Comment Headings (beta)
Enable easy navigation of code using GIANT comments made up of block characters
Posted on Saturday, June 7th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
When navigating through large classes, it can be a real pain to find certain bits of code if you don’t have a good IDE. As I often work in Flash IDE and DreamWeaver IDE, I have to rely on comment blocks here and there, with lots of ———- delimiters, etc. which is an OK start.
However, I saw the PaperVision 3D classes had moved on a step from this, and had rather nice blocks at the top of each script with their logo, made out of characters. Why not extend this idea and actually build a small Flash application to let me build dirty-great big words that I can use in my scripts for navigation purposes?
Comment Headings beta
Edit the text in the left-hand text box to update the text in the right, then copy and paste to your IDE.
You’ll need to be using a monospaced font to make it work! Mac users, you might have to experiment to find the best one…
UPDATE: the characters below do not appear to display properly in Firefox 3. Investigating…
Final release
The final release, which I’m working on in my spare time, will have:
- a greater range of typefaces to choose from
- options for other languages (ie, MaxScripters will be able to choose — for their comment delimiter)
- more options with regards to the content and formatting of the comments
- options to remember your last headings
- Will be built on the MVC design pattern
Feel free to make suggestions below.
Download
- Windows .exe version for Windows users
- Flash .swf version for Mac users