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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: NANY 2017: CSearcher - A simple and fast free non-indexing search program.
« Last post by MilesAhead on May 08, 2017, 10:22 AM »CSearcher has had some relative success, I've had thousands of downloads on my site and until today I only received one donation. It was something I expected but it is still a bit of a disencouraging and leaves me with little motivation to continue to evolve into more complex features.
I need to find this motivation (and some free time) to be able to implement these features.
Despite this I made another version-hugo nabais (May 08, 2017, 08:23 AM)
I downloaded several versions not realizing the program was written by someone on DC. Seeing this thread I think I will put the new release on a USB just to try it out in a portable scenario. Thanks for the software.
Afa the donations my feeling is that one is most likely to receive a steady stream of donations if the software enables the user to get something else either very cheaply or for free. Examples might be News readers or ICQ apps that make it easy to download binaries. Or video conversion programs that squish a BluRay image into a file of more manageable size etc.. It seems like software that does a useful function in and of itself is less likely to provoke a contribution. But this is just my visceral reaction, not the results of a scientific survey.
For me the donation is an unexpected event that makes me feel good that someone liked my software enough to take the time to send the donation and a comment. Mouser makes a good point about the $1.99 - $4.99 "cheap" software Apps available these days. I have to wonder how much they can really pull in at those prices. But in my short experience using Android I could believe the downloads are multiplied by the fact the store search is built in and people know where to look for most things. So if one developed a media player or something similar maybe sales in the thousands and more could be possible. It would be interesting to see some data on how much the most popular Apps actually take in.
Edit: It looks like I may not be able to give the application a fair trial. My Laptop has issues where it cannot update .NET or do other Windows Updates. Many programs that use Windows Installer I have to install/uninstall multiple times to get them to go on the system etc.. So it may not be an issue with others. The symptom is an unhandled exception with some text about "mouse drag" and .NET form code. According to the dialog it loaded .NET 4.0 assemblies.
It looks like I may be due to get a Windows 10 machine as much as I hate the idea of pushed updates. Windows 8.0 is kind of a dog in many ways, at least on this system where I cannot update out of it to 8.1 or newer.
Edit2: If I select Continue in the unhandled exception dialog then do a simple search the program goes away. Likely my system does not play well with any software that requires .NET 4+. So I would suggest not wasting time to trouble shoot it. This Lappy was an "Open Box" purchase and trouble shooting those it a real time thief. Which is why the original purchaser returned it I am sure.
If I get something else Windows to try it with I'll give CSearcher another try then.
