I have one ISM file created using Installshield. In Path Variables Explorer, I can see some variables defined. How can find if they are used anywhere in the ISM ? I want to remove variables if they are unused.
I am using Installshield 11.5 Adminstudio.
Thanks in Advance.
---Sambhaji
I wrote a program that did something similar only it was looking for unused string table entries. You can read about it at:
Use Linq to XML to Clean up ISString Tables
It would only take a few tweaks to change the query to look at the table that holds ISPathVariables.
Sambhaji,
ISM files may be binaries or XML, make sure you are using the XML format.
I'm not sure if the option is the same in InstallShield 11.5, but in InstallShield 12, you have to go to General Information-->Project Properties-->Project File Format.
I understand that the Binary format is a bit faster than XML, but in order to keep my projects under version control I prefer the XML format.
There is one simple way to find references of variable or properties.
Go to Additional Tools -> Direct Editor -> Tables
Just click on Tables and press Ctrl+F (Search option). And type the variable/property you want to search & hit enter.
It will show the reference of variables/properties. Press F3 to see next occurances.
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The usual IDEs/editors for MMT (e.g. IntelliJ + MMT plugin or jEdit) feature an autocompletion feature for certain useful Unicode characters. For instance, I can type jle and immediately get suggested jleftrightarrow that, upon autocompletion, is replaced by ↔.
Is there a way to find out the reverse association? E.g. I have the symbol ☞ at hand and would like to know the autocompletion abbreviation starting with j — if it exists. For that hand, I would get juri.
The MMT OnlineTools I developed allow this: https://comfreek.github.io/mmteditor.
See screenshot below: if you already have a string full of Unicode symbols that you don't know how to type, just paste it under "how do I type X?". And if you are looking for a specific abbreviation — by Unicode character or by (parts of its) name — use the "abbreviation search" feature.
Internally, my tools pulls from (a copy of) the same resource file that Dennis linked in his answer.
As far as I know, there currently isn't a good way to look up or search for the ASCII abbreviations, except to go straight for the source — which at least has the advantage that it's guaranteed to be up-to-date.
The IDE plugins all have access to an mmt.jar and load their abbreviations from a specific resource file embedded therein. You can find it here on GitHub: https://github.com/UniFormal/MMT/blob/master/src/mmt-api/resources/unicode/unicode-latex-map.
In the long term, we should consider extending that file with a third "field" that gives a short description, and e.g. have a text field in IntelliJ to search for a specific abbreviation.
I want to search all programs - within a package - that use the statement:
modify itab_xyz from wa_itab_xyz
Preferably, the string should be searched with wild cards like itab*
for a range of itab_(values) like itab_abc, itab_def, itab_ghi
etc..
How do i do this in SAP ABAP?
Below is a screenshot of all programs within a package one can search from.
One possibility would be to use program RS_ABAP_SOURCE_SCAN.
You can restrict the selection by package and you can also enter a specific string to search for in the code.
I use the transaction code_scanner (program is afx_code_scanner).
The biggest problem with this program and the RS_ABAP_SOURCE_SCAN provided above is that they won’t find everything. IMO the most important missing component to them is implicit enhancements. They can be very impactful to system functions, and if you are searching for an error message or hard coded value skipping them could mean not finding something critical.
At the time I looked (about 7 years ago), I was unable to find a delivered tool that would actually scan all the code in the system. I ended up enhancing the code_scanner to look for enhancements, WDA components, BSP code, and forms code.
I don’t know if the open source component above includes those. At first glance it doesn’t seem to, but I don’t have time to really dig into it.
You could use a tool from the Galileo-Open Source library. This program searches ABAP Source, OTR-Texts, Message and Textpools for static Text, wildcard patterns or regex patterns.
ABAP-Coding:
https://github.com/galileo-group/galileo-abap-lib/blob/master/%23gal%23devtools_find_text.prog.abap
Textpool:
https://github.com/galileo-group/galileo-abap-lib/blob/master/%23gal%23devtools_find_text.prog.xml
It refers to some additional classes from the library, so you either need to copy these as well or just use ABAPgit to get the whole library. You can also contact me, so I can send you a transport containing the library.
Additional information (October 1, 2020):
I created a version of the report that you can copy/paste to the ABAP editor. It is too long to include it in the response, but you can find it here.
Do not forget to copy the text elements / selection texts.
Required Text Elements:
-----------------------
B00 Scope
B01 Search pattern
H01 Type
H02 Name
H03 Key
H04 Match
Required Selection Texts:
-------------------------
P_CASE Case-sensitive
P_DEVC Package
P_LANGU Language
P_MESS Messages
P_OTR OTR Texts
P_PATT Pattern
P_REGEX Regular expression
P_SOURCE ABAP sources
P_TPOOL Textpools
P_WILDC Wildcard pattern
I am working on a Java MVC app, and jdeveloper is the office-mandated IDE that I am using. All I want to do is search for strings (not the data type "string", just a string of characters) that contain underscores (for example, table names or field names like "TABLE_NAME" or "FIELD_NAME"). Unfortunately, it appears that the underscores are not taken into the search (if I search for FIELD_NAME it will return no results, even though I know that the string appears in the code numerous times). Is there a way for me to search for something like FIELD_NAME in this version of jdeveloper?
11g R2 (11.1.2.3.0)
Like Nick says in the comment, this should just work.
Possibly you have messed with some setting in the Search popup.
Make sure you are searching on the correct file types
Make sure you are searching in the correct Application or project
Be sure to check the option menu at the bottom and set (your) correct settings
I have a file variable in d3 pick basic and I am trying to figure out what file it corresponds to.
I tried the obvious thing which was to say:
print f *suppose the file variable's name is f in this case
but that didn't work, because:
SELECTION: 58[B34] in program "FILEPRINTER", Line 7: File variable used
where string expression expected.
I also tried things like:
list f *didn't compile
execute list dict f *same error
execute list f *same error
but those also did not work.
In case any one is wondering, the reason I am trying to do this in the first place is that there is a global variable that is passed up and down in the code base I am working with, but I can't find where the global variable gets its value from.
That file pointer variable is called a "file descriptor". You can't get any information from it.
You can use the file-of-files to log Write events, and after a Write is performed by the code, check to see what file was updated. The details for doing this would be a bit cumbersome. You really should rely on the Value-Add Reseller or contract with competent assistance for this.
If this is not a live end-user system, you can also modify an item getting written with some very unique text like "WHAT!FILE!IS!THIS?". Then you can do a Search-System command to search the entire account (or system) to find that text. See docs for proper use of that command.
This is probably the best option... Inject the following:
IF #USER = "CRISZ" THEN ; * substitute your user ID
READU FOO FROM F,"BLAH" ELSE
DEBUG
RELEASE F,"BLAH"
END
END
That code will stop only for one person - for everyone else it will flow as normal. When it does stop, use the LIST-LOCKS command to see which file has a read lock for item "BLAH". That's your file! Don't forget to remove and recompile the code. Note that recompiling code while users are actively using it results in aborts. It's best to do this kind of thing after hours or on a test system.
If you can't modify the code like that, diagnostics like this can be difficult. If the above suggestions don't help, I think this challenge might be beyond your personal level of experience yet and recommend you get some help.
If suggestion here Does help, please flag this as the answer. :)
I'm using Doxygen to generate documentation for my code. I need to make a PDF version of this and using Doxygen's LaTeX output appears to be the way to do it.
However I've run into a number of annoying problems, and not knowing anything about LaTeX previously haven't really got much of an idea on how to approach them, and the countless references for LaTeX related things are not much help...
I worked out how to create a custom style thing in a sty file and how to get Doxygen to use it. After a lot of searching I found out how to set the page margins etc. through this, and I'm guessing the perhaps this is the file I want for doing the other things I want, but I cant seem to find any commands for doign what I want :(
The table of contents at the start of the document contains a lot of items Id rather it didn't as it makes the contents very long. Is there some way to limit this contents to just say the first two levels, rather than having entries for every single individual function, variable, etc.? Id quite like to keep all the bookmarks however. I did try the "COMPACT_LATEX" option but as well as removing items on the contents pages, it removed the bookmarks and the member lists at the start of each section, which I do really want to keep.
Is there a way to change the order of things, like putting the full class description at the start of the section, rather than after all the members and attributes?
Wow, that's kind of evil of Doxygen.
Okay, to get around the tocdepth counter problem, add the following line to your .sty file:
\AtBeginDocument{\setcounter{tocdepth}{2}}% or whatever level you want
You can set the PDF bookmarks depth to a separate value:
% requires you \usepackage{hyperref} first
\hypersetup{
bookmarksdepth = section, % of whatever level you want
}
Also note that if you have a list of figures/tables, the tocdepth must be at least 2 for them to show up.
I don't see any way of rearranging those items within the LaTeX files---Doxygen just barfs them out there, so we can't do much. You'll have to poke around the Doxygen documentation to see if there's any way to specify the order I guess. (Here's hoping!)
You're so close.
Googling on "latex contents level" brought me to LaTeX - customizing the depth of the table of contents for different parts of the thesis which suggests
\setcounter{tocdepth}{n}
where n starts at zero for only the highest level division. This is presumable defined in all the default styles, but is worth a try in doxygen.
You could write a Perl/Awk script to simply delete the unwanted lines from the table of contents. For the file burble.tex, Latex will generate the file burble.toc, which will contain lines such as:
\contentsline {subsection}{Class F rewrites}{38}
\contentsline {subsection}{Class M rewrites}{39}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {7}Definition and properties of the translation}{44}
\contentsline {paragraph}{Well-formedness}{54}
Simple regexes will identify which levels each line belongs to, and you can filter the file based on that. Once you have the table of contents the way you want it, insert \nofiles in the appropriate place (the style sheet?), which means that Latex will read the auxiliary files but not overwrite them.