code printing utility

**Tom Shelton** · Nov 9 '07, 05:05 AM

Re: code printing utility

On Nov 8, 1:10 pm, cj <c...@nospam.no spamwrote:

I always have liked to print my code and look at it on paper. Used to
be I could print my code on nice tractor feed green bar paper. Now I
have to tape pages together. Oh well.
>
What really kills me is I used to use a utility called Snap in xbase
languages that drew lines connecting if, elses, endifs and other loops
etc so they were easy to see the nesting etc. Like this:
>
| +-if not (directory("i:\ cust"))
| | thisform.label1 .caption = 'network down, program exiting'
| | thisform.refres h()
| | wait "" timeout 3
<=========qui t
| +-endif
| mretval = thisform.ftpcon trol2.connect(f tpserver)
| thisform.label1 .caption = iif(mretval=0,' Succeeded','Fai led')
| thisform.refres h()
|
| +-if mretval=0
| | mretval = thisform.ftpcon trol2.changedir ectory('Rpt')
| | +-if mretval = 0
| | | thisform.label1 .caption = 'CWD Succeeded'
|
>
I know it's kind of a long shot but, does anyone know of anything that
will allow me to print VB.net code like this? I'm using a ruler and pen
now!

Hmm... I used to use coderush from devexpress - and it would do
something like that in the ide (actually the code flow visualization
was excelent). What I can't remember is if it would print with that
stuff....

You could check it out over at http://www.devexpress.com

--
Tom Shelton

cj · Nov 9 '07, 03:25 PM

Re: code printing utility

Thanks, I'll check into it as soon as I get a bit of time. If this can
do it on the screen I might be able to use it like that too. Snap never
did it on the screen--well you could view it there but it wasn't like
you could edit the code and expect it to work because you'd have to
remove all those ASCII lines. Snap had many options for standardizing
indentation and capitalization etc and would write a prg file back that
you could compile as well as a report file with the lines etc for
printing. VB is quite nice in most respects but I sure do miss being
able to hang a program up on my cork board in a couple strings of fan
folded paper with the lines on them and stand back and see groups of
code mark it up with my highlighters and decide what needs to go where
before changing the code in the ide.

Tom Shelton wrote:

On Nov 8, 1:10 pm, cj <c...@nospam.no spamwrote:

>I always have liked to print my code and look at it on paper. Used to
>be I could print my code on nice tractor feed green bar paper. Now I
>have to tape pages together. Oh well.
>>
>What really kills me is I used to use a utility called Snap in xbase
>languages that drew lines connecting if, elses, endifs and other loops
>etc so they were easy to see the nesting etc. Like this:
>>
> | +-if not (directory("i:\ cust"))
> | | thisform.label1 .caption = 'network down, program exiting'
> | | thisform.refres h()
> | | wait "" timeout 3
><=========qu it
> | +-endif
> | mretval = thisform.ftpcon trol2.connect(f tpserver)
> | thisform.label1 .caption = iif(mretval=0,' Succeeded','Fai led')
> | thisform.refres h()
> |
> | +-if mretval=0
> | | mretval = thisform.ftpcon trol2.changedir ectory('Rpt')
> | | +-if mretval = 0
> | | | thisform.label1 .caption = 'CWD Succeeded'
> |
>>
>I know it's kind of a long shot but, does anyone know of anything that
>will allow me to print VB.net code like this? I'm using a ruler and pen
>now!

>
Hmm... I used to use coderush from devexpress - and it would do
something like that in the ide (actually the code flow visualization
was excelent). What I can't remember is if it would print with that
stuff....
>
You could check it out over at http://www.devexpress.com
>
--
Tom Shelton
>

**Mythran** · Nov 9 '07, 05:35 PM

Re: code printing utility

"cj" <cj@nospam.nosp amwrote in message
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Thanks, I'll check into it as soon as I get a bit of time. If this can do
it on the screen I might be able to use it like that too. Snap never did
it on the screen--well you could view it there but it wasn't like you
could edit the code and expect it to work because you'd have to remove all
those ASCII lines. Snap had many options for standardizing indentation
and capitalization etc and would write a prg file back that you could
compile as well as a report file with the lines etc for printing. VB is
quite nice in most respects but I sure do miss being able to hang a
program up on my cork board in a couple strings of fan folded paper with
the lines on them and stand back and see groups of code mark it up with my
highlighters and decide what needs to go where before changing the code in
the ide.
>

Old school man...old school...brings back memories... :)

Mythran

-- An abacus is a few pieces of wood that can count faster than you. - Me

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