Version 6.8 - December 11 2005
DeArchive Feature - The File menu contains a DeArchive menu that allows to view all the archived versions of a file and load one of them. Filter Picker - The tool bar allows to pick directly an existing filter. Bug Fixes:         Bug #8376 - If the file is growing rapidly while fLogViewer is updating its data, fLogViewer will now terminate the current update, will warn the user and pause for twice the 'Refresh Periode' option. The file will be update during next update event. Previously fLogViewer was continuously updating its own data, slowing down the system.
Version 6.4 - April 01 2005
Archive feature will support UNC name, and create a sub folder based on the machine name. This allow to monitor files from different machines with the same filename. Bug Fixes:         Bug #8370 - Better handling of text file containing ascii char 0.
Version 6.3 - November 27 2004
Removed the Ctrl+Arrow Down/Up selection feature. The find function will now horizontally scroll to display the found string. The result may not be accurate is regular expression is used to find the string. Bug Fix:         Bug #8356 - Selecting in the line number change the background color.         Bug #8355 - The Copy Helper Window is not updated based on the find result.
Version 6.0 - July 01 2004
Line Length : You can now specify in the options dialog what is the max line length fLogViewer should manage and display. The rest of the string will be ignored.
Export As HTML supports HTML encoded chars like : >, <, & and space.
Version 5.7 - January 2 2004
Create the notion of Work Space which allow to load multiple files at the same time
The Copy Helper Window can display the current line in ASCI or HEXA Dump Format: 0010: 31 2F 31 2F 32 30 30 34 20 38 1./.1./.2.0.0.4. .8. 0020: 3A 33 32 3A 32 30 20 50 4D 20 :.3.2.:.2.0. .P.M. . 0030: 20 20 20 20 5B 53 63 72 75 6D . . . .[.S.c.r.u.m. 0040: 4D 5D 5B 49 4E 46 4F 5D 5B 53 M.].[.I.N.F.O.].[.S. 0050: 51 4C 2E 54 52 41 43 45 5D 5B Q.L...T.R.A.C.E.].[. 0060: 43 52 4C 46 5D 5B 43 52 4C 46 C.R.L.F.].[.C.R.L.F. Note: If the option 'Convert Tab char into space char' is off, fLogViewer converts each Tab chars into 1 space char. Therefore the Replace processing function logging for a Tab char will fail.
Version 5.5 - September 13 2003
New Synchronize Mode, which allow to view 2 on more files in synchronized way. The keyboard is only supported. This is a great feature to compare 2 files.
Support of XSV file. XSV stand for 'Any-Char' Separated File.
For CSV or XSV file there is now a new filter mode calls 'Where Clause'.
Version 5.2 - May 29 2003
Support a specific set of colors for a 256 colors configuration The Column View Mode has been extended to determine the char separator based on the file extension (CSV:Comma, TAB:Tab). See the Options Dialog.
Version 4.8 - May 7 2003
New vertical scroll bar New archive function as text file or as zip file New archive and Clear function Open ZIP file containing 1 text file Optionaly disable the Clear file Support Regular Expression to define the color of the lines
Version 4.7 - April 23 2003
New archive function Auto archive mode when when the file is cleared Remove temporary the File Clear option
Version 4.6 - January 19 2003
The Mouse Right Click Menu when a piece of line is selected have now an option that can open the file name selected in fLogViewer itself. Introduction of Quick Info Message which allow the user to choose of want to be inform of new events, like a new fLogViewer version is available. Line selection bug with no line number displayed fixed
Version 4.4 - November 18 2002
New line selection mode with Copy and Mouse Right Click to call a menu configured with a VBScript PlugIn New file properties dialog using the Windows file properties dialog
Version 4.2 - October 27 2002
Reorganize the options dialog. New option show full file name in window title. Update the APNIC HTML page to get APNIC IP Info. Removed Localization of the date at the beginning of the line. Web Site update.
Version 4.1 - May 27 2002
Fix 4.0 export after filtering bug. Filtering exclude mode. Localization of the date at the beginning of the line.
Version 4.0 - May 13 2002
New Smooth Scrolling. New Filter dialog. Word wrap mode. HTTP downloaded file are not more updated for now.
Version 3.86 - Febrary 2 2002
Removed the message box displaying the information about the line greater than 32767 chars. The line is still view as 2 lines. Removed the watch mode function. Removed the report bug in case of run time error.
Version 3.84 - August 9 2001
fLogViewer slow initialization problem has been fixed.
Version 3.82 - June 22 2001
Reload remote HTTP file when they change using the http mode HEAD. New plug in : Watch mode. Trigger any VBScript code for each new row added to the current file. New optional toolbar. The refresh period can exceed 30 seconds. Option dialog Apply button redraw the log files. The status bar is optional. Mouse Wheel Down, scroll vertically.
Version 3.81 - May 21 2001
Check if the dll AxOoVblib1.dll is correctly installed (fix the install problem). Set the plug in debug mode from the Options dialog. New Copy Helper window, Press enter on the line you want to copy.
Version 3.8 - New Features - May 20 2001
Columns View Mode for W3C Extended Log File, CSV and any file. Download remote log file through an http call. The filtering mode based on regular expression is 50% faster. A new filter mode based on the LIKE operator allow to define simple filtering based on the Visual Basic like operator. The like operator is 30% faster than the same regular expression. Note regular expressions are more power full and complex. Support Microsoft IIS log file update mode. Support of log file line line greater that 32767 chars. fLogViewer splits the line automatically in 2 and display a warning.
Version 3.718 - New Features - April 02 2001
The fLogViewer WebService is running. The Licence has been updated.
Version 3.717 - New Features - Mars 29 2001
The install may create an fLogViewer shortcut on the desktop. The install copy 3 VBScript Plug-In files. The license is displayed when a new version is installed. The dialog File Properties displays the creation and last modified date of the log file.
Version 3.716 - New Features - Mars 15 2001
Download your configuration from a Web Server. The fLogViewer Engine initialization step is faster. The number of previous files in the menu File has been extended to 10. The line number may have their own color. The line number may have their own color. You can report a bug directly from fLogViewer.
Version 3.0 - 2000/xx/xx
Implement the color coding feature based on a Owner Draw ListBox. In the future I will rewrite the rendering engine base of the RTF control, to support huge file I will rewrite the it using VB graphic commands and finally I will rewrite it using Windows GDI to get a smooth scrolling.
Version 2.xx - 1998/xx/xx
During the year 1998, working on my first real professional web application, I re-wrote this application with Visual basic 5, to let me see the web application log located on the web server machine. The very first release had the basic todays features, but had no colors support, large file support, no filter supports.
Version 1.xx - 1990/xx/xx
As part of my last intern ship, I developped a first version for MS-DOS written in Turbo C with - Mono file support only - file bigger than 640 Kb support - some limited colors coding support - filtering based on regular expression support