Text Viewer
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Hi, Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing or Saving. :)
Bram van Kampen
I'm with Don M. For reading looooooong log files you want a version of Tail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail\_(Unix)
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Hi, Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing or Saving. :)
Bram van Kampen
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Christian Graus wrote:
Is the 32757 line limit a major issue ? Because the rest seems easy to deal with. Just don't make it read only, but write code to reject all keypresses.
Yes, it is! We have Basic Log Files, which record transactions in ASCII, and which would cover up to six years of trading. The biggest sofar contans 425,000 lines. it is not accessed very frequently, but, the concern is that we have no tool to access it which disallows modification. Notepad loads it Sofar No Problems, it Takes a Long Time, No Problem, but it facilitates modification.
Bram van Kampen
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
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Hi, Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing or Saving. :)
Bram van Kampen
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Ha! haha! Muhahahahahaha! Yaaaaaa![^]
Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server.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
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Hi, Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing or Saving. :)
Bram van Kampen
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Hi, Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing or Saving. :)
Bram van Kampen
How about something like dman nfo viewer? I haven't tried loading large things with it, but it might fit your bill.
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How about something like dman nfo viewer? I haven't tried loading large things with it, but it might fit your bill.
Or not. 500K max. Nuts.
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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
This may be an overly simple response, or it may not factor in you organizations security concerns which may or may not be unique. Why not just post the files some where and view them in a web browser, and disallow editing on the server end... Ie r--r--r-- permissions. I would imagine this would involve a very simple script to copy the files, and a very simple page to display a list of the files. Additionally I would make a note that a web browser can be launched from your executable as required.
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Hi, Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing or Saving. :)
Bram van Kampen
The one I switched to when Vern Buerg dropped the ball on a Windows version of his program "list," is called "V." You can find it at fileviewer.com, and it's very inexpensive and works very well. I've been using it for more than 15 years. Rick
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Hi, Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing or Saving. :)
Bram van Kampen
It seems like everyone is taking a much too difficult approach to answer the original post. (sorry, hadn't seen the full thread) There are, in fact, several viewer applications that will open a text file for viewing but not editing. Here's a couple: Universal Viewer Free[^] Large Text File Viewer[^] And from the same collection site, here's a couple categories that might have something else that could work for you: Text Viewers[^] and Document Viewers[^]. Hope that helps! :-D
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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
Any browser will read text as read only, but I have never tried on big files. If you make the directory read only for the users, but write access for the program that makes the log files, you can use any text viewer/editor. Textpad is much faster than Notepad, and it also has a useful search function plus many other features. -Ulf
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Hi, Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing or Saving. :)
Bram van Kampen
"cat" or "type" depending on OS.
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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.
Josh Gray wrote:
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.
:laugh: :thumbsup:
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Christian Graus wrote:
Is the 32757 line limit a major issue ? Because the rest seems easy to deal with. Just don't make it read only, but write code to reject all keypresses.
Yes, it is! We have Basic Log Files, which record transactions in ASCII, and which would cover up to six years of trading. The biggest sofar contans 425,000 lines. it is not accessed very frequently, but, the concern is that we have no tool to access it which disallows modification. Notepad loads it Sofar No Problems, it Takes a Long Time, No Problem, but it facilitates modification.
Bram van Kampen
Use the RichTextBox control in VS and make it ReadOnly this will load very large text files for viewing only..
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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
Yeah there is. The plan was to throw in the necessary cleanup, allow "pinning" projects etc. I hoped that with HTML as layout engine, some javascript with access to DTE, ShellExecute and environment variables, I could throw together a decent start page replacement. However, reality is that this is a pain - everything is just incomplete and requires tons of extra work. Not sure if it's worht following through with it - but at least I learnt a tinyl little bit of Javascript, and cleaned up some libraries.
Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
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Hi, Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing or Saving. :)
Bram van Kampen
Have you tried a browser ? IE / Firefox / opera / etc.
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Hi, Does anyone know of a Text Viewer, (for basic .txt Files) which does NOT facilitate editing or Saving. :)
Bram van Kampen
The view button (F3) launches the internal viewer (called Lister) on whatever file is highlighted. Not only is it lightning fast, but you get the benefit of having Total Commander, the best thing since sliced folder managers. But if you hate having all that power and convenience, they also offer the Lister as an external file, no installation needed. The viewer does not allow editing, but it is somewhat configurable and it even allows integration with the IrfanView plugin if you want to see images. http://www.ghisler.com/[^] Or go directly to lister: http://www.ghisler.com/lister/[^]
Narf.
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Christian Graus wrote:
No, but I am sure it would take about 30 seconds to write one.
Well I thought that, until I tried. The CEdit Control turns Gray if you make it 'Read Only', and limits to 32757 lines. Try a ListBox instead, and you are limited to 32757 lines, and you have to implement the Edit\Copy Interface and Selection Interface yourself. Notepad has None of these limitations, but allows a User to Modify and save. Googeling the question results in solutions which pride themsevelves in advanced Editing features, exactly what I Do NOT want! Hence the Question. Regards, :)
Bram van Kampen
