Depeche View (View all text files from a folder)

[stahlworks]

Summary:
A tool to view and search all text of a folder in one window,
with the least possible mouse clicks and key presses.
Made primarily to analyze source code in software projects,
but also suitable for all kinds of ASCII text files.

Features:
Search words as you type, or by clicking on them.
Fly through results by the turn of your mousewheel,
copy text and create bookmarks with one or two clicks.
Runs on Windows, and (experimentally) on Linux systems using WINE.

Portability:
No installation, no dependencies, runs from any USB stick.

By default, Depeche View does not change the registry.

If the user wants to integrate the tool into Windows Explorer,
he may do so by explicitely clicking on "Setup / Register ...",
in which case the Registry must be changed. But this is an optional function.

Download:
http://stahlworks.com/dev/depeche-view.html

Screenshot:

[I am Baas]

Depeche View is at V1.44

Features:

- loads thousands of text files in one window.
- instant search as you type, without dialogues.
- search a word just by clicking on it.
- copy a line, create bookmarks with one click.
- integrate with your favourite editor through self-defined commands on function keys.

Download @ http://stahlworks.com/dev/depeche-view.html

[webfork]

A very impressive and innovative text file viewer, opening a lot of them all at once and destroying the barriers between files, making it easier to search for elements in groups of files. Pretty cool.

Testing results:

• 1. Creates a registry key:
  
  • [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
    "Browse For Folder Width"=dword:0000013e
    "Browse For Folder Height"=dword:00000120
  Which makes it non-stealth, but still qualifies as portable
  
  2. Seems to save bookmarks to the folder underneath the executable. In my test, I saved dview.exe to my desktop and the program tried to save the bookmark to the \USER folder. When I quit the program, it removed this file. Odd.
  
  The Config options don't seem to support relative file names. Again, that doesn't make it non-portable.

Not 100% on how to call this one. Its obviously a program for power users who could get around the minor directory non-sense I mention above.

[I am Baas]

V1.4.5 is available.

- ADD: dview-config.txt can now also be placed into
My Documents\DepecheView
OR
My Documents (at top level)
and will be found therein on startup,
if no other dview-config.txt exists in the PATH
or parallel to dview.exe.
- add: Setup / config: SHIFT click on create button
always creates the config within My Documents.
- ADD: New Setup and File Filter Dialog, allowing
to edit most DView settings within the GUI.
- ADD: Automatic storage of settings in config file.
Whenever a setting changes, DView will
write the config file
- whenever the user presses CONTROL+S
- OR on program exit
- CHG: All config file entries active by default,
no longer using out-commented entries
in the default config file. This way DView
knows where to write changed entries
(otherwise it must append them at the end
of an existing config file).
NOTE: it is recommended to create a new
config file through Setup / Create to ...
then copy your scripts into that.
- CHG: some config file entries renamed:
"case" -> is now "casesearch"
"accent" -> is now "accentsearch"
"punct" -> is now "punctsearch"
old syntax is auto converted.
- DEL: config file entry "context" is no longer supported
to keep the config file structure easy.
- DEL: config file entries for a background image are
no longer mentioned in the default config file,
as text can never be displayed correctly
with an active background image.
- DEL: config setting "filteronctlf" no longer mentioned.
- DEL: environment variables for command execution are
no longer supported. use "on key" scripts instead.
- CHG: filenames relative to the startup directory
are now shown as relative names by default.
can be configured under Setup / general.
- add: user scripts: echo "foo": quotes are now
stripped on command execution. escaped
quotes \" are supported.
- add: config: cursorblinkspeed setting to slow down
the blinking speed of text editor's cursor.
- FIX: editor auto indentation: wrong indentation
when pressing enter near line start.
- fix: bookmark loading: locations within foo.cpp
may have been relocated into anyfoo.cpp,
now the filename start is checked.
- fix: ctrl+x on foo.cpp:123 jumped into anyfoo.cpp,
now the filename start is checked.
- fix: ctrl+enter toggled main font, now it is
only ctrl+j as documented.
- fix: editor: after selection of a different view,
then click stop edit in the current view,
text was marked unexpectedly.
- fix: double click into find mask entered edit mode
instead of changing to insert cursor.
- fix: file monitor: always showed bottom of file,
now show= accepts both top and bottom.
- fix: editor: cursor did not blink permanently.
- fix: text overwrote position indicator at right border.
- fix: when selecting alternative main or bookmark font,
sometimes the wrong font was changed.
- fix: bookmark font selection now also allows
non-fixed pitch fonts.
- fix: file loading filter button display.
- fix: config entry "separatorline" using "==="...
produced an invalid error message

http://stahlworks.com/dev/depeche-view.html

[Marc]

Hello, after the latest update to version 1.4.6 Can Anyone confirm that is completely portable / stealth or if it still writes keys to the registry?
Thanks.

[Ruby]

The current version is 1.4.8

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-  FIX: crash on clipboard automation:
        after closing any window and then, for example,
        reloading the config, the next clipboard event
        caused dview to exit due to endless recursion.
-  CHG: mouse text surf improved. it is now
        possible to start text surfing also by
        a left click into words, if the mouse
        is moved vertically afterwards.
        if it's not moved, one click search
        or edit can be used.
-  CHG: Depeche View Base renamed to Lite.
-  chg: now stopping all file monitors on start edit
        in any view.
-  chg: clipboard automation: automatic deactivation
        if event receiver window (the first view)
        is closed.
-  chg: clipboard automation: after copy to clipboard,
        any incoming clip events are now ignored for
        750 msec by default, as the own clipboard write
        may cause such events.
-  chg: more tolerant single click detection,
        to allow easier one click editing
        even if the mouse is moved slightly.
-  add: optional inversion of text surf direction
        through Setup / general.
-  add: help text: how to cross copy words, 
        move text between views, auto insert. 
-  fix: automatic close of all editors on
        -   reload of single files
        -   clipboard loading
        -   word wrap toggling
        -   file monitoring
        for improved reliability.
-  fix: filemon kept running even without
        a matching file.
-  fix: setup dialog: registration of all file
        extensions via all checkbox didn't work.
-  fix: .jar and .tar extension registrations were
        mixed up, showing the wrong file association
        active in the setup dialog.
-  fix: dview base now tells that registering
        of file extensions is a pro feature.

http://stahlworks.com/dev/depeche-view.html

[Ruby]

Hello, after the latest update to version 1.4.6 Can Anyone confirm that is completely portable / stealth or if it still writes keys to the registry?
Thanks.

If you're referring to the registry keys 'webfork' posted, I don't believe those are created by DView.

Those are 'Browse For Folder' dialog size settings kept by Windows Explorer.

While it's possible a program may 'Customize' (using the WinAPI) the 'Browse For Folder' dialog (I don't think is the case here) the settings/values shown are standard and saved by Explorer.

It may also be possible that 'webfork' was testing on a 'Clean' machine and had not used the 'Browse For Folder' dialog yet and these keys were not present prior to testing.

[Checker]

Depeche View is now at V1.4.8.5

[Checker]

Depeche View is now at V1.4.9

[Checker]

Depeche View is now at V1.4.9.2

[Checker]

Depeche View is now at V1.4.9.3

[stahlworks]

Release 1.4.9 is about making it easier for first time users.
By default, DView comes with a new "assistance mode".

- left click on a word brings up a search popup menu: search this word now,
search it in a different window, copy to clipboard, create bookmark, ...

You may also mark a phrase: left button down on first word, keep button pressed,
move to the right to another word, then release button. Again the menu comes up.

- right click on blank space produces a navigation menu: jump to next/previous search result,
jump to next file, narrow search to current file ...

- right click on blank space in a filtered result view produces another menu:
show that text location, show it in another window, ...

- extra buttons at the right top: filter text for results, jump to next/previous result.

- scrollbars in every window.

Experienced DView users may prefer to work without assistance, as it takes more clicks to run a search,
and one click search is not possible. Therefore this can all be switched off in different ways,
the fastest one being to press CONTROL+SHIFT+P (power settings).

[stahlworks]

Version 1.5.0 has been released,
featuring reduced text file loading times (about 50 percent in DView Lite).

[Checker]

Depeche View is now at V1.5.0.2

[Checker]

Depeche View is now at V1.5.0.3