Thank you for the constructive (and detailed) feedback! I'm
recovering from surgery for the next month or so, and will have plenty
of time to incorporate your comments.
Most of these were things I overlooked (never used <subant>, but it's
easy to incorporate).
The grey icon on the desktop is actually a repeating bitmap, but
doesn't show up too well (if you tile it, it's a repeating desktop
image of flying wings). I'm going to replace it with a better image.
On OS X, PDF output is part of the GraphViz application port for that
platform - I've searched around, but still haven't found a really good
way of generating PDF in Windows (there's GhostScript, but then that
requires still yet another third-party installation routine).
Would you like to be notified as I incorporate your changes to see if
they help with your scripts?
Thanks,
Douglas Bullard
I really do appreciate the detailed comments - I wish my users at work
were this good. :)
On Nov 26, 2007, at 07:37, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
My first few cents:
- seems to be good
- doesnt handle <subant>
http://www.nurflugel.com/webstart/AntScriptVisualizer/help/html/html/what_exactly_is_ant_script_vis.html
- good idea of handling multiple buildfiles
- can it deal with dynamic imports?
<property name="import" value="default.xml" description="Override
on command line"/>
<import file="${import}"/>
- dealing with dynamic macros?
<target name="init.macros" depends="macro.1, macro.2"/>
<target name="macro.1" if="do.1">
<macrodef name="macro"> ...
<target name="macro.2" unless="do.1">
<macrodef name="macro"> <!-- same macro name -->
<target name="useit" depends="init.macros">
<macro/>
- Some words why no updates are needed: WebStart will check on each
start.
http://www.nurflugel.com/webstart/AntScriptVisualizer/help/html/html/updates.html
- When reading the infos on the homepage, I havent found any license
Ok ... next step. I try starting that
http://www.nurflugel.com/webstart/AntScriptVisualizer/antscriptVisualizer.jnlp
- Warning of not signed application
- Good: whats new information
-- i am missing a window title
-- reverse order would be better (newest on top)
-- close botton should be outside the textarea so you dont have to
scroll for clicking
- Options dialog is missing a title
-- PDF on OsX only?
- I try check.xml from Ant's codebase.
- Default settings: include imported, group nodes, concentrate
lines, delete .dot, show macros, show
taskdefs, show ant+antcall, show targets, png,
- Result: just a note on the buttom: "Operations completed. Check
your directory for graphic files."
What is my directory? I'll have a look at check.xml's directory. Ok
- a "hidden" file (as *.dot are
associated with MSWord templates ;) - check.dot. But no PNG.
- "Find Dot" Button. Another frame without title. The path shown is
too long for the small text field.
The text field could have the width of the frame. Cancel.
- Error message: Cant run without Graphiz ...
Ok. When do you try to run this application? Why the
ScriptDependency Visualizer quits after that message?
Restart ...
- "Help" seems to print parts of the homepage as JavaDoc. Just
"Help" as title is not good IMO. You should always include
the application name.
Ok, I had "problems" with DOT before. I'll retry the application for
further information, because there is no "requirements" section in
the help.
Another time: "Operations completed" but only the .dot was created.
(Having a look into that file it seems to be ok for a user usually
not reading these files.)
You shouldnt print "completed" if there are steps missing: the
creation the the PNG failed because of missing DOT-application!
When seeing the main window you dont know when the creation will be
done (it's directly done after selecting the buildfile).
There are some options deactivated
- Filter from node ...
- Filter through node ...
- Node ordering (Right-to-left + Left+to-right)
Jan
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Von: Douglas Bullard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gesendet: Samstag, 24. November 2007 18:53
An: Ant Users List
Betreff: Re: Tool for documenting Ant scripts
I should have added a link to my earlier post on my Ant tool,
this is
the page with sample output from different types of Ant
scripts:
http://www.nurflugel.com/webstart/AntScriptVisualizer/help/htm
l/html/using_ant_script_visualizer.html
Douglas Bullard
On Nov 21, 2007, at 08:25, Hans Schwaebli wrote:
I once seen that there is a tool to document Ant scripts. I
think it
created HTML pages with images showing how the scripts and tasks
relate to each other.
Can you please tell me the name of that tool so that I can
download
it?
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