Mike Kerner wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Terence Heaford wrote:
>
>> What made me ask this question is because of the amount of time
>> it takes the IDE to find and list methods that I ask it to find.
>>
>> This would be an acceptable way of working if it wasn't so slow.
>
> I'm not trying to be a smart-ass with this, so don't take this as
> some dismissive remark.
Given your helpful nature and your contributions to this community I
don't think you need to worry about anything you write being seen as
dismissive.
> The easiest way, IMHO, to do what you are suggesting, is to add some
> code to the script editor that will index every handler (and every
> keyword, taking it to a logical conclusion), and index them.
Respectfully, I believe it can be even easier.
I've written a few search engines so I'm a big fan of up-front indexing,
but where we can brute-force our way through a task in acceptable time
the simplicity afforded is often well worth a modest wait.
LiveCode is very good at parsing text, and scripts are of course just
text. The types of analytics useful for LiveCode project management
aren't much different from the many other categories of activity LC is
well suited for. And given that LiveCode already has a good
understanding of its own objects, tools for managing LiveCode projects
are often easier than other things we enjoy using it for.
I would be interesting to learn more about the areas where Terence has
found it slow to do these sorts of things. I'll bet there are ways to
speed that up.
For many years a lot of new work I was doing started with inheriting
code bases written by others, so it became useful to have a tool that
could give me an overview of some aspects of the code base by performing
static analysis of the scripts.
Here's that thrown-together result:
<http://fourthworld.net/lc/4w-projprofiler.png>
Going forward, as time permits I'll be expanding that to include a much
more useful presentation with more info, but this primitive early form
is noteworthy here if only because it uses very old and sloppy
techniques that I know can be made much faster.
And that sloppy version takes about 1 second to run on the 13 KLOC code
base shown.
For the info it provides, well worth the onerous wait. :)
I see many good static code base analysis tools for other languages, and
there's no reason we can't have lots of them for LC too.
I haven't seen a language with a built-in function for finding orphaned
handlers across a code base, but Terence if you can point me to one I'll
see if I can include that in this LC PM toolkit.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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