Zugg Software :: View topic - Is there a way to import only part of a full export? [possible feature request?]

Apprentice Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Posts: 178

so I'm remaking my system.

and I have bits and pieces, laying around of my old system, but those bits and pieces contain things I'd rather not import mixed together with things I want imported.
So I was wondering is there a way for cmud to only take certain parts of an xml export document?

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Only by editing the XML document, which is not recommended. It is incredibly easy to mess up the XML that way. One lost or misplaced opening or closing tag will ruin it.

Apprentice Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Posts: 178

*nudge zugg* feature request....

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

How do you see this working? I'm having trouble imagining how you could specify what part you wanted to import without knowing what is in the package.

Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 2:23 pm

I could see it being done by class... but if you have it all in a class, just shove that into a new package and export that.

Sorcerer Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 809

I could see it displaying something like the tree in the settings editor, with a check mark beside each setting. I'm not sure what the point of this would be, though. It's no easier to uncheck certain settings during the import than to delete them after the import...

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

In order to have a tree-list, Cmud would effectively have to import the whole file anyway; all you would be doing is specifying which elements become active and get saved to the package file. I guess that would work, though. The biggest problem I can think of is that it would require a new state--"imported but not loaded". That might actually be interesting--it would let you examine the contents of a package or import file before deciding whether to fully load it. One current problem with sharing packages is that you can't examine the code without actually loading it, and potentially executing something you didn't want.

Apprentice Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Posts: 178

sounds like a good idea Rahab.

Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 149

Just import all of your settings while you are offline, then go through those settings and delete whatever you don't want.

Removing settings before they are installed isn't actually any easier than removing them after they've been installed.

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:48 pm

that wont keep onLoad events from firing

Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 149

Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:55 pm

I was thinking more of packages downloaded from the library, then imported ones.
After including it to your session, offline or not, any onLoad event would fire, unless there is the new state Rehab mentioned.

Sorcerer Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 809

Onload events won't fire if you use File -> View package instead of File -> Open.

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 5:30 am

I wouldn't recommend and don't my self download packages into my production sessions, it is a simple matter to create a new "test" session load a package look at it export/edit/save as and then use it in my own sessions.

Backtracking to the original question, you can in fact select several elements, ctrl+click and the right click and export selection to xml. As for editing the .xml files, I do realize initially it can be overwhelming, but I am unaware of any reason to completely avoid it. I have scripted many mini scripts in xml then imported them and exported edited, and imported an even larger number, and in a number of cases script suggestions have been posted in xml on the zuggsoft forums.

If you already have an xml package and you only want a little bit of it you can select and copy the complete element, start tag through the end tag copy it then paste it into the package editor. If you have selected an invalid or malformed chunk of code cmud will give you a nice error message and abort importing without screwing up your scripts.

As a final note there are several text editors that have xml/html highlighting that are of great benefit to new and experienced xml/html people, personally I use notepad++ and I forget which plugin does syntax checking and highlighting.