From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,677566500df644a3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Jean St-Pierre" Subject: Re: Popular Design Diagram Methods For Ada Date: 2000/02/08 Message-ID: <87pp8m$c04$1@dns3.cae.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 583327006 References: <38986B2C.D4BDB7A4@quadruscorp.com> <3899C15B.3C81B9E9@utech.net> <3899CE45.FDF88C8F@quadruscorp.com> <87ee1v$4t0$2@wanadoo.fr> <389B1783.473576F5@quadruscorp.com> <389E79D6.41C67EA6@tni.fr> <38A05CA8.9F671DAF@quadruscorp.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.cae.ca X-Trace: dns3.cae.ca 950036566 12292 142.39.38.8 (8 Feb 2000 19:02:46 GMT) Organization: CAE Electronics, Montreal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Feb 2000 19:02:46 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-02-08T19:02:46+00:00 List-Id: For documentation of existing software, I just downloaded this week an evaluation copy of Understand Ada from http://www.scitools.com/ and ran a test case. It did a pretty good job. I've just started looking at it really, so I can't tell if it will do everything you need. It's worth a try anyway. The only problem I've encountered until now is getting readable printouts (too large if I use "print poster" and too small if I use "print drawing"). Marin D. Condic wrote in message news:38A05CA8.9F671DAF@quadruscorp.com... > Pierre Dissaux wrote: > > > You can find a few downloadable papers about the HOOD method on our > > site, and a free demo version of a HOOD tool (STOOD) for Windows and > > Unix: > > Thanks for the info. I had earlier downloaded the STOOD demo, but have > not downloaded all the documentation. I have driven the tool around in a > cursory manner and have not yet figured out how to do all the things I > think I need to do. The tools seems very much oriented towards Object > Oriented Design (that should be a surprise?) and so I am not sure it > meets my needs. My current need is to create some documentation for > existing software that was not built strictly on an OOD paradigm. Hence, > I need some ability just to make general pictures that represent > packages, procedures and tasks and be able to illustrate > interrelationships between them. (Tasks being internal to packages, one > package withing and calling another, etc.) > > So far with the STOOD tool I have not been able to determine how to show > interconnections between library level packages and mostly there seems > to be no method of describing tasks. I'm sure that some of this will > become more apparent as I sift through the documentation, but my initial > reaction is that I won't meet my "general purpose" requirement with this > tool. > > MDC > -- > ============================================================= > Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - 1.800.555.3393 > 1015-116 Atlantic Boulevard, Atlantic Beach, FL 32233 > http://www.quadruscorp.com/ > m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m > > Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ > > "Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin." > -- Allan Meltzer, Economist > =============================================================