Multiconfig loader

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mbowdich
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Multiconfig loader

Post by mbowdich » Sun Nov 13, 2011 3:13 pm

Make the multiconfig creater easier to use. With 2.3, the creater is no longer a mouse click away as it was in 2.2. The guise that it could be "automated with scripts" as the reason for the change (posted in the forum) does not hold a lot of water for several reasons.

1) The update.tar.gz files are no longer stored unless saved to a location manually. When saving them, there is no prompt for changing the filename, which means only 1 can be stored in a location at a time (until the filename is manually changed).
2) The command line method is cumbersome and if configurations are to be added, or changed, then the script (batch file) code has to be manually changed to reflect this. Before, it was a simple click of the mouse.
3) Filename length of the created file is important. While I have not tested the go no-go value, I do know that the initial filenames I used caused the tool to say that it had completed properly, but the file did not appear in the location. Shortening the name to the standard "update.tar.gz" resulted in the file actually being created.

This was a huge step backwards from version 2.2 in regards to creating multi-configurations.

For comparison.

Procedure in 2.2
1) load config 0 and create
2) load config 1 and create
3) repeat step to for n configurations
4) click "multi" and select the configs in the appropriate order
5) click "generate" and choose the location to save

Procedure in 2.3
1) load config 0 and create
2) save to location and select location
3) using windows, go to the location and rename the above file to something other than update...
4) load config 1 and create
5) save to location and select location
6) using windows, go to the location and rename the above file to something other than update... and other than named in step 3
7) repeats steps 4-6 for n configs
8) open up a command shell
9) navigate to the location that the files were saved in
10) run { c:\"Program Files\FWMurphy\PowerVision Configuration Studio 2.3\MultiConfig\Murphy.MultipackageGenerator.exe" <location of output file>\<name of output file>.tar.gz <location of config 0>\<name of config 0> <location of config 1>\<name of config 1> <location of config 2>\<name of config 2> <continue to enter locations and names until n configs> }