CDT 5.0 - New and Noteworthy

CDT 5.0 includes new features in Editor, Call Hierarchy, Refactoring, Indexer, Projects & Build, and Debug.

See What's New in CDT 5.0 on the CDT Wiki for more information including screen shots.

Highlights include:

Editor

• Code and File Templates - user-definable templates can be used in New Class and New Source/Header File wizards.
• New preference page for Code Templates
• Outline view for assembly files
• Code formatter improvements including new whitespace and line wrapping options, Improved GNU coding style compliance
• Content assist improvements
• Doxygen editor support - auto-generation of tags and a pluggable framework for other documentation tools is now available.
• Mark Occurrences - highlights where the selected identifier occurs elsewhere in the editor
• Folding of compound statements
• Macro Expansion hover and exploration tool
• Spell checking available and enabled by default
• Scalability mode for working with very large files.
• Visual Studio key bindings

Navigation and Search

• Open Declaration for operators, empty macros, element in outline view, etc
• Open Element support for static functions/variables, other improvements
• Search - for Static functions/variables, macros, references of local variables, Search view usability improvements

Call Hierarchy

• Read/write decorators indicate read/write status for variables
• Polymorphic method calls (virtual methods) support

Refactoring

• Refactoring infrastructure much improved, models transformation on the AST
• Generate Getters and Setters
• Hide Method
• Implement Method
• Extract Constant
• Extract Function

Indexer

• Improved accuracy and performance
• Entirely new preprocessor
• Improved infrastructure
• Visual indication of indexer status

Projects and Build

• Project Properties improved usability
• Make target locations - make targets at the project level are built in the project build directory

Debug

• Executables view
• Event breakpoints - added gdb catchpoints support