Automating Beautify

[Goofus828]

Does anyone know the rest of this statement?
I found this in the forum but someone said the original post was erased.

I have over 2500+ prgs that I would like to beautify.

Do beautify in (_beautify) with <a lot of parameters>

Thanks.

 

[Mike Lewis]

The first param is the name of the file that you want to beautify. The second contains the options. I don't know the format, but it shouldn't be too difficult to figure out.

I suggest you look at BEAUTIFY.PRG, which is in your VFP's XSOURCE\BEAUTIFY folder. You should be able to work out the format of the options by looking at the source code.

MIke

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[Mike Lewis]

A further thought .....

I suspect that if you set the options in the Beautify dialogue, then run run the program without passing the options, it will remember the settings from the dialogue. If that's right, you'd only need to pass the filename each time.

This is only a guess, but it should be easy for you to try it and see.

Mike

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[Goofus828]

Thanks Mike - I will look into this.