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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / NANY 2019: RegexCaptor - Simple app to extract email or other patterns from text

« Last post by mouser on May 04, 2018, 06:36 PM »

This is a very simple beta release of a program to extract email addresses or other regular expressions from text files.

• https://www.donation...RegexCaptorSetup.exe
• or https://www.donation...exCaptorPortable.zip

Motivation:

This is a very simple task.  I needed to extract email addresses from bounced emails in order to remove them from the donationcoder mailing lists.  This is a fairly simple task for a commandline regular expression extractor tool, but I like to be able to drag+drop and get some visual interaction.

I tried a few "free" tools for doing this and they were ALL adware, shareware, feature limited.  Just horrible.  I don't know when we got to a point where people think they can list software unambiguously as "free" and have it be filled with adware or be horribly crippled until you buy the full version. 

So I decided to write my own tool, with hopes for improving it.  The goals are similar to CodeByters Linebyter which I have used in the past but whose source code was lost.

Again this is a very simple tool, it has a few minor features that make it useful for specific tasks:

• You can create your own list of common regular expression search patterns and select between them easily.
• You can specify a portion of the expression that should be extracted and listed.
• You can specify additional patterns to be ignored (in regex or plaintext format).
• The final list is sorted and duplicates removed.
• Easy to search multiple files; remembers file list.

Again this is a very niche tool but I may add features to it to make it more useful for other tasks.  If you already have a good regular expression "extractor" that you are happy with, this is unlikely to replace it.

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Living Room / Re: Photography and Camera Related

« Last post by mouser on May 04, 2018, 07:19 AM »

Just want to say thanks for this thread -- some cool stuff here 

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: GDPR Blocking (PHP Edition)

« Last post by mouser on May 04, 2018, 06:09 AM »

There is no ps, it was a genuine expression of thanks.

Like many aspects of life, sometimes it takes perseverance and stubbornness and just charting your own path and doing things without much feedback until the people who appreciate your work find you.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: GDPR Blocking (PHP Edition)

« Last post by mouser on May 04, 2018, 05:47 AM »

Tux, just wanted to say I appreciate you sharing your projects with us. 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Missing icons for some links on Windows 10/8 64-bit

« Last post by mouser on May 04, 2018, 04:45 AM »

Anyone else seeing this problem (or not)?

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Fundraiser 2018 Money - Help Decide Where it Goes

« Last post by mouser on May 03, 2018, 07:40 PM »

hamradio also, for doing some graphics stuff when we need it.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Alias: WolframAlpha Search

« Last post by mouser on May 03, 2018, 05:46 PM »

Thanks for being so patient 

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Fundraiser 2018 Money - Help Decide Where it Goes

« Last post by mouser on May 03, 2018, 03:34 PM »

If your name has come up on this list feel free to message me to request your gift, especially if you want a 3d printed cody instead of cash.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Case Change Not Registered on Clipboard

« Last post by mouser on May 03, 2018, 09:56 AM »

What you experienced is expected behavior, but I can definitely see why it's confusing.
When you use the main CHS window to initiate the modification of the text of a clip, it updates the clip but doesn't put the new clip onto the clipboard.
However, that's not hard to do -- there is a little orange clipboard icon just a little bit left of the "Modify Format/Case" button you can press to put the clip you are editing into the clipboard:


Now you might think that is too much work to do -- but that's only because going through the main window is not meant for efficient quick changing of text to be re-pasted.

If you want to set up a fast efficient workflow for modifying text that you plan to quickly copy and repaste, you should use the quick-paste menu (ctrl+alt+q hotkey by default), and then choose 'T' for formatting presets -- where you can quickly copy the selected text and apply one of your saved formatting presets, or choose the last option to invoke the modification dialog on the selected text.

With that option you can very quickly modify the selected text AND it will automatically put the modified text on the clipboard (and in fact try to paste it into your current app).

Once you get the hang of that, CHS can be very convenient and quick for making frequent changes of text.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Ragged edge border as post-capture effect[Feature request]

« Last post by mouser on May 03, 2018, 08:56 AM »

Hi Alex.
I like the idea of the user being able to choose from a drop down list of different border styles.  Given that I already present this list in a submenu when you click the border button, it would make sense to present this same list in the post capture options.
Putting it on my todo list.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Alias: WolframAlpha Search

« Last post by mouser on May 03, 2018, 08:36 AM »

Please try this beta:

• https://www.donation...AndRunRobotSetup.exe
• or https://www.donation...RunRobotPortable.zip

The problem should be fixed and both launching the url in external browser and internal browser with htmlviewurl should now work.

The problem had to do with internal urls not obeying the urlencoding.. Now hopefully my fix won't mess up other aliases that use htmlviewurl that may have used other workarounds -- it's more likely it will fix them in these cases too.  But if for some reason it does we can either fix them or use some alternate form of htmlviewurl2, etc.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Alias: WolframAlpha Search

« Last post by mouser on May 03, 2018, 08:12 AM »

Ok I have tested and confirmed the bug.. Let me try to fix.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Alias: WolframAlpha Search

« Last post by mouser on May 03, 2018, 08:09 AM »

Is there any facility for processing the input without making a plugin, mouser?

No, but if i am understanding vanav correctly, the call to htmlviewurl is not urlencoding the + sign, though it is being properly handled when launching an external web browser window -- is that correct?
If so, it's a bug that I should be able to fix.

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Latest Multi PhotoQuotes Builder (MpqBuilder) Release v1.03.01 - April 12, 2013

« Last post by mouser on May 02, 2018, 09:41 PM »

I've updated the MultiPhotoQuotes web page with download link for the builder.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Fundraiser 2018 Money - Help Decide Where it Goes

« Last post by mouser on May 02, 2018, 03:29 PM »

Oh and we should include the writing of mini-reviews as equally valuable as coding snacks, so  IainB, Tomos, Wraith, and others who write mini-reviews should receive.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Fundraiser 2018 Money - Help Decide Where it Goes

« Last post by mouser on May 02, 2018, 02:07 PM »

I'd add stephen6616 as well, who is always keeping my spirits up in the chat channel and helping with and encouraging me to work on donationcoder stuff.
And MilesAhead too perhaps for his coding.

What if we give $500 to skwire, and $75 each to everyone else mentioned so far-- or if they prefer a unique hand painted 3d cody award (which certainly isn't worth $75 but that's another matter altogether).

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Fundraiser 2018 Money - Help Decide Where it Goes

« Last post by mouser on May 02, 2018, 08:25 AM »

Skrommel is a mysterious person.  He came back this year and coded some new snacks.  He has $2,000 in donationcredits that have been there for years that he refuses to cash out. 

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Fundraiser 2018 Money - Help Decide Where it Goes

« Last post by mouser on May 02, 2018, 05:53 AM »

I'd like to see Mouser get a chunk of change so he can buy himself a present or whatever.

As I said before, I get a big share of the donations coming into the site on a daily basis, and I'd like to use the fundraiser money for other things.

excludes a lot of people that just don't do the coding snacks, but more indepth things, and not just for NANY.  Just my opinion on that.

Agreed.  I'd be happy if we wanted to give the money away as NANY prizes/recognition as well.. However, I started warming to the idea of giving it money to coding snack authors because:

• 1. It's simpler and easier to identify a small number of major contributors to coding snacks
• 2. Coding snacks are one of the few places people can come and get some direct benefit from the site from coders who spend real time on the site.
• 3. NANY entries would be a natural alternative to give some money to -- the problems are a larger group of people to figure out how to distribute among; the issue that NANY people aren't necessarily people who hang out on the forum a lot.
• 4. I like the idea of the money going to people who are actively involved in the site in some way.

So mainly in an attempt to make our life simpler and actually get this done, I'm suggesting that the money go to coders who are forum regulars who are identifiable as people who code things in request to or interaction with users on the forum.  This can stretch beyond coding snacks but the idea is the same.

If this is generally acceptable, the only question left is who else besides skwire should get some of the first $1,000 we give out?  It's very easy to overlook folks, so please chime in and nominate yourself.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Fundraiser 2018 Money - Help Decide Where it Goes

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2018, 09:23 PM »

As for divvying money up to the coding snack people on the forum, i'd suggest that skwire should probably get the bulk of it -- maybe 50-75%.
So if we give out $1000, maybe $600-$750 of it should go to skwire, in recognition for his contributions in the last couple of years.
But like I said I'm open to any suggestions -- i'd just like some help with concrete list of who should get what so i can get it done in a timely fashion.
As skwire spends so much time in coding snacks area he may be best suited to divide up the remainder.  skwire?

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Living Room / Simone Giertz, Building bad robots, making videos, and coping with a brain tumor

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2018, 12:47 PM »

I think quite a few of you have seen the videos made by Simone Giertz.  She has gained fame by building small household robots that work to perform a task, but rather than expending huge efforts to make everything work perfectly, she basically settles for a first draft rough prototype experiment, and the results are funny, fun, and inspiring.  I think there is something we can all learn from her spirit -- and enjoying the pleasure of creating something that doesn't quite work.

Her very latest video has taken a sad turn though, as she posts about her discovery that she has a brain tumor.  She talks about her upcoming operation.

Some of her videos, including the last one:

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Alias: WolframAlpha Search

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2018, 11:55 AM »

Can you clarify what you are saying -- I didn't quite understand.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Fixes Size Captor - How to with Minimum Key presses

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2018, 11:52 AM »

Glad you like the new feature.  I hope it will be useful for folks who often want to capture from a small list of preset sizes 

And in case anyone missed it: After you select one of your favorite capture region sizes with the 1-9 keys, you can hold Alt key and drag to resize while preserving the aspect ratio.  So this feature should be useful also for people who often want to capture from a small list of preset aspect ratios.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2018, 11:51 AM »

Excellent 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Ragged Edges effect as standalone app

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2018, 10:57 AM »

Ok let me look into that.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Fundraiser 2018 Money - Help Decide Where it Goes

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2018, 10:44 AM »

You do a lot- and a lot that people don't see.  We just appreciate that!

I appreciate that.

My time working on site stuff waxes and wanes.  This last year has been quite intensive because of the move to the new site content management system and all the custom coding I've had to do for it.  But now that that's done life will be easier going forward.  I hate that it's taken so much time away from coding on applications, but it had to be done.  Now I will have more freedom to work on new projects and improve my existing apps.

Anyway, as I said, I *do* get money from the site -- both from donations and from the occasional site license purchase of my software.  After expenses are paid, I am not shy about receiving donations and money from the site, especially if I've worked hard recently on the site and my software, and when it's clear that donations are coming in for my applications.  And not since the very early years have I had to take money out of my own pocket to pay for DC expenses -- we've been bringing in more than enough to pay for expenses, even as MS Windows has been losing some popularity.  As long as DC can pay for itself and I can adjust the time I am able to devote to it in order to balance that with time spent earning a living, I will be happy.

In addition, one of the things that I coded with the new site this year was a complete statistics module to track the money coming into the site.  I will be sharing complete information about money raised throughout the year, in an attempt to be more open about the money coming into the site.

One of the happiest surprises for me, in addition to the very healthy fundraiser, was that the changes to simplify and streamline the giving away of free license keys, has not resulted in a precipitous drop-off of donations, as I feared; to the contrary, it looks like the more straightforward process and much clearer presentation provided by the new license key page, has resulted in a modest but noticable increase both in frequency and amount of regular donations.