On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said: > > > > > > > > Not currently. > > > > Someone else generates the pdf classchart from a OpenOffice spreadsheet. > > > > > > And where is that one? Couldn't find it in svn. > > > > It isn't. I get the ready made PDF :-) > > Hmm, that is not an healthy situation. I know. > > > > > In general, the idea is to create the classchart from within > > > > fpdoc. > > > > > > Yes, an abstract format. However you might get into problems with dividing > > > it up to nicely fill a page that way. > > > > I know. > > (that also has advantages btw, in a previous job I could print A2 (single > sheet sideways into an A3 printer), and being able to solve this could be > nice) > > I suggest for now to at least maintain the classchart.ps, simply because the > format can easily used as reference for whatever follows. Yes, but then you'll have A LOT of work, because the .ps is heavily outdated :( > > > > Why XML? It is so human-unreadable, and more a machine format than an > > > editable one? I like the current ps format much more. OTOH the editor > > > would > > > be a simple treeview mostly. > > > > XML because it can be easily manipulated. > > Yes, but what you save on the manipulation, you lose on the editing, making > it nearly mandatory to make and support a gui tool. IMHO for small data > amounts like this it is not worth it :-) Small data amounts ? Have you ever counted the number of classes ? :-) > > > > Should be easy to do. then a tool can be used which converts this > > > > tree to PostScript or PDF or whatever... > > > > > > See above. > > > > Yes, but postscript is impossible to maintain automated. Hence the > > inbetween-format. > > Do you have enough info to generate this from sources, and e.g. tell TP, > Delphi and interface hierarchies apart? Then we only need to add a treeview > to the gui doc tool so we can add properties there? I have enough info, yes. What is needed still is the ability to merge 2 trees. > We then have to define a handy set of properties to control formatting, but > probably we need to see the raw output for that first then. Yes. > > > > > > model, but some classes are done. > > > > > > > > > > Before I start debugging, does sb know what that could be? > > > > > > > > Not without the failure message... > > > > > > There was none. It just generated an empty xml for e.g. Views. > > > > > > Change to platform.inc and it works fine. > > Solved thanks. Got an awful deja vu feeling there. I had the same thought :-) Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
