Open Source IDE : KDevelop

KDevelop is a free software integrated development environment (IDE) for the KDE Platform on Unix-like computer operating systems. KDevelop is a cross platfrom IDE , can run in MS Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD.

It is a feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages. KDevelop includes no compiler.  As a substitute, the item works by using a additional compiler like gcc to provide executable value.
The current version, 4.2, was officially released on 27 January 2011. It builds on KDE 4 technology and supports C, C++ and PHP development.

The last stable release from the prior main edition, 3. 5. 5, that is dependant on K Desktop Environment 3 technology, facilitates numerous encoding 'languages' for example Ada, Party, D, C++, Fortran, Espresso, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python as well as Dark red. Launched underneath the GNU Public Permit, KDevelop is actually free of charge software program.

Features

• Display problems in source-code
• Show information about declarations (classes, functions, templates...) in libraries and your application
• Intelligent auto-completion showing those methods which could be used in the current context including their signature and documentation
• Show usages of declarations/rename them
• Context-specific highlighting
• Debugging using gdb
• SVN integration
• Manage CMake-targets and build them
• CMake-auto-completion showing defined macros and variables
• Kate-integration
• Custom makefiles
• C++-specific:
  • Consideration of Qt's signals and slots by the auto-completion
  • Qt-Documentation
  • Unroll constants and typedefs (partial)
  • Create class dialog, which allows to select those methods which should be overloaded
• PHP-specific:
  • Guess the type of variables
  • Show documentation from php.net
• Experimental:
  • QtDesigner support
  • Valgrind
  • xdebug (PHP-debugger)
  • Unit testing
  • Java, C#, CSS and XML support
  • Mercurial support

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