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<h1>BranchView 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 .<br>
- You must select one file/directory in P4 client, before BranchView can be started from
"tools" menu.<br>
- If you use BranchView plugin for Eclipse, ensure, that you properly install <a href="http://p4eclipse.sourceforge.net/">P4Eclipse</a>
plugin too.</p>
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<h2>I will use my custom Diff tool, but BranchView won't do this </h2>
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<p> - Run BranchView and set "diff tool path" property (right mouse click on BranchView
window for BranchView menu) 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>
-<a href="installation.html"> check</a> BranchView properties: "diff tool 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"> c:\my diff tool\tool.exe</span> use<span class="code">
"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
only after restart or on next operation. After a closing of all BranchView windows, all
properties wil be stored in a property file. But if you "kill" BranchView task,
BranchView cannot save properties. Startup parameter will be used first, even if properties
file exist and contains other values. </p>
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<h2> BranchView repaint the view to slowly</h2>
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<p> - If you try to load one big directory with many branches/revisions,
then BranchView need lot of time to draw they all on screen...</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>On JDK 1.4.1 for Windows (may be for other OS'es too) and BranchView version
< 1.3 mouse scroll/drag does not work correctly. </h2>
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<p> Workaround: none. Use <a href="links.html">newer versions of BranchView</a>.
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This is both bug in BranchView version < 1.3 and on new 1.4.1 Swing
libraries from Sun. </p>
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<h2>Is the source code available?</h2>
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<p> - Now yes!!! I'm absolutely sure, that only commented code is good
code, and i hope, i have posted only good code.</p>
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<h2> Where is the source code available?</h2>
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<p> - Under Perforce (<a href="http://www.perforce.com">www.perforce.com</a>)
public depot, path is: //public_depot/guest/andrei_loskutov/branchview</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 |