Can a Script display the results in the GUI

[phillipsjm]

Using a script, instead of sending the differences output to a file or printer is there a way that I can display the results in the Beyond Compare GUI, as if I was doing this comparison by opening Beyond Compare manually.

My current script file is show below. How would I change this to show the results in the Beyond Compare GUI?

report format:00d output:<printer>;cl "C:\Data_Dir\CSharp Projects\Source_Compare\bin\Debug\Test_MBS.txt" "C:\Data_Dir\CSharp Projects\Source_Compare\bin\Debug\Prod_MBS.txt"

[Chris]

Re: Can a Script display the results in the GUI

Scripts can't open the BC GUI.

It is possible to pass file names on the command line for BC to open.

Example:

BC2.exe "C:\Data_Dir\CSharp Projects\Source_Compare\bin\Debug\Test_MBS.txt" "C:\Data_Dir\CSharp Projects\Source_Compare\bin\Debug\Prod_MBS.txt"

If you just want more colorful report output, BC can output to html as well.

Last, the report command is deprecated. In newer versions of BC, we suggest using the folder-report and file-report commands as described in the Command Line & Script section of the help file.

[willum]

Re: Can a Script display the results in the GUI

Hi Chris,

Let me explain my challenge:
1. We use RoundTable as Version Control Software
2. I have written a Progress program that extract two workspaces from the repository and compare them with BC. (Extract the files from both workspaces and compare the two result files.. not a big deal :-)

So far so good.

Now I would like to have in the program a radio set with:
1 Compare repository
2 Compare workspace directories

So when the radio-set = 1 it compares the repository.

When radio-set = 2 it has to do the following:

1 compare two directories with all sub-directories: (If possible, don't display some specified data directories)
2 read-only: Obvious
3 filter objects: only compare source code
4 Do only a crc/size comparison: because the date/time of the files differs, do only a crc/size comparison
5 Open it in the GUI


I have the following command line parameters:

BC2.exe wspaceid1-folder wspaceid2-folder /readonly /filter=-*.r,-*.le,-*.log,-*001,-*.dat

I have tried some scripting things, but as you already mentioned.. it can not be opend in the GUI.

Now my questions:

1: Can I exclude specified (data) directories?
2: Can I force a CRC comparison and no Date-Time comparison (Without changing the default settings of BC2?)

If above questions are answered with No.. Please consider it a whish.
[Edit]Found answer 1 .. so that's 50% of the problem solved !! [\Edit]

[Chris]

Re: Can a Script display the results in the GUI

2. It isn't possible to set comparison criteria from the command line.

The two options are:

a) Change the default comparison criteria using Session|Set Default - Eliminated by your requirement of not changing defaults.

b) Load a saved session. The filters, comparison criteria, etc, can be saved as a session, then you can use the command line:
bc2.exe "my saved session" to load the comparison.

[willum]

Re: Can a Script display the results in the GUI

b) Load a saved session. The filters, comparison criteria, etc, can be saved as a session, then you can use the command line:
bc2.exe "my saved session" to load the comparison.

Chris, option b should be a great option, if only not also the the directories was mensioned in the session file (Session.bcse)
so i could use bc2.exe "my saved session" dir1 dir2

Or if the session file was a xml file (or any other text base file) so you could be change the file 'on the fly'.