The Difference Tool is used to quickly and easily view the differences between any two loaded bins, including the currently editable bin and any of the 4 compare bins.

To use the tool:

1) Load the bins you'd like to compare into the current editable buffer (File->Open Bin) and/or the Compare Bin buffers ( Ctrl + F1 ).
2) Open the Difference Tool via the Tools menu or by pressing Ctrl + T.
3) Select the two bins you'd like to compare
4) Enter the start and end addresses within which to search. These should default to the current editable bin size.
5) Select whether or not to limit the search to only items defined in the XDF. If unchecked, all different bytes will be shown, even if they aren't currently defined in the XDF. Non-defined items will be displayed in blue text (see picture above).
6) Click "Search"

The resulting list will contain a row for each byte that is different between the two bins. Note that a 2-byte XDF item may be displayed in 2 separate rows if both bytes of the item are different between the two bins (see "PROM ID" in the screenshot above - this is a single item in the XDF, but is two bytes in size). Also note that there will be an entry for each byte that may be different within a table. For instance, if 4 cells of the spark advance table aredifferent (each cell being a single byte), there will be 4 rows in the resulting list, each representing a cell.

You can single click an item to find the item in the main and/or summary lists. Double clicking a defined item will open the editor for that item.

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