Find unused windows in project

General
1

The windows in our projects have all the prefix “Win…”.
Any ideas how to find all unused windows easily?

2

Search for each Window and if you only see one entry in the results list, it’s not used…

3

I change the window name and compile:
if no error, then that window is unused.

4

[quote=344681:@Emile Schwarz]I change the window name and compile:
if no error, then that window is unused.[/quote]
This works. But (always a but, no?), if you have platform specific windows you’ll have to do a compile or remote debug for each target platform. Thank thing goes with methods, properties, etc that might have target ‘include in’ attributes.

5

As I have about 500 windows in my project I hoped there might be an easy (not so time-consuming) way to find unused windows :-/.
Thanks shao and Emile for you suggestions. Searching also has always been my method to find unused windows.

6

Save it as XML,
write a program to read that XML and extract all the Window Names
then do a 2nd pass to find how many times those window names are referenced

(Note that is a simplistic explanation, but it is quite doable, and would be reusable code if done correctly).

For a fee, I’d be glad to design/write it for you… :slight_smile:

7

what if they are referenced in code that never gets compiled in ?
ie/

#if false
     dim w as windows = window3
#endif

that should not count as Window3 as “used”
and things can get a lot more elaborate than this

8

[quote=344793:@Dave S]Save it as XML,
write a program to read that XML and extract all the Window Names
then do a 2nd pass to find how many times those window names are referenced

(Note that is a simplistic explanation, but it is quite doable, and would be reusable code if done correctly).

For a fee, I’d be glad to design/write it for you… :)[/quote]

Thanks for the hint but I think I’ll write it by myself ;-).

9

Whaoooooo !

10

Can’t you use Containers instead of new windows? Are all 500 unique?

11

All windows are unique.
Meanwhile I wrote a little app just like Dave described.

12

I’ve seen ones that have > 1000 windows that have > 1000 controls on a majority of windows
And 1000’s of menus bars
And thousands of containers
All in the same project

One takes nearly 15 minutes to load

13

[quote=344895:@Norman Palardy]I’ve seen ones that have > 1000 windows that have > 1000 controls on a majority of windows
And 1000’s of menus bars
And thousands of containers
All in the same project

One takes nearly 15 minutes to load[/quote]
That project is called Xojo? :wink:

14

The IDE isn’t anywhere like that

This was a customer project submitted wondering why the IDE took so long to load their project