Kirk, There is an easier way.
If you open a copy of your database in v17, and run MSC > Verify Application on it, it will point out all the bad form objects for you. The log file will show you entries like this in the sections where it is checking your project forms and table forms: PrintPoint Home.Page0.ComponentGroup uses a deprecated picture format: PICT. PrintPoint Home.Page0.rolloverEstimates uses a deprecated picture format: PICT. PrintPoint Home.Page0.Picture6 uses a deprecated picture format: PICT. PrintPoint Home.Page0.Picture7 uses a deprecated picture format: PICT. Saves you from writing any code. :-) Randy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Randy Jaynes Senior Programmer and Customer Support http://printpoint.com • 845.687.3741 • PrintPoint, Inc • 57 Ludlow Lane • Palisades, NY 10964 Please send all email contacts to supp...@printpoint.com <mailto:supp...@printpoint.com> > On Oct 8, 2018, at 11:12 AM, Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > > I'm preparing to move a large, established project from v15 to v17 and > finally had to deal with the pictures. I've been putting this off at least > partly because of just not wanting to deal with this. Turns out it's not > that big a deal, at least for me. > > When I've just done the conversion to see what happened lots of old forms, > the ones 4D creates, had the dreaded red X in the button icons. Most of my > forms were fine because for a long time I've been using icons from the > resource folder which were already .png. But I still had to do something > about the legacy images. > > 1) converting the picture library > This was really easy. As numerous folks have pointed out this is where to > start: > > http://kb.4d.com/assetid=76775 > > I don't have 4D Pack installed any more and didn't see an easy, native way > of determining what kind of file a picture library resource is. But then I > realized I really don't care what they were because I was going to make > them all .png now. So I modified the loop to simply convert all the images > to .png. > > I did this in the v15 version. > > 2) the outliers > A number of forms have static images in them. This illustrated the various > strategies 4D has used over the years for building the default forms. I > didn't pay enough attention to determine which versions did what but some > forms have static images as backgrounds that are incompatible and some > don't. > > I quickly noticed lots of them were named "Picture6". Doing a find in > design located all the forms with "Picture6" and opened each one deleting > the obsolete image. Sometimes the image was OK. None of these forms are > user-facing so they don't really matter but the point is it's easy to find > them and relatively quick to delete them. > > Bottom line - this wasn't nearly as painful or time consuming a deal as I > feared. > > Unexpected discovery - the picture library is still a useful thing! > > I had equated the library with .pict files and stopped paying attention to > it. This isn't the case and the tools for managing what's in the library > are simple to use. You can't edit images directly anymore (that's way gone) > but storing .png files is a snap and for me a lot easier than managing them > from Resources. > > It's also easier if you have a large collection of icons but only use a > few. I have a set of icons I like and use but there are hundreds of them in > my development resources folder. I don't want to include all of them in > deployed databases so I have this method that loops all the forms and all > the objects making a list of the ones I actually use and then creating a > subset folder of just those icons for shipping. It's a PITA. > > I am going to be changing that so I'll loop through all the form objects as > now but if I refer to a file in my icons folder I'll put a copy of that > icon in the library and change the ref in the object. This way I will be > able to refer to the full icon set during development but not ship it. > > -- > Kirk Brooks > San Francisco, CA > ======================= > > *We go vote - they go home* > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
