All In One Tool for developers & Artists

Being a game programmer by profession I have always enjoyed developing & using tools.

Reason Why I started developing this tool:

• For version control I use TortoiseSVN, Which maintains .svn folders for version management. Whenever I add any special feature in the game as part of my experiment with the design, I take a backup & keep the code for reference. I dont want any version files in my backup.
• If I want to copy my entire working copy I have to close Visual Studio, If I close it, i`ll loose undo info.
• Visual Studio has some intermediate files which are huge in size, like pdb, ncb obj, sbr....
  
• Some times I want to exclude certain files & folders.

I was looking for a such a tool, I couldn't find it. I started using batch files, with XCopy command, Here I could ignore certain files & folders. But again I had to open the batch file in an editor do the necessary changes & run it again. Which was not so friendly. But it was very fast.

So I finally decided to build a tool my self. I was thinking which language to use..... I was planning to get my hands wet in C# from a long time.. So I started development in C#. I faced Some problems with threading for that I took help from my Elder brother Saleem, who is a professional C# developer. Sandeep helped me with the layout & background images.

Main Features:

• BackUp.
• Formatting.
• 3D Math calculator.
• Scheduler.
• Options.

Features in BackUp:

• One can copy files in multiple folders into one folder.
• Copy only selected file types.
• Ignore art assets, Texture files, exported animation files for TGEA, max.....
• Copy only source code. It copies only cpp, h,c hpp, hxx files.
• Archive the backed up foldeder.
• After archiving delete the source folder.
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Features in Fomatting:

• Add line numbers to file(s).
• Enlist files & folders in the given directory. Can optionally choose for size, file names only, directory names only.
• Create class templates.
• Beautify the code: This option beautifies the code, It puts proper spaces, indents, baces...It is still Work In Progress ( WIP ).

Features In 3D Math Calculator:

• It does the basic 3D math for you. Addition, subtraction, normalize, distance, length....of 3D vectors.
• It is still in development phase.

Features In Scheduler:

• Shutdown/restart/launch external application at specified time.
• Shutdown/restart/launch external application after specified time has elapsed.

Features In Options tab:

• You can add directories/files to be ignored.
  
• You can specify the type of art assets you want to ignore.
• Specify files to be included.
• Choose archiver tool to be used. Currently WinRar & 7Z are supported.
  

To maintain the database I use XML.