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Memory Leak

Vincent Bourgonje — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:39:52 GMT

Version 1.9.0.172 seems to have a memory leak, when I am trying to open a small file it starts growing (see screenshot). I can send the file by email if you want to do some more research, its too confidentional to put it here on a forum.

Format cells?

Kirby Turner — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:05:54 GMT

Starting with Killink CSV v1.2 add cell values are formatted as text. This is a change from previous versions which used a general format similar to the one found in Excel.

The problem with the general format is that certain values are displayed in a format different then the format used in the actual file. For example, using the general format the value 01970 is displayed as 1970. Notice the leading zero is removed. With a text format the value 01970 is displayed as 01970. Changing to the text format means you will see the value as it is found in the file, which in my opinion is a good thing.

This leads me to the question, do you want the ability to change the format of cells?

I see some advantages to this. For example, by allowing formatting you could easily convert dates from a Month Day Year format to Year Month Day. Is this something Killink CSV users would find useful?

-KIRBY

Row Delimiter

Wilma — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:53:50 GMT

I am new to using Killink CSV and would like to know what the row delimiter is. I need to have a row delimiter that should be (CR)(LF) and I am not sure the software uses.

Thanks

Feature request: Option for NOT normalizing number of delimiters when saving file

gpm2a — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:43:36 GMT

I work with delimited files in which lines/records can (and do) have different numbers of delimiters/columns. That is, the file includes different kinds of records in the same file. Some records will have, say, 30 columns, others will have 50, others may even have over 100. (The value of the first column indicates what kind of record it is.)

My problem is that when I edit such a file in Killink CSV and save the file, K.CSV appends delimiters to the end of each line so that all lines have the same number of delimiters. Unfortunately the software I must use to validate these files (which I have no control over) does not ignore extra delimiters at the end of each line. Instead, each line is required to have the correct/expected number of delimiters. In short, K.CSV breaks my files!

Would it be possible to add an option for disabling this behavior?

wider and wider until......

dutchguru — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:58:51 GMT

In "normal" situations one has enough, working in the width of the cell editor.
But I'm working on a series of articles, each can reach an amount of 500 characters or more.

A line with that amount can be handled by the cell editor, but one has to scroll 6 times the monitor to reach the end, what isn't handy to change some characters if needed.
Of course, we have the enter button, or ctrl-enter, in both cases there will be an hex 0A, wich is not automaticly removed after saving.

Solution could be , before displaying to remove this 0A value, but the question is: looking at the windows notepad, to change the cell-editor getting an automaticly new line without a new line character. In other words : give the cell-editor in the "option" box a variable value between a minimum and a maximum, for instance 70 characters, displaying then only ( with wordwrap ) that width of the cell editor.

Would be nice:P

Build 159 Has Been Posted

Kirby Turner — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:44:03 GMT

Killink CSV version 1.8 Build 159 has been posted. This latest release contains bug fixes only. Sorry, no new features but new features are coming soon.

Speaking of new features, I posted a blog entry explaining the delays in getting the next version release out the door.

-KIRBY

Sort Order

dreohio99 — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:54:14 GMT

I think it would be great to have a sort by feature added to Killink CSV. This should include the option to include or exclude the first row (header row) when sorting.

Help Getting Started

Smilinsteve — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:28:45 GMT

Hello,

I hope that I can mask my frustration and speak clearly and intelligibly.

Ive just downloaded your product, because I will be recieving leads

without commas, and my system does not save text in that fashion, though

I have Vista on a new computer.

I have the platform open, and have the leads saved to Notepad. Upon

looking through the Help tab, and any text I can find....I dont see any

clearly laid out step by step directions for total novices or those who have

never seen this type of product before. I have no idea what terms you are

using mean, and dont see anything like I would understand like,

(1) Click this button, (2) Find your file (3) Save to "Kill" file

Voila! All is loaded.

Do I have to manually load each lead? I have no idea. I cant even guess.

After I am successful at loading my leads into your system, and they are

"Comma Separated", I will then attempt to use a Filler Tool that loads them

into a mailer at a website 10 at a time, and send emails to each lead.

So...my goal is to get my leads into a form that this software needs.

Why there arent directions I can find easily is a mystery to me!

So.....

If there is any Mercy today for me, and my ignorance hasnt totally

made a fool of me, someone please take pity on me and spend a sec

and tell me the obvious.

Oh, and one thing.....when I click "Open" on your software, it opens

a list of my folders....and it lists all the Yellow folders in my computer, but

not the file I have saved. When I go to said folder though on my own,

the file is there!

My frustration with computers has brought me to the brink of throwing

my computer out my window.

So....

Thanks for your time!

A Hopefully long lasting and soon to be happy customer,

Smilinsteve

sstavez@yahoo.com

508-963-5286 Cell

Open Files in Less Time using Build 156

Kirby Turner — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:00:56 GMT

Killink CSV 1.8 build 156 was posted over the weekend. There is no new functionality in this release, only bug fixes, which is why there is no official release announcement.

The one bug fix that will interest most is the improved file load. With this release opening a file takes less time. The slow down was caused by the "best fit" feature which was added recently. Thanks goes out to those who reported the slow down.

Download the latest release at:
http://www.whitepeaksoftware.com/killink-csv-download.aspx

-KIRBY

Column Cut and Paste Issues

rmdegennaro — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:01:20 GMT

First, this is a great tool, I am glad I found it. I edit data quite often, as I work with databases ALOT. I have searched for something more file/data oriented then Excel. The version I downloaded is 1.8.0.154.

But I am running into a few difficulties. When I select a column header, only the first 672 rows are selected. I can see this visually as well as when I paste it into another column in the same file or another file. This is strange, because if I select just the cells, then I can select well over 1000 rows.

Also, when right clicking after selecting a few columns, the selection goes back to one column. That is all that is copied or cut. This does not happen if I use the Edit Menu.

I can work around it, but would hope this wasn't outside of the scope of the product.

Insert Comma and Quotes into CSV

Smartsuper — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:42:12 GMT

Hi,

We are currently trialing your software to allow us to enter data easily (hence the spreadsheet capabilities) and being able to save the file as a CSV with both commas and quotes around the data.

An example of the input we would enter is as follows:

Column: A B C D
12 13 18

The output of this we would like is a CSV file as follows:

"12","13","","18"

Is this possible with your software at present?

Error message when doing a search

threemissinglinks — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 07:54:03 GMT

I am now getting an error message each time I do a search. It never has done this before, but does all the time now. My version has been updated to the latest. The error shows EStringListError.

Any ideas?

Select Multiple Rows and columns

dreohio99 — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:53:02 GMT

I am a website developer who works mainly with ecommerce shopping carts. One of our best selling solutions is a CSV program that imports and exports product and category data. Unfortunately we run into a lot of issues with Excel auto-formatting fields that should be numbers and not handling fields with line breaks in them properly. I have downloaded the trial version of the software and love it and would like to recommend it to customers.

With that said there is one feature I would like to see added. In Excel I have the ability to select a row by clicking on the row number, scroll down to a row further down the page, hold the shift key down, and click the the row number to select the entire range of rows. Also I have the ability in Excel to click on a row and drag the mouse down to select multiple rows. This is the same for columns. If you guys could add this feature it would be great!

Also, do you offer any sort of affiliate sales program if we refer customers to your product?

Regards,

Daniel Ewers
Ecommerce Developer
http://www.ecom-mods.com

Printing the Screen View

erzherzogjohann — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:48:59 GMT

Dear White Peak team & community,

Am I just blind enough not to find it, or is there any reason why I can't get my killinkCSV to print a csv file just the way it is shown on screen?
What I want to have by doing so is that whenever I hide a column on screen, I don't want printed either.
So... is there a way or at least a workaround for me?

I would hate it if I had to drop KillinkCSV just because of this...

Best wishes,

Michael

Dose KillintCSV have the ability to change csv files into another csv format?

CLM — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:35:58 GMT

Hi All,

Third time trying this post, ouch, anyway...I am asking if KillinkCSV has the ability to reformat an existing csv file into a csv file that a shopping cart I am working with can understand???

I have a csv file from my supplier with 1700 items, and it needs to be reformatted into a csv format my shopping cart can understand. Why they didn't standardize csv files is beyond me!!!

If it can do it can someone explain how, and if not please let me know what program is available that can.

Thanks for your time and help

CLM

Support for Tab Seperated files lost in last version.

Traderhut — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:09:47 GMT

I just downloaded the latest version (windows installer) and it opened up the last file I had (.tsv ext. - which I registered as Tab Separated- and have confirmed it is still so)

And it put all of the columns in the A cell, and most of the next line in one cell.. Pretty much useless.

I had wanted to use this version to get support for row delete, but it looks like I'll have to roll back to the old version (which was about 3 revisions back)

Download Killink CSV v1.2 BETA

Kirby Turner — Thu, 31 May 2007 13:38:04 GMT

Hi all,

The latest beta test release of Killink CSV v1.2 is available:

~~http://www.whitepeaksoftware.com/downloads/setup-killinkcsv-102.exe~~
(Version 1.2 has been release. The test version is no longer available for download.)

Free feel to post your comments here.

This is a test release of Killink CSV. This release has been tested internally but unidentified problems may still exists. Please do not install unless you are comfortable using beta software.

What's New

* Adds support for history, undo and redo actions
* Insert new rows
* Insert new columns
* Selected row column header highlighting
* Unsaved changes indiciator
* Select entire row by clicking row header
* Select entire column by clicking the column header
* Delete entire rows
* Delete entire columns
* Insert / delete cells
* Added popup cell editor (click the ellipses button at end of cell text or press Ctrl+Enter when a cell is highlighted)
* Right mouse click cell for fast access to common actions.
* Minor bug fixes and enhancements
* Fixed minor memory leak

Enjoy.

-KIRBY

How to control the quotes during a file save

Kirby Turner — Tue, 08 May 2007 07:24:00 GMT

A new feature added to Killink CSV v1.1 is the ability to control how and when quotes are used to enclose a value. Two options are available:

* Enclose value with quotes when the value contains a NUL character, a quote character, or a delimiter character.
* Enclose value with quotes when the value contains a non-printable character, a space character, a quote character, or a delimiter character.

The second quote option is the default and it is the recommended setting. This will ensure greater compatibility with other CSV applications and parsers.

The new option can be found in the Options dialog (press F8 or select Tools > Options from the menu) under the section titled File Types > Default Settings.

-KIRBY

Download Killink CSV v1.1 BETA

Kirby Turner — Sun, 06 May 2007 15:24:37 GMT

Hi all,

The latest beta test release of Killink CSV v1.1 is available:

~~http://www.whitepeaksoftware.com/downloads/setup-killinkcsv-95.exe~~
(Version 1.1 has been release. The test version is no longer available for download.)

Free feel to post your comments here.

This is a test release of Killink CSV. This release has been tested internally but unidentified problems may still exists. Please do not install unless you are comfortable using beta software.

[b]What's New[/b]

* TAB and pipe file types are now available on new installs.
* The user is prompted to select the delimiter character when a file is opened if the file extension is associated to more than one file type.
* User is asked to specify the delimiter character if the file type is unknown.
* Excel file support - Killink CSV can now open Excel files (*.xls).
* Updated eSellerate engine to the latest version.
* Check for update defaults to once a month for new installs.
* New global file type setting to append the delimiter character to the of the end. Setting is turned off by default.
* New global file type setting to control when values are quoted.
* Fixed bug causing unhandled exception when the file is locked by another application.
* Fix bug causing print outs to display wrong column and row header labels.
* Fixed the delete button for file types.
* Fixed bugs on Save As dialog.

How to Open a Pipe Delimited File

Kirby Turner — Wed, 02 May 2007 04:28:33 GMT

I received an email asking how to open a pipe delimited file using Killink CSV. Unfortunately Version 1.0 does not include support for pipe delimited files by default, but support can be added manually. (Note: Version 1.1 will support pipe and tab delimited files by default.)

To open a pipe delimited file you must first create a new file type. Follow these steps to create a new file type:

1) Launch Killink CSV.
2) Press the F8 key, or select Tools > Options from the menu.
3) Click File Types in the Options windows.
4) Click the New button.
5) Enter "Pipe delimited file" and click OK.
6) Enter "txt" in the Extensions text box.
7) Enter "|" in the Select a delimiter character field.
8) Click OK.

Killink CSV will now be able to open and save pipe delimited text files.

-KIRBY

Welcome to the Killink Support Area

Kirby Turner — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:28:47 GMT

Please use this area of the forums to post your Killink questions and bug reports, or to let us know what you'd like to see in the next version.

-KIRBY

What is Killink?

Jeff Clark — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 18:51:57 GMT

I noticed a new forum area for somethign called Killink. What is Killink?