[cmake-developers] [CMake 0013370]: Visual Studio filter tree as source directory tree (with patch)

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=13370 
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Reported By:                LordJZ
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   13370
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2012-07-02 17:35 EDT
Last Modified:              2012-07-02 17:35 EDT
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Summary:                    Visual Studio filter tree as source directory tree
(with patch)
Description: 
Currently, CMake groups the source files into 'Header Files', 'Source Files',
etc. When there are quite a lot of files, it becomes hard to navigate through
this mess.

A lot of other IDEs make the same solution tree as directory tree. Netbeans in
particular.

I have created a rough patch to implement this feature for Visual Studio.

Links:
My CMake fork with this feature: https://github.com/LordJZ/CMake/commits/master
Direct patch file: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9241118/cmake.patch (also attached)
An example of the resulting tree:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9241118/cmake-file-tree-respect-trinitycore.png
Compiled binaries for Windows:
https://github.com/downloads/LordJZ/CMake/cmake-file-tree-respect.7z (no
dependencies)

There are some issues of the patch:
1) Works for Visual Studio 10 (2010 pre-release), Visual Studio 2010, Visual
Studio 11 (2012 pre-release), and Visual Studio 2012.
2) My changes are not yet fixed to fit CMake coding style.
3) The patch eliminates in-Studio view of source groups (though they are not
seen in other IDEs). Seems to deprecate bug
http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=11229.
4) Is possibly still affected by bug http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=7921.

RFC.
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2012-07-02 17:35 LordJZ         New Issue                                    
2012-07-02 17:35 LordJZ         File Added: cmake.patch                      
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