Re: Forms Documentation tools

From: Pete Hawdon <pete_at_hawdon.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 23:18:01 -0000
Message-ID: <712vsc$924$1_at_newsreader1.core.theplanet.net>


[Quoted] Have you tried Forms/Administration/Convert menu option?

This allows conversion between text (eg formname.fmt) and binary (eg formname.fmb) and vice versa.

The nice thing is you can edit the test version as well as the form.

kmeek_at_cpi.navsea.navy.mil wrote in message <70qt73$7cb$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>Does anyone know of any tools that will extract the triggers and program
units
>from a developer 2000 Form? We are using Forms 5.0 and it would be nice to
>have an ascii dump of all the source code to do global searches using a
tool
>like grep. The search and replace doesn't always do the trick.
>
>I could also use this to create ascii archives for revision control and
>backup.
>
>Or I could write something to use DDE to control the forms developer to
loop
>thru and extract this stuff. -- Does anyone have any pointers to DDE
>interface for developer 2k?
>
>Thanks
>Kevin
>
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Received on Tue Oct 27 1998 - 00:18:01 CET

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