Text diff tab

Opened from:
- Object list tab
- Find tab
- Data diff tab
Applicable tab-specific toolbar actions:
- Copy selection to clipboard
- Show all, new and changed, new, changed lines
- Jump to the next, previous change
Applicable object types: Table definitions, Queries, Forms, Reports, Modules and Macros

This tab allows to compare text definition of some particular database programming object (like query or module) or text column value:

Vertical toolbar between two panels contains additional tab-specific actions:

Open data diff for the current table/query
Open data diff for the current table/query filtered only to new and changed records
Indent SQL text, for queries
Show both layout and module, for forms and reports
Show module only, for forms and reports
Show layout only, for forms and reports
Ignore binary content, for forms and reports
Ignore layout noise (changes in layout version, checksum and NoSaveCTIWhenDisabled values), for forms and reports
Ignore case
Ignore leading and trailing whitespaces
Ignore all whitespaces
Ignore empty lines
Show tab and space characters (the state of this toggle is synchronized with the same toggle in the Object list bottom text preview)

Main text area highlights new and changed lines (whole line highlighted), bottom panel shows selected line with per-character changes highlighted. Top panel shows text changes summary: total number of rows, new, changed and new+changed line counts. Note that when you change text comparison options like ignore case or white spaces - changes highlight and new/changed totals can be changed because of different text comparison rules.

You can filter text lines to show only new, changed or new+changed lines. In this case most of the unchanged lines are collapsed and can be shown using Expand above/Expand below actions in the text. Number of unchanged lines shown by default is configured in the settings dialog, on the 'Text diff' tab, option 'New/changed view additional lines count'.

Free version limitations:

Show all/new/changed toolbar actions are not available
Not available bottom panel with selected line details
Not available ignore form/layout binary content and version&checksum toolbar actions
No jump to the next/previous change
No changes highlight in scrollbar
No 'Open data diff' and 'Open table structure diff' actions
No 'Show tab and space characters' action

Last updated: 2024-04-23