Comparison

WinMerge path

To specify the path to the WinMerge tool, if that is installed.

By default, this text box is cleared.

KDiff3 path

To specify the path to the KDiff3 tool, if that is installed.

By default, this text box is cleared.

Custom comparator command line

This option lets you specify a specifies path to a custom comparison tool that is not any of the ones above.

The command line must look like this:

Folder1/Folder2/..../MyTool.exe optionsA... %input1
		    optionsB... %input2 optionsB... %output optionsC...

where %input1 and %input2 are aliases for the input fields and %output for the results. When the tool is launched, the aliases are replaced by the path of temporary files with the content of the compared models. optionsA, optionsB, and optionsC should be replaced by the actual command line options for the tool.

An example of such command line that would be triggered by Dymola Behavior Modeling, for the dummy tool MyTool.exe could be:

c:\ProgramFiles\MyTool.exe -compare
		    c:\CATTemp\class1.mo c:\CATTemp\class2.mo

Notes:

For the Custom comparator command line, a tooltip displays the syntax.
If the custom tool is not found by the compare/merge command, a message appears. This check is performed when using the tool, not from this preference dialog.

By default, this text box is cleared.

Selected comparator

Set the comparator to be launched when this feature.

WinMerge: to use WinMerge
KDiff3: to use KDiff3
Custom: to use the custom comparator specified by the above option Custom comparator command line

By default, this preference is set to WinMerge.