C++Builder 2010 and the new Class Explorer

The most requested feature for C++ Builder is for the Class Explorer. You can see the QC here: QC23836.
I am pleased to announce that this feature is going to be available in Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010 and C++Builder 2010. It’s been rewritten from scratch to have good performance and a great user interface:

The pane on the left has all the objects and declarations in your project. It can be sorted by kind or alphabetically. It can also be grouped different ways. By namespace, file, inheritance, or custom grouping:

Custom groups should be easy to add:

Selecting items in the left hand pane will show you where it is defined in the source code

You can also select each of the references in the top panel and be shown that portion of the source code:

Right clicking gives you several additional options. You can go to the definition or declaration, and you can add fields, methods, or properties to your classes:

Adding a field, method or property is made quite easy:



As you can see the wizard for adding a new property allows you to create getters/setters or use existing fields or methods, as well as make them read/write only. It’s quite versatile and should be a real time saver.

There is also a great utility for graphing your class heierachies. Here I selected TObject and all the exception types that descend from TObject:

You can also customize these graphs and save them in SVG format.

Writing this sneak peek has gotten me really exited about the upcoming release. I hope you are all excited as well.

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Posted by David Dean on August 4th, 2009 under C++Builder 2010 |