Our Delphi Unit Dependency Scanner (DUDS) has been updated with a couple of new features.

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Our Delphi Unit Dependency Scanner (DUDS) has been updated with a couple of new features.

The first allows you to export the dependency tree to XML.

The second builds a CSV file that you can import into Gephi (http://gephi.github.io/). Gephi is open source and allows you to build a graph from your unit relationships.

Thanks to Zigmund Bulinsh for the ideas.

DUDS is now open source. You can find it on GitHub along with a link to the latest installer - https://github.com/norgepaul/DUDS/blob/master/README.md
http://gephi.github.io

Comments

  1. Stefan GlienkeOctober 7, 2014 at 3:10 AM

    Nice, exactly what I was looking for earlier this morning - tried Icarus and it just failed finding where some unit was used :)

    I noticed one bug though. When switching to list view and then typing any uppercase letter in the filter edit it does not show anything.

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  2. Paul ThorntonOctober 7, 2014 at 3:17 AM

    Stefan Glienke - Thanks and fixed. I'll upload a new build later today.

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  3. Lars FosdalOctober 7, 2014 at 3:29 AM

    Awesome!

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  4. Lars FosdalOctober 7, 2014 at 4:59 AM

    Found more circular refs than I was comfortable with... sigh...

    Suggestions for further enhancements:
    - Highlighting of classes, types, variables or constants that are referenced in circular references.

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  5. Paul ThorntonOctober 7, 2014 at 6:02 AM

    +lars fosdal - The DUDs parser is pretty basic and only capable of extracting the linked units. Perhaps in the future I could incorporate +roman yankovsky's DelphiAST parser and look a little deeper than just the unit names and relationships.

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  6. Lars FosdalOctober 7, 2014 at 6:06 AM

    F.x. Unused types, constants, variables as well  :)

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  7. Bill MeyerOctober 7, 2014 at 6:51 AM

    Paul Thornton There are many useful things which can be accomplished by relatively simple tools. I built one back in D6 to discover the set of all components in a massive project, as we were preparing to move to a new release of Delphi. Simple tool, but useful. With that framework in place, I found occasion to add scans for other information mining.

    In each case, and for multiple reasons, I could not get what I needed from a commercial tool.

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  8. Paul ThorntonOctober 7, 2014 at 8:53 AM

    I've uploaded a new build with fixes for the
    issues reported today. Thanks testers :)

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  9. Heinz ToskanoOctober 7, 2014 at 11:59 AM

    your tool is very useful, but gephi is mesmerizing!

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  10. Darian MillerOctober 7, 2014 at 7:59 PM

    Suggestion - highlight item not in path and add option to add item's Path to the search path.

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  11. Fabio VITALEFebruary 9, 2018 at 2:06 AM

    The link to download your Delphi Unit Dependency Scanner is broken! Where ca be downloaded: seems quite useful.

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  12. Paul ThorntonFebruary 9, 2018 at 2:22 AM

    Fabio VITALE - DUDS is now open source. I've updated the post to point to the GitHub repository.

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  13. Fabio VITALEFebruary 9, 2018 at 3:04 AM

    Thank you Paul!! This is great

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