Stack Version Comparison Tool

[Peter Haworth]

Thanks Bill - you're the first name on the list!
Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>



On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Bill Vlahos <bvlahos at mac.com> wrote:

> Pete,
>
> This sounds like a fantastic tool.  It is difficult to track all the
> little changes I make and if something gets broken I can roll back to a
> previous version but recreating the changes I want to keep is hard.
>
> Sign me up.
>
> Bill Vlahos
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jun 22, 2012, at 6:43 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>
> > I've been working on a tool to compare two versions of a stack file and
> > display the differences and plan to make it  available as shareware.  I'm
> > interested in some ideas about what it could do.
> >
> > So far, the workflow is:
> >
> > - Define an Application (just a name)
> > - Define a version of an application (app name, version string, path to
> > stack file)
> > - Specify an app version and have the tool load info about it
> > - Repeat previous step for other app versions
> > - Request comparison of two versions of the same Application
> >
> > The compare tool allows selection of differences of objects, scripts, and
> > properties.  In each case you can request things in V1 that are not in
> V2,
> > things that are in V2 that are not in V1, or things that are in both
> > versions but different in each one.  For properties, you can further
> select
> > either built-in or custom properties, or both.
> >
> > For scripts, I'm just listing the objects whose scripts qualify.  When a
> > scipt is present in both versions, I plan to allow selection of an
> object's
> > script, display both versions of it , and also hand them off to a diff
> run
> > to list the differences.  I know I can make that work on OS X, not sure
> how
> > to do it on Windows or Linux.
> >
> > For datagrids, I ignore all controls (but record the dgProps of the
> > datagrid) but record the the objects, scripts, and properties of the
> > datagrid's row template.
> >
> > It handles password protected stacks by givingh you thr choice of
> ignoring
> > them or prompting for the password.
> >
> > If you have any ideas about other things I could implement, please let me
> > know.  I have a feeling it would be possible to recreate a stack file
> but I
> > also have a feeling that would be opening up a huge can of worms so not
> > planning on going down that road just yet!
> >
> > I'll be looking for a few folks to do some beta testing on it for me
> soon.
> >
> > Pete
> > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
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