UltraCompare latest changes

• File merge UI enhancements
  • – Merge buttons for each difference
  • – Improved visibility of difference blocks
• Folder mode enhancements
  • – Added hash compare options: CRC, MD5, SHA1, SHA256
  • – Added timestamp compare options: Modified, Accessed, Created
• New ignore options:
  • – File extensions
  • – Daylight savings
  • – Timestamp range
• Compare arbitrary column ranges between two files
  • – Supports multiple arbitrary column sets
• Folder session display and filter option defaults can now be set in settings

Other notable enhancements and quality improvements

• Allow users to specify Git folders to include (not just exclude)
• Ignore DCIM folders from connected devices
• UltraCompare doesn’t properly extract text between square brackets from PDF documents
• UltraCompare doesn’t properly extract German open quote from PDF documents
• 3-way compare doesn’t show scrollbar for each map on Windows
• Prompt to normalize line terminators interferes with detection of UTF-16BE file format
• Crash attempting 3-way compare with certain files
• Allow difference text background color and common text background color to be independent
• EAR and WAR files should be handled the same as JAR/ZIP files
• File merge in 3-way folder mode doesn’t update modified file
• Restored command line functionality from previous versions
• Print preview shows incredibly small text
• Cannot select a large number of lines after editing in text compare
• Confirmation button added dialog prompting users to apply changes to the active session
• UltraCompare shows two files as identical when comparing local files to network files
• Wrapped lines are not completely copied to clipboard if they include “||”
• Git merge shows incorrect line count for certain merge conditions
• “New compare” dropdown should include Zip/Rar/Jar compare sessions
• Crash during folder merge with certain files

• Binary compare improvements
  • Hex offset support
    • Set hex offsets per frame to compare or ignore different areas of binary data
    • Right-click on any byte to set beginning and ending offsets per-pane
    • New session properties for offsets
  • Configure number of bytes per line
• Folder compare improvements
  • Sort folder lists by file type / extension
  • Sort indicators for column headings
• Text compare improvements
  • New UltraEdit-style Quick Find
  • Ignore spaces and tabs separately
  • Active line window can always show paired lines
• Table compare improvements
  • New option to ignore whitespace
• Git improvements
  • Optionally show conflicts / modified files at top of branch browser
  • Optionally hide remote branches in branch browser
  • Better visual indication of background Git interactions
  • Improved aesthetics for Git reviews and compares
• Command line and output improvements
  • Support for multiple ignore option flags for text mode
  • New -ignt switch to “ignore timestamp differences” for folder mode
  • Added support for -ne, -m, and -a switches for folder mode
  • New switches for setting output format:
    • -ofa will use “All frames” result format
    • -ofc will use “Difference in context” format
    • -ofo will use “One frame only” format
    • -ofs will use “Side by side” format
    • Note: These switches must be ordered after file/folder paths used for comparison
  • Generate HTML result report from command line (add .html extension to output file)
  • Difference indicators for folder mode result report:
    • * = file is different between folders
    • < = file exists in the left pane’s folder only
    • > = file exists in the right pane’s folder only
• Other improvements
  • See active / total number of differences in status bar for text, binary, and table modes
  • Support for Ctrl + mouse wheel to zoom in / out
  • New print option to set printed font size
• Several issues resolved

• Performance and visual improvements for text mode merge
• Improved responsiveness of merge controls
• Optimized navigation of large files when compare is still processing
• Improved accuracy of differences map
• Visual improvements for table mode column and row headers
• Automatic correction of mixed or incorrect line terminators on paste
• Improved handling of externally modified MS Word document
• Addressed isolated folder mode crash
• Addressed issues copying selected text in “Diffs only” view
• Addressed issue merging last difference in files
• Addressed issue with “Next diff” button not working properly
• Addressed copy/paste issues in third pain of 3-way text mode
• Other minor issues addressed

• Lightning fast text merge results
  • Re-engineered text merge to provide instant merge
  • Eliminated compare / pane refresh after merge
  • Various other minor merge improvements to provide better user experience
• New merge settings in Settings » Merge
  • Separate “prompt on merge” settings for text and folder mode
  • More granular settings for folder and text modes
• Various theme and difference color improvements
• Scrollable map sizing improvements
• Force refresh for folder mode (Shift + F5)
• Theme improvements:
  • Added three new dark color themes: Studio Dark, One Dark, Predawn
  • Set Studio Dark as default theme
  • Improvements for text mode colors
• Key mapping for Find Next / Find Previous
• Support for ignoring files or folders with spaces in name
• Updated FTP component
• Improvements for selecting items in 3-way folder compare
• Other minor improvements