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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2011, 07:08 PM »

So here's a question: How useful would it be to show clip images proportionately in the pop-up menus?

Right now the clip thumbnails shown in the popup menu are all stretched to the preset size you have configured for menu display (64x64 by default).
This has the advantage of giving a nice uniform display.

But it does perhaps make it a little harder to identify clips by their size at a glance from the menu (though the actual dimensions ARE listed explicitly).

So my question is, is this something people think is important to have an option for -- an option to size menu thumbnails for clips to preserve their aspect ratios?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Dynamic results lenght and display of numbers?

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2011, 06:41 PM »

hi murdock, thank you for the kind words -- i'm glad you like the program 

there is no way to do that now, except to the extent that by default farr can switch from large to small icon mode when you enable +sall in your search, to show all results.

what you are asking wouldn't be too hard to add, but let me pass on implementing it now in favor of some more functional requests in my todo list queue unless a lot more people really want to be able to dynamically turn numbers on or off for different aliases -- it seems a bit of an unusual request.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Partial (corrupted) downloads from a server (Not a valid win32 application etc)

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2011, 06:29 PM »

trying a new setting now.. let's see if it does any good.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Partial (corrupted) downloads from a server (Not a valid win32 application etc)

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2011, 05:23 PM »

Why are you sending SIGKILL to the server anyway?

sorry if my post was misleading.. what i was suggesting is that it sounded like the bug might be caused when an apache process randomly died or was killed for SOME UNKNOWN REASON.

and then the next logical question would be -- are apache processes being killed or dying in mid-delivery.

but gothic has thrown cold water on this idea, saying that apache processes are not being killed.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Partial (corrupted) downloads from a server (Not a valid win32 application etc)

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2011, 03:59 PM »

This looks like a very promising clue to me, about something that happens when apache web server thread is killed.

http://www.gossamer-.../apache/users/398126

If a server is killed (SIGKILL) during a "large" static file transfer, then the client is not notified by his browser that file has not been completely downloaded. On Win it just says it is not a valid Win32 application..

So my thought is that something might be causing apache processes that are in the middle of serving a file to terminate, causing this problem.

Maybe related: http://osdir.com/ml/...003-07/msg00055.html

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC stripping data from URL

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2011, 11:43 AM »

i must admit i dont have any urls so it's probably a bug, i will check and fix.

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DesktopCoral / Re: Settings are not saved.

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2011, 11:31 AM »

do you have a file called ConfigDir.ini in it's directory? can you rename that program and restart, and see if it saved your program on the next restart?

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Living Room / Re: USA Deadly Tornadoes

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2011, 10:20 AM »

Some videos:
http://www.buzzfeed....e-tuscaloosa-tornado

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2011, 07:49 AM »

Chris,

Can you redownload and try new version -- it will now be more aggressive about turning meta files into png files, which may solve your problem.

But do check to see if pasting is still good with the new version.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2011, 01:51 AM »

Launch image editor to edit clip

all that does is try to open the image file for editing.. have you set photoshop as the custom editor? you might try that if not.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Any screencast for Clipboard Help+Spell?

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2011, 11:48 PM »

I made a new thread for screencasts and uploaded new screencast of new image clip features here:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=26575

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Clipboard Help+Spell Screencasts

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2011, 11:47 PM »

Some screencast videos of Clipboard Help+Spell:

General Overview (15min):


New Image Clip Features (11min):

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2011, 07:47 PM »

Minor update uploaded to add some more buttons and info to the image clip view in the main window.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: AutoPrint: Not doing its job

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2011, 06:40 PM »

Thanks for reminding me -- i will add direct print option now.

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DesktopCoral / Re: Settings are not saved.

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2011, 06:39 PM »

first question:

If you start Desktop Coral, configure it how you want it, and then exit program.  and then Restart it.

Does it remember your settings when you restart it?

And then does it remember your settings when you reboot after that.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2011, 01:48 PM »

Glad you like it Chris.

ps.
The reason i finally got off my duff and wrote image support into CHS was because it was Chris' request when he won the programming time giveaway in the fundraiser.  So he's the one to thank for this feature if it's useful.  

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2011, 12:16 PM »

Note you can use the same menus/hotkeys to print image clips.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Game Engines and Apps

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2011, 12:15 PM »

Today:
http://games.slashdo...ine-3-SDK-and-Editor

"[...] sometime this summer, likely around August, we will see the appearance online of both a Crysis 2 editor and a CryEngine 3 SDK (software development kit). This not only means that people will be able to make full blown new levels for Crysis 2 but that the CryEngine 3 will also be made publicly available for the development of non-commercial projects to the community at large. To quote, 'This will be a complete version of our engine, including C++ code access, our content exporters (including our LiveCreate real-time pipeline), shader code, game sample code from Crysis 2, script samples, new improved Flowgraph and a whole host of great asset examples, which will allow teams to build complete games from scratch for PC.'"

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: After working for Microsoft, I moved to Mac OSX but there's no CH&S

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2011, 11:50 AM »

I guess what I'm saying is that CH&S functionality is worth running XP in a VM

even i'm not that crazy.

surely there is a reasonable clipboard tool for MAC OSX, you just have to keep looking.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2011, 08:57 AM »

I notice it converts vector clips to bitmap images - I mean 'pixel' images. I've seen this in other clipboard extenders as well.
I presume it's not possible to save vector clips "as is"?

Actually what's happening here, i believe -- is that the application puts multiple kinds of data on clipboard -- probably the full vector image, and a smaller draft bitmap.

Right now, CHS only knows how to grab the bitmap data on clipboard -- and doesn't know how to deal with the vector clip.

How easy it will be for me to add support to capture the vector image will depend -- there is code now in CHS to grab windows metafile images, which may be sufficient to grab your vector data -- i just haven't fully enabled or tweaked it yet.


The same goes for more advanced image editing tools -- CHS is only going to capture the bitmap data copied to clipboard, not the more advanced internal formats used by programs like photoshop, etc.; so things like transparency will probably be lost.


However, now that the infrastructure is in place, it's likely i will be able to add an option that will tell CHS to capture and paste ALL formats of the clipboard data by in effect saving multiple files associated with each image, and restoring those on paste.  I think this should be pretty easy to do and would let CHS preserve all the native data for copy+paste from any image-related app.


what app is it that you are testing vector stuff on?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2011, 08:37 AM »

Minor update uploaded; just redownload if you want it -- it now shows image dimensions in popup menu and saves image dimension in clip image filenames.

You really have done a nice job with this update.

glad you like it!

I noticed the icons of the application..That is a rather handy visual piece of information.

Thats so even the people who disable image capture have something new to enjoy.  It was suggested by superboyac in this thread as a feature of ArsClip that should be added to CHS.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2011, 07:28 AM »

Question: Are the images in CHS held as files in a single folder, or are they stored in the database?

They are standard image files that by default are sorted into subfolders by year/month and named by day.  you can customize this in options.
See the "explore" button on the toolbar when looking at an image clip to jump to the image folder for the image.

I don't think you should have to change any compatibility settings.. But maybe there is some permission/security thing i don't know about?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2011, 06:57 AM »

What browser?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by mouser on April 26, 2011, 11:32 PM »

V2 Beta with image support is here:
https://www.donation...elpAndSpellSetup.exe

Upgrading should be seamless, but please note that you may not be able to go back after you upgrade to this version, so if you have lots of critical clip/note data, do yourself a favor and backup your CHS Database directory first.

Note:
Upgraders will probably want to modify some settings on the "Quick Paste Pop-up Menu" tab of options.
The new default has Menu Images set to 64x64 but existing users have this set quite a bit larger.

Let me know what you think, any problems you experience, and any suggestions you may have.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: V2 Beta of Clipboard Help+Spell With Support for Images

« Last post by mouser on April 26, 2011, 08:20 PM »

Anyone want to beta test?