Plugins

With your cursor in either File pane of the File Compare window, click Edit → Scripts and choose one of these functions:

The functions are contributed to the Scripts menu by the editor addin.sct and insert datetime.sct plugins.

	Note
	Editor complement plugins are not available in the Folder Compare window.

Before applying unpacker plugins, you can set its mode to either automatic or manual mode.

Remember to click F5 to reload the Folder Compare window using the new setting.

You can use the Select Unpacker dialog to apply a plugin when you launch a file comparison from the Select Files or Folders dialog. See Selecting an unpacker for file comparisons for details.

With prediffer plugins, you set the mode (Auto prediiffer or No prediffer) for individual files. (Contrast this with unpacker plugins, where you set the mode for all files.) That is, some files in the same folder have different prediffer modes.

To set the mode for one or more files in the Folder Compare window, right-click the files and choose Plugin Settings → Prediffer Settings, then choose one of the submenu options:

Click F5 to update the window.

	Note
	When you open a subfolder during a non-recursive compare, the mode is always reset to No prediffer.

When you open a file from the Folder Compare window, your prediffer setting for that file is applied before the File Compare window is opened.

In the File Compare winodw, you can apply a prediffer plugin by clicking Plugins → Prediffer and choosing one of the plugins in the list. Suggested plugins are indicated at the top of the list. The files are compared again after the plugin is applied, so you don't need to rescan the files.

Displays the text contents of a Microsoft® Excel file, stripping away all formatting and embedded objects.

Displays the text content of a Microsoft® Word file, stripping away all formatting and embedded objects.

This plugin pretty-prints XML files nicely by inserting tabs and line breaks. This is useful for XML files that do not have line returns in convenient locations.

Adds two functions to the Edit → Scripts menu:

This plugin ignores characters at specified columns. The first column is number 1

Note that this plugin does not support files with tabs: the plugin does not fail, but all tabs are be treated as normal characters.

To specify columns, rename the dll using following fields as parameters:

The plugin ignores comments within //... and /* ... */ delimiters in C, C++, PHP and JavaScript files.

This plugin is for files with fields and commas as delimiters (CSV files, for example). It ignores the delimiter characters. The first field is number 1.

To specify the delimiters, rename the dll using the same parameter fields used for IgnoreColumns.dll.

This plugin is for files that use fields and tabs as delimiters (for examle, Excel files saved in the *.txt format). It ignores the delimiter characters. The first field is number 1.

To specify the delimiters, rename the dll using the same parameter fields used for IgnoreColumns.dll.

This plugin ignores the leading line numbers in text files (for example, NC and BASIC files).

Adds two functions to the Edit → Scripts menu:

This plugin preprocesses RC files by stripping out localized strings, to enable comparing different language versions of the same RC file and ignoring the translations.

RCLocalizationHelperU.dll is the Unicode version.

For long LOG files, often only in the first lines or in the last lines are significant.

Developers can find information and code examples in the source package, under the Plugins folder.

Some editor complement plugins require this optional component from Microsoft®.

It should already be included in your version of Windows, unless you use some really old pre Windows XP version.

Some plugins require the Visual Basic runtime library to work.

You can download the required file msvbvm60.dll, or use the Run-Time Redistribution Pack from Microsoft®. If you don't need the plugin, you can safely remove it.