This is something I’ve been pondering the last few days and thought I would ask for the general opinion of more experienced Xojo coders.
The source code of my application is growing steadily; when in the Xojo editor, the ‘Contents’ list in the left hand side is also growing quite rapidly and becomes almost unmanageable as more controls and methods are added.
A couple of days since, I decided to add a whole load of Folders into the project and moved the contents to those folders based upon theme.
There is an ‘Images’ folder with a series of sub-folders which contain the various icons used throughout the app. Next I have a ‘Login’ folder, which contains the initial login screen when the app is first opened together with all its logic for managing that. I also have an ‘Interface’ folder which contains the main application screen once logged in along with all of its bits & pieces. Then I have a whole series of other folders that contain windows, methods, controls, container controls etc, all based upon what they do and which part of the application they belong to.
Using a stack of folders in this way, I find it a lot easier to manage the various parts of the source code and keep everything neatly organised.
Is this a reasonable approach to take as the source code grows ? Or should I be using a different approach, or minimizing my use of folders ? It all works ok so far, I just wondered what other people were doing and what you do to help organise increasing amounts of code…
Any thoughts or ideas much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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