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by Mike Smith
Fri Jul 31, 2009 4:54 pm
Forum: Support (DiffMerge)
Topic: question about DiffMerge creating new processes on Mac
Replies: 5
Views: 6299

Re: question about DiffMerge creating new processes on Mac

Jeff, The OP is already invoking the shell script, which is what gets them multiple instances of the app. My suggestion re: using AppleScript was just to take advantage of the fact that it will either look up an existing instance of the app, or create a new one, before dispatching the "open thi...
by Mike Smith
Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:24 pm
Forum: Support (DiffMerge)
Topic: [3.3.0, MacOS X] Temporary files and read-only directories
Replies: 1
Views: 3429

[3.3.0, MacOS X] Temporary files and read-only directories

[obligatory thanks for a very useful application] One common phase of my workflow is to audit source changes between built versions of a product. The sources for each build are archived in read-only folders on a network share. When comparing two files in this situation, DiffMerge presents a dialog c...
by Mike Smith
Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:11 pm
Forum: Support (DiffMerge)
Topic: question about DiffMerge creating new processes on Mac
Replies: 5
Views: 6299

Re: question about DiffMerge creating new processes on Mac

It might make more sense to add some basic AppleScript support to DiffMerge, so that you can use some variation on tell application "DiffMerge" compare files "file1" and "file2" end tell This will DTRT with regards to opening DiffMerge from scratch v.s. activating an ex...