ScottA opened this issue on Jan 24, 2002 ยท 27 posts
brycetech posted Thu, 24 January 2002 at 9:19 AM
Attached Link: http://www.brycetech.com/stufftodelete/help.html
yep I am making this. Have been for a while. This is NOT as easy as you think it is. there are virtual directories, absolute directories, multiple file types, multiple "configuration" differences, huge file sizes, the text files are not the same, delimiters are not easily assigned, links must be verified, files must have not been moved....etc etc I stopped work on it for the Eovia show and to let me do other things for a bit. the last thing I added to it was an intelligent editor. If it finds a broken link, you can simply double click on the broken link and that file will open and automatically open the 'replace' feature of the program's editor and even offer a suggestion for the replace (if it can find one) or you can set it up to open your personal editor. The intelligent 'replace' works with itself and Wordpad only. I dont trust its own editor, so thats the reason its not out there for people to play with...and its windows only. I use this to package my models. It verifies that I have indeed packaged all I'm supposed to and zips it in standard zip format (so winzip, pkunzip, and other do open it) I have a small directory (~4 gigs) that I let it check all the file links in (takes several hours tho even at that). People with large directories (like Lee Alverson), itd take a day to check links in. it takes time for an app to read all of the files, locate the files, make sure they exist..find missing links and more. My app currently can find broken links within the poser directory and files to be distributed. But damm its a lot of programming for just that because of all of the possibilities that have to be covered. Then there are user differences. I have the thing working perfectly for me, but then I put it in beta and see that others will not use it the same way, so its back to the drawing board to allow for 'user' differences. anyhow, there's a flash preview online. http://www.brycetech.com/stufftodelete/help.html take a few minutes and look at all it does. The tutorial there does not illustrate all the features. If I'd just disable its own editor (so it could never be used), I could put it up now...(I think) But, beta stopped when one person was having a very hard time and I decided to see if I could reproduce the problems and make it more intuitive. BT