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Energon
06-05-2002, 01:30 AM
I've been writing an application on and off for the last month that emulates the behavior of the class viewer in MSVC++. I know a lot of people here don't use MSVC and probably hate it just on where it's from, but when I've used it, I've relied pretty heavily on seeing how classes are laid out and being able to get to parts of them easily.

Right now it reads in a tags file (it does and will rely on ctags generated files) and displays it in a window (gtkmm) that looks close to the class viewer. You can double click an entry and it'll open it up using whatever command you want (vim -t, etc).

I just kind of want to get a feel for if someone other than me may find this kind of thing useful. I still plan to keep working on it, but I'm not sure if I should put "release" it at some point or not.

I appreciate anyone's thoughts on the matter.

DJKAOS
06-05-2002, 01:42 AM
I actually really like VC++ 5.0, 6.0
I havn't seen anything like that for linux so far.. Kdevelop seems nice but it absolutly runls like hell on my computer and I dont know why..it constantly locks up and runs slower than S#$@#$......and I have a 1.4GHZ, with 384 mb ram and Voodoo 5500 AGP.

Another program I like (but its windows too) is
JPadPro, it does HTML, Java, and I belive C++ (been awhile since I used it...so I cant remember really)

Stuka
06-05-2002, 09:15 AM
I'd love it - 'cause I'm lazy, and don't wanna have to remember where everything is! Also, I like VC++ as an IDE, it just runs on a lousy OS...

Energon
06-06-2002, 02:20 AM
Right on. Maybe I'll have to see if I can learn a bit about autoconf and what not when I get it cleaned up some. It kind of works in tandem with editors that understand tags files (vim/emacs) and ctags... so it's not any kind of IDE, but more of a compliment to the already perfect set of tools out there... :)

Energon
06-08-2002, 12:14 AM
http://energon.home.mindspring.com/programs/classview/classView.tar.gz

Well, there it is. The first release of it. If anyone wants to download it and try it out, I'd really appreciate it. Any feedback on any part of it (esp. the code part) is more than wanted and will be gratefully accepted... :)