Unit dependency viwer

[uligerhardt 18]

Works now for me. I loaded our historically grown monster project and it was parsed quickly and without obvious errors. 😉

[Mike Torrettinni 198]

2 minutes ago, Alexander Sviridenkov said:

It will be included to HTML Library demos with source code.

Great! Any timeline?

 

I don't have the library, yet, so I don't know how controllable the HTML control is, but will this be possible:

- custom Context menu on selected unit?

- select and add Context menu on dependency line?

- select multiple units? and get info on all selected units?

- control drawing objects, bg color, font, size?

- control selection from code, not just mouse?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Alexander Sviridenkov 360]

3 minutes ago, Mike Torrettinni said:

Great! Any timeline?

 

I don't have the library, yet, so I don't know how controllable the HTML control is, but will this be possible:

- custom Context menu on selected unit?

- select and add Context menu on dependency line?

- select multiple units? and get info on all selected units?

- control drawing objects, bg color, font, size?

- control selection from code, not just mouse?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe next month.

For other questions answer is - yes.

[Alexander Sviridenkov 360]

New build 1.0.0.10

Units with forms are now rectangular

Links have direction marks (on source unit)

When .pas is not found it tries to find .dcu, parse it and extact links to used units.

 

[Mike Torrettinni 198]

52 minutes ago, Alexander Sviridenkov said:

Links have direction marks (on source unit)

 

Nice! I showed this to another developer who is looking for simple drawing control that would do all this. Not for Delphi source dependencies, but custom relationship data and it would simplify his current very cumbersome drawing solution that achieves similar result - I helped with some small improvements, but I'm not expert in drawings.

He is excited to try your control when this is implemented.

[Alexander Sviridenkov 360]

7 minutes ago, Mike Torrettinni said:

Nice! I showed this to another developer who is looking for simple drawing control that would do all this. Not for Delphi source dependencies, but custom relationship data and it would simplify his current very cumbersome drawing solution that achieves similar result - I helped with some small improvements, but I'm not expert in drawings.

He is excited to try your control when this is implemented.

This is not a separate control, all UI of this application is just two THtPanel-s. Program generates SVG from units graph and put it into HtPanel, that's all. No direct drawing.
F.e. this is how looks CSS for main panel:

 

svg {font-size: 8px}
.node rect {fill: white; stroke: gray; stroke-width: 1px}
.node:hover rect {fill: lightblue}
.node.circ rect {fill: #ffdddd}
.link {stroke: white; fill: white; opacity: 0.1}
.link.selected {stroke: green; fill:green;opacity: 1}
.link.imp.selected {stroke: blue; fill:blue}
.link.selected.circ {stroke:red!important}
.link ellipse {stroke:none!important}
.selected rect {fill: #ccfab4}
.node.main rect {fill: lightblue!important; stroke: #456c87!important}
.node.selected.circ rect {fill: #ffbbbb}
.project rect {stroke: black; stroke-width: 2px}
.project text {font-weight: bold}
.search text {fill: #b84f04}

 

[Attila Kovacs 629]

Holy cow, can you enable saving the html?

 

 

a part of the FlexCel library o.O

 

 

Sagittarius in the FlexCel universe.

Edited September 28, 2023 by Attila Kovacs

[Tommi Prami 130]

For some reason lot of units show on top of each other.

Even if fixed, would be handy to have some hint, to give some info on the unit while hovering over, with maybe bigger font (Normal UI font), if zoomed to very small, then could check colored ones.... etc...

Also this island at top left is bit strange.

[Rollo62 538]

10 hours ago, Alexander Sviridenkov said:

New build 1.0.0.10

Great, now it seems to find also all units in upper and sibling folders 👍
That is a very useful tool and blazingly fast.

I'm a little unsure, how to make use of the "circular reference" feature.
Is there a maximal zoom factor, I cannot really get everything on one page ( nevertheless, its too small to make sense anyway).

Edited September 29, 2023 by Rollo62

[shineworld 73]

There is a way to ZOOM in/out ?
Very interesting product to analyse overall of a project!

[Alexander Sviridenkov 360]

10 minutes ago, shineworld said:

There is a way to ZOOM in/out ?
Very interesting product to analyse overall of a project!

Yes, Ctrl + mouse wheel

[Alexander Sviridenkov 360]

2 hours ago, Tommi Prami said:

Also this island at top left is bit strange.

 

This is because of ForceAtlas2 algo. Units or unit groups with small amout of links can go far from center.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0098679

[Alexander Sviridenkov 360]

33 minutes ago, Rollo62 said:

I'm a little unsure, how to make use of the "circular reference" feature.
 

You can find and remove circular references where they should not be.

[Rollo62 538]

1 minute ago, Alexander Sviridenkov said:

You can find and remove circular references where they should not be.

Well, now I tried to enforce one, I thought it would automatically find and mark them all somehow.
Nevertheless, it's working well, when clicking on such circular part.

[Alberto Fornés 22]

Good Job¡, and very nice scroll movement. I like it¡

[Alexander Sviridenkov 360]

14 minutes ago, Rollo62 said:

Well, now I tried to enforce one, I thought it would automatically find and mark them all somehow.
Nevertheless, it's working well, when clicking on such circular part.

I tried to show all, but usually there are too many circular references so cheking unit by unit is more convenient.

[dummzeuch 1506]

Nice idea. But of course I have got something to complain about some suggestions

1. I find it rather difficult to see those light gray lines on a dark gray background. Maybe I'm just getting old and it's my eyes not the tool, but anyway. Why not use black lines on a white background? I know that "dark mode" is all the rage, but readability shouldn't be thrown out of the window for that.
2. It would be nice if the input line for the project file supported
   1. autocomplete
   2. dropping a file from explorer
3. Dropping a .dpr file from explorer onto the main window to load it would also be nice.

I'm sure I will think of some more possible improvements.

 

What are your plans for this tool? Are you going to release the source code? Or make it a commercial tool?

[Stano 143]

Suggestion for improvement. I have two disks mapped in the tree on the right: C and D.
I am not interested in disk C at all. I click on it. Its contents disappear from the graph. That would be good:
Root Node C changes color (probably red)
collapses. It just hangs there
-----
Every node should be able to collapse and expand.

Maybe it's there. Unfortunately, we don't have any instructions available.

[Uwe Raabe 2059]

18 minutes ago, dummzeuch said:

What are your plans for this tool? Are you going to release the source code? Or make it a commercial tool?

He already mentioned before:

11 hours ago, Alexander Sviridenkov said:

This is not a separate control, all UI of this application is just two THtPanel-s. Program generates SVG from units graph and put it into HtPanel, that's all. No direct drawing.
F.e. this is how looks CSS for main panel:

 

svg {font-size: 8px}
.node rect {fill: white; stroke: gray; stroke-width: 1px}
.node:hover rect {fill: lightblue}
.node.circ rect {fill: #ffdddd}
.link {stroke: white; fill: white; opacity: 0.1}
.link.selected {stroke: green; fill:green;opacity: 1}
.link.imp.selected {stroke: blue; fill:blue}
.link.selected.circ {stroke:red!important}
.link ellipse {stroke:none!important}
.selected rect {fill: #ccfab4}
.node.main rect {fill: lightblue!important; stroke: #456c87!important}
.node.selected.circ rect {fill: #ffbbbb}
.project rect {stroke: black; stroke-width: 2px}
.project text {font-weight: bold}
.search text {fill: #b84f04}

 

As I already own a license for HTML Components there is a good chance that it may be included as an extension to the Unit Dependency Analyzer in MMX.

[Rollo62 538]

20 minutes ago, dummzeuch said:

What are your plans for this tool? Are you going to release the source code? Or make it a commercial tool?

As far as I understood, this is a new demo in the HtmlComponents Library, right?
That means, when purchasing it, you can refine all colors as you wish

[Alexander Sviridenkov 360]

51 minutes ago, dummzeuch said:

Nice idea. But of course I have got something to complain about some suggestions

1. I find it rather difficult to see those light gray lines on a dark gray background. Maybe I'm just getting old and it's my eyes not the tool, but anyway. Why not use black lines on a white background? I know that "dark mode" is all the rage, but readability shouldn't be thrown out of the window for that.
2. It would be nice if the input line for the project file supported
   1. autocomplete
   2. dropping a file from explorer
3. Dropping a .dpr file from explorer onto the main window to load it would also be nice.

I'm sure I will think of some more possible improvements.

 

What are your plans for this tool? Are you going to release the source code? Or make it a commercial tool?

Thank you.

1. Gray lines are there just to see overall amount of links for node. They should not be too contrast otherwise selected links will be lost.

2. Project input has Open button at right, you cal select file from standard dialog. Dropping file to this window is good idea, I will implement it.

3. Unfortunately this is not possible because application should also know Delphi version, not just project file.

 

As mentioned above, it will be free, source code will be available to HTML Library customers,

[dummzeuch 1506]

2 hours ago, Alexander Sviridenkov said:

3. Unfortunately this is not possible because application should also know Delphi version, not just project file.

It's possible to determine the Delphi version from the .dproj/.bdsproj/.dof file, with some limitations.

[Alexander Sviridenkov 360]

Version 1.0.0.15

 

1. Delphi 7 compatibility.

2. Ctrl+S to save graph HTML

3. Folders below disabled folder are hidden from list

4. Open project window accept drag/drop from explorer

[Alexander Sviridenkov 360]

1.0.0.16

Main window accept drag/drop from explorer

Delphi version is detected from project

[Alexander Sviridenkov 360]

1.0.0.19

Disabled folders/libraries (except RTL/VCL) are now displayed as single node with all references to them.