Differencia 1.1 Release
DayTime Software is happy to announce that Differencia 1.1 was released today, including support for IIF and Fixed Width files, a new Collated Results view and extensive printing support. Performance in this release is also significantly improved.
It is a free upgrade for all existing users.
We have now discontinued our introductory price of $29.95. New users can purchase from the DayTime online store for just $39.95.
Differencia 1.1 Release Notes
New Features
- Added Support for Intuit Import / Export Format (IIF) used by QuickBooks
- Added Support for Files with Fixed Width Columns
- Added Collated Results View to display results from each file interleaved
Performance Improvements
- Improved performance when opening large files (50%)
- Improved performance when comparing large files (30%)
- Improved performance when displaying comparison results with many differences (50%)
Printing Support
- Added Support for Printing Comparison Results
- Added Support for Printing Collated Comparison Results
- Added Support for Printing Example File Contents from Layout Definition View
- Added Support for Printing File Format / Layout Definitions
- Added Support for Printing Comparison Definitions
Miscellaneous
- Added Code Signing for Leopard
- Add default date/time & numeric data formats to list of favourites on first run
- Added a section in the Help covering date, time and number formats used by Differencia under Leopard and Tiger
- Added an optional check for whether Identify Fields have been specified before running a comparison
Bug Fixes
- Fixed bug where a previous comparison could get re-run rather than using the user’s selected files
- Changing selection of "Show Raw Data" in Layout Definition now preserves which part of the table was being viewed, rather than moving back to the first column & record in the sample file
- Columns in Comparison Definition View’s Mapping Tables now resize correctly and consistently
- Layouts in Layout Source List are now sorted
- Layout Source List now correctly resizes with the main split view
- Date/Time and Numeric Preference panes now correctly labelled (had got switched in 1.0.x)
- Remove white space from Layout and Comparison Definitions when exporting templates
- Fixed bug with new line characters in quoted text fields
- Fixed a bug where clicking on the table header in the Layout Definition View, beyond the last field would require the application to be restartedd
- Fixed incorrect display & setting of Text Encoding for some files.
- Fixed a bug when comparisons results are filtered where clicking on a difference would not scroll the other file to display the matching field & difference
- Fixed error when undo-ing change to a field’s data type in Layout Definition View
