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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 >=1.2
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- You must select one file/directory in P4 client, before BranchView
can be started from "tools" 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 "-props" parameter and set "p4.diff_exe_path"
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 "-props" parameter: <a href="installation.html">check</a>
property file: "p4.diff_exe_path" should point to path of
your Diff - tool. If path of the Diff - tool contains blanks, use
"" 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="c:\my
diff tool\tool.exe"</span><br>
- If BranchView is in "offline" - 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>
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<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>
"-props" parameter, default options respectively startup
parameter will be used, even if properties file exist and contains
your changes. Currently is only usage of "-props" 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"extended" 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 "broken" 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>
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<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 | |
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| #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 |
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| #1 | 2007 | andrei_loskutov | english documentation now available |