| The help documentation has been updated to reflect the many new features in Understand 2.5. There are several fixes to the graphs. Several enhancements to the dependency features. |  |
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As of build 523, the .udb extension on Windows is associated with Understand and when a .udb file is double clicked it will open the Understand Project. Some users have asked for similar functionality with code files. In the past if you setup Understand to open a code file, by default it would open a new instance of Understand. As of build 525 it will open up in the existing instance of Understand instead of a new one. Keep reading for instructions on registering Understand to open code files.
You can now analyze PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript files with Understand. Just select “Web” In the New Project Wizard and add your files.
We’re excited about this new feature and would like your feedback, please let us know what you think or if you run into any problems.
Use the Project Portability button (Project->Configure Project->Files) to make your project sharable/portable.
We’ve developed a UML Class Diagram for Understand. You can grab it from the plugins page.
As of build 516 If you are editing a code file you can quickly switch to the corresponding header file and back again with Ctrl+’ (apostrophe).
Last month, we decided to temporarily close the forum. We have finished setting up a new forum and are “open for business” again.
We are focusing the new forum on Understand 2.5 so are not migrating the content from the old forum. If you need to access old posts for some reason you can temporarily find them here.
You will need to create a new user account, and to prevent spam, all new user registrations are reviewed before you can post the first time. We apologize for the initial inconvenience but feel it will make the forum much more useable for everyone in the long run.
You can access the forum on the support page of the website, or here:
Refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior. Its heart is a series of small behavior preserving transformations. Each transformation (called a ‘refactoring’) does little, but a sequence of transformations can produce a significant restructuring. Since each refactoring is small, it’s less likely to go wrong. The system is also kept fully working after each small refactoring, reducing the chances that a system can get seriously broken during the restructuring. — Martin Fowler http://www.refactoring.com/
In other words, refactoring is making your code cleaner, safer, and easier to use. Understand can be a very powerful tool in your re-factoring arsenal. Here are a few ways you can use Understand in your refactoring process.
Understand has many different metrics, including a large number that focus on counting the number of statements and lines of code, including Lines of Code (LOC or SLOC), Lines with Comments (CLOC), empty lines (BLOC), Number of Statements, Number of Executable Statements, etc.
The short C/C++ example below shows how each line and statement contribute to these metrics in Understand. You can view the larger version here.
We have made a lot of changes to the licensing in Understand 2.5. How does this affect you?
As always, as long as your maintenance is up-to-date, there is no cost for the new version of Understand, we just need to generate a new license for you. The dialog that pops up when you start Understand has three options for getting that new license, whichever you choose, we will get the license to you quickly and without any hassle.
What if your maintenance is not current? You can still use any of these options, and we will get you a quote for getting back up-to-date. Also, the 2.5 install does not overwrite your previous version, so you can continue to use Understand 2.0 with your previous license.
