Save/Load highlight rules

[tchule]

Hello ^^

It would be nice to be able to save/load/edit the color rules.

And eventually to link them (and the date format) automatically to a log file (by extension ? or by directory or filename ?). It would be cool to have a preset for Apache log file, another one for PHP error logs, another for Tomcat, ...

[renatoathaydes]

The way I envisioned it, you can achieve that by using different logfx homes. See the docs for how to start LogFX with a different home by specifying a system property.

So you can start different instances of LogFX with different sets of rules.

I agree that in the future, this should be made easier...

[wimdeblauwe]

I had something like that in a tool I once created long time ago. See http://vigilog.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html Feel free to pick ideas and/or code there :) But my tool did not handle large files very well.

[renatoathaydes]

That looks nice @wimdeblauwe . What did you use to create the UI?

I like the idea of having "color groups", I think I will use that idea :)

[wimdeblauwe]

It was written in Swing. You can look at the pom.xml for the used dependencies. Some of those probably don't exist anymore (like SwingX).

[renatoathaydes]

I've just implemented this feature! I am about to make a new release, finally 1.0! It will include this feature.

[renatoathaydes]

Took me 2 years to actually release 1.0 🥲 !
The "color groups" idea was implemented long ago, but the idea to automatically associate files with a group is still to be done.