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Aha, yeah.. that first program i used does have support for it.
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Hello,
I'm author of Compare It! (http://www.grigsoft.com/), I have noticed you have spoken about my tool and find html report ugly. In fact I know that 
, but I'm just not so good in styling, so my question would be how do you want this report to look like? If you guys here could together prepare some sample report as you like it, I could try to implement it and will gladly share several licenses for your help.
Thank you,
Igor Green
http://www.grigsoft.com
Compare It! + Synchronize It! : Files and folders comparison never was easier!
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Igor: Wow! That was fast :)
I'm sure one of the guys will come up with something. The main thing I'm looking for is the use of CSS so that the reports can be styled without messing with the markup.
"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."
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Rickard:
Yes, CSS will appear in next version, I could even post here a link for test version in few days. One of my other users have already helped me desiging CSS-ready report, but I'm still looking for some layout suggestions.
Igor Green
http://www.grigsoft.com
Compare It! + Synchronize It! : Files and folders comparison never was easier!
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http://www.dr-code.org/diffreport.htm
Its a rip-off of hdiffs layout and colors, layout-wise i am not sure what could be changed since that is pretty much how it should be.. the colors are easily changed in the css at the top of the page
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Thank you, I will keep this one in mind.
Igor.
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Myran wrote:
http://www.dr-code.org/diffreport.htm
Its a rip-off of hdiffs layout and colors, layout-wise i am not sure what could be changed since that is pretty much how it should be.. the colors are easily changed in the css at the top of the page
I think I would do the same layout but do all the formatting e.g. borders, padding, cell widths with CSS. That leaves nothing in the markup apart from the table structure and makes it easier to come up with a print specific layout.
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In case anybody still cares, I have prepared version of Compare It! with improved report styling. I will add support for external CSS generation a bit later, right now I'm interested in opinions about new layout.
Sample report: http://www.grigsoft.com/newreport.html
New app version: http://www.grigsoft.com/wincmp3b.zip.
Thank you!
Igor Green
http://www.grigsoft.com
Compare It! + Synchronize It! : Files and folders comparison never was easier!
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Much better. The differences between the files are obvious at first glance which is exactly what you want. Personally I would make things more obvious by using the background colour to signify new lines as opposed to changed lines.
One picky point, you don't need a seperate table for the header row just use
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th colspan="2"></th>
<th colspan="2"></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
And then style the th {} and/or thead tr {} which means you can also dispose of the header class.
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Thank you!
Igor.
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So, for those who is interested, here is probably final version of my compare and merge tool with updated report:
Sample report with ext. CSS: http://www.grigsoft.com/newreport.html
New app version: http://www.grigsoft.com/wincmp3b.zip.
Thank you!
Igor Green
http://www.grigsoft.com
Compare It! + Synchronize It! : Files and folders comparison never was easier!
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A question Igor. Your software costs money. Are there any limitations to the download you linked to? Is it a time-limited trial perhaps? I'm asking because I don't want people to have to buy a piece of software to do e.g. a mod for PunBB. That is, if we decide to go this route at all.
"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."
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Rickard,
Sorry. I thought this is obvious. You are right, my program is not freeware, link I have posted is an ordinary trial version. It does have some limitations, but it can be used to generate reports. The only reason I'm posting it is some people here are already using my tool, but they don't like the report format. That's why I have asked what the problem is, and have tried to fix it. In no way I'm suggesting Compare It! to other users, who just need to do some quick comparison reports - there are a lot of free tools (mentioned earlier) that does the job almost as good as I do.
Sorry if my posts were similar to ad or something, if you think I should not post anymore - I won't.
Igor.
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No no, my mistake. You have done nothing wrong :)
"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."