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Category: Power User Tips
Analyzing Makefile Based Source Code
We use “bear”, an open-source tool, to watch builds from a Makefile built project (bitcoin) and create a very useful Understand parse with it.
Understand’s most useful and smallest button
The button controlling how the Information Browser shows references packs a big punch in just 25 pixels.
Setting up use case specific tool and window layouts with Understand Sessions
Understand Sessions lets you configure your workspace as you like it for a particular task, name and save it, and then switch between different workspace setups instantly. This is useful for common use cases and for switching between tasks.
My Tricks for Using Understand
Learn to quickly navigate in Understand like one of our Senior Engineers.
Pro Tip: Start with Directory Structure and add some Human to it.
Adding a bit of human knowledge to the automatically built Directory Structure architecture can improve its visual appeal and utility quite a bit.
Functional Decomposition Architectures FTW
A functional decomposition architecture is easy to make and can help you organize key information about your project.
Making big graphs manageable with “relationship” graphs
Use”Relationship” graphs, which draw sub-graphs between entities, to break big graphs into little graphs and work your way thru them – turning a big thorny graph into a few easy-to-follow graphs.
Lost in Translation – Finding Strings
This week I’m using Understand’s different search capabilities to find untranslated strings.