Re: v15 to v17 Conversion of Obsolete _o_C_STRING/_o_ARRAY STRING Commands

2019-06-07 Thread Narinder Chandi via 4D_Tech
Patrick, Hi. Thanks, yes I came across a reference to QS_Toolbox this afternoon so +1 for that and I will look into it! Regards, Narinder Chandi, ToolBox Systems Ltd. -- -Original Message- From: 4D_Tech <4d_tech-boun...@lists.4d.com> on behalf of Patrick Emanuel via 4D_Tech <4d_tec

Re: v15 to v17 Conversion of Obsolete _o_C_STRING/_o_ARRAY STRING Commands

2019-06-07 Thread Narinder Chandi via 4D_Tech
Thanks Charles, I'll PM you. Regards, Narinder Chandi, ToolBox Systems Ltd. -- -Original Message- From: 4D_Tech <4d_tech-boun...@lists.4d.com> on behalf of Charles Miller via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> Reply-To: 4D iNug Technical <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> Date: Friday, 7 June 2019 a

Re: v15 to v17 Conversion of Obsolete _o_C_STRING/_o_ARRAY STRING Commands

2019-06-07 Thread Patrick Emanuel via 4D_Tech
Absolutly, and there are also some tools (free) that can help you, like QS_Toolbox ;-) - Patrick EMANUEL Administrator www.association-qualisoft.eu (Soft1002, Simply Asso & QS_Toolbox) -- Sent from: http://4d.1045681.n5.nabble.co

Re: v15 to v17 Conversion of Obsolete _o_C_STRING/_o_ARRAY STRING Commands

2019-06-07 Thread Charles Miller via 4D_Tech
There’s code that will convert all in one fell swoop. It puts comments at end please advise if you want it and I will forward Regards Chuck On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 11:49 AM Narinder Chandi via 4D_Tech < 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > Hi all. I am migrating a v15 database to v17, 4D Server running

Re: v15 to v17 Conversion of Obsolete _o_C_STRING/_o_ARRAY STRING Commands

2019-06-07 Thread JOHN BAUGHMAN via 4D_Tech
> On Jun 7, 2019, at 6:02 AM, Chip Scheide via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > > - Run compiler, fix individual errors, or notice sizes you missed above > and do global replaces using C_Text(; -> C_Text( Rather than rerunning the compiler… 1. Find In Design for _o_C_Strin

Re: v15 to v17 Conversion of Obsolete _o_C_STRING/_o_ARRAY STRING Commands

2019-06-07 Thread Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech
Hi Narender, Welcome back. Changing the variable declarations is a simple regex exercise. In fact I think 4DPOP may have a command in it already for doing so. If not it's not too difficult to write a method to loop through all the code, find the old strings and replace them. I don't have any code

Re: v15 to v17 Conversion of Obsolete _o_C_STRING/_o_ARRAY STRING Commands

2019-06-07 Thread Chip Scheide via 4D_Tech
that is only determinable by you. in some instances strings were used to save space (older systems) in some instances strings were used allow indexing (older systems) in some instances strings were used to restrict data entry in some instances strings were used as this was a default. if case 1,

Re: v15 to v17 Conversion of Obsolete _o_C_STRING/_o_ARRAY STRING Commands

2019-06-07 Thread Narinder Chandi via 4D_Tech
Thanks Chip. I am less concerned about the how as I am happy to manually brute force replace the 200 instances of usage. It's more about whether or not to... Regards, Narinder Chandi, ToolBox Systems Ltd. -- -Original Message- From: Chip Scheide <4d_o...@pghrepository.org> Date: Frida

Re: v15 to v17 Conversion of Obsolete _o_C_STRING/_o_ARRAY STRING Commands

2019-06-07 Thread Chip Scheide via 4D_Tech
not the easiest thing to do. what I did: - globally replace: C_String(; -> C_Text( Where is a string size that is used a lot in your system(s). repeat until most of the more often used string sizes are done. - globally replace: C_String( -> C_Text( - Run compiler, fix individual errors, or

v15 to v17 Conversion of Obsolete _o_C_STRING/_o_ARRAY STRING Commands

2019-06-07 Thread Narinder Chandi via 4D_Tech
Hi all. I am migrating a v15 database to v17, 4D Server running on Mac. I need some opinions as to what to do with regards to converting commands marked as obsolete as per this article: https://doc.4d.com/4Dv15/4D/15/Deprecated-or-removed-features-in-v15-product-range.200-2063067.en.html I have

Re: Blast from the Past!

2019-06-07 Thread Narinder Chandi via 4D_Tech
Hah Thanks Jim! Yes, I dug out my old 4D forum account and posted there yesterday and Tim Nevels almost instantly picked it up. Shout out also to Lee who posted greetings yesterday. Regards, Narinder Chandi, ToolBox Systems Ltd. -- -Original Message- From: 4D_Tech <4d_tech-boun...@l

Re: Blast from the Past!

2019-06-07 Thread Jim Hays via 4D_Tech
... and now when I go on the forums, I see you are already there! Jim On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 9:53 AM Jim Hays wrote: > Hi Narinder, > > There is probably more traffic on forums.4d.com, but it is limited to the > last 90 days unless you are a 4D partner. > > Jim Hays > > On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 2

Re: Blast from the Past!

2019-06-07 Thread Jim Hays via 4D_Tech
Hi Narinder, There is probably more traffic on forums.4d.com, but it is limited to the last 90 days unless you are a 4D partner. Jim Hays On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 2:03 PM Lee Hinde via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > Welcome back! > > > On Jun 3, 2019, at 8:06 AM, Narinder Chandi via 4D_T