Re[2]: [CEDET-devel] cogre diff + questions about linking/unlinking overlays

[Eric M. L. <er...@si...>]

>>> Joakim Verona <jo...@ve...> seems to think that:
>"Eric M. Ludlam" <er...@si...> writes:
>
>>>>> Joakim Verona <jo...@ve...> seems to think that:
>> The problem with the -link- functions is that they assume that the
>> tags are to be linked to the current buffer.  A bit of an oversight in
>> the API it appears.
>
>hmm oki, that probably explains it...
>
>> The code needed to fix it involves using semanticdb-find calls to
>> search out tags with those names in the project.  The tags in the
>> saved UML nodes would then be completely replaced with the found ones.
>> At the time I wrote that code, there was no good way to do this which
>> is why I didn't.  I hadn't thought of just re-linking them.
>
>the good thing with that aproach would be that the graph would
>assimilate changes in for instance method declarations in the original
>source, no? The code could also be used to make a working "refresh"
>function I guess, that re-creates the uml graph from changed sources.

Yup.  A useful feature indeed.

>> It seems to me that the semantic API needs a way to also save the
>> originating file name.  I'll have to think up a way to allow tags to
>> be saved/restored by external applications.
>
>A further benefit of that is that it would ease round-trip editing I
>guess. For instance, It might be convenient to use the graph to prototype a
>number of classes. Each node could have manually entered tags,
>including filenames. Then sources could be generated to files, from
>the graph. And then sources could be changed and the graph refreshed
>and so on...

And that is one of my end goals.  All that's left to write is the code
generation framework, a tag refresher, and the appropriate user
interface elements to allow improved graph editing... preferably
in-line.

Eric 

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