Gideros Studio IDE

Gideros Studio comes with an IDE, enabling faster development of applications. It has developer-oriented features like code completion, syntax highlighting and project management. Gideros Studio helps you organize resources, prevent mistakes and provide shorter ways throughout development process. During the build, Gideros Studio translates your code from Lua to native code of the targeted platform.

When you start Gideros Studio, it opens in the welcome mode and shows the dashboard. Here you can do the following:

1. Create and open projects
2. Read Getting Started Guide
3. Read Reference Manual
4. Open all recent projects and sessions
5. Open tutorials and 30+ example projects

Now, open an example project and see all files are listed on the left hand side, e.g project pane.

Menu Organisation

Gideros Studio is a very simple and easy-to-use IDE. The menu organization is also straightforward and easy to understand. Below, you can see each menu and what they do.

1. File menu: Here you can open, save, close a project, or maintain your recent projects. This is also the place where you export your code to Eclipse or XCode.
2. Edit menu: Provides a basic mechanism of editing actions, like undo, redo, cut, copy, paste, find and more.
3. Compile menu: This menu is used to check the syntax of your code, by compiling the project and writing the possible errors to the output console.
4. Player menu: Runs Gideros Player on the desktop, or starts the application on the player (which can be on the mobile device, or desktop). If you want to test your application, you need to install the player on the device, which is explained in the following chapters.
5. Help: Includes a link to Developer Center and Reference Manual (API documentation).

Note that you can reach many menu items by using one of the Menu Shortcuts.

Gideros Studio IDE is written in Qt, using Qt Creator IDE and SDK.