Text Viewer

[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:

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time - Bertrand Russel

[AspDotNetDev]

Media2r wrote:

Perhaps a winform with an IE control with saving disabled

:laugh: How about a freakin' TextBox?

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[WilWol]

Try the DAMN NFO viewer, meant for viewing, but not editing, NFO and DIZ, but does TXT as well. WW

[Media2r]

I just skimmed earlier posts prior to posting mine, it seemed someone mentioned some limitations with textboxes. I admitedly have no clue if they are accurate, I haven't done winform dev for aaaaages. That said, a multiline readonly textbox (assuming text length limitation prognoses is incorrect) would be sexier. And I'm all for sexier. //L

[hsidhu]

open command prompt type :laugh:

[Jesus Portillo]

drive yourself...

[Lost User]

http://www.textpad.com but open the file in read only mode. Even in read/write mode, I've opened 16mb files before with little decrease in speed.

[Lynn Wallace]

Can you just make the file read-only?

[Chris F Carroll]

I'm with Don M. For reading looooooong log files you want a version of Tail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail\_(Unix)

[bahalana]

Notepad++ will allow opening files read-only with the '-ro' command line argument.

[ppardo]

Hi, you can try something like wnbrowse, I don't like it, but I think it'll fit your needs... regards

-- pp

[patbob]

Cygwin "less"? It's a file viewer with navigation and string search. It has no editing features directly, but there's a way to get into the vi editor from it. It might be possible to disable that or maybe it just doesn't work if the editor isn't installed? If you had to, you might be able to get the source and disable the command for entering the editor. Less should load such a large file pretty quickly, though I don't think I've tried it on anything quite that big. Not in recent memory, anyway (I tend to use vim for viewing my large log files). Also, vim also has a read-only mode that you can specify from the command line, but I can't recall if there's any way to orderride it and write changes back to the original file. Even if you can't, you can still modify the file and write your modified copy to a different file.

patbob

[Dave Jackson 999]

Baretail[^]

[Richard Jones]

I'm guessing there is a setting somewhere to show > 4 last projects.

"The activity of 'debugging', or removing bugs from a program, ends when people get tired of doing it, not when the bugs are removed." - "Datamation", January 15, 1984

[was8309]

use a browser!

[Thor Johnson]

How about something like dman nfo viewer? I haven't tried loading large things with it, but it might fit your bill.