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6 Key Tools for Developers

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BlackBerry 10 SDK for Adobe AIR permits developers to come up with appealing apps for BlackBerry devices. Together with Adobe ActionScript and Adobe Flex APIs, the SDK can be used to create user-friendly designs.

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The New APIs with this release:

- qnx.fuse.ui.text.TextInputBase.forceLatinKeyboard : This property forces the keyboard to use latin characters.

- qnx.fuse.ui.text.TextBase.virtualLayout : This property will render additional visible lines as text is scrolled. Set this property to true when trying to render a large amount of text.

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- qnx.fuse.ui.text.KeyboardType : This adds SYMBOLS, NUMBERS, and NUMBERS_PUNCTUATION properties to KeyboardType.

- qnx.display.Viewer.sendMessage() : This adds Viewer.sendMessage() method so client applications can send messages to viewers after creation.

- qnx.sensors.LocationManager.getGeomagneticField() : This adds LocationManager.getGeomagneticField() method to return the current magnetic field for a given location.

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NCandE 1.7 is a software that adds two shortcuts in the Run menu and enables Notepad++ to compile (Build) and run (Execute) the code.

Here are some key features of "NCandE":

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- Supports Java, C++, Python, Lua and Batch files.

- Automatically detects programming language.

- Can change the default paths for compilers to custom paths.

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- Instructions are comprehensive, easy-to-follow and frequently updated.

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Eclipse Jetty 3.5.0 was created as an accessible and open source Eclipse plugin that allows you to debug and run Java apps. You can use this handy plugin to launch a Jetty server directly from the Eclipse environment.

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Here are some key features of "Eclipse Jetty":

- Support for Jetty 6, 7 and 8

- M2Eclipse, JSP and JNDI support

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Notepad++ is a Notepad replacement with an eye toward programmers, although it should also appeal to the casual user who wants a cross between Notepad and WordPad. Notepad Plus Plus has some noticeable differences from WordPad. The support for tabs is key, which lets users manage different documents simultaneously. Line-numbering is important, too, a feature that nobody mucking about in C should be without. The interface is much simpler compared with some of its competitors. A familiar row of icons with their mouse-over labels sits at the top, and one row of tabs is just below that. The rest of the screen is made of nothing but pure white space. All coding tools live in the menu bar, with some represented on the toolbar. Users can compile and run macros, convert text to Hex, submit directly to W3C for validation, launch in Firefox and IE, and more. There's also a built-in spell-checker. Download

DebugView is an application that lets you monitor debug output on your local system, or any computer on the network that you can reach via TCP/IP. It is capable of displaying both kernel-mode and Win32 debug output, so you don't need a debugger to catch the debug output your applications or device drivers generate, nor do you need to modify your applications or drivers to use non-standard debug output APIs. The version 4.81 fixes a bug that could cause some executions to fail to capture debug output and enter a CPU-bound loop. Download

IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition provides quality support for wide range of languages and frameworks. Download

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