C++ code visualization

Question

A sort of follow up/related question to this.

I\'m trying to get a grip on a large code base that has hundreds and hundreds of classes and a large inheritance hierarchy.

Answer 1

What's your definition of 'main vein'? You either want a graph reducer or skeletizer (you could find or write one and apply it to what Doxygen and the rest produce) or, 'main vein' has something to do with the function of the code and, I don't think an automated tool can help you with that. Unless you can point out to it 'These are the important bits that do input and output, show me only elements that are one or two steps away from the paths between these'. Hum, sounds like a cool tool to write :)

... the inheritance hierarchy, in some kind of collapsible view.

again, a sweet idea for a tool!