On the dangers of automated refactoring
Paul Dupuis
paul at researchware.com
Tue Apr 13 11:37:18 EDT 2021
I find revRefactor (which adds a Refactoring sub-menu under the Edit
menu of the IDE Script Editor) to be a tool that I personally would like
to see better integrated into the IDE. This plugin was done by Mark
Wieder and is not an official part of the LiveCode IDE, but it is one
place, I would very much like to see the mothership either expand on
Mark's or roll their own, but integrate similar refactoring capabilities
into the IDE. For example, I frequently forget what some of the menu
items do and there is no easily accessible built in documentation like
for much of LiveCode in general. I'd like to see it be more visible -
its own menu in the script editor or elevated in some way. I have on
occasion forgot I have it installed and manually renamed a handler when
revRefactor can doing for me in a few clicks. The "Find Orphan Code"
feature is really great, but there is not spinning busy cursor or
progress indicate. Once when running on a old, large code base, I
thought revFactor had hung as it took so long to display the results.
I'd pay more for my business license to see these integrated into the
business edition.
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