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Build Automator Documentation
Future plans
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Build Automator™ 2008 Edition
The Gold release of the 2008 Edition will be available around June 1st, 2008. Included in our Maintenance Plan are roughly monthly updates with new features and actions. Registered users will receive emails when new releases are made available. We will also post on our forum when we are ready with new releases. The Build Automator™ can also check automatically for new updates every time it is started.
Please let us know what actions you would like to see in the upcoming releases and we will review each suggestion.
Some of the planned actions and additions for the 2008 Edition include - in no specific order:
| ► | Upload files to FTP server. Included in version 1.50.1210 |
| ► | Download files from FTP server. |
| ► | Compare files in a FTP folder to a local folder. |
| ► | Compile Help and Manual projects. |
| ► | Logical structures - IF/ELSE/END. |
| ► | Conditions for action execution (acts as a one action IF statement) Included in version 1.30.100 |
| ► | Rename Files. Included in version 1.10.100. |
| ► | Delete Files. Included in version 1.50.1210 |
| ► | Get version information from executable files. |
| ► | Advanced Copy action with wildcard and overwrite options if date/time/size/attributes are different between source and destination. |
| ► | Create Folders. Included in version 1.10.100. |
| ► | Zip/Unzip files/folders. |
| ► | Generate XP/Vista/Server 2008 manifest files. Included in version 1.10.100. |
| ► | Show code signing information from executable files. |
| ► | Set variables action to assign values returned from various functions to variables. Included in version 1.30.100 |
| ► | Add option to check/uncheck all in Project Item list and Action Item list on the Project Window. |
| ► | Search locator on Variables selection window. |
| ► | User formatting of variables. |
| ► | Copy/Paste variables from one project to another. |
| ► | Wait action in case some programs need specific time to shut down or time out. Included in version 1.10.100. |
| ► | Compile multiple Clarion apps. Developer Edition only. Included in version 1.30.100 |
| ► | Multi section/entry update of INI files. |
| ► | Multi key/value update of registry. |
| ► | Multi line write to log. Included in version 1.10.100 |
| ► | Include projects. When included projects change, those changes are reflected in the execution of the main script. Developer Edition only. |
| ► | Action templates - selection of actions saved to a template that can be added at any point. Developer Edition only. |
| ► | Network protection of scripts so that only one user can modify a script over a network but any user could execute it. This also involves creating separate log files for each user. |
| ► | Improved protection of scripts that are opened in more than one window, by more than once instance of the program, or by more than one user. |
| ► | Scheduling of executing scripts. |
| ► | For Clarion developers:
Register templates
Export application to .txa
Export dictionary to .txd
Execute utility template |
| ► | Write one or more lines to a text files with overwrite/append option. Included in version 1.10.100. |
| ► | Execute associate files with options to OPEN, PRINT etc. Included in version 1.10.100. |
| ► | Write resource files for Visual Studio languages. Set the version to a variable and use that to set the version in the resource. (See Write text to file) |
| ► | Write resource files for Clarion, supporting Clarion 6 and older, Clarion 7 and Clarion#. Set the version to a variable and use that to set the version in the resource. (See Write text to file) |
| ► | Support for UNC paths for complete machine independence on networks. |
The list goes on...
Build Automator™ 2009 Edition
The 2009 Edition is planned to include support for various version control systems, such as MS Source Safe, Subversion, etc. If you have suggestions for version control system that you use and would like to see supported, please let us know and we will review your request.
Build Automator™ 2010 Edition
The 2010 Edition is planned to implement the extremely powerful Visual Studio Tools for Applications. This gives developers the raw power of Visual Studio inside the Build Automator™ with all the power that .NET can provide as a programming platform in addition to everything that the Build Automator™ has to offer!
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