Re: Displaying Programs [message #38242] |
Fri, 27 February 2004 07:44  |
Ben Panter
Messages: 102 Registered: July 2003
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David Fanning wrote:
> Ben Panter writes:
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>> I've got a large group of procedures and functions which I inherited
>> from a collaborator - about 20-30 which share various common blocks
>> (yuck!) and rely on each other to operate a data compression and
>> analysis algorithm. For a couple of years I've added to it and modified
>> it, but I'm starting to loose track of where everything is and what
>> everything does.
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>> I'd really like to be able to make some sort of diagram out of the
>> code, which highlights what depends on what, which programs are exposed
>> to which common blocks and what each procedure does for a quick reference.
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> What I do for this kind of diagram is cook up a big
> pot of spaghetti and throw it against the wall. :-)
Looking at my current masterpiece I think the results would be fairly
similar although the adaptive cross-linking slide aspect could be
enlightening... :-)
>> At the moment I'm doing this with a pen and a large sheet of paper,
>> but it occured to me that all the information I am trying to put down is
>> already in the headers [they're in the standard(?) format followed by
>> astrolib and coyote].
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>> Does anyone know of an automated method for a) extracting this data
>> and b) displaying it?
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> MK_HTML_HELP is what I use.
Thanks David, I'll go and have a play with that.
Ben
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Ben Panter, Edinburgh
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