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Find And Run Robot / Never show tray icon and/or taskbar button

« on: August 15, 2010, 07:30 AM »

Hi all,

unfortunately, I can't seem to get any of the above...

That means, in my case FARR insists to show both a taskbar button (always) and a tray icon (if the FARR window is present).

Possibly this could be caused by the utility "Tray Wizard" that I use to keep tray clutter to a minimum. Unfortunately, Tray Wizard re-draws all tray icons every time an additional icon appears or disappears. This is (at least visually) disturbing.

Thus, is there a way to tell FARR to NEVER EVER show either a tray icon or a taskbar button....?

Thanks,
Cheers David.P

177

General Software Discussion / Re: FBx eXtender's 'Click switch file box folder feature' - can this be done in AHK?

« on: August 12, 2010, 02:13 PM »

Great, thanks!

Actually I see from the other thread you mentioned that Direct Folders has that feature as well! Good news.

Thus, I'll try and check Direct Folders first.

Thanks again,
Cheers David.P

178

General Software Discussion / FBx eXtender's 'Click switch file box folder feature' - can this be done in AHK?

« on: August 06, 2010, 02:16 AM »

I'm really hooked on the "Click switch file box folder" feature of FileBox eXtender.

However, FileBox eXtender a) is buggy (crashes Dopus all the time, creates problems with the z-order of windows, etc.), and b) is discontinued.

This is why I was wondering whether it would be possible/difficult to re-build that click switch file box folder feature of FileBXtender in AutoHotkey?

That feature makes every application's Open/Save file box automatically switch to the same folder that is open in Windows Explorer (or Dopus, for example) -- as soon as you click on the respective Dopus or Explorer window.

Unfortunately, at the moment I have no idea how to code this in AutoHotkey (although I've done quite a bit of AHK coding).

Thanks already for any ideas,
Cheers David.P

179

General Software Discussion / Re: Compare text files and keep only the DIFFERENT lines?

« on: May 30, 2010, 06:07 AM »

Thanks, looks good! 

180

General Software Discussion / Re: Popup Translator Shootout?

« on: May 29, 2010, 09:53 AM »

... has anyone already found out how this popup trigger method by TranslateClient actually works:



If I right click anywhere, of course what I get is the normal application context menu, not a translation by TranslateClient.

[edit] oops, it is left click 

But still, no translation if I select text and left click on it...

181

General Software Discussion / Re: How to use Google to collect specific text snippets?

« on: May 29, 2010, 09:50 AM »

@parkint, thanks -- not sure about the regular expressions. This discussion is mainly about Gmail, but they mention Google Web Search as well.

@rjbull, thank you, I will definitely have a closer look at Yahoo! Pipes wich looks very promising.

Cheers David.P

182

General Software Discussion / Re: Uninstaller Roundup - Revo - Total - ZSoft & the less magnificent seven

« on: May 28, 2010, 05:57 AM »

Haven't read everything but just was gonna say that I have been using Total Uninstall for years (it's really fast on my SSD, only takes like 5 seconds to snapshot).

For trying the REALLY nasty stuff like e.g. iTunes (yuck), I use Altiris SVS. This truly leaves not the slightest trace of the installation behind.

Cheers David.P

183

General Software Discussion / How to use Google to collect specific text snippets?

« on: May 28, 2010, 05:28 AM »

Hi Forum,

ok, this might be getting a little tricky....

Does anyone know whether there is a way to get text excerpts from Google -- using something like a regular expression or advanced search syntax?

For example, I'd like to get all text snippets from Google (or from Google's cache) that start with a certain sequence of words, and end with another sequence of words.

The following type of search syntax doesn't work, unfortunately, when starting sequence and end sequence are further than a few words apart: "once upon a time * and they all lived happily ever after".

And even if that syntax wood work, it would of course only yield links to pages that contain both starting sequence and end sequence, but not the actual text between, and including, starting sequence and end sequence...

Any ideas.......?

Cheers David.P

184

General Software Discussion / Re: Popup Translator Shootout?

« on: May 28, 2010, 04:58 AM »

Thanks Curt.  

Can you tell about the PRO version of your favourite, please

-Curt (May 27, 2010, 05:09 PM)

I haven't tried the PRO version myself. The main differences seem to be Wikipedia access and the ability to install additional dictionaries locally.

Btw, in the meantime, I've found some more great features of TranslateClient. For example, in the main window, TranslateClient translates continuously as you type. Additionally, the translation result is automatically and continuously updated in your clipboard. What's more, if you get multiple translation results, you simply highlight your preferred result, click on the "Replace" button, and only the highlighted text will be transferred to your source document.



Enjoy,
Cheers David.P

[edit for broken link]

185

General Software Discussion / Re: Popup Translator Shootout?

« on: May 27, 2010, 04:52 PM »

Thanks mouser

186

General Software Discussion / Re: Popup Translator Shootout?

« on: May 27, 2010, 04:31 PM »

OK, for the moment, TranslateClient is the clear winner for me. It is fast, small and has easy accessible functions for replacing text with the translation result (must-have feature).


TranslateClient, Main


TranslateClient, Popup

Lingoes must be one of the most overbloated tools I have ever seen (for my taste). It probably takes weeks to set up everything that's there. What's more, it has no replace-translation-result function (or I can't find it in the zillion options).


Lingoes, Main


Lingoes, Popup

Stardict seems to have lots of options as well. However I can't seem to find where to simply setup Google as translation source (instead of downloading "hundreds" of dictionaries from their forum). Further, it seems to use for whatever reason, a chinese font, and I can't find how to change that. Then, the popup seems to be very hard to trigger reliably. Last, no replace function either 


Stardict, Main


Stardict, Popup

Dictionary.NET is a tiny standalone that does its job. However, the font is too small for my taste, and (again) no replace text function 


Dictionary.NET, Main/Popup

Looking forward to everyone else's experiences,
Cheers David.P

187

General Software Discussion / Re: Popup Translator Shootout?

« on: May 27, 2010, 03:30 PM »

Here's a short overview of all the tools mentioned initially, and some more.

http://www.gigglecom...o-learn-foreign.html

Cheers David.P

188

General Software Discussion / Popup Translator Shootout?

« on: May 27, 2010, 03:37 AM »

Hi forum,

I just stumbled upon a few amazing online/text popup translator tools like Lingoes, Google Translate Client, StarDict and Dictionary.NET.

At the moment, I'm totally overwhelmed that tools like these have existed for some time without me having noticed  

I'm still far from being able to tell which of these tools might be the best (probably there are even more such tools out there..)

Thus, maybe someone else is already closer to make a conclusion, or a little shootout, between the most popular -- or the most advanced -- (popup) translator tools?

Thanks already
Cheers David.P

189

General Software Discussion / Re: How to remove ">>>" characters from mail and rewrap mail text?

« on: April 21, 2010, 06:36 AM »

Thanks heaps guys!

Emailstripper perfectly did it for me 

Cheers David.P

190

General Software Discussion / How to remove ">>>" characters from mail and rewrap mail text?

« on: April 21, 2010, 06:05 AM »

Hi forum,

quite simply put: how can I convert this:

> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur
> adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor
> incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
> Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud
> exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip
> ex ea commodo consequat.

> > Duis aute irure
> > dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse
> > cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.
> > Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non
> > proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt
> > mollit anim id est laborum.

......back to this:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

I thought there must be zillions of Thunderbird addons or other freeware products that can do this -- however I can't find any! Not even NotePad++ with it's powerful TextFX function seems to be able to do it (out of the box)!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhrg!

Help!

Thanks already and
Cheers David.P

191

Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: BBCeditor 1.0.29

« on: April 21, 2010, 02:50 AM »

Whoooaa this is GREAT! Fenix, your BBCeditor is the BEST 

It works flawlessly with the Firefox Extension "It's All Text" -- and what's more it is fully dictation enabled (e.g. with NaturallySpeaking).

For me this means that I have the forum (e.g. DonationCoder) open on the left monitor, BBCeditor on the right monitor, and am happily dictating away into my forum post!

Pressing Ctrl-S in BBCeditor instantly updates the forum's text box in the browser -- such that I can easily see what I have dictated, WYSIWYG directly in the forum, just by hitting the forum's Preview button.

Thank you very much for this marvellous piece of software!

Cheers David

192

General Software Discussion / WYSIWYG bbcode editor / Clean Word HTML Clutter

« on: September 03, 2009, 04:30 AM »

Thanks for pointing to BBCEditor! This looks like a great little tool.

However, my favourite solution still would be to compose posts in MS Word and then export/copy to bbcode and/or to clean html. Strange that there still seems to be no tool or Word macro that can do this from within Word.

While looking for a tool to clean up the html code clutter produced by Word, I finally came across the Microsoft Office HTML Filter which does a really good job on this, if anyone is interested.

However, I'm still looking for the Word addon/macro solution that would be my favourite.

Cheers David.P

193

General Software Discussion / WYSIWYG bbcode/html editor (or Word macro)

« on: September 02, 2009, 04:58 AM »

Hi @all,

I was going to come back on this topic in order to see if there is any news on a WYSIWYG bbcode editor.

Actually what I'm looking for would be a very simple editor like FASS that however additionally a) allows to edit in WYSIWYG mode, AND that b) can output simple HTML as well.

Even better would be to use MS Word (shudder) for WYSIWYG composing and in the end convert the document to clean and simple html or bbcode at the touch of a (macro) button!

Any ideas whether this is possible, or whether something similar already exists...?

Thanks already,
Cheers David.P

194

General Software Discussion / Re: FileBox eXtender Alternatives

« on: August 21, 2009, 02:33 AM »

I agree that FileBox Extender is still the best. However I must say that -- although I regularly try and use FBE's, DF's, Dopus' as well as Windows' recent folder function -- it's only with a lot of luck when I actually seem to be able to go to the respective recent folder I'm looking for. Anyway, I don't use the recent folders and favourites function that often.

However I was wondering, is there ANY other tool at all that has the fantastic feature of FBE where you open a file open/save dialog, then click on an explorer (or Dopus) window, and the file open/save dialog is instantly switched to the same directory which that Explorer window is currently pointing to? This is THE key feature of FBE I must be using a hundred times a day.

Cheers David.P

195

General Software Discussion / Re: How to share file access between two applications?

« on: December 09, 2008, 02:16 PM »

Thanks!

Cheers David.P

196

General Software Discussion / Database...

« on: December 09, 2008, 01:59 PM »

Hmm, actually that adress book seems to be some sort of SQL database...

It consists of the following several files:

phonebook.db
phonebook.db.lck
phonebook.db.log
phonebook.db.script
phonebook.db.properties

of which "phonebook.db.script" contains the lines below:

[Select]

#HSQL Database Engine 1.8.0.9
#Tue Dec 09 20:51:59 CET 2008
hsqldb.script_format=0
runtime.gc_interval=0
sql.enforce_strict_size=false
hsqldb.cache_size_scale=8
readonly=false
hsqldb.nio_data_file=true
hsqldb.cache_scale=14
version=1.8.0
hsqldb.default_table_type=memory
hsqldb.cache_file_scale=1
hsqldb.log_size=200
modified=yes
hsqldb.cache_version=1.7.0
hsqldb.original_version=1.8.0
hsqldb.compatible_version=1.8.0

Would that make any difference to the original question?

David.P

197

General Software Discussion / Re: How to share file access between two applications?

« on: December 09, 2008, 04:44 AM »

Thanks everyone for the answers!

Yep, I think the app would have to be re-engineered such that it only reads the file in memory and then leaves it alone (like e.g. notepad). Additionally, the app would have to read the file again first before actually writing to it (in case the other instance would have written to it in the meantime).

Why oh why is there no software (hardware?) solution to that problem? I think that this problem occurs very often. Well of course it could cause all kinds of trouble if used without caution.

The app is btw actually a ISDN caller identifier software, and the to-be-shared file simply is the phonebook that only changes if on either end someone adds a new telephone number entry.   

Cheers David.P

198

General Software Discussion / How to share file access between two applications?

« on: December 08, 2008, 08:17 AM »

Hi Forum,

on two PC's on the network I run a (the same) application. That app uses a config sort of file which is updated from time to time, either from the first PC, or from the other.

That file is located on a network drive, so access from each of the two apps is no problem. However, if the file is in use by the app on one PC, the other PC can't read that file (because it's locked), let alone write to it.

What I was wondering, is there any solution to that problem? I mean, like a software that somehow simulates a file that two apps can access at the same time (...or something)?

Thanks already,

Cheers David.P

199

General Software Discussion / Re: How to make a local copy of an ancient Web forum?

« on: November 27, 2008, 02:28 AM »

Wow, I can't believe that you simply could do that! Thanks, I'll look into this database and see what I can excerpt from it.

Otherwise, what I have found out is that regarding "spidering intelligence", the software Blackwidow is one of the best, since you can specify

a) which pages are scanned for your wanted links only; and
b) which pages are actually downloaded.

This way, Blackwidow actually manages to crawl from posting to posting in that forum, downloading only the posts and ignoring EVERYTHING else on the website. It also manages not to download every posting multiple times.

Blackwidow however seems to have a hard time to rewrite the html code such that it actually becomes browsable offline 

The latter however is what the program WinHttrack does marvelously. WinHttrack unfortunately has the drawback that it doesn't have such sophisticated filter settings as Blackwidow. With WinHttrack, you can't differentiate between pages that are only scanned for links and pages that are downloaded. Therefore, WinHttrack (that does a beautiful job in converting the pages for offline browsing) ends up downloading much more than what you actually are after.

Thanks everyone,
David.P

PS: Filter settings in Blackwidow:

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to make a local copy of an ancient Web forum?

« on: November 21, 2008, 08:09 AM »

Thanks for the tips -- however it seems that basically, each of Httrack and BlackWidow 4.4 (both free) basically can do most of what those commercial website rippers offer.

Otoh -- Httrack, BlackWidow and also WebsitePacker all seem to load tens of thousands of links from that forum where actually there are only are a few thousand useful entries. It seems as if that forum's software generates unique URL's every time something is accessed. This is why every single posting of that forum gets checked and downloaded like a dozen times instead of only once.

So far, I think that BlackWidow is the best software since it can build an explorer-like tree representation of the web site without actually downloading everything first. Then in the end, you only pick the folder containing the stuff you want and download that folder.

It however still seems to take days for BlackWidow to build that folder tree (if it ever gets there at all), for the same "unique URL" reason above... 

David.P