Re: [DUG]: Help with Logic flows

[Neven MacEwan]

Mark   Have you looked at UML, This may be an oblique answer but 'activity' diagrams will help The UML Tool i'm using is minUML (from www.minuml.com ) is pure Delphi (and will have Delphi Web Script scripting) If you are getting repeated calls in the else then your process flows are wrong (making decision a ahead of b or not combining your decisions logic correctly, UML activity diagrams are like flowcharts but have 'forks' and 'joins' which help in modeling this   example   if you have 2 binary forks (hard to express in text) but you have 4 outcomes (but only 3 decisions), coded in if then else you get  (pseudo code)   if conda   then     if condb then proc1()     else proc2()   else     if condb then proc3()     else proc1()   you are using 2 binary decisions to get 3 outcomes, A solution I saw once from the Mark Edington? (borlands ADOExpress architech) for this was (and I would never thought of it) pls excuse any syntax errors   const   Decision: array[boolean,boolean] of Int = ((1,2),(3,1));   case Decision[conda,condb] of   1: proc1()   2: proc2()   3: proc3() end   HTH   Neven   ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Howard To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 5:20 PM Subject: [DUG]: Help with Logic flows Help!   I'm building myself an increasingly complex maze.   Has anyone any tips on how "real programmers" keep track of the logic that is necessary to ensure that multi level nested if...then...else statements are constucted properly.   I seem to be often getting into situations where I find myself executing similar sets of statements after 'else's at different levels in a set of nested if...then...else's.   Are there any *methods* that one can employ to ensure that these structures are correct?   I find that after about 2 levels I cannot comprehend what else is going to be executed when.   Any tips or references would be greatly appreciated.   TIA   Mark