Re: Source navigator and ADA 95

["Richard F Weber" <rfweber@link.com>]

A long long time ago, I tried to write a parser/high-lighter for Ada & Source
navigator that would do what you are looking to do.  Unfortunately, my knowledge
of parsers and my knowledge of Ada are/were a hinderance on it.

I've got some code on sourceforge that you can download and take a look at if
you want.  Consider it Pre-Alpha to Alpha.  It does some things right, but the
very complicated inheritences and what-not it doesn't and won't.

The project homepage is at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/adaparse/

I'm not planning on maintaining it, but I'd hate to lose it because it is at
least a start in the right direction.  Let me know if you want to take over
maintainership of it.  Hopefully somebody can get it farther than what I can.

On a similar but side note, I did write a tool that would graphically display
the entire "use" list, as far as who is using what, and who is used by what.  I
used it to show how freaking complicated our one Ada application is wrt it's
inheritence listing.  It's a script set to run on Linux.  I'll see if I can dig
it out, it may be of interest.

--Rich


"Deschenaux, Celine" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The company division I work for does most of its coding in ADA95 in a
> Windows NT environment.  The projects we work on are quite big and complex.
> I am currently searching for a tool that will generate useful information
> such as call trees and graphical representations of the class inheritance
> structure of our programs. We need a product that can provide a
> comprehensive set of code visualization and navigation tools that will help
> development teams to have a better view of the the structure, dependencies,
> and flow of complex applications, among other things.
> Many of the features of your product seem interesting, but most of the
> information given is related to C, C++ and Java applications. I would like
> to know if all the features described are (or will be) also available (or
> have their equivalent) for ADA95. Please feel free to give me any additional
> information about your product.
> Thank you,
> Celine Descheneaux.