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Site/Forum Features / Re: List of DC-SMF features?

« Last post by rjbull on January 20, 2011, 09:15 AM »

That's a lot of codes.  Many thanks.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Insert Anywhere Date and Time utility

« Last post by rjbull on January 20, 2011, 05:54 AM »

The feature is also available in, amongst other things, my default clipboard enhancer, ArsClip; make it one of the permanent clips. 

-rjbull (January 14, 2011, 05:12 PM)

How/where can you use this date/time feature? I can't find it...

-Winkie (January 19, 2011, 03:01 PM)

Bring up the clip menu with your hotkey (I use Shift+Control+Z).  Find All items, which will probably be near the bottom as in the first image, and click it.  Click on Edit permanent items.  You're probably going to be in the Default group of permanent clips.  Click New.  On the next screen, see second screenshot, make sure you click Use Keystrokes / Commands.  That gives you the "keyboard" with the list of special keys.  Click DATE and you will find the date entered in US format.  I can't see if Joe says anything about the date formats anywhere, but I found you can alter them, so that e.g. [DATE="yyyy-mm-dd"] (on some ArsClip screens it will show up as [KEYS][DATE="yyyy-mm-dd"])gets you ISO date instead.  After that, you should see your date clip appear in your popup clip menu, though if you have more than one group of permanent clips, you may have to change the group.  New clip "Date" shown in third screenshot.

In another thread, superboyac remarked that ArsClip's configuration was a mess.  Good though it is, I'm inclined agree.  You might expect this bit of configuration to appear on the Configuration screens, rather than get to it via the popup menu.

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Site/Forum Features / List of DC-SMF features?

« Last post by rjbull on January 19, 2011, 03:30 PM »

I compose most of my postings in an editor, currently NoteTab Pro.  From time to time I use font effects, lists, URLs etc.  Please, is there a consolidated list of the [codes] that you need for this, including what font faces, sizes, etc. are available?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Free version of O&O Defrag

« Last post by rjbull on January 19, 2011, 02:49 PM »

I realize there are a bunch of defraggers out there

-longrun (January 19, 2011, 11:20 AM)

I hadn't finished reading your post before I started wondering which is currently the "best" one.

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Timns Apps / Re: Auspex Suggestions

« Last post by rjbull on January 19, 2011, 02:45 PM »

I'm new to Auspex and haven't read through all the threads, so apologies if these have been mentioned before.

1) Auspex can currently be set with the shorthand case sensitive or not.  If it's set to not, then if you define

atm = at the moment

all of atm, ATM, AtM, aTm etc. should trigger "at the moment."  Does it make sense to add a "smart capitalisation" feature such that short form "Atm" gives "At the moment," i.e., sentence case with initial letter capitalised for starting a sentence, while all other short forms deliver all lower case?

2) Security: I understand you can define programs for Auspex to ignore by their executables.  Does it make sense to add Window Title, Window Handle and Window Class to that?  I admit I don't understand the last two, but what I'm looking for is a better way of deciding between windows. This is because I use MemPad freeware two-pane organiser by Horst Schaeffer, http://home.mnet-onl...de/horst.muc/win.htm and some of the files are encrypted. When I want to open them, MemPad pops up a new window to ask for the password. This window has different details from the main program. I would want to stop Auspex popping up suggestions over the *password window*, but use it normally in the note panes once the file is open. If I have to ban MemPad.exe, I can't use Auspex at all in MemPad. Same with KeePass, though not so likely to need Auspex inside KeePass.

3) May be a bug; I'm composing this post in NoteTab Pro and wanted to use Esc.  It doesn't work with Auspex loaded, and I think I've seen a few other glitches too, including what looks like odd keys being sent and failures of the short forms to trigger.

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General Software Discussion / Re: rename pdf files

« Last post by rjbull on January 18, 2011, 03:09 PM »

Does your text have any structure?  If so, and your PDF isn't locked, you could do something like

1) Use the pdftotext utility of XPDF to convert to plain text
2) Make an AWK script to parse the text file so made and apply your other corrections.

I used to do something like this at work, but, the files were safety data sheets and they had enough structure to be able to capture the relevant titles.

Otherwise, lanux is right about CHS, but other utilities you might find helpful to semi-automate the process include the following.  The first three are convenient ways of manipulating text in the clipboard.

• Clippy (freeware)
  

  You can re-align the '>' characters that have been
  concatenated into a single line; Strip HTML tags; Convert the case of
  letters; Remove line breaks; Count the number of lines and words; And
  more.
  
  Clippy works by taking the text that you have copied to the clipboard,
  sending the text through it's conversion engine and pushing the
  reformatted text to the clipboard.
  
  Partial list of features:
  * Align center
  * Align fill
  * Align left
  * Align quote
  * Align right
  * Case capitalise
  * Case invert
  * Case lower
  * Case upper
  * Count of characters
  * Count of lines
  * Count of words
  * Convert all spaces to tabs
  * Convert leading spaces to tabs
  * Convert tabs to spaces
  * Quote
  * Remove blank lines
  * Remove duplicate lines
  * Remove line
  * Remove line breaks
  * Strip HTML
  * Trim leading spaces
  * Trim trailing spaces
  * Unquote
  * Remove duplicate blank lines
  * Convert DOS to Unix
  * Convert Unix to DOS
  * Delete to end-of-line from column
  * Delete to end-of-line from string
  * Sort lines
  * Search and replace
  

  
  The web site is often down: I have attached a copy.  It's only 73k.
  
  
• Free Data Capture Tool (FDC)
  

  Partial feature list:
      * Trim: spaces at the beginning and end of the line
      * Remove Puncutations: punctuations are removed
      * Strip Parentheticals: data within parentheses/brackets is removed.
      * Parse Words: words are split into new lines on white spaces.
      * Ignore Empty: blank lines are removed.
      * Remove HTML: HTML tags are removed from HTML text.
      * Change Case: the case of all data is changed as selected.
      * Parse: new lines are created at locations that match the specified strings. Note that no further actions are performed on the inserted lines during this phase of processing. Reprocess the capture box with new filters as needed.
      * Accept Lines: only those lines that contain the specifed substrings are placed in the captured data box.
      * Reject Lines: lines that do not contain the specifed substrings are ignored.
      * Replace/Remove: data that matches selections is replaced. Each row in this grid represents one find-replace pair.
      * Extract/Delete Text in Substrings: data that is found between the specified start and stop substring location is Extracted or Deleted.
      * Suffix & Prefix: data is added to the beginning and/end of a line as specified.
      * Merge Lines: groups of 2-5 lines are merged into single lines. If specified, separators are inserted between some/all of the merged groups of text.
  

  This one has been mentioned on DC before; I haven't tried it myself.
  
  
• TextMonkey free Lite version, more powerful payware Pro.
  

  Email Cleanup
  
      * Sense when quoted email text is copied to the clipboard and clean automatically, or upon confirmation †
      * Sense and remove email quoting symbols, including those with prefix strings such as "Joe>" †
      * Set email quoting symbols
      * Delete extra spaces and blank lines †
      * Sense and preserve formatting of lines that appear not to be flowing text †
      * Convert line breaks to space † -or-
      * Reformat line breaks to user-defined paragraph width
  
  Web Document Cleanup
  
      * Delete HTML tags
      * Decode named and numbered HTML character constants, such as """ or """
      * Delete extra blank lines (ie, reduce two or more blank lines to one blank line)
      * Delete leading spaces and tabs
      * Convert line breaks to spaces
  
  Space Operations
  
      * Delete leading spaces and tabs
      * Delete trailing spaces and tabs
      * Reduce space runs to one space
      * Apply one space after sentence enders
      * Apply two spaces after sentence enders
  
  Line Operations
  
      * Delete extra blank lines (ie, reduce two or more blank lines to one blank line)
      * Delete all blank lines
      * Delete duplicate lines
      * Delete lines that contain user-specified text
      * Delete lines that do not contain user-specified text
  
  Indent Operations
  
      * Indent all lines with one space †
      * Indent all lines with one tab
      * Indent all lines with user-specified text
      * Unindent all lines by one character †
      * Unindent all (remove all leading spaces and tabs)
  
  Case Operations
  
      * Convert to uppercase †
      * Convert to lowercase †
      * Capitalize each word
      * Capitalize each sentence
      * Swap case of each character
  
  HTML Operations
  
      * Delete HTML tags
      * Decode named characters such as """
      * Decode numbered characters such as """
      * Convert text to HTML document
            o Apply all relevant tags to make a legal HTML document
            o Option to retain line breaks, or convert line breaks to spaces
            o Encode sensitive characters to HTML character constants
      * Encode text to &#nnn; sequences (can be useful to obfuscate email addresses that are to be posted on a website and reduce spam harvesting)
  
  Sort Operations
  
      * Sort lines alphabetically, numerically or according to line length
      * Designate the column on which sort comparison should occur
      * Case sensitive or insensitive
      * Ascending, descending or random order
      * Sort according to ANSI value or Locale sort table (for proper handling of accented characters)
  
  Auto-Number Operations
  
      * Set starting number
      * Set numbering increment
      * Set trailing symbol, if any
      * Set trailing spaces, if any
      * Set leading zero, if any
      * Number using digits, or roman numerals
      * Left justified or right justified
  
  Conversions
  
      * Tabs to spaces
      * Spaces to tabs
      * Set tab display value
      * OEM to ANSI
      * ANSI to OEM
  
  Strip Operations
  
      * Strip low ASCII characters
      * Strip high ASCII characters
      * Strip OEM graphics (line drawing) characters
      * Convert OEM graphics (line drawing) characters to +, - and |
      * Strip user-specified characters
  
  Replace Operations
  
      * Designate up to four search and replace string pairs
      * Case sensitive or insensitive
  
  Miscellaneous Operations
  
      * Compute total, average, median, mode and standard deviation
      * Count characters, words and lines
      * Count occurrences of a user-specified text string
      * Convert text to hex dump format (useful to examining character values)
      * Convert normal text to "Teen Text," as is common in chat environments
      * Convert normal text to "Crazy Text," using alternative but readable substitutes for most characters
  
  Clipboard Viewer / Editor
  
      * Examine clipboard content in a resizeable editor window †
      * Set clipboard viewer display font
      * Undo allows previous clipboard content to be restored †
      * View in browser makes it easy to preview clipboard content in a web browser
      * Save clipboard text to a file
      * Visual wrap options allows long lines to wrap to window width †
  

  Features marked with "dagger" character "†" are present in Lite version.
  
  
• Oscar's File Renamer
  You can't rename a file while it's open.  Oscar's File Renamer is unlike most renamers; it's more like an editor.  You prepare the changes you want to make, close your PDF file(s), then tell Renamer to do its thing.
  

  
  The Renamer takes and enhances the idea of editing files in directory in a full featured Text editor and then writing all the changes at once into the files.
  It works simple: Open Renamer, select directory and the files will appear in the File Name Editor which is a normal full featured text editor with some additional changes (f.e. you can't add or delete line).
  You can use all the editor functions like Quick find, Replace, multiple Undo/Redo, Macros and of course normal editing. Each file is on a new line and can easily move with arrows like in a normal text.
  When the files you wanted to rename are done simply click Apply Changes and all files will be physically renamed.
  
  Some benefits:
  
      * Fast Editing of long list of file names - exactly like in a text editor
      * All changes to files themselves are done at the very end when you press Apply Changes, not during editing.
      * During Editing you can use Undo/Redo, and various tools like Upper Case/Lower Case or numbering.
      * All changed lines are visibly marked
      * It doesn't let you enter wrong characters
      * A File List shows the original names on the disk.
      * You can record a keyboard macro and apply to the file names.
      * You can undo changes even after you write to disk
      * It can integrate into windows Shell.

Alternatively, use a normal text editor to make a batch file and run that to do the renaming.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Structurer for Windows?

« Last post by rjbull on January 18, 2011, 01:53 PM »

XXCopy, A  Versatile File Management Utility is XCopy on turbo-steroids, cubed.  There are free-for-personal-use, Home and Corporate versions.

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General Software Discussion / Re: FolderSize o DirectorySize with rules or filters

« Last post by rjbull on January 17, 2011, 02:05 PM »

Honestly, i'm still looking for the "magic words" that make the user understand the concept with less text. Sometimes i've a bit of difficulty because i'm not english native. Hints are welcomed!

-uuderzo (January 16, 2011, 03:35 PM)

I should warn you than whenever I've "helped" someone's "magic words," the author generally ends up thinking I make it too long!  But I think that's excellent.  I've taken the liberty of changing a few spellings and very minor grammar points, but what you meant is perfectly clear:

"The filter by file name mask applies only to files. Sometimes you may want to search only under certain folders, say, temp folders. You don't know where they are and at which nesting level on your media device, but you know they are there, and possibly more than one.

In this case you can use a folder name mask filter. Folder name mask filters are the same as file name mask filters, except they apply to folders. To identify a pattern as a folder mask pattern, simply prepend it by the '\' (backslash) char. The backslash char doesn't have the meaning of "root folder", it is simply a switch. It has been chosen as "switch" char because it is forbidden in file and folder names (it is a path separator), hence it cannot exist in an element name.

When you apply a folder name mask filter, only files whose path contains a matching folder are included. Moreover, folders whose names match the mask are hilighted with the BOLD style in their name. This makes easy to understand why stuff has been included by the filter. If, on the other hand, you are using an exclusion filter (by prepending the whole pattern string by the negation pipe (|) char), excluded folders are not hilighted, just because they will not be displayed.

Example: by typing \temp every file under a temp folder (at any nesting level) is included. For example, C:\Windows\temp\data\abc.txt would be included.
Example: on the contrary, by typing |\temp every file under a temp folder (at any nesting level) is excluded.

Hint: You can consider folder and file masks as a two dimensional filter. The first axis is the folder mask, the second axis is the file mask. Both axis work independently. When you apply a folder+file mask you are defining some kind of "coordinate" in a 2D space. You first "cut" the directory tree structure and isolate the searched folders, then examine the wanted file names by the other mask."

Online quick tip window:

By folder name
        Same as by file name, but prepend with '\' (backslash) (|).
        The folder mask considers files whose path contains elements
        that match the mask at any nesting level.
        Matching folders are renderer with BOLD font.
        The mask itself cannot include the '\' char.
        Example: \temp will include only files whose path contain
                 at least a 'temp' folder.
                 For example, C:\windows\temp\data\abc.txt is ok
        Example: |\progr* will exclude files whose path contain
                 at least a 'progr*' folder.
        The starting backslash char does not mean 'the root', it has
        been choosen as switch because it is a forbidden char
        in files and folders name.
        (Note: Folder masks are slower than file masks)

Thanks, Umberto! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Editor able to handle very large files

« Last post by rjbull on January 17, 2011, 01:46 PM »

So that's two more editors installed on here.

-timns (January 17, 2011, 01:40 PM)

Maybe you'd better not look at the Text Editors Wiki 

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Living Room / Re: Forum / Thread Etiquette

« Last post by rjbull on January 17, 2011, 01:37 PM »

It's Manchester United, not MANU. Now start the fight.   

-mahesh2k (January 17, 2011, 10:37 AM)

Not to worry, I don't do footy 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Editor able to handle very large files

« Last post by rjbull on January 17, 2011, 01:36 PM »

You can also try HiEditor.  It's a small, free editor

-skwire (January 17, 2011, 12:59 PM)

Remarkably small! 

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Living Room / Re: Forum / Thread Etiquette

« Last post by rjbull on January 17, 2011, 06:28 AM »

I think it's also a matter of trying to avoid getting into the situations where everyone feels the burning need to have the last word or pile on.  The longer you are a member the more you should know that sometimes holding your tongue or taking the high road leads to a better experience for all of us.

-mouser (January 15, 2011, 07:27 PM)

At what point do you feel it right to stop fighting back against what one sees as bullies and misrepresentation?

  And of course we have enough humour on this forum to survive anything

I cringe whenever I see a job ad that says "sense of humour required."  I interpret it as meaning they want you to be a doormat.

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Living Room / Re: Forum / Thread Etiquette

« Last post by rjbull on January 17, 2011, 06:24 AM »

My understanding is that twit filters are a per-user setting, so they wouldn't prevent the 'target' from posting.  It just would make it so that if (for example) I never wanted to read another thing that mouser wrote, I could have the system help me out with that instead of having to avert my eyes.

-mwb1100 (January 17, 2011, 01:46 AM)

That's exactly what I meant.

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Living Room / Re: Forum / Thread Etiquette

« Last post by rjbull on January 16, 2011, 02:43 PM »

What's a twit feature?

-wraith808 (January 16, 2011, 02:16 PM)

The ability to filter out posts by specific people so you don't see them.  WikiPedia article Kill file:

A kill file (also killfile, bozo bin or twit list) is a per-user file used by some Usenet reading programs (originally Larry Wall's rn) to discard summarily (without presenting for reading) articles matching some unwanted patterns of subject, author, or other header lines.

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Living Room / Re: Forum / Thread Etiquette

« Last post by rjbull on January 16, 2011, 01:37 PM »

To save myself from further exasperating situations, leading to my own embarrassment, I'd like to see a twit feature, if the forum doesn't have one already.  Please?

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by rjbull on January 16, 2011, 10:46 AM »

The software seems good but I and others on DC have disagreed with the company's attitude

Rjbull, I believe this describes your posting best. ;-)

-BartelsMedia (January 15, 2011, 02:29 AM)

I made a plain statement to show my point of view.  I have said - more than once - that I thought your software was good.  So I consider that rude and uncalled-for.

InstantText is absolutely worth its money for its specific purpose and is tailored with awesome capabilities to the specific market of medical/legal transcription. However, I would hesitate to say that it has "more features" than PhraseExpress.

InstantText does not support text formatting, does not offer completion of full sentences and afaik, it has no macro automation programming language. Just to name a few.

PhraseExpress is not only a text auto-completion software, but also a text/code snippets organizer. Well, ...Merylic already provided the list of features.

I agree, to an extent.  You have correctly described Instant Text's value to its target market, where its focus on shorthand expansion rather than completion is appropriate.  I used it for mostly for making abstracts bulletins and I was very happy with its set of features; sentence completion would have had no real value to me.  Coding snippets is a different matter.  Instant Text has crude keyboard macros in that you can tell it to send things like Alt-keys and Function keys, but its key feature that I haven't seen anywhere else is the ability to examine a corpus of pre-existing text (including Word docs) and work out a set of expansions based on it.  IT gives you further tools for massaging the short forms so generated into whatever style you prefer, e.g. John Knowles' ABCZ Typing Abbreviation System.  IT also has separate lists of words and phrases, with separate triggers for them, and allows you to use no specific trigger beyond punctuation, which is a great help to typing flow.

The feature I was interested in was being able to use the same short form for more than one long text, e.g. "apon" for "application," "apparition," and "apportion."

I am happy to tell, that this feature always was and is available in the free version and I am sorry if you missed that.

Yes, I did miss that, thanks for pointing it out.  Which leaves me ruefully remembering I paid extra for the Pro version 7 to get it 

One more thing, not special to you, but with plenty more software companies.  You sent me an automated e-mail recently to tell me version 8 had been released.  My key is for 7 (also have 6) and this would be a paid upgrade.  When sending out notifications, is there any way you can make it clear in the e-mail that it is a paid upgrade?  I don't like installing something and only then finding it isn't still registered.  Your licensing is now slightly more complicated than it was, too, as I think you only used to have two versions, where you now appear to have three?

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General Software Discussion / Re: FolderSize o DirectorySize with rules or filters

« Last post by rjbull on January 14, 2011, 05:18 PM »

I think that if one wanted to explore just folder*, he would start the snif operation from that folder instead of the entire drive.

-uuderzo (January 14, 2011, 03:57 PM)

Yes.  I'm not thinking clearly again.  An all-to-frequent state of affairs 

So, do you consider the current release candidate behavior useful?

Yes, but, please can you make sure the folders and filters wildcards are explained in Help, like you did above?

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Insert Anywhere Date and Time utility

« Last post by rjbull on January 14, 2011, 05:12 PM »

Not quite what you asked for - but close, small, and free - Horst Schaeffer's Calendar.  You'd have to Alt-Tab but I think everything else is present.

The feature is also available in, amongst other things, my default clipboard enhancer, ArsClip; make it one of the permanent clips.  It's also in mouser's Clipboard Help+Spell.  Also in Typing Assistant, which is like Auspex.  Apart from the last, though, they'd probably all need one or two hotkeys, though shouldn't need more.  They all allow you to roll your own format using tokens.

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Living Room / Re: Death and the net: How to log off gracefully for the very last time

« Last post by rjbull on January 14, 2011, 03:26 PM »

Yes, folks, it's Return of the Living Thread.  The 15 Jan. 2011 issue of New Scientist (209(2795)) comes with a CareersGuide supplement, which speculates about what you might find yourself doing in twenty years time:

With an increasing proportion of our personal estate residing in cyberspace, we will need someone to make sure that our online presence is dealt with in accordance with our wishes when we can no longer do it ourselves.

Their name for such an agency - Virtual Undertaker.

<sigh>

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by rjbull on January 14, 2011, 03:09 PM »

I would suggest to carefully review the HUGE number of your competitors:

-Merrylic (January 14, 2011, 05:24 AM)

I listed some of them in another thread, here.

The freeware "PhraseExpress" - which I consider the boss in town

No, that's Instant Text.  But it's fiercely expensive.

it will be very difficult to beat a power house llike PhraseExpress. It is so reliable, established, feature-rich AND free

The software seems good but I and others on DC have disagreed with the company's attitude.  Being miffed at the time, I went on to Typing Assistant, which I rate excellent.  Besides, when I registered, Phrase Express was free for personal use only, and much of my computing at the time was done at work.  To get some useful features, you had to pay for the moderately expensive Pro version (about $70 I think) of the time.  The feature I was interested in was being able to use the same short form for more than one long text, e.g. "apon" for "application," "apparition," and "apportion."  Typing Assistant can do that without extra cost.  I'm not currently planning to upgrade my Phrase Express license for the latest edition, but agree it has many fans.

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General Software Discussion / Re: FolderSize o DirectorySize with rules or filters

« Last post by rjbull on January 14, 2011, 02:33 PM »

It's like a two dimensional filter: the first axis is the folder dimension, the second axis is the files dimension. Both are perpendicular and not directly related.
[...]
Consider this example:

root
|
+Program Files
|     |
|     +Data
|
+Users
|     |
|     +Programs
|     |
|     +Data
|
+Windows
|     |
|     +System

The previous folder mask will consider all files under "Program Files\..." and all files under "Users\Programs\..." but not other branches because they don't contain "program*".

-uuderzo (January 13, 2011, 04:25 PM)

I didn't realise that the folder wildcard implied the equivalent of DOS wildcard "*folder*".  I thought it meant "folder*", no front wildcard, so would only apply to the green branch above.  It would have excluded everything else, shown in red branch.  I just needed to grasp that it's *folder*.  I think I see what you mean about having two dimensions of filters.

Suppose that your disk structure contains many folders with similar names, but you don't know how many and where they are (and at which nesting level they are). Without a folder mask you must examine each branch of the disk structure to find them. With folder mask you can find every "temp" folder with a click.

That problem is a real pain with my file manager, Total Commander.  Anything to help is welcome!

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Official Announcements / Re: January 2011 Giveaway is open for entry

« Last post by rjbull on January 13, 2011, 02:52 PM »

Consider this...  Optimizing for NANY entrants is in effect penalizing those that did not enter which is somewhat contrary to the philosophy(?) of the site, isn't it? 

-CodeTRUCKER (January 13, 2011, 03:37 AM)

Difficult, isn't it?  I'm not a coder, or a digital artist, so most of those apps aren't any interest to me anyway.

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General Software Discussion / Re: FolderSize o DirectorySize with rules or filters

« Last post by rjbull on January 13, 2011, 02:49 PM »

I attach a screenshot of the candidate 1.1.3.0 release. You can notice 4 new features over the many other features added):
1. Filter by folder name (here it's not shown but also negative filters are supported). After playing a bit with this feature i can say that it's cool.
2. Notice that the folders that match the folder filter pattern are displayed with name in BOLD font. This makes easier to understand why stuff has been included by the filter.
3. I filtered also by zip and jpg files. Notice they are colored with different colors (optional) because they belong to different file classes (customizable)

-uuderzo (January 12, 2011, 06:13 PM)

I don't think I really understood the syntax before.  Just to check I've got it right now, the release candidate is looking at all folders, and shows all their sizes.  But, it is set to filter folders that start "program*," and within those, it considers JPG and ZIP files.  SpaceSniffer's main statistics at the top of the screen now show those files in those folders only, and those are the ones where text is in bright white, and specially coloured.  Other folders and files are shown with their sizes, but not considered in the main statistics.

Is that correct?

4. The selected element will drop a shadow (optional) to make it easier to visually track.

Good idea; I think that helps.

Sounds like a fair bid to be the best in this class of software 

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General Software Discussion / Re: FolderSize o DirectorySize with rules or filters

« Last post by rjbull on January 12, 2011, 04:23 PM »

* and ? cannot be used because they are part of the pattern match syntax, | is used to negate, " sounds odd, as long as < and >...

-uuderzo (January 12, 2011, 05:33 AM)

I wouldn't want <> anyway, as I think of them as redirection symbols.

For sake of uniformity i should add the :folder: switch, but looks rather long to type. Maybe i can add both "\" and :folder: synonims.

Looks like you are left with the only possible choice.  Maybe you could abbreviate it a bit, e.g. :dir: or :fol: or :fdr: or something.

Thanks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: FolderSize o DirectorySize with rules or filters

« Last post by rjbull on January 11, 2011, 04:46 PM »

So, the default will still be to filter on files, which is natural to most users.

-uuderzo (January 11, 2011, 04:18 PM)

Agreed.  I was obsessing about the OP, which is a slightly unusual requirement.  Most people, most of the time, will just want to see where all the space has gone.

I choosed the backslash just because it is one of the forbidden chars

I wondered why you'd chosen that.  I'd have recommended "!", but, it's possible to use "!" in a file name, so your convention makes much better sense.

*.jpg;\temp

Does it sound useable? Umberto

Yes!