Is it possible to compare and combine differences from one config.pro to another?

Discussion in 'Pro/Engineer & Creo Elements/Pro' started by njchen24, May 16, 2005.

  1. njchen24

    njchen24 Guest

    Greetings:

    My company has one config.pro for all personel. I customize, add some
    personalize mapkeys and parameters for the view display etc without
    modifying any existing company standard settings, save it as a second
    config.pro. Times to times the company updates its config.pro. In
    other to stay in pace with everyone else, I would like to update my
    personalize config.pro to match the company without losing all my
    settings, mapkey etc. Is it possible to compare the company config.pro
    and combine the differences into my personalize config.pro?

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
     
    njchen24, May 16, 2005
    #1
  2. Why don't you just put your own config.pro in your working directory.
    Load the company one in the test folder of your Pro.E loadpoint and you
    will have both.

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    config.pro to another?


    Greetings:

    My company has one config.pro for all personel. I customize, add some
    personalize mapkeys and parameters for the view display etc without
    modifying any existing company standard settings, save it as a second
    config.pro. Times to times the company updates its config.pro. In
    other to stay in pace with everyone else, I would like to update my
    personalize config.pro to match the company without losing all my
    settings, mapkey etc. Is it possible to compare the company config.pro
    and combine the differences into my personalize config.pro?

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
     
    Bob Alexander, May 16, 2005
    #2
  3. njchen24

    David Janes Guest

    I'm not sure of the rationale behind this. If you are simply "matching" the
    company's settings, it is completely unnecessary (if the company is loading its
    config.pro each time you start Pro; of course, maybe the sysadmin is just 'giving'
    you a new config file instead of going to the trouble to set up Pro to load it on
    startup which would be better and more effective.) Something you could try though
    to get the combined, up to date config.pro: LOAD BOTH ~ the company one first and
    yours second. Yours will install your personalized settings but retain in memory
    any settings that are not overwritten by yours, including all the new stuff. Do
    'Apply' and then save this to a file. I think this file ought to contain all the
    new settings, default settings, company settings and your personalized settings.
    It's worth a try, anyway.
    Using a compare utility is pretty effective. I was using Beyond Compare, a
    programmer's file compare utility recently, to investigate what changed in
    configuration to make assembly start in 'Move' instead of 'Place'. They do allow
    taking the 'difference' and adding it to your file.
     
    David Janes, May 17, 2005
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  4. njchen24

    Guest Guest

    Shouldn't be necessary if you're setup correctly.

    If you're on UNIX you'll want to sym link the config.pro (and
    config.sup/menu_def.pro/etc.etc.) in your $loadpoint/text directory to
    the company copy on the server.

    Then just make a personal config.pro in your home directory with just
    the settings you're changing/adding/mapkeys/etc.

    Pro/E loads 3 levels of configs in this order: 1.the standard ones in
    your $loadpoint/text directory, 2.your personal ones in your home
    directory, 3. and project/task specific ones in your startup/working
    directory. Each config loads on top of the previous one,
    changing/adding settings. Except for the config.sup, this is where you
    put any settings that you don't want anyone to change, ie. the most
    important settings, settings in the config.sup cannot be changed or
    overwritten by any other config files.
     
    Guest, May 17, 2005
    #4
  5. njchen24

    md1 Guest

    CSDIFF is a windows shareware utility that's great for the task. It does
    the "UNIX diff thing" for PC users.
    http://www.topshareware.com/CSDiff-download-13604.htm
     
    md1, May 19, 2005
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  6. njchen24

    shaun Guest

    I did not read this whole post so it might be answered I did see some
    shit about unix or other software, Noobs.Just open the config.pro with
    notepad or wordpad print it. Then open the other config.pro with
    notepad or wordpad print it. Once you print the both read them and find
    the differences. I hope that more then just me came up with this idea
     
    shaun, May 23, 2005
    #6
  7. njchen24

    md1 Guest

    You're joking...right?
     
    md1, May 27, 2005
    #7
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