Jan Ringoš, Tringi Netbase

Download: logview.zip

ZIP archive that contains the program. Version 1.5.0
File size: 62 kB

Installation

For its simplicity, we distribute the product as a ZIP package. This can be unpacked by Windows XP operating system or using other product like Total Commander, WinZIP, WinRAR or others. Because the product allows you to associate the .log extension to it and to add context command to open a file (right mouse button, command "Watch file as log..."), the advice is to unpack the file into well known location (like Windows/System32 or Program Files folder) and use these functions.

Features and functions

• Configurable file character set
• Amount of data can be limited when opening large files
• Option to associate the .log files to Dynamic Log Viewer
• Option to add "Watch file as log..." command to context menu for all files
• The file surveillance or automatic scrolling can be paused
• Function to search the file
• Configurable wrapping of long rows
• Adjustable font, text size, text color and background color
• History of up to 10 last open files
• Log files can be printed right from the Dynamic Log Viewer
• "Clickable" status bar
• Context help and help for menu items (shown in status bar)
• Automatic detection of renaming or deletion
• English, Czech and Slovak localization

Further development

Note that this product is still under active development and is still being extended of new features!
Please leave your ideas, suggestions and thoughts in the comments below or send them in through the Contacts page.

History

New features in 1.5.0 are:

• File size is displayed in new status bar field. Hovering mouse cursor over the field will show actual number of bytes taken by the file, which may differ in case of compressed or sparse file.
• Full-screen mode can be toggled by F11, with SHIFT then even menu and scroll bars are hidden.
• New Language menu allows manually choose one of supported translations.
• And for specific embedded purposes the Log Viewer checks for following environment variables: LOGVIEW_STYLE, LOGVIEW_EXTRA, LOGVIEW_X, LOGVIEW_Y, LOGVIEW_WIDTH and LOGVIEW_HEIGHT and applies these as style, position and size of the main application window.

Versions 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 provides fixes to following issues:

• Occasional crash when updating history of last files
• Open file dialog not being displayed on certain Server Core installations of Windows Server 2008 (and R2)
• Adds help text to "Check for updates automatically" Help menu command and to status bar field that displays available updates

Following changes has been made for version 1.4.0:

• Added UTF-16 (LE/BE) support and character set auto-detection
• Added automated check for updates
• Fixed handling of NUL byte(s) in log data
• Fixed file-type mask description in the Open dialog
• Fixed auto-scroll feature to not intervene while scrolling manually
• Fixed right-click to also select the row for copying (if there is no other multi-row selection)
• Improved progress bar for large files
• Fixed various appearance issues, mostly regarding Windows 2000

Should you experience issues or regressions with the latest version please let me know. The previous version (1.4.2) is available to download here::

Download: logview-1.4.2.zip

ZIP archive with the program. Version 1.4.2
File size: 66 kB

License

The Dynamic Log Viewer is available as Freeware.
For detailed text of the license see Freeware license.