FAQ

1. BranchView won't starts anyway

   - Check start parameter/configuration file/tool configuration by P4 Client.
   - Check Java version: BranchView run only with JDK version >=1.2 .
   - You must select one file/directory in P4 client, before BranchView can be started from "tools" menu.

2. I will use my custom Diff tool, but BranchView won't do this
   

   - Run BranchView with "-props" parameter and set "p4.diff_exe_path" to path of your Diff - tool.

3. BranchView won't run my Diff - tool

   - examdiff.exe is not in the system path?
   - If you start BranchView with "-props" parameter: check 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.
   Example: instead of p4.diff_exe_path=c:\my diff tool\tool.exe use p4.diff_exe_path="c:\my diff tool\tool.exe"
   - If BranchView is in "offline" - mode, you cannot use Diff - tool anyway, this is limited by design.

4. BranchView forget preferences, setted in a properties dialog

   - 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 without "-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.

5. BranchView paint all revisions tight side by side, the view is to slowly

   - 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 ;).

6. BranchView can't save current view as GIF - picture

   - 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 ;).

7. BranchView don't shows the"extended" information about revision, shows it wrong or not all available information

   - 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.

8. Is the source code available?

   - 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.