(Original creator: thenees)
As a software developer, every once in a while you find yourself performing a tedious manual task for some hours. As it seems to be something you need to do only once, it does not seem to be worth automating the task. But then later it turns out that you have to do it again. So you make a quick and dirty tool. And then later a colleague has to do the same thing and asks if you have an efficient way of doing it. So you make your tool a bit nicer so people other than you can use it. For me this happened for the task “load a very large number of image files into Uniface Glyphs”. So here I present you my tool. It allows you to select a folder on your disk, then it presents you all the files that are in the folder. You select the files you want to convert and press the button. Occurrences are created in the Uniface Glyph table.
Files in an unsupported format are marked yellow, Glyph names and descriptions that are too long are also marked in yellow. Make your changes and press the next button and all your Glyphs are stored and compiled. Now we can perform a task that used to take hours in a few minutes. (Admittedly you don’t have to do this very often but it is really boring task when you do need to do it!) The attached Uniface export is for Uniface 9.7. With some adjustments it should also work with older Uniface 9 versions. You need to have a DICT model in your repository (have umeta.xml imported).
Disclaimer: This tool is not part of the Uniface product and therefore not in support. It also uses some code that is not officially supported and that is subject to change without notice. Please feel free to change the tool to your own requirements.
NB: Have a look at what I did around the selection of the folder:
- You can either type the name,
- Or select it from a dialog when you press the button,
- or select it from your history using the dropdown.