Using --profile makes shake generate a report.html file from which one can run queries and generate a dependency graph of build rules. Would it be possible to get that graph in graphviz format instead of needing a browser to display it?
If you run --profile=report.json then you get a JSON file containing all the data that goes into the profiling. From that, it should be quite easy to generate a GraphViz output. If there is demand, a GraphViz generation mode could be added to --profile.
However, past experience suggests that a GraphViz file of all dependencies is just too large to be practically viewed. To make the graph view practical you either need to group/filter the graph, or use a better graph viewer.
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I am looking at how to implement PDF merging with raw VB code so that the code may be invoked by a bot for business process automation.
The software used to create the bot provides a function to invoke VB code, but I don't believe it can access any externally imported libraries because it expects plain source, so I essentially need to produce code that one could run in a VB shell environment without anything fancy (or convenient, it seems).
All the research I've done so far point me in the direction of external packages I would need to install, such as iText; this is what I'm looking to avoid.
(previous iText employee here)
PDF is not an easy (binary) format.
Essentially, blobs of information (text that has to be rendered, fonts, images, vector graphics, etc) are compressed and gathered into objects.
Each object gets a number. Objects are allowed to reference eachother (a piece of text might say 'I want to be rendered with font 4433')
All object numbers and their byte offset in the file are gathered in the crossreference (often called XREF) table.
A PDF includes a 'Pages' dictionary object that tells the viewer which objects belong on which page.
In order to merge PDF files, you would need to:
- read all XREF tables of all files
- adjust all of those to the correct byte offset
- update various dictionary objects within the PDF file that tell it where all the objects per page are kept
This is by no means a trivial task, but it can be done using only VB.
If you are serious about implementing a robust, scalable version of this of tool, perhaps it's better to look at the iText sourcecode and try to port it to VB?
I have an embedded C project which uses subversion for source control. I want to use Tessy for unit testing and have these tests archived in subversion too. However, it generates many small files which will make analysing diffs for the actual source code changes a real pain. Trying to actually look at the source changes when there are hundreds of Tessy related files changed will make it impossible.
Does anyone know if there is a setting to have these stored in a less problematic format or any suggestions for a viable solution? What would be ideal is if it could store everything as, for example, an xml file - this would make browsing directory diffs easier and would allow the actual content to be human readable as well.
Any ideas?
I know this is an old question ...
Does anyone know if there is a setting to have these stored in a less problematic format or any suggestions for a viable solution?
The TESSY recommended way is to do utilize the database save feature found under in File menu (and in a variety of right-click menu's). This creates a binary .tmb file which contains everything related to your tests. By default the .tmb file is stored in the backup directory in your Tessy Project folder. The config folder, backup folder and the PDBX file would then all be stored in SVN. See the Tessy Users Manual (Backup, restore, version control chapter) for more specifics.
What would be ideal is if it could store everything as, for example, an xml file - this would make browsing directory diffs easier and would allow the actual content to be human readable as well.
That would be ideal, but unfortunately is not really an option. Having everything stored as a binary file makes it impossible to do a useful diff. The other problem with this method is that it disconnects a change to the test from the file that is checked into SVN - unless the tester specifically performs a database save.
Yes I realize xUnit testing frameworks don't have those limitations, but Tessy has some features (like MCDC and DO178B support) that the xUnit frameworks do not have baked in.
So how do you work in this environment. Key word - Discipline.
We set up internal procedures for who and how tests gets updated. When the proecedures are followed we are able to deal with the limitations presented above. It is not optimal, but with some internal discipline it can work.
I have implemented a report in standard WPF controls and have also implemented a DocumentPaginator to take these controls and convert them into a document for printing.
I have also implemented some code which uses the document paginator to render the pages to images and write them out to a PDF using PDFSharp, however this does not allow for copying and pasting, also the image quality is questionable.
I have experimented with the GhostXPS utility and was thinking of using it by saving out to an XPS document and then using GhostXPS to convert it to a PDF, this was promising, however the current version contains a bug that renders data copied from the generated PDF useless...
So I thought I would ask here to try and find a efficient method for doing this, Can someone please suggest a good way to take a DocumentPaginator and either save it directly out to a PDF, with copy/paste functionality or convert it from an XPS document to a PDF with this functionality?
Thanks,
Alex.
EDIT - PDFSharp fix:
Ok as requested here is what I did to compile the fix for the PDFSharp 1.31 XPS converter:
1) I downloaded the source from here:
PDFSharp - SourceForge
2) I followed the instruction in this post:
PSFSharp Fix
XpsParser.ImageBrush.cs (ln 22, added): brush.Opacity = 1;
PdfContentWriter.cs (ln 526, changed): if (opacity <= 1)
3) Then just compile the source, first open the 'PdfSharp-WPF.csproj' and build that, then open the 'PdfSharp.Xps.csproj' and build it as well, the relevent libraries are 'PdfSharp-WPF.dll' and 'PdfSharp.Xps.dll'
Note upon trying to build the source you will likely receive a few errors depending on which version of .NET you are targeting, these are simple to fix if you just read the error messages.
EDIT(2): NJones created a blog post with more details on the PdfSharp fix: Output to PDF in WPF
There is an XPS Converter that was included with PDFsharp 1.31. It's a beta version, but AFAIK it supports nearly everything and may work for your needs.
PDFsharp 1.31 can be downloaded from SourceForge or CodePlex.
If a commercial SDK would be an option, there is one company I came across that has a professional XPS to PDF conversion option (and more).
http://www.nixps.com
Warning: I'm not affiliated with this company nor have I tried their products. I have on the other hand heard good things about them.
I use Telerik Reporting which handles document pagination and allows you to create reports in a designer similar to creating a GUI. I decided to just buy a 3rd party product because I didn't want to spend development time writing my own paginator, etc. Also, this tool is probably more bug proof then a custom solution and allows a lot of flexibility for how you want to design your printout/report. In the future if you have more complicated printing or reports required, this tool does a lot more. I do not work for Telerik, but there product is good.
It allows exporting to PDF, Word, Excel, HTML, PowerPoint, PNG, etc. etc.
IMHO, you've got the right idea: XPS is, in my mind, the simplest method of serializing the data into a usable format, especially for conversion.
As for a third party tool, I've a peer (as in, not myself,)who's used CheckPrixa with some measure of success; it's freeware and it offers command line conversions. (i.e. serializing a document and converting a la generated .bat file.)
It also allows you to handle keywords, titles, etc. along with more important items like even pagination.
As far as I'm aware, there are no known discrepancies.
Alternatively, if converting the MSXPS is what's giving you headaches, you might want to look at XpsConverter, it converts MSXPS to OpenXPS, and as a Window's driver, it's available on any machine using .NET 3 and above.
Keep us updated with whatever solution you try, virtual reports are a growing deal.
I'm not guru in DBA, so I'll try explain what I want in terms I imagine it.
I have Oracle DB with network devices. each device has ports which has parent device/port
I want some tool which will automaticaly create visual map of this device relations.
Will create "Network Map" based on this relations.
It's would be better if this tool will have some output ready for web publishing, or web based tool from the begging. Also if it will automatically update "picture" as soon as I add new relation/object
From far it looks something like Gource http://youtu.be/E5xPMW5fg48
But not exactly what i need
Hope to get some suggestion.
Thanks in advance!
UPD: found another tool: Gephi
You could try graphviz. It was created specifically for visualising large graphs of network nodes.
It's not out of the box; you'll have to write some code that:
Reads data on the devices & their relationships
Creates the graphviz input file
generates the diagram by calling the graphviz binary.
There are many ways to do that. One of the easiest is to use python with the pydot library.
Note that graphviz generates static images (jpeg / tiff etc.) so you'd have to regenerate on demand.
There are more interactive toolkits available, e.g. protovis / infovis. Both are javascript based and render directly in the browser.
hth.
I'm attempting to implement a Microsoft Pivot viewer within my application, I've decided that a cross between a JIT collection and Linked Collection is the best case however I'm having a few issues.
The images for the collection are generated by a C# Windows Service that runs overnight generating new images that are required.
The CXML file is then generated dynamically when the user request the data using a custom HttpHandler.
The issue is that with 10000+ items my development machine runs out of memory whilst trying to turn the generated png/jpg images into a DZC.
Is there a tool available that I could use to turn the images that I have into DZI images. I've looked at the Deep Zoom Composer, but I really need something that I can run overnight to convert the images, currently I have about 45,000 images that I need to convert, the Composer just locks up trying to do anything with that amount of images.
Ideally I would like to be able to create the DZI images directly using the service instead of creating png/jpg images first.
i could not see if you already had these tools or not but here goes nothing:
http://www.silverlight.net/archives/whitepapers/deep-zoom-tools
if you use these tools you can preprocess the images and use them later in your collection. if you need dynamic images you might want to take a look at the Silverligh 5 RC (of which the latest version includes the new pivotviewer). this new version converts your xaml into dzi at runtime and is a really cool control!