Cliff, what is this 'Rational Rose' progra you are talking about ?

Rational Rose is a visual modeling tool for object oriented programming. It has roots in theory set forth by Grady Booch.

Something freeware ?

Afraid not. These are the kind of prices $1812(USD) - $4155(USD)

If yes, can you give me an URL ?

Here is the URL anyway.

http://www.rational.com

Very cool! I sure would like to see more of these but lets wait until we clean up a few more of the components. This would look good on the web site to. You know proof of what is going on.

Since I designed it I think I can reverse engineer my own stuff :-) Anyway thanks for the information everyone !

Now seriously: In the documentation sources, there is a file classchart.ps
it is in PostScript, and contains exactly what the name says: a class chart for FCL, with status information for each class. (although a little out of date at the moment)

The postscript is really easy; it is very small (13k) and contains basically some commands like

(TClipboard) Missing newclass
(TStrings) Untested newclass
(TStringList) Untested newchildclass
onelevelback
(TTextAttributes) Missing newclass

(postcript uses polish notation)

What I want to say with this is that it can easily be updated by anyone with a text editor, and that it can be converted to any kind of graphic. Which makes it very suitable as a reference class chart, which you'll need to do somehow.

Just a thought.

Michael.

Here is a jpg image of the class diagram for buttons.pp this should help a little with the understanding .....

Let me know if this helps I can generate some more of these with Rational Rose.. <<buttons.jpg>>

Cliff
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No dude it is far from being free the company boys forked over about 3000 dollars a seat. It is a class object modeling to for UML design. It does class reverse engineering of delphi code.

I can reverse engineer some of your stuff if you need it...

Cliff

I most definitely agree with this;

Cliff, what is this 'Rational Rose' progra you are talking about ? Something freeware ? If yes, can you give me an URL ?

Michael.