Re: File Examiner
- Posted by "king.pete2000" <king.pete2000 at IC24.NET> Mar 19, 2000
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-----Original Message----- From: Everett Williams <rett at GVTC.COM> To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU> Date: Saturday, March 18, 2000 9:04 PM Subject: Re: File Examiner > >Good functionality, but a jolly pain to use. I wider display would be most >welcome...something along the lines of some of the older hex viewers, >showing 16 or 32 bytes across and then the text where viewable with >the cursor moving in both sets and tabbing between them. Also, it would >be most useful to be able to enter the desired location directly as a kind >of "goto"(no, let's not start that again). At least the version I downloaded >would only view 32k of any file larger than 32k. Oops I didnt really give it much testing did I? The 32k limit must be to do with the LISTBOX control I have used... I would use memos or richeditors but in VEL005 memos dont display carriage returns properly and you cant update the text for a richeditor from inside your program without creating a temporary file! Maybe I should use multiple listboxes, one per 32k? Or maybe a redesign altogether? As for direct location jumping I will put that in the next version! > >It also stopped at the fifth byte of another file that I wanted to view. Probably, >you are not getting past false EOF's in the binary. > Hmmm maybe, I am opening the file as a binary file I will look at this. >It also crashed when I closed it after opening and looking at 32k of a file >greater than 40k. > Must be the listbox again. >Still in all, something that we haven't seen before. Is VEL still being >maintained by anybody? Has anybody obtained the Delphi source from >Gary? > I dont believe it is, which is a shame. VEL is a great development tool. >I can think of lots of small ini and cfg type files that this could be useful for. >Might want a little further testing though. > Yes I guess I should test things more before I release them! LOL ;)