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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult
« Last post by pigeonlips on February 23, 2012, 05:09 PM »The following screenshot is from one of the launcher's pages
thanks was just about to upload an example screen shot!
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The following screenshot is from one of the launcher's pages
Qatapult doesn't seems to know what to do with thoses types
* If there had been problems, investigation might have been easier than working with a compiled version too as I've found being able to examine and modify source and test the results often helps in such situations.
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- lol If i wasnt compiling this wouldnt have happened! I had to train my patience a bit to try this out as I tried to download it to soon after downloading the changetext plugin
primitive one-off timer plugin.
\It would be very nice to combine that timer plugin with snarl
- i'm a big fan of snarl. It comes with a small app called heysnarl that you can use to quick and easy leverage the api. For the timer app you could play around with this. Not tested yet but i'm sure it will work.the results pane now won't go further than the right side of Qatapult and center under each position of the cursor
By the way if you need to get an old version they are all available here : http://emmanuelcaradec.com/qatapult/bin
Do you have an idea of Catalog you'd like to write, or is it just an idea ?
Sometimes the ui seems to loose the focus of the keyboard for me. Is that the same bug you have ?
Do you mean the indexing of drives takes forever OR the indexing of files on drives. I have a tons of drives at work and the indexing of drives is quite fast...
I updated winpult-mod with some name and icon suggestions.
with some name and icon suggestions.
May be ecaradec will make skins more like plugins...
Does this make more sense?
Here's what I have:
plugins\SendToBack\SendToBack.ahk
Hum, hum, I think that I went a bit too fast with the window thing. I really should not display the hidden windows AND check against upper case characters AND make search fuzzy. That's what happens when you develop without thinking. On the positive side, adding source is really simple now if the data are easy to get.
Quote from: ecaradec on Today at 05:42:26 AM
The other thing that is starting to annoy me is that all the types tends to land into the first pane. Do you know how QS used to solve that ?
What I recall at the moment is:
Encourage people not to add too much to the Catalog -- by limiting the number of sources and how many items each source contained. For example, if there were a source for a folder, scan depth was one of the configurable properties (see pages 120-121 and 27-30 in the manual).
Another item was to apply "right-arrowing" into certain objects:
I noticed too that the reload and quit seems to be slightly unreliable, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. I'm stopping the indexing thread to reload and quit now. I suppose that something is preventing the thread to stop here.I confirmed that "Reload" and "Quit" were much slower on an XP machine. They did eventually work, but at the speed I was experiencing, I think I'd end up opting to terminate the process and start it manually. I have been lucky under Windows 7 so far and haven't noticed any problems with speed for "Reload" / "Quit".
For the sound thing, I think you might use the nircmd thing. It seems to handle the win7/vista sound system properly.there's a ton of ways to skin that cat. nircmd is great idea. there's a ton of things you can do with this. I say keep working on the core qatapult and allow users to create plugins for this stuff. I haven't tried to hard with the plugins just yet as i was mostly concerned with porting over all the nice features i used from other apps. I personally am more than happy for you to bundle/reuse/modify anything i get working.
I agree that the xml format is less readable than the .ini thing. That was one of my grip with xml. I might remove the item thing if you have a single verb to make the thing more readable :
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But multi-elements pretty much require it, I'm not sure that this is a good idea.
May be it has something to do with the environment here being Windows 7. Don't know if it's relevant but came across the following from the SoundSet docs:
- The biggest thing from a user point of view is that the format of the settings file changes to an xml format. It will make the structure easier to maintain instead of putting indices everywhere. Your old settings.ini file won't load anymore, you'll have to replace it with the settings.xml provided.
- Very simple plugins can be created. Actually it's just what could be done within the settings.ini file but qatapult will now load plugin.xml files from the plugin folder. That will make rules easier to share as we'll be able to distribute them as a single zip file. You can add executables and icons you need in the same folder. I've included the ewemoa largetype plugin as an example.
- You can now add multiples items when you're using lbl+ico items. You can differentiate between the one that are selected with the $x.text variable
There is now a WINDOW source that list the currently active windows that can be queried for $x.title and $x.hwnd. I haven't made any rule with those, but there is probably a ton of uses
Quote from: ecaradec on Today at 02:21:20 PM
- A reload command can now reload all the config file without quiting and restarting qatapult
This works here too
I noticed that the cursor position advances to the right by one after Shift+Enter instead of to the next line. Does that happen there too?
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?
