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Uniwares
Posted - Jan 20 2020 : 10:54:17 AM Crazy idea came to my mind now, something that might be tremendously useful though: hide code paths for a given set of variables. WTF? yeah, let me show an example:
if(var1 == 0)
{
}
else
{
}
Now I can set "var1" to a value, like "0" and all code not executed with this value, is faded out, hidden, collapsed, whatever.
Dont tell me that this is a huge effort, I know that. Yet I wish I had that sometimes.
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feline
Posted - Jan 21 2020 : 11:20:35 AM Um... over what sort of scale? Just one function, the entire solution, or something in between?
Short of actually compiling and executing the code, once the scale gets beyond "tiny" you are likely to get all sorts of edge cases and errors, suggesting that compiling and executing is the best and most reliable solution. This is before we get into the question of how to set the variable value to evaluate...
Interesting, but I am very wary of how wide ranging and complex this could quickly get.
Uniwares
Posted - Jan 21 2020 : 05:28:40 AM no no no, thats not what I am talking about. I dont want do modify the code. I want to assign a value to variables and the IDE evaluates code flow based on those values and fades out code that is not executed.
feline
Posted - Jan 21 2020 : 04:53:02 AM Are you aware that the IDE already does something like this, except that it only checks code disabled via the preprocessor, so #if and related blocks. Make sure you have turned On:
IDE tools menu -> Options -> Text Editor -> C/C++ -> View -> Show Inactive Blocks
