DONE!
It ALL just works... looks only a BIT diff. than screenshot before (as it now has a dropdown list of your fav sites to ping to help speed them up is all, added now & yes, the Progress Bar is back (probably trayiconized & the "whole 9 yards", later, & @ the "pretty'ifying stage"))
(DONE - Except for the option above, which other than for "flexibilities' sake" is foolish imo, really - as there is NO HOSTS FILE entries format more efficient than the 0<space>URL<cr+lf> format I currently use)
HOWEVER:
For the sake of flexibility, the option to build 127.0.0.1 & 0.0.0.0 types will be built in thru/over the next couple days, tops...
* NOW, it's going off to my pal Jack via email, for "end-user" level testing (useability mostly, because he understands the "internal mechanics" of a HOSTS file, as is, from my turning he onto them earlier/late last year, to present)
APK
P.S.=>
I renamed it to "APK HOSTS File Grinder 4.0++", because that IS, what it does... ANYTHING "HOSTS FILE" imaginable, really, & just "grinds it out" as it does:
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- EASY Integrating the HOSTS files of others, even if in other internal line-by-line formats, into the MOST EFFICIENT format that is, first, & then...
- Allowing you to speed up access to your fav sites, via 1st pinging them, & adding them to the normalized non-repeat line items list on the right above
- Add/remove sites from a hosts file, but by first checking for their pre-existence inside the HOSTS file on ADDS, & rejecting if there already (& adding if NOT present)
- Lastly, it will FULLY NORMALIZE (accurately 110%) a HOSTS file (removal of duplicates)...leaving you with one in the MOST efficient format line-wise there is (consumes less memory & faster loadtime from disk)
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{COPYRIGHT APK - Alexander Peter Kowalski 06/01/2008 onwards}
Been fun building it too, good review & neat "documenting its development" + even discussing it here @ times w/ Sepulchre (fellow coder) too!
(AND, of many Delphi programming topics)
...& personally speaking? I really needed a tool like this, because I use a custom HOSTS file for speedups online (visibly humanly perceptible ones, not just ones a benchmark gives you in nanoseconds)
& security online too...
This tool beats the combination of Access & SQL "SELECT DISTINCT" queries + File Imports/Exports issues, + pinging in console/dos tty mode, & trying to do search/replace using notepad.exe even...
(By a mile, during normalizations especially, AND importing the HOSTS files data of others too, putting it into a single LARGE comprehensive HOSTS file, in the BEST format that there is for loadtime AND memory consumption (least on both counts))
I sit back, watch a flick (do the laundry, mow the yard, wash the car - you know it, it's doing the work for me, in the background - like doing laundry, multitasking)... apk