Visual Expert for PowerBuilder
发布时间：2017-02-21 20:10
本文关键词：powerbuilder，由笔耕文化传播整理发布。
Impact Analysis
Cross-References
This feature will list all the components related to a given object, method, variable, table, column...
You can use this feature before modifying the application: it will help checking the consequences of the change on the components related to the change.
In order to provide a complete result, the impact analysis includes all type of dependencies:
* PowerBuilder-to-database dependencies: any change in the DB Schema may affect the powerbuilder components using the table or column modified. For instance, an Impact Analysis on a table gives you all Datawindows, Embedded SQL and Stored Procedures(1) calling this table.
You may filter the references depending on the access type (Select, Insert, Update Delete)
* PowerBuilder Inheritance dependencies: any change in a powerbuilder object may affect its descendants.
Therefore, an impact analysis on a PB object will includes all its descendants.
* PB code references: An Impact analysis on a PB object, method or variable lists all the PB objects and methods calling it. Special powerbuilder dependencies are also supported (e.g. the reference between a DataWindow Column and a DropDownDatawindow).
Impact analyses are also available for Global variables and functions as well as system properties and functions. The result contains all references to such variables or functions.
* PB-to-DB Code dependencies:
If your powerbuilder application calls Stored Procedures, you can list these procedures:
- You can list all stored procedures called by each PBL of the application.
- You can list all stored procedures called by each object coming from a given PBL.
For each Stored procedure referenced by the PB code, you can perform an Impact Analysis.
As a result, you get all powerbuilder object and functions of the application calling this Stored Procedure.
(1) If your application is also composed of PL/SQL Stored Procedures, Visual Expert analyses all references to tables and columns from these stored procedures.
See"> Visual Expert for Oracle for more details.
List of all successive methods calling a function. The result is displayed in a treeview (e.g. function A is called by function B, itself called by function C, etc...).
List of all successive methods called by a function. The result is displayed in a treeview (e.g. function A calls function B, which itself calls function C, etc...). You may use this feature when you need to understand a complete process in the application. (For instance, which functions are executed after the user has triggered a specific event?).
Architecture
List of all successive windows or menus opened in the project.
As a result, you get a treeview representing the navigation paths in the application (from Windows to Windows and from Menus to Windows).
Detailed architecture of an object (treeview of all controls, functions, events and variables composing the object).
You may list all variables and parameters referenced in packages, procedures, functions, block, triggers or cursors.
Code Exploration
After analysing your project, Visual Expert can list in a treeview:
* The PBL included in the application and the components of each PBL
* The powerbuilder object - by type - included in the application (all the DW of the project for instance).
* The controls, functions, events, attributes, variables, parameters defined in a powerbuilder object.
While exploring the code in the treeview, you can also display:
* The container of the selected item (for example, the PBL containing an object, the object containing a control, the control containing an event or the event containing a local variable,...)
* The container hierarchy (the list of all successive containers of an item). For instance, the container hierarchy of an event may display the Control/Objet/PBL/Project where this event was defined.
You may display in the treeview some information about menu objects:
* The complete hierarchy of the menu options defined in a menu object.
* Same hierarchy, plus all events defined for each menu item.
While analyzing your code, Visual Expert will find all references to database items.
Therefore, you can list in the treeview:
* The database tables referenced by the powerbuilder code (both from Datawindows and embedded SQL)
* For each table found, you may list the columns referenced by the powerbuilder code.
* The stored procedures called by the powerbuilder code (both from Datawindows and PB scripts)
If your application is also composed of DB code (PL/SQL or Transact-SQL), Visual Expert finds all references to tables, columns and stored procedures from this DB code.
See ">Visual Expert for Oracle pages for more details.
You can have a global overview of your project (PowerBuilder + DB code) by installing the appropriate versions of Visual expert on the same machine. For instance, if your application is composed of PB code and Oracle stored procedures, you may combine Visual Expert for PowerBuilder and ">Visual Expert for Oracle on the same PC.
After analysing your project, Visual expert may display several lists of Procedure:
* SQL statements defined in the application
* SQL statements containing a given string (text search focused on the SQL statements of the project).
* SQL statements by access type (select, insert, update or delete Statements)
* SQL statements by definition type (defined in powerbuilder Script, Datawindow or PL/SQL code(1) ).
(1) requires ">Visual Expert for Oracle
Visual Expert analyses all inheritance dependencies. As a result, you can display:
* The direct descendants (childs) of a powerbuilder object
* The descendant hierarchy (multi-level treeview of all successive descendants objects). For instance, you can get the complete inheritance hierarchy of your application, including Framework and business objects.
* The direct ancestor of a powerbuilder object
* The complete ancestor list of an object (all successive ancestors of a given object).
When an object is inherited, the scripts defined in this objects may be modified in the descendant Object.
In such a situation, Visual Expert keeps track of the "inheritance" relationship between the "ancestor" and the "descendant" script.
You may search for a string in your project. Several options are available:
* Global Search in the whole project (including powerbuilder Code, PL/SQL, SQL files, ...)
* Search restricted to a given type of component (For instance, you may search in windows only).
* You may search in the name and/or the source code of components.
* You use regular expressions in a search (click here to read about regular expressions)
* You may search into a selection of components (for instance after selecting some procedures in the treeview).
While analyzing your powerbuilder code, Visual Expert will find all referencies to dll functions.
As a result, you can list in the treeview:
* The dll used by the application
* For a given dll, which dll functions are declared in the powerbuilder code
* For a given dll, which powerbuilder objects are declaring the dll functions
* For each dll function declared in PowerBuilder, all powerbuilder references to this dll function
(Impact analysis in the powerbuilder application on a dll function).
* List of the Global variables declared in the powerbuilder application (name+number of calls to each variable)
* List of the Global functions defined in the powerbuilder application (name+number of calls to each function)
* List of the system properties referenced in the powerbuilder code (e.g. visible, title, with...)
* List of the system functions referenced in the powerbuilder code (e.g. close, opensheet, setpointer...)
Miscellaneous
Displays a graphical preview of a powerbuilder Visual Object (Window, DataWindow, Visual UserObject). This preview helps understanding the application while browsing in the code. You can also locate any control displayed in the preview. As a result, Visual Expert opens the treeview where the control is defined.
* List of the Windows, OserObjects, DataWindows, Menus, ... not referenced/used in the application.
* List of the functions, events and global functions not referenced/used in the application.
* List of the attributes, global variables, parameters not referenced/used in the application.
* List of the dlls and dll functions declared, but not called in the application.
Searches for components with the same object name and same type in your project.
Use this feature to locate an object, method or variable in your project (i.e. where is this item created/declared in your project?). As a result, the treeview opens on the definition
Lists all Datawindows used as Dropdown Datawindows in your project
Lists all Datawindows referenced dynamically in the PB code (e.g. Control.DataObject = "<DataWindow name>")
Statistics about the size and content of the powerbuilder Libraries (PBLs)
PBL containing a determined amount of bytes
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