[Gambas-user] Locating a function's source code?

[T Lee Davidson]

Hi All,

I am almost lost when it comes to browsing the source code tree for 
specific pieces of code.

The Gambas home page (http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html) has a 
"Browse Source Code" link, but that page only shows the latest commits. 
And, anything I do there to try to browse the tree, just seems to take 
me around in circles.

The HTTP access command there and the SVN command on the Wiki's "How To 
Deal With Subversion" page (http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/howto/svn) both 
assume that one wants to checkout a copy of the repository. I do not.

I found that I can browse the code by converting the SVN-protocol URI to 
a HTTP-protocol URI (http://svn.code.sf.net/p/gambas/code/gambas/), and 
use my web browser to view the code tree.

Okay, good. Now where do I go from here?


Suppose I wish to view the source code for the "Hex$" function. The Wiki 
page for that function (http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/lang/hex) does not 
give any clue as to what component or class it belongs to. A look at the 
gb component and the gb class does not reveal that function.

So, I guess it is a built-in function native to the interpreter (?). If 
I decide to go with that assumption, that brings me back to, "where do I 
go from here?"

I know that I would look in "trunk" for code upcoming in the next major 
release, and in "branches" if I want to see how the function is 
implemented in my current version. But exactly where would I look?

In "app/", in "main/", somewhere else?

And how might I be able to figure this out for myself next time?


I appreciate any guidance anyone may care to give.


Lee