Posted by Grant Foraker on June 29, 2005 at 13:20:25:
Maybe there's another way. I have a standard set of programs (about 600 plus) and I want to create a project of the programs, for example, that use the I1A.INC file.
1) I could run SEARCH utility and make a list. When the Add Files dialog comes up in UE, CTRL-Click on all the files in my list. That's slow and prone to errors. One wrong click, CTRL, or shift and you're starting over. The dialog box only shows 15 files at at time. Icky.
2) Create a master project of all the programs and open the programs on the SEARCH list one at a time, make the changes, and compile them one at a time. Just to be I didn't miss a compile a project compile would have to be done. Not too bad. Pretty much how I work in CED.
3) Trying for another way, I wrote a utility to search the IBS files and output program names to a TXT file. Data would be '"I" "IM" "IQ"', etc. As many program names as would fit in 8000 bytes. Open the TXT file in UE. Copy the list to the ClipBoard. Start the new project process, when the Add Files dialog comes up, paste in the list.
However, the Add Files dialog is truncating somewhere around 240 characters. I checked by pasting the ClipBoard into Notepad and there was no truncation. I created a master project using *.IBS and the Add Files dialog generated it's own list which held all 600 plus names.
a) Is there a better way that I just haven't figured out?
b) I like #3 or you might say I'm "heavily invested". Can the Add Files dialog be made to accept the full paste?
c) I could change my utility to write 240 character records into the text file (maybe 20-35 programs each) and do multiple Add Files until I had them all. A lot easier and safer than #1 or #2.