With BBE11, the Differences Window always lands on my primary display. In
BBE 10 and earlier, it would open on the last monitor that it was placed.
With BBE11, when Differences Window is made taller (e.g., on a bigger
screen), the differences list (bottom of the combined view window)
stretches instead of the two files being compared. Not so helpful. Why
don't the panes for the files under compare be stretched, instead?
I have been using a script (that when saved as an Application onto Desktop)
that when you drop 2 files onto it, will open the Differences Window. Very
handy!
This script still works with BBE11 but I want to add control over the
Differences Window location, size and proportions (see below).
Ideally, would like to this script to be able to also do the following:
a) Detect if a particular monitor is connected, and if so, place Diff
Window on that monitor instead of main screen
b) Expand the Diffs Window to a given x-y size -or- to set proportion
size on the screen
c) Adjust the Diffs Window proportions to show mostly the files under
comparison and 6-8 lines of differences list.
Here is the script that has been invaluable over the years, but that I
would like to improve to accomplish tasks listed above (many thanks to
Christian Smith!)
(* BBE Compare Two Files
BASED ON: Compare Files (ignoring spaces) (BBE 6 CD-ROM)
This script compares the top two text windows in BBEdit.
It determines which is old and which is new based on their
mod dates and compares them ignoring any differences in
spaces/tabs.
Composed by Christian Smith on August 19, 2000
Distributed with BBEdit 6.0
*)
on open (file_list)
tell application "BBEdit"
activate
repeat with f in file_list
open f
end repeat
set m1 to modification date of text window 1
set m2 to modification date of text window 2
if (m1) < (m2) then
set f2 to file of text window 1
set f1 to file of text window 2
else
set f1 to file of text window 1
set f2 to file of text window 2
end if
if (m1) < (m2) then
set f2 to file of text window 1
set f1 to file of text window 2
else
set f1 to file of text window 1
set f2 to file of text window 2
end if
set c_options to {case sensitive:true, ignore curly quotes:false, ignore
leading spaces:true, ignore trailing spaces:true, ignore extra spaces:true,
}
if not differences found of (compare f1 against f2 options c_options) then
beep -- beeps if there are no differences
end if
end tell
end open
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