3 messages in com.perforce.perforce-user[p4] RE: Perforce image diff'er
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Stephen Ng12 Dec 2002 09:23 
Lee Tat13 Dec 2002 11:26 
Stephen Ng13 Dec 2002 12:52 
Subject:[p4] RE: Perforce image diff'er
From:Lee Tat (le@wrq.com)
Date:12/13/2002 11:26:25 AM
List:com.perforce.perforce-user

I just started playing w/ this tool. I can't seem to get it to work. Has anyone had any success?

According to the documentation from the link below, it says:

To diff images from P4Win <http://www.perforce.com/perforce/products/p4win.html> , go to P4Win's Settings->Options->Diff/Merge dialog. Check "allow diff of binary files", hit the Advanced button, and associate SQUID with file extensions corresponding to images.

I did this. I added the following extensions: .tif .gif .bmp. to use the squid.exe tool.

To test the call of squid.exe: I synced to version one of a tif file, did a edit of the file and then right click to diff against the depot which is version 2. Then I get the message in the status pane: ' ===> Client file //docs/trunk/print/enu/wix_install/art/Sel_feat_enu.tif does not differ from the depot version'.

The 2 files are different sizes so they should be different. I also I checked the command that was executed: 'STATUS: Executing p4 diff -t //docs/trunk/print/enu/wix_install/art/Sel_feat_enu.tif'. Notice, the command is p4 diff -t file instead of calling squid.exe. Shouldn't it call the squid tool?

I did another test. I synced in a directory of the 2 tif files. Then on the command line I called squid.exe to compare the 2 tif files and I get this SQUID error dialog: 'couldn't load images! (Unsupported format or nonexistent files?)'. I used the diff.exe tool to make sure the 2 files are different and sure they are.

So it seems that I can't get squid.exe to show me the difference of 2 image files. Thanks in advance for your help.

Lee.

-----Original Message----- From: Stephen Ng [mailto:stephen.ng at lumigent.com] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 9:24 AM To: Perforce User List (E-mail) Subject: [p4] RE: Perforce image diff'er

Never mind--I found it!

http://www.leadtogold.com/software/squid/index.html <http://www.leadtogold.com/software/squid/index.html>

-----Original Message----- From: Stephen Ng Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 12:10 PM To: 'Perforce User List (E-mail)' Subject: Perforce image diff'er

I'm looking for a program to display the diff of two bitmaps (pictures), and I swear I saw one posted on this list a while ago--it was by the same person who did a cool visual branch/history tool.

(If memory serves--and it hasn't lately but that's another story--it was by someone who had an @perforce.com mailing address, but these were strictly unsupported tools...)

Thanks,