Good points about the modify & merge, etc. Having said that, VFP menu metadata is even odder than SCX/VCXs so I'm not quite sure if the ability to regenerate the DBF (MNX) would create a functional menu. But just like using Rich Schumer's HackCX tool, it could come in handy using your very fine tools.
Just to make it (hopefully) a little more clear, let's say I have 2 or more menus and they are mostly the same. My idea was to be able to look at each BAR and see how many PADs are on each bar, perhaps even compare the commands or procedure code so I know which items need to be added to or deprecated from my new master menu.
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-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Fernando D. Bozzo Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 12:13 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: VFP menu documentation utility?
Hi Richard,
I may do not understand well what you need exactly.
With scctextx you can only "compare" (readonly), while with foxbin2prg you can "compare, modify the text or merge and regenerate the binary", which scctextx can't do.
But, if you preffer to do it with programming, then that's ok. You started asking for a way of comparing options, and this is one way to do it with merging capabilities, like in git.
Regards.-
2016-06-16 16:52 GMT+02:00 Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com:
Thanks, Fernando. I pretty much have something similar going with SCCTEXTX and my diffing tool of choice. I'm sure your utils are a bit more elegant but I'm in get it done mode at the moment. : - )
What I was thinking of writing was a bit more menu specific using things like PRMPAD() and CNTPAD() etc. Dump stuff into arrays, parse them out and comp the results.
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-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Fernando D. Bozzo Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 10:18 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: VFP menu documentation utility?
If you want to compare menus, then you can use FoxBin2Prg to convert them to Text (.MN2) and compare using a good tool like Meld, Beyond Compare, WinMerge or any other.
With FoxBin2Prg there is a utility included called FB2P_DIFF.exe, which allows you to just run it and drag & drop your menus (MNX) to the input filename boxes to do a quick compare using WinMerge Portable (also included) without the need to setup anything else. Inside FB2P_DIFF.exe you can configure other DIFF utils (it have Beyond Compare v2 preconfigured too, in case you have it installed)
You can download from VFPx: https://vfpx.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=FoxBin2prg
Try it and comment here about if was useful to you,
Best Regards.-
2016-06-16 16:06 GMT+02:00 Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com:
I have some similar menus and I'm looking for a way to tell which menu options might be unique to one or the other so I can build a single consolidated menu.
I've already forged ahead by diffing MPR/MNAs. It's a bit noisy as VFP assigns sys(2015) values to each proc so there are a lot of irrelevant differences to wade through. But I'm impatient... : - )
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rk -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Fernando D. Bozzo Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 9:40 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: VFP menu documentation utility?
Hi Richard:
You want to compare VFP menus to what exactly? to older versions?
2016-06-16 15:05 GMT+02:00 Richard Kaye rkaye@invaluable.com:
I want to compare some VFP menus; bars, pads, etc. I know there are a number of native functions I can string together to do this but before
I
reinvent the wheel I thought I'd check with the collective wisdom to
see
if
anyone here has already built my utility for me. : - )
TIA
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