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After doing a folder compare I see the files that are different, so no problem. However, when I double click the files that are different it opens showing me the bytes from the hex compare instead of the actual text from the text files that I'd like to see. If I right click and open with text compare I get what I expect. Question is how do I simply get the files to open with text compare with double click by default? (I think I did this in v3 by eliminating the hex compare options from the session but I have not yet seen the right way to accomplish this in v4). Thanks.
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Hello,
In your Tools menu -> File Formats dialog, do you have a format defined for the current file extension? If there is a Hex format that matches the *.ext, then it would open in the Hex Compare.
If you have no defined formats, then BC4 scans for non-text information, and will open the Hex Compare if there is any binary format. If you want to override this, you can create a New (+) Text format for your extension to override for that file type.Aaron P Scooter Software -
I did try to create a new text format and listed the 3 extensions; *.rpt,*.fac,*.csm. I'm not sure what in the tabs besides extension on the general tab needs filling out. These files 'can' contain binary information depending on if they were open/saved within the application they are used but that isn't necessary. So they may or may not contain it. In either case, the text compare seems to show me what I'm after, it just doesn't seem to want to open that way by default. Thanks for the info.Originally posted by Aaron View PostComment
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Hello,
The extensions should be separated with ;
You'll want to verify that syntax compared to one of the factory defaults, as any extra spaces or "," would break the definition so it wouldn't trigger.Aaron P Scooter SoftwareComment
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I was blind and used ",". It behaves as expected now. Thank you very much.Comment
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