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But it occurs to me that you're asking for a feature that will allow you to continue the very behavior that the program is designed to break you of.-Stoic Joker (May 23, 2011, 11:33 AM)
An application with the same purpose I was once using had the following nice feature: the tray icon visually showed how much interval time had passed (or was left, can't remember). Can't remember the resolution either, maybe steps of 10 to 20% interval time (i.e. 5 to 10 different tray images).-phitsc (May 23, 2011, 10:21 AM)
Try this:Thanks for the suggestion.
First set a low Max opacity value (say 40) via Options dialog, then click the program icon to invoke the fader. Now do anything as if the fader is not there.-musetips (May 21, 2011, 07:54 AM)
I have been trying with mixed results. I find that I often don't stop -- will keep trying though.-ewemoa (May 23, 2011, 05:19 AM)
Alarm before "warning"? Why bother?I'm not confident I explained very well so I'll make another attempt.-musetips (May 21, 2011, 07:01 AM)
With a notification/warning [1] of some small number of minutes before fading occurs, I think I can prepare to pull away and have an easier time at halting work once fading begins. If I'm in the midst of something that I'm concentrating on, not really aware of the time, and I suddenly have to stop, I find that can be difficult. My guess is that this type of thing is not entirely uncommon, but perhaps not...
BTW, thanks for the "Block fader when a full-screen program is running" option
[1] I'm not sure just sound would always work out here due to not having sound on all of the time...-ewemoa (May 21, 2011, 07:22 AM)
I realize this isn't it's purpose, but I could see something like this being particularly useful to parents and gamers to fade in the middle of a game or whatever. The only thing needed to make this work would be to be able to set a specific time for it. Perhaps a different color so one, the other, or both features could be used together? Just some other peripheral ideas to throw out there.-steeladept (May 21, 2011, 02:49 AM)
Very nice app
Notes:
I can only test the fader (via the tray icon) once - it doesnt work after the first go - this makes it difficult to test custom colours etc.
My taskbar autohides - you say I can right click the tray icon and choose "Exit" from the shortcut menu to get out of "fade" mode -
my taskbar menu does not show though while Time Clue is dimming the screen.
Edit/ just in case: OS is XP SP3-tomos (May 20, 2011, 04:57 PM)
Any chance of a x mins before fade warning ...I'd go for the x seconds before fade warning, 15 seconds should be enough to press Ctrl-S once more-ewemoa (May 19, 2011, 09:42 PM)-Ath (May 20, 2011, 01:18 AM)
Any chance of a x mins before fade warning (e.g. play a custom sound or some other notification) feature?-ewemoa (May 19, 2011, 09:42 PM)
The program works with PCM Wave format internally.-musetips (May 09, 2011, 09:02 PM)
Does this mean if an MP3 is decoded to WAV, cropped, and then re-encoded to MP3?
If so, surely this means further degradation of the original file?
[Of course I understand that other operations such as fades would necessitate re-encoding since the underlying data is actually changing!]-Ampa (May 15, 2011, 05:15 PM)
Looks good!
Do you support FLAC or any non-lossey formats?-Renegade (May 09, 2011, 09:59 AM)
Trying your program out today to see how it works for me.
I have dual screen setup, and only my primary monitor fades... is this something you could rectify in the next version?
Thanks for sharing your work-Ampa (May 12, 2011, 05:30 AM)
TimeClue can be configured via a dialog now. Just right click the app icon in system tray and choose "Options..." from the shortcut menu.
(see attachment in previous post)-musetips (May 10, 2011, 05:16 AM)
You've got my attention.
I know it ain't much, but *clink*-doctorfrog (May 12, 2011, 03:32 AM)
One thing that I find works very well is to have your monitor slightly angled -- just a few degrees (say 10 or so). It forces your eyes to change focus.
I've not had any eye strain problems since working like that.-Renegade (May 09, 2011, 10:25 PM)
Warning, this is a thread hijack but I just could not resist
@musetips
What's the deal with the incremental updates of your Text Filter application? The only things that changed every 3-4 days since November last year are the version number and date. Also, you seem to hide the portable version... hope it has got nothing to do with the crap that is included in the installer.-PhilB66 (May 09, 2011, 09:00 PM)
Looks good!
Do you support FLAC or any non-lossey formats?-Renegade (May 09, 2011, 09:59 AM)
Thanks for the concrete steps!
Any chance this info could be made readily available via the application? Or perhaps it is already and I haven't found it-ewemoa (May 09, 2011, 03:56 PM)
TimeClue is designed to help you develop a habit of resting your eyes every 15 minutes (recommended for heavy computer users).-musetips (May 08, 2011, 04:36 AM)
Rest them how? Whenever my dad said he was resting his eyes that meant he was taking a nap.
A nap every 15 minutes seems like a good way to live a stress-free life of unemployment.-Deozaan (May 09, 2011, 12:44 AM)
Nice idea. I'd love to see this with some configurable options:
- adjustable color/saturation/
- adjustable max opaqueness
- audible chime
- duration of fade
- choose your own time periods
- bonus: configurable settings for specific events/times
Configurable in a textfile or a dialog, it'd be all the same to me.-doctorfrog (May 08, 2011, 11:21 PM)
Thanks! I'm considering below features:
1) click or double-click an item to enter editing mode;
2) select one or more lines, then copy/cut/paste/delete/hide;
3) sort lines alphabetically, or by text-length, or else;
4) export matched/unmatched lines to a new file;
5) state/stats/summary info for the status bar.
Any ideas?-musetips (October 24, 2010, 05:57 AM)
Would no. 5) include the number of 'finds' ? - That would be very helpful.-joiwind (November 06, 2010, 01:23 PM)
Do you plan any command line options? I tried for example from a command window "TextFilter.exe filename.ext" and it didn't seem to work. If you allow that...-daddydave (November 01, 2010, 08:39 AM)
Do you plan any command line options? I tried for example from a command window "TextFilter.exe filename.ext" and it didn't seem to work. If you allow that, people could create shortcuts to TextFilter that opened up a specific file automatically, so you could have shortcuts to multiple files without cluttering up the simple interface.-daddydave (November 01, 2010, 08:39 AM)
