(GPL) pbf2tga...gplss0X converter

Is there a utility that will automate this converter? I'd like to covert a massive number of the screen shots without having to do all that typing. Thanks in advance, Mike Barlow -- ========================================= Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing? MikeBa on the TEN network. Member of R.O.R. 1999 http://w3.ime.net/~marknjess/noflame.html ========================================= Racing online with the help of...... Race Communications Association http://members.xoom.com/RCA/toc.html Holodyne Engineering Mystic Music mikeba.vcf < 1K Download

Mike... No utility required. The functionality you need is built into Windows. Just do the following: 1. Select the View | Folder Options command in Explorer or any folder window. 2. In the Folder Options dialog box, select the File Types tab. 3. Select the New Type command button 4. In the Add New File Type dialog, type a description in the "Description of Type" field, like "GPL Screenshot File." 5. In the "Associated extension" field type "PBF". 6. Select the New command button. 7. In the New Action dialog type "open" in the "Action" field and "C:\SIERRA\gpl\pbf2tga.exe "%1"" in the "Application used to..." field. 8. Select the OK command button. 9. Select the Close command button. 10. Select the Close command button. There you have it, in *10* *easy* steps. You've just made an association between all files ending in .PBF and the PBF2TGA translation utility. Now all you have to do is select one or more PBF files and hit Enter and the translation of all the selected files is performed. The new TGA files will be placed in the same directory as the source files, wherever they might be. Caution: Before you attempt to convert 100 files simultaneously and bring your system to its knees, select just a few and see how your system handles the number that you've selected. Windows creates an instance of pbf2tga.exe for every file you selected, so you'll have many applications running simultaneously. More powerful systems can handle this with greater aplomb than less powerful systems. Much easier, isn't it?

Mika... Try my file association solution, I've posted in this same thread. Once you've set it up, it makes it *much* easier from that point on. Regards, Jack

Go to the pits (www.theuspits.com) and go to the GPL section and they have a batch pbf-tga converter there, it will convert all of the pbf files in the dir to tga. Works good and no *easy* *10* steps to work with. Jesse

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> Is there a utility that will automate this converter? I'd like to >covert a massive number of the screen shots without having to do all >that typing. >Thanks in advance, >Mike Barlow >-- >========================================= >Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing? >MikeBa on the TEN network. >Member of R.O.R. 1999 >http://w3.ime.net/~marknjess/noflame.html >========================================= >Racing online with the help of...... >Race Communications Association >http://members.xoom.com/RCA/toc.html >Holodyne Engineering >Mystic Music

Jesse... Did you understand that those 10 steps are performed once? If you're familiar and comfortable with Windows, you can probably do it in less time then it takes to download the utility. Once those ten steps are performed, all you ever have to do is select the file(s) you wish to convert, hit Enter, and "Voil" your PBF conversion's performed. No batch utility necessary. With the file association technique a batch utility is superfluous. Jack

Thanks, Jack. I did it while following ur instructions. (u can open up more than one window at a time, u know). Total time spent............abt. 15 seconds. Works like a charm. THANKS..................now i'm set for life :))))))) C

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>Jesse... >Did you understand that those 10 steps are performed once? If you're >familiar and comfortable with Windows, you can probably do it in less time >then it takes to download the utility. Once those ten steps are performed, >all you ever have to do is select the file(s) you wish to convert, hit >Enter, and "Voil" your PBF conversion's performed. No batch utility >necessary. With the file association technique a batch utility is >superfluous. >Jack

You're welcome, Chipper. Glad to help. Right. Just select as many PBF files as you like, hit Enter, and you're done. Couple of final tips, for those of you who aren't old grizzled Windows veterans: To select contiguous files in either Explorer or a drive window: Mouse: Click the first file in the group and then Shift-click the last file in the group. Keyboard: Highlight the first file. Move to the last file while holding down the Shift key. To select NON-contiguous files in either Explorer or a drive window: Mouse: Ctrl+click each file desired. Keyboard: Highlight a desired file. Depress the Ctrl key while moving to the next desired file. Press the Spacebar while continuing to depress the Ctrl key to select the file.

here's what i do and it works just fine......type out the first line sequence after the command prompt...when it is completed and your ready to move on the next one....instead of typing it all out again....just hit your F3 function key...it repeats the first line command and all you do is then backspace the end of the line to the pbf number erasing it then retype in the new number of the next pic and voila....much less to type in....i can do 10 pics like this in no time at all.

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> Is there a utility that will automate this converter? I'd like to > covert a massive number of the screen shots without having to do all > that typing. > Thanks in advance, > Mike Barlow > -- > ========================================= > Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing? > MikeBa on the TEN network. > Member of R.O.R. 1999 > http://w3.ime.net/~marknjess/noflame.html > ========================================= > Racing online with the help of...... > Race Communications Association > http://members.xoom.com/RCA/toc.html > Holodyne Engineering > Mystic Music

Gary... Though the 10 steps I described earlier in this thread look a little tedious, give it a try! You won't believe how much faster it is. You only have to do those 10 steps once! An that's not "once per session"...just "once". Give it a try! Jack

No one has mentioned this, but the simplest solution would be to select all your files in Explorer then drag and drop them onto the executable. I haven't tried this with multiple files (and I'm at work), but this should work if the program is written correctly and the file type registry entry is set up right. Dave Ewing

>No one has mentioned this, but the simplest solution would be to select >all your files in Explorer then drag and drop them onto the executable. >I haven't tried this with multiple files (and I'm at work), but this >should work if the program is written correctly and the file type >registry entry is set up right. Replying to myself here -- unfortunately this doesn't work as it should. It only converts one of the items. Dave Ewing

I might have missed the beginning of the thread but if you want to rapidly convert a bunch of files, bring up an MS-DOS window and type: for %f in (*.pbf) do pbf2tga -32 %f This will iterate through all the PBF files and convert them to similarly named TIF files.

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>>No one has mentioned this, but the simplest solution would be to select >>all your files in Explorer then drag and drop them onto the executable. >>I haven't tried this with multiple files (and I'm at work), but this >>should work if the program is written correctly and the file type >>registry entry is set up right. >Replying to myself here -- unfortunately this doesn't work as it should. It >only converts one of the items. >Dave Ewing

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