This enumeration defines constants for the various preferences made available by the LongPreferences Object. You can use the constant name as a string (e.g. “clUnchangedFgnd”) from scripting languages that do not have access to the symbolic enumeration constants.
| Constant | Description |
|---|---|
| clUnchangedFgnd | The text colour for unchanged lines in the first panel of file comparison windows. |
| clChangedFgnd | The text colour for changed lines in the first panel of file comparison windows. |
| clInsertedFgnd | The text colour for inserted lines in the first panel of file comparison windows. |
| clRemovedFgnd | The text colour for removed lines in the first panel of file comparison windows. |
| clLinesFgnd | The colour of linking lines in the central linking panel. |
| clOverviewFgnd | The colour of the change overview strips at the edges of file and folder comparison windows. |
| clUnchangedBgnd | The background colour for unchanged lines in the first panel of file comparison windows. |
| clChangedBgnd | The background colour for changed lines in the first panel of file comparison windows. |
| clInsertedBgnd | The background colour for inserted lines in the first panel of file comparison windows. |
| clRemovedBgnd | The background colour for removed lines in the first panel of file comparison windows. |
| clExtendLines | Whether to extend linking lines over file panels (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clExpandTabs | Whether to expand tab characters into spaces (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clTabExpandVal | The width of the columns covered by tab characters. |
| clVertLink | Whether to automatically link files when scrolled up/down (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clHorzLink | Whether to automatically link files when scrolled left/right (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clIgnWhitespace | Whether to ignore whitespace in file comparisons. See Whitespace Enumeration for possible values. |
| clAppMax | Whether to maximize the Merge application window on startup (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clShowLineNums | Whether to show line numbers in file comparison windows (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clDelayedLink | Whether vertical/horizontal linking should be delayed until the scroll bar thumb is released. |
| clCloseOnErrorOrNeitherFileFound | Whether to close a file comparison window opened from a folder comparison window if an error occurred, or files could not be found (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clCloseOnNoDifferences | Whether to close a file comparison window opened from a folder comparison window if there were no differences between the compared files (1=yes,0=no). |
| clLimitViews | Whether to limit the number of file comparison windows opened from folder comparison windows (1=yes,0=no). |
| clViewLimit | The maximum number of open file comparison windows that can be opened at any one time by folder comparison windows. |
| clHideCRLF | Whether to hide trailing carriage return and line feed characters in file comparison windows (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clShowCentrePoint | Whether to show the vertical centre point around which linking takes place in file comparison windows (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clShowOverviews | Whether to show comparison overview strips at the edges of file comparison windows (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clMergingEnabled | Whether the merging buttons are enabled (displayed) in file comparison windows (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clBracketChanges | Unused. |
| clThoroughComparison | Whether to perform a thorough comparison of files when performing a folder comparison. If 0, timestamps and file sizes are checked instead to decide whether files have changed. If 1, file contents are compared. If 2, file contents are only compared if the timestamps or sizes are different. |
| clTopLevelFilesOnly | Whether to restrict folder comparisons to the top level of the specified folders (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clShowUnchanged | Whether to show unchanged files in folder comparison windows (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clShowOverview | Whether to show the quick file and folder comparison overview window on first startup (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clIgnoreCase | Whether to ignore the case of characters in lines when comparing files (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clOpenInitialComparisonWindow | Whether to open an empty file comparison window when Merge is started (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clConfirmClose | Whether to display a prompt when Merge is closed while there are still open file comparison windows (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clFolderPrintShowLineNumbers | Whether to show line numbers in folder comparison print-outs (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clFolderPrintMarginUnits | The units used for margin settings in folder comparison print outs (0=centimeters, 1=inches). |
| clFilePrintShowLineNumbers | Whether to show line numbers in file comparison print outs (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clFilePrintMarginUnits | The units used for margin settings in file comparison print outs (0=centimeters, 1=inches). |
| clFolderTextScale | A scaling factor (%) to apply to text in folder comparison print outs. |
| clFileTextScale | A scaling factor (%) to apply to text in file comparison print outs. |
| clShowFileStamps | Whether to show file timestamps in folder comparison windows. |
| clSearchMatchCase | Whether the find dialog for file comparison windows will perform case sensitive searches (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clSearchWholeWord | Whether the find dialog for file comparison windows will match only whole words (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clFolderWindowWidth | The initial width of folder comparison windows. |
| clFolderWindowHeight | The initial height of folder comparison windows |
| clFilePrintWordWrap | Whether to word-wrap lines in file comparison print outs (0=no, 1=word wrap, 3=character wrap). |
| clOpenInitialFolderWindow | Whether to open an empty folder comparison window when Merge is started (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clAutoFolderCreate | Whether to automatically create the target folder structure while copying sections of a folder comparison results list (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clPrintPagesWithChanges | Whether to only print changes that contain changes in folder comparison print outs (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clSimpleInlineChanges | Whether to highlight changed characters within lines rather than the entire line in file comparison windows (0=no, 1=simple, 2=detailed). |
| clCentralLinesWidth | The width of the central linking panels. |
| clShowChangesColumn | Whether to show the number of changes column in the folder comparison window (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clIgnoreLineEndings | Whether to ignore line-endings when comparing files (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clTabKeyEditing | Whether the tab key enters a tab character or cycles focus. |
| clShowTutorialsAndOverviews | Whether the tutorials and overviews dialog should be displayed when Merge starts (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clAllowReadOnlyEdit | Whether to allow editing of read-only files (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clApplyRegexp0 | Whether to apply regular expression 0. |
| clApplyRegexp1 | Whether to apply regular expression 1. |
| clApplyRegexp2 | Whether to apply regular expression 2. |
| clApplyRegexp3 | Whether to apply regular expression 3. |
| clApplyRegexp4 | Whether to apply regular expression 4. |
| clApplyRegexp5 | Whether to apply regular expression 5. |
| clApplyRegexp6 | Whether to apply regular expression 6. |
| clApplyRegexp7 | Whether to apply regular expression 7. |
| clApplyRegexp8 | Whether to apply regular expression 8. |
| clApplyRegexp9 | Whether to apply regular expression 9. |
| clQuickDiffForLargeFiles | Whether to perform a quick (byte-by-byte) comparison for large files. |
| clQuickDiffLimit | The filesize (in KB) above which a quick comparison should be performed. |
| clLargeFileThreshold | The filesize (in KB) above which Merge will display a warning when comparing selected files in the folder comparison window. |
| clSaveChangesWindowSize | The size of the window that appears when a file comparison containing unsaved changes is closed. The upper 16 bits contains the height of the window, and the lower 16 bits contain the width. |
| clDisableMergingTips | Whether to disable the merging button tool tips in the file comparison window (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clDisableFileAndFolderPathTips | Whether to disable the full-path tooltips for files and folders in the folder comparison window (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clAbsentFileBgnd | The background colour for columns in a row that show an absent file. |
| clThreeWayFolderComparison | Whether the folder comparison window should open in three-way mode (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clTwoWaySubColWidth00 | Width of the first file/folder name column in a two-way folder comparison window. |
| clTwoWaySubColWidth01 | Width of the first size/timestamp column in a two-way folder comparison window. |
| clTwoWaySubColWidth10 | Width of the second file/folder name column in a two-way folder comparison window. |
| clTwoWaySubColWidth11 | Width of the second size/timestamp column in a two-way folder comparison window. |
| clThreeWaySubColWidth00 | Width of the first file/folder name column in a three-way folder comparison window. |
| clThreeWaySubColWidth01 | Width of the first size/timestamp column in a three-way folder comparison window. |
| clThreeWaySubColWidth10 | Width of the second file/folder name column in a three-way folder comparison window. |
| clThreeWaySubColWidth11 | Width of the second size/timestamp column in a three-way folder comparison window. |
| clThreeWaySubColWidth20 | Width of the third file/folder name column in a three-way folder comparison window. |
| clThreeWaySubColWidth21 | Width of the third size/timestamp column in a three-way folder comparison window. |
| clUpdateCheckPromptBeforeCheck | Whether to prompt before performing an update check with the Araxis web server (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clUpdateCheckFrequency | The frequency with which update checks should be performed (0=manual only, 1=daily, 2=weekly, 3=monthly, 4=3-monthly 5=6-monthly). |
| clUpdateCheckLastCheckHigh | The high DWORD of the last time an update check was performed. |
| clUpdateCheckLastCheckLow | The low DWORD of the last time an update check was performed. |
| clUnchangedFgnd2 | The text colour for unchanged lines in the second panel of file comparison windows. |
| clChangedFgnd2 | The text colour for changed lines in the second panel of file comparison windows. |
| clInsertedFgnd2 | The text colour for inserted lines in the second panel of file comparison windows. |
| clRemovedFgnd2 | The text colour for removed lines in the second panel of file comparison windows. |
| clUnchangedFgnd3 | The text colour for unchanged lines in the third panel of file comparison windows. |
| clChangedFgnd3 | The text colour for changed lines in the third panel of file comparison windows. |
| clInsertedFgnd3 | The text colour for inserted lines in the third panel of file comparison windows. |
| clRemovedFgnd3 | The text colour for removed lines in the third panel of file comparison windows. |
| clUnchangedBgnd2 | The background colour for unchanged lines in the second panel of file comparison windows. |
| clChangedBgnd2 | The background colour for changed lines in the second panel of file comparison windows. |
| clInsertedBgnd2 | The background colour for inserted lines in the second panel of file comparison windows. |
| clRemovedBgnd2 | The background colour for removed lines in the second panel of file comparison windows. |
| clUnchangedBgnd3 | The background colour for unchanged lines in the third panel of file comparison windows. |
| clChangedBgnd3 | The background colour for changed lines in the third panel of file comparison windows. |
| clInsertedBgnd3 | The background colour for inserted lines in the third panel of file comparison windows. |
| clRemovedBgnd3 | The background colour for removed lines in the third panel of file comparison windows. |
| clShowFilePrintHeader | Show a print header for file comparison print-outs (1=yes, 0=no) |
| clShowFilePrintFooter | Show a print footer for file comparison print-outs (1=yes, 0=no) |
| clShowFolderPrintHeader | Show a print header for folder comparison print-outs (1=yes, 0=no) |
| clShowFolderPrintFooter | Show a print footer for folder comparison print-outs (1=yes, 0=no) |
| clThreeWayFileComparison | Whether to open a file comparison window in three-way mode (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clLayoutFileComparisonHorizontally | Whether to open a file comparison window in horizontal mode or vertical mode. |
| clBlockIndent | The number of spaces to indent/un-indent lines when using the block indent feature. |
| clVFFirstTwoWay | Determines the types of file that should be hidden in the first column in a two-way folder comparison (vfAbsent = 0x0001, vfRemoved = 0x0002, vfInserted = 0x0004, vfChanged = 0x0008, vfUnchanged = 0x0010). |
| clVFSecondTwoWay | Determines the types of file that should be hidden in the second column in a two-way folder comparison. |
| clVFFirstThreeWay | Determines the types of file that should be hidden in the first column in a three-way folder comparison. |
| clVFSecondThreeWay | Determines the types of file that should be hidden in the second column in a three-way folder comparison. |
| clVFThirdThreeWay | Determines the types of file that should be hidden in the third column in a three-way folder comparison. |
| clSFFirstTwoWay | Determines the types of file that should be selected in the first column in a two-way folder comparison window in the Select Files/Folders dialog (vfAbsent = 0x0001, vfRemoved = 0x0002, vfInserted = 0x0004, vfChanged = 0x0008, vfUnchanged = 0x0010, vfFile = 0x0020, vfFolder = 0x0040, vfNewerFile = 0x0080). |
| clSFSecondTwoWay | Determines the types of file that should be selected in the second column in a two-way folder comparison window in the Select Files/Folders dialog. |
| clSFFirstThreeWay | Determines the types of file that should be selected in the first column in a three-way folder comparison window in the Select Files/Folders dialog. |
| clSFSecondThreeWay | Determines the types of file that should be selected in the second column in a three-way folder comparison window in the Select Files/Folders dialog. |
| clSFThirdThreeWay | Determines the types of file that should be selected in the third column in a three-way folder comparison window in the Select Files/Folders dialog. |
| clMainWindowLeft | The position of the left edge of the main Merge window. |
| clMainWindowTop | The position of the top edge of the main Merge window. |
| clMainWindowWidth | The width of the main Merge window. |
| clMainWindowHeight | The height of the main Merge window. |
| clMainWindowShowCmd | The shown state of the main Merge window. |
| clFolderWindowLeft | The position of the left edge of the last opened folder comparison window. |
| clFolderWindowTop | The position of the top edge of the last opened folder comparison window. |
| clFolderWindowShowCmd | The shown state of the last opened folder comparison window. |
| clIndicateConcealedChanges | Whether an indicator should appear at the end of lines in the file comparison window when there are further changes within the line beyond the edge of the window (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clTimestampTolerance | The amount of difference allowed between timestamps before they are considered to be different. |
| clTimestampDaylightSavings | Whether to ignore an hour’s difference between timestamps when determining whether they are the same (1=yes, 0=no) |
| clCursorKeysForMerging | Whether Ctrl+Arrow key should be used instead of Ctrl+Q/W for merging changes left/right. |
| clUseFontFgndPrefsInFolderComparisons | Whether to use the chosen font/colour preferences for folder comparisons, or to use a combination of the Windows colour scheme and file comparison fonts/colours (0=use preferences, 1=use combination). |
| clReportDiff_IncludeContext | Whether to include unchanged lines in the diff report to show the context of changed/inserted/removed lines (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clReportDiff_UnifiedFormat | Whether to use Unified format for the diff report (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clReportDiff_ContextLines | The number of unchanged lines to include as context. |
| clReportHtmlSlideShow_SlideWidth | The width (in pixels) of the slides generated for an HTML Slideshow report. |
| clReportHtmlSlideShow_SlideHeight | The height (in pixels) of the slides generated for an HTML Slideshow report. |
| clReportHtmlSlideShow_OnlyPagesWithChanges | Whether to generate slides only for pages that contain changes (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clReportHtmlSlideShow_ShowLineNumbers | Whether to show line numbers in the slides. |
| clReportHtmlSlideShow_TextScale | Text scale (%) for text in the slides. |
| clSaveFirewallPassword | Whether there is a password saved for the proxy server/firewall being used to access the Internet. |
| clFirewallPort | The proxy server/firewall port number used to access the Internet. |
| clPrinterAspect | The aspect to use for printouts (1=landscape, 0=portrait). |
| clRegexpMatchWithinLine0 | Whether regexp 0 should force the entire line to be unchanged when a match is found, or just the matching characters within the line (0=entire line, 1=matching characters). |
| clRegexpMatchWithinLine1 | Whether regexp 1 should force the entire line to be unchanged when a match is found, or just the matching characters within the line (0=entire line, 1=matching characters). |
| clRegexpMatchWithinLine2 | Whether regexp 2 should force the entire line to be unchanged when a match is found, or just the matching characters within the line (0=entire line, 1=matching characters). |
| clRegexpMatchWithinLine3 | Whether regexp 3 should force the entire line to be unchanged when a match is found, or just the matching characters within the line (0=entire line, 1=matching characters). |
| clRegexpMatchWithinLine4 | Whether regexp 4 should force the entire line to be unchanged when a match is found, or just the matching characters within the line (0=entire line, 1=matching characters). |
| clRegexpMatchWithinLine5 | Whether regexp 5 should force the entire line to be unchanged when a match is found, or just the matching characters within the line (0=entire line, 1=matching characters). |
| clRegexpMatchWithinLine6 | Whether regexp 6 should force the entire line to be unchanged when a match is found, or just the matching characters within the line (0=entire line, 1=matching characters). |
| clRegexpMatchWithinLine7 | Whether regexp 7 should force the entire line to be unchanged when a match is found, or just the matching characters within the line (0=entire line, 1=matching characters). |
| clRegexpMatchWithinLine8 | Whether regexp 8 should force the entire line to be unchanged when a match is found, or just the matching characters within the line (0=entire line, 1=matching characters). |
| clRegexpMatchWithinLine9 | Whether regexp 9 should force the entire line to be unchanged when a match is found, or just the matching characters within the line (0=entire line, 1=matching characters). |
| clApplyColumnFilter | Whether to apply the column filters in file comparisons. See csColumnsFilteredOut in StringPreferenecs |
| clFolderUnchangedFgnd | The text colour to use for unchanged files/folders in the first column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderUnchangedFgnd2 | The text colour to use for unchanged files/folders in the second column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderUnchangedFgnd3 | The text colour to use for unchanged files/folders in the third column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderChangedFgnd | The text colour to use for changed files/folders in the first column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderChangedFgnd2 | The text colour to use for changed files/folders in the second column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderChangedFgnd3 | The text colour to use for changed files/folders in the third column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderInsertedFgnd | The text colour to use for inserted files/folders in the first column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderInsertedFgnd2 | The text colour to use for inserted files/folders in the second column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderInsertedFgnd3 | The text colour to use for inserted files/folders in the third column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderRemovedFgnd | The text colour to use for removed files/folders in the first column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderRemovedFgnd2 | The text colour to use for removed files/folders in the second column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderRemovedFgnd3 | The text colour to use for removed files/folders in the third column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderUnchangedBgnd | The background colour to use for unchanged files/folders in the first column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderUnchangedBgnd2 | The background colour to use for unchanged files/folders in the second column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderUnchangedBgnd3 | The background colour to use for unchanged files/folders in the third column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderChangedBgnd | The background colour to use for changed files/folders in the first column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderChangedBgnd2 | The background colour to use for changed files/folders in the second column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderChangedBgnd3 | The background colour to use for changed files/folders in the third column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderInsertedBgnd | The background colour to use for inserted files/folders in the first column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderInsertedBgnd2 | The background colour to use for inserted files/folders in the second column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderInsertedBgnd3 | The background colour to use for inserted files/folders in the third column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderRemovedBgnd | The background colour to use for removed files/folders in the first column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderRemovedBgnd2 | The background colour to use for removed files/folders in the second column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderRemovedBgnd3 | The background colour to use for removed files/folders in the third column of a folder comparison window. |
| clFolderBgnd | Background colour to use for folder comparison windows. |
| clMergedBlendFactor | Amount by which to blend resolved lines with the background colour (0 <= blending <= 255) |
| clDisplayCopyFilesDialog | Whether to display the file copying dialog when copying files left/right in the folder comparison window (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clPromptToReplaceFiles | Whether to prompt to replace existing files when copying in the folder comparison window (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clAutomaticallyReloadExternallyModifiedFiles | Whether to automatically reload files that have been modified outside of Merge (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clWrapText | Whether to wrap text in file comparison windows. |
| clShowWhitespace | Not implemented yet. |
| clWordWrapText | Whether to word-wrap or character-wrap text in the file comparison window (0=character-wrap, 1=word-wrap). |
| clShowWrapIndicator | Show an indicator at the end of lines that have been wrapped. |
| clUseLanguagesOrCodePagesForEncodings | Whether to show a list of languages or code pages in encoding lists (0=languages, 1=code pages). |
| clCompactUnchangedBlocks | Whether to collapse blocks of unchanged lines into just a few lines of context (1=yes, 0=no). |
| clCompactUnchangedBlocksContext | The number of unchanged lines to include before/after changed/inserted/removed lines. |
| clCollapsedRowFgnd | The text colour for the collapsed-lines row. |
| clXMLGenerateReportsFor | Specifies the type of row for which the XML folder comparison reporter should generate file comparison reports (0=none, 1=all, 2=changed rows, 3=selected rows). |
| clHTMLGenerateReportsFor | Specifies the type of row for which the HTML folder comparison reporter should generate file comparison reports (0=none, 1=all, 2=changed rows, 3=selected rows). |
| clCollapsedRowBgnd | The background colour for the collapsed-lines row. |
| clPostEditRefreshTimeout | The amount of time to wait (in milliseconds) following an edit before re-comparing the modified files. |
| clNeverShowSplash | This preference is no longer used. |
| clPrintToFile | Print to a file instead of the printer. |
| clUILanguage | The (encoded) language to use for user interface elements. We don’t recommend changing this. |
| clShowResourceIDs | Enables (when 1) the display of resource identifiers in the user interface. |
| clSwapBrowseAndHistory | Swaps the order of the file browsing and file history buttons in path entry fields. |
| clSimpleFilesystemIcons | Turns off (when 1) the acquisition and use of file icons for files and folders in the folder comparison window. |
| clShowHistoryTip | Controls the number of times the tooltip within file and folder history lists will be shown before it disappears. |
| clResetHiddenStatesOnRefresh | When set to 1, this option will make Merge reset the list of hidden files when a folder comparison is refreshed or a new one is started. |
| clCompareShellExt | When set to 1, the Compare with Araxis Merge item will appear in Explorer’s context menu when you right-click on files or folders. |
| clScanConcealedFolders | When set to 1, Merge will examine the contents of folders that have been excluded by the options on the Folder comparisons▸Filters options page. |