# What This Manual Contains

This user manual is intended to describe the contents and use of the &kdevelop; &kdevrelease; Integrated Development Environment (IDE) from a user's point of view. It is not a programming manual, nor does it describe the development process in detail. Its only aim is to guide you in the handling of the IDE.

Here you will find information on the following topics:

Getting Started with &kdevelop; — a Guided Tour

  Gives you a quick start on the use of this &IDE;, introducing the basic steps of how to work on a project.

Overview of the Features of &kdevelop;

  Extends the guided tour in the previous chapter, giving an overall view of what is built-in within &kdevelop; and gets you acquainted with the look and feel of this &IDE;.

Configuring &kdevelop;

  Shows how you can tailor the &IDE; to suit your needs.

Getting started: the &appwizard;

  Describes the basics of how to set up a new project in &kdevelop; using the built-in &appwizard;.

Editing tools

  All you need to write your source files: using the editor, searching for text both locally and project-wide, up to integrating new files and classes into the project.

The File Browsers

  Demonstrates various tools to look at the structure of your project and how to access the files you want to work with.

The Class Browsers

  Describes one of the most powerful tools of &kdevelop; which lets you navigate through class dependencies and allows you to easily create and access the classes and methods you need.

Documentation

  Shows how to access the rich built-in documentation &kdevelop; provides and tells you how to create documentation of your project, concise and powerful &API; documentation providing you an overall view of all your project sources as well as docbook-based user documentation.

Building and Project Management

  Deals with the creation and management of your project; describing the basics of autoconf and automake as well as how to set up custom make files and how to use compiler or make options to tailor your application to suit your needs.

Advanced Build Management

  Looks at ways to keep multiple build configurations, to cross-compile for diverse platforms, or to make an embedded system using the Qt/embedded library.

The Debugger Interface

  Describes how to use the integrated gdb debugger interface so you can hunt down bugs without leaving &kdevelop;.

Using CVS

  Tells you how you can maintain your project using the CVS versioning system; a must, especially if many developers work on the same project.

Some commonly used information has been put into the appendix. Amongst others this consists of:

Installing &kdevelop;

  Tells you where to obtain &kdevelop; and how to get it up and running.

In a Nutshell — Tips and Tricks

  A quick reference to commonly used commands and actions. And a short guide to solve common problems when working with &kdevelop;.

Development on &UNIX;

  A historical overview of &UNIX; program development, the main tools necessary and why you need an &IDE;.

Configuration Files Used by &kdevelop;

  Lists the files &kdevelop; uses to save its internal information. This is particularly useful in case something went wrong with your setup.

Plugin Tools

  Lists the pluggable tools you can use to taylor the capabilities of &kdevelop; to your needs.

KDevelop User Interface Mode Examples

  Shows user interface modes.

Further Information

  Getting Information, reporting Bugs etc.

Changelog

  Shows the history of this documentation.

Bibliography

  Bibliography