Release v0.8
If you are not already familiar with Tail Blazer, it is a file tail utility which has been designed to be stylish, simple and intuitive. For details about it's functionality or how to download it see GitHub Home Page
There are 3 main areas of focus for this release:
- Performance
- Settings
- Clear and unclear
Tail Blazer has always virtualised lines in a file which is why it can manage very large files. In tests the largest file I have opened is 100GB with no problems. However performance would suffer when individual lines in a file are very long. This caused problems when rendering those lines. This problem has been solved as the lines are now horizontally virtualised. I am confident now that Tail Blazer will always been fast however large or wide a file may be.
All settings are saved. In fact everything that is ever typed is remembered and used again. In the following example, the user chooses an icon and colour to associate with some search text. The next time the search term is used, the user choices are re-applied.
Also when the app is exited, it will be re-opened exactly as it was closed.
You are a developer and you want to debug what happens when you push a button on the app you are monitoring. If you do not care what has happened before pressing the button and want to de-clutter what Tail Blazer is displaying you can use the clear button to remove all previous data.
If however you want to show all data again there is the corresponding un-clear function