Journal #12 | saoe: The Nifty Oddity

Journal #12

Posted 2022-03-11 · Updated 2024-06-01

Since the last DevLog, I was not totally unproductive – here’s a digest of the most noteworthy changes…

Updated cmdlet: New-saoeHTMLHelp now adds a filtering search bar to the generated HTML page.
New cmdlet: Show-saoeConsoleColors
New cmdlet: Find-saoeTextInFiles
New cmdlet: Trace-saoeFunctionUsage
New cmdlet: New-saoeIncludeGuard
New cmdlet: Test-saoeADDirectoryPermissions
Cleaned up the module a bit, restructured a few things (see Git history for details).

New script: check-urls-in-text-files.py scans a directory hierarchy and checks whether the URLs within the text files are still reachable (that was already very helpful for this very website, to weed out some dead links).
Created a basic package/module, where I can collect my own helper functions and other utilities in the future; similar to my Powershell module mentioned above and also named saoe.
New script: setup_package.py. In support for the module/package, I also wrote a script that prepares and then installs such a package in the user site-package directory (it can also generate Doxygen documentation from it).
New script: build_readme.py. Another helper script that generates a ReadMe.md file with some basic description of the functions of a given local module/package (also very similar in concept to the script I previously wrote in and for my Powershell modules); see result.

And last, but certainly not least – The Nifty Oddity Toolkit (TNOT):

New class: Stopwatch
New class: Log
Additionally, I restructured it again a bit; and while at it, touched-up and updated a few things (nothing major, though).
Improved and expanded the Doxygen documentation for it.

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