Version 17.7¶

May 16, 2018

New General Features¶

Improved the speed of various sort commands.
Added the feature to generate a report file after file comparisons. Added the eeCompare configuration and the Vertical Line-separated CSV format to view comparison reports.
Updated the Python syntax to Python 3.7.0b4.

	v17.6	v17.7	Comparison
CSV Sort (numbers, sort by a column)	19.7 seconds	0.719 seconds	27.4 times faster
CSV Sort by Multiple Columns (numbers, sort by 2 columns)	72.6 seconds	1.97 seconds	36.9 times faster
CSV Sort by Multiple Columns (numbers, sort by 3 columns)	94.7 seconds	3.09 seconds	30.6 times faster

\* 185 MB, 2,170,000 lines, CSV number data, Windows 10 (64-bit), Core i7-8700K, 32GB RAM.

Added the Copy and Close button to the dialog box displayed by the Character Code Value command.
Added the Generate a Report? page to the Compare wizard.
Added the File Modified Date (&e) and File Modified Time (&u) macros to the Header/Footer text boxes in the Print page of configuration properties.
Added the Color drop-down list box to the Highlight (1) page of configuration properties, which allows you to specify Comparison-related colors.
Added the Min Size to Use Temporary File text box and the Currently Using Temporary File message to the Large File Controller custom bar.
Added the Ignore Empty Cells check box to the Delete/Bookmark Duplicate Lines dialog box.
Added the Compare unquoted strings in cells of CSV documents check box to the Sort page of the Customize dialog box.

Added the eeIgnoreEmptyCells flag to the DeleteDuplicates method of the Document object.
Added the eeSortUnquoteCells flag to the Sort method of the Document object.
Added the Compare method to the Editor object.

Fixed issues in keyword highlighting when DirectWrite is enabled.
Fixed issues related to sorting.
Fixed customer-reported issues ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14).