{"id":562,"date":"2010-01-20T14:24:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T05:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2010-01-20T14:24:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T05:24:31","slug":"useful-tools-refactoring-code-the-easy-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"Useful Tools: Refactoring code the easy way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everybody has their own favorite development IDE.\u00a0 Some love Eclipse, others adore Xcode, and a few old school types swear by simple text editors and shell scripts. (Hi Pov!)<\/p>\n

While cleaning up the Dink source I’ve been really getting my money’s worth out of Visual C++ with the Visual Assist<\/a> add-on.<\/p>\n

Safely renaming variables<\/strong><\/h2>\n

One of the more useful features of Visual Assist is intelligently renaming a variable or function name across a project.<\/p>\n

As an example, I could safely rename the horribly named global int variable “mode” to “g_gameMode” .\u00a0 It’s smart enough to ignore locally defined “mode” variables or the word mode used in other contexts, such as functions or comments.<\/p>\n

With its new name it will be safer use Search and Replace to make it GetGlobals->GetMode() later or something if I want to later.<\/p>\n

Renaming library functions across multiple projects<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Let’s say for some reason you wanted to rename RTFont::Load to RTFont::LoadTrueType but you don’t want to break things in old projects.<\/p>\n

Here is a trick to safely rename things across multiple projects:<\/p>\n