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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them
« Last post by Target on April 16, 2009, 01:06 AM »
a further update - I changed the checkboxes to radio buttons which is a little more intuitive (still no feedback huh...)

also 'fixed' a handful of other bugs and got the MRU menu working (better  :huh:)

there is still a bug with deleting entries from the drop down list (for some reason I can't delete the last entry) and there's an annoying flicker when you add or remove folders (this has something to do with the MRU menu, I'm just not altogether sure what...)

I suspect this is getting perilously close to the point where I toss the whole thing in the bin and start again
(my eyes are actually starting to look like that too, and oh, the twitching...)
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them
« Last post by Target on April 14, 2009, 09:03 PM »
that was a general request, nothing pointed, so no foul (apart from the language...)

I'm with you on the connection issue - we used up our monthly hours on the 6th and our ISP basically cut us off cold.  We'd never done this before so we had no idea what was going on (I logged a fault on the phone line!!)
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Site/Forum Features / Re: Request for help: graphic designer/writer to make an old-timey 2-page wackyness
« Last post by Target on April 14, 2009, 06:38 PM »
sounds like the 'what other people are saying' page might be perfect fodder for this...
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them
« Last post by Target on April 14, 2009, 06:08 PM »
a request...

this has been going round in my mind for a couple of weeks now but nothings happening (nothing new there though...) so it's over to you guys for some input

After looking at the file/folder checkbox arrangement I get the feeling that it's not very intuitive.
MTF_bar.jpg

The checkboxes are simple to use, and provide the necessary input/feedback, however they don't necessarily convey the intent.  Normal response to a checkbox is either true or false, where false means no selection has been made.  In this case however an unchecked state has a valid meaning (select files AND folders) - the caption states ALL, however the box is unchecked, which would probably indicate to most users that no selection is made...

I've tried to think of a better way to do this (in the limited amount of space) but I've come up dry - closest I can get is to use a button or a drop down list, but both use significantly more real estate, and a button isn't any real advancement on the existing checkbox...

Any and all suggestions gratefully received (many thanks, in advance!!)
1505
General Software Discussion / Re: A Vista printer utility that saves ink like InkSaver?
« Last post by Target on April 13, 2009, 10:59 PM »
eggsactly
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them
« Last post by Target on April 13, 2009, 10:55 PM »
Target: some problem in the initial start-up (code below) but restarting the 2nd time turns out ok.
[Select]
Error: Submenu does not exist.  The current thread will exit.
-lanux128 (April 13, 2009, 09:30 PM)

clearly more work needed here - I guess I was a bit enthusiastic posting this morning (note to self - do your own damn testing!!)

error is caused because you don't have any MRU entries - I'm still working on this bit but this is some progress

not a biggie but in the 'set length' gui, the text is not quite viewable..
-lanux128 (April 13, 2009, 09:30 PM)

what resolution are you running? it's fine here (laptop @ 1280 x 800)

I'm having a little difficulty but I think it's what I'm doing. 
-cranioscopical (April 13, 2009, 10:30 PM)

welcome to my world...
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them
« Last post by Target on April 13, 2009, 06:53 PM »
No need to thank me for this, I know how dull your vacation would have been without it.
-cranioscopical (April 07, 2009, 10:52 PM)

indeed...

another update - worked out the MRU business (last 10 items)

could do with a bit more testing to be sure, but let me know how it goes
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them
« Last post by Target on April 07, 2009, 09:00 PM »
another update, in case anyones interested...

fixed the aforementioned error, and added a dropdown list that shows the loaded folders (you can delete from this list as well)

still haven't made much progress on the MRU, but I'm not done quite yet...
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them
« Last post by Target on April 04, 2009, 12:25 AM »
what can I say (I can't stay away!!!)

resize should be easy, and I'll look into the other when I have the opportunity
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them
« Last post by Target on April 03, 2009, 05:05 AM »
an update - I fixed the mid functionality (my bad syntax!!) and I'm working on the MRU (a bit here, a bit there...). 

Resizing the GUI is now possible thanks to Skwire (for incorporating the functionality via Titans's anchor script)

And you can now also load as many folders as you like (though I expect some common sense will apply here...).

Curt - it was never my intention to produce anything like what this seems to have become - I'm not a coder, so these things are an opportunity for me to learn.  There are already many (many!) well crafted and highly capable renaming apps available (I have and use several myself) and I am under no illusion that this is going to turn into a killer tool (or even a capable tool!!).  In fact, I would be surprised indeed if anyone even used it at all (even I probably won't), but that's not the point.  The sheer number of views this thread has generated would indicate that others are getting something out of it as well, though I have no idea what  :o

And if your going to recommend a piece of software (yours or someone else's) it's nice to at least include a name (I couldn't google it 'cos I didn't know what I was looking for) or a link (I visited your website but I don't speak Danish so it didn't help much either...)
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them
« Last post by Target on March 27, 2009, 07:05 PM »
I'll look at it over the next couple of weeks (hopefully)

and I'm thinking about your preview request, maybe if I...

The really interesting part of this exercise (for me, and quite apart from the learning experience) has been the realisation that the development process is really about the details - getting a rough working solution is relatively easy (!!) but it's all the little things that take the time (both to implement and to troubleshoot) 
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them
« Last post by Target on March 26, 2009, 11:27 PM »
try this then -

EDIT - removed some pesky debugging code
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them
« Last post by Target on March 26, 2009, 11:03 PM »
OK, how about if I ditch the betweens, and add a 'mid' option - same theory as the left/right trim, but with a starting position and the number of characters
-Target (March 26, 2009, 09:11 PM)
Sounds great to me! Just the job.
-cranioscopical (March 26, 2009, 10:26 PM)
I've got a better idea...
 
(the GUI is getting kind of squeezy  :tellme:)
Don't be Bashful, Doc, even if you are getting Sleepy.
Sleepy! That's a beauty! (though Dopey is undoubtedly closer to the mark...)

and thanks for the helpful advice (nothing like 2 brisk 75km walks a day!!
Aren't you making giant strides?
more like the Alzheimers shuffle (FYI it's called OldSimon's at our place...) (and apologies to anyone I might have inadvertently offended with these remarks)

EDIt: speling correction
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them
« Last post by Target on March 26, 2009, 09:17 PM »
[If you need more time to work on this, feel free to walk to work  ;)
-cranioscopical (March 26, 2009, 08:14 PM)

and thanks for the helpful advice (nothing like 2 brisk 75km walks a day!!)
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them
« Last post by Target on March 26, 2009, 09:11 PM »
OK, how about if I ditch the betweens, and add a 'mid' option - same theory as the left/right trim, but with a starting position and the number of characters (the GUI is getting kind of squeezy  :tellme:)


1.jpg
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them
« Last post by Target on March 26, 2009, 05:33 PM »
no, the issue was mine, I just started doing without actually thinking about what I was trying to do (DOH!!)

have you tried the fix? it should be working as expected now
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Living Room / Re: Should we have a yearly Best Avatar award on DC?
« Last post by Target on March 26, 2009, 01:35 AM »
Josh's bug avatar would get my vote were it to include a Pythonesque foot stomp!
-cranioscopical (March 25, 2009, 10:04 AM)
but to get the gong it would have have the relevant sound effect as well
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them
« Last post by Target on March 25, 2009, 09:16 PM »
If I drag and drop files onto the list when its populated, that clears the list. (Doctor, it hurts when I do this.)
-cranioscopical (March 25, 2009, 07:57 PM)
take 2 asprin and sue me in the morning... actually this is/was intentional as I felt (at the time) that there could be issues with paths changing - I can change this though, I just need to assess it against everything else to try and minimise any potential conflicts

I haven't the hang of between. If I want to remove something between pos 5 and pos 9 how do I go about that?
between works using the left and right trim spinners, eg characters between the left trim and right trim values are retained... actually, having read what I've just written that is the same as trimming left AND right, so obviously I misunderstood that part...

having made a goose of myself on that point, I've now fixed the betweens (no, really) so download it again and have another go...
 
Undo worked in my quick test.
good to hear (at least I got something right...)

EDIT - removed old attachment
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General Software Discussion / Re: another mind/logic mapping tool
« Last post by Target on March 25, 2009, 06:21 PM »
will say though that I'm extremely biased to Compendium and I have often recommended that in many posts here that it might be shilling. Unfortunately by omitting that name, I also realize that someone can dig up a past many posts of mine mentioning that program and can use my avoidance of it's mention as an attempt to be secretly biased against this program.
damned if you do, and damned if you don't...
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them
« Last post by Target on March 25, 2009, 06:14 PM »
an update (I can't believe the traffic this thread is drawing :o) -

this is very much a work in progress (hence the BETA tag) and as such will contain extraneous bits of code and maybe some stray messageboxes (apologies for this, they're used for debugging)

  - COPY from list (CTRL+C) functionality now works
  - the BETWEEN functionality now works
  - the UNDO functionality now works

PLEASE TRY IT AND LET ME KNOW HOW IT GOES - any feedback (good, bad, or indifferent) would be appreciated

ToDo -

  - clean up the GUI and resize to fit the width of the listview controls
  - I discovered a flaw in my logic for the file/folder and recursive checkboxes which I've yet to fix (DOH!! :-[)
  - UNDOing something out of sequence (ie picking a folder somewhere down the list) can (will?) break the undo functionality for some items (as the paths may have changed
  - block editing of UNDO list
  - MRU functionality to be added
  - more 'standard' hotkeys 2B added
  - 'preview' functionality (2B investigated...)

Most of these will fit into the current incarnation, while others (preview) may require a more extensive rewrite...
 
As stated above, I really need some feedback on how this is going.  I can (and do) a certain amount of testing, but I'm a bit close to the project for this to really be effective.
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General Software Discussion / another mind/logic mapping tool
« Last post by Target on March 25, 2009, 05:46 PM »
there seems to be a lot of interest in planning/GTD tools so this may be of interest to some - <a href="http://argumentative...tml>Argumentative</a>

from the site
Argumentative is open source Argument Mapping software.  It allows you to view and manipulate the structure of an argument.
A tree view allows the argument to be expanded and contracted in a format that is quickly navigated.

there are a lot of links off the site to relevant or associated materials so even if the softwares of no use the refence material may be...
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them
« Last post by Target on March 24, 2009, 11:30 PM »
* yes, i meant the initial filter length.
* it'd be more like MRU; the user can right-click the add button and recall some of the last-used folders
-lanux128 (March 24, 2009, 11:05 PM)

* this shouldn't be a problem
* neither should this, though I'll need to think about how to incorporate it (and it's unlikely you'll see it for at least a couple of weeks... 8))
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them
« Last post by Target on March 24, 2009, 10:36 PM »
Almost nothing that I do has significance  :)
-cranioscopical (March 24, 2009, 10:27 PM)

sounds like my resume...
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them
« Last post by Target on March 24, 2009, 10:12 PM »
when you say user defined length, are you referring to the initial length filter (currently defaults to 64)?

I could save the last folder name, but what for?  (sorry, not trying to be difficult, I'm just trying to get this into context)

I'm working on an undo function, but i anticipated it being current for the life of the session only.  What would be the value of a persistent log?
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Find filenames/folders above certain length and offer to rename them
« Last post by Target on March 24, 2009, 09:27 PM »
not a problem :up:

I'm still running, but i was looking for a bit more feedback from you on this...
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