KDevelop Handbook

This documentation was converted from the KDE UserBase KDevelop4/Manual page.

Revision KDevelop 4.4 (KDE
4.9) (2012-08-19)

KDevelop is an Integrated Development Environment to be used for a wide variety of programming tasks.

Table of Contents

1. What is KDevelop?

2. Sessions and projects: The basics of KDevelop

Terminology

Setting up a session and importing an existing project

Option 1: Importing a project from a version control system server
Option 2: Importing a project that is already on your hard drive

Setting up an application as a second project

Creating projects from scratch

3. Working with source code

Tools and views

Exploring source code

Local information
File scope information
Project and session scope information
Rainbow color highlighting explained

Navigating in source code

Local navigation
File scope navigation and outline mode
Project and session scope navigation: Semantic navigation

Writing source code

Auto-completion
Adding new classes and implementing member functions
Documenting declarations
Renaming variables, functions and classes
Code snippets

Modes and working sets

Some useful keyboard shortcuts

4. Code generation with templates

Creating a new class
Creating a new unit test
Other files
Managing templates

5. Building (compiling) projects with custom Makefiles

Building individual Makefile targets
Selecting a collection of Makefile targets for repeated building
What to do with error messages

6. Running programs in KDevelop

Setting up launches in KDevelop
Some useful keyboard shortcuts

7. Debugging programs in KDevelop

Running a program in the debugger
Attaching the debugger to a running process
Some useful keyboard shortcuts

8. Working with version control systems

9. Customizing KDevelop

Customizing the editor
Customizing code indentation
Customizing keyboard shortcuts
Customizing code auto-completion

10. Credits and License