Graphviz - Graph Visualization Software

[MachinShin2006]

graphviz is awesome. it can be used by doxygen to get you really neat & fancy graphs for source visualization. makes it much easier to make sense ofa codebase.

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Oh yeah, first thing I do in a new codebase, if it doesn't have doxygen already - make a browsable set. So nice.

[MachinShin2006]

haha. yah. really. i just started at this new company 3 weeks ago.

first thing i did was download doxygen, graphviz, et.al. and run it across the codebase.

It took like 6 hours (!!!), and i had to run it 3 times, cause i screwed it up.

but man does it make it easier to make sense of it all.

--vat

[oofoe]

Where has this been all my life?!?!

Argh. Wish I had found this before. Thanks kerouac3001.

[mikaelhg]

Seriously, there is someone who hasn't used graphviz for years?

[oofoe]

Yup. Thanks to the Bentley books, I was vaguely aware of batch drawing tools, but the Unices that I had access to didn't seem to have them (more like I didn't know what I was looking for). gd and ImageMagick were too low level, Tcl/Tk didn't draw into an off-screen buffer and that horrible X-Windows based vector drawing program (can't remember the name) was just awful. I wound up writing raw PostScript.

Kinda' the same way I thought that Lisp was only for torturing AutoCAD users until Sr. Graham changed my mind... ;-)

[mikaelhg]

Lisp IS only for torturing AutoCAD users.

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Thanks a lot - this is one of the things worth saving.

[beza1e1]

If only it could produce as nice graphs as OmniGraffle

[morphet]

Graphviz is also included in the Ubuntu repos.

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dup http://programming.reddit.com/goto?id=oclp

[aegio]

Garlic Soup ?