Text Viewer

[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]

Ha! haha! Muhahahahahaha! Yaaaaaa![^]

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[peterchen]

call me Cassandra.

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[Rajesh R Subramanian]

peterchen wrote:

call me Cassandra.

;)

“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell

[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.