Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Finding References
Maybe I'm just getting old, but sometimes I don't see the obvious things in life. As you could guess from this blog, I have been using InnerLoop for some time now. One of the most common things I do everyday is to find references to a particular symbol. When I want to see all the places a particular symbol is used I usually start thinking, "where was that thing again?". Then I try to find which file it was in and then use ctrl-/ to find all the references.
I have no idea why I was doing it like this. What I should have been doing was just entering the symbol name in the little box that says "Symbol" in the references toolbar. For some dumb reason maybe I thought this was a read only box, I have no idea. Entering the symbol here immediately finds all the references and I don't have to remember where to find at least one instance of it just so I can hit ctrl-/
I would bet a lot of people have similar troubles with InnerLoop. The tool has lots of useful features, but sometimes it just takes some practice to find the most efficient ways to use it. It takes some experimentation to find all the ways that code can be displayed to get the most from it.
Just in case anybody is as clueless as I am, there is no excuse for not finding references very quickly now.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but sometimes I don't see the obvious things in life. As you could guess from this blog, I have been using InnerLoop for some time now. One of the most common things I do everyday is to find references to a particular symbol. When I want to see all the places a particular symbol is used I usually start thinking, "where was that thing again?". Then I try to find which file it was in and then use ctrl-/ to find all the references.
I have no idea why I was doing it like this. What I should have been doing was just entering the symbol name in the little box that says "Symbol" in the references toolbar. For some dumb reason maybe I thought this was a read only box, I have no idea. Entering the symbol here immediately finds all the references and I don't have to remember where to find at least one instance of it just so I can hit ctrl-/
I would bet a lot of people have similar troubles with InnerLoop. The tool has lots of useful features, but sometimes it just takes some practice to find the most efficient ways to use it. It takes some experimentation to find all the ways that code can be displayed to get the most from it.
Just in case anybody is as clueless as I am, there is no excuse for not finding references very quickly now.
# posted by Jason Andrews @ 11:00 PM 
