NAME
Tk::DiffText - Perl/Tk composite widget for colorized diffs.
SYNOPSIS
use Tk::DiffText;
my $w = $mw->DiffText()->pack();
$w->diff($file0, $file1);DESCRIPTION
This module defines a composite widget that makes it simple to provide basic "diff" functionality to your Tk applications.
OPTIONS
-orient => 'horizontal'|'vertical'
Controls the arrangement of the text panes. Defaults to vertical.
-gutter => 0|1
Hides and displays the line number gutter. Defaults to 1.
-gutterforeground => color
Sets the gutter foreground color.
-gutterbackground => color
Sets the gutter background color.
-diffcolors => {...}
Sets the colors used for highlighting diff results. The structure of the value hash is as follows:
{
add => [-fg => 'green' ], # tag for additions
del => [-fg => 'red', -overstrike => 1], # tag for deletions
mod => [-fg => 'blue' ], # tag for changes
pad => [-bg => '#f0f0f0'], # tag for blank line padding
}For each of the tags you can specify any option that is valid for use in a ROText widget tag: -foreground, -background, -overstrike, etc.
METHODS
load
$w->load(a => I<data>);
$w->load(b => I<data>);Load data into frames a (top or left) and b (bottom or right), respectively.
Normally data is a filename but it can also be a reference to an array of lines of data, a string containing a slurped file, an open filehandle, a glob (which is interpreted as a filehandle), an IO::File object or any other object with a getline method.
compare
$w->compare(
-case => 0,
-whitespace => 0,
-granularity => 'line', # or 'word' 'char' or regexp
);Compares the data in the text frames and highlights the differences.
Setting either -case or -whitespace to 0 instructs the diff algorithm to ignore case and whitespace, respectively.
The -granularity option controls the level of detail at which the diff is performed. The default value, 'line,' shows differences between lines. Changing it to 'word' or 'char' will show differences within a line at the word or character level. You may also pass a qr// quoted regular expression or a string which will be interpreted as a regular expression.
Note: For performance reasons, diffs are always performed line-by-line first. Finer granularity settings are only applied to lines marked as changed by the initial comparison. This can lead to slightly different results than you would get if you did a single diff at the higher level of resolution. (The results aren't wrong, just different.)
diff Deprecated
$w->diff($data1, $data2, -case => 0);Equivilent to:
$w->load(a => $data1);
$w->load(b => $data1);
$w->compare(-case => 0);This method has been deprecated and may be removed in future versions.
BUGS
The API isn't settled yet. Comments welcome.
Some configuration settings (-gutter, -orient, -diffcolors) are only valid at creation time and cannot be changed later.
The line numbers in the gutter can get out of sync with the file display if you set -wrap to something other than 'none' (so don't do that).
AUTHOR
Michael J. Carman <mjcarman@mchsi.com>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2006 by Michael J. Carman
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.