Understand

What keeps you close to a computer and helps it understand your input are dozens of well-written lines of code. With the amount of variety of programming languages available it's now only a matter of choice for developers. However, the code also needs to be analyzed and checked for errors and bundled up into a working form, task which falls into the hands of applications like Understand.

Whether or not you're familiar with coding, the application is cleverly designed to get you quickly up and running. The interface is well-built, with a slightly customizable workspace, as well as tab support for easier navigation through your projects and corresponding objects.

Further adding to the overall practicality of the application, is the abundance of supported programming languages. These range from C / C++, Java, Pascal, Python, Ada to VHDL and web based languages like CSS, HTML, Javascript or PHP.

You can configure each language, depending on the one you use. This comes in handy because you can open large projects made out of multiple objects, or single files to get analyzed. Depending on selected entries, they become available for configuration it the settings window, with options for compilers, optimization, or customizable macros.

The application comes equipped with a syntax highlighter for easy identification of project elements. This is further enhanced by the possibility to expand functions or restrain them. What's more, you can use a search engine in order to find or replace specific text strings.

Once you decide upon a project, it gets thoroughly analyzed, with a few configurable settings available. You can include custom filters if there are more files in your project, fill in an ignores list for fast processing, or pick the type of task to be performed.

The result is cleverly generated, with the built-in tab support displaying values in corresponding tabs according to various filters. Moreover, the result can be exported to HTML or CSV, as well as directly print it on a sheet of paper.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Understand is a powerful IDE developers can use to thoroughly analyze projects. Flexibility is a strong point, with a customizable interface and support for commonly used popular languages. You easily get acquainted with its features, making the application worth at least a try.