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I heard that one in my head. Must be the Cymbalta™[^] I take as part of my migraine prevention drug regimen.
Far better than the actual drums that pound when I get one  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Take someone's code.
Find it's a c++ project all in one file.
Get it to compile.
Take screen shots.
Print the screenshots and use them as mocks
Use the mocks to write the C++ code.
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 19-Nov-20 8:24am.
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if it's all in one file, then I would save it to a file on your hard drive, then open it in one monitor and write your new code in the other monitor.
I do this all the time when porting code to C#, especially if the original code is something other than C#.
I would never use screenshots if I did not need to. I have never had to use screenshots up to this point, but I guess if that is all you have, then I would do the same.
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To be fair, it's microcontroller code and i don't have all the hardware necessary to make the original code work very well. I can only pull screens from it.
My job is to rewrite it, so it's easier to work with a high level view of it. I still use the code as a guide, but the mocks speed up the UI parts considerably.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Not exactly the same, but once I did a very successful presentation of a system exists only in those slides... made by Photoshop...
I think today it called low-code - and you can't gat any lower than that 
(Later we actually wrote the application behind the screens...)
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I think we called that vaporware. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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No. That’s called making sure management doesn’t think you have a product completed. Sometime in the 90s we mocked up a system in VB that had mocked data in it to show look and feel. Manager figured the system was almost ready for shipment! We used PowerPoint slides from then on.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Sometime in the dark ages of 80x24 text screens, we mocked up a demo in a big text file.
We put a yellow sticker on the "page down" key and told the salesman we'd break his hands if he touched any other.
Worked a treat.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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First attempt would be to look at the solution explorer / project hierarchy in VS and see if that allows you to understand it and start breaking it up. That would be much easier, if possible.
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*glances at my Arduino IDE*
*glances at my linux OS*
*crylaughs*
(and no I can't use PlatformIO for reasons)
Real programmers use butterflies
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Hahaha haha! Seriously, though, I would try to port the text file to Windows and do the restructuring there using visual studio. Then re-port the files back. If it can be done, it would save a lot of time I would think. But then again you are the witch goddess of coding! Doing it your way I'm sure will only take you two hours!
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No, but I was once handed a program that had 2.5MB of code in ONE file (90K lines) and I was told, "fix this."
I don't have much hair left at all now.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I might have to do something similar: I've got a version of the VAX VMS OS on microfiche cards. As I haven't got a microfiche reader at the moment (or for that sake: ever), I cannot tell you which version of VMS. But if I want to port that VMS version to my PC, I would be in a similar situation.
(Of course I know of OpenVMS. But I think that is a fake, compared to an actual port of the VMS I once were using.)
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More times than I can count. We had a programmer on staff who despised Windows programming (he sucked Steve Jobs' left teat), even though we were/are a Windows shop. While his UI's looked great, the underlying code was utter garbage. Since he was laid off I've rewritten everything he ever did in our active projects.
I used your approach, taking screen shots that I subsequently recreated on my own.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Eggs go off after slip, run for the hills. (9)
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All quiet! I wasn't sure if this was quite within the rules. 
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Us not replying is within the rules, yes. It generally means "I have no idea where you are going with this one". 
If you mean your clue may not be within the rules, then - understandably - I have no idea if it is. See above. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yes, I'm not sure about my clue. It makes perfect sense to me - but, it would, I guess! 
As a very small hint: there are no anagrams involved.
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No, just means none of us have a clue, and @OriginalGriff is fast asleep.
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Its been a long day and my mind is stuck in a rut . I was watching a short doco before dinner about an ancient tsunami (which "run for the hills" reminds of) off the coast of Scotland which was caused by a strike "slip" fault. Couldn't fit the other clues into the theme.
// TODO: Insert something here
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No tsunami involved. I suspect "for the hills" is misdirecting people.
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Then I'll take a wild-assed stab at it.
OROGRAPHY?
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Nope. It's not a "hills" thing.
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Eggs go off after slip, run! (9)
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