A New idea for kdevelop IDE
Vinay Khaitan
vkhaitan at gmail.com
Mon Oct 31 22:35:05 UTC 2005
Hello devs!
I have often seen and faced a problem with class function definitions.
Function count becomes so large that tracking the required functions becomes
difficult......I mean searching for the function in th .cpp file and we tend
to put functions randomly in .cpp file, which causes more of trouble.
we cant remember name of each and every functions to search it and such
largeness also create problems latter in code comprehension.
But I think, IDEs can solve the trouble.
We can give a feature of functions grouping and subgrouping within a
single .cpp file. Most important functions would be in main group and their
helper functions would be in their subgroups.
We can use comments to identify groups and those functions would be put
in .cpp file separated from each other to easily recognise.
Kdevelop will have "views" in which it can show only main functions, a
functions and its helper functions, things like that and it will hide rest of
the functions
Any takers, comments ?
In fact, I think IDEs can solve and help in many type of design troubles.
Refactoring support is just a tiny bit of those helps. There needs some
radical changes in how IDE is presented to the user. I will comment more on
changes later.
BTW, I see myself in future as kdevelop hacker :)
Vinay Khaitan
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