First I want to say you have a great tool! We use it for a school project. But there is one caveat, at the end of the SIMP file (which is just a XML file) there is a huge load of NULL characters (\0).
This makes it hard to use the tool with Subversion because the automatic merge tools and manual merge tools will not work on what they think is a binary file. The NULLs can be removed with no problems at all so it seems it is a bug.
If you really want to store binary data in the XML file you might want to consider base64.
Reply To: SIMP file has \0 (NULL) characters
Hi,
First I want to say you have a great tool! We use it for a school project. But there is one caveat, at the end of the SIMP file (which is just a XML file) there is a huge load of NULL characters (\0).
This makes it hard to use the tool with Subversion because the automatic merge tools and manual merge tools will not work on what they think is a binary file. The NULLs can be removed with no problems at all so it seems it is a bug.
If you really want to store binary data in the XML file you might want to consider base64.
Thanks,
Sebazzz
Sebazzz 21 September 2010 16:41:11