[Ktechlab-devel] A few more ideas

[P Zoltan]

  I've tested a few programs with ktechlab.

  You've written on the mailing list that netbeans can't refactor C++ code.  
I've tried eclipse with CDT (C/C++ Development Tooling), and found that it  
can import the project files, but the only things it can do as refactoring  
are: rename a function/method, create function and create constant. That  
isn't much. And, by the way, it didn't find some headers, so it gave a  
long list off errors.

  I also tried to import the project's classes into Umbrella, a UML  
modeling tool. After importing everything, the modeler program became very  
slow :)) Anyway, it wasn't very useful, because there are too many classes  
and there wasn't much relevant information.

  Despite these faliures, I found a nice code browsing tool:  
http://lxr.linux.no/  After indexing the source code, most of the  
identifiers' definition and usage can be found within a few seconds. For  
refactoring, it's really useful.

  Browsing the wiki, I found a few interesting pages:
   http://ktechlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=Electronic_Simulation -- can  
someone finish that page? it's getting really interesting to the end

   http://ktechlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=Index:ToDo/FAQ -- what happened  
here?
   http://ktechlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=KTechLabWiki:Community_Portal  
-- and here?


  Back to the refactoring: is there a plan? I've read in a previous message  
that some stuff from the Node class shoud be moved in the FPNode, I guess.  
Any other TODOs?


  Zoltan