Hi all and Merry Christmas,

just a quick note: phped imports settings in the registry from a previous version only and only if current version hasn't got its entry in the registry, yet. If you observed a different beaviour, it should be considered as a bug. For example after you got v11 and v12 installed and used them for at least one time, no changes to registry made by v11 will affect v12 because v12 got those values from v11 when it was run for the first time. All successive runs won't/shouldn't migrate anything.

Regarding settings in %APPDATA%\nusphere\phped\config (or whatever path pointed by HOME key in the registry), it's considered "shared" and always feeded with defaults from %PROGRAMFILES% or %PROGRAMFILES(X86)% (or whatever path the product was installed to) if the directory or corresponding file does not exist. This "fall-back" to defaults is done on per-file basis and may depend on the file version. For example, V11 may drop config files files saved by V12 to their defaults as it may not understand them anyway.

Hi dmitri..



Thanks for the explanation, this is certainly the behaviour that I noticed (and posted previously, although in a lot more long-winded way.. your explanation here is clearer I think).



This is an interesting point. I hadn't taken into consideration the 'Home' regkey and assumed (wrongly) that the default APPDATA location was "fixed"... so I'll address this for PSM too.

I think the most useful feature of this tool now is the simplicity in transferring settings from one box to another. Thanks for adding the migration feature into PhpED itself.. will be massively useful for the majority of your users

Have a good xmas sir!



Cheers..

Ian

Thank you for this great tool! It's very helpfull, especially when working between several places (PCs).

I am surprised that PHPIDE developers did not implement export-import feature in their product, as this is almost an industry standard to have one...

This tool solves such problem and is very needful.

Good work Ian!

Hi Ian,

I might be missing something obvious here... But please be patient with me

On my PC I had PHPEd versions 10 and 12 installed and I have just installed version 13.

v10 is the one that I use and it is fully customized. I'm now trying to make 13 look like 10.

I've opened your Settings manager and there's Migrate 10 -> 13 function. I get migration confirmation message, however v13 looks nothing like v10 (font and color settings are lost).

Also, Import/Export menu items - how do I indicate whether I want to export/import settings of V10, 12 or 13 - they are all installed. What does it use as default?

Thanks!

This might be caused by the new Theme Editor, see http://forum.nusphere.com/first-experience-with-theme-editor-v13-033-t9874.html#33529#33529. Also, in the initial posting of this thread version 13 isn't listed as compatible with Ian's tool. Maybe there'll be a new version in the (near) future?

nice tool! i hope a new version is released compatible with version 13 and 14... and in particular compatible with exporting/importing worksets

are worksets currently associated to the workspace itself rather than to the settings? i am having a hell of a time transferring my worksets right now... and i highly depend on them

Hi all..

Apologies for the quietness over the past couple of versions... but I feel it only courteous to say that unfortunately, I won't be continuing with this tool to support v13 onwards.

My license subscription expired just before v13 was released (hence no v13 / v14 updates) and I have decided not to renew this time around.

That said, if there's anyone who codes in C# and wants to take the project over, feel free to let me know and I'll be happy to see the source code go to a good home. It's not a complicated project, but could possibly be written better, as I'm not a C'# coder by trade

The GUI would possibly need to be redone depending on the person taking it over if it went this way as it currently relies on numerous DevExpress UI components. The rest, is plain code with a couple of O/S libraries installed via NuGet in VS2013 (zip handling etc).

Thanks to all who have given support and added comments to this thread... it's been a fun project to work on




Cheers..

Ian

@dmitri

Will this ever become a core feature? Exporting 100% of IDE settings, including accounts.