Unified Diff Creator

[mike_pre]

Sent both to you , let me know if you havent received them by now...

[Jason Robitaille]

Originally Posted by mike_pre

Sent both to you , let me know if you havent received them by now...

emailed ya back

[bpdamas]

Simply amazing. Good work. I just used this for the first time. Impressive.

[michote]

I'm pretty new to patching.
I was trying to get some simple patches work on my german pre.
I recieved the original file using QI and saved the modified file.
Then I used your tool to create the patch. so far so good.
When I try to apply the patch I always get a Hunk failed error.
what did I wrong?
I attached the patch and the error-message.

michote

[csmann19]

Originally Posted by Jason Robitaille

It's always best to start from the base unaltered files (extracting the webos rom from the webosdoctor is always handy for this) and build patches from there.

As long as the file you use as the "original" is the unaltered original, and your multiple patches don't edit the exact same lines, then GNU patch should be able to automatically adjust for muliple patches on the same file.

Jason, I'm having an incompatibility with a patch I wrote and your "Date as Carrier String" patch and they don't modify the same lines but modify nearby lines.. anything I can do to make it work whether they have your "Date as Carrier String" patch or not?

Here's my patch:

----------------------------------------------------------
Name: Show Top-Bar Time While Locked
Version: 1.3.5.1-1
Author: csmann19
Description: Shows the time in the top bar while the screen is locked and a call is incoming. Useful in knowing to answer or not when you are expecting a call at a certain time.  Only works after installing the "Date as Carrier String" patch.

--- .orig/usr/lib/luna/system/luna-systemui/app/controllers/bar-assistant.js
+++ /usr/lib/luna/system/luna-systemui/app/controllers/bar-assistant.js
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@
 		
 	if (payload.locked != null) {
 		if (payload.locked) {
			$('date').hide();
-			$('clock').hide();
+			$('clock').show();
 			this.deviceLocked = true;
 		}
----------------------------------------------------------

Thanks!

-Chris

[Dick99999]

Great tool, thanks a lot. I'd like to add something to the wishlist, if I may.

The file open windows have no window name in Win XP. So my macro that generates the input for dif, cannot see that those windows are indeed open. Because there is a great difference in timing to open those windows, the macro has to wait a very long time to be sure the window is open.

In other words, the macro is a kind of command line and needs to know whether the file open window is indeed open for input.

Sorry for the long explanation.

[Loonytunes212]

Thanks Jason and the op for this! It is awesome!

[samid]

this is great! i havent tried it yet, but im pretty excited to make some of my mods into patches.

[mjkjr]

Thank you. I just made my first patch with 'Unified Diff Creator'. I wasn't sure of a "safe" I could test my patch afterwards so I just dropped it right into WebOS QI. Now my very own patch is on my phone working flawless! Thanks again.

[ozhone]

thanks, now I can make my own patches easyly!

[errade]

Jason, this app is incredibly useful. I'm just beginning to play around with creating my own patches and this tool has been invaluable

[mrloserpunk]

So i am working on creating my first patch. It is used to make changes to the dialpad.css and call-log.css in conjunction with my ZomPre Theme. I have the original files from a webos dr extraction, the edited files and the location of the files. I get the patch created and when I go to install it with webos quick install i get this error:

An Error occured when attempting to run /tmp/scriptFile.sh
patch: util.c:427 :savebuf: assertion 's && size' failed
aborted

i get 3 lines of the same error... any idea what i did wrong??

[mamouton]

@mrloserpunk after looking at your patch I think the problem lies with this statement. Do you have this font on your Pre font-family: bloody;

[mrloserpunk]

Originally Posted by mamouton

@mrloserpunk after looking at your patch I think the problem lies with this statement. Do you have this font on your Pre font-family: bloody;

i do, I forgot I would need to add it to others though, but it doesnt explain the webos quickinstall error on my pre.... I have the font... switching the call log and dialpad files from stock to my created ones works fine with winscp, but i cant apply them at all with quick install...

I think i just responded in 3 different places... sorry!

[mamouton]

email me the files so I can see something if you don't mind.

[mamouton]

@mrloserpunk Remove the \ No new line statement from the very last line of your patch and your problem is solved.

[mrloserpunk]

Done! ISSUE FIXED!! Thanks a million man. Although it is a shame it takes 2 patches to get the dial pad and call log distributed as part of a theme

[mamouton]

You can combine them into one once you get the patches created. Copy and paste the entire file of one patch into the bottom of the other patch and save.

[mrloserpunk]

Originally Posted by mamouton

You can combine them into one once you get the patches created. Copy and paste the entire file of one patch into the bottom of the other patch and save.

wow. Simple Fantastic and thank you! Now for preware....

[patricksmangan]

anyone know why i cant open this .application file in windows 7?

i want to get into patching, but i'm new to all of this. thanks