gbText provides over 40 methods for quickly making changes to the content of a text file. Special features include hex viewing of a file, random data generation, analysis of the word and character content of a file, and word wrapping to user-defined widths. Download (ver 5.3, 0.9MB) OnLine Help

Change History

• 9 December 2003
  Added "Insert Text" feature
  
• 3 December 2003
  Added "Separate First Word" feature to insert spaces as needed to put the first word of all lines into a common set of columns
  Added MRU (most recent used) feature to access last files opened/saved
  Corrected problem with "Expand TABs" command
  Changed several toolbar tips to be more informative
  Allowed user to cancel Exit command
• 9 October 2003
  Added ability to keep/delete lines based on text content of the line
  
• 17 September 2003
  Added Sort on Columns feature to sort lines based on specified columns
  Added Move Columns to move a specified set of columns to the start of each line
• 15 September 2003
  Added Left/Right Justification options
  Corrected problem with Clear Columns option
• 27 August 2003
  Added "Save File?" confirmation on exit when content of textbox is changed
  Added statusbar display of # lines and cursor point
  Removed CRLF at end of file when random text is generated
  Added File/Open/Refresh/New/Save/SaveAs/Print/Exit menu options
• 26 August 2003
  Added truncated feature - by putting "." & string into the textbox, gbText truncates all text to the right of the string
  Added an additional popup feature - Remove Formatting
  gbText now opens with a default filename of "default.txt" (was blank, which caused error on save)
  Corrected problem with "Remove Empty/Blank Last Line" option when textbox was empty
• 22 August 2003
  Total rewrite of the application, including much simpler interface and more functions
• 11 August 2003
  Added new function - "Columns" - that creates a specified number of columns from the input text data
• 8 August 2003
  Corrected problem with copying materials to the clipboard using context sensitive menus
• 25 July 2003
  Added a new function - "Capitalize" - that capitalizes only the first letter of each line
  Added a new function - "Keep Unique" - that keeps only those lines which have no duplicates (all duplicates are deleted)
• 23 June 2003
  Disabled the 'BEEP' that sounds when you press enter in a textbox
  Fixed problem with closing while minimized
• 23 June 2003
  Corrected startup problem that seems to affect Win2000 users only - "Type Mismatch" error
• 19 June 2003
  Fixed display of Hex View for long files