TC Log Viewer 1.50 beta 1

[ts4242]

New tool for Total Commander TC Log Viewer

It is simple and easy to use.

Hope you like it!

[m^2]

Would be better with filtering...

[ts4242]

Would be better with filtering...

for me date filter is enough and i use search to fastly locate specific operation

[m^2]

Let's say I want to read all copying operation with target in C:\Program Files made in June... Search+day filter is not enough
Another idea: joining multiple logs in the list - useful with log file rotation.

[Sombra]

2ts4242
Thank you

m^2 wrote:

Would be better with filtering...

I like the idea, too. A listbox for filter operations for example: by copy, move, delete, unpack, etc.
Or better, an "input box" for filter.

[djk]

Thanks for the next nice tool.
I also think that filtering would be really useful option.

[m^2]

Minor bug: when there's no log file, the main window has "Form1" title.

[HolgerK]

Very nice

Minor bugs:
- Changing "Options->[] Long date format" does not trigger the [Apply] button.
- the right scrollbars are covered about 30% by the window border (Vista aero if this matter)

Suggestions:
What about an "always on top" property available from "View" menu,
and an "automatic refresh", triggered with an adjustable time interval?

Thanks for this tool!
Holger

[petermad]

2ts4242

Danish translation:

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4000=Tid
4001=Kilde
4002=Destination
4003=&Kilde
4004=&Destination
4010=Operation(er)
4015=&Langt datoformat
4020=&Opdater

And then there is a typo (made by me) in line 1505:

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1505=Besøg vensligst programmets hjemmeside for de seneste informationer om dette program.

which should be:

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1505=Besøg venligst programmets hjemmeside for de seneste informationer om dette program.

That means that typo is also present in Ultra TC Editors.

[petermad]

2ts4242
In the Help file - if I click on Total Commander in the text:

TC Log Viewer opens Total Commander logging file and show its contents in the following three parts:

then the Total Commander homepage is opened in Internet Explorer - I would definitely prefer if it was opened in my default browser (which is not IE).

[ts4242]

Minor bug: when there's no log file, the main window has "Form1" title.

Fixed

- the right scrollbars are covered about 30% by the window border (Vista aero if this matter)

this reported also for UTC Editors, but i don't have Vista to check and fix!

2>petermad
4002 and 4004 string should be Target, i changed it in the source code but forgot to update the lng file
about the TC link, i think chm file always use IE for external links

2>All
filtering by operation is planned for next magor release

[Flint]

ts4242
Nice start, but lot of work is still to be done... First things that come to mind are:
1. Fix the bugs (for many items an empty target is shown; Appy button is not activated on toggling the "Long date format" checkbox).
2. Add customizable highlighting (regular expressions would be very appreciated!).
3. Filtering (as wrote above).
4. Possibility to limit search to the selected date only.
5. Automatically combine all LOG files if log file rotating is used in TC.
6. Add possibility to turn the Target panel off and/or show the target just near the operation itself (maybe, in another side-by-side column).

[petermad]

4002 and 4004 string should be Target,

Then everything is OK in the Danish translation. "Destination" fits best for "Target" in Danish.

i think chm file always use IE for external links

Typical Micro$oft policy

[JohnFredC]

TC Log Viewer is a good start on a useful utility. Thank you for it!

Some remarks:

1. The two panels should be "scrolling synchronized". Scrolling one should scroll the other equally.
2. File->Exit doesn't work
3. I use the following AutoHotkey script to post comments to the TC log before and after a block of operations:

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FileAppend,%1%`n,PutLogFilePathSpecHere

...where %1 is the comment text and "PutLogFilePathSpecHere" is the name of the log file.

TC Log Viewer fails to read any such commented log file, displaying an error alert identifying the first comment line number.

Also, though the filename in the Window caption changes to the filename of the newly selected log file (which contains the comment, but which is not read because of the error), the panels themselves remain linked to the previous (successfully read) file, if any.

Please consider some approach to passing comments to the viewer.

Also, it would be helpful to me if TC Log Viewer could collapse sections of the log based on some sort of "start section" and "end section" comment syntax.

Thanks for listening!

[ts4242]

2>Flint
1. Empty target items isn't a bug, it just to make both list has the same count, this make my life easier
3. Filtering is planned but i have some problem with it right now!
4. A new option to search dialog will added.
5. Combine all log files would slowdown the program, imagine there are 30 log files each one 1MB size
6. I tested this layout before but i didn't like it because paths usually too long and you will have to scroll the list right/left therefore separating Target is much clear.


2>JohnFredC
1. I hope i can do scrolling synchronized but i don't know how to do it right now!
2. Thanks for reporting this
3. I will support commented lines but in this case these lines must start with semicolon ;

Also, it would be helpful to me if TC Log Viewer could collapse sections of the log based on some sort of "start section" and "end section" comment syntax.

Sorry, this would complicate the file parsing. I wonder why you need these structure elements?