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  Comparing WT Library - 2011 vs. 2012

  by MeanMrMustard in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a couple of years ago, i participated in a thread on this site comparing the old nwt (1984) to the new nwt (2013).

  i was able to produce a nwt mash up pdf showing the side-by-side differences between the two versions of the nwt.

  herethis site claims it will hold the file for download for a long time.

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  MeanMrMustard

  Hola Bobcat,

  The Visual C++ with MFC pre-dates VB 6. I think even VB 5. During that time it was Borland C++ competing with Microsoft. I don't even think Borland is around anymore. But during the time, I thought it was better than MFC. Not much in the way of Windows development is outside of .NET these days. But it looks like WT Library is hanging on!

  I used to do all sorts of VB.NET development, but now my work is C# and web based. I agree, it is terribly hard to keep up with all the stuff that is out there...

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  Comparing WT Library - 2011 vs. 2012

  by MeanMrMustard in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a couple of years ago, i participated in a thread on this site comparing the old nwt (1984) to the new nwt (2013).

  i was able to produce a nwt mash up pdf showing the side-by-side differences between the two versions of the nwt.

  herethis site claims it will hold the file for download for a long time.

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  MeanMrMustard

  @fastJehu:

  Good news and bad news. The goods news is that I downloaded the German version, and it worked! The bad news is... that it didn't work for you. I would need to know a bit more information. I think it is something on your side because it fires up for me on a stand alone installation and starts exporting the German version with no issue.

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  Comparing WT Library - 2011 vs. 2012

  by MeanMrMustard in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a couple of years ago, i participated in a thread on this site comparing the old nwt (1984) to the new nwt (2013).

  i was able to produce a nwt mash up pdf showing the side-by-side differences between the two versions of the nwt.

  herethis site claims it will hold the file for download for a long time.

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  MeanMrMustard

  @Bobcat:

  I take it back - I think WT Library was done with Visual Studio C++ with MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes). I can tell by the "class name" used for the main window. It is auto generated with the same pattern that platform used.

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  Comparing WT Library - 2011 vs. 2012

  by MeanMrMustard in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a couple of years ago, i participated in a thread on this site comparing the old nwt (1984) to the new nwt (2013).

  i was able to produce a nwt mash up pdf showing the side-by-side differences between the two versions of the nwt.

  herethis site claims it will hold the file for download for a long time.

  1. 
  2. 
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  MeanMrMustard

  @fastJehu,

  It should work with any language - although, I can't test it to make sure. The link below is a download for the traverser and diff programs only - NO NEED FOR VISUAL STUDIO. I posted the code a few posts back, and if you have Visual Studio 2010 or greater, you can run it from that, and even modify it. However, for anyone that wants to give it a shot without the need for code, here are the binaries only.

  LINK

  The traverser and diff programs are .NET 4.0 or above. I used common controls for these applications so if you are running any recent version of Windows, it should just run without issue.

  When you run the program is should look like this:

  
  

  Just:

  1) Start WT library - don't navigate anywhere in the WT library. Just start it.

  2) Click "Find Windows & Process Info"

  3) Click "Visually Confirm" - which should flash the List View in the WT library window

  4) Click Next to move to the next page.

  5) Pick an export location

  6) Click RUN

  It should start to navigate through the WT library and dump the contents. I might try a different language later if I can get my hands on a copy somewhere. However, I think it would work as-is.

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  Comparing WT Library - 2011 vs. 2012

  by MeanMrMustard in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a couple of years ago, i participated in a thread on this site comparing the old nwt (1984) to the new nwt (2013).

  i was able to produce a nwt mash up pdf showing the side-by-side differences between the two versions of the nwt.

  herethis site claims it will hold the file for download for a long time.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
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  MeanMrMustard

  @fastJehu,

  Thanks! If you have any questions, let me know.

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  Comparing WT Library - 2011 vs. 2012

  by MeanMrMustard in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a couple of years ago, i participated in a thread on this site comparing the old nwt (1984) to the new nwt (2013).

  i was able to produce a nwt mash up pdf showing the side-by-side differences between the two versions of the nwt.

  herethis site claims it will hold the file for download for a long time.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
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  MeanMrMustard

  @Bobcat,

  The WT is most likely programmed in C or C++. I have my bet on C. Reasons: 1) It is a fairly old program. 2) if it used Java or .NET, there wouldn't have been a memory leak. Any of the more modern languages that run in a "virtual" environment tend to employ a garbage collector. If any object becomes unreferenced, the garbage collector will reclaim the memory. This happens automatically. To get the type of memory leak I see in the WT library, you need to use a language that will allow you to allocate memory, and it won't give it back until the programmer explicitly calls for it to be free.

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  Comparing WT Library - 2011 vs. 2012

  by MeanMrMustard in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a couple of years ago, i participated in a thread on this site comparing the old nwt (1984) to the new nwt (2013).

  i was able to produce a nwt mash up pdf showing the side-by-side differences between the two versions of the nwt.

  herethis site claims it will hold the file for download for a long time.

  1. 
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  MeanMrMustard

  @keinlezard:

  I don't see why you couldn't dump the french version of the WT library with the program. I think it would work with any language.

  If you have a way to traverse wol.jw.org, and you had it constantly looping through (slowly of course), looking for anything different.. that would neat. I think at that point you would need to introduce a database of change history.

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  Comparing WT Library - 2011 vs. 2012

  by MeanMrMustard in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a couple of years ago, i participated in a thread on this site comparing the old nwt (1984) to the new nwt (2013).

  i was able to produce a nwt mash up pdf showing the side-by-side differences between the two versions of the nwt.

  herethis site claims it will hold the file for download for a long time.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
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  MeanMrMustard

  @Anders Andersen,

  It would be interesting to see how much a publication from, say, 1980 has changed since the original version. But that sounds like another big project... ha ha.

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  Comparing WT Library - 2011 vs. 2012

  by MeanMrMustard in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a couple of years ago, i participated in a thread on this site comparing the old nwt (1984) to the new nwt (2013).

  i was able to produce a nwt mash up pdf showing the side-by-side differences between the two versions of the nwt.

  herethis site claims it will hold the file for download for a long time.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
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  MeanMrMustard

  @darkspilver:

  That would be another interesting project: to pull the contents of wol. Judging by the structure, it looks similar, but not exact. I wonder if WT would detect massive traversal hits on their site and shut it down.

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  Comparing WT Library - 2011 vs. 2012

  by MeanMrMustard in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  a couple of years ago, i participated in a thread on this site comparing the old nwt (1984) to the new nwt (2013).

  i was able to produce a nwt mash up pdf showing the side-by-side differences between the two versions of the nwt.

  herethis site claims it will hold the file for download for a long time.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
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  MeanMrMustard

  Code ZIP: Here

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