Like most developers, the programmers at SRP Computer Solutions, Inc. love making tools that simplify complex tasks and make us more productive. With so many tools, it was only a matter of time before we created a tool to help manage our tools, specifically, the deployment of our tools.

Repository Deployment Kits (RDKs) are the means by which we deploy our tools such as SRP Editor, SRP Utilities, etc. As such, we found ourselves expending a lot of time and effort on just the RDK management. Maintaining RDKs requires several steps and a separate tool. Since we spend so much time in the SRP Editor, it seemed natural to enhance the SRP Editor with time saving RDK tools. This thought process led to the “Add to RDK” menu and the RDK command.

Add to RDK

The “Add to RDK” tool is accessed via the Tools menu or by pressing F6.
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Recently a customer reported that they were having trouble installing the SRP Set MinMaxInfo utility. Immediately I began to get suspicious and through a quick Q&A session discovered that the customer was attempting to install this from the three year old installer which is still available from our Downloads page. This served as a helpful reminder that our Downloads page is seriously outdated. Not only do we no longer support the original installer for the SRP Set MinMaxInfo utility, we no longer provide that as a stand-alone utility! Instead we have bundled it within our feature rich (but still free) SRP Utilities.

We realized that perhaps many OpenInsight developers might not be aware of this product. Although it was unveiled during one of our 2008 Revelation Users Conference presentations we never updated our website to make it available to the community at large. This was somewhat on purpose as it is customary for conference materials (or product in this case) to remain exclusive to conference attendees for a period of time in order to encourage more people to participate. It is now time to showcase the many tools that comprise the SRP Utilities package. To kick things off we will focus on some very useful Array functions.
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