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Category: Useful Scripts

Spice Up Your Code Metrics with Interactive Reports

Posted on January 28, 2025

Understand 7.0’s new Interactive Reports transform raw code metrics into insightful and engaging visualizations, offering customization options to tailor the analysis to your specific needs and reveal the true story behind your code.

Custom Charts in Understand 7.0

Posted on November 11, 2024

Understand 7.0 makes it easier for users to create custom charts. With new tools and a redesigned Plugin Manager, developers can change existing charts or make new ones to fit their needs. This gives users more flexibility when analyzing and presenting their code.

Finding Shared Global Objects

Posted on June 13, 2024

Having problems with threading? Check out these plugins to identify shared global objects. The plugins also use a cool trick: architectures as entity tags to store information like thread priorities. 

Duplicate Lines of Code

Posted on May 31, 2024

Revisiting how we detect and report duplicate lines of code, and creating a plugin metric to report it.

Dependency Networks with Understand

Posted on February 14, 2024

A script to calculate and display design structure matrices based on file dependencies—plus lots of cool metrics based on the matrix.

Custom Report: Finding Parameter Values

Posted on February 1, 2024

Understand’s Python API makes it a great platform for creating quick tools to explore exactly what you are interested in. In this case, I was curious if a default parameter was ever set to a non-default value or if a given parameter is always the same value. Check out these two custom interactive reports that show parameter values for each call.

Feasting on My Own Dog Food

Posted on January 3, 2024

Understand complements my primary editor, VS Code, rather than replacing it. It’s an essential part of my workflow for personal projects, especially when it comes to easily visualizing the underlying types of variables and functions. It’s the best of both worlds!

Create Beautiful Overview Graphs of Your Code

Posted on August 30, 2023

Five minutes with the free tool Gephi lets you turn Understand’s dependency data into a gorgeous overview of your project.

Making a Variable Tracker Graph

Posted on January 11, 2023

Use Understand’s Information Browser to find and graph all possible variables of your source code.

Friends Don’t Let Friends Have C++ Friends

Posted on January 4, 2023

An interactive report to show all the references that depend on C++ friend statements.

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