Re: Analysis tools

From: Gerrit Beuze (gerrit[at]modelmaker[dot]demon[dot]nl)
Date: 08/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 07:20:03 +0200

Hello David,

> I need to refactor a large GUI-based program, extract the main processing
> elements, and make something that is scriptable and that uses those functions.
> The way the program is currently structured, it isn't feasible to simply bypass
> the GUI parts. (This program has a rich set of analytical functions in it that
> process some data. Most of these functions operate on lists of data and are not
> dependent on anything in the GUI part.)
>
> I'm wondering what tools people might recommend for simplifying such a task.

I'd highly recommend ModelMaker Code Explorer.
It comes with lots of native Delphi refactorings, I think in your case the ability
to drag drop methods, properties from one class to another could be interesting
just as ExtractMethod, and the ability to easily create and maintain properties.

The fully functional demo (Delphi5-8) is available from http://www.modelmakertools.com

Another options would be ModelMaker, but ModelMaker is less capable of
refactoring form files. It can import the form source, but does not update
the .dfm designer information.

Gerrit Beuze
ModelMaker Tools

> Another way to look at it is that we want to take this GUI-driven app and turn
> it into something that uses more of an MVC-approach to the world.
>
> TIA
> -David
>