
Save upon compile any or all procedure files in procedure windows

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I originally imagined using this to automatically re-save my procedure in its associated file, but this can cause Igor 7 to think that the file was modified externally, leading to issues that are discussed in the code comments. It would be nice if there was one day a built in saveproc function that got around this issue. (To my knowledge the closest thing is closeproc/SAVE, but I don't want the procedure to close or the scroll position in the procedure window(s) to shift).
There are likely to be text encoding issues that I haven't worked out. I've only used this on Windows so far.
//Saves any procedures displayed in a procedure window. Include the AfterCompiledHook function below to call this after compiling procedure files //In limited testing, UTF-8 encoding (#pragma TextEncoding = "UTF-8") re-opens better than Windows-1252 after saving in the way this procedure does (via fprintf with strings) function saveProcs() //some default settings String procsToBackup="*;" //list (semi-colon delimited) any procedures that should be saved. ".ipf" should end each list item* //*with one exception; to save the main procedure window, one list item should be "Procedure" //to save the main procedure window and any other procedure window, use procsToBackup = "*" //To save procedures named myProcs0 and myProcs1, use procsToBackup="myProcs0;myProcs1;" (or procsToBackup="myProcs*;") String saveAppendStr = "_bu" //optionally specify a string to append to each save file name //In Igor7, it's probably best to specify a saveAppendStr or choose a directory other than one currently containing the to-be-saved procedure file(s). //Using saveAppendStr="" and saving into the procedure file-containing directory will cause Igor7 to think the procedure file was modified externally. //Igor7 will keep trying to resolve the conflict after each compile, and when you choose to resolve it, each procedure needs to be recompiled, causing //them to save again, re-call this function, and so on. There might be some settings where this is advantageous: putting off the conflict resolution, a reload from //file is like restoring to the last compile point while using file->"save procedure as..." would allow new updates to be saved Variable numCharsPerWrite=500 //this has to below the limit of fprintf..not sure what that limit is, but 500 is ok String saveExtension = ".ipf" //I've also tested ".txt". The txt files can be copied into a procedure file and then work fine. The code might display properly in a txt file opened with proper encoding settings? //find procedures that should be backed up according to procsToBackup variable i,j; string saveList="", matchList, match, allProcWins=winlist("*",";","WIN:128") for (i=0;i<itemsinlist(procsToBackup);i+=1) matchList= ListMatch(allProcWins, stringfromlist(i,procsToBackup)) for (j=0;j<itemsinlist(matchList);j+=1) match = stringfromlist(j,matchList) if (whichListItem(match,saveList) < 0) saveList += match + ";" endif endfor endfor if (!itemsinlist(saveList)) return 0 //do nothing if no procedures match the list in procsToBackup endif //choose a file to save backup(s) to; only necessary once per experiment //use newpath/O saveProcFiles_path to choose a new path pathinfo saveProcFiles_path if (!V_flag) newpath/O saveProcFiles_path if (V_flag) Print "saveProcFiles(): user aborted selection of a folder for saving procedures; aborting" endif endif //write each procedure to its save file with fprintf Variable saveLen,strIndex,numFullWrites,fileRefNum,writeIndexDelta=numCharsPerWrite-1 String procWinName,saveStr,fileName for (i=0;i<itemsinlist(saveList);i+=1) procWinName = stringfromlist(i,saveList) saveStr = ProcedureText("" , inf, procWinName) saveLen = strlen(saveStr) if (stringmatch(procWinName,"*.ipf")) fileName=procWinName[0,strlen(procWinName)-strlen(".ipf")-1] else fileName=procWinName endif fileName = fileName+saveAppendStr+saveExtension numFullWrites=floor(saveLen/numCharsPerWrite) Open/Z/P=saveProcFiles_path fileRefNum as fileName if (V_flag) Print "saveProcs(): failed to identify procedure file save location. Aborting." close fileRefNum return 0 endif for (j=0;j<numFullWrites;j+=1) strIndex=j*numCharsPerWrite fprintf fileRefNum,"%s",saveStr[strIndex,strIndex+writeIndexDelta] endfor strIndex+=numCharsPerWrite fprintf fileRefNum,"%s",saveStr[strIndex,inf] close fileRefNum endfor end static function AfterCompiledHook() saveProcs() return 0 end

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Igor Pro 7.02B01 now generates minidumps after a crash. Sending those to WM can help us figure out what caused the crash in some cases.
January 25, 2017 at 08:42 pm - Permalink
Perhaps the problem can be resolved using one of the Miscellaneous Settings. Go to Misc->Miscellaneous Settings and choose the Text Editing category. Choose the External Editor tab. I'm thinking that perhaps one of the Reload Automatically settings might help.
John Weeks
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January 26, 2017 at 10:27 am - Permalink