Herramientas de terceros
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Para cualquier desarrollo de software serio necesitas herramientas. Aquí está una lista de las herramientas que utilizamos para desarrollar FreeCAD:
Herramientas independientes de la plataforma
Qt-Toolkit
Qt-toolkit es una avanzada herramienta de diseño de interfaces de usuario independiente de la plataforma. Está contenida en LibPack de FreeCAD, pero también puede descargarse en Qt project.
InkScape
Gran programa de diseño vectorial. Se utiliza para dibujar iconos e imágenes SVG. Descargalo en www.inkscape.org.
Doxygen
A very good and stable tool to generate source documentation from the .h and .cpp files.
The Gimp
Not much to say about the Gnu Image Manipulation Program. Besides it can handle .xpm files which is a very convenient way to handle Icons in QT Programms. XPM is basicly C-Code which can be compiled into a programme.
Get the GIMP here: www.gimp.org
Tools on Windows
Visual Studio 8 Express
Although VC8 is for C++ development not really a step forward since VisualStudio 6 (IMO a big step back), its a free development system on Windows. For native Win32 applications you need to download the PlatformSDK from M$.
So the Express edition is hard to find. But you might try this link
CamStudio
Is a Open Source tool to record Screencasts (Webcasts). Its a very good tool to create tutorials by recording them. Its far not so boring as writing documentation.
See camstudio.org for details.
Tortoise SVN
This is a very great tool. It makes using Subversion (our version control system on sf.net) a real pleasure. You can throught out the explorer integration, easily manage Revisions, check on Diffs, resolve Confilcts, make branches, and so on.... The commit dialog itself is a piece of art. It gives you an overview over your changed files and allows you to put them in the commit or not. That makes it easy to bundle the changes to logical units and give them an clear commit message.
You find ToroiseSVN on tortoisesvn.tigris.org.
StarUML
A full featured Open Source UML programm. It has a lot of features of the big ones, including reverse engeniering C++ source code....
Download here: staruml.sourceforge.net
Tools on Linux
TODO