Comparing templates RAP code

rbuser

Hi there,

I am wanting to compare two templates to see if they are semantically the
same (from Report Builder 8.02). If you view a template as a text file, all
the RAP code is Hex encoded. How can I decode this so I can see all RAP code
in the template without having to use two designers and do a visual
comparison, which is time consuming and error prone.

Is there a way to use the ppDesginer component to extract all the text used
in the events or a way to decode the HEX ?

Thanks for your help.

rbuser

Sorry, it is Report Builder 6.03 that is being used.

Paul Broadfoot

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rbuser

You want to camparer code-font or layouts?

rbuser

I want to compare the pascal code embedded in the template. This is the code
that a user could write if you exposed the Calc page for the ppDesigner
component.

From what I can see the code is saved in a hex format, but I do not know how
to decode it. (View the rtm file in notepad to see this). I can compare them
using a text comparison, but that just points out one hex line is different
to the next. (eg If a comment has been added you will have the hex code for
'{' and '}' and so the text compare would just say the line was different,
and its a lot of manual decoding to see if this a comment has caused the
difference or not.

The other way to extract the text would be through the ppDesigner, but I do
not have the source code for the unit that codes the calc page. (raIDE.dcu
only). So I do not know the object model for looping through events and
getting the code that was written for that event.

So either I need to know how to decode the Hex, or how to loop through the
events so I can write out all the code for two templates to a file for
comparison.

Hope this helps in understanding what I need to do.

rbuser

search on RAP2Text

rbuser

>search on RAP2Text
Thanks.

After doing a google search I found an archived thread on this and have
contacted support to see if can get this program.

Paul Broadfoot

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