Bit of a VB Code Browser (using RTF not HTML) that can be helpful when checking for unused Members (Variables, Parameters, Subs, Functions, Constants, APIs etc) at Method, Module and Project Level, in a large VB5 / VB6 Project. A single list of Members makes it easy to find duplicate declarations and find all declarations by type. The program can be helpful for grabbing Code Snippets and copying Source Code Headers and Files (including any associated Binaries). Implemented Interfaces and Object, Menu and Control Events are grouped together in the Class Explorer along with any Parameters or Variables they may have. Private Members can be hidden from the Class Explorer to reveal a Module’s Visible Interface and then, with Auto-Find-Use, you can see where its Public Members are being used.
Now the rub, program is incidental to on-going VB Code Parsing Study ‘twbb’ (there will be bugs), try reselecting stuff and clicking it again. Expect Unicode to come out as ??? etc and, obviously, I wrote this while juggling a triage of rampant, spikey arsed, moon goose on the blisteringly hot, purpled crab, sands of Belle-Fartious-Minor, in flip-flops, being charged by a billigerent pack of MS VB6 Programmer’s Guide books demanding I explain why they remain unconsulted!
Please feel free to comment, make suggestion and/or report bugs, as you like.
BTW: no warrantees or guarantees, given or implied.
Expect delays loading Rich Text, when code lines exceed a few thousand.
Once again, this program (on a good day) is (meant to be) a bit of a VB Code Browser for VB5 / VB6 that gives Visual, Member Level Access to Working VB6 Source Code in a simple and easy to use GUI (he says). It can be helpful for finding and copying Code Snippets, checking for unused variables and methods and finding duplicate declarations in Working VB5 / VB6 Projects. Expect glitches, everything is exploratory or experimental or both.
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Source Code Review, Project Scan, Copy Multiple Members, Mini Code Generator (Type Code Helper), Dependencies between source code files, export code to HTML & RTF, export Interface Members to XML… and even more stuff.
Hoping we can make our own Planet Source Code, VB6 Code Browser, this program is just trying to discover some of things that might be involved in such an endeavour. Please contact if interested, advise, suggest, update, fix, speed it up, laugh at it and post your own…
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Love, Peace, Bananas and Happy Coding :)
Dave
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hi fancytom, as picture above, middle option button, select a member from the class explorer, get a list of where it's used, change filter properties to find unused items. see auto-find-use from help menu. changed description wording above, never meant to imply automated review, my use of the words hands-on was clearly understated, I test one thing at a time. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
dear Dave, nice code, I did try to load heavy vbp projects and was quick and seemed to work correctly. I also had the following question: Would it be possible to adapt the code to also load only a bas file (for tools using integrated VBA editor, the main file is always a bas and not a vbp file). I had quick look at it, but it seemed not so easy to adapt: the code to do this. Anyway, great work (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Hi Alladdin, Namal & Bonnie Thanks, it's been a shed load of work to get this far but also a lot of fun.
Alladdin, one plan was to have programmatic access to source code, via a CodeReader instance e.g. xCodeReader.ReadCodeFIle("C:\Any.bas") Use the modPBTypes.LoadMemberTV to load it into a Treeview [the Treeview needs to set its ImageList to frmExplorer.imglM, you need a CodeReader, Trreview & ComboBox] See the CodeReader help for getting going and contact me if still not sure. Thanks
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Hi fancytom Let me know if you get on with the source code review and where it goes wrong (so I can fix). Unchecked, the tests are on private members like MZ-Tools Review Source Code, Checked adds project wide tests on Types and Enums and Public Methods in Modules (.bas). Try outputting the results to XML for flexible reporting (see frmRevSrcCode.pFilterResults for access to the results array [ mtUnused() ] data). Thanks
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This project is very helpful to discover code you may miss. I found code that I was curious about and with the enlarged feature helps you to see better. Giving this project 5 for being very helpful. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
@ Thierry My thanks in return for your generous comment, very pleased there is something helpful to you. Happy Coding dave :) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
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