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Find And Run Robot / Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Feature Lockdown

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2011, 05:40 PM »

Send me an email ([email protected]) - I'm very interested in having FARR make its corporate debut and would be quite willing to make these kinds of changes to have it fit in.

In addition to locking down some features -- it would be easy to make a custom installer (or portable version) that included custom aliases that were shared across the company as well as eliminating those you didn't want.

In addition to disabling the update check -- another option would be to simply change the update check location which is easy enough, so that it checked your own servers for your own custom updates, etc.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / CHS Demo Screencast: Using Custom Script/Tool Formatting Presets

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2011, 05:36 PM »

As promised, here is a video screencast demo talking about how to use and configure custom modification presets that invoke external scripts/tools:



https://www.donation...c/3ds/chs3/chs3.html

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

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2011, 04:08 PM »

I've uploaded a new version that will also work with tools that write out the changes to the input file.

You can test this by downloading new version and then setting the tool to: notepad.exe

But if you do, make sure you change the argument string to just "%infile%" (instead of "%infile%" "%outfile%").

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

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2011, 03:59 PM »

• 1. I'm repackaging with a sample tool that doesn't need visual studio runtime dlls, so that should solve that problem.
• 2. As you noted, the perl sample tool will only run if you have perl installed and configured on your pc; that is as designed.  One could build the perl sample into an exe but the point was simply to let you test running a perl script directly IFF you have perl installed.
• 3. As for using an editor.. it's failing because you are passing in both the input and the output file, and the output file doesn't exist yet.  However, i will modify the way tools work so that you can actually use it with a tool that reads and writes to the same temp file, the way an editor would.  That will let you use it in the way you are trying.

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

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2011, 02:37 PM »

it may be refusing to release ctrl+Q that it allocated earlier to another (or the same?) preset.  If so, that's a bug.

To test: if you are in notepad, select some text and hit Ctrl+Q, does anything happen?

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Living Room / Re: Steve Jobs is dead.

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2011, 01:00 PM »

Following up on the RMS post, here's one by Eric Raymond:
http://www.muktware.com/news/2623

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is this a worthwhile idea for a program?

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2011, 11:28 AM »

I've uploaded an alpha version of the new CHS which now lets you configure external tools associated with a formatting preset, to do what we talked about here; more info and download: https://www.donation....msg264724#msg264724

note that this is NOT unicode compatible, so doesn't solve the original request.

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

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2011, 11:25 AM »

If anyone wants to try it i've uploaded to:
https://www.donation...elpAndSpellSetup.exe

I've also included 2 sample commandline tools (one exe, one perl), that you can configure your formatting presets to use.  (I actually included one included formatting preset which you can load from the Presets menu that will trigger the exe tool).

Note: The custom tool feature is an advanced thing and may not be easy to understand.  I will upload a screencast video this week that should make it easier to understand.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Idea Suggestion: Change Monitor

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2011, 09:09 AM »

Seems like there are plenty of folder monitor tools, but they seem to fall into 2 camps:

• Watch for activity in order to take some action when it occurs
• Watch for activity in order to diagnose some issue

What seems different and interesting about stephen's request is the idea for a more permanent watcher, whose job is to log certain activity in a permanent store that can be sorted and searched perhaps months later.

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

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2011, 07:36 AM »

Following the discussion on this thread, the way custom user tools/scripts are interfaced with CHS has now changed.

In the past, you configured a custom user tool from a special menu in the formatting dialog, and then triggered it manually when you wanted to apply it.

Now, this is done through just another tab on the modification dialog.  That is, you can configure a tool/script to run either before or after any other formatting operations, and then you would SAVE the formatting modifications "preset" to be applied when you want.

Then you can run the custom user tool/script *just like any other saved modifications preset) on any selected text by triggering the preset formatting settings that you previously saved, either from the quick paste menu or the main window modification menu.

I will be making a screencast movie demonstrating the process soon.

If anyone wants to help test the new version send me a message.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: RealWorld Paint 2011.1 finally complete

« Last post by mouser on October 09, 2011, 05:15 PM »

Wow, that is impressive.

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

« Last post by mouser on October 09, 2011, 03:55 PM »

I have found it useful to see all of the options in one place. Keeping together as many items as possible would be an advantage, as seen from my purely selfish perspective.

i can try to combine more per page.  as you can see from my first post i am inclined to agree that the new tabbed method is going to make it somewhat more cumbersome to do quick stuff.  it just wasn't sustainable -- i was quickly running out of space and adding things became a question of where to put it..  the new approach removes that constraint which is the important thing.

so i don't think there is any going back from this new tabbed approach -- but i can try to reduce the number of tabs.

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

« Last post by mouser on October 09, 2011, 03:50 PM »

In particular, the User Tools menu is an item under it, so that's one more layer to negotiate.

rjbull,
i'm doing away with the UserTools menu completely.   Now if you want to use a user tool, you simply configure it as part of a saved preset, which can be combined with all or no other formatting operations.  this is a key change.


as for using stdin and stdout as input and output, yes i could probably add that.

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

« Last post by mouser on October 09, 2011, 10:35 AM »

Yeah i can combine some of the sparse tabs.

A saved preset saves/applies ALL formatting on all tabs.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / CHS: New Formatting Dialog

« Last post by mouser on October 09, 2011, 10:14 AM »

I have concluded that it would be best to reorganize the modify/formatting dialog, to move from an all-on-one-page view, to a tabbed view.

Old dialog:



New Dialog:











The all-on-one-page method was nice in that you could quickly see and edit all of your options.  The new method may slow you down a bit.  But it also has real advantages in terms of extensibility and logical organization.  Also gives more room to do things like add multiple search+replace fields, and more explanatory text, etc.

Thoughts?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is this a worthwhile idea for a program?

« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2011, 05:49 PM »

Well if does what we're talking about then it does what we're talking about

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General Software Discussion / Re: Lodsys Patent Troll - Get Ready to Scream...

« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2011, 05:45 PM »

New rule: If you don't sue anyone for patent infringement then no one is allowed to sue you for patent infringement.

Let these damn corporations sue each other to death and crap in their own litter box and leave the rest of us alone.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is this a worthwhile idea for a program?

« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2011, 03:49 PM »

It's not that hard to see why this kind of operation can save a huge amount of time, compare the two workflows:

I have 10 paragraphs of text, for each one i need to perform some formatting on it (like line wrap to 70 columns).

Method 1: For each section of text (say 10 sections):

• Select it with cursor
• Hit hotkey assigned to formatter.

Method 2: For each section of text (say 10 sections):

• Select it with cursor
• Hit Ctrl+C to copy to clipboard
• Find formatter tool window, click on it
• Clear existing text in it (ctrl+A then delete)
• Paste new clipboard text into it with Ctrl+V
• Activate desired formatting with menu or button
• Select it and Ctrl+C to copy new text to clipboard
• Find previous window
• Ctrl+V to paste the newly formatted text

Which would you rather do over and over?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Main window font size

« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2011, 02:27 PM »

yep, ok i see what you mean.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Lodsys Patent Troll - Get Ready to Scream...

« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2011, 12:57 PM »

This software patent insanity has to stop.  Yet another situation where only the largest companies can afford to defend themselves against this kind of harassment.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Main window font size

« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2011, 09:43 AM »

cadyman, can you take a screenshot and attach it to your post so we can see what it looks like for you?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Main window font size

« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2011, 09:13 AM »

I tend to try to undo font scaling in my apps, just because it can mess up with the gui placement of controls.  That may be what's happening here.  I'll have a look.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Main window font size

« Last post by mouser on October 08, 2011, 08:33 AM »

That sounds like a good idea, I will try to make it configurable.  Can't see any reason why I wouldn't be able to.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is this a worthwhile idea for a program?

« Last post by mouser on October 07, 2011, 05:01 PM »

yeah i'll split starting at your first post about chs scripting, and link back to this one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is this a worthwhile idea for a program?

« Last post by mouser on October 07, 2011, 04:34 PM »

mouser, I think the scripting configuration might be buried too deep.

actually i think that's being too kind.  it's pretty horrible and confusing the way it is now.

i think the solution is just to move it as just another option in the configuration dialog above, so you can combine it with any other configured built-in modifier you create, to run before or after the built-in transformations.

the real problem is simply that no one has shown much interest in the feature so i haven't bothered to improve it.

maybe what i can do is change that modification dialog to be a tree-based configuration like the main options are, which would give me a little more room to explain options, and then make it a page there.

anyway -- i don't want to take away from this thread, but i'd be happy to discuss it in the CHS forum section -- and i'd be happy to make some improvements to the script running feature if i can find someone who plans to use it.