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    Posted: 26 December 2004 at 9:33pm

This is extremely trival and hardly worth mentioning but here goes.

Roberto, next time you are poking around the SF code will you take a look at seeing what would be involved in adding a pause to the log activity screen.

My thought is when you move the scroll bar to review the activity log, how about pausing the display?

Thanks, Lee

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote pcmatt Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 December 2004 at 11:46am

The activity screen is constantly being updated with new log lines on a busy server.  I believe Robert tried several different text controls in the program but busy servers caused errors because text controls are not made to accept constant updates while at the same time allowing the "freezing" the display of the text. 

My recommendation is that you open the log in Notepad or a simple text editor that opens files in shared mode and just be sure to cancel out or don't save changes when you exit.  That's how I get a snapshot of the log activity to browse, search ,etc.   

The only possible update to SpamFilter "could" be to have a button in the Activity screen named "Review Log" or something to that effect that did the same thing that opening the log file in Notepad would do.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Lee Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 December 2004 at 12:53pm

Matt, your method is exactly what I am doing now. And like I said this is very low on the list of things that I am sure Roberto wants to do.

It is just some times I only want to see a few lines of the log and as you said they go past pretty quickly. :)

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote pcmatt Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 December 2004 at 1:47pm

Gotcha Lee.  Just giving you a programmer's point of view. 

I don't know of any scrolling text box controls for Delphi or otherwise that'll provide that feature.  That's why it will come down to a button that provides a separate popup or other window with a snapshot of the log as the only likely SpamFilter provided feature.  That may be more convenient, but not really much different from what we do now.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote LogSat Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 December 2004 at 5:09pm
Matt is correct. We tried in the past to use a different GUI control that allowed "freezing" of the activity log when moving the scrollbars, but in high-traffic implementations this greatly impacted performance and stability. If we ever find a viable solution we'll implement it, as we're the first ourselves to be wanting the behavior you ask for...

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You could possilby add a second viewonlylog window that is view only and hidden when the active log file is being displayed.  When you click on a pause button, it could hide the active log window and copy the active log contents to the viewonlylog window and display over the active logs place.  Unpausing could then clear and hide the viewonlylog and redisplay the active log again.

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Jeff,

We'll keep that into consideration. While it is rather simple to open the logfile in Notepad for viewing, in some cases that log for the day can be several hundreds of MB in size, so yes, an option to view just the last few hundred lines would be a nice convenience.

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