October, 2004

Do you need to share projects among several team members or use it with different installations of CCStudio?

Code Composer Studio stores most information in the project file as relative paths; however, some information is stored using absolute paths. This makes it difficult to have a single generic project file work across multiple machines or among different users with different installation paths. With the simple modification of replacing absolute references with a user-defined macro, the project file can be made portable. The macro’s are of the form: c6000_rtdxDir = c:\ti\c6000\rtdx, and are referenced as $(c6000_rtdxDir). With this small change the project file will not automatically be modified every time a user opens the project on a different system. For more information, download the application note Creating Portable Projects in Code Composer Studio IDE v2.2.

Are you sharing CCStudio in a lab environment or do you start up CCStudio with multiple configurations or connected to different target systems?

You can save time launching Code Composer Studio by creating shortcuts for CCStudio on your desktop. Each shortcut can be customized to use a different setup, use different personal settings or to execute a batch file before running CCStudio. Get directions and see some sample setups.

Is your project file cluttered with too many header files? Are you using multiple library files?

CCStudio automatically hides system and bios header files from the include folder in the project view in your workspace. If you are using your own or some other libraries and including your the header files, you may find the include directory gets cluttered. You can hide these files by editing the exclude.dat file. Go to your CCStudio install directory (usually c:\ti) and find the file: c:\ti\cc\bin\exclude.dat. (If you like, make a copy of this file to have a backup). Open this file in your favorite editor to see what is being hidden. Add your own entries if you want them hidden, or remove entries from the list that you want to appear. See a sample file.

Do you want to hide the CCStudio splash screen when you launch CCStudio?

If you would like CCStudio to launch without splashing the marketing icon on your screen, simply create an empty file with the title nosplash (no extension) in the bin directory. If you installed CCStudio in c:\ti this file will be saved at c:\ti\cc\bin\. Eg c:\ti\cc\bin\nosplash.