Options
Display
The Display options page allows you to:
- Set Highlight Settings, which determine whether to highlight the size and date fields of Different files or not; and if so, whether to highlight larger or smaller files with regards to size, and newer or older files with regards to date.
- Set whether to use the system file icon for files in the file display, or if unchecked, show a color square which indicates the result type of files in the display. There is a separate setting for the List, Tree and Explorer views.
Note: The Overview always uses a color square to show the comparison result type of the files.
- Set which view to use for the different result type tabs.
Prompts
Control whether to use prompts in certain situations or not:
- The "prompt for which folder..." option applies specifically to the "Open" and "Properties" actions in the popup menu, when the selected file is common to both folders. If unchecked, then the files from both folders will be opened (or the properties for both files will be shown). If checked, then you will be prompted to select from which folder you want to open the file, or show the properties of the file.
Colors
The Colors page is quite straight forward and allows you to customize which colors to use for the folder colors and square icon that indicate compare result type information.
The Archive folder color settings determine what color the text of included Archive Folder files will be.
The "Use color bands" option controls whether to use color bands or not.
Diff Viewer
The Diff Viewer page allows you to set the location of a file Diff application that can compare the contents of two files and highlight the differences between them.
Most Diff applications have two panes (one on the left, and one on the right) in which each of the two files are loaded respectively. The contents are compared and then the differences between them are highlighted:
(Example of a Diff application, which highlights the differences between two documents)
There are various free and commercial Diff applications available on the internet. You may want to try WinMerge (http://winmerge.org/), which is an especially high quality open source Diff application.
After downloading and installing the application of your choice, click on the "open folder" button and point it to the location of the diff application's main executable file (.exe). (If you are using WinMerge, it is typically installed in C:\Program Files\WinMerge\WinMergeU.exe).
When a Different file is selected, the popup menu "Compare files" button, when clicked, starts the set program and passes to it, as parameters the selected file from each of the two root folders.
%1 will be replaced with the name of the file from Folder 1 and,
%2 will be replaced with the name of the file from Folder 2.
If the Diff program requires some extra command line options you can enter them in the "Command line arguments" text box, and they will be passed to the Diff program together with the file names. |
