Giovanni wrote:Can anyone confirm?
I confirm a problem using your text files, but it is not quite the same problem. It is probably related though.
I am using Win XP sp3 with TC 8.0 RC1 32-bit.
When I use CbC on the two text files, it initially displays both files as one long line for each file. If I grab the scrollbar handle and drag to the right, to see the where the actual difference might be, the scrollbar in both files moves the same, as expected. When I drag to about 85 percent of the distance toward the right, the scrollbar handle of the opposite file vanishes and that file goes blank. The text file I'm actually scrolling still remains visible.
When I release the mouse button to stop dragging, both files are visible again, but positioned back to the beginning, instead of staying in the position where I stopped dragging the scrollbar.
There appears to be no way to scroll the lines past about 85 percent without the opposite file going blank, so, if the only difference is near the end of those long lines, there is no way to actually see that. My best guess is that I can drag to see only the first 4,200 to 4,300 characters, before the opposite file goes blank.
It doesn't matter which of the two files I attempt to scroll, as the opposite one will go blank.
Testing in Windows safe mode yields the same results. Choosing different fonts does not help. The CbC tool apparently doesn't like long lines when doing an ASCII compare. Luckily, most normal ASCII files have reasonably short line lengths, and do not show the blanking or scrolling problem.