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Vectrex
Junior Member
Australia
11 Posts |
 Posted - Jun 22 2005 : 11:48:03 AM
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now I know some people will disagree with this and yell 'plugin!' which is fair, but I think VAX would be an ideal platform for a *simple* umlish or treeview way of showing classes since MS will never do it. Things like Rational Rose et all are WAY over the top and don't fit neatly into VS (and spit rubbish over your code). Simply another popout view like VAView. So it would look something like ClassViz, but being able to simply double click the classes would be great.
Other features could be a split view which shows methods of the highlighted class in a list (or mouse overed class), and obviously a nice but more advanced function would be to right-click a class and 'create child' but any more would be overkill.
e.g
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spread out
ClassViz view options are nice too
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with clustering
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sideways
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the default flat list of classes in VS is just horrible and pretty useless.
At least it'd be nice if VA could tell me the interface of classes in it's lists
eg instead of
"mysteryClass" it could say
"mysteryClass : parentClass" |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
19014 Posts |
Posted - Jun 22 2005 : 2:40:24 PM
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if you ask doxygen nicely i believe it gives you a lot of what you want. i have not used it much, so i am not sure on the fine details. it has the benefit of being free
http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/
or this plugin has an inheritance graph option
http://www.codeproject.com/macro/kingstools.asp
which is how come i know that the code i work on produces a horrible, and very wide, graph 
while what you are looking for is interesting, it seems a bit outside of the scope of VA
maybe its just me, but i don't tend to have class hierarchies that are this complex. instead i tend to end up with lots of classes with no parent, plus masses with the same parent, which make a real mess out of this sort of diagram. |
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