I will create a new release when there is enough information on this site to stop redirecting people to jsisoft.com

I intend to make each part of the documentation a post here and use tags to keep some structure to it. That way it will be much easier to comment or contribute on individual parts of the documentation.

It will go past the SourceForge Tracker, but a suggestion in a comment here will get to me a bit faster.

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.

• 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.

UDP Listener

File Listener

MS-SQL Listener

Eventlog Listener

RSS and Atom Listener

Folder Listener

StdOut/StdErr Listener

File Listener does a tail on a file.

• File: Full path to the file to monitor.
• Poll intervall: How often, in milliseconds, the file should be checked.
• Prefix: A small text that is shown before the event in the viewer to indicate where the event came from.
• Start at end: Whether or not to show all current data in the file or only show new data.

• Prefix: A small text that is shown before the event in the viewer to indicate where the event came from.
• Kill on exit: Whether or not the external application should be terminated when the listener stops.
• File: Full path including command line arguments to the application.

Folder Listener does a tail on all files in a folder.

• File: Full path to the folder to monitor.
• Prefix: A small text that is shown before the event in the viewer to indicate where the event came from.
• Add filename to prefix: Whether or not to append the filename of the file generating an event to the prefix.
• Add short filename to prefix: Whether or not to append the 8.3 filename of the file generating an event to the prefix.
• Show no file content: Whether or not to monitor the content of the files in the folder.

RSS Listener monitors Atom and RSS feeds.

• URL: Url to the feed.
• Poll intervall: How often, in minutes, the feed should be checked.
• Prefix: A small text that is shown before the event in the viewer to indicate where the event came from.
• Start at end: Whether or not to show all current items or start looking for new items.