I also posted this on the SourceGear Vault Gold Support website but I think few VFP users who also use Vault visit the Vault forum...

VFP9 SP1 and the latest version of Vault. I know the IDE is not supported but my questions have to do with historical copies of files and files used for diff programs.

I am using GKK Compare for the diff program in Vault (actually/coding testing now). I can now call the GKKCompare.EXE fine and Vault passes the left and right filenames to it. I can load both files fine as long as I can tell the file type and determine what type of comparision to do.

My question is related to the type of file Vault passes to the diff program. For example, if it is a form I am comparing, the working copy of the form contains two files: the .scx and the .sct files (for example: myform.scx and myform.sct).

When I check out the form, both files are checked out as they should be. The backup files in _sgvault for previous versions could be named anything though such as 190982.1238 and 234388.1234 I cannot determine how the backup files are related/associated to other files. In other words, if the form is myform.scx/myform.sct, how do I know that when vault passes 108235.180184 for the filename of the backup of the .scx that the associated file I need to also open is 110278.155867 as the .sct? Is there anyway or place to easily determine that myform.scx is 108235.180184 and myform.sct is 110278.155867?

Next question: when EXACTLY and WHY is an .sca created? It appears that an .SCA is only created when a new form is added. Is that true? Is there anyway to have vault always create a corresponding .sca file and pass that filename to the diff program for comparison? I can convert an .sca to a sct and an scx for comparison purposes as an alternative solution.

It appears that a .vca is created for every class (vcx/vct files), but not an .sca for every form (scx/sct files).

Thanks in advance,
Tracy