Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
06-11-2013, 08:44 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 12,410
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
06-10-2013, 11:05 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 12,410
How to determine invocation instance
Is there a way within a build script to know if it is running under VisBuildPro.exe or VisBuildCmd.exe? I'd like to have some conditional logic in place depending on which way it's invoked, but...
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
03-12-2013, 01:57 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 11,971
Speeding up list files action?
Hello! I'm working on a utility in VBPro which will scan a set of subdirectories at a given level, and then delete only those subdirectories at that level which have no files newer than a given age....
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
06-03-2011, 02:14 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 10,829
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
06-03-2011, 01:06 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 10,829
RUNPROGRAM_PROCESSID issue
I'm trying to do some parallel tasks and am using a method similar to the example chain.bld program. This works as long as the child builds are set to not wait for completion. However, if I set...
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
05-27-2011, 10:28 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 12,459
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
05-27-2011, 09:48 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 12,459
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
05-26-2011, 07:12 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 12,459
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
03-11-2011, 03:24 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 10,641
Call Stack and Watches panes keep reappearing
Is there a way to keep the call stack and watches panes from re-appearing? I close them, but then the next time I launch VBPro they come back. I'm not using them, so would prefer to keep them...
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Forum: [VBP] User Tips, Tricks and Samples
01-20-2011, 04:07 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 36,124
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Forum: [VBP] User Tips, Tricks and Samples
01-20-2011, 03:43 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 36,124
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Forum: [VBP] User Tips, Tricks and Samples
01-20-2011, 11:10 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 36,124
Suggestion needed for updating .bld file
Have an interesting scenario where I'm wanting to parse a VBPro .bld file and for every vbscript step, check for the instance of a given line and if that line is present, to put a new line just below...
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
01-10-2011, 05:33 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 11,983
To answer my own question, I needed to do the...
To answer my own question, I needed to do the full install (including tools) and not just the standard options install for the TOOLSDIR macro (and files in the Tools directory) to be present. Once...
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
01-10-2011, 05:16 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 11,983
TOOLSDIR macro
Any idea why the TOOLSDIR macro isn't getting defined as a SYSTEM macro on a machine I've just upgraded from 6.7 to 7.7? If I go back into 6.7 the TOOLSDIR macro is there, but not in 7.7. It is NOT...
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
11-16-2010, 10:09 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 12,101
skipping past a wait step during a running build?
Is there any way to abort a running wait step in a build script without actually stopping and restarting the build? I have some waits in scripts to allow me to look at results before continuing, but...
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
05-09-2010, 09:28 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 11,731
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
05-09-2010, 09:02 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 11,731
Error firing vbld_BuildStarting event
I'm running VBPro 6.7 (yes, I know, it's old), and all of a sudden on one build machine I'm getting the following error whenever running a VBPro script. This shows in the log as soon as I try to run...
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Forum: [VBP] Third Party Tools
03-26-2009, 04:15 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 10,611
Excel for creating charts
Hi! I have some VBPro vbscript code that is creating an Excel spreadsheet with data just fine, but I have been unable to figure out how to use the data in the spreadsheet (or data in VBPro, since...
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
12-11-2008, 03:40 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 10,529
prompting for save behavior
I've come across an annoyance, and don't know whether it's a bug, or a feature. :-) Normally when I make changes to a VBPro script and I forget to save my changes, VBPro will ask me if I want to...
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
11-14-2008, 11:47 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 10,339
Starting VBPro minimized?
Is it possible to start a VBPro instance (either gui or command line) and specify that it should be minimized when it starts?
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
10-10-2008, 02:03 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 10,463
Breaking out of Process Files
Is there a way to break out of the Process Files action and continue the build after the Process Files action? Say I have 80 files to process, but the 40th one meets some criteria that I want to act...
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
10-08-2008, 01:51 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 11,718
Verification of copy action?
Is there any verification possible during the copy file action to verify that the file copied successfully? I could write a checksum routine around the copy action, I suppose, but I'd prefer to know...
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
08-28-2008, 08:06 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 10,652
step to save build log?
Is there an easy way to automatically save off to a file the whole build log for the build before the build script exits?
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
05-08-2008, 11:25 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 10,037
partially clearing temporary macros
Other than explicitly specifying what temporary macros to delete by name, is there a way to use a wildcard to delete a range of temporary macros?
I'm currently using this:
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Forum: [VBP] General Discussion
04-29-2008, 04:17 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 10,118
using project.save
Is there a way to use the project.save action and not have it change the setting of the PROJFILE or PROJROOT macros?
I have been asked to add in functionality to save the build script wrapper...
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