On Aug 18, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Dr. Scott Steinman wrote:
As some of you know, I've been working on an open-source
development tool for REALbasic called Reality Check, which examines
REALbasic program code for design errors.
To determine whether or not a symbol in a REALbasic program has
been defined in the REALbasic frameworks and determine its type (or
return type if it's a method), I need to have information about all
symbols in the frameworks. Without direct access to framework
symbol information or class introspection to get at least some of
this information, my only other option is to parse the Language
Reference HTML pages and try to build a table of framework symbols
from it.
So far, my only idea is to start with the LR's topiclist.html file
and follow each of its links to get documentation on classes,
modules, directives, and constants. However, this would be
complicated by the extensive cross-linking of the HTML files and
the possibility of circular references.
I'd appreciate any ideas or strategies anybody can offer for
performing this parsing!!
The LR is, as we all know, incomplete so as a starting point it's not
perfect.
Parsing the various Framework.o files inside the RB package should be
accurate, but you have to break your license agreement's non-reverse
engineering clause to do this.
Using every statement from RB in a single program, saving it as XML
and then reading the XML should also be accurate, but time consuming
to put together.
not sure what other options there might be
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