Here are some useful hints if you havent used the Microsoft IDE very much.
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You can use the ClassView list that appears by default on the left of the screen to browse through the classes. This shows a simple list of all the classes in the current project, and all their methods and member variables. A lock symbol indicates a private method (rather than a public method) It doesnt show inheritance though. |
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You can use the Derived Classed / Base
Classes buttons on the Browse toolbar to display inheritance trees. Just select a
classname in the editor, or ClassView, and click the button. You may need to recompile the
project if the browse info is not available. |
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You can use the Definitions and References
buttons on the same toolbar to search for a method / member variable / class / function or
macro declarations (Reference), or the corresponding implementation (Definition). These
buttons also appear as options on the right-click menu within the editor (this is
generally the method that I find easiest for navigating through the source code). |
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The Wizard bar provides yet another way of
searching for the definitions and declarations of methods. |
This is one of the most useful tools in the IDE. It does a search over all the files in the project, and has options to extend the search to their include files and other directories. Click on the "Advanced>>" button to open up a list of additional directories to search in.
As you can see, I've added the shared pm_shared and engine directories to my standard find setup.
When you've run the Find, just double click on a line in the Find In Files results list to take you to that line of code.
steve
