Grigsoft.com Development blog

CompareIt update

Igor Green — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:06:01 +0000

Dialogs size are stored for each resolution;
Fixed some icons problems;
Fixed problem with Search dialog;

Downloads: wincmp4b.zip (1M, #2186) and Unicode

Encoding selection for CompareIt

Igor Green — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:56:19 +0000

Unicode version of CompareIt now has ability to select encoding in View>Encoding menu. It will only work when opening non-unicode files. Note that ANSI version supports encoding specified in Font selection.
Downloads: Unicode (1M, #2184)

Also, I have update for shell extension, which should finally work fine with Win7, including 64b:
wincmpext.zip (110KB)

Synchronize It! update

Igor Green — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:24:57 +0000

Small Synchronize It! update:
show number of same files and support Alt+Gray Plus/Minus to select files of same type.

Downloads: wndsyncb.zip (1MB, #1701) and Unicode

Using Compare It! with Git

Igor Green — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:37:47 +0000

Git is becoming more and more popular as version control system, thanks to it’s famous creator. Here are few advices on how you can use Compare It! (or any other external comparer) as a difference tool. Note that since Compare It! does not yet support 3-way merge, you can only use it as a difference viewer.
I have to admit that I’m not even close to a pro-git user, so if you have some corrections or improvements, please feel free to let me know.

Here and later I will use D:\Git as your Git installation folder.

1. Starting comparison from command line
Open D:\git\etc\gitconfig and add these keys and sections:
[difftool "wincmp"] cmd = F:/Wincmp/wincmp3.exe $LOCAL //=\"Old version\" $REMOTE
[alias] cmp = difftool --tool=wincmp
Note that backslashes in path were replaced by normal slashes (/) - git requires this change.

Now to compare branches, you can say:

git cmp master - to compare current folder state with indexed master branch;
git cmp master v1.0 - to compare current master and v1.0 branches.

In either case git will prompt you before invoking CompareIt for each changed file. It’s a bit awkward, but git also have some UI!

2. Using CompareIt it GitK.
Type gitk in command line to start git toolkit. Select menu Edit>Options, and in the middle of large dialog you will see option to set difference viewer. Just select CompareIt there.
Now when viewing changes in specific commit in patch mode, you can right click file and select Difference viewer there. Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to work when viewing changes between 2 branches, but maybe this will be fixed in future.

Synchronize It! update

Igor Green — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:53:14 +0000

Small update for 3.5 - now include\exclude folder mask can include variables too.

Downloads: wndsyncb.zip (1M, #1699) and Unicode

Synchronize It! 3.5 RC2

Igor Green — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:02:46 +0000

Added sorting pane (that would be optional), and fixed bug with sorting after start.

Downloads: wndsyncb.zip (1M, #1696) and Unicode

Synchronize It! 3.5 RC

Igor Green — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:22:14 +0000

I have found quite a critical bug, which could random affect anyone using Projects feature. So I have decided to make a release with what we have ready to this time:
- Win7 compatibility issues fixed;
- FTP can transfer specific files in Text mode;
- general exclude list;
- limit depth of subfolders searched;
- experimental “Detect possible conflicts” feature.
This is almost ready 3.5 release, so let’s call it RC

Downloads: wndsyncb.zip (1M, #1692) and Unicode

I’d like to take few words about “Detect possible conflicts”. This one is really quite simple, but the idea only comes to me few days ago. I think it will be useful if you often sync same locations. In this case usually you only transfer files, which you have modified since last sync. And it would be reasonable to suggest, that if target folder has a modified file within same date range, then it’s probably a conflict. Synchronize It! can detect this if History files are used, but without history it was unable to detect this. Now with new option Synchronize It! will check what is the oldest time of listed newer source files, and warn you if it’s going to overwrite any target file newer then that time. I’m playing with this simple feature for few days, and I really like it. It becomes unusable for large first-time sync though, so I will either have to disable it automatically for this case, or add an option to quickly disable highlighting. I will appreciate any feedback on this feature. Thank you!

CompareIt update

Igor Green — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:53:13 +0000

+ Search\replace command now can be limited to same\changed\added lines;
* XML formatter improved to handle multi-line comments correctly

Downloads: wincmp4b.zip (1M, #2180) and Unicode

CompareIt 4.2b update

Igor Green — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:14:15 +0000

Let’s begin summarizing changes for 4.2.
* If HTML2 report is generated without external CSS and navigation options, it will use plain html with less tables. This simplifies opening of report in MS Word, as an example.
+ CTRL+F6: toggle expanding single pane. Sidenote to myself - ESC should return original panes first, then exit.
+ Quick cancel: now CompareIt can be quickly stopped during loading progress - if you have selected wrong large files or forced partial matching goes too slow.

Downloads: wincmp4b.zip (1M, #2179) and Unicode

Shell extensions

Igor Green — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:06:15 +0000

CompareIt shell extension is fixed and should correctly work with Vista\Win7. It will also work for Synchronize It!, if placed to it’s folder. But there should be single extension registered - so for best work both programs should be placed in same folders.

Downloads: wincmpext.zip (100Kb), 64b version included.