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Hi Contro,
What is your actual requirement ?
You see my programer professional life started with dBASE II. It continued to dBASE III, IV, FoxBase, FoxPro, Clipper till DOS and now Xbase++ and FoxPro 9 in WIN environments.
All the above use DBF files as database and NTX or CDX etc. for indexing. And I was able to re-use my codes from one to another language with minor modifications and add new features as per the new language.
I use AutoIt and AutoHotkey to develop small tools to help me in my development profession, for example, "Merge CSV and Text" creates the complete new project prgs from base template for me.
To convert a dBASE code to AutoIt, say, is trival if the code inputs something and processes and prints. Reading text file is also not a problem. The real problem will start if your code uses DBF and NTX files heavily and searching, sorting etc. All these which can be easily done in dBASE (it is made for it) are a 'nightmare' to do in AutoIt.
With my experience in these languages, I can assure you no converter can do justice in converting code to different 'tangent' language, like dBASE to AutoIt.
We went for xBASE++ (it is a commercial product) as it supported most of our Clipper codes, and were able to come out with a Windows version of our DOS product quickly.
Regards,
Anand-anandcoral (January 21, 2014, 01:11 AM)
I think you would have a better idea if you read through the Hello World example for Sikuli:But Miles. Now i am reading javascript : An eye on events.
http://doc.sikuli.or.../helloworld-win.html
As you can see Click() is told what to click by a small image capture. In this example it is the Windows Start Button. But if you can get screen shots of the error dialogs, say the stop sign or yellow triangle for warnings would it not work for those? The whole idea is to use it when conventional window identification fails or is very difficult.-MilesAhead (January 20, 2014, 02:44 PM)
I would like to convert Borland dBASE for DOS version 5.0 to AutoHotkey_L or viceversaWhy?-Contro (January 20, 2014, 03:33 PM)
There is a compiler for Clipper/dBase code for modern OS's, called Harbour project, at http://harbour-project.org, and a commercial fork called xHarbour builder at http://xharbour.com, based on the oss xHarbour compiler at http://xharbour.orgI would like to convert AutoIt to AutoHotkey_L or viceversaWhy?-Contro (January 20, 2014, 03:33 PM)
AFAIK, AutoIt was created from the AHK codebase, because some people found the AHK 'language' was too unreadable in their opinion...-Ath (January 20, 2014, 04:39 PM)
I've no experience with code, but do have a bit of experience with trying to export/convert files from one format to another. You often end up with so much work that you wonder if it would have been better to recreate the file from scratch.
Surely with code, you will need to be able to code anyway, in order to correct all the minor things that dont convert well (?)-tomos (January 20, 2014, 03:50 PM)
I would never trust a "code converter" from one language to another. While, in theory, it may be possible, the sheer number of possibilities that exist when using a certain function would deter me from using a converter.-Josh (January 20, 2014, 02:49 PM)
Hmm, maybe. In order to do something like that, the windows would have to currently be active to take a screen shot and not have another window covering it. So the app would have to cycle through all of the open windows and activate them one at a time to take a screenshot. The window would also have to remain open and active for at least 2-3 seconds.-c.gingerich (January 20, 2014, 12:30 PM)
You might be able to use Sikuli if you can get it to recognize the warning and/or error icons in dialog boxes.-MilesAhead (January 19, 2014, 11:53 AM)
Most dialogs will have class #32770. That's probably the impetus for Sikuli. The inability to get info the conventional way. In fact it works by you supplying a capture of the image to recognize.I think you are talking about OCR possibilities. Image Recognition.-MilesAhead (January 20, 2014, 12:15 PM)
Well, if you know the title,class or ID of the warning window it might be possible. I can look into making an app that will sit in the system tray and look for specific IDs,Classes and Window titles and then when it see's that window take a screen shot of it. Did you want the whole full screen window or just the window with the error/warning?Only all the windows. And work reverse. Able to see the title, class or ID of the window. so we can select if logs those windows.-c.gingerich (January 20, 2014, 09:28 AM)
