Good Question Steve, I kind of shy away from good ol' DOS commands, thought without good = reason. Do people still use DOS commands? I do prefer keystroking to mousing. = But I'm not confident on how FC would work when DXBase adds a line to the DXB2004.ini file. Wouldn't FC show more lines not matching? The spreadsheet trick is real fast. I don't look for difference I do it by formula. I also don't have to copy and paste the DXB2004.ini file = anywhere. I just cut and past it. I'm more comfortable and confident with spreadsheets. I use them all of the time.
73, Art W2NRA Art Searle Director of Finance/Treasurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (631) 730-4084 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = On Behalf Of Steve Baron - KB3MM Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 3:48 PM To: Art Searle W2NRA; 'dxbase' Subject: Re: [DXBase] Window Positions Why not just use FC to compare the files ? ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Art Searle W2NRA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'dxbase'" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 14:13 Subject: RE: [DXBase] Window Positions > I have a junk version of DXBase 2004 that I can use to play with and = did > some tests on changes to the DXB2004.ini file. Here's what I did: > > 1) Copyied the unmodified DXB2004.ini file into a spreadsheet in = column A. > 2) Made a bunch of changes in DXBase 2004, including window size, = window > position, background colors and font colors. > 3) Copied the new DXB2004.ini file into the spreadsheet in column B. > 4) Using formulas compared the 2 columns. > > I wound up with 9 changes out of 1,105 line in the file. The changes = were > as follows: > > Original DXB2004.ini file > Line# > 79 DXINTAB=3D4 > 342 TextColor=3D0 255 0 > 349 Interior=3D0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > 479 TextColor=3D0 255 0 > 486 Interior=3D0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > 720 MRUDockBottomPos=3D85 > 732 MRUHorzDockCY=3D80 > 750 MRUDockBottomPos=3D85 > 762 MRUHorzDockCY=3D80 > > DXB2004.ini file after changes > Line# > 79 DXINTAB=3D0 > 342 TextColor=3D0 0 0 > 349 Interior=3D0 0 192 192 192 192 192 192 0 > 479 TextColor=3D0 0 0 > 486 Interior=3D0 0 192 192 192 192 192 192 0 > 720 MRUDockBottomPos=3D53 > 732 MRUHorzDockCY=3D48 > 750 MRUDockBottomPos=3D53 > 762 MRUHorzDockCY=3D48 > > I then copied the original DXB2004.ini file back to the Windows = directory. > > I got all of my original colors back and some of the window sizes and > positions back. I conclude it would be helpful in doing this to = preserve > colors and fonts which I consider the toughest part of setting up = DXBase. > The window size part is fairly easy to fix. Of course this would only work > within the same version of DXBase. So when DXBase 2005 comes out = we'll > probably have to start from scratch. > > 73, > > Art > W2NRA > > > _______________________________________________ > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > _______________________________________________ DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -=20 To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase
