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BareTailPro

Release 2.50a 2006-11-02 What's new?
Win32 (Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista)

Demo Version - baretailpro.exe (298k) Licence
- Automatically terminates after 5 minutes
- Startup splash screen cannot be disabled

Registered Version - Only $US 35 Licence
- No automatic termination after 5 minutes
- Option to disable startup splash screen

Command Line Use

baretailpro [options] {file(s)}

where options can be:

-wp left top width height
--window-position left top width height

Specifies the window position at startup in pixels. Note that the -ws, --window-state option, as well as the stored windows state in the registry (from the last run) overrides this option when the state is minimised or maximised.

-ws 0 | 1 | 2
--window-state 0 | 1 | 2

Specifies the window state at startup:

0	Normal state (neither minimised or maximised)
1	Minimised
2	Maximised

-tc count -ti index
--tile-window-count count --tile-window-index index

Specifies the window position at startup for vertical tiling of applications on the screen. The count specifies the number of equal height vertical slots for application windows. The index specifies the zero-based (zero is the top) offset of the slot in which to position the window.

Examples

If BareTailPro is started from the command line without any command line arguments, for example:

C:\>baretailpro

then it automatically opens the last file viewed, or prompts the user to select a file if it is being started for the first time.

It is possible to specify a file on the command line, such as:

C:\>baretailpro engine.log

in which case BareTailPro would be opened for tailing engine.log.

If multiple files are specified on the command line, for example:

C:\>baretailpro engine.log stats.log

Then BareTailPro would be launched for tailing engine.log and stats.log. The two files would be shown in two tabs in the application.

The tiling options can be used to tile multiple instances of BareTailPro on the screen, for example:

C:\>baretailpro --tile-window-count 3 --tile-window-index 0 engine.log
C:\>baretailpro --tile-window-count 3 --tile-window-index 1 stats.log

Then two instances of BareTailPro would be launched. The first instance would view engine.log and would be positioned in the top third of the screen. The second instance would view stats.log and would be positioned in the middle third of the screen.

BareTailPro

Command Line Use

Examples

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