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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019: TextWorx - Universal Text Manipulator

« on: January 05, 2019, 11:16 AM »

Ath - try again, please. I uploaded a new version. I'm still learning how to get around the wordpress thing; maybe I did something wrong there.
For the menu error - wow, that sort of erases half the rest of the menu, and destroys the toolbar. I'm working on fixing that.
But the case conversion should work now.

My dev config file is full so it has everything; I have to work on the startup version now. Hold tight, please! Don't give up on me!

For now, put this in textworx.ini and restart textworx. It will fix the menu and the toolbar.

[Select]

[Glyphs]
;Note that you can name the menu anything, but you can't have two menu items with the same spelling (case doesn't count)
;a nice trick to having two menus with the same name is to add an extra space somewhere
maxcustom=20
100=Copyright Symbol|169
101=Registered Trademark (R)|174
102=Trademark (TM)|153
103=separator
104=disc|149
105=Cross|134
106=separator

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019: TextWorx - Universal Text Manipulator

« on: January 04, 2019, 09:26 PM »

Version 0.4 can now be had. Lots of fixes and is working much better now.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019: RegexCaptor - Simple app to extract email or other patterns from text

« on: January 04, 2019, 02:16 PM »

I always wanted a regex tester that had syntax colouring. It hurts my brain to try and figure out all the patterns. I've thought of even writing my own.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019: TextWorx - Universal Text Manipulator

« on: January 03, 2019, 04:59 PM »

Okay, I've uploaded a working version. I'm still working on it. Most things work pretty well, but there are a few problems that I still need to iron out. Also, I'm working on the documentation.

If you want to add another custom toolbar, quit TextWorx and edit the textworx.ini file. In the [toolbar] section, add 1 to "maxcustom" - it should be the total number of toolbars. Then, the ini key name for the toolbar should be something like 101 or 102 depending on how many you have. I plan to add an options window to the program that will do this for you. Right now there are a lot of options that can be edited only by changing the ini file; but wait for the documentation.

PasteHyperlink is for editing html. Copy a url to your clipboard, then select some text that you want to become the link text. TextWorx will copy text, wrap it in link tags and add the href for you.

For the Open with Notepad items in the tools menu, you have to make sure the full path to your notedpad or text editor is in the ini file. I'll add an options panel to insert it correctly in the ini file. But I'm just mentioning it here in case you are wondering and are interested in tinkering.

Yes, the main menu can be customized as well to display favourite commands. I might make the entire menu customizable, but that will have to come later. When I get the options panel working, at least you'll be able to add favourites to the main menu.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019: TextWorx - Universal Text Manipulator

« on: January 01, 2019, 10:07 PM »

Fellas, I'm almost ready for posting a link. There are a few more things to work out before I do so, but I'll be able to do it this week.

The big thing about this method of text manipulation is that it doesn't have a gui window of it's own.
AND all of the commands in the menu can also be put into a toolbar - you get to pick and choose what commands to put in the toolbar, and you can have multiple toolbars to choose from, all that interact with the text editor.

Wow, I've never seen Text Monkey before!
But after I post mine, I'll be open to requests.

I appreciate your patience! I'm almost done...

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / NANY 2019: TextWorx - Universal Text Manipulator

« on: December 28, 2018, 12:01 PM »

NANY 2019 Entry Information

Application Name	TextWorx
Version	1.4 Thursday, May 16, 2019
Short Description	A universal text manipulator managed via context menu. See screenshot attached.
Supported OSes	Windows
Web Page	http://www.dcmembers...r/download/textworx/
Download Link	http://www.dcmembers.../download/textworx/#
Documentation	http://www.dcmembers...tes/32/help/textworx
System Requirements	Tested on Windows 7
Author	bgmCoder --> http://www.dcmembers.com/bgmcoder/about/

Description
There are many text editors out there, and not all of them have the text-manipulation functions that you always want or need. TextWorx is designed to give you a slew of text-manipulation functions at your disposal for whatever text editor you wish to work with. It has a universal context menu and custom toolbar/s that you open with a hotkey. First select your text, then call the menu, then the function that you wish to run against that text.

I've longed to share it for a very long time and have been working on and off with it for over 8 years.
Take a look at the online help (although it comes with the same help as a local chm file); there are screenshots, credits and version history there.

Default Global hotkeys (but you can customize them)
win+K to show the menu
win+shift+K to toggle the toolbar

After you have the menu open (or when you push a toolbar button):

hold shift to reverse the effect (in many cases)
hold control to work the effect on each line in the selection
hold control+shift to do both

.

For example, if you want to encase a word in double-quotes, just select the text, then select the function from the menu.

To remove double-quotes, hold shift when you select the function.
To encase each line in double-quotes, hold control when you select the function.
To remove double-quotes from each line, hold control+shift when you select the function.

Features
Universal context menu for text editors.

Use either Menu or Toolbar - both are completely customizable
Over 150 commands - many are unique to TextWorx
Completely customizable global hotkeys for Menu, Toolbar and for ANY Command
Modify single words, or multiple lines.
Easily comment and uncomment code.
Quickly create html ordered/unordered lists and inserting html tags.
Number and renumber lines (complete with padding and custom number parameters).
Sort lines.
Insert preset text snippets and characters.
Insert the date in multiple fashions.
Quickly convert slashes.
Toolbar buttons for cut, copy paste using two clipboards
Paste as Text, and Send selection to Notepad
Search and Replace multiple criteria - example: replace all State abbeviations with their names (and vice versa).
Authour takes requests for new commands (the most fun part of it all)

Screenshots

Usage
Installation
Just extract the contents of the zip file and run the executable.

Using the Application
To use this program, first select some text, then push the hotkey, then select your text-manipulation routine. The text is transformed and replaced right in your editor.

Uninstallation
Just delete all the files.

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Living Room / Salvage parts from Control4 for DIY?

« on: August 31, 2018, 09:58 AM »

I have an old control4 hc-500, and am wondering if there is any way to salvage parts from it to use in some DIY automation project. It has all sorts of connectors and even an IR controller. Do any of you have an idea of how to re-use any of these parts for something interesting besides craft projects? Maybe someone knows of some sites that tell about how to do things like this? In fact, I have all kinds of old computers and parts.

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DesktopCoral / Re: How to get Desktop Coral to stay on Primary Monitor when switching screen setup?

« on: June 19, 2018, 10:27 AM »

Thanks! It's no biggie - now that I know how to fix it!
You may wonder why I would use a program like this.
Well, I use another program called PowerPro, which creates for me a custom bar that runs along the top of my screen (kind of like your command bar program). It's supposed to be able to dock itself, but since I run my taskbars vertically, there are a few issues and it doesn't dock properly. So I use Desktop Corral (and have for many years!) to hold it's place for me. It works perfectly.

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DesktopCoral / Re: How to get Desktop Coral to stay on Primary Monitor when switching screen setup?

« on: June 19, 2018, 09:00 AM »

I've always had this exact same problem. Three monitors - when I change one of them, DesktopCorral always starts on the leftmost monitor, no matter where I put it on the center monitor.

In the settings file, there is Dock > CurrentMonitorId = 0
There is also Settings > LastMonitorId = 0
Jesse, what does that setting mean? Usually, monitors are numbered 1,2,3.

On a hunch, I changed those values to 1, quit DC and restarted it, and it now starts on the center monitor.

I think that whatever triggers DC to reallize which monitor it is moved to - well, it's either broken somehow or it doesn't save the value. OR, when you unplug a monitor, which causes all windows to move to another monitor, DC changes it's monitor ID or gets it wrong. When you plug the other monitor back in, you have to manually drag DC back to it's right place - but now the IDs are wrong - OR when the other monitor is plugged in, DC doesn't know it and so doesn't update the monitorID in its settings.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Good, Free Desktop RSS Editor

« on: May 05, 2018, 01:41 PM »

Wraith, thanks for asking!
Actually, I think adding drag-n-drop to load a feed.xml file would be a good idea, too.
And, when you add a new item, it should add it to the top instead of the bottom. That way you don't have to find it and move it up.
Also, if you add an item, then move it, then add another item, it moves all the ones you created to the bottom again = bug.
It also requires you to enter a link, and that shouldn't be a requirement.

If you don't want to spend time on this, I don't blame you. I think the program is a good, basic start, but needs a little work.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Good, Free Desktop RSS Editor

« on: May 05, 2018, 11:48 AM »

wraith, I tried it, and it *requires* me to fill in all the fields (which I don't need). Also, I really want a recent menu - that's the main reason I don't like rss builder so much - it doesn't remember your last feed and you always have to fetch the path. I guess I could try to build it myself and fix it the way I want...

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Ragged Edges effect as standalone app

« on: May 01, 2018, 10:49 AM »

Mouser, yes, I'm using version 4.29.

When I uncheck the "left", "right" and "top" checkboxes, they are always checked again when I come back.
I only ever use the "bottom" for my screenshots, because I am usually trimming little windows.

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Screenshot Captor / Ragged Edges effect as standalone app

« on: April 30, 2018, 11:45 AM »

Mouser, I LOVE the ragged edges effect produced by Screenshot Captor. Is it possible to make this into a standalone application?
(another thing I would like is that it would remember my last-used settings)

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm so fed up with (software or hardware) KM / KVM switches working so badly

« on: April 30, 2018, 11:38 AM »

I've used this one for my server rack and liked it so much I got another one for another server rack. They don't cost very much, and can hook up FOUR machines to a single monitor and keyboard. It works VERY well. I'd buy another one without thinking about it and without ever searching for alternatives. For $40, I was WELL-PLEASED.

I just wire it to the rack behind all the equipment, and then use double-stick-padded-tape to stick the switcher to the front of the rack. Push the button to switch, and voila! Joy! I love it!

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Living Room / Re: Artists: Share your artwork with the forum!

« on: April 30, 2018, 11:35 AM »

Looks like that car with the DC birdie will be the next NANY mug!

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: BaseImage

« on: April 16, 2018, 03:53 PM »

tomos - thanks - no - there was a post all in Russian earlier today. It must have been spam, and Mouser must have deleted it.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: BaseImage

« on: April 16, 2018, 12:12 PM »

Any idea what this nice fellow said?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Good, Free Desktop RSS Editor

« on: April 14, 2018, 05:46 PM »

Thanks for the lead! I'll try it out. Actually, if I had the source for RSS Builder, I would fix it myself. But I'll try this one out and let you know what I think.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Good, Free Desktop RSS Editor

« on: April 14, 2018, 02:29 PM »

Maybe nobody here maintains an rss feed?

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General Software Discussion / Good, Free Desktop RSS Editor

« on: April 09, 2018, 09:47 PM »

We have a local LAN website and I keep an RSS Feed there for some technical news.
It is a bit painful to edit those feed.xml files manually, so I use a program called RSS Builder.
Problem is that it is ancient, has no Recent Menu, no drag-n-drop, etc, and no updates for 10 years.

So I would love to find a good alternative. Free is important.
I've tried all the free ones I can find via websearch and like RSS Builder the best of all, but I still don't like even that one.
Now, I would make my own, but I don't have the time.
Ideas, anyone?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Copy BOTH image and path simultaneously

« on: April 03, 2018, 10:30 AM »

Thanks, lainB, for the info there - but SC *already* saves the image file to a directory. Also, I *can* fetch the last file path as text via a commandline to SC.
(presently, I have SC keep the bitmap on the clipboard, and I have a button on my taskbar to send commandline to SC for the filepath; but I have a couple of issues with this that I won't bring up here).

But what I was proposing is a bit different.
I am wanting BOTH the bitmap AND the file path on the SAME clipboard.

Windows Clipboard is capable of handling more than one kind of data format on clipboard simultaneously. For example, when you copy something from MS Word and paste it into MS Word, it is pasted as rich-text; but if you paste it into notepad it is pasted as plain text. MS Word will let you choose to paste as richtext OR plaintext - so you can see the different formats present.

If I could have the bitmap AND the text on the clipboard then I would not have to issue any new commands to have the data when I want it. It would just be there.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Copy BOTH image and path simultaneously

« on: March 28, 2018, 07:32 PM »

Thanks for considering it! This is Sacred Triduum anyway (starting tomorrow).

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Screenshot Captor / Copy BOTH image and path simultaneously

« on: March 28, 2018, 12:13 PM »

Mouser,

Here is my feature request: add another post-capture option which will copy BOTH the image data AND the file path of the screenshot file to the clipboard together at the same time.

The Windows clipboard is capable of holding more than one kind of format simultaneously - I'm sure you know that.

Here is my reasoning for usage:
I take a screenshot, most of the time I immediately paste the image into my email to embed the image.
But about half the time I need the file path instead and I usually need to paste it into a file-browser dialogue.
If both formats were on the clipboard, the file-browse dialogue would only accept the text anyway - so having the image data won't affect that - AND I wouldn't have to fetch the path manually.
For non text-only applications, the image data should get pasted.

It's an idea; I'm sure there are complications. What do you think?

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