[SOLVED]Search inside packages for future actions

Question

Hi!
I have had some troubles when I downloaded a lot of fonts and used makefontpkg script for making installation packages for them. The problem was that all files created by makepkg was automatically moved to the predefined folder and got mixed with other packages there. Then, I decided to make a new folder for them and for an easy way to move all of the font install packages I made a script.
Here is just an example of it:
#!/bin/bash
for InFile in *.xz ;
do GetDescription=$(tar -xOf $InFile .PKGINFO | grep 'pkgdesc = ' | grep font | awk '{print $1}' );
if [ "x"$GetDescription != "x" ] ;
then
echo This $InFile package contains "font" in the description;
### mv $InFile ./FontInstallPackages
fi;
done;
I hope this will be useful for someone
Last edited by Andy_Crowd (2014-04-09 19:42:00)

Answer 1

I would suggest neither the caption nor the description. They each have their own purpose and overloading them is not necessary.
Personally, I prefer explicitly building the references of the controls I want into an array and passing that array to a subVI. See here for a simple example:
That example uses the OpenG VI internally, but you can easily replace it with the NI VI if you flatten the variant to a string. The same concept can apply to saving to a DB. This RCF plugin allows quickly building an array of references for selected controls.
Another option which is more elegant than using the description is assigning a tag to each control you want to edit. This is more elegant, but requires building an edit time tool which will allow you to edit tags on controls, since the only way of accessing them today is through a reference to the object which has the tag. You can build such a tool, but it requires a bit of know-how. This VI (basically a floating tool which allows you to manipulate selection on the VI you're currently editing) will get you some of the way there and also show you where the tag VIs are.
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Floating Tool.vi ‏13 KB