{"id":838,"date":"2014-11-23T01:43:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T01:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wholetomato.com\/?p=838"},"modified":"2014-11-23T01:43:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T01:43:08","slug":"tools-to-understand-new-code-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stage.wholetomato.com\/blog\/tools-to-understand-new-code-find\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools to understand new code: Find"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my previous post<\/a> as a guest contributor, I talked about moving between declaration and implementation of various symbols: methods, classes, variables… and even include files. The functionality\u00c2\u00a0helps a lot, but there are other tools in Visual Assist that we definitely need to know. This time, let’s have a look at some\u00c2\u00a0find commands\u00c2\u00a0in\u00c2\u00a0Visual Assist.<\/p>\n

As in my last post, I will use\u00c2\u00a0Irrlicht Engine<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0as my example project.<\/p>\n

Find References<\/strong><\/p>\n

With Go To<\/em>,\u00c2\u00a0we can jump\u00c2\u00a0from declaration to implementation smoothly. This is nice, but unfortunately, life is not that easy. Usually when we see an interesting variable or function, we would like to see not only its declaration or implementation, but how and where is it used.<\/p>\n

Previously, we were curious about MaxAngleDegrees<\/code> from CParticleBoxEmitter.cpp<\/code>. We know than it’s a 32-bit integer variable used to generate rotations. But, where it is actually initialized?<\/p>\n

With Visual Assist, press Shift+Alt+F (the default\u00c2\u00a0shortcut for its\u00c2\u00a0Find References<\/em>) and you will see a dialog\u00c2\u00a0like this:<\/p>\n

\"find_maxang\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The window\u00c2\u00a0lists places where our variable is used. It seems that the variable is loaded from a settings file.<\/p>\n

The basic list is, of course, nothing special\u00e2\u20ac\u201dVisual Studio has a similar feature. But with Visual Assist, we have more benefits:<\/p>\n