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<h1>FAQ</h1>
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        <h2> BranchView won't starts anyway</h2>
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            <p> - <a href="installation.html">Check</a> start parameter/configuration 
                file/tool configuration by P4 Client.<br>
                - Check Java version: BranchView run only with JDK version &gt;=1.2 
                .<br>
                - You must select one file/directory in P4 client, before BranchView 
                can be started from &quot;tools&quot; menu.</p>
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        <h2>I will use my custom Diff tool, but BranchView won't do this<br>
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            <p> - Run BranchView with &quot;-props&quot; parameter and set &quot;p4.diff_exe_path&quot; 
                to path of your Diff - tool.</p>
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        <h2> BranchView won't run my Diff - tool</h2>
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            <p> - examdiff.exe is not in the system path?<br>
                - If you start BranchView with &quot;-props&quot; parameter: <a href="installation.html">check</a> 
                property file: &quot;p4.diff_exe_path&quot; should point to path of 
                your Diff - tool. If path of the Diff - tool contains blanks, use 
                &quot;&quot; around path.<b><br>
                Example:</b> instead of <span class="code">p4.diff_exe_path=c:\my 
                diff tool\tool.exe</span> use <span class="code">p4.diff_exe_path=&quot;c:\my 
                diff tool\tool.exe&quot;</span><br>
                - If BranchView is in &quot;offline&quot; - mode, you cannot use Diff 
                - tool anyway, this is limited by design.</p>
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        <h2>BranchView forget preferences, setted in a properties dialog</h2>
        <blockquote> 
            <p> - If you set any option in a properties dialog, this will be valid 
                for all BranchView windows, running in a same Java virtual mashine. 
                After a closing of all BranchView windows, all properties wil be stored 
                in a property file. But if you run BranchView again <b>without</b> 
                &quot;-props&quot; parameter, default options respectively startup 
                parameter will be used, even if properties file exist and contains 
                your changes. Currently is only usage of &quot;-props&quot; parameter 
                force BranchView use properties file and as result, use you custom 
                settings.</p>
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        <h2> BranchView paint all revisions tight side by side, the view is to slowly</h2>
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            <p> - If you try to load one big directory with many branches/revisions, 
                then BranchView has not enough memory for setting up the view, because 
                of restrictions of Java virtual mashine and restrictions by BranchView 
                design. Try to load smaller directories or single files, or wait for 
                2.0 Version of BranchView ;).</p>
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        <h2> BranchView can't save current view as GIF - picture</h2>
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            <p> - If you try to save view of one big directory with many branches/revisions, 
                then BranchView has not enough memory for image data, because of restrictions 
                of Java virtual mashine and restrictions by BranchView design. Try 
                to load smaller directories or single files, or wait for 2.0 Version 
                of BranchView ;).</p>
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        <h2> BranchView don't shows the&quot;extended&quot; information about revision, 
            shows it wrong or not all available information</h2>
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            <p> - It can happen, that the tooltip will be &quot;broken&quot; because 
                of too large amount of data, currently i haven't fix for this problem. 
                Nevertheless, you can get this information from BranchView: select 
                one revision, and with Ctrl + C copy the information about this revision 
                into clipboard.</p>
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        <h2> Is the source code available?</h2>
        <blockquote> 
            <p> - Theoretically yes, but currently no ;). I have to study/work and 
                no time to improve javadocs/comments, currently it is 90% german. 
                I'm absolutely sure, that only commented code is good code, and i 
                will post only good code, that is.</p>
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# Change User Description Committed
#4 2735 andrei_loskutov sources are now included to binary distribution at http://andrei.gmxhome.de/perforce/index.html
#3 2553 andrei_loskutov Docu update for 1.3 version
#2 2222 andrei_loskutov #13.10.2002 22:16 Revision 1.2.1
1)  Documentation task is finished... Yes!!!
2)  New feature: copy P4 depot path
3)  Some small fixes to menu shortkeys belongs ctrl + c and ctrl + d
4)  Clipboard fix because of JDK 1.2 - 1.3 bug
5)  Smallest refactoring on some methods.
6)  Html help updated
#1 2007 andrei_loskutov english documentation now available