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Visual Comparer 1.60, build 0441
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- New features:
- now Visual Comparer compatible with Windows Vista;
- comparison map now show bookmars also;
- focus switching between file selection comboboxes by tab;
- new command line parameter - "fullscreen". You can run Visual Comparer in full screen mode from command line;
- now you can change eol character for each line(s) individually (see popup menu);
- Fixed:
- if app in non active state, the external file change notification popup arise in any case;
- the crlf type of new line always is DOS type (fixed, now inherithed from current line);
- the crlf type in virtual lines always is DOS type (fixed, now calculated from source file);
- saving failed on UTF8 files that contain many utf specific symbols;
- full screen mode on multimonitor systems;
- indenting a selection which contains empty lines created superfluous whitespaces;
- the placholders for tools do not change when you press "swap panes" (ctrl-u);
- drag and drop text operations from one pane to other is not unicode compliant. As result, your unicode/language specific characters may by corrupted);
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Visual Comparer 1.60, build 0414
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- New features:
- new look of icons on toolbars;
- advanced file masks in file filters. Now you can make complex
file masks ("*box.cpp" or "*.h_version_??" for example);
- "TipsOfTheDay" tooltip improved;
- when merging lines with Ctrl+Alt+left/right, the cursor does
advance to the next line/difference block;
- "swap pathes" command on "Comparison" toolbar;
- "copy left path to right" command on "Comparison" toolbar;
- alternative font (F11 - to quick toggle between general and alternative fonts);
- new arguments for the user-defined tools and applications:
$(SrcFileName), $(TrgFileName), $(SrcFileExt) and $(TrgFileExt);
Fixed:
- saving of the virtual lines block as empty line (if the block is first in file);
- tab problem with "Insert spaces" mode;
- crashing on very long lines;
- when you begin typing outside of a line, tabs are insered
before first typed character even if "insert spaces" is enabled;
- when you try select something using mouse double click and then
use Shift+Left/Right (or Up/Down) cursors, new selection begins
where the cursor currently is (it should enlarge/shrink the existing
selection instead);
- few little bugs fixed;
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Visual Comparer 1.50, build 0385
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- New features:
- you can move lines between empty (virtual) lines inside the difference block ("Ctrl+Enter" or "Shift+Enter");
- partial merging of different characters in the line; if you want to merge the differences in a line, select them and press "Alt+(Left or Right)";
- Advanced Data Streams support. Now you can compare, edit and save an existing ADS in the file directly in Visual Comparer (for advanced users);
- the "properties" command for the opened files;
- new comparison flag: "ignore EOL differences". You can turn off this parameter if you want to see the differences in the files with mixed EOLs in lines (See the property tab Tools->Setting->Comparison);
- EOL markers toggling added (See menu View->EOL markers);
- prevent EOL from changing flag added (See the "Merging" property page). Now you can merge differences keeping the original EOL markers in lines.
- Fixed:
- white space toggling now works synchronously for both panes;
- redesign of drop down recent files list menu. Now file pairs arranged one under another;
- a few minor bugs;
- Other:
- the recent files list drop down menu redesigned. Now file pairs are arranged one under another;
- new property page "Merging" added to the "Settings" dialog box. Some settings moved from the "Editors" page to the "Merging" page.
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Visual Comparer 1.40, build 0375
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- New features:
- the complete adjustment of similar lines in each block of differencies at the program start up or after repeated comparing of active files;
- the "Tip of the Day" has been implemented. Use "Alt+F1" to invoke it;
- file names in the title of the main window for easy navigation between instances of Visual Comparer;
- new look and extended functionality of "Parsers" property page in the "Settings" dialog box. Now you can set up colors for difference blocks individually for each parser;
- a few additional options in the "Settings->Editors" property page;
- some notification messages transformed to the popup tooltips;
- "Ctrl+D" shortcut added to invoke the recent files list;
- Fixed:
- "Lines similarity" algorithm;
- a few minor bugs;
- Other:
- the "Comparison colors" property page removed from the "Setting" dialog box. Now all comparison colors for difference blocks are the part of the parser syntax highlight engine. Therefore you can configure these colors for each parser individually.
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Visual Comparer 1.30, build 0364
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- New features:
- the "Adjust similar lines" command for difference blocks;
- the "Full Screen mode" command (F9);
- recent list of last 10 pairs of compared files;
- percent of similarity for current lines in the status bar
- two new arguments for the user-defined tools and applications: $(Row at cursor) and $(Column at cursor);
- tagged expressions in replacement string added (see Replace dialog);
- the topmost line number displayed for each pane in the information pane while scrolling, "Line numbers" mode being off;
- active view cyclic switch by "Home" and "End";
- "read only" indicator in the caption of the comparison pane;
- keeping up cursor position after the "Compare Files" button has been pressed repeatedly for current files;
- Fixed:
- crash when some file(s) is empty (have zero length);
- crash when the file to compare is actually the remote file (mapped through NetDrive or other specific driver). For example, some directory on FTP server may be mapped to logical disk on your computer (through NetDrive);
- some difference lines in some situations is not visible in the comparison map;
- difference lines not visible in the comparison map in some cases;
- the comparison map failed to use the new comparison colors settings;
- conflict drawing of the selection blocks with margin area while scrolling horizontal with "Show Line Numbers" on;
- a few minor bugs;
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Visual Comparer 1.20, build 0345
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- New features:
- support fonts with variable-width characters;
- bold, italic and underline properties for syntax highlighting;
- new command line parameters;
- Shift+MouseWheel keyboard accelerator for scrolling text horizontally;
- Ctrl+MouseWheel keyboard accelerator for navigting through the next/prev differences;
- Fixed:
- the information pane and the syntax highlight visibility flag state not stored;
- the comparison map auto refresh bug;
- a few minor bugs;
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Visual Comparer 1.10, build 0325
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- New features:
- multilanguage interface;
- modeless find/replace dialog with regular expressions support;
- Visual Comparer showing some lines as equal, being really different (for instance, "ignore all spaces" comparison flag being on), you can synchronize these lines with "Different to LEFT/RIGHT" and "Line to LEFT/RIGHT" commands;
- Fixed:
- toolbars became not visible being docked to the left or right side of the main window;
- "Save As" functionality was unlike other Windows applications;
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Visual Comparer 1.01, build 0302
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- New features:
- "Save" and "Save As" commands for active file added.
- Fixed:
- the MFC-Version of Visual Comparer installing caused the error: "Cannot replace msvcrt.dll, permission denied";
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Visual Comparer 1.0, build 0301
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- New features:
- context sensitive Help;
- syntax highlighting parsers implemented as external plug-in modules;
- user-defined tools and applications launch support;
- resetting colors in the syntax highlighting parser to default values;
- new syntax highlighting parsers:
- VBScript;
- Visual Basic .NET;
- Borland Delphi 7 (Object Pascal).
- switching Comparison Map scrollbar size between small and standard;
- Navigation Bar in HTML Report;
- Toolbar in the File Open dialog (Windows 2000/XP only).
- Fixed:
- "ignore leading spaces" incorrectly processed lines consisting of white spaces only;
- crash on attempting to compare folder(s);
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