    • 17.5.14. GPS.Construct
    • 17.5.15. GPS.ConstructsList
    • 17.5.16. GPS.Context
    • 17.5.17. GPS.Contextual
    • 17.5.18. GPS.Cursor
    • 17.5.19. GPS.Debugger
    • 17.5.20. GPS.DebuggerBreakpoint
    • 17.5.21. GPS.Editor
    • 17.5.22. GPS.EditorBuffer
    • 17.5.23. GPS.EditorHighlighter
    • 17.5.24. GPS.EditorLocation
    • 17.5.25. GPS.EditorMark
    • 17.5.26. GPS.EditorOverlay
    • 17.5.27. GPS.EditorView
    • 17.5.28. GPS.Entity
    • 17.5.29. GPS.Exception
    • 17.5.30. GPS.File
    • 17.5.31. GPS.FileLocation
    • 17.5.32. GPS.FileTemplate
    • 17.5.33. GPS.Filter
    • 17.5.34. GPS.GUI
    • 17.5.35. GPS.HTML
    • 17.5.36. GPS.Help
    • 17.5.37. GPS.History
    • 17.5.38. GPS.Hook
    • 17.5.39. GPS.Predefined_Hooks
    • 17.5.40. GPS.Invalid_Argument
    • 17.5.41. GPS.Language
    • 17.5.42. GPS.LanguageInfo
    • 17.5.43. GPS.Libclang
    • 17.5.44. GPS.Locations
    • 17.5.45. GPS.Logger
    • 17.5.46. GPS.MDI
    • 17.5.47. GPS.MDIWindow
    • 17.5.48. GPS.MemoryUsageProvider
    • 17.5.49. GPS.MemoryUsageProviderVisitor
    • 17.5.50. GPS.Menu
    • 17.5.51. GPS.Message
    • 17.5.52. GPS.Missing_Arguments
    • 17.5.53. GPS.OutlineView
    • 17.5.54. GPS.OutputParserWrapper
    • 17.5.55. GPS.Preference
    • 17.5.56. GPS.PreferencesPage
    • 17.5.57. GPS.Process
    • 17.5.58. GPS.Project
    • 17.5.59. GPS.ProjectTemplate
    • 17.5.60. GPS.ReferencesCommand
    • 17.5.61. GPS.Revision
    • 17.5.62. GPS.Search
    • 17.5.63. GPS.Search_Result
    • 17.5.64. GPS.SemanticTree
    • 17.5.65. GPS.Style
    • 17.5.66. GPS.SwitchesChooser
    • 17.5.67. GPS.Task
    • 17.5.68. GPS.Timeout
    • 17.5.69. GPS.ToolButton
    • 17.5.70. GPS.Toolbar
    • 17.5.71. GPS.Unexpected_Exception
    • 17.5.72. GPS.VCS2
    • 17.5.73. GPS.VCS2_Task_Visitor
    • 17.5.74. GPS.Valgrind
    • 17.5.75. GPS.Vdiff
    • 17.5.76. GPS.XMLViewer
• 18. Scripting API reference for GPS.Browsers
  • 18.1. Classes
    • 18.1.1. GPS.Browsers.AbstractItem
    • 18.1.2. GPS.Browsers.Diagram
    • 18.1.3. GPS.Browsers.EditableTextItem
    • 18.1.4. GPS.Browsers.EllipseItem
    • 18.1.5. GPS.Browsers.HrItem
    • 18.1.6. GPS.Browsers.ImageItem
    • 18.1.7. GPS.Browsers.Item
    • 18.1.8. GPS.Browsers.Link
    • 18.1.9. GPS.Browsers.PolylineItem
    • 18.1.10. GPS.Browsers.RectItem
    • 18.1.11. GPS.Browsers.Style
    • 18.1.12. GPS.Browsers.TextItem
    • 18.1.13. GPS.Browsers.View
• 19. Useful plugins
  • 19.1. User plugins
    • 19.1.1. The auto_highlight_occurrences.py module
    • 19.1.2. The dispatching.py module
  • 19.2. Helper plugins
    • 19.2.1. The gps_utils module
    • 19.2.2. The gps_utils.highlighter.py module
    • 19.2.3. The gps_utils.console_process.py module
  • 19.3. Plugins for external tools
    • 19.3.1. QGen
• 20. GNU Free Documentation License
  • 20.1. PREAMBLE
  • 20.2. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
  • 20.3. VERBATIM COPYING
  • 20.4. COPYING IN QUANTITY
  • 20.5. MODIFICATIONS
  • 20.6. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
  • 20.7. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
  • 20.8. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
  • 20.9. TRANSLATION
  • 20.10. TERMINATION
  • 20.11. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
  • 20.12. ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents

Indices and tables

• Index

This document may be copied, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means, as is or with alterations, provided that (1) alterations are clearly marked as alterations and (2) this copyright notice is included unmodified in any copy.