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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: January 15, 2014, 01:25 AM »

Thanks guys for letting me know. I'll upload the next release somewhere else.

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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux PC

« on: January 13, 2014, 02:03 AM »

Anyone has a project going with the Raspberry Pi that uses multiple temperature / humidity sensors on one Pi (and possibly other sensors reading environmental data)?

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Roundup Prep

« on: January 13, 2014, 01:54 AM »

Thanks K!

I've added badges for everyone we have on record as having released a NANY2014 app.

You can see the list here:  https://www.donation...badges;show=nany2014

If you released a NANY2014 app and we left you off the list, speak up and let us know!

I will be emailing NANY2014 participants shortly so that I can send you out your mug gift certificates.  If you don't get an email by sunday, let me know!

([email protected])

-mouser (January 10, 2014, 07:01 PM)

Thanks mouser. Just noticed I'm missing the 2013 badge though.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: December 29, 2013, 03:23 PM »

I won't have time to work on this any more this year so I'm calling it released.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 pledge: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: December 16, 2013, 02:32 PM »

Seems like .NET 4.0 is the latest version supported by Windows XP SP 3 (download).

TaoPhoenix, if you want you can re-download using the link in the first post and try on your XP machine (if you have SP 3 and .NET 4.0 installed).

-phitsc (December 16, 2013, 10:27 AM)

Yeah Phit, that looks much better. I haven't actually tested it yet, but it opens and looks "sensible" if you know what I mean aka no horrible bugs etc. (Heh I provide an interesting test case because my comp's OS has gone slightly downhill, and a few "obvious" things don't work on it.)

-TaoPhoenix (December 16, 2013, 02:09 PM)

Thanks for checking! 

So I'll pick a day later when I am in my "testing mood" and poke at it. Quick memo for now: under "Web" and then "source" without anything selected, I get:

"Error: The path is not of a legal form."

So I don't know what that means. If you're trying to tell the user that he hasn't entered any data, maybe you can do a quick check and just advise that "the field is blank ... you need to enter a web page address" or something.

-TaoPhoenix (December 16, 2013, 02:09 PM)

It expects a URL in the input field. To be honest, I wanted to hold back with help/manual/instructions until someone actually showed some interest. On the other hand, I'm sure I won't know what it expects a month from now so some hints/minimal instructions definitely won't hurt even if I end up being the only one using the application.

But in other news, for "my education", do just say what version of .Net you used that other time - 5.x? So does Windows 7 support that and up etc?

-TaoPhoenix (December 16, 2013, 02:09 PM)

The newest version seems to be .NET 4.5

Also, I'm stunned that a 36k application can do all that stuff and still have a GUI on top! How is that even possible!? So that puts a perspective on "today's Bloatware"! (3-18 megs for simple programs, etc. If you did all that in 36k, what are those other programs wasting 18 megs on?!)

-TaoPhoenix (December 16, 2013, 02:09 PM)

That's because all the bloat is in the .NET runtime. The download I linked above is 48MB! 

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 pledge: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: December 16, 2013, 10:27 AM »

Seems like .NET 4.0 is the latest version supported by Windows XP SP 3 (download).

TaoPhoenix, if you want you can re-download using the link in the first post and try on your XP machine (if you have SP 3 and .NET 4.0 installed).

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 pledge: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: December 15, 2013, 06:59 AM »

Sorry TaoPhoenix for just ignoring your post. The file sizes you see are actually correct. The zip is 18k the exe is 36k.

Unfortunately, I have no access to a Win XP machine any more. Maybe the .NET version I've built this with is not available for Win XP. I might try to build it against an older .NET version. I'm not using anything fancy in this little tool.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 pledge: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: December 14, 2013, 03:58 PM »

hamradio, I'll look into your suggestion as well.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 pledge: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: December 14, 2013, 03:57 PM »

Glad you find TIMU useful DyNama. I've implemented some of your suggestions. Hope they work for you.

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 pledge: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: December 09, 2013, 02:46 PM »

This suggestion would be useful for programmers, but heres it goes...

Have a programmers section perhaps and a thing that could be in it is explained below...

For CSharp...
Take a list and of variables someone copies over for example...

Code: C# [Select]

1. private int attribute_left = -1;
2. private int attribute_top = -1;
3. private int attribute_width = -1;
4. private int attribute_height = -1;

and convert it with the option of generating both setters or one or the other into like...

Code: C# [Select]

1. public int Attribute_left
2. {
3.     get { return this.attribute_left; }
4.     set { this.attribute_left = value; }
5. }
6.  
7. public int Attribute_top
8. {
9.     get { return this.attribute_top; }
10.     set { this.attribute_top = value; }
11. }
12.  
13. public int Attribute_width
14. {
15.     get { return this.attribute_width; }
16.     set { this.attribute_width = value; }
17. }
18.  
19. public int Attribute_height
20. {
21.     get { return this.attribute_height; }
22.     set { this.attribute_height = value; }
23. }

-hamradio (December 09, 2013, 12:35 AM)

Good idea hamradio!

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 pledge: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: December 09, 2013, 02:46 PM »

Just downloaded it and it seems to be working fine. What Windows version have you tried to run it on?

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 pledge: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: December 05, 2013, 03:55 PM »

I've uploaded a pre-release version if anyone's interested. Use the Download Link above.

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PBOL / Re: Latest Progress Bars of Life - Version 1.09 - Nov 30, 2013

« on: December 02, 2013, 01:42 AM »

ps. Progress Bars of Life falls into the group of programs I have written that may actually have 0 users.  Which is sort of a shame since it seems like there should be at least a few people that would find it useful..

If anyone reads this who actually uses the program (I don't mean someone who tries it and then uninstalls but someone who actually uses it for more than a couple of days), I'd love to hear about it!

-mouser (November 30, 2013, 04:36 PM)

I think this one would be especially useful to have as an Android widget

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« on: November 15, 2013, 02:28 PM »

Application Name	Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility
Short Description	Utility to inspect and manipulate text
Supported OSes	Windows
Web Page	A link to the Application Web Page
Download Link	https://github.com/p...tionUtility-0.20.zip
Review	ilovefreesoftware.com
System Requirements	.NET 4.0 Windows XP SP 3

Version History

0.19 Support capture group references in replacement text for Regex Search & Replace (use \1, \2, etc.) 0.18 Specify escape characters in help Add command line arguments Combine Remove words left/right into Remove words Add Remove characters 0.17 Lines - Split - Add possibility to split by comma 0.16 Added Lines - Remove duplicates & count unique Spoiler 0.15 Fixed incorrect handling of "^" and "$" in regex search & replace 0.14 Fixed last word and space after word problem with Web - Twitter and List - Trim to size 0.13 Added Search & Replace - Highlight word multiplication Added Web - Twitter Added List - Trim to size 0.12 Added Capitalisation - Title Added Capitalisation - Toggle Added possibility to use \t for tab and \n for newline where it might make sense 0.11 Renamed category 'List' to 'Lines' Renamed category 'Search' to 'Search & Replace' Added Search & Replace - highlight non-ascii characters Added Lines - Keep / Remove words at beginning / end of lines (can be used to remove line numbers as well) Added Lines - remove duplicate lines Added Lines - remove extra empty lines Added Lines - delete to tag 0.10 Added Search & Replace Can now specify line number start and increment 0.9 Save window size/position and state of 'ignore case' and 'reverse output direction' Print number of highlights (matches) in status bar (e.g. in search) Highlight filter text Added Web - Remove tags 0.8 Fixed reverse words, scramble within words layout Added prepend line number Added tooltips to the buttons 0.7 Streamlined layout Added ignore case toggle button (and Ctrl + I) Added reverse output toggle button (and Ctrl + R) Some additional keyboard shortcuts Using monospace font for input/output boxes Clicking the link in About now opens a web browser 0.6 Added filter for text manipulation tree Improved keyboard handling Added file open and save 0.5 Input field and parameter field now show a hint right above the respective field Added Order - Reverse lines, scramble lines 0.4 Parameter field is now disabled if it doesn't apply Added List/Remove empty lines, Append, Prepend 0.3 Added sort lines List/Split now splits by words instead of by characters (use , to delimit individual words) Added some buttons for clipboard operations and to copy output back to input 0.2 - Pre-release

Description
Use Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility to gather various information about some text and manipulate it in various ways.


Screenshots
accidentally deleted

Installation
Not required

Using the Application
Double-click the exe

Uninstallation
Delete the exe

Features
Queries & Manipulations

• Case conversion
• Checksum calculation
• Encrypt/decrypt
• Sort
• Search
• Your idea goes here...

Planned Features

• Supply file path and query / manipulate whenever the file changes
• Auto-sync from/to clipboard
• Word wrap
• Save settings
• SetBlanks(int minblank, int maxblank, int threshhold): Changes the number of blank lines between lines.
• Wrap(int columncount, int ignorewords): Adds hard returns to force columns to a certain width.
• CutLeft(int count): Removes count characters from the beginning of each line.
• CutRight(int count): Removes count characters from the end of each line.
• PadLeft(string padchar, int length): Pads the beginning of each line with padchar to extend the length where necessary
• PadRight(string padchar, int length): Pads the end of each line with padchar to extend the length where necessary
• ShortenLeft(int length): Removes characters from the beginning of each line if the line is too long
• ShortenRight(int length): Removes characters from the end of each line if the line is too long
• SizeLeft(string padchar, int length): Pads or cuts the beginning of each line to make it the exact length
• SizeRight(string padchar, int length): Pads or cuts the end of each line to make it the exact length
• possibility to use \t (tab) and \n (new line) to split/append lines
• sentence case
• Open text from file
• Highlighting for filters
• ReverseLines(): Reverses the order of all the lines
• Scramble(): rearranges the lines in random order
• SortCase(): Like sort, but case-sensitive
• AddLineNumbers(string separator, string padchar, int length): Puts the line number on the front of each line, with an optional separator
• AddLineNumbersOffset(string separator, string padchar, int length, int offset): Puts the line number on the front of each line, with an optional separator.  Offset is the number of the first line
• BeginLine(string text): Appends text to the beginning of every line
• DeleteToTag(string tag): For each line, deletes all characters before first instance of tag
• EndLine(string text): Appends text to the end of every line
• Trim(string badchars): Strips all badchars from the beginning and end of every line
• TrimLeft(string badchars): Strips all badchars from the beginning of every line
• TrimRight(string badchars): Strips all badchars from the end of every line
• DeleteDupes(): Deletes any line that is identical to a previous line.
• Replace(string oldtext, string newtext): Replaces all instances of oldtext with newtext.
• Remove HTML tags (with keeping the newlines)
• Remove empty lines
• Make the List --> filter case insensitive

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR Plugin Request: RSS Reader

« on: November 07, 2013, 10:07 AM »

The reason why most of the searches that come with FarrWebMetaSearch don't work is because FarrWebMetaSearch has a fundamental flaw: it gathers results by applying regular expressions on a web page's html. Unfortunately, a web page's html doesn't seem to be very stable (over time) In other words, when a web site provider changes their html (for whatever reason), these regexes become invalid or unusable and keeping them up-to-date would be quite a task I'm afraid.

That being said, FarrWebMetaSearch could be quite suitable for showing RSS feeds, because the RSS format is well-defined and never changes. Currently, FarrWebMetaSearch requires one file per site for definition. So to fulfill the OP's request, it would have to be changed / extended in such a way that it uses one definition file (defined for the RSS format) for many sites, as suggested by the OP. And then: reading is one thing, but you probably also want the functionality to mark items as read, to star items, to share items, etc. etc.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cloud-storage - safe & secure? Consider Wuala (it's encrypted as well).

« on: September 17, 2013, 04:33 AM »

Do you use any of the mobile apps (iOS and/or Android) with Wuala? Can they now also encryp and upload data to the cloud (last time I looked they could only download, but not upload data).

Edit: Ah, just saw that I already posted that a few posts up (but that was over a year ago)

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Developer's Corner / Re: Book: Masterminds of Programming

« on: September 16, 2013, 04:51 AM »

I can remember the stark contrast between Bjarne Stroustrup (C++) and Brad Cox and Tom Love (Objective-C): the former humble, self-critical, explaining the other two bragging, jealous, unsympathetic.

Thomas E. Kurtz (BASIC) I also read with much interest. BASIC was my first programming language (which I learned from a BASIC command reference, from A to Z, on an MSX and MSX-II computer). What I can remember about it is that the interview really showed how old he is (already was at the time of the interview). He understood none of the questions about more recent development in computer programming.

About the Charles H. Moore (FORTH) interview I remember how weird the guy must be.

But I also found the other interviews entertaining, instructive and worthwhile.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Book: Masterminds of Programming

« on: September 16, 2013, 01:58 AM »

I have.

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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone

« on: September 12, 2013, 08:20 AM »

Oops, I just found how to export feedly's OPML file.  It's under Organize. 

-cyberdiva (September 12, 2013, 08:17 AM)

Ah excellent. Was just about to post this:

http://www.the-digit...ly-adds-opml-export/

which is all I found about exporting from feedly.

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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone

« on: September 12, 2013, 08:06 AM »

Another recommendation for https://bazqux.com/. After trying feedly I've switched to Bazqux and been really happy with it. I've had to switch from Reeder to Mr. Reader on the iPad, which is ok too. Still looking for a good Android client though.

-phitsc (September 10, 2013, 03:14 PM)

How did you export your feeds from feedly to bazqux?  I couldn't find that info on feedly.  I'd like to give bazqux a try, but I'd rather export my current feedly feeds rather than try to use the old Google Reader xml file.

-cyberdiva (September 12, 2013, 07:58 AM)

I think I didn't have to. IIRC I made the switch shortly before google reader was closed so bazqux could actually import my feeds directly from google. I think feedly still used google reader as a backend when I was using it, so everything was actually nicely in sync.

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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone

« on: September 10, 2013, 03:14 PM »

Another recommendation for https://bazqux.com/. After trying feedly I've switched to Bazqux and been really happy with it. I've had to switch from Reeder to Mr. Reader on the iPad, which is ok too. Still looking for a good Android client though.

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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone

« on: July 01, 2013, 01:18 AM »

I'm going with Bazqux.com  (a 30 day trial after which you're charged $9, $19 or $29 a year for the same service, you get to decide what it's worth) over Feedly's freebie.

-nosh (June 26, 2013, 06:37 AM)

Nosh, thanks for the head up. I am also now trialing Bazqux.com.

-erikts (June 30, 2013, 07:27 PM)

And me.

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Living Room / Re: SSD's - How They Work Plus Tips

« on: June 07, 2013, 09:28 AM »

Ah, that's interesting. Thanks wraith808! (thanks also for vernacular: never heard that one before )

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Living Room / Re: SSD's - How They Work Plus Tips

« on: June 07, 2013, 01:44 AM »

There's another related article in one of the more recent editions of Communication of the ACM:

http://queue.acm.org...etail.cfm?id=2463636

The author postulates that SSDs could both be made more reliable and more performant (*) if there was a file system specifically targeting the characteristics of SSDs. The only SSD-related command current file systems support is TRIM, which marks a region as 'no longer in use', and which looses its effectiveness as an SSD gets near to full.

It seems to be a chicken-and-egg problem though: no one will make an SSD-specific file systems because current SSDs don't offer an SSD-related API (appart from TRIM). And no one will make an SSD-specific API because there are no file systems that would make use of it.


(*) that doesn't seem to be an English word?

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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone

« on: June 06, 2013, 01:58 PM »

I've also settled for Feedly for the time being. Like IainB I find it inferior to Google Reader, especially its interface. It's not slow for me though. I wish it had https.