logview4net

New session

This is where you start a new session. See related topics and documents Configure

Clear

Clears the active window.

Pause

Stops the active viewer from showing new events. All new events are cached until the button is pressed again.

Actions

Manages the actions for the current viewer. Actions

Settings

Shows the session configuration dialog. Where you can add and remove listeners and actions from the current session. Configure

Sessions

Enables you to organize the open session windows.

Help

• About: Will show a dialog with some application data.
• Documentation: Opens the help file in your default web browser.
• Check for updates: Will check online if there is a new version of the application available.
• Register filetype: Associates the .l4n extension with logview4net so that you can doubleclick on a settings file to open the application.

Context menu

There is a context menu in each session window that has options tho quickly create actions based on selected text in the viewer.

This is where all new log events are showed. You can change font and colors. Each viewer is associated with a set of actions. ‘Buffer’ set how many characters that are stored in the viewer. Old events are purged to make place for new ones once this number is reached.

You can put any amount (within reason) of filenames on the command-line when starting the application. If there are filenames on the commandline all listeners in the default session will be removed and new ones will be created as described below.

• A file name with the .l4n extension will remove the default session and start a new according to the settings in the file. The configuration window will not be shown on startup. Make sure this is the first argument on the command line if you intend to add more arguments.
• A folder name will create a folder listener for that folder.
• A file name with the .exe extension will start the application with a predefined StdOut listener.
• Any other file name will create a file listener for that file.

There is a file in the application folder named DefaultSession.xml which is a file of the same type you get when you save a configuration. By replacing the file you can have another default setup than the one that comes with the install. Remember to save a copy of your file since it will be overwritten by the installer of a new version of the application.

These are the modules that does most of the actual work. You can add several listeners to one session. Listening at the same resource in more than one session might work for some of the listeners.

UDP Listener

File Listener

MS-SQL Listener

Eventlog Listener

RSS and Atom Listener

Folder Listener

StdOut/StdErr Listener