George's Learning Journal

    05-03-2022-Finding-Antialiasing-Default-Config-In-A-Graphics-Engine

    Finding a setting in source

    Project

    Work Project

    Date

    05/03/2022

    Technology

    • TypeScript
    • VSCode

    The Problem

    Ticket for updating the default value for antialiasing on export. I could not find the files needed for setting the default without help.

    The Process

    • Asked my supervisor for help in finding where antialiasing might be.
    • First we ran a whole project search in VSCode looking for references to Antialiasing as it shows up in the export window so looking for just that word is a good start.
    • We ended up in the same place I had been before, the projects/packages/config/src/defaultProjectAsset.ts where we updated the quality.
      • That might not have solved the issue, I am still investigating.
    • We did also find where the asset is created and has everything set for it.
      • We had to use the project search, but also enable the Match Case and Use Whole Word options in the search panel.
      • It also helped for us to add *.ts to the files to include section so that we were only looking for TypeScript files.

    Solution

    We managed to find it by doing the following

    • Looking for a word we see in the UI, Antialiasing
    • Searching for the word using the universal search
    • Setting the Match Case and Use Whole Word options.
    • And add *.ts to files to include so that we were only searching for TS files.

    Those are all great tools for searching this codebase.

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