Creating a Large Text File Viewer by Vibe Coding with Visual Studio Code, Cline, OpenRouter, and Claude 3.7
I just created another Windows 10/11 application using AI. This is a follow-up to the SquareCap program I posted about a few weeks ago . The problem I was trying to solve this time was opening and searching extremely large text files. I used to use the old Mandiant Highlighter program for this, but it was last updated in 2011 and couldn't handle the 26 GB text file I wanted to open. If you're wondering what that file is, it's a dump of the contents of the main Starfield.esm file from the Bethesda Game Studios game called Starfield. I use the xdump64 program bundled with xEdit. You can try this program for yourself if you like. It's a stand-alone Windows C# .NET 9 application that runs on Windows 10 and 11. Like my last program, all I did was work with the model for about 3 hours to get it to where it is now. I tried for an hour or so to implement a "highlight all search matches" function but could not get that to work. The screen cap...