I am writing a cross platform game in IntelliJ IDEA using Java and I have run into a situation where I can't seem to find this feature which Visual Studio had:
This feature allowed me to have a condition, (2 lines of code), for example #if keyword1/#endif, and the code between those 2 lines, compiled only when the current project had keyword1 declared as compilation symbol through the project settings.
Is there any similar feature in IntelliJ IDEA ?
This is a preprocessor symbol, nothing IDE-dependant. There are some workarounds for this in java. For example you could use something like this:
public static final boolean DEBUG = false;
public void someMethod(){
if(DEBUG)
dosomething();
else
dosomethingElse();
}
Most precompilers will optimize this such that the result won't contain the if-else statement and reduce this to a simple call to dosomethingElse. But there's no preprocessor/precompiler statement like in c++ for java.
#if keyword/#endif and your project didn't contain the keyword as a compilation symbol.#if is a preprocessor statement, which is language-dependant. VS only provides a UI to simplify this kind of behaviour. And as i stated in my answer, java doesn't provide preprocessor statements and this would just be a workaround that is likely to result in the same behaviour.#if/#endif is VS dependent, but I guess they were wrong. However, even if java doesn't support this feature as a language, I don't see how this feature has not been added in IntelliJ IDEA, to work internally, only inside the IDE. I suppose there are other complications ? Hmm... Nevertheless, your answer seems accurate. Thank you.