Do you like to get statistics on your code?

Add-Ons
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Someone asked me if I could add a feature to Arbed to provide some simple stats about a project, such as the number of total lines of code.

I could do better - Arbed’s rich scripting feature allowed me to write a script that collects the code stats in just a few minutes.

Currently, it counts:

  • Total number of methods (including Event handlers)
  • Total number of code lines
  • Total number of comment lines
  • Total number of empty code lines

To try it out, launch Arbed (get the latest beta if you’re using Xojo), open a project of yours in Arbed and then open and run this script:

http://files.tempel.org/Arbed/beta/1.7.0/b18/Statistics.arbs

How does that work for you?

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Update: Now it also counts the number of distint lines (i.e. the same line in several methods count as one).

Oh, and here’s the stats of my biggest projects:

  • Find Any File: 20000 code lines (11000 distinct ones)
  • iBored: 19000 code lines (10000 distinct ones)
  • iClip: 26000 code lines (14000 distinct ones)
  • Arbed: 55000 code lines (31000 distinct ones)
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Obviously we use http://www.bkeeney.com/rb-code-reports/. Our latest Web Edition consulting project has over 300 WebPages, 250 WebContainers, 150 non-UI classes, and over 97,000 lines of non-comment code. :slight_smile:

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Just for perspective if you think Arbed is big & complex

The IDE metrics
Methods: 18744
Code lines: 181979

No wonder we have a hard time finding leaks :stuck_out_tongue:

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Yeah, but I’ve been writing all this code by myself :stuck_out_tongue: (oh, not in iClip’s case, there I’ve taken over and only wrote about a third new myself)

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Rather than try to prove how big our code is, I’ll just say thanks to both Thomas and Bob for providing the functionality!

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Thomas, the script works nicely, but for some reason, I am unable to quite Arbed either from the menu or command key. Must force-quit. Mac OS X 10.8.5,

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Thomas, This sounds cool - I tried Arbed for the first time, but it choked on my .rbvcp format project. I emailed you the log.

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My apologies for corrupting Thomas’ thread. Was just throwing statistics of one of our really big projects that’s been over a year in development.

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Didn’t mean to be snarky, Bob; just (trying to be) amusing…

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you might want to enhance this to recognize “.XOJO_XML_PROJECT” as a valid extension… just an idea.

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It’s on the list. :slight_smile:

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Great addition Thomas! I didn’t realize that I leave too many spaces in my code for ease of reading… :slight_smile: Its nice to see all of the stats built into to Arbed since I use your tool everyday.

Thanks

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Dammit. Is this with b18?
Are you on Windows? Others have reported this as well, and some of it was due to leaks, but I thought I’ve found them all.

Would you please do some more tests for me:

  • Can you reproduce it? If you did more than just open the project and run the script, then one of those other steps might be the reason for the issue.
  • Does it happen with other projects as well?
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strange… i have the same Mac OSX 10.8.5 and don’t have problem quitting Arbed.

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Oh, did Peter write he was using OSX? I should read more carefully. Always getting too excited when hearing about those pesky bugs.

Usually, quitting shouldn’t be a problem. In fact, my app uses “App.Autoquit = true”, and I assume that in Peter’s case all windows are already closed, yet the program won’t quit, right? I’ve seen this happening a few times myself, but there’s simply nothing I can do about it, because my program wants to quit but something in Xojo’s Runtime prevents it. And it’s not like I can just write a bug report that this doesn’t work reliably. I need a reproducible method for this, and then probably spend hours on reducing my code that I can send to Xojo, and then wait another releases or two until it gets fixed. Sigh.

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What the difference between “Code lines” and the parenthetical “distinct ones”?

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great, it works well :slight_smile:
(Xojo 2013 3.2.1 Binary project Mac OS X 10.8.5)

there is a feature to find unused methods? (and isolate / remove)

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Methods: 12833
Code lines: 360739 (153900 distinct ones)

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Isn’t this explanation clear?

Distinct lines means lines that are distinct from other lines.

Example:

a = 0 a = 1 a = 0

This containts two distinct lines. Makes sense? If distinct is not the right term, what is?

Dirk, jackpot! :slight_smile:

Olivier, the “find unused methods” has to be put on the back burner after all the work I had to do recently to support Xojo and the constant VCP format changes. It’ll be a while (months) before I get back to it, I’m afraid.