Woe, Dennis, you lost me. How about explaining this in your good old usual
step by step explaination.
At 10:02 PM 9/29/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello,
>One thing that makes the manual merge easier is put all the personal scripts
>in their own little block, and a comment line noting any default script or
>function modified.
>
>; **My scripts start here**
>; Added AutoRoute variable to Global and AutoStart.
>; Added Beep command to FocusChangedEvent.
>; Modified "Wait" to "PleaseWait" and "Arrow" to "Ready"
>; within ConvertCursorShape...
>; Added SayLine to Invisible/JawsCursors
>; Added SayLine to PcCursor.
>; Modified Jaws/Invisible to autoroute to Pc.
>; Modified MenuModeEvent --removed DownArrow on StartMenu.
>; Removed Verbosity check from TopOfFile and BottomOfFile.
>;
>CopyTextFromScreen
>SerialNumberAndPasswordMenu
>ChangePunctuation
>ChangeNumbersMode
>DeleteLine
>TestOptValue
>TextFormatToggle
>UniversalPrintDate
>ChangeSynthesizer
>.
>.
>.
>; **My scripts stop here!**
>
>Tedious all get-out, but it does work!
>
>
>Thanks,
>Dennis Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>DB Tech Services 770-465-9621
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>discussion!
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Development Manager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 7:35 PM
>Subject: RE: Merge?
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The merge function merges dictionaries (.jsd), configurations (.jcf),
>frames
>> and (likely) some other items which I cannot remember off the top of my
>> head.
>>
>> We do not, at this time, merge script files as that procedure would be far
>> more complicated. To wit, consider the possibility that you have written
>a
>> script named, "MyfavoriteScript" and, then, a HJ script writer adds a
>script
>> to the set we ship that has the same name - which one does the merge keep?
>> Microsoft's Visual Source Safe has a very good source code merge facility
>> that prompts the user about which change they want to keep. This might be
>a
>> good idea for a future version of JFW.
>>
>> Other problems will occur when our new scripts are very different from
>those
>> a user may have modified from an earlier version of JFW. In 3.31, all of
>> the Microsoft Office scripts have changed (for the better) very
>> dramatically. Any user who may have made a subtle change to the Word
>> scripts will cause a huge issue for software trying to differentiate and
>> then merge the change into a radically different function. usually, the
>> Source Safe user (mentioned above) will be making incremental and subtle
>> changes to be merged and, thus, this is not an issue.
>>
>> I know that my own script changes (I'm not a professional scripter and all
>> of you can feel glad that my code does not ship with JFW) are a pain to
>copy
>> over each time I reinstall JFW (which is every time we do a build - 28 so
>> far for 3.31) so I am motivated to get a merge facility that is verbose
>> enough to handle scripts. When I look at all of the other things we'd
>like
>> to do with JFW, however, I don't see such a big effort happening in the
>> merge world too soon.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> cdh
>>
>>
>>
>> Chris Hofstader
>> Development Manager
>> Henter-Joyce, Inc.
>> (727) 803-8000
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 6:32 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: Merge?
>>
>>
>> HJ Development Manager wrote:
>> >The JAWS Merge does not merge script files.
>>
>> Really? This comes as a bit of a surprise, since that's what I
>> thought the merge function was for. What *does* merge do? And, what
>> else does it not do?
>>
>> Regards
>> Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - ICQ UIN: 736807
>> http://www.HookedOnThe.Net
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