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Living Room / Re: DC Apps alternatives for LInux

« Last post by ewemoa on February 11, 2012, 06:44 AM »

I've made a .deb for ReNamer as well:

  ReNamer .deb

MD5: 899aa7f4ffd935354546b64689a1deaa

Installation, usage, etc:

    Install via: sudo dpkg -i debfilename
    Run via: renamer
    Uninstall via: sudo apt-get remove renamer

After running renamer for the first time, a subdirectory should be created under your home directory named .renamer.  After uninstallation, you may want to delete this subdirectory but possibly keep (backup) any settings that may be in that directory.

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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on February 10, 2012, 09:03 PM »

BTW, I have an almost working "Calculate".

How to display the results though...

The current testing version has code for:

• Via the LargeType functionality posted earlier
• Via pasting a value in to Qatapult's first pane

The paste method doesn't work so well at the moment -- somehow, dots get lost so what should come out as:

  0.750000

results in:

  0750000

In either case, the result of calculation is not (easily?) selectable for use elsewhere -- some motivation for making things selectable in Qatapult panes?

May be there could be a way to pass a running Qatapult instance some data to display -- perhaps via some command line invocation?

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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on February 10, 2012, 04:05 AM »

Some minor points I noticed:


This works:

[Select]

[rule_2]
0_arg=TEXT
1_lbl=Large Type
1_ico=icons\LargeType.png
cmd=..\AutoHotkey_L\AutoHotkey.exe
args=LargeType.ahk "$0.text"

but this doesn't:

[Select]

[rule_2]
0_arg=TEXT
1_lbl=Large Type
1_ico=icons\LargeType.png
cmd=..\AutoHotkey_L\AutoHotkey.exe
args="LargeType.ahk" "$0.text"

I'm guessing the double quotes in the args= line might be relevant.

I'll try to attach the script and icon at the end of this post.

As a side note, in the cmd= line, referencing an AHK_L exe allows us to not bother with compiling scripts -- this may be more convenient during testing / development.  This may work with AHK Basic too, but I haven't tried that.

Also, IIRC, using mpress.exe, AHK_L's exe can be made between 300 and 400 kB so it's not so bad in terms of file size from the perspective of a potential user -AND- AHK doesn't need to be installed (it's "portable").  So the AHK exe can just sit in the same directory as Qatapult.exe.  For users who don't mind obtaining AHK's exe but don't want to install it (e.g. weird people like myself) may be this is a viable option.

Thanks to pigeonlips' examples -- they were helpful in working out the above example.


Any chance there'd be a way to get settings.ini reread conveniently?  Right now I quit Qatapult using 'Quit' and then start it again.  Is there already a "Reload" or "Restart" command?  Or may be there is already some good way to manage that I missed


I appreciate the support for relative paths in settings.ini.  Thanks!

On a related note, I tried to use environment variables but didn't have much luck.  Is that something that is supposed to work?


Sorry if I missed it, but is there a way to set a font?  I don't see a setting in the generated settings.ini.

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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on February 09, 2012, 09:07 PM »

The one thing that does bother me a little is the position of the drop down box in the second and third pane. I'd rather see it expand the whole size of qatapult.

-pigeonlips (February 09, 2012, 08:09 PM)

Interestingly, in the QS Manual on page 10 it shows what you describe for 2 panes (i.e. expanding to the width of both panes).  However, for 3 panes, on page 8, it shows something similar to how Qatapult currently seems to behave...

link to modified QS manual

BTW, modified the QS manual to make navigation easier (now has table of contents which may be viewable as a side pane in some PDF viewers):

  https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=28713.msg272276#msg272276

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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on February 09, 2012, 08:00 PM »

------------------- CURRENT SELECTION --------------------------

Be nice if this detected text too.

-pigeonlips (February 09, 2012, 05:45 PM)

Yes, please!

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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on February 09, 2012, 07:55 PM »

pigeonlips:

I hope to take a look at what you've posted once I have access to a running Windows environment again


all:

The local Mac Mini with QS on it decided to cooperate so I got some screenshots and did some testing.

QS window (with some customization to show current date / time)



QS window with text mode



Note: I didn't find QS to become a single pane when entering text mode.

While trying out pigeonlips' Move-related functionality, I was editing the third pane content in text mode, and it felt like it might be nicer to be able to see the other panes while doing that editing (currently switching to text mode shows an expanded pane, right?).

I remember seeing QS' window expand and contract, but I'm thinking this might have been for growing / shrinking between 2 and 3 panes.

Any thoughts?

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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on February 09, 2012, 05:58 PM »

I've made a test that allows to enter text mode with '.' or 'insert' and exit with 'esc' and 'insert'. It should be an usable configuration for most people laptop or not.

-ecaradec (February 09, 2012, 05:13 PM)

May be this will finally teach my body where the Insert key is -- it's quite a stretch for my pinky though for the desktop keyboard

On a side note, would it be hard to make some of the hotkeys configurable?  If it were easy, may be we could try out various possibilities and report back on our experiences.  I'm interested in trying out pigeonlips' idea about using the function keys -- I suppose I can try to hack together an AHK script to "reroute" function keys to other keys.

The thing I'm not sure about is if the dot is a good key for entering text mode. I often type a dot when I want to filter for an extension and erroneouly enter text mode. Insert is way more convenient for me : I don't use text mode very often, and dot is a too easy key to hit for such a uncommon behavior. Get a new version to try for yourself.

Typing a dot to filter for an extension sounds nice -- hadn't tried that.

It's sounding more and more like dot isn't such a good choice for text mode.  I guess QS also supported single quote -- for reference, that's mentioned on page 22 of the manual and it's how I remember it too.

If you think it might help, there is an old Mac Mini sitting around with some version of QS installed -- may be I can see if it will still work to do some testing.

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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on February 09, 2012, 01:26 AM »

Laptop users too i guess.

-pigeonlips (February 08, 2012, 08:33 PM)

Indeed!

How about the insert key. This to me also makes sense as a logical choice. After all its function (mostly) is to overwrite whats there?

It does sound logical and looks like it would work for a notebook I have, but sadly I need to press a modifier to get it to work on a Happy Hacking Keyboard.  May be that's a pretty rare case though...

I do like the idea of it being the same key to get in and out of that mode (or with esc too). 

Yes, there is a nice symmetry.

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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on February 09, 2012, 01:05 AM »

[Select]

[rule_4]
0_arg=FILE
2_arg=TEXT
1_lbl=Move file to
1_ico=icons\Move.png
2_lbl=C:\
cmd=cmd.exe
args=/C "move $0.path $2.text"
workdir=%d

Default to C:\ in the 2 pane, but you can "." and add a path of your choice!

-pigeonlips (February 08, 2012, 07:46 PM)

Worked here too

If it's just for moving (and not renaming), it seems like it might be nice to be able to navigate to the destination -- so somehow leverage FILE instead of TEXT for the third pane.

For renaming, navigating to the parent folder and then entering text mode to come up with a new name might be handy.  Not sure whether this is doable at the moment though.

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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on February 08, 2012, 08:24 PM »

Congratulations on getting things to work and thanks for posting examples

http://www1.picturep...80/png/Volume.png?v0

-pigeonlips (February 08, 2012, 07:19 PM)

Nice icon!

what about the F keys - i never go near them my self. Just a thought.

Aha -- those do seem like good candidates for folks with full-size keyboards.  I used to be a Happy Hacking Keyboard user -- and in that context, IIRC I would have needed to press modifiers to get them to work.

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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on February 08, 2012, 06:42 PM »

pigeonlips:

I started from a fresh settings.ini generated by the newest Qatapult download.  I got the sense from what you posted that it was a modification of a settings.ini generated by an older Qatapult (e.g. reference to FileVerbs) -- may be the newest Qatapult doesn't handle some of the older settings-related info?

It's true that I tested on Windows 7 Pro 64-bit -- so not XP.

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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on February 08, 2012, 06:09 PM »

The following worked for me:

[QSLLContacts]
accessToken=
refreshToken=
email=
username=
password=
server=smtp

[rule_0]
0_arg=TEXT
1_lbl=run on command line
1_ico=icons\terminal.png
cmd=cmd.exe
args=/K "$0.text"
workdir=%d

However, pressing tab once I typed text in the first pane seemed to cause something I didn't want to be selected as the value for the first pane (e.g. try "explorer").

A flow that worked for me was:

• Bring up Qatapult's window
• Press . to enter text mode
• Type in text (e.g. dir or explorer)
• Press the escape key
• Press down arrow and then the page down key to select the last item from candidates
• Press tab to select the second pane
• Press the page down key to select "run on command line"
• Press Enter

On a side note, for entering text mode, I wonder if choosing a key that corresponds to something either not used or infrequently used in file paths would be doable.  Another aspect to consider might be if it can be typed under many key arrangements without having to press any modifiers such as Shift.

The only two such keys for the keyboard layout here that Windows Explorer complains about when renaming files are the slash and the backslash...The former is likely to be used in URLs while the latter is likely to be used in Windows paths.

I think this might be a point in favor of going for pigeonlips' suggestion concerning using the escape key to exit from text mode.

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General Software Discussion / JSON Editor

« Last post by ewemoa on February 08, 2012, 03:24 AM »

I'm looking for a free portable GUI JSON Editor.  I'm hoping to be able to recommend it to folks to create / edit some fairly straight-forward JSON (which might be used as a configuration file).

I've come across:

  JSONedit

Has any one tried this and/or know of some alternatives?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Some help needed with ScreenShotCaptor

« Last post by ewemoa on February 07, 2012, 11:03 PM »

RE Scrolling Screen...  Capture Menu >> Scrolling Screen, then once you Ctrl+Click on the window to be scrolled, the options dialog will pop up...

-kunkel321 (February 07, 2012, 06:18 PM)

Perhaps also check out:

  Screenshot Captor 3 - Window Object and Scrolling Capture Screencast Videos


Regarding watermarking, do you see anything relevant under the SpecialFX menu of Screenshot Captor's main window?  IIRC, it used to be near the bottom of the menu, but I think it got moved near the top.

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Living Room / Re: DC Apps alternatives for LInux

« Last post by ewemoa on February 06, 2012, 08:31 PM »

have to fix my linux box.

-mahesh2k (February 06, 2012, 05:51 PM)

Good luck with the fixing

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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on February 06, 2012, 07:13 PM »

May be I could switch to text mode automatically if nothing is typed for a few sec ? I think that QS cancel the search if you wait too long, but I'm not sure if I like it or not.

-ecaradec (February 06, 2012, 05:42 PM)

personal preference, is that i hate things doing something without my input but that might be just me.

-pigeonlips (February 06, 2012, 06:41 PM)

I'm with pigeonlips on this.

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Living Room / Re: DC Apps alternatives for LInux

« Last post by ewemoa on February 06, 2012, 05:27 PM »

The generic DEBs may not work as well as packages specifically tweaked for your distro since many of them go off in their own directions with desktops and windows manager customizations. About the worst thing you'll run into is a dependency issue (missing or version problems).

-40hz (February 06, 2012, 03:22 PM)

Thanks for the hints and tips!

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Living Room / Re: DC Apps alternatives for LInux

« Last post by ewemoa on February 06, 2012, 05:26 PM »

I'm interested and I downloaded HFS.deb to my desktop in Knoppix. I would probably use it in Kubuntu or Mint since both say they are Debian based.

-sword (February 06, 2012, 03:12 PM)

Please let me know how it goes if you give it a try.

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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on February 06, 2012, 05:23 PM »

Maybe have a "." top invoke and then Esc to get out?

-pigeonlips (February 06, 2012, 03:57 PM)

This sounds nice to me.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v3.0 (!) - Feb 5, 2012

« Last post by ewemoa on February 06, 2012, 07:25 AM »

Oops.  Never mind

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Developer's Corner / Re: Bjarne talks about C++11

« Last post by ewemoa on February 05, 2012, 09:37 PM »

Nice to have so many different options for video -- and slides (containing some nice images) available too.

Thanks for sharing

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Living Room / Re: DC Apps alternatives for LInux

« Last post by ewemoa on February 05, 2012, 12:01 PM »

I'm not familiar with whether / how well .deb files made for Debian will work on Ubuntu, but FWIW, the following is what I have for a recent beta for HFS:

  HFS .deb

MD5: 7b3eb6c3bb50591ead14fb809dad84bf

Installation, usage, etc:

• Install via: sudo dpkg -i debfilename
• Run via: hfs
• Uninstall via: sudo apt-get remove hfs

After running hfs for the first time, a subdirectory should be created under your home directory named .hfs.  After uninstallation, you may want to delete this subdirectory but possibly keep (backup) any settings that may be in that directory.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: Akete

« Last post by ewemoa on February 05, 2012, 12:55 AM »

komtak:

I've successfully reproduced the 3 points you mentioned.

At the moment, what you propose as a fix for the first point seems good.  Thanks!

I'm still processing the second and the third points.

Thanks again for reporting.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: Akete

« Last post by ewemoa on February 04, 2012, 10:12 PM »

Thanks for the report and patch.

I will try to look into these matters further.

On a side note though, I've been thinking about not pursuing the direction explored in the experimental version.  From a certain perspective, it essentially proceeds to produce a new mini-language for configuration, and that doesn't seem like such a good idea to me at the moment.

As an alternative, I've been considering providing hooks by the plugin which can be leveraged by users via JScript.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 3 - Window Object and Scrolling Capture Screencast Videos

« Last post by ewemoa on February 04, 2012, 09:45 PM »

Watching:

  A more troublesome scrolling window capture (ms word)

learned:

• (00:34 - 01:05) Interpreting the "Pre-capture Evaluation Report" can be helpful.
• (01:36 - 02:03) Nice to know to look out for cursors impacting captures.
• (02:51 - 03:42) About "Trim and Show" functionality + Fit button and working with "duplicates".
• (04:11 - 04:16) It's possible to drag the "bar" under the number / arrow controls of the margin, overlap, and trim and show configuration items.  Neat!