Hi,
I've downloaded this tool with the intention of taking control of changes to autogen config files made by 3rd party scenery installers. I'm hoping this is reasonable use for someone who is not a developer but who has a decent working knowledge of managing an FSX or P3D install.
I've figured that, assuming I am keeping before and after copies of any affected files that I can make comparisons to find out what has changed, extract these in xml format that can be used by the merger tool and then use this to merge the autogen classes etc. as intended for developer use of the tool.
Specifically I will use spb2xml (or any tool which converts SPB files to XML) to create XML versions, compare these using a file comparison tool to extract the differences and then apply this difference file as the input to the merger tool.
Does this sound reasonable or am I missing something vital here? As I say I don't have in-depth knowledge of autogen definitions and classes but do have a basic understanding of what the various files are for.
Many thanks for any advice!
Rob W
I've downloaded this tool with the intention of taking control of changes to autogen config files made by 3rd party scenery installers. I'm hoping this is reasonable use for someone who is not a developer but who has a decent working knowledge of managing an FSX or P3D install.
I've figured that, assuming I am keeping before and after copies of any affected files that I can make comparisons to find out what has changed, extract these in xml format that can be used by the merger tool and then use this to merge the autogen classes etc. as intended for developer use of the tool.
Specifically I will use spb2xml (or any tool which converts SPB files to XML) to create XML versions, compare these using a file comparison tool to extract the differences and then apply this difference file as the input to the merger tool.
Does this sound reasonable or am I missing something vital here? As I say I don't have in-depth knowledge of autogen definitions and classes but do have a basic understanding of what the various files are for.
Many thanks for any advice!
Rob W