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    <p>These tools work with Delphi 7 and are of great help:</p> <ul> <li>the UML tool <a href="http://www.modelmakertools.com/modelmaker/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ModelMaker</a></li> <li>the refacotoring tool <a href="http://www.modelmakertools.com/code-explorer/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ModelMaker Code Explorer</a></li> <li>the documentation tool <a href="http://www.devjetsoftware.com/products/documentation-insight/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Documentation Insight</a> (<a href="http://www.devjetsoftware.com/products/documentation-insight/documentation-insight-update-v2-6-8-20/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">as of august 2012</a>)</li> </ul> <p>UML diagrams are a great way to get an overview of structure. How well that overview is, depends on how well the structure is.</p> <p>For taking over projects like these, I start with some basic documentation (often in <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5943320/what-is-markdown-and-why-is-it-better-for-my-to+do-lists-and-notes" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MarkDown format</a>, as that text based format is version control friendly, and generates nice HTML).</p> <p>To get that going, it helps if the original developers or/and some base documentation are still there.</p> <p>Then just start to:</p> <ul> <li>fix bugs / apply feature requests</li> <li>use ModelMaker to get a feel for overall structure</li> <li>use ModelMaker Code Explorer as a refactoring tool</li> <li>use Documentation Insight to document inside the source code (you can generate help files and web pages with the pro version, see <a href="http://www.devjetsoftware.com/products/documentation-insight/feature-matrix/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">feature matrix</a>)</li> <li>update my Markdown documents with any information that does not fit in the source code documentation well</li> </ul> <p>Note you can put some documentation in using Model Maker Code Explorer, but it can not be exported as help files, since it uses a different documentation format than Documentation Insight.</p> <p>So I agree with the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18243145/first-steps-to-reconstruct-the-architecture-in-a-delphi-7-project/18250685#comment26757588_18243145">comment</a> by <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/512728/jan-doggen">Jan Doggen</a> (thanks Jan!): just start. Make sure you have the right tools to help that going.</p>
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