Text Viewer

[Bram van Kampen]

Christian Graus wrote:

You should get him to add file/open functionality instead of just drag/drop.

Yes, that's well spotted. However for the purpose I want to use it, I would pass the File Open info through the 'Environment', and default to an error screen, if someone just doubleclicked on it in windows explorer, they should get an eror message stating that is NOT a Stand Alone Application.

Christian Graus wrote:

The Express Edition of C# is, however, free.

When we started writing in 1995, MFC was Free. The MFC 4.2 Compiler is still our weapon of choice, and has not failed us sofar. :)

Bram van Kampen

[Bram van Kampen]

Robert Surtees wrote:

less file.txt

???? :)

Bram van Kampen

[Christian Graus]

*grin* yes, I am just saying that the tool to compile the code he gave you, is quite free for you to download and thus make the app work as you want.

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[AspDotNetDev]

MSDN:

Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003 Platform Note: For single line text box controls, if the MaxLength property is set to 0, the maximum number of characters the user can enter is 2147483646 or an amount based on available memory, whichever is smaller. For multiline text box controls, the maximum number of characters the user can enter is 4294967295 or an amount based on available memory, whichever is smaller. Windows Millennium Edition Platform Note: For single line text box controls, if the MaxLength property is set to 0, the maximum number of characters the user can enter is 32,766 or an amount based on available memory, whichever is smaller. For multiline text box controls, the maximum number of characters the user can enter is 65,535 or an amount based on available memory, whichever is smaller.

Windows ME has a limit of 64K. For others, the limit is 4GB. Since nobody uses ME, I'd say the real limit is 4GB. :)

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[Robert Surtees]

Bram van Kampen wrote:

????

It's a better version of more. Been around since the beginning of time. Wiki[^] A windows version[^]

[Christian Graus]

Yes, for the number of lines he's talking about, I think a smarter solution is needed than to just put it all into a RTB.

Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

[AspDotNetDev]

Bram van Kampen wrote:

Notepad loads it Sofar No Problems, it Takes a Long Time

FYI, if you turn off Word Wrap, it will load faster. And I think Word Pad will load any text file instantly. Though, like you say, it facilitates modification. Perhaps you could experiment with setting the files as readonly?

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[Nish Nishant]

aspdotnetdev wrote:

Since nobody uses ME, I'd say the real limit is 4GB.

Touche! :)

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[S Senthil Kumar]

Christian Graus wrote:

and at least 8 seconds to compile the most basic app....

Really? It depends on what you call basic, but that's way too slow - on my laptop, compiling a project with ~10 files takes 2-3 seconds, max.

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[Lost User]

Bram van Kampen wrote:

When we started writing in 1995, MFC was Free

With 15+ years of windows GUI development you should be able to knock up a text viewer quicker than you can knock up your wife.

[AspDotNetDev]

If you want to create an app yourself and you don't want to use managed code, just allow the user to page through the file in 32KB chunks. Create a right arrow button that will go the next 32K and a left arrow button that will go to the previous 32K. And maybe allow the user to specify how many bytes into the file to start the loading. There are more sophisticated techniques, but that shouldn't take too long to code.

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[Dario Solera]

Christian Graus wrote:

It takes VS 2008 20 seconds to start on my machine

4 seconds on mine, plus 10 seconds to rebuild a 120kloc, 16 projects solution. :cool: Time to buy a new PC Christian?

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[peterchen]

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[peterchen]

call me Cassandra.

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[Rajesh R Subramanian]

peterchen wrote:

call me Cassandra.

;)

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[Media2r]

Bram van Kampen wrote:

Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing

Any Web Browser? The saving bit though... Perhaps a winform with an IE control with saving disabled? //L

[Don M]

Baretail http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/[^]

[Gary Wheeler]

Even simpler: Keep it readonly, intercept the WM_CTLCOLOR message, set the device context's background color to white, and return a white HBRUSH.

Software Zen: delete this;

[delete from names]

Just going by what's been described, wouldn't it be easier (and safer) to configure the file security to disallow modifications instead? Use any text editor you want at that point and save is disabled. It also means that people that decide not to use your text editor (because some people are sneaky that way :P) still can't edit.

[Johann Gerell]

:laugh:

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