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anyone know of any software that compares 2 files and tell the differences?

For example I got v4.012 and v4.0.10 product.tpl I want to know what has changed between these 2 version without having to compare from line to line.

Something that would highlight the difference instantly.

http://www.scootersoftware.com/

and i think there is a free program on sourceforge called winmerge, but i havent tried that one just googled for file compare utilites

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Originally Posted by Online Michael

You have a valid point and I hear what you're saying cotc2001, however, if the editor in X-Cart was nearly as good as the humble text editor in Windows (at the very least), then we wouldn't need to cut and paste and muck around and use 3rd party software at all. I would love to see a poll on this (shame we can't have polls here)... and see, among the forum members, just how popular the x-cart editor is compared to the Windows editor, Dreamweaver, etc., etc.

Anyway, in my opinion, the 4 most important things in an editor are:

a) A big open editing window (less text wrapping that way),
b) Unlimited undo's (we're human, we make mistakes),
c) Ability to work on multiple files at once (it's very rare that IБ─≥m ever working on less than two files at a time),
d) Colour coding of text, numbers, and special code (easy to identify code and much easier to read).

Dreamweaver MX allows me to do all these things and a million more but those are the more important ones.

edit the size of the text area if you ant it bigger.

Why not use your FTP client to edit files too

Thank you for the suggestion, shan.

I keep forgetting that the administration screens have templates just like the storefront does. Changing the default width of 65 to a more useable 170 made a big difference for me.

I'm with El on this one - what files are you supposed to open in GoLive in order to edit the x-cart templates.

Cheers,

Re: Whats the best editing program?

OK, I have the same problem with GoLive that everyone else seems to be having with opening the .tpl files. I know there was a tutorial on how to use GoLive with .tpl and I was thrilled to find it. HOwever, when I opened .tpl files and saw only raw code in my layout and preview panes, then to see the references to other .tpl files in the source pane I was very disappointed.

Has anyone figured out what to do (preferenced, settings, opening, etc) to get the WYSIWYG function to actually work?

My client has been patient, but don't know how much longer I can say I'm working on it. Please someone have a solution, I really don't want to have to lay out the money for Dreamweaver.

THANKS!
Darlene

Re: Whats the best editing program?

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Originally Posted by Darlene Hill

TPL files open just fine in Golive. I use Golive for everything web related including editing tpl files.

Just add tpl to the text suffix in the Web Settings Menu under File Mapping, the mime type should be text/html.

Re: Whats the best editing program?

A very good plugin for Dreamweaver to work on smarty (tpl) files you can find here: http://smartydwt.klitsche.org/

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Originally Posted by AgileMolecule

Hi Jim,
OK then something's definitely amiss. I use GoLive everyday almost all day long and am at a loss. Here's what I see and if that's what I should see I'm still lost. http://www.nanasbaby.com/pic.png

The tpl suffix is in my File Mappings and the mime is set to text/html.

If this is correctly displaying, how do I edit the various areas of the template to look like my customer's main site? I'm trying to do a very simple edit of the header and footer. The other areas I can change via the CSS file just fine, but I want to use a header and footer I've created. You can see the temporary page at http://www.nanasbaby.com

THANKS for any help you can provide.
Darlene