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luceric
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 Posted - Apr 10 2006 : 11:57:50 AM
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I would like to have a "File Outliner" view I could dock in Visual C++ dotNet which shows an outline of the current file, and clicking ona method name jumps to it. Similar to Alt+M/Context view/List Method In File combo box, but always opened, one click away.
The problem here is that I deal with source code I must maintain, and we're talking about files that have 2000-6000 lines, with multiple classes in the same .cpp file. I usually split classes in multiple .h .cpp, but when you're working part of a large team and legacy code, you can't have everything your way.
I use CTRL+F2 bookmarks a lot, but I don't want to have to deal with anything requiring multple steps, like creating tags. I may not know everything that I need in the file. I may be working with files for a short period of time and never go back.
All I want it to look at a condensed version of the current file, to understand it better and jump around the current file very rapidly. Collapsing sections of that summary would be great as well, for example I might collapse a group of consecutive functions I do not need to deal with, to avoid scrolling the summary view. (if this were based on http://www.wholetomato.com/products/features/methods.html?more=yes I'd be using this view sorted in 'occurence' rather than sorted by type)
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
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Posted - Apr 10 2006 : 2:35:47 PM
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interesting request. i know some of the problems with legacy code myself, you have my sympaties there.
i can see the appeal of this idea, but it sounds like an entire extension / product in its own right.
are you aware of the setting in VA view:
VA View -> Right Click -> Include modified methods
this will add the methods you actually change to the MRU list in VA View. this does assume that you are changing the methods you are interested in, but it will pick out and remember the ones you edit, making it much easier to find what you want in these rather large files.
another possible way forward is to use the comment:
// TODO
you can set tokens (in VS2003) via:
IDE tools menu -> Options -> Environment -> Task list
and these will show up in the task list, depending on how you filter it. |
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support
Whole Tomato Software
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List methods in file.. always opened
