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SDietrichGermany

LabVIEW-Compare allows ignoring cosmetic changes at runtime

Status: New

When I diff a VI, I am usually interested in the change in semantics or syntax, not the cosmetics. I usually don't care about moved wires and tunnels and stuff like that.

The critical word in here is "usually". Because there are cases when I might be interested in these changes, too.

 

We all know the command-line options like "-nobdcosm" and "-nofppos". But these require closing LV-Compare and restarting it. And they assume my RCS-frontend allows me to specify multiple command-lines for diffing the same filetype, which is not true for the one I use (TortoiseSVN).

So I would like to have a way of toggeling these (and the other command-line options) from within the LV-Compare window. Create checkboxes or fold them into a context-menu, there are many ways of implementing, either one will do.

Of course the user would have to update the list of differences after toggeling one of these options, but hey: the "Update" button is already there 🙂

2 Comments
SMcGraw
NI Employee (retired)

This is a good idea!

danny_t
Active Participant

Hi,

 

I had overlooked your idea and posted basically the same thing here

 

I dod not know if there is a way to add my +8 o your +18 well +19 as I just kudos it was well

 

cheers

 

Dannyt

Danny Thomson AshVire Ltd