Swordfish

I've posted a new plugin on the wiki called 'Swordfish BackUp' (http://www.sfcompiler.co.uk/wiki/pmwiki ... fishBackUp). It sits in the system tray and makes a backup copy of the active .bas file after a compile. Full details are on the wiki page.

Regards,

Steve

Great stuff! Having a "here's one I saved earlier" which I can roll-back to after I overwrite working code with 'improvements' which turn out to be rubbish will make life a lot easier.....

Cheers,

Andy.

I think it will only work one deep, so unless I have got the wrong end of the stick you lose the previous one following every compile

I'm not sure really what the use is apart from you being able to go back to the last compiled version

Tim, you do have the wrong end of the stick. It saves the backup file with an addition to the file name that shows the version number, date and time of compile, as well as compile success/failure. Hence you have a complete version history. There are more details on the wiki.

Andy, thanks for the comments - yes, I too have been there before and broken code with 'improvements'... it was the main reason for writing this simple plugin.

Dooow

Nice work Steve can you turn off the auto saving and just have it saving on request only?

Steve its a really nice plug in, is it possible to add to the manual save an option to add stage notes?

Yes, I could add this I'm sure... could you give me a fuller example of what you'd like to do? I could also add options to automatically save or not. Would saving the includes also be helpful?

Steve

Steve, I turned the little icon in the "tray" in the bottom right corner of XP. The folder with the backups got deleted. I think this is handy, but should be made readily apparent to users.

Otherwise, great work.

Hi Ryan. Could you explain what you did in a little more detail? The plugin shouldn't be deleting any file/folder. If I can repeat it here, I'll try and fix it.

Steve

Steven,

I had a bunch of applications open when I was testing SF Backup last night. I came back this morning and all the backup folders were in place!
I must have not properly refreshed the folder from within windows explorer.

SF backup has already saved my butt! I deleted some functional code and went to the backup folder and found a previous version that had the code! Very handy feature! Keep up the great work!

OK, that's good to hear - thanks for the update. Glad to have saved you from loosing code already! And thanks for testing it.

The backup plugin is working great on my Vista machine. I used to save different versions with different file names so I wouldn't break previous versions with "improvements" but this plug in solves that problem.

Thanks very much for making it available Steven

Tom Estes

Steven,

After using this for a couple of days I must say that I am really impressed! Wish all compilers had this feature.

What a brilliant plugin. Many thanks Steven.

Fantastic! This compensates for the occasional problem of the SF GUI environment mixing up file names between open files when there are numerous files open at once. I've lost more than just one day's work with these annoying errors!!

73's,

de Tom