Global search and highlighting + exclusion filters

There are 3 main areas of focus for this release:

Global search and highlighting
Exclusion Filters
Minor bug fixes

For details see Release-v0.9

Settings, Performance and Clear

There are 3 main areas of focus for this release:

1. Performance
2. Settings
3. Clear and unclear

For details see Release v0.8 notes

Colours and icons

The main feature of this release is text highlighting.

For more details see release document v0.7.0

To install, download the zip, extract and double click on TailBlazer.exe

Regex and more search options

As well as many bug fixes, this release is primarily based around better search and highlight options.

For more details see release document

To install, download the zip, extract and double click on TailBlazer.exe

Themes and options

This release adds some extra user options including options to:

• Dark / Light theme
• Resize text
• Disable new line highlight

Also fixed several bugs and added extra logging for better diagnostics.

To install, download the zip, extract and double click on TailBlazer.exe

For more details see Tail Blazer

Multiple feature release

This is the release which starts to enrich the user experience of Tail Blazer

• Allow multiple searches
• View search results in original position in file [allows in-line scrolling]
• Store recent files
• Copy selected lines to the clipboard

To run Tail Blazer extract TailBlazer_v0.4.2.zip and run TailBlazer.exe

Large file handling

The primary focus on this release has been to build the foundation for large file handling. For details see this doc.

The other great news is Tail Blazer finally has an icon.

To run download the zip, extract and double click on TailBlazer.exe

Several issues fixed

Thanks to all the great feedback and community help many issues were brought to my attention. Most of these have now been fixed.

#38 Log not rendering
#37 Load and searching indicators
#36 Highlight text control causes performance issues for very busy files
#35 Log stops updating shortly after roll-over bug
#34 Target Net 45 rather than Net 46
#33 File encoding incorrect for log produced by batch file with accented characters included. bug
#32 Use monospaced font
#30 Performance: Automatically adjust next poll period to account for network latency enhancement
#28 Take a closer look at Encoding bug
#22 Tail file even after it has been newly created

In the next release I will address the issue of slow opening time for large files

Performance improvements for large files (2nd attempt)

This release fixes a serious bug with decoding files and has included a major performance improvement when scrolling through a file. See Fast Scrolling

To run extract zip and run TailBlazer.exe

Performance improvements for large files

This release has included a major performance improvement when scrolling through a file. See Fast Scrolling

To run extract zip and run TailBlazer.exe