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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013

« Last post by mouser on October 29, 2011, 07:05 PM »

Ok here is the official release of the improvements that have been in alpha/beta release for last couple of weeks; thanks everyone who helped test:

v2.10.01 - October 29, 2011

• [Major Bugfix] Fixed persistant dbisam database errors that some users were encountering; thanks mark and spknapp.
• [Feature] Added option for regular expression search and replace to restrict to single lines or not; added info on using group replacements for regex.
• [Bugfix] Clearing the quick search filter wit the keyboard sometimes did not reset the filtered display.
• [Feature] Added simple modification dialog item for stripping text before or after some pattern.
• [Feature] Added custom hotkey to paste the current clipboard contents as plaintext.
• [Feature] Added button and menu item to browse clip image directory.
• [Bugfix] Miscelaneous small UI bug fixes.
• [Feature] You can now customize the colors and fonts of the main window panels.
• [Feature] Redesigned the CHS format modification dialog.  See this thread on the DC forum for more discussion.
• [Major Feature] You can now configure custom user tools/scripts to run when saved formatters are invoked.
• [Feature] Improved CRC check of image clips to avoid making duplicate clip copies.
• [Feature] Added quick-paste pop-up option to paste clip using sendkeys method (available when you shift+click on an item); this can be useful when you want to paste into a dos box or in situations where Ctrl+V is not accepted.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Close the FARR updater

« Last post by mouser on October 29, 2011, 04:35 PM »

What vsub said 

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Show us your LaunchBar Commander Screenshots

« Last post by mouser on October 28, 2011, 08:17 PM »

You might win the award for running the most different launchbar type apps at the same time

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC with two monitors problem

« Last post by mouser on October 28, 2011, 06:26 PM »

but would you ever have it UNDOCKED and no border and use it that way?

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC with two monitors problem

« Last post by mouser on October 28, 2011, 02:55 PM »

it sounds like i need to turn on the border when undocked.
so you had it set to no-border?

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC with two monitors problem

« Last post by mouser on October 28, 2011, 01:56 PM »

i wonder.. maybe you have the dock set to hide window border, and that's causing the trouble.

go to the dock properties, and make sure border is set to something other than no-border -- maybe that will do it -- or at least change that value.

does that help?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Plz add unicode support

« Last post by mouser on October 28, 2011, 07:24 AM »

I wish it was easier to add..

However there is a way to add unicode text boxes in screenshot captor, by using SC in combination with my Unicode Image Maker program, which SC is designed to integrate with.

It's not an ideal solution, but if you decide to try it and have any trouble let me know -- it's been a while since anyone reported using it.

One thing i can do is make a video screencast showing how to use Unicode Image Maker with Screenshot Captor, and what it can do -- if that would be useful?

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC with two monitors problem

« Last post by mouser on October 28, 2011, 07:19 AM »

I don't remember where we left this -- but i'm ready to test and fix.  LBC has always worked perfectly on multimonitor setups for me, and is designed to be dockable on any edge of any screen.

It is common to have the dock appear somewhere on the desktop when you undock, and some icons might not be visible until your resize the dock.  but you should always be able to drag and drop it onto any edge of any monitor.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Normal-docked LBC shields screen edge from maxed wndow, and always on top

« Last post by mouser on October 28, 2011, 07:17 AM »

Can you clarify what you would like to be able to tell LBC to do?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR App Crash

« Last post by mouser on October 27, 2011, 09:44 PM »

if i had to guess, i'd guess it was one of the plugins..
i see: C:\program files\FindAndRunRobot\Plugins\FARREnviormentVariables\FARREnviormentVariablesRCW.dll

and there have been known issues with that plugin.

exit far, delete that plugin folder, restart.  if it still crashes, exit farr and delete all plugins files and restart.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS: New Formatting Dialog

« Last post by mouser on October 27, 2011, 09:58 AM »

The way to read that threshold number in the options is to multiply the new candidate image width*height, then divide by 1000.
If the value you get for your new image is larger than that number, it will be rejected.

For your sample image that was rejected your image was:  (1349*1766)/1000 = 2382.334

So the default options value of 1000 would have rejected it.

If you want to copy every image just set that value to something like 99999.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS: New Formatting Dialog

« Last post by mouser on October 27, 2011, 09:55 AM »

you MUST include lines in your perl to flush stdout!
Is that just a PERL thing, or required with any utility?

it might be with any language/utility where one redirects stdin and stdout, it may depend on the way the language does it.  only way is to try.
but i still recommend using the file input and output methods -- that seems more reliable to me than redirecting stdin/stdout.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling capture is not working

« Last post by mouser on October 27, 2011, 09:53 AM »

please don't say that it supports scrolling screen function- it doesn't.  List it as a beta feature, or something - up front, before users jump thru all hoops to use it.

i hear ya.. for a while it was a reliable feature.. then ff versions and win7 broke all that and it's been pretty unreliable for a while now.

i done much of the work for a completely new wonderful scrolling capture -- it's coming soon.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR Super Laggy

« Last post by mouser on October 27, 2011, 09:42 AM »

ok here's something to try:

next time it lags, do this:

first, see if hiding far and then bringing farr back up fixes all lag issue. if so, does the lag return in 5-10 minutes?

if so -- then we are dealing with some form of slowdown related to the operating system moving farr out of memory or moving the searched directory caches out of memory, or network file access slowdown.

also try this: go to options and find the launch history tab and right-click to clear the results of launch history.  if that helps, then it could be your launch history is slowing it down -- this can happen usually if you have network drives. do you?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Keep Image and Show not working right

« Last post by mouser on October 27, 2011, 09:19 AM »

Strange!
It does sound like you've diagnosed the problem right.

The real question seems to be why is it not actually KEEPING the capture.  When i try it it does here.

Can you try a test, remove the other images in your screenshot directory, and then try the keep image and show.

Does the new image still not show up?  What if you go to the thumbnail panel and hit F5 to refresh it.  Still nothing?

What if you do several captures like this -- still nothing?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: PC game launcher/organizer/frontend

« Last post by mouser on October 27, 2011, 09:16 AM »

Sounds very cool 
Some screenshots would be nice.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: idea for thumbnail column: make TAB behave like in Windows Explorer

« Last post by mouser on October 27, 2011, 09:15 AM »

nice idea; not sure how hard it would be to do -- i'll look into it.

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Living Room / Re: Do You Freelance?

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2011, 12:28 PM »

I am always available and interested in freelance work that is intellectually stimulating -- desktop coding or web apps.

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Official Announcements / Re: DC-IRLBGN: DonationCoder Board Game Night - Champaign IL, Sat Oct 22, 2011

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2011, 10:22 AM »

Well, no one from DC came to board game night this time, but we did go down to the local gaming shop (Armored Gopher Games) for board game night, and had a great time.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Add quick note

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2011, 07:56 AM »

Thanks, will fix!

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Glorious Return of Shell Extension City

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2011, 12:16 AM »

There is also a Donate link on the bottom of ShellCity page now, go use it!

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General Software Discussion / The Glorious Return of Shell Extension City

« Last post by mouser on October 23, 2011, 11:50 PM »

Shell Extension City (or ShellCity.net) has a long and wonderful history as a site that posted updates about cool freeware.  It was one of the best places to discover new cool freeware tools.

Way back in 2005 during the first days of DonationCoder, I wrote an email to bob, the guy who ran Shell Extension City and told him about the site -- and in the weeks/month/years that followed, Shell Extension City was always super supportive of DonationCoder software, and the mission of this site.

And I know that many of the early DC members learned about us from Shell Extension City -- and many of them donated -- which is a testament to the community that hung out at Shell Extension City.

Well, the ShellCity.net site has been quiet for a while now, but they've just posted an announcement that they are getting back to regular freeware updates.. Hurray!!!  

http://www.shellcity.net/

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Do I need CHS or something else?

« Last post by mouser on October 22, 2011, 07:57 AM »

This is a really interesting question.

It sounds to me like trying to do what you want with CHS or another clipboard tool would be unsatisfactory, because of your desire to be able to provide a file or list of entries that should be presented for choosing from.

A small custom ahk script might serve your purposes, but it occurs to me that this might be the kind of feature that might be nice to add to CHS, if it was more generally useful to people.  Maybe you could try to describe more fully how you would want to provide the file of information to the program (you say csv files but it's not really clear how that conveys the information that would be needed to present a tree of choices for what to show and paste).

The other thing to consider is if you really do want a tree to dig down through, or whether you would be better off instead with a live search system (which may not support an interactive hierarchy to navigate, e.g. Find and Run Robot).

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Living Room / Re: no power on Dell desktop

« Last post by mouser on October 22, 2011, 01:11 AM »

My main concern, of course, is the data

assuming you have a spare pc or laptop, you can get one of those usb docks that support bare drives, and remove the old drives from your now-dead pc, and access them from the secondary pc+dock.  then you can back up all your data.

after that you can investigate the cause of the problem on the dead pc.

this sounds stupid, but try plugging it into another outlet using a different surge protector.

if nothing turns on, no fans no hard drives, it may be the power supply.

 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR v2 - Official Bug Tracking and Feature Request Thread

« Last post by mouser on October 21, 2011, 09:54 AM »

Is there any Keyboard+mouse combination for the "Launch and stay open"

Ctrl+doubleclick will launch an item and stay open.