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Current scctext text generator replacement
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Source Safe Control
Title:
Current scctext text generator replacement
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows 7
Network:
Windows 2008 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Application:
Desktop
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Thread ID:
01599986
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01599986
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What are people using in vfp 9 for a replacement for the built-in scctext.prg that translates binary files in vfp to a textual representation?

We’ve moving an existing project that’s in vfp 9 sp1 into tfs source control, but we need a way to make sure that the non-textual files are able to get the benefits of comparison that only non-binary text files allow. We plan to check both the textual representation and the binary file into source control (the binary is more for the “just in case” scenario)

According to the document at

http://www.ita-software.com/papers/Borup_Mercurial_Published.pdf

there are at least three options for converting .scx, .frx, .lbx, .prj and other non-prg dbf files in visual foxpro (vfp) to a textual representation. Only some of them allow for converting the textual information back to binary - not sure how often we’d really use that or not.

ALTERNATE SCCTEXT
This one seems older with latest version in 2009 - not sure if it’s still the preferred tool - and it seems to have no way to take the textual representation and convert it back to a binary file.

http://vfpx.codeplex.com/releases/view/12955

TWOFOX
This one seems similar to the foxbin2prg except it creates xml files - seems like only one dev is working on it unlike the others that are open to contributions from others so not sure how current it is and how much it’s being used by other developers - it does have two way conversion like fox2binprg has.

http://www.foxpert.com/downloads.htm

FOXBIN2PRG
This one is fairly recent - but not sure if it’s production ready enough to use for prod coding working - it does have two way conversion

http://vfpx.codeplex.com/releases/view/116407

TRIGGER INVOKE ONE OF THE ABOVE ON CHANGE OF BINARY FILES IN VFP IDE
What are people using to invoke these textual representation options?

I’ve seen this class that was created to run one of the programs listed above for all files in the project. Apparently it does it when the date time of the last generate is older that the date time on the textual version of the file. One detriment I’ve read is that it generates for foundation classes and other things that really are not items that a dev is working on (code that is referenced by but not included in your project).

http://codepaste.net/9yy1gm

Thanks for any advice from those that are using vfp 9 with source control out there!
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