Re: [foxboro] What is tool for converting entire directories of FoxView displays to .G format?
- From: "Lowell, Timothy" <Timothy.Lowell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 12:43:18 -0500
The Windows version of DEdit has a GUI within FoxDraw that you can use to
search and replace any text in any graphic you select, including the historian
name or anything else. It works pretty well. It pops up a Command window, runs
through some gyrations, and then tells you how many replacements it made in a
dialog box. I've used it quite a bit, although I always feel the need to check
that it actually replaced what I wanted it to replace. I still feel more secure
with the command line interface.
Tim Lowell
Control Systems Engineer
Tesoro Refining and Marketing Company | 19100 Ridgewood Parkway | San Antonio,
TX 78259
210-626-4929 (w) | 210-439-5914 (c) | timothy.lowell@xxxxxxxxxxx
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From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
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Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 11:56 AM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] What is tool for converting entire directories of
FoxView displays to .G format?
Russ and the list,
Just a couple of weeks ago, I used d_edit on Solaris
(/usr/fox/wp/bin/tools/d_edit) to accomplish wholesale change of historian
names with the -h option for DM displays:
d_edit -h/oldhist/newhist/ displayname
but in looking at the DEdit command on Windows
(d:/usr/fox/wp/bin/tools/DEdit.exe), the -h option is now used to invoke help.
So, am I not looking at the options for DEdit correctly? Or is this another
case where the Windows tool is endowed with fewer options than its Solaris
counterpart?
Duc
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From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Russ Kaiser
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 12:25 PM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] What is tool for converting entire directories of
FoxView displays to .G format?
List,
The display task I was tackling was changing legacy historian name
references within existing Foxview displays to their corresponding AIM
historian names. I converted entire directories to .G format and then used
a windows based search and replace that I downloaded yesterday to replace
the historian names.
Next week we are taking out two Sun boxes that are still running historians.
We have had duplicate AIM historians for a couple of years now, but many of
the displays still referenced the old legacy historians. Rather than edit a
couple hundred displays and probably 1000 trend objects, I chose to do it
this way.
For those that are wondering, the text replace tool I finally ended up using
was called "Actual Search & Replace (ActualSR.exe)" and it worked well.
I am sure the few hours I spent yesterday would have taken a few days had I
edited the displays individually via FoxDraw or live via FoxView.
Thanks all for the help,
Russ
>Russ,
>The one within Foxdraw will do it, or you can use the command
>line tool fdf_g. On unix boxes I usually use ed for doing
>scripted search and replace within existing files.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Kevin
>
>On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Russ Kaiser <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>> Never mind,
>>
>> I figured it out, I had no idea the tool within foxdraw would do more than 1
>> file at a time. Now does anyone know of a text editor that will do
>> search and replace on an entire directory of files?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Russ
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