What's new in Log Viewer 2.1.1
Feb 3, 2014
- Fixed GOTO line bug when a grep is applied.
- Fixed location of the cursor after a grep is applied.
- Fixed unintentional scrolling to cursor when certain keys are pressed.
- Display non-ASCII characters as "."
- Increased maximum line length from 1K to 2K
New in Log Viewer 2.0.0 (Jan 18, 2014)
- Reimplemented the backend for improved large file support. Tested with a 1.5 GB log file.
- Added feature to load mutliple files at one time and view them as if they were all one large file. File order can be modified post open.
- File loading and search progress
- Updated icons to use non pixel mixer icons
- Removed tag feature (not really that useful)
- Moved registry settings to a INI file that exists under the user home directory under the hidden directory .LogViewer
New in Log Viewer 1.6.0 (Jan 18, 2014)
- Added registry to remember the last directory that a settings file was read from. This allows one to place all settings in one directory for convience.
- Impoved the CTL-F (search) behaviour. If nothing is selected, then a new search entry is added and the focus is placed in the new search entry.
- Add more highlight colors and text color options.
New in Log Viewer 1.5.4 (Jan 18, 2014)
- Fixed a problem with time parsing that was not comaptible with JRE 7.
New in Log Viewer 1.5.3 (Mar 24, 2012)
- Fixes:
- Removed the use of SwingWorker as the implementation was not comaptible with the latest JRE 6.
New in Log Viewer 1.5.2 (Mar 24, 2012)
- Fixes:
- Simple search (ie. not regexp) does not find search strings that are at the start of a line.
New in Log Viewer 1.5.1 (Mar 24, 2012)
- New features:
- Allow the use of Java Regular Expressions for grep, highlight, and search text patterns
- Display log time strings in relative time rather than absolute time. The interface allows one to specify the time string format and the base time from which all other time strings found in the file will be displayed relative
- Use of icons for various buttons.
New in Log Viewer 1.4.0 (Mar 24, 2012)
- New features:
- Shortcut panel to allow easy access to functions for the currently selected text. The panel also provides button to scroll the display to show the line containing the cursor position.
- Highlighting of any text that matches the currently selected text.
- Show the full file path for previously opened files.
- Increased the Java Virtual Machine maximum heap size from 256 MB to 512 MB.
- Fixes:
- Modified scroll wheel to be 8 lines rather than 1 line per scroll tick.
- Corrected background thread problems with goto line and tag traversal buttons.
New in Log Viewer 1.3.3 (Mar 24, 2012)
- Fixes:
- Fixed problem where Save settings would change the default settings.
New in Log Viewer 1.3.2 (Mar 24, 2012)
- New features:
- Add full saving and loading of grep / highlight / search settings (version 1.2 grep settings file format supported).
- Added ability to change the default grep / highlight / search settings.
- Remembering the window size and previous (or recent) file listings.
- Add tagging of lines. Tagged lines are highlighted in black and are not impacted by grep. The tagged lines can also be navigated via buttons on the util panel.
- Added CTL-Home (goto start of file) and CTL-End (goto end of file).
- Improved caret position graphic. More inline with common text editors.
- Added panel to show information about the current file including: full file path, number of lines read, maximum number of characters in a line, number of lines displayed as per grep and tags, maximum number of characters per line displayed as per grep and tags, and the caret position both in the file & display.
- Reload or refresh the file.
- Apply all grep patterns with one button.
- Fixes:
- Removed overlay text. Highlighted status text instead.
New in Log Viewer 1.2 (Mar 24, 2012)
- New features:
- Overlay text on view for when search is wrapping or when the search is not found.
- Cursor position maintained across greps (if cursor line is not shown then closest line gets the cursor).
- Used built in accelerators for CTL-key functions and search short cuts.
- Added saving and loading of grep patterns.
- Fixes:
- File open dialog navigation directory starts in the directory of the currently opened file .
New in Log Viewer 1.1 (Mar 24, 2012)
- New features:
- Split view capability.
- CTL-F (or "/") search shortcut.
- F3 (or "n") search next shortcut.
- F4 (or "p") search previous shortcut.
- Added Utility pane with a GOTO line capability.
- Added previous file history (does not maintain history across instances of the program).
- Fixes:
- Copying past end of file with mouse selected region (previous version raised an exception).
- Hitting enter in search pattern text field widget performs an automatic search next.