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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launching URL files stored in the Windows file system

« Last post by mouser on July 08, 2017, 05:29 AM »

From looking at your screenshot of Test Regular Expression here, it's clear that expression is not matching. 
Ha!

I just realized the problem -- yeesh you would think as the author of this program I would be a little quicker on the draw

Ok you are putting the regular expression in the "Alias Trigger/Keyword Text" field -- but that's not where it goes.  That's just for the NAME of the alias, or the first initial letters if you want to be able to search for it.

The next field BELOW it is where you put the regular expression.

That's why the "Test Regular Expression" is so useful -- it can help you verify that it's matching as expected.

So your alias should look something like this:



Note that I'm not sure whether you need the final \ at the end of C:\FARR\URLs\ or not.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Folder Sorter by IMDB genre / ratings

« Last post by mouser on July 08, 2017, 05:04 AM »

Wait.. what just happened? 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launching URL files stored in the Windows file system

« Last post by mouser on July 08, 2017, 05:02 AM »

It doesn't look like the alias is actually triggering in your bottom screenshot..
Are you sure it's enabled?
If so, try typing "us news" in the Test Regular Expression field of it just to make sure it's matching..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launching URL files stored in the Windows file system

« Last post by mouser on July 08, 2017, 04:38 AM »

You did exactly what I said do to but I mispoke -- the function you want to use is "dosearch" not "restartsearch".

It's dosearch that will do the live display and filtering as you type.
The function restartsearch only triggers when you hit enter.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Is there a time limit on 3rd party hosting?

« Last post by mouser on July 07, 2017, 08:17 AM »

Some services may post what they hope to guarantee, but I think in general when you are using the 3rd party image hosting sites, it's anyone's guess and there is no guarantee.
If you need your images up forever you'll have to keep a copy of them and be prepared to change services..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launching URL files stored in the Windows file system

« Last post by mouser on July 07, 2017, 08:04 AM »

Let's see.. ok there are a few ways to do this.. And ironically there are a few others on the forum who are better at using FARR than me for these things

Let me assume your quick search words doesn't exist because that confuses me

So in your directory entry for "C:\FARR\URLs" if you put into "Optional Modifier Keywords": us

Then if you search for: +us news
It should ONLY search that folder for files matching the term new and should not search any other directories at all.


But you say you want it to show the entire contents of that directory when you search with no keywords, so instead what you could do is make an alias and use the restartsearch function to have it do a directory browsing/filtering.
For that you would make an alias regex trigger like us(.*)
and have result of "restartsearch C:\FARR\URLs $$1"
that should show the contents of the directory when you type us and then progressively filter it as you type keywords, the same as if you had directly typed in: C:\FARR\URLs EXTRA_KEYWORDS_HERE


Having said all that, another possibly MUCH EASIER way to do what you want is not to make separate shortcut files, but make one test file with all the urls you want, and put it in a text file and create a "us" alias that uses the "filecontents" command to let farr search it.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Warning "Invallid value for registry" appear

« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2017, 07:16 PM »

As tomos says -- double clicking in the thumbnail panel in SC does nothing but tell the windows operating system to open the image with the default image viewer -- so this is likely a problem with your default image viewer not being registered.  You could try just installing a new free image viewer (like irfanview) and see if it solves the problem.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Shortcut keys in the pop-up windows

« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2017, 07:14 PM »

What tomos said, but ALSO, you can change where the focus starts on that dialog, from the "Quick Bar and Post Cap" options tab, near bottom.  That can be useful if you don't use the Override Filename option much.

ALSO: As you get more experienced with SC you might consider disabling the option that even shows that dialog, as I and many others do, and just tell SC to stay minimized after each capture.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Unable to delete/move clips from the Grid.

« Last post by mouser on July 05, 2017, 03:42 PM »

interesting!!!
that sure sounds like a bug, i will try to reproduce here and fix.

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on July 05, 2017, 10:14 AM »

The true life story of Hachiko, the most loyal, famous dog that ever lived:

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General Software Discussion / MOVED: "CareUEyes"---Protect Your Eyes when Using a Computer

« Last post by mouser on July 05, 2017, 04:32 AM »

This topic has been moved to Announce Your Software/Service/Product.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=44031.0

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General Software Discussion / Re: Watermark Software

« Last post by mouser on July 04, 2017, 06:10 PM »

In Screenshot Captor, watermarks are just image files, so just put your custom image files in the user watermarks folder (you can get there from the SpecialFx2->Watermarks->Explore menu item), and they will be available from that menu.
You can change watermarking options from the Special Effect Options tab.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Watermark Software

« Last post by mouser on July 04, 2017, 03:51 PM »

ps. If you already use Screenshot Captor, it has a watermark function.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Unable to delete/move clips from the Grid.

« Last post by mouser on July 04, 2017, 02:55 PM »

Are you using the portable version? What OS?

Try downloading the portable version and unpacking that somehere new and  see if everything works in that new install and database.

It sounds like maybe it's having some general problem manipulating clips.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Unable to delete/move clips from the Grid.

« Last post by mouser on July 03, 2017, 04:33 PM »

I seem to remember an old post about this and that the issue was something simple but was fixed.. But it sounds like you are using the latest version..

You say you can delete using the menu but not "otherwise".. can you try restarting the program and then letting me know exactly what you are trying to do that isn't working as you expect.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Grab selected region

« Last post by mouser on July 03, 2017, 09:02 AM »

Glad to hear that 

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Living Room / Re: Anti-procrastination Hacks: Dynamic Unordered Todo List

« Last post by mouser on July 02, 2017, 08:04 AM »

This discussion makes me think that a nice clean todo list interface which allowed for flexible fast filtering might be nice.. So you just have a list of todo items which you can tag in various ways and set different priority numbers to etc, and then a very quick easy way to set the filter to show ALL items, or only items with certain tags, or only items above a certain priority, or after a certain date, etc.

The main idea would be to be able to really quickly hide most items so you felt like you were working with a small list, while still preserving the ability to show all the items when you need to.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by mouser on July 02, 2017, 03:56 AM »

That is very sweet. 

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Site/Forum Features / Re: New Forum Feature request

« Last post by mouser on June 30, 2017, 05:34 PM »

Not a bad idea, but I worry it might be over used if it was presented to everyone as one of two equally viable buttons for posting a reply..
But it might be easy for me to add the display of the reply-as-new-thread to the list of customization flags you can specify in your profile...

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Icon in system tray to show when there in no internet connection

« Last post by mouser on June 30, 2017, 04:22 AM »

Playing a configurable sound on connect and disconnect is a good idea for a feature for skwire to add to his.

You are welcome, skwire   

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Living Room / Anti-procrastination Hacks: Dynamic Unordered Todo List

« Last post by mouser on June 30, 2017, 04:16 AM »

This is a really trivial thing, but as I have found it so useful in a recent project I felt the need to post about it and give it a fancy name.

Essentially I am just reporting that one thing I have found particularly helpful in avoid procrastination on a project is to keep a list (in a google doc in this case) of tons of random unordered "mini-tasks" that need to be done for the project.

So it's just a to-do list that we all know about.

But the point is to have a list you can add to and delete from at any time in any order.

I have found this so useful in avoiding procrastination because I can always find SOME SMALL ITEM that I can perform and delete from this list.

And I wanted to argue for the psychological benefits of this over having a much more structured ORDERED plan where you have to do A then B then C.

While such ordered plans are more logical and efficient, I have found that they lead to real psychological roadblocks when you get to some point your mind doesn't want to work on.

Having a list of lots of items big and small, in all different areas, is a great way to help get yourself to mentally just start on something.

And you can always switch gears and be productive by ADDING ITEMS to the list, which can be useful when your brain otherwise is refusing to be productive.

Anyone else have any tricks they use to avoid procrastinating?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Grab selected region

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2017, 02:06 PM »

I only have the problem when I have a monitor connected to my laptop and they're both the same resolution, but different screen sizes.

Do the two monitors have different text magnifications? I have 4 monitors and SC works fine and it's designed to work well with multiple monitors, but like I said if the monitors have different text scaling, that can cause the problem.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Grab selected region

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2017, 09:40 AM »

Are you using the latest version of SC?

If you reboot the pc, does it work then?

There is no reason this shouldn't work for the latest version of SC in windows 10 regardless of your text scaling.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Modern forum software: Discourse

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2017, 07:49 AM »

I'll go back under my rock where I have been the last 5 years

I hope you will decide to move your rock closer to us so you can visit more frequently.  You have friends here

As you say, the technology and computer world has changed a lot since 2005 -- web apps and mobile apps have taken over huge amounts of market share and attention, and those are areas that DC only dabbles in (I hope you've seen my suite of android apps).

It's not that we are uninterested in such things here as much as we are one of the few places that is still focused on desktop apps, and I think there is still a need for such sites even as much of the world moves on..

Keeping a foot in both worlds makes DC a bit more eclectic and "cluttered" than other sites, but we try to make up for that in friendliness

I think the best thing folks could do who want to see DC content reflect the projects they are interested in is.. surprise surprise.. share with us the projects you are involved in and interested in on this forum!  I know I would like to hear what more of you are up to and to support your projects and talk about them..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Copy Image without Objects

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2017, 07:20 AM »

I was suggesting adding a new option added to menu to save as a new file without object.
But a new menu entry as you suggest in Copy to clipboard would work too.