Application Planner

[Daz]

Hi everyone.

I having taken on a large project (set by myself), and I can never
seem to plan out my functions, classes, variables etc... in a format
that's easy to read, and follow.

Would anyone know of some kind of application which will allow me to
"prototype" my application first? I am sure such a thing exists, I
just don't know what I am looking for. I think I am after something
along the lines of Microsoft Visio, but a bit simpler.

Thanks in advance.

Daz.

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

I having taken on a large project (set by myself), and I can never
seem to plan out my functions, classes, variables etc... in a format
that's easy to read, and follow.

It is possible that you have no classes at all because you develop only
client-side scripts. However, for the sake of modeling, the prototype
chain mechanism used there can be simplified to a class-like model.

Would anyone know of some kind of application which will allow me to
"prototype" my application first? I am sure such a thing exists, I
just don't know what I am looking for. I think I am after something
along the lines of Microsoft Visio, but a bit simpler.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language


PointedEars

 

[Daz]

It is possible that you have no classes at all because you develop only
client-side scripts. However, for the sake of modeling, the prototype
chain mechanism used there can be simplified to a class-like model.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language

PointedEars

The UML model. Excellent. That's what I was after. Thanks.

 

[Daz]

The UML model. Excellent. That's what I was after. Thanks.

For anyone else with the same question, I found this page full of
tools to get the job done.

http://www.jeckle.de/umltools.htm

It's in German, but it's quite easy to understand.

 

[Peter Michaux]

The UML model. Excellent. That's what I was after. Thanks.

JavaScript can (relatively) easily use the "class inheritance" design
pattern but doesn't have it built-in like Java/C++/Smalltalk/Ruby do.
As far as I know, UML is very class-oriented so if you adhere to UML
it may limit the ways you use JavaScript compared with all the things
JavaScript can do better than it does class inheritance.

I wish I could suggest an alternative to you but I don't know of one.

Peter