BC 3 Text File compare without user interaction.

[donahue]

I have Beyond Compare 3

I am using the commandline with script
The command line has \silent

command line arguments
/@BCTextScript.txt /silent /closescript C:\temp\Roguewave\CaseCompareManual\Engine\CM\Case 96079338_39.xml C:\temp\CaseCompareManual\Case96079338_39.xml C:\temp\CaseCompareManual\FinalCompare\Case9607933 8_39.html

My goal is to have no interation to the BC UI, BUT the BC UI comes up after the Compare happens.
It displays the results of the comparison. I just want the results in a file. the user shouldn't even know that BC is running really.

Following is a C# function content.

System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo();
startInfo.FileName = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 3\BCompare.exe";
string finalFile = ComparisonResultsPath + Path.DirectorySeparatorChar +
Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(cmFilePath) + ".html";
startInfo.Arguments = "/@BCTextScript.txt" + " /silent /closescript " + cmFilePath + " " + rwFilePath + " " + finalFile;
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(startInfo);

How do I run BC without any interaction at all?

I need to run multiple files through and do not need an instance coming up all the time.

Thanks in advance

[Aaron]

Hello,

First, I'd recommend testing a generated string output from the Windows Command Line. This way we can troubleshoot the command line first before integrating it into an automated solution.

If you run:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 3\BCompare.exe" /@BCTextScript.txt /silent /closescript C:\temp\Roguewave\CaseCompareManual\Engine\CM\Case 96079338_39.xml C:\temp\CaseCompareManual\Case96079338_39.xml C:\temp\CaseCompareManual\FinalCompare\Case9607933 8_39.html

You'll need to edit this to remove the slash in front of @, and quotes around the file paths to handle any whitespace."C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 3\BCompare.exe" "@c:\folder\BCTextScript.txt" /silent /closescript "C:\temp\Roguewave\CaseCompareManual\Engine\CM\Cas e 96079338_39.xml" "C:\temp\CaseCompareManual\Case96079338_39.xml " "C:\temp\CaseCompareManual\FinalCompare\Case960793 3 8_39.html"

Does this call work from the command line?

[donahue]

Hello,

First, I'd recommend testing a generated string output from the Windows Command Line. This way we can troubleshoot the command line first before integrating it into an automated solution.

If you run:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 3\BCompare.exe" /@BCTextScript.txt /silent /closescript C:\temp\Roguewave\CaseCompareManual\Engine\CM\Case 96079338_39.xml C:\temp\CaseCompareManual\Case96079338_39.xml C:\temp\CaseCompareManual\FinalCompare\Case9607933 8_39.html

You'll need to edit this to remove the slash in front of @, and quotes around the file paths to handle any whitespace."C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 3\BCompare.exe" "@c:\folder\BCTextScript.txt" /silent /closescript "C:\temp\Roguewave\CaseCompareManual\Engine\CM\Cas e 96079338_39.xml" "C:\temp\CaseCompareManual\Case96079338_39.xml " "C:\temp\CaseCompareManual\FinalCompare\Case960793 3 8_39.html"

Does this call work from the command line?

This command works"
C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 3>BCompare.exe "@c:\temp\BCTextScript.txt" /silent "C:\temp\Roguewave\CaseCompareManual\Engine\CM\Cas e96079338_39.xml" "C:
\temp\Roguewave\CaseCompareManual\Engine\RW\Case96 079338_39.xml" "C:\temp\Roguewave\CaseCompareManual\Engine\FinalC ompare\Case96079338_39.html"

I went back to the C# program took off the closescript option pointed my script file to temp.
Still get the UI popping up at the end of the comparison.

[Aaron]

Hello,

Can you redefine the C# to output the plain text of what it is trying to call? There may be a typo comparing the manual command line vs. the script generated command line. Do you need to escape the '/'?

[donahue]

Hello,

Can you redefine the C# to output the plain text of what it is trying to call? There may be a typo comparing the manual command line vs. the script generated command line. Do you need to escape the '/'?

I was able to get it working by executing a batch file.
Batch File
echo off
set arg1=%1
set arg2=%2
set arg3=%3
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 3\BCompare.exe " "@c:\temp\BCTextScript.txt" /silent %arg1% %arg2% %arg3%

C# code

public void BeyondCompare(string cmFilePath, string rwFilePath)
{
string finalFile = ComparisonResultsPath + Path.DirectorySeparatorChar +
Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(cmFilePath) + ".html";
//string command = @"""C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Beyond Compare 3\\BCompare.exe""" + " /@C:\\temp\\BCTextScript.txt" + " /silent " + cmFilePath + " " + rwFilePath + " " + finalFile;

System.Diagnostics.Process proc1 = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
proc1.StartInfo.FileName = @"C:\Temp\BCTextScript.bat";
proc1.StartInfo.Arguments = $""{cmFilePath}" "{rwFilePath}" "{finalFile}"";
proc1.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = false;
proc1.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
proc1.StartInfo.RedirectStandardInput = true;

proc1.Start();
proc1.WaitForExit();
}

Thanks for the guideance