2) ill look into that - do i understand that you're basically pointing out a user interface annoyance/baddesign or is there something deeper i'm missing?-mouser (February 01, 2006, 05:26 PM)
beta update to version 1.10.02 is now released (1.10.01 had a bug).According to the About dialog box, I'm now running 1.10.03, so I'm ahead of you. ;)
has some minor but useful improvements.-mouser (June 24, 2006, 12:59 AM)
You can customize the separator string between merge clips from the options; I was thinking that when you trigger a merge it should probably pop that separate up in a dialog and let you customize it.I would have placed a merge button on the clip-listing button bar that includes the append string. The merge button would remain grayed out until two or more clips were chosen. Such a button-and-string-box combo will need a popup description explaining their function.-mouser (June 24, 2006, 06:22 PM)
According to the About dialog box, I'm now running 1.10.03, so I'm ahead of you. ;)Yesterday mouser changed one minor thing in the find & replace dialog, thus the new version numbering.-superticker (June 24, 2006, 06:14 PM)
Thanks for 1.15.01!
Did you decide not to (or forget to) PECompact the main .exe this time? My new .exe is 9MB :-
ClipboardHelpAndSpell.exe
Size: 9442816
Version: 1.12.0.1
CRC-32: B36D063D
Which is up from 1.8MB for the last version. And it still shows the previous version number (1.12.0.1) too, though all the new printing functionality is present and correct.
I suppose file size doesn't matter as much these days, but I'm still of the small-is-beautiful mindset, wherever possible. I UPX'd mine down to about 2.5MB, but if you did forget then maybe you'd like to update the package (and/or just make the PECompact'd .exe available)?-DonationCoderTransmit (September 05, 2007, 10:28 AM)
In my mind compacting the executable is a useless action these days, unless you are trying to fit a bunch of stuff on a small usb thumb drive or something.So that's already one example away from "useless". Limited disk size devices like SmartPhones, etc, might be another. I like to keep my backup disk images as small as possible too, for write-speed and storage reasons. (An extra 6MB for CHS isn't an issue alone, but the principle applies of having lots of unnecessarily bigger .exe's).-Tekzel (September 05, 2007, 10:40 AM)
200gb hard drives are ridiculously cheap these daysMaybe for you (and me). But for lots of people the cost of any new disk (no matter the capacity) is prohibitive: those on a budget; those is developing countries; many schools; etc, etc. I don't think it's sound to assume that everyone can treat disks as cheap, however much the $/GB keeps falling.
[BugFix] Sometimes CHS would not paste into last active window. (...):up: Thanks, mouser.
Notable in this release is a fix of long-time bug that caused CHS to sometimes fail to paste into the active application (...)-mouser (October 24, 2009, 04:05 PM)
@mouser:
CHS seems to be working really nicely for me now, and the image support is sometimes exceedingly useful. THANKYOU! :Thmbsup:
Feedback and suggestions/notes:See if you can identify what triggers these remaining problems. [sporadic DBISAM errors]Belated feedback on this: These errors seem to have "gone away".-mouser (May 06, 2011, 09:46 PM)
Plus, some interesting notes:
1. Taken from the ReadMe.txt file of LeeLu Soft's (http://leelusoft.blogspot.com/2011/07/clipboard-rules-10.html) Clipboard Rules 1.0:SpoilerClipboard Rules 1.0 - a freeware by LeeLu Soft 2011
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Clipboard Rules is a unique and simple to use clipboard monitoring tool that can trigger different actions based on the text loaded to the clipboard.
The rules applied only to text strings loaded to the clipboard.
It is a small and portable utility.
How to use Clipboard Rules
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Clipboard Rules is a portable application, there is no install process, just unzip the file to any folder and run it.
Using Clipboard Rules, like all other LeeLu Soft programs, is very simple.
The application starts minimized in the system tray, a click on the Clipboard Rules tray icon will open the main form, a right click on the Clipboard Rules tray icon will open a popup options menu.
To add a rule, click on the "Add Rule..." button, this will open the rules editor.
Here you define the rules, some of the properties are mandatory properties:
- Rule name - this is the rule identifier and it is mandatory.
- Text to trigger rule - this is the text that when loaded to the clipboard will trigger the action rule, this is case sensitive and mandatory.
- Execute a program or batch file - check this checkbox to enable execution when rule is triggered and enter or browse the full path and file name to execute, red text means the file doesn't exists, blue text means files exists.
- Write to a log file - check this checkbox to write a log entry for every time the rule is triggered, enter or browse the full path and file name (will be created if not exists) for a text log file, red text means path doesn't exists, blue text means path exists.
- Open windows explorer in - check this checkbox to open a specific folder when rule is triggered, enter or browse the full path to the selected folder, red text means path doesn't exists, blue text means path exists.
- Replace clipboard text - check this checkbox and enter a new text to replace the clipboard text when a rule is triggered, check the "Append text to clipboard text" checkbox to append the new text to the existing clipboard text.
- Popup a message - check this checkbox to popup a message when a rule is triggered.
- Show desktop alert - check this checkbox to show a desktop alert (same as new mail in outlook) when a rule was triggered.
- Save - rule will add the new rule to the rules list and will clear the edit fields.
- Clear - click to clear the edit fields.
- Exit - to exit the rules editor back to the main form.
Now you can see your new rule on the rules list and it is active.
To edit a rule, double click on it and the Rules editor will open with the rule loaded.
To delete a rule, select it and click "Delete Rule"
To pause a rule, select it and click "Pause rule"
To activate a paused rule, select it and click "Activate rule"
Selecting a rule, will display his status on the status bar.
You can minimize it to tray again by clicking on the "Tray" button.
Clipboard Rules must run (better minimized to tray) in order to trigger actions based on rules.
2. Yankee Clipper - YCX <--> YC3 comparison. (http://www.intelexual.com/products/yc3/features/)
CHS would seem to surpass most of the features of these two.
3. Would it be useful to add the option in CHS to periodically re-establish the clipboard chain?
This is currently done by manual selection as and when the chain breaks.
Since the chain breaking could happen at any time and is outside of the control of CHS, it might be worth considering an option setting to re-establish the chain at variable intervals (e.g., 10mins. or 30mins.)-IainB (August 04, 2011, 06:24 PM)
i wonder why no one has requested that before.. sure that's easy enough to do.Because it shows that way on the popup already? It only matters (to me) when using the main window.-mouser (August 05, 2011, 04:24 PM)
though note that another way to look at your request is to say that you can just ignore the title field (and event hide it from display if you like), and just look at the excerpt field, which you can show in quick paste menu and show in the grid, etc.I hadn't noticed the "excerpt" field :-[ I had to give myself a short refresher on how to reorder columns, too. Putting "excerpt" as the first column, then "title," "created," and "data size" seems to work well for me. The new title token %shortexcerpt% looks potentially useful, depending on set up.
so i'm happy to add it, but if you are desperate for it, might it be the case that you aren't sure how to have the excerpt column do the job you want it to do?
but, how do you "save layouts for easy switching," and is there a quick "panic button" way to get back to the default layout in case of screwing it up?
All under the "Presets" menu -- I should rename that to "Layouts".-mouser (August 07, 2011, 10:57 AM)
but not an Open item.
you just select an item in that menu to load it.Do you mean that saved layouts should appear as entries in that menu? Because mine doesn't. I have a saved layout, with three files, .grid, .dock and .preset, but the only menu entries are Standard, NewClips, Last, ColumnCustomizer, and Save As.-mouser (August 07, 2011, 11:19 AM)
Ah that sounds like a flaw... i'll look into it.I just tried moving the three preset files from user account\Documents into program configdir\PresetViews before starting CHS, but it still doesn't show my new preset in the menu.
It should be saving them into the program configdir\PresetViews-mouser (August 07, 2011, 03:23 PM)
I've pushed a new version which solves rjbull's problemI confirm that it now works as expected, provided you edit the config to be portable :-[-mouser (August 09, 2011, 11:09 AM)
3. Would it be useful to add the option in CHS to periodically re-establish the clipboard chain?However I just noticed that, as well as the manual "Re-establish Clipboard Chain", the Options include Clipboard | Clipboard tricks | Re-establish clipboard periodically. Is that the same things as what I was asking for - "periodically re-establish the clipboard chain"?
This is currently done by manual selection as and when the chain breaks.
Since the chain breaking could happen at any time and is outside of the control of CHS, it might be worth considering an option setting to re-establish the chain at variable intervals (e.g., 10mins. or 30mins.)
"The Help Viewer uses the underlying components of Microsoft Internet Explorer to display help content."(This quote is from Help for HTML.HELP in the file htmlhelp.chm.)
Microsoft Office OneNote (Microsoft Office OneNote Quick Launcher) [ONENOTEM.EXE]I suppose, but am not sure, that this could be because the OneNote Quick Launcher takes control and passes the clip to the clipboard, which is where CHS gets the source application name from.
That's really stranage. Did you try with another web browser -- chrome or internet explorer or opera?Sorry so long getting back but had some medical problems, yes I tried IE9, Opera and same thing happens with them. Don't know why but it is only this site that I have problems downloading, even CNET's stupid new download program doesn't give me problems and I don't have any idea why.
If those still don't work, send me a message and i will try to email you a copy. But it's not a good permanent solution so it would be nice to find the real cause.
Maybe some security software on your pc?-mouser (August 22, 2011, 09:16 PM)
Minor update:
2.05.01 - September 11, 2011
- [BugFix] The auto filing checkbox options were always being forced on.
-mouser (September 11, 2011, 03:54 PM)
---------------------------Just to be sure, I deleted the .exe and reinstalled it via DCupdater, and again it's apparently v1.19.01 that has been installed.
Error..
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Invalid docking layout stream version
@mouser: It looks as though one of the CHS settings is still not "sticking":
Move from Clipboard New to Old group after every X number of HOURS: (does not seem to obey the rule set by the user)-IainB (October 03, 2011, 01:04 AM)
To allow the specific functionality of AltGr when typing non-English text on such keyboards, Windows began to allow it to be emulated by pressing the Alt key together with the Control key:
Ctrl+Alt ≈ AltGr
Therefore, it is recommended that this combination not be used as a modifier in Windows keyboard shortcuts as, depending on the keyboard layout and configuration, someone trying to type a special character with it may accidentally trigger the shortcut,[4] or the keypresses for the shortcut may be inadvertently interpreted as the user trying to input a special character.
Ctrl+Alt+Win+Letter would be too much for me, I'm not a spider.
Not many new features, but this updates CHS to my new setup packages that are digitally signed, with an easier portable zip download option:Appreciate it. Still use CHS for it's quickpaste popup menu, which is now the best on the block. For a while, ARSclip and CHS were nose-for nose there, but now CHS is the king of the hill. I don't know why I keep track of these things... :(-mouser (July 06, 2012, 01:16 PM)
Still use CHS for it's quickpaste popup menu, which is now the best on the block. For a while, ARSclip and CHS were nose-for nose there, but now CHS is the king of the hill.One of the things I like about ArsClip is that old clips are auto-deleted on number of clips, rather than age. That means that if I don't use the PC for even a week or two, when I go back to it, the same 15 or whatever recent clips are still there in the popup. AFAIK CHS does things by date, so old clips have disappeared, and you have to pop up the main window go look for them. Further, AC now has a Search and Paste menu entry directly on the popup (it doesn't really have a main window in the usual sense anyway). That has a nice live search, and includes Removed Clips.-superboyac (July 06, 2012, 01:19 PM)
I don't know why I keep track of these things...It's now part of your nature! It's the DC effect! :lol:-superboyac (July 06, 2012, 01:19 PM)
Next version will have an improvement and option for this, where you can change the maximum excerpt size to 255 (see Tweak tab of options), and hint on clip hover will now show full excerpt size with newlines preserved.-mouser (October 19, 2012, 09:42 AM)
I'm a little unclear about what you are saying -- you say you can alter the size but you can't?-mouser (October 19, 2012, 11:54 AM)
It's not possible in current version, but I'll probably add it later. Newlines should be preserved -- if the original is one large line, that's what you'll see.-mouser (October 19, 2012, 12:03 PM)
a brief 8 line letter in Word.
a brief 8 line letter in Word.
are you sure the 8 lines aren't one "word-wrapped" paragraph?
try this, make a new word document with contents like:
"one
two
three"
and copy that and see if it shows up as multiple lines in the CHS hover hint.-mouser (October 19, 2012, 01:16 PM)
NEW BUG (APPARENTLY):
In 'Notes' 'copy clip to clipboard' (toolbar icon) does not appear to work.-JeremyWW (October 19, 2012, 12:04 PM)
v2.16.02 - October 22, 2012-mouser (October 22, 2012, 12:45 PM)
Oh and can you tell me *when* you get that error.. on startup or?Not on startup, on copying a clip (any clip I've tried so far).-mouser (October 23, 2012, 01:59 PM)
@Paste MemPad note style
%ExcerptText%
URL: %Notes%
[ Web site visited %CreationDateTime% ]
%ClipText%
Justin Webb and Frances Fyfield
Availability:
over a year left to listen
Justin Webb and Frances Fyfield\n\nAvailability:\n over a year left to listen\n\nDuration:\n
URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ng831
[ Web site visited 2012-10-23 ]
Justin Webb and Frances Fyfield
Availability:
over a year left to listen
Occasionally, image clips taken by OneNote are lost and just an obscure code remains in the database.
OK, sorry for the delay. I was wrong - or not entirely correct - about what was happening, and it is not a new thing. I have seen it occasionally before, but I think I had not noticed two instances in close succession before. This is the first time I have made some effort to study what is going on.Occasionally, image clips taken by OneNote are lost and just an obscure code remains in the database.Can you elaborate?-mouser (October 23, 2012, 09:41 PM)
Just a mistake in my part in not updating the version here -- the latest version is 2.17.1-mouser (March 14, 2013, 06:00 PM)
Beta release, feedback wanted:mouser, if I go to the program home page, it only lists 2.19.01. Where's the beta, and is there a portable beta, please?
v2.20.01 Beta - Aug 26, 2013-mouser (August 26, 2013, 09:31 AM)
maybe add just a few lines with regards to installing/upgrading?
a) upgrading portable versions (e.g. after unzipping the new version, what files to copy over the existing version, so it will adopt previous settings?
Personally, I guess only the ClipboardHelpAndSpell.exe should be replaced?)
b) upgrading from portable to installer version - how to proceed, specifically when the portable is installed on a different drive.
Maybe the installer version will overwrite existing database/.ini files?-dcwul62 (August 28, 2013, 02:05 AM)
Beta release, feedback wanted:
v2.20.01 Beta - Aug 26, 2013-mouser (August 26, 2013, 09:31 AM)
@Paste MemPad note style
%ExcerptText%
URL: %Notes%
[ Web site visited %CreationDateTime% ]
%ClipText%
\nFirst Author\nAdministrator\n*****\nPosts: 31,430\n\n\nplarker mouser see users location on a map
URL: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=1514.msg336041;topicseen#msg336041
[ Web site visited 2013-08-28 ]
First Author
Administrator
*****
Posts: 31,430
plarker mouser see users location on a map
URL: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=1514.msg336041;topicseen#msg336041
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The portable zip is made so you can overwrite ALL files; the only caveat is that you should not ever edit the ConfigDir_Default.ini; if you want to customize the ConfigDir where stuff is stored, edit ConfigDir.ini.
If you want to move from portable to Installer, or vice versa, the only thing to do is remember to exit CHS first. Then move your database directory (and ClipboardHelpAndSpell.ini file) from the old to the new. In installer version the files are under the user documents\DonationCoder folder.-mouser (August 28, 2013, 10:35 AM)
I cannot reproduce this -- can you check again and see if you detect any pattern to when it might be displaying as \n instead of pasting the real newlines?Using CHS 2.20.01, c:\NoInst\ClipboardHelpAndSpell\-mouser (August 28, 2013, 04:04 PM)
If you just paste through CHS without using template, does it paste with proper newlines or the \n problem?Proper newlines.-mouser (August 29, 2013, 03:28 PM)
And can you check if in CHS itself the clip has newlines in the clip or \n.If you mean in Main window the window that shows the body text of the clip, it shows newlines, not \n.-mouser (August 29, 2013, 03:28 PM)
In other words, do we have reason to believe its the template system instead of something happening every time CHS pastes or something happening at time of capture?That seems to mean a problem with the template system?-mouser (August 29, 2013, 03:28 PM)
If you just paste through CHS without using template, does it paste with proper newlines or the \n problem?
can you make sure that even if the item is say the 3rd one down in your ctrl+alt+q quick paste menu, that the newlines paste properly if you trigger the pasting of item 3 from the quick paste menu (by hitting ctrl+alt+q and then hitting 3) but fails if you trigger it from the menu asking to paste via template?I used the 8th one down because that was a Web clip, whereas the more recent ones were text editor. Yes, Ctrl+Alt+Q, 8, pastes normally; but Ctrl+Alt+Q, cursor to 8, Shift+Click, choose my template, pastes with \n. But I've just realised something I should have seen before - this only happens with the title line. That is, normal paste gives this:-mouser (August 29, 2013, 04:04 PM)
Benjamin Black
A pseudonym used by
John Banville
Search Authors
Search Books
About Benjamin Black
Benjamin Black\n\nA pseudonym used by\nJohn Banville\nSearch Authors\n\nSearch Books\n\n \nAbout Ben
URL: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/benjamin-black/
[ Web site visited 2013-08-29 ]
Benjamin Black
A pseudonym used by
John Banville
Search Authors
Search Books
About Benjamin Black
I see now your template has both %ExcerptText% and %CllipText% in it.Yes, that does seem to be what I'm seeing. It looks like I'd better replace %ExcerptText% with %WindowTitle% as being closer to what I wanted. What I was trying for was the first line of the clip without the app title, to be used as the heading for what gets pasted.
And you may be seeing that %ClipText% is fine and has the proper newlines.
And that it is only the EXCERPT that has the \n in it.
If *that* is what you are saying (or seeing), then that is by design. The excerpt is meant to be a short one line thing. %ClipText% is the actual text of the clip properly formatted with newlines.-mouser (August 29, 2013, 04:14 PM)
I presume that's why I'm seeing \n and \t in the popups, because they're excerpts?yes. well and the menu captions are only intended to be one line long.
the menu captions are only intended to be one line long.End of non-bug report :-[-mouser (August 29, 2013, 04:50 PM)
first post updated with link to beta, both portable and installer.@mouser - about 'merge+MRU based combo box': wonderful! also nice the last setting 'sticks' for the next merge.-mouser (August 26, 2013, 04:54 PM)
Firefox [firefox.exe]
URL: http://www.horstmuc.de/win.htm
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Horst Schaeffer's Software Pages
Horst Schaeffer's Software Pages MemPad PopSel Qsel Reminder
http://www.horstmuc.de/win.htm
[ Web site visited 08/09/2013, 22:45:15 ]
Ok it's official:
v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013-mouser (November 22, 2013, 06:26 AM)
ClipMate is unarguably an amazing program -- only reason I even look at other things is the size and importability of CM. It goes so far beyond the call of duty for a clipboard extender, it would probably be better referred to as a data management solution with Clip Board monitoring support ;)-allen (January 24, 2006, 11:05 AM)
ClipMate is unarguably an amazing program -- only reason I even look at other things is the size and importability of CM. It goes so far beyond the call of duty for a clipboard extender, it would probably be better referred to as a data management solution with Clip Board monitoring support ;)-allen (January 24, 2006, 11:05 AM)
ClipMate also seems to be on its last legs. No updates in quite some time. The Forum is dead – probably to fend off complaints about its lack of development. The developer has gone to earth.
Which is why I am looking for an alternative. If Clipboard Help+Spell can handle the bits that I use, then I am on board.
But how do I transfer all those bits and pieces from ClipMate? Could take time.-michaelkenward (November 24, 2013, 06:45 AM)
Now that is an interesting question.
Might be time to add some importing options to CHS.
But let's have that conversation in a new thread. I've started on here: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=36599-mouser (November 24, 2013, 06:50 AM)
There is one niggly annoyance I find with CHS and which has persisted across migration from XP to Win7 to Win8/8.1: the recent clips from the top of the popup Quick Paste Menu (Ctrl+Alt+Q) simply disappear, and you are left with just one or two default items in that list. Is there any way to control this behaviour?
Ideally, I'd like the RTF Paste into Word to be "smart"The RTF paste is a current limitation of CHS -- in that it only stores text and images, and not more elaborate clipboard datatypes. That is on my todo list to improve.
Ideally, I'd like the RTF Paste into Word to be "smart"The RTF paste is a current limitation of CHS -- in that it only stores text and images, and not more elaborate clipboard datatypes. That is on my todo list to improve.-mouser (July 16, 2014, 05:09 AM)
There is one niggly annoyance I find with CHS and which has persisted across migration from XP to Win7 to Win8/8.1: the recent clips from the top of the popup Quick Paste Menu (Ctrl+Alt+Q) simply disappear, and you are left with just one or two default items in that list. Is there any way to control this behaviour?
You are seeing the default behavior of CHS, which is to only show on that menu recent clips from the last few days.
You can find instructions on changing that in this post: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=4134.msg357920#msg357920-mouser (July 16, 2014, 05:07 AM)
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To change the default behavior that only shows recent clips on the quick paste pop-up menu, it's a bit trickier -- unnecessarily complex i would agree: On the menu window right click on the "Quick Paste" group, and choose "Edit this Group", then in the box next to SQL, you can DELETE the phrase "AND CreationDateTime > DateTimeMinusOneDay" or perhaps change it to "AND CreationDateTime > DateTimeMinusThirtyDays"-mouser (June 23, 2014, 09:16 AM)
Yes, that was what I thought, but I could not figure out how come the "smart" paste works into OneNote but not into Word. Are not both pastes being made by CHS?
There is one niggly annoyance I find with CHS and which has persisted across migration from XP to Win7 to Win8/8.1: the recent clips from the top of the popup Quick Paste Menu (Ctrl+Alt+Q) simply disappear, and you are left with just one or two default items in that list. Is there any way to control this behaviour?
You are seeing the default behavior of CHS, which is to only show on that menu recent clips from the last few days.
You can find instructions on changing that in this post: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=4134.msg357920#msg357920-mouser (July 16, 2014, 05:07 AM)
Got it. Very simple once it's pointed out. Many thanks:...
To change the default behavior that only shows recent clips on the quick paste pop-up menu, it's a bit trickier -- unnecessarily complex i would agree: On the menu window right click on the "Quick Paste" group, and choose "Edit this Group", then in the box next to SQL, you can DELETE the phrase "AND CreationDateTime > DateTimeMinusOneDay" or perhaps change it to "AND CreationDateTime > DateTimeMinusThirtyDays"-mouser (June 23, 2014, 09:16 AM)
Mine had been set (I guess as the default) to "=DateTimeMinusOneHour".
I changed it to "=DateTimeMinusThreeDays". I shall see how that goes.
It reminded me that CHS has got some pretty nifty features buried away in the back room. :Thmbsup:
I must explore it some more...-IainB (July 16, 2014, 06:36 AM)
___________________________
Error DBG109: DBISAM Engine Error # 11949 SQL parsing error -
Expected column name but instead found DateTimeMinusThreeDays in
SELECT SQL statement at line I, column 226
___________________________
A virtual folder shows the contents of all other folders, as filtered by an
sql conditional expression based on database fields. You can use a
virtual folder for example to show all entries in a certain date range, or
just clips marked favorites, or clips from certain groups, or any
combination.
ex.: IsFavorite=true AND Application like ultraedit
You can also use some special fields to test for special folders:
IsInRecyleBin, IsInClipboard, IsInClipboardNew , IsInClipboardOld ,
IsInFavorites
And some special date/time fields: DateTimeCurrent ,
DateTimeMinusThirtyMinutes , DateTimeMinusOneHour ,
DateTimeMinusSixHours , DateTimeMinusTwelveHours ,
DateTimeMinusOneDay ,DateTimeMinusTwoDays ,
DateTimeMinusFiveDays, DateTimeMinusSevenDays ,
DateTimeMinusFourteenDays, DateTimeMinusThirtyDays
ex. ModificationDateTime > DateTimeMinusTwoDays AND NOT
IsInRecycleBin will show all items added in the last two weeks that is
not currently in the recyclebin subtree.
Yes, that was what I thought, but I could not figure out how come the "smart" paste works into OneNote but not into Word. Are not both pastes being made by CHS?
First thing to try always, is just copying and pasting using normal windows clipboard, Ctrl+C followed by Ctrl+V.
When you do that, CHS is totally out of the loop. So that will show you what the programs can really put on, and retrieve from, the clipboard. Some programs can put multiple versions of a clip into the clipboard, some versions with extra information that only certain applications know how to handle when it is pasted.
Once you do that, you might find that some applications put extra information into the clipboard that CHS does not perceive or store. If you copy something to the clipboard (Ctrl+C) but then later paste it using the CHS quick paste menu, then you will see what CHS puts on the clipboard during the paste operation, and if it's less than a native Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.-mouser (July 16, 2014, 06:44 AM)
you could put in a custom date expression if you wanted to get a very specific time period.-mouser (July 16, 2014, 07:28 PM)
works fine here -- i wonder if you dont have some other tool that has assigned alt+w and is catching it..-mouser (October 08, 2014, 05:13 AM)
v2.26.0 is official.-mouser (October 08, 2014, 02:34 AM)
Can DCUpdater detect CH+S original "installation" folder, even if CH+S is used in "portable mode" ?
As for me, I am using a 3rd party tool (Beyond Compare) to do a foldercompare of the existing portable version with the new, extracted folder and only update what is necessaryWhy not use an unarchiver that checks for new/changed files? I use the one built into my favourite file manager, Total Commander (http://www.ghisler.com/). It gives various options, a particularly useful one being Overwrite all older.-dcwul62 (October 10, 2014, 11:44 PM)
@rjbull and @dcwul62: If you open the .ZIP file for the latest portable version and then select and copy all its contents to the installed portable proggie's folder, doesn't Windows Explorer check first and ask you if you want to install newer/older versions and/or overwrite, etc.?I wouldn't know. As I wrote, I use the much superior Total Commander :)-IainB (October 19, 2014, 05:19 PM)
...I wouldn't know. As I wrote, I use the much superior Total Commander :)...Eh? Misses the point.-rjbull (October 20, 2014, 03:13 PM)
My first post made the point, not very explicitly perhaps, that there's no "need" to make downloads of CHS that only contain updated files (which is what I understood the OP to want) when one can rely on a good file manager to overwrite new/changed files and ignore the rest. Unless, of course, one is on dialup and really, really wants to minimise download size. I have been in the habit - for about 15 years - of using Total Commander for my file management needs, and almost never use Windows Explorer, so don't know what it offers. I imagine most frequent PC users do likewise....I wouldn't know. As I wrote, I use the much superior Total Commander :)...Eh? Misses the point.-rjbull (October 20, 2014, 03:13 PM)-IainB (October 20, 2014, 04:16 PM)
Formatting presets are not working in latest versionthey seem to be working well for me -- anyone else with this problem?
Also, if I may, a suggestion. I would like to see the dialog for formatting presets right off the main options window.this is a good idea -- putting it on my todo list.
Access violation at address 0080DF94 in module
'ClipboardHeIpAndSpeII.exe'. Read of address 00000008.
Thank you aarontx for the fast report!
It seems I uploaded the new version to the beta directory instead of the main directory(!)
I've reuploaded now to the proper directory -- please redownload and try now.-mouser (November 06, 2015, 07:29 AM)
Thank you aarontx for the fast report!
It seems I uploaded the new version to the beta directory instead of the main directory(!)
I've reuploaded now to the proper directory -- please redownload and try now.-mouser (November 06, 2015, 07:29 AM)
And don't forget you can also use the quick search box at the top to filter the clips you want and then drag and drop them into a different group.
In fact you've given me agoodgreat idea to make a new item in the right-click grid menu to help you to make a new VIRTUAL FOLDER group with just the searched for clips -- i think that will help people use the virtual folder idea. Working on that now..
___________________________-mouser (October 05, 2014, 10:20 AM)
(Lower(ClipText) LIKE '%h%' OR Lower(Title) LIKE '%h%' OR Lower(Application) LIKE '%h%' OR Lower(Description) LIKE '%h%' OR Lower(UserKeywords) LIKE '%h%') AND (Lower(ClipText) LIKE '%g%' OR Lower(Title) LIKE '%g%' OR Lower(Application) LIKE '%g%' OR Lower(Description) LIKE '%g%' OR Lower(UserKeywords) LIKE '%g%') AND (Lower(ClipText) LIKE '%wells%' OR Lower(Title) LIKE '%wells%' OR Lower(Application) LIKE '%wells%' OR Lower(Description) LIKE '%wells%' OR Lower(UserKeywords) LIKE '%wells%') AND
On 2015-05-09 using CHS v2.29.0, I got a spurious error:Access violation at address 0080DF94 in moduleI was busy editing notes in CHS at the time.
'ClipboardHeIpAndSpeII.exe'. Read of address 00000008.
The error did not stop the CHS process, but I closed CHS down and restarted it anyway, just in case, and then got CHS to Verify, Repair, Optimize database .
_________________________-IainB (May 09, 2015, 10:55 AM)
[BugFix] Fixed bug where clip title edit field could temporarily disappear if previous clip was an image and window was minimized before capturing a text clip.
_______________________________-mouser (May 15, 2016, 11:46 AM)
Read of address 00000008.-mouser (May 15, 2016, 11:46 AM)
how is CHS's performance once the database gets large such as 400MB+?
I'll just need to take CHS for a test drive, as I'm curious about those rules you mentioned. Though I wouldn't want to defeat the unconscious backup function.-dr_andus (October 03, 2016, 05:24 AM)
This can definitely be flagged as "FIXED" now!
I have downloaded CHS v2.38 BETA Portable.zip and installed it, from
CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.38.0 BETA - Dec 16, 2016 (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=1514.msg10153#msg10153)
Thanks a lot for doing this speed-up. Nice work. You raised the bar of CHS' performance. :Thmbsup:
CHS v2.38 BETA is blazingly fast - just like it should be. Out of interest, I was just comparing it side-by-side with CHS v2.36 BETA on another laptop. No contest!
And thanks also for improving the functional ergonomics of the Home/End keys. It's only a small ergonomic improvement, but, when one uses those keys as frequently as I tend do on a daily basis, then it can all add up so that even a small ergonomic improvement like that can make for a vast improvement over time, in terms of time saved.
By contrast, the speed-up is also an ergonomic improvement, but it's a big deal (massive) improvement for this user, and it changes one's whole perception of the ease-of-use of CHS. After this fix, one can now better use CHS for the sorts of things it should and could have been useful for, by design, but which one had avoided using it for, because it was effectively crippled by such a proverbial PITB. (Because of my critical view and high expectations, I am usually extremely impatient with computer software and can't abide "laggy" functionality in a GUI that I need to use.)
A much happier user now! :)-IainB (December 16, 2016, 10:25 PM)
I'd really love to hear some more reports that the beta works well before I release it officially..-mouser (December 21, 2016, 06:57 AM)
Questions:
How can the Child clips all be automatically "inherited" upwards by the Parent group?
How can the tree display be arranged in alphameric order of name?
...Regarding arranging the tree alphabetically -- you must manually drag and drop to reorder groups in the tree.
_________________________-mouser (February 28, 2017, 12:29 PM)
@mouser: I already tried that and it doesn't seem to work. Tried it again just now, with same result. Maybe I am doing it wrong? We're taking about the tree in the Tree pane here - right?
In fact trying to move stuff around manually like that in the tre seems to be really difficult/kludgy in CHS, so I figured it was not in the design.
To change their relative order WITHIN a group, right-click and edit the group and then change the DISPLAY ORDER WEIGHT setting -- the lower it is the higher in the order it is.Since you wrote the above I have installed CHS v2.41 Portable High-DPI Beta, but I don't think that version had been changed as regards the alphameric sorting problem in the Tree pane of the CHS GUI - the problem being that there appears to be no facility for such sorting.
____________________-mouser (March 01, 2017, 03:46 PM)
would I be correct in taking your response, therefore, as an indication that you don't intend adding the alphameric tree-sorting functionality that would seem to be clearly lacking in the Tree pane?
It wouldn't be too hard for me to add a right-click function on a group node that said "Sort children alphabetically".
This function would simply set the "DISPLAY ORDER WEIGHT" of each child so that it showed alphabetically. You could always manually change child weights to rearrange after that.
Note that newly added children would require performing the operation again.
___________________________-mouser (March 15, 2017, 06:03 AM)
I can't figure out what I am doing wrong to get this.
the sql generated by CHS is truncated for some reason (hence the error report).
Can I confirm something?
Testing it here I see that the grid row size is too small when the "Grid Row Height" number is set to 0 as it is by default, and I will try to fix that.
But I am able to manually set a custom "Grid Row Height" that seems to make the grid look correct with whatever font size I choose.
Can you confirm that, or take a screenshot to show me what the problem is?-mouser (March 16, 2017, 07:54 PM)
What is the limit now, by the way?It should be essentially unlimited now.
This may be a stupid question, but can you elaborate on what is wrong with the way it looks?-mouser (April 22, 2017, 03:47 AM)
And can you give me a screenshot of your Custom Appearance tab?
Before taking this further let me confirm that, as usual, I am the problem.
Mine is also like this.... Mostly.
The "faded" dim look is, I think, the *normal* way CHS looks if you have selected the ALL group. It's shows the grid rows as dimmed when the items are not within the group itself but instead in a child group.
Can you confirm that by unchecking the customize checkboxes on the Custom Appearance tab?-mouser (April 22, 2017, 11:56 AM)
Let me know if you think it might be something CHS is doing wrong.Nope, it's all down to me - again :-[-mouser (April 24, 2017, 05:28 AM)
...For a recent beta I'd expunged existing copies of CH+S and hadn't properly restored the settings when I installed the new version.Not trying to teach my grandmother to suck eggs, but if one keeps regularly making dated backup copies of:
_______________________-cranioscopical (April 24, 2017, 02:57 PM)
Well I'm glad to hear it's not a CHS bug. I'll make the latest beta official soon.-mouser (April 24, 2017, 03:03 PM)
Not trying to teach my grandmother to suck eggs, but if one keeps regularly making dated backup copies of:Thanks for taking the time IainB,
The file ClipboardHelpAndSpell.ini
The folder PresetViews
- then one can restore these old settings files after an update, which will restore the old user settings where they had just been overwritten by the update.-IainB (April 24, 2017, 09:43 PM)
... or you can disable the differential coloring option which is on the bottom of the "Spellcheck and Display tab" and labeled as "Color Rows Based on Group Owner".Ah yes. This prevents the grey. Actually, the grey was only appearing if the parent folder "Clipboard" was selected. If "Old" or "New" was selected, then the font was black. If a Virtual Folder was selected, blue.-mouser (April 24, 2017, 11:48 AM)
Are you able to define what are all the conditions under which the "Modified" date/time will be updated?After I finish updating the server and catch my breath I'll go through the source code and see if I can find out what events cause the modification time to be updated -- just remind me this week if I don't report back sooner.
Re: CHS latest version thread - feature re table capture/paste (Part 3 of 3).
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=1514.msg412816#msg412816
..."Is there any way ... to be able to somehow Paste that little formatted table into a document"?-IainB (September 16, 2017, 10:14 AM)
I am using CHS v2.42.0
...Are you able to define what are all the conditions under which the "Modified" date/time will be updated?
I would like to understand this behaviour, as it changes the metadata of the clips.
TIA.-IainB (January 14, 2018, 07:39 PM)
Then I clicked ctrl + v but I still get 222 (I thought it should be 111222
Can you try this new beta and see if it fixes the issue:I tried this new version, and it works like a charm. :Thmbsup:
- https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/clipboardhelpandspell/downloads/beta/ClipboardHelpAndSpellSetup.exe
- https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/clipboardhelpandspell/downloads/beta/ClipboardHelpAndSpellPortable.zip
-mouser (May 06, 2019, 04:46 PM)
Iain can you point me to the thread about that so I can refresh my memory?-mouser (May 09, 2019, 01:00 AM)
@mouser: Nope, the gotcha is still there after boot-up has completed with R:\Temp running OK.
As soon as CHS is restarted after setting the CHS Tweaks to Force to system Temp directory, the error:
Error DBG103: DBISAM Engine Error # 11013 Access denied to table or backup file '124120'
- pops up and and CHS is without any settings.
Whilst CHS is still thus active, I go into CHS to change the Tweaks, and this error pops up again:
Error DBG103: DBISAM Engine Error # 11013 Access denied to table or backup file '124120'
I then set CHS Tweaks back to Let database engine decide and then terminate CHS and restart it. CHS then seems to start up just fine, with all settings correct as previously.
This seems to be consistently repeatable.
However, CHS is definitely "allergic" to the ImDisk RAMdisk under this current version of Win10-64 Home, whereas it was perfectly OK using that RAMdisk under Win10-64 Pro.
I presume that the likely cause could be some vestigial Registry entry in this Home version which remains even after fast startup has been disabled. I shall try to research that as I'd like to know.
It might be worth identifying exactly what CHS looks at when the user sets CHS Tweaks to Force to system Temp directory, as a good starting-point, because that's when the error is triggered - e.g., whether it checks the Registry for anything at that point.
As far as any other apps being similarly afflicted by this mysterious error, so far there's still been no sign. Pretty much everything that has to use system Temp will need to be happily using that ImDisk RAMdisk. Apart from CHS, everything else seems stable with it, so far. :o-IainB (April 10, 2019, 09:30 PM)
That's very odd.. I wonder if maybe CHS is getting the wrong directory information somehow and trying to write somewhere it shouldn't.
Maybe I can have it report where it really is trying to write.
AND at the lease I can have it try to give a better error about the likely source of trouble so people less rigorous than you have a chance at fixing the problem.-mouser (April 10, 2019, 09:58 PM)
^^ Yes, those could be useful ideas. Thanks.
By the way, I just had an installer automatically run itself from the RAMdisk Temp and it kept failing, but it ran OK from a directory on C: drive.
I recall this problem (installers failing when run from R:\Temp) being a problem sometimes, with some installers, so it's probably nothing new. I never could figure out the cause of that.-IainB (April 11, 2019, 04:27 AM)
I just realised that CHS writes the file CHSDatabaseLockFile.lck to the ImDisk RAMdisk (R:\TEMP) without any apparent problem, so it's not totally "allergic" to the R:\TEMP directory.
Don't know if that helps any, but I thought I should mention it anyway.-IainB (May 02, 2019, 05:24 AM)