Visual X-Tools™

Microcross Visual X-Tools™, powered by GNU X-Tools™ on the backend and SlickEdit® on the front end, can edit, build, run, and debug applications, libraries, open source kernels,    RTOSs,  drivers and 3rd party software modules to remote target JTAG/BDM environments via Serial, Ethernet or USB connection for the rapid deployment of embedded computer products. Microcross supports multiple host and targets providing complete coverage from small, deeply embedded, real-time applications to very large-scale projects.

Quick Tutorial for Visual X-Tools™

Visual X-Tools™ Screen Shots and Feature Information

Visual X-Tools™ Project Manager and Integrated Development Environment

• Full project management support using auto-generated, auto-maintained makefiles and Visual SlickEdit™ Build System.
• Code organization and configuration features supporting workspaces and projects using user-friendly dialogs.
• Full integration of GNU X-Tools™, including Visual GDB and command line GDB for direct invocation from either the 'Build' menu or the mini toolbar above the 'Build' Window to achieve Compile, Clean, Build, Rebuild, Debug with command line GDB, Debug with Visual GDB, start Cygwin Shell, start Windows Shell, or Clean the 'Build' Window.
• Customized 'GNU X-Tools Options' dialogs with nearly a thousand different machine dependent compiler switches with comments, which allows the developer to point-and-click on compiler switches for any one of the 20 GNU X-Tools™ target toolsuites.
• A C/C++ project wizard for all 20 GNU X-Tools™ target toolsuites.  Building a project for GNU has never been easier.  Go through a short example to see for yourself by downloading a fully featured demo version with a GNU X-Tools ARM toolsuite for Windows.
• Version control interface for ClearCase, CVS, GNU RCS, MKS RCS, PVCS, SourceSafe, and TLIB.
• Context sensitive error browsing for GNU X-Tools output -- Visual X-Tools highlights the offending error line in the relevant source file.

Visual X-Tools™ Source Code Editor Features

• SmartPaste™
• Symbol lookup
• Code navigation
• Multiple clipboards
• Argument completion
• Macro recording support
• Language code beautifier
• Multiple clipboard support
• Symbol and class browser
• Code block selection support
• Automatic symbol listing and replacement
• Multi-file, multi-directory search and replace
• Configurable language specific color coding
• C/C++ language-specific color coding and code beautification
• Integrated FTP client allows transparent operation with remote files
• Automatic completion: syntax expansion, aliases, path and filename completion
• 3-Way Merge editing allows you to take the original version of a file and two separate revisions to merge both sets of changes back into one file
• Multiple editor Views: Hex, Line Hex, Special Chars, Tab Chars, New Line Chars, Spaces, Tab Chars, Line Numbers
• Provides keystroke emulations for Brief, CUA, CodeWarrior, Epsilon, GNU Emacs, ISPF, vi, Visual C++, and custom user defined key settings
• Context Tagging™ supports auto-completion of code and rapid navigation to all identifier/variable/function definition references

• Up to 20+ times faster than any Java-based IDE, including all of those derived from the Eclipse project -- do your own comparison and take a free 30-day test drive of Visual X-Tools starting today!

DIFFzilla™
View differences between two source files, directories, source trees or symbols.

Three-Way Version Merge

Version Control Setup