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
"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
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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
less is excellent, although it's text mode only - it has great searching, multi-file support, arbitrary length files and so on - http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/less/[^], although that seems quite old (I'm using v429) and there may well be more recent ports Standard *nix util :)
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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
Is the 'more' command too basic? :)
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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
I think file access permissions as suggested by others should solve your problems, but if you need a viewer you could try internet explorer. I use it for log files via: 'explorer path_to_logfile.txt'. An additional benefit is for live log files you can hit the refresh button to update the logfile and see what's changed. As an aside, I'm not sure why that command launches IE, I'm running XP and the TXT file associations don't refer to IE. If I try 'start path_to_logfile.txt' I get the file opened in notepad, which is the Open file association.
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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
LTFViewer (Large Text File Viewer) allows opening of text files (including Multi-GB text files, hence the Large) but not editing. Great for log files, data dumps etc. Bonus - it's free.
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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
Total Commander has a wonderful text viewer. It loads file of any size in milliseconds, allows search and fast scrolling, doesn't allow editing/saving. The only problem might be that the viewer is not a standalone application, it's a part of a Total Commander application.
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Total Commander has a wonderful text viewer. It loads file of any size in milliseconds, allows search and fast scrolling, doesn't allow editing/saving. The only problem might be that the viewer is not a standalone application, it's a part of a Total Commander application.
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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
Do a search for Text Browser. I found one called: Lynx Text Browser. At one time, a browser was just what you wanted. Not an editor, but just a non-user input viewer.