ExamDiff History
On this page:
- Version 1.9.4 (March 28, 2024)
- Version 1.9.3 (June 7, 2020)
- Version 1.9.2 (March 31, 2020)
- Version 1.9.1 (September 27, 2019)
- Version 1.9 (March 18, 2011)
- Version 1.8 (April 25, 2008)
- Version 1.7 (December 17, 2006)
- Version 1.6n (February 24, 2006)
- Version 1.6m (August 18, 2005)
- Version 1.6k (September 24, 2004)
- Version 1.6j (March 18, 2003)
- Version 1.6i (October 1, 2002)
- Version 1.6h (June 5, 2002)
- Version 1.6g (January 2, 2002)
- Version 1.6f (August 21, 2001)
- Version 1.6e (May 11, 2001)
- Version 1.6d (April 20, 2001)
- Version 1.6 (October 27, 1998)
- Version 1.5 (August 1, 1998)
- Version 1.4 (May 2, 1998)
- Version 1.3 (April 8, 1998)
- Version 1.1 (December 5, 1997)
- Version 1.0 October 15, 1997
- Windows 11 support
- Diff combo box colors and focus highlighting
- When diff combo box has focus, mouse wheel scrolling navigates through differences (the same is achieved by using Shift + Mouse Wheel even if the combo box is out of focus)
- Crash was possible if both files were empty
- Recompare command was broken in the previous build
- Windows 10 support
- Ability to set negative command line options for /i, /w, /b, /l, /e, /t, and /d
- Windows 7 support
- Ability to check for updates
- Ability to display long (greater than 2048 characters) lines
- Improved messages for identical or binary files
- Improved multi-monitor support
- Autopick feature in Compare dialog that remembers matching file pairs
- View/Edit command accessible via the context menu
- Separate Copy and Copy With Padding Lines commands
- Windows Vista support
- Improved current difference marker
- File names in the caption
- True-color toolbar
- Clicking the ExamDiff status bar always opened ExamDiff Pro web page
- Resizable Compare dialog
- Use of AutoComplete edit controls in Compare dialog to help complete file system paths
- Support for display DPI settings higher than normal size (96 DPI)
- Remember position of the Compare dialog
- Option to keep the Compare dialog on top of other windows
- Multi-monitor support
- Option to change margin size
- Windows XP look in XP and higher
- Support for wheel mouse
- Occasional file sharing violation in XP
- Keyboard shortcuts F7 (Previous Diff) and F8 (Next Diff)
- Command line option /sd - always show initial "Compare" dialog, even if two filenames are used
- Copy to clipboard sometimes hung the program
- Got rid of "Could not read from file ...: No error" message for empty files
- Fix for Windows 2000-style File Open dialog
- Ctrl-E keyboard shortcut didn't work
- Status bar for large fonts
- It is now possible to call ExamDiff with just one file name in the command line
- Pressing Delete key caused a crash
- UNC file names support
- Copying to clipboard stripped linebreaks
- Ignore leading white space in lines" and "Ignore trailing white space in lines" options
- Toggle Splitter Orientation command (vertical or horizontal)
- Center Splitter command
- Toggle Files command
- Menu
- Drag and drop support for dropping one or two files into Compare Dialog
- There is no need to specify both filenames -- just enter a directory name for one of the files to be compared. ExamDiff will try to use an entered filename with a specified directory name
- Multiple file change notification messages
- Change notification when ExamDiff is minimized
- Undesired visual effects and insufficient horizontal scroll size with some fonts
- Insufficient horizontal scroll size for files with multiple tabs
- Some fonts (e.g. Terminal) were not saved correctly in the registry between ExamDiff sessions
- Options to set number of recent files and search strings
- Better keyboard support (more shortcuts, scrolling panes horizontally using left/right keys when focus is on combo box, using Ctrl-Tab to switch between two panes in single pane display mode)
- Synchronized caret movement in file panes
- Colored background in status bar
- "Enable Change Notifications" option
- Ln YY, Col XX status text now counts columns by properly expanding tabs where necessary
- Option to set different background colors for added, changed, and deleted lines
- Current Difference indicator (yellow triangle) changes its position when user clicks in view panes
- Automatic detection of file changes and notification allowing the user to recompare files
- Show Differences Only option (accessible via toolbar, Options, and command line parameter /d)
- Line number command option to edit a file (scroll to and place cursor at a given line in a given editor)
- Handling files with embedded "Ctrl-Z" characters
- Handling Windows large fonts
- "Ignore blanks in lines" option has been replaced with two options: "Ignore white space in lines"and "Ignore changes in amount of white space in lines"
- Better Find (automatically puts the word under caret into Find dialog), Ctrl-F3 & Ctrl-Shift-F3 handling (as in MSVC®)
- Colored line numbers
- TAB key handling for switching between controls
- Options property pages
- Option to treat both files as text files
- Command line parameters
- Current Difference toolbar button
- Memory access violation during minimize/restore
- Horizontal auto-scroll added to combo boxes
- Better heuristic for binary/text file detection
- Drag and drop support for copying text from the comparison panes
- Drag and drop support for dropping one or two files into the program's window (e.g. from Windows Explorer)
- Customizable background color for differences
- Failed to ignore differences in leading blanks with option "Ignore blanks in lines"
- Much faster processing
- Better text/binary file detection
- Show Left File, Show Right, Show Both Files toolbar buttons
- Persistent find dialog (remembers the most recent searches)
- Handling files which have lines ending with only a carriage return (by adding a line feed to them)
- Replacing part of the file name captions with ellipses, if necessary, so that the result fits in the rectangle
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