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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Text Editor just for text (stay with me)

« on: January 15, 2007, 11:48 PM »

So far I'm not seeing any issues on my XP Box, but use at your own risk.

I've been using it since I got my XP Pro machine several years ago, and on another XP Home machine I occasionally use.  Have had no problems at all.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Text Editor just for text (stay with me)

« on: January 15, 2007, 09:21 PM »

And I use a simple utility to swap the Control, Alt, and Capslock keys to put them back where they belong system wide.

...have a link?

I think I got this from the Windows Resource Kit:
 
RemapKey Version 0.99g2
Copyright (C) 1996-1999 by Hirofumi "Hiro" Yamamoto

But I've seen several others out there in a Google Search.

They all work the same way, changing Registry Settings, Current User
or Current Machine, I think.  You have to reboot or log off then back
on but then the keys stay remapped even when the machine is rebooted
until you re-set them.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Text Editor just for text (stay with me)

« on: January 15, 2007, 07:32 PM »

I haven't gone thru every single point he's made, but I have both Word and Boxer Text Editor customized to use WordStar (or similar) keyboard commands across the board.  Plus I have VBA macros to do more complicated things assigned to other keyboard shortcuts in Word.

And I use a simple utility to swap the Control, Alt, and Capslock keys to put them back where they belong system wide.

I don't even like reaching for the backspace key.  That's what Ctrl-h is, and always has been, for.  AutoHotkey does that system-wide.

I'd be surprised if all of WordStar's functionality couldn't be duplicated in addition to having the power that the newer programs offer. 

(also use most of the same keyboard shortcuts in Excel, but you have to use VBA onkey to assign keys to other than Ctrl-letters, and AutoHotkey for shortcuts while editing cells since macros don't work then).

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General Software Discussion / Re: WinCalendarTime - windows clock enhancer

« on: December 18, 2006, 09:43 PM »

Also ClocX:

http://clocx.php5.cz/

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« on: December 11, 2006, 08:53 PM »

DialogMove v1.8.93 updated 10-12-06:

-jgpaiva (December 10, 2006, 07:17 AM)

The occasional problem that I was having where a window jumped that wasn't supposed to, either shrinking or not, seems to have gone away.

Do you thing the revised code (which I didn't really look over) is responsible?

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Make window transparent when moving it.

« on: September 29, 2006, 09:02 PM »

There's a Display setting, under Appearances>Effects, that toggles "show window contents while dragging".  If you turn this off, is this what you want?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Finally made a descision

« on: September 27, 2006, 08:02 PM »

come on renegade don't tease us, what's the secret?

-mouser (September 27, 2006, 02:34 PM)

I'll tell you for $950 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Text editor with good spell checker

« on: September 20, 2006, 09:08 AM »

That does seem nice alright, but $60 is a bit expensive for an editor.

-Eóin (September 20, 2006, 06:45 AM)

It's shareware, so you get to try it out to decide if it's worth $60.  Over the last 14 years, including discounted upgrade charges, it's probably worked out to 2-3 cents/hour for me.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Text editor with good spell checker

« on: September 19, 2006, 09:27 PM »

Been using Boxer for years, couldn't live without it  The author is completely accessible, like the people around here.

http://www.boxersoftware.com/

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« on: September 10, 2006, 10:26 AM »

Very nice, thanks!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: reopen recently opened explorer windows, history, MRU

« on: September 05, 2006, 04:53 PM »

Recent doesn't record opened and closed windows. 

-tmpusr (September 05, 2006, 01:13 PM)

You're right.  I played with this and I had to open a file in the opened folder to have the folder's shortcut appear in Recent.

A utility to show recent windows would be pretty useful...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: reopen recently opened explorer windows, history, MRU

« on: September 05, 2006, 11:12 AM »

The Recent folder (\Documents and Settings\<username>\Recent) shows shortcuts to mru files *and* folders, even though the Start Menu "My Recent Documents" only shows the files.

Not elegant, but a shorcut to the Recent folder at least would give you a quick list.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need Virtual Desktop software recommendations

« on: September 04, 2006, 11:17 AM »

I find VirtualDimension to be the best virtual desktop utility.  It has the best interface I've seen for switching between desktops and for controling which applications go on which desktop.  Also, I like how it syncs the Windows taskbar with whatever virtual desktop you're viewing.

-roneill (September 03, 2006, 11:26 PM)

VirtualDimension gets my vote also.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« on: August 31, 2006, 09:32 PM »

I'm running more AHK scripts than I used to, 8 including DialogMove.  I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« on: August 30, 2006, 10:33 AM »

As for your other request, i'm right now working on it!

-jgpaiva (August 30, 2006, 05:32 AM)

That's great news.

btw, I've been periodically getting the "window shrinks to very short Titlebar" syndrome.  It seems to happen sometimes when I close a dialog box which was moved properly, and then the focus goes to the next open window.  That window shrinks, and because it is small, it then jumps to the cursor.  Once in a while, an unshrunk window that gains focus will jump to the cursor.  None of it happens often enough to make me even think about not using DialogMove.  I'm 95% positive in all cases it only happens when I close a moved Dialog box.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« on: August 27, 2006, 12:38 PM »

the previous suggestion of dialog jumping so that highlighted button rests under cursor is really what i'd like to see implemented.

That would be especially slick.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« on: August 26, 2006, 05:16 PM »

instead of the dialog window 'jumping' to the mouse cursor position, how about the dialog window was seen to move to the cursor position, i.e. there was a little bit of animation involved - say one or two steps that the window would travel along a path until it landed under the cursor.

i can imagine this looking quite nice if it was smooth enough but it would probably look horrible if it was too jerky.

-nudone (August 26, 2006, 12:38 PM)

Myself, I kinda like the instantaneous automagical appearance of the dialog box under my cursor.  Even months later an occasional "damn that's neat" still comes out.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: mouse wall - would you like to code this?

« on: August 15, 2006, 09:32 PM »

The little I use the Start Menu, it's not worth me looking for an alternative.

My problem is with any kind of "fly out" menu, that when I'm moving quickly, the mouse can excape the menu and then I have to start all over.  I have several toolbar menus and the Quickstart menu that I do use often.

So if skrommel figures out a way to fence the mouse in, it would be slick.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Middle click to close windows in taskbar

« on: July 25, 2006, 08:45 AM »

I stumbled across this:

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=50920

I commented out the titlebar middleclick options because all I was interested in was closing a window by middle clicking on its taskbar button.  Seems to work ok so far.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« on: July 20, 2006, 05:18 PM »

i look forward to seeing the result.

me too

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: "Open" icon - drag and drop icon2 onto it and icon2's Open action happ

« on: July 07, 2006, 01:15 PM »

A shortcut to an application will almost always open a compatible file dropped on it.

I have a shortcut on my desktop whose target is "C:\pgms\lister.exe", which I drop text files on to read.  My default "open" for a text file is a text editor, Lister is just a reader.

Sometimes you have to add a %1 to the target.

Oh, wait a second.  Sounds like you want *one* "Run" icon that will open any file with it's default executable (.doc with Word, .xls with Excel, etc.).  So you'd need a program that would find the files default in the registry and then take it from there.  I bet it could be done, but it's beyond me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: multiple desktops

« on: July 02, 2006, 07:54 PM »

I've been using virtual desktops for years, find them quite handy.

Recently stumbled across Virtual Dimension, freeware, works better
than what I was using so I switched.  Been a few weeks, no problems.


      http://virt-dimension.sourceforge.net/

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Middle click to close windows in taskbar

« on: June 03, 2006, 06:49 PM »

I tried it quickly the other day and couldn't get it to work either, but I thought it might have something to do with the configuration of my scroll wheel/middle button.

So I fooled with the configuration, but still nothing happens when I middle click a taskbar button.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Middle click to close windows in taskbar

« on: May 26, 2006, 12:04 PM »

Good idea!  (I have Donation Credits burning a hole in my virtual pocket...)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Would you like to code this?

« on: May 25, 2006, 08:58 AM »

I won't be able to spend any real time playing with this for a day or two, but so far I haven't been able to figure out how to identify the names of the Controls I want to fence in.

One set of menus I am interested in is the All Programs fly-out menus.  I'm constantly mousing too far to the right and losing my selection, instead ending up in the second column of All Programs when I wanted to stay in a sub-group of the first column.