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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Display mouse clicks and key presses

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2005, 02:16 PM »

i just love it when skrommel codes up something like this as if it were nothing.

i hope people who are reading this forum realize that skrommel just makes it look easy - you could spend a week trying to find someone to code this and have no luck.

any way we could get the key pressed to display in a really big text font, like half an inch high, etc. or is that not so easy with ahk?

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Display mouse clicks and key presses

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2005, 02:09 PM »

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Screenshot Captor / Re: DonationCoder in Registry

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2005, 12:25 PM »

i will remove registry storage for future releases.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: DonationCoder in Registry

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2005, 10:19 AM »

hehehe.

ok i will explain.

i normally hate registry and never have any of my programs put anything there.

but i got a bit playful when i was writing license key system 

the empty key sounds like a bug, i will check.

the other key is saving the installation date of the program.
when you install the program it saves the installation date in app dir and in registry and in a file in windows\system.
if one is missing it will recreate it on the next run.
basically its designed to be redundant to foil people who try to reset the installation date.

kind of silly since the donationcoder programs are not meant to be protected so much, i was just getting creative when i was making license key tool.

maybe i will remove this in next versions as it seems it does not have much point.

by the way, the program will not care if you delete it, no bad things will happen.. but it will recreate it on next run

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bugs 'n' suggestion

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2005, 10:11 AM »

But what is "chosen#"  and "selected" in right bottom?
Both increase by every click of an thumpnail.

debug info i was using to test will be removed in next version.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request v2 - custom commands

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2005, 09:42 AM »

i'm a big fan of examples.
i think a nice help page on regular expressions, plus some good example preconfigured commands will be enough to demonstrate to most people who care how to do it.  lets remember as you say 99% of f&r users will never make their own commands, let's just give them a nice set of preconfigured ones that beats the competition so that they don't feel like they are missing some nice commands.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bugs 'n' suggestion

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2005, 08:56 AM »

i think it might be the %num% thing might be confusing it somehow - that is what i am going to try to look into.  probably it is something simple.  if you figure out any more clues as to what makes it not save please do let me know; meanwhile i will test and try to trigger it myself.

may i ask what operating system you are using and what file format you have screenshot captor saving as?

i will fix the issue that happens when you ahve whole image selected, thank you.

as for the undo past blur,dim, grey - yes this is by design but quite confusing i know.
maybe i will just make it so there is only one undo to undo all 3.  the command actually performs all 3 operations, so it lets you undo them one at a time..  i think that command is the only one that does it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request v2 - custom commands

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2005, 08:43 AM »

i'd like to talk about possible kinds of commands.

to recap:

you will be able to define regular expression masks for command aliases, which will allow you to present a list of "commands" that match a string.

in the simplest case you would have a simple alias like:
"mynotes" which launches "c:\program\files\ultraedit.exe d:\mynotes.txt"

in more complicated cases you could have a command alias like
s (.*),(.*)

which would match
s taxes 100

and present a list of 5 options like
google search | http://www.google.com?s=$1?returnmatches=$2
yahoo search | http://www.yahoo.com?s=$1?returnmatches=$2

you get the idea.

but maybe it would be nice to add some extra kinds of functions besides just launching programs and websites.

for example clipboard pasting.

so you could have alias
"paste"
with the following entries
date | PASTE %currentdate%
time | PASTE %currenttime%

you get the idea.  so you using a program, you hit break key to launch f&r, type "paste"
and up comes two entries in result box:
1. date
2. time

you select the one you want and it closes and pastes it in your app.

any other ideas?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bugs 'n' suggestion

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2005, 08:25 AM »

note: this is very important for us to fix - so i appreciate the report and hope you'll keep giving me feedback so we can find the cause.
one thing screenshot captor should never do is loose a screenshot.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bugs 'n' suggestion

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2005, 08:20 AM »

i will try to do a stress test on it, with the clipboard copy enabled.
one thing to definitely do is make sure the capture sound is enabled in screenshot captor, that way if you hear the sound, then you know that screenshot captor grabbed it.  screenshot captor icon also turns red briefly.

so my first question is, is it capturing but not saving, or not even capturing?

i suspect that there is some problem going on with the auto saving, like its geting confused about the file name.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request: Super Context...

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2005, 08:14 AM »

i agree with you kfitting, and i hope you will help me not go crazy with making it too complex.
regular expressions are going to be beyond most people,
which is why we will want to make a good chunk of default commands come pre-configured,
ie web searches, etc.

then users can more easily
1) see examples
2) just use the built in commands
3) just tweak and modify existing commands without having to understand them completely.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request: Super Context...

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2005, 07:32 AM »

the main downside i see to all this is, how much is it really going to add for all the work involved..
user would have to add those custom actions manually, wherase the context menu is already premade.

i guess i think i favor the simpler approach of being able to assign a hotkey to trigger context menu on an item, ie Alt+2 brings up system context menu for item 2.  Ctrl+2 brings up F&R context menu for it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request: Super Context...

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2005, 07:30 AM »

in this post: https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=788.0
nontroppo described his idea, which as a i understand it was to somehow present context menu type results in a window that would be easily selectable using keyboard, much like the normal results are, rather than simply calling up the normal shell context menu.

i actually might consider such an approach with custom actions.

for example, imagin in options you could specify certain alias groups associated with filemasks,
so you could say:
"*.txt":
open $$1 in editor|C:\program files\uiltraedit\uedit.exe
open $$1 in notepatd|C:\program files\notepad\notepad.exe

then lets say you do a search for "taxes"
and the results are
1) mytaxes2005.txt
2) mytaxes2004.txt

ok so maybe we could do something like, you hit Alt+2
and then the results would change to:
1) open mytaxes2005.txt in editor
2) open mytaxes2005.txt in notepad

just an idea..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Coming soon.. Arrows, callouts, textboxes

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2005, 05:15 AM »

ok there are so many cliparts in that package it is a bit overwhelming..
if anyone is up for helping, what id really like to do is pick out maybe a hundred or so good ones that seems like they would be useful for annotating screenshots.  e.g. thought balloons, arrows, sparkles, etc.  should be in standard image format (png, jpg, bmp, gif,tif,wmf), and not vector graphics (at least not yet, sorry).

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Living Room / Re: Forums query

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2005, 04:28 AM »

good question - seems like it should be, i'll look into it.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Coming soon.. Arrows, callouts, textboxes

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2005, 02:45 AM »

wonderful!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request: Super Context...

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2005, 02:20 AM »

very thoughtful summary.
i'm open to the idea of allowing user to choose triggers for what keys cause what reactions,
especially win+#, alt+# and ctrl+#

let me implement the functionality and then we can figure out how to offer the trigger customization.

we will be coming out with a context menu adding utility here at donationcoder soon so that would do what you're saying,
though i suspect that the people who requested this dont want to have to go into the menu and really want results in result window.

actually there might be a way for me to do that, at least for customized actions..  im going to think about it a little more and implement the regular expression stuff first and we can come back to it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Would you pay for WinZip?

« Last post by mouser on August 31, 2005, 02:11 AM »

i'm actually quite fond of winzip, but i will not pay a yearly update for such a thing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you use a password manager? if not, maybe you should

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2005, 11:43 PM »

roboform is a great app, i agree.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bugs 'n' suggestion

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2005, 11:41 PM »

i will look into the clipboard copy thing, maybe i can put the info into the clipboard more nicely.

can you describe the issues you are having about auto saving?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Would you pay for WinZip?

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2005, 11:38 PM »

the moment i hear yearly fee i change the channel.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Coming soon.. Arrows, callouts, textboxes

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2005, 08:13 PM »

i didn't intend to work on this for a while, but i've actually almost finished it..
clipart needed!

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Display mouse clicks and key presses

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2005, 01:38 PM »

that's quite a brilliant idea for screencasting - and i think would be pretty easy to write.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request: Super Context...

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2005, 12:41 PM »

cool, that would be useful.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request v2 - time to get started

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2005, 12:34 PM »

I would still push for a system whereby even with multiple results, the one with the highest mark gets the focus for <enter> functioning.

i will add an option for this - either to choose whether enter launches the first item or just tabs down into the results box.

yes it will be FULL regex support so you can do as you say.

modifers:
all search directories and pattern scoring will accept modifiers, so you can change the scores and directories to search if you specify certain modifiers.  so if you type "music dylan" then music might be a modifier that perfers audio file masks and music directories, etc.