Peter has recently been releasing a small set of console tools for use in everyday script development with winbuilder.
Some of his tools were created to ease the work of tracking down the registry changes that are applied to a target OS when installing a program.
This is particulary usefull for all of those applications that require registering particular ActiveX entries or signing up DLL's .
At least this way it will become possible to incorporate the needed file/registry changes while creating a boot disk rather than just registering every time the boot disk starts up.
For INI files, he also created two good tools and I'll quote him for the explanation of these tools:
iniSort generates a sorted version of an input ini file. This makes it possible to compare two ini files with tools like ExamDiff
Syntax: iniSort
creates .srt in the folder
iniDiff creates an ini file as the difference of two ini files. This gives the user the possibility to use WinBuilder's IniMerge to update an ini file.
IniMerge,, updates to be equal to
Syntax: iniDiff -O: -N: -R: All ini files with complete path.
Last but not least - comes a console capture program to interact with wb scripts.
The command line syntax might seem a bit confusing but if you look on the provided work example it should become easier to understand.
It is particulary usefull when you need to interpret the results given from a command line program. Some tweaking inside the next version of winbuilder is required but it shouldn't take much longer to add the needed changes.
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