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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: ooops... a bug!!

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2006, 10:38 AM »

ok, here is my latest suggestion:

if you are using an older version of clipboard help+spell, try exiting and installing the latest version:
https://www.donation...oardHelpAndSpell.exe
and then restarting and see if it solves anything.

if you are already using the latest beta, try going back to the last stable version:
https://www.donation...oardHelpAndSpell.exe
and then restarting and see if it solves anything.

lastly, as a last resort you could go to the Database\ directory of Clipboard Help+Spell, and deleting all your past clips, by deleting all the files in that directory (leave the directory, delete the files).

Actually much better than deleting them would be to zip up that Database\ subdirectory before you delete the files, or move the files in there to someplace else.  That way we can try to track down the error later if it is related to the clipdata.

please let us know the result.

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Living Room / Re: I don't think I read this properly

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2006, 10:31 AM »

In my house I get lots of calls of people asking for containers and others making concrete orders. Our telephone number is very similar to both used by two enterprises, and people always fail dialing the right number once in a while. The funny thing is that we've lived in this house for 20 years now, and every week we receive one or two calls of those

this is opportunity knocking at your door..
next time you get such a call, ask them how many they need and quote them a reasonable price.
then go around your house and try to find some "containers" for them (boxes, old takeout food containers that can be washed off, etc.).  now make yourself a nice handsome profit! 

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Beta access violation

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2006, 01:00 AM »

i hate to see a post like that from a new donator - please accept my apologies.
we'll get this sorted out with your help - thank you for reporting the error.

can you try this:

try exiting program (make sure its not running in tray) and going into Clipboard Help+Spell directory
and deleting the files:
Last.preset.dock
Last.preset.grid
Last.preset

then restarting.

see if that helps.

if that fails you could try deleting:
ClipboardHelpAndSpell.ini
from the Clipboard Help+Spell directory.

if that doesn't cure it - do you notice any pattern to the errors?

31029

ProcessTamer / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.05.02 - May 11th, 2006

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2006, 10:26 PM »

lupis,
let me give some thought to this -
it is in the planning to add more sophisticated taming rules and processor affinity rules.. but i haven't figured out a timeframe for this stuff.. i will try to get it done this summer.

Do you have any idea when Dual Core support will be out, and is there anything that can/should be done to facillitate that? 

-lupis42 (June 25, 2006, 10:13 PM)

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Developer's Corner / Re: Blog Post: Manifesto of the Programmer Liberation Front

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2006, 10:18 PM »

you're right..

hmm, wysiwyg programming.. that seems kind of silly.  doesn't really make sense.

but graphical programming - that is an area of active development and is likely to get more useful and mainstream over time.  there is some interesting research by IBM in this area - i think there is a video demo of a node-based graphical programming environment floating around somewhere.. anyone remember the link?


myself, i use c++ builder a lot (sister of delphi), which i think has done a remarkable job of making visual components and RAD stuff useful and complementary to standard coding.  i think this kind of stuff is likely to grow in popularity and usefulness and show incremental improvement in programming languages.

so i guess i would count myself in the non-revolutionary camp, who believes that areas most ripe for increased efficiency are making reusable components easier to use and more reliable, and easier to interface with.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Progress?

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2006, 09:21 PM »

ps.
it really is fun to have people asking for features and inquiring about progress - it really makes a difference in my mind in helping motivate me to code and feel like the work is worth while.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Progress?

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2006, 09:16 PM »

there is absolutely no doubt that folder search will be added to farr.
i should probably just add it to v1 right away and give the people what they have long waited for..

as for working on v2, i'm doing what i always do which is work my way through my programs, updating each (url snooper, screenshot captor, and clipboard help+spell have all gotten real updates in last couple weeks).. i'm just trying to build up the fortitude to plunge into farr v2.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Blog Post: Manifesto of the Programmer Liberation Front

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2006, 09:05 PM »

where do they say visual interface is the perfect solution.  all i see is this:

Visual languages are not the solution
Prior and ongoing attempts to evolve beyond textual programming have focused on Visual Programming. The common idea is to replace AST structures with some form of graphical diagram. While well-intentioned, nothing compelling has yet resulted from this approach, and it is widely seen as a failure. The reason may be that it does not go far enough, merely substituting a different surface representation for the same old semantics (and generally retaining even the surface syntax of names). These semantics are highly evolved to suit textual representations, so it is not a surprise that merely altering the surface representation does not help. We need to simultaneously rethink both the syntax and the semantics of programming languages to break out of the current deadlock.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS: Links to Review and Comments - Add yours

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2006, 08:53 PM »

you can absolutely change the titles of your clips, just select it and type in a new name in the title field.
you can also customize how clips get automatically named in the options.

as for printing a bunch of clips - very good idea, i will try to add it.

don't forget to check clips as your favorites if you want to keep them permanently, or move them into a permanent group or else they will autoamtically be moved to old clips and then recycled over time.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2006, 08:42 PM »

oops, meant to say "dramatically" and typed "not dramatically" by mistake.
you *should* see a *dramatic* change in the memory usage once minimized.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Creating a virtual clip group in CHS to show you all clips with URLs in them

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2006, 08:33 PM »

in the future i will add a special flag to clips that indicate when they contain a url - that will make life a bit easier for sorting and filtering by urls.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Creating a virtual clip group in CHS to show you all clips with URLs in them

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2006, 08:31 PM »

The virtual group construction feature of CHS is powerful but complicated to use and not well documented.
Someone asked for this on the irc channel so i thought i would show how to do it here.

Suppose you want a clip group which shows you all clips containing a url..

Create a new group in the group tree, and edit it (F2), and set the values as follows:



The key here is to check the "Virtual Folder" checkbox and fill in this text:

[Select]

(Lower(ClipText) LIKE '%http:%') OR (Lower(ClipText) LIKE '%www.%') OR (Lower(ClipText) LIKE '%ftp:%')

That tells CHS that this group is constructed dynamically from all other clips that match the specified rule.

Now whenever you select that group you will see all clips from all other groups that contain http or www. or ftp:.
You could customize it as you want of course.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: limiting audio to one source

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2006, 07:20 PM »

IndieVolume may be what you want.
See: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=3155.0
and: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=3181.0

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Clipboard Help+Spell / CHS: Links to Review and Comments - Add yours

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2006, 07:18 PM »

I want to start a thread for all of our application sections with pointers to review and software listing sites that accept reviews.

So users can visit to read more opinions about our programs, and most importantly so that our users can easily go and leave their comments for others to read.  If you like our programs, it's one of the best ways you can help - it let's people know the software is actually being used by real people who like it.

Some places where you can leave comments about CHS:

FileForum -> http://fileforum.bet...lpSpell/1132089051/1
Softpedia -> http://www.softpedia...ard-Help-Spell.shtml
Snapfiles -> http://www.snapfiles...l/clipboardhelp.html

Cnet/Download.com -> http://download.cnet...0432_4-10461541.html

"Clipboard Help and Spell is easily the most sophisticated and flexible tool we've yet seen for saving, searching, and storing Clipboard text entries. It serves well as a note-keeping application, too."

and if you know of other places please post.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Blog Post: Manifesto of the Programmer Liberation Front

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2006, 06:53 PM »

my view is that dramatic changes in the ease of use of modular components may be much of the solution.

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Developer's Corner / Blog Post: Manifesto of the Programmer Liberation Front

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2006, 06:51 PM »

Manifesto of the Programmer Liberation Front
Filed under: General — Jonathan Edwards @ 10:04 am
Compared to every other field of design and engineering, programming is an embarrassment and a failure. The “software crisis” has dogged us from almost the beginning. We who have made programming our life will no longer tolerate this.
...

http://alarmingdevel...nt.org/index.php?p=5

from CodingHorror.com blog

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2006, 06:07 PM »

kfitting - try version 1.10.05 - i tried to optimize memory usage on minimize - should be dramatically less.

support for different formats: yes, it is coming.
support for images, rtf, etc.
as well as the ability to specify some exclusions for programs to ignore¹, etc.

i am very much interested in hearing from people who use chs as to what their top requests are so i can concentrate on those.

right now it seems that image support seems to be the #1 requested feature.


¹ jgpaiva reminded me i implemented this already

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Post New Requests Here / Re: [Idea] Research Note-Taking Program (MindMapper)

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2006, 04:57 PM »

let me add i would highly recommend using a good bibliography program if you intend to publish papers - they can be invaluable not just in organizing your references, but in reformatting the output for different formats, which you will find yourself doing after a paper gets rejected and you have to resubmit it somewhere else 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: [Idea] Research Note-Taking Program (MindMapper)

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2006, 03:35 PM »

bibliography programs are complex programs..
Endnote is the most used one now i think.  I personally have used Procite.
(now both owned by same company).  There are others.

31045

General Software Discussion / Re: Why is so much software cracked?

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2006, 10:43 AM »

Don’t Copy That Floppy:
Back in 1992, piracy was rampant. What could possibly stop it? An ad that you would swear was from the 80s? A horrible rap song?
..

http://video.google....=4837609090332617729

from http://www.gadgetopia.com/


I want to reiterate my position:
It's important for us all to support authors+companies financially for their work.  If people simply take what they can, and only pay/contribute when they are forced to - i do believe that we will get what we deserve, which is that only the most agressive, restrictive and paranoid companies will profit.  if we instead endeavor to act morally, and support authors who do good work, both in commercial and free software, we will ensure that they thrive and continue to do good work.  it's important that when we see someone doing good work, we stand up and support them, as best we can.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2006, 09:59 AM »

jgpaiva you were right - the merge separator option was not being saved..
fixed in latest update along with some other requested features.

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General Software Discussion / Re: MouseImp Pro Live!- useful mousetool

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2006, 09:13 AM »

interesting.. screenshots: http://www.mouseimp.com/screen-shots/

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Living Room / Re: I don't think I read this properly

« Last post by mouser on June 24, 2006, 09:20 PM »

 

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UrlSnooper / Re: Network Adapter Heavy Troublshooting plz

« Last post by mouser on June 24, 2006, 07:40 PM »

hmm
you could try setting the adapter manually.
switch to advanced mode (file menu), disable automatic network adapter detection, and select your adapter from the list.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013

« Last post by mouser on June 24, 2006, 06:22 PM »

i think an append hotkey is a good idea, and i will endeavor to add it as well.
also agree with jgpaiva about right click context menu.

ps.
you can customize the separator string between merge clips from the options; i was thinking that when you trigger a merge it should probably pop that separate up in a dialog and let you customize it.