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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: EasyNotes (Beta)

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 15, 2011, 09:40 AM »

I was just using Ctrl-V as an example. I think Tao's emphasis was on making all context menu items available from keyboard shortcuts, so that muscle-memory could be employed after using the program awhile.

Fantastic program, Stephen. I'm using it right now...

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge and Early Beta: Christian Prayer Minder

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 15, 2011, 09:34 AM »

Versions 11 and 12 were released in quick succession because I found potentially program-crashing bugs and wanted to get the fix available immediately. Thank you!

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: EasyNotes (Beta)

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 15, 2011, 09:05 AM »

2. What if all the features were in a Toggleable menubar that you can turn on and off? At least for me the muscle memory works better on all apps with menubars, (which is why I hate the new trend in browsers and even gmail!) But then when it gets down to typing, you toggle the menu bar away.

I could add this, but the entire aim of this was to have all the options contained in a context menu and not a MenuStrip lol, so I don't really know if I would add this as a feature, at least...not yet anyway smiley

I think what he was thinking is that the menu bar would be toggle-able. That way, if a user prefers the context menus, fine, but if a user prefers to user Ctrl-V to paste, rather than right-clicking in the textbox and then clicking on the "Paste" context menu that pops up, s/he has that option. It's a pretty good idea, because many users prefer keyboard shortcuts to having to actually use the mouse to make menu selections.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge and Early Beta: Christian Prayer Minder

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 15, 2011, 08:31 AM »

Version 1.0.1.1 is available. This version requires the uninstall of the previous version (v1.0.0.9) and manual install of the new version. The reason for this is that I changed some code in the methods that check for an available update and download an available file. You will be able to update to v1.0.1.2 and later version from the program's Update menu item.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 - NoteMe - Mail Myself

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 15, 2011, 08:14 AM »

Wow! Great program!!

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge and Early Beta: Christian Prayer Minder

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 15, 2011, 06:45 AM »

Because you're supposed to write to the AppData folder.  That's for security reasons, so that what's in the program files folder is only what you install, and that it can be locked down for UAC

Ah, I figured it must be a User Access Control thing. I guess to prevent any other program from writing to your application directory, it also has to prevent your app itself...

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Kyrathaba's Source Code Line Counter

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 14, 2011, 07:58 AM »

AutoIt3 added. Program icon added. Version 1.0.1.0 available.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: EasyNotes (Beta)

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 14, 2011, 07:39 AM »

Looking good, Stephen 

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge and Early Beta: Christian Prayer Minder

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 14, 2011, 07:22 AM »

Version 1.0.0.9 is available. Be alerted that it isn't compatible with prayer files created using earlier versions.

Improvements added in this version include:

• fixed cosmetic bug wherein temp form that shows article text was seen in taskbar
• fixed bug in buildTrackingFile() that caused UI to look all funky after method execution
• added contextMenuStrip to the textBox made by method showTextInDialogFormTextbox(), so that user can send article to his printer
• added application logging to "pminderLog.txt" in the AppData directory
• I've completely gotten rid of the text-based prayerInfo tracking system, and am using a serialized class now.
• Download of updated installer is now asynchronous, allowing examination of the rest of the About dialog while you wait.

I was painfully reminded of a .NET irritation: your program cannot write to the application directory. Silly: why not? Grrr...

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Request

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 14, 2011, 07:18 AM »

Also unable to open it with 7-zip. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Request

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 14, 2011, 07:13 AM »

Hmm, I tried hollowlife's renaming, downloaded the file, but wasn't able to open it:

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Request

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 13, 2011, 06:40 AM »

Hmm...

http://thinkshui.net...ng-from-richtextbox/...

Firefox can't find the server at thinkshui.net.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Request

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 13, 2011, 06:38 AM »

Awesome, wraith! Thank you

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Request

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 12, 2011, 08:59 PM »

Heh, perhaps this thread needs to be moved to Developer's Corner...

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Request

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 12, 2011, 08:57 PM »

So basically, all you need is the print functionality added to the current richtextbox?

Yeah. I'd like either a user-defined control that can sit in my Toolbox and be dragged onto a Form for use, or (b) a custom class inheriting from RichTextBox that extends it, such that I can do the following:

clsExtendedRtbCtrl obj = new clsExtendedRtbCtrl();
obj.LoadFile(filepath, RichTextBoxStreamType.RichText);
obj.Print();

and, with those three lines, you get the print preview, and the ability to click OK on the print preview pane and send the RichText document to the printer. It should print any rich-text properly (italics, bold, underline, etc.), do word-wrap correctly, and print the entire contents of the rich textbox, even if it takes multiple pages.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Request

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 12, 2011, 07:14 PM »

Hmm, thank you for that link, hollowlife; it appears worthy of study...

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Request

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 12, 2011, 08:15 AM »

Thanks, lotus.  There are lots of useful articles such as that one. But all are quite involved. I just can't believe that someone hasn't made a simple drop-in custom control such that, if the Rich Text Box contains text, you can just invoke Print() to print all the text it contains.

I've figured out a way to print simple text files in their entirety, but I'm not finding a pre-made free control for doing the same with RichTextBox. There's plenty of code samples for rolling-your-own.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / NANY 2012 Request

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 12, 2011, 07:20 AM »

Not really an app request, but rather a component request, and perhaps there's a free version of this out there in cyberspace somewhere, but if so I haven't come across it:

I would like a custom control that I can add to my Visual C# Express toolbox. It should inherit from RichTextBox, but should be able to LoadFile() just like a RichTextBox (plain or RTB format), and should have a Print() method that prints the entire contents of the custom Rich TextBox.

Printing is abominably arcane in .NET!  Grrr...

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge and Early Beta: Prayer Minder

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 11, 2011, 07:45 AM »

v1.0.0.8 is released! Please update using the Update button from the program's About dialog to download the installer for the updated version (no need to uninstall previous version: the installer will overwrite it, and any application data will be preserved).

See OP for additional features that have been added. At some point I'll be doing (hopefully) a video showing how the rebuilt Search feature is most robust/powerful.

@techidave: both your requests have been fulfilled. Here's a screenshot of the Search results. You can scroll through the results ListBox to view pertinent data associated with the selected prayer file. You can double-click the item to Load the prayer for further editing:



alternate fore-/back-color scheme:

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Web Link Captor / Re: Latest Web Link Captor Release - v1.08.01 - December 24, 2011

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 11, 2011, 06:39 AM »

That is a really useful application!

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge and Early Beta: Prayer Minder

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 10, 2011, 10:23 PM »

Okay, techidave and several others who have emailed me via the program's email button in the About dialog, thanks for your patience. The next version is almost ready for download. I just need to tie some code into the SelectedIndexChanged event of the lstSearchResults ListBox, so that as you scroll through entries, you'll be presented with filename, tags, author. Should be back sometime tomorrow with an announcement that it's okay to update to the newest version.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge and Early Beta: Prayer Minder

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 10, 2011, 12:38 PM »

Okay, I've fulfilled both your feature requests, techidave. Now I've only to re-work the Search algorithm, and I'll be ready with v1.0.0.7. Best estimate is that it'll get uploaded in the next few hours, though possibly not until sometime Sunday.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: Big Bang Theory Sound Quotes (for Android devices)

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 10, 2011, 10:29 AM »

Looks very cool, Lotus! Some humorous stuff in there

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge Teaser: Web Link Captor, aka LL Robot

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 10, 2011, 06:55 AM »

That looks fantastically useful!

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge and Early Beta: Prayer Minder

« Last post by kyrathaba on December 09, 2011, 06:22 AM »

Haven't uploaded the fix yet. Will probably have next version uploaded (and announced) either today or tomorrow.