About This Guide

In this chapter:

• How to use this guide
• Assumptions
• Typographical conventions
• Technical support options

How to use this guide

This User's Guide describes the Integrated Development Environment (IDE), which is part of the QNX Momentics Tool Suite. The guide introduces you to the IDE and shows you how to use it effectively to build your QNX Neutrino-based systems.

The workflow diagram above shows how the guide is structured and suggests how you might use the IDE. Once you understand the basic concepts, you're ready to begin the typical cycle of setting up your projects, writing code, debugging, testing, and finally fine-tuning your target system.

Each chapter begins with the workflow diagram, but with the chapter's bubble highlighted to show where you are in the book. Note that in the online version each bubble is a link.

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This release of the IDE is based on Eclipse 3.3. If you have an older version of the IDE, see the Migrating from Earlier Releases appendix in this guide.

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The following table may help you find information quickly:

Assumptions

This guide assumes the following:

• On your host you've already installed the QNX Software Development Platform, which includes the QNX Momentics Tool Suite, a complete QNX Neutrino development environment.
• You're familiar with the architecture of the QNX Neutrino RTOS.
• You can write code in C or C++.

Copyright © 2002–2009, QNX Software Systems GmbH & Co. KG. All rights reserved.

Typographical conventions

Throughout this manual, we use certain typographical conventions to distinguish technical terms. In general, the conventions we use conform to those found in IEEE POSIX publications. The following table summarizes our conventions:

We use an arrow (→) in directions for accessing menu items, like this:

You'll find the Other... menu item under Perspective-->Show View.

We use notes, cautions, and warnings to highlight important messages:

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Notes point out something important or useful.

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Cautions tell you about commands or procedures that may have unwanted or undesirable side effects.

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Warnings tell you about commands or procedures that could be dangerous to your files, your hardware, or even yourself.

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Note to Windows users

In our documentation, we use a forward slash (/) as a delimiter in all pathnames, including those pointing to Windows files.

We also generally follow POSIX/UNIX filesystem conventions.

Navigation buttons

At the top and bottom of our HTML docs, you'll see some or all of these buttons:

Use this button:	To move:
	To the previous part of the document.
	“Up” in the document: In a prose book, this typically takes you to About This Guide. In a reference book, it takes you to the listing of items that start with a given letter. For example, if you're looking at the docs for abs(), this button takes you to the listing of the functions that start with A.
	To the keyword index.
	To the next part of the document.

Technical support options

To obtain technical support for any QNX product, visit the Support + Services area on our website (www.qnx.com). You'll find a wide range of support options, including community forums.