I would also love to use it. Brian has a program that essentially does this, however in the economic times we are in now my CEO told me "if it does not directly translaye into improveing the bottom line I can not authorize it".
If I get time in the next year I may write something and release it, but don't hold your breath. Norm On 5/26/09, Charlie Noah <cwn...@comcast.net> wrote: > Dan, > I am sure I'm not the only one interested. Please do request permission > to > release it. > John Israel said he'd written one, but it must be internal to his > company, > too. I can't find any reference to it, or to Brian Leach's program on the > internet. I would be interested in seeing their software as well. Guys? > Knowing how snarled and convoluted some of our legacy programs are, this > would be extremely difficult software to design and build, and I applaud > those who have done so. > Regards, > Charlie Noah > Inland Truck Parts Company > On 5/26/2009 4:45 PM, Dan McGrath wrote: > > I have a tool I wrote here that does this for your entire source repo. > > It creates a UD file and processes each source file, mapping out which > subroutines the code calls and saves it as a record in the UD file. > > I then have several dictionary items, such as SHALLOW, DEEP, ISPROGRAM > and TREE, which you can used to find programs/subroutines, which > directly/indirectly call something, or with TREE, display the entire > call tree 'graphically'. > > It would be fairly trivial to change it to handle INCLUDEs, etc. If > anyone is interested, I could ask if I can release it. > > Regards, > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org > [mailto:owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Israel, John R. > Sent: Wednesday, 27 May 2009 6:50 AM > To: 'u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org' > Subject: RE: [U2] UV BASIC Flowing Charting Tools > > I wrote something like this a while ago. It has a driver program that > prompts for what you want (includes, calls, etc) and what program to > start on, then calls the main external subroutine. > > This external subroutine recursively calls itself for each call and > include. > > The trick to this is to remember which programs you have already > checked. Otherwise, you could find yourself in a nasty endless loop > because you keep testing the same subroutines over and over. > > John Israel > Sr. Programmer/Analyst > Dayton Superior Corporation > 721 Richard St. > Dayton, OH 45342 > 937-866-0711 x44380 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org > [mailto:owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony G > Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 4:31 PM > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: RE: [U2] UV BASIC Flowing Charting Tools > > The trick isn't creating charts, or pretty ones. The trick is to > create a flowchart from BASIC which shows Calls and Includes (one > kind of report), or files and fields used (another kind of > report). You can take it further and trace Exceutes, procs, > paragraphs, etc. All of those report types are data-centric and > it's a real challenge to create a generic utility that can derive > that sort of metadata from any given MV application. Once you > have the data you can render it with any tools you wish. Doing > the charting is the easy part. :) > > I believe Brian Leach has something for doing MV-oriented flow > charting as described above. > > Tony Gravagno > Nebula Research and Development > TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com > Visit PickWiki.com! 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