Message Compare

When choosing two messages in any window (Time View or any Message View tab) and choosing the Compare Message option from the right click menu, the messages will be compared in a Compare Result tab.

Unlike a normal message that has two rows – header row with field description, and field value/meaning row, a compare result has three rows: First row is for field description, second row is for first message value, and third row is for the second message value.

The comparison result is shown by color code: Green is for fields that had the same value in both messages, red for fields that had different value, and orange for field that were present in one of the messages only.

In text fields, the non matching parts of the strings will be marked with blue background.

Note that message compare and find options are disabled when active window is the Message View compare results tab.

When pointing with the mouse on the Msg section, a hint showing the time difference between the two messages (start to start, and tail to start) is displayed.