[chirp_devel] General inquiry on adding "settings"

[chirp.cordless at xoxy.net]

I found that if I use Developer Tools -> Diff Tabs and set both
memory numbers to -1, I get a very useful dump, with highlighted
diffs, of the entire image. I can do it within chirp after the radio download,
although I do usually save an image of the dump for further use.

I did hack my local copy of common.py to use a 13 point font instead
of 11, a little easier for my old eyes to catch the differences, but
other than that, it's a pretty nice tool for this task.

I haven't yet looked at your bitdiff.py; what would be its advantages
over what's built into chirp?

Thanks and regards,

-dan

> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 19:50:33 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Jens J." <kd4tjx at yahoo.com>
> 
> what I'm referring to is a command-line utility in the tools folder for diffing two radio images
> I think it's in the daily source tarballs - for sure it's in the chirp.hg mercurial repo that you'll have when developing ;)
> 
> Feel free to improve/extend as you see fit.
> One thing I was thinking of doing is to revamp it as a full-on class module so the diffing/conversion functionality can reused/extended/etc, into other progs....
> 
> From: "chirp.cordless at xoxy.net" <chirp.cordless at xoxy.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 9:24 PM
> 
> Thanks, I've been using it, if we're talking Developer Tools -> Diff Tabs.
> I wouldn't attempt this task without something like it,
> and if it didn't exist, I'd start by building it, even if was just
> diffing the .img files.
> 
> -dan
> 
>> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 13:09:33 -0800 (PST)
>> From: "Jens J." <kd4tjx at yahoo.com>
>> 
>> You may also want to take a look at tools/bitdiff.py which i created to help you "diff" two radio images, to attempt to make the process of
>> 1. download an image
>> 2. change one setting
>> 3. redownload image
>> 4. compare images for what changed
>> 
>> a tad bit easier (hopefully)...
>> 
>> -Jens