Call for Feature Requests

Recently, I decided to resurrect my long-time pet project, Log File Watcher, and get it under active development again. The previously released version, named FileWatch, was a mess. It was buggy, had too many features crammed in, and was just poorly executed.

I've decided to start over from scratch, and rename it Log File Watcher. The name change is mostly to match the project's URL over at SourceForge: http://logfilewatcher.sourceforge.net/.

About Log File Watcher

Log File Watcher is basically a cross-platform GUI version of the tail utility. You open a file with it, and it watches the file for changes. When new lines of text get added to the file, they will appear in the GUI window as well.

Feature Requests Wanted!

When I first started working on it, I thought of a few general features - the only real notable one was coloring lines from the log that matched user-defined patterns.

So, the main purpose of this blog post is to ask any readers out there: What sorts of features would you like to see in a utility like this?

You can send me ideas in one of three ways:

1. Visit the project page at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/logfilewatcher and add it to the Feature Requests tracker. (This is the preferred method.)


2. Leave a comment on this post.


3. Email it to jattardi+logfilewatcher@gmail.com.