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General Software Discussion / Re: HMonitor ... a warning ...

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2005, 06:13 AM »

carol - this sounds outrageous.

are you saying that you can't even reinstall your old copy, because you were given a license based on your hardware (or windows install info), and now that you've upgraded your windows, he won't give you a new license key based on your new windows/hardware install info?

i don't care if you are reinstalling windows or replacing your computer and getting another one, that would be totally unacceptable, and very uncommon.

if that's really the case then i would advise everyone to steer very clear from this company,

and with your permission i would like to email the author to let him/her know in a polite fashion that he is going to very quickly develop a bad reputation if he insists on this.  if sites like this one, and zaine's, etc. take the time to write to these authors and let them know that this kind of stuff is going to backfire on them maybe they will change their views.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Clipboard manager

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2005, 03:50 AM »

wow - GREAT LINKS 

also, from lifehacker:
http://www.oldversion.com/

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bugs 'n' suggestion

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2005, 03:29 AM »

good idea

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Request for 3rd party freeware tool configurations

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2005, 02:45 AM »

i use a couple things, c++ builder for most of my big windows GUI tools.
Visual C++ for lean and mean windows stuff.
the free dev-c++ ide for building and testing crossplatform stuff.

i def recomment dev-c++ for people who want to play with c++.
though im not sure i would recommend c++.

c# and java are not bad to get started with if you are serious about coding.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: F&R fans get an update

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2005, 02:28 AM »

i am going to add ability to drag and drop files onto toolbar.

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Image Manager Shootout / Re: Xnview vs. Irfan View

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2005, 02:08 AM »

i should say i LOVE the easy print app that came with my canon photo printer - i would recommend that printer to families and non-computer experts almost solely on the basis of that easyprint application.  a real gem.

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Living Room / Re: ad-free version of Opera,one day only!

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2005, 12:36 AM »

cool! great post!

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Image Manager Shootout / Re: Xnview vs. Irfan View

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

carol,  i'm still in search of the perfect quick printing tool.

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Image Manager Shootout / Re: Xnview vs. Irfan View

« Last post by mouser on August 30, 2005, 12:33 AM »

lanux-
someone told me here on this forum (my apologies i can't remember who), that in fact there is a much much easier way.
so easy that im embarassed after years of use i didnt realize it.

the answer: don't click Save As..
lol.

just choose Save.

it wont save it over the existing file!

it acts exactly like save as except its in same directory as file.

boy was i embarassed to find that out.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: ITSD Organizer keeps your notes at hand

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2005, 08:01 PM »

this site was almost called: Super Happy Software 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Bug: Links run outside of their working directory

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2005, 08:00 PM »

i love it when people give me a way to recreate and test-
i should have this fixed in next version. - thanks!!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bugs 'n' suggestion

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2005, 07:59 PM »

thanks gottadoit i will try to fix long filenames issue and clipboard issue.

so the clipboard issue shouldnt be from screenshot captor since screenshot captor doesn't grab clipboard info - is it from our other clipboard help+spell tool? OR maybe i think you are saying that the nature of capturing a screenshot makes clipmate get confused about the running app.. if so, could you elaborate what you would like clipmate to see when you capture a screen?

what i would like to do for autocapture is specify options like this:
[] capture a screenshot every __ seconds
[] capture a screenshot whenever screen changes

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Mouser's Zone / Re: New setup/installer system

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2005, 07:51 PM »

all of our apps should also therefor run from a usb drive, except for URL snooper which requires a network sniffing driver installation.
that could be fixable though with an alternate sniffing engine if there was enough demand.

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

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2005, 07:49 PM »

i missed that the first time, sorry - just read and commented.

hehe yeah it is getting interesting.

and yep. the help file is going to need some real additions.

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

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2005, 07:45 PM »

i'm kind of fond of the idea of taking advantage of ctrl+numberkey and alt+numberkey (maybe also winkey+numberkey).

the other question is more intriguing - what to show...

two main choices: 1) show regular shell context menu vs. 2) show a custom menu based on file extension.

if there is interest in #2, i could add another tab to the options dialog that let you specify custom commands associated with certain extentions.  so you could configure:
"*.txt":
edit file | c:\program files\ultraedit.exe $$1
print file | c:\program files\printfile.exe $$1

and then when user does a search, and finds a file they want, they would hit like Ctrl+1
which would then show this custom list in results view:
1. edit file
2. print file

where they could then hit 1 or 2.

the only problem is it is a bit confusing to use and would require configuration by user before it would work, whereas the context menu seems more logical, and is already premade.  maybe just ctrl+1 to bring up context menu for item 1 is the best solution.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: F&R fans get an update

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2005, 07:34 PM »

i'm really going to give the database idea some thought, but i think id like to first add all the other features we have been talking about.
as kfitting says, one of the problems with doing the database approach is all the issues wrt updating the index, etc.
one possibility might be to make f&r able to read one of the existing database formats used by google desktop search or something..
the place a database search could really help is if you only indexed/searched certain files - like if user said, index all *.exe and *.doc, and *.mp3 and leave the rest alone.  also indexing would save huge amounts of time if you expected to search on things like mp3 id tags.

we should keep talking about it though. i have mixed feelings on the subject.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Request for 3rd party freeware tool configurations

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2005, 07:17 PM »

great suggestions, keep 'em coming!

id definitely like to include some useful imagemagick scripts for users, to make it a little easier for them.
there is so much possible with imagemagick that it can be overwhelming.  might be nice to prepare some premade commandline tool configurations.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: ITSD Organizer keeps your notes at hand

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2005, 07:14 PM »

looks very nice!

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

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2005, 07:03 PM »

anyone see any reason i shouldnt merge the ideas of "group alias" and "regular expression" commands?

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

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2005, 07:00 PM »

more on nontroppo's suggestions:
what is super context?

re: modifiers - yep, this will be implemented soon.  good name for it, i will use that name.

control panel searching, i will try to do this.

i am also going to try to add fiefox bookmark searching in the upcoming days.

thumbnail view - i'm going to think this one over a bit.

autocomplete - as you say this is a bit different from the way f&r works, BUT
here's what i've been planning to do for a while.  if there is only 1 result in window, which can especialy happen if you use an alias to say this word means to launch this app/url, then hitting enter should be like what happens if you type '1'.  i think this would solve 90% of what you wanted.  what do you think?

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

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2005, 06:53 PM »

great suggestions.
i think that my plan for f&r commands is going to do what nontroppo and carol says, let me expain.

you will be able to make a command in f&r that says:
Match on regular expression: "wik (.*)"
and then list the following as results:

http://www.google.co...&oe=UTF-8&q=$$1
http://www.google.co...&oe=UTF-8&q=$$1
http://www.bbc.co.uk...p;go=homepage&q=$$1
http://www.bbc.co.uk...p;go=homepage&q=$$1

so you see the idea is when user types: "wik donationcoder"
then they will see in results box the 4 possible searchs:
http://www.google.co...&q=donationcoder
http://www.google.co...&q=donationcoder
http://www.bbc.co.uk...&q=donationcoder
http://www.bbc.co.uk...&q=donationcoder

its exactly like group aliases.  in fact now that i think about it, i think we can merge the group alias list and command list into one thing, which makes like even easier, ill just let user specify an optional regular expression mask for group aliases.

now, as per an early suggestion by carol we can be nicer about presenting results, and let results list include a "nice" display item.
so for eexample you would configure in the goup alias like this:
googleuk $$1 | http://www.google.co...&q=donationcoder
google $$1 | http://www.google.co...&q=donationcoder
search all bbc | http://www.bbc.co.uk...&q=donationcoder
search bbc news | http://www.bbc.co.uk...&q=donationcoder

now if user types: "wik donationcoder"
they will see in results list:
1. googleuk donationcoder
2. google donationcoder
3. search all bbc
4. search bbc news

and then of course pushing the number button would open the browser and run the search.

what do you guys thing - it seems to perfectly fit with f&r approach and seems like it would really work well.

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Cheat Sheeter / Re: Any progress here?

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2005, 10:33 AM »

Cheat Sheeter is about 90% done, but it's on the back burner for a bit mainly because i think its going to require some real assistance from me when it goes public to help round up people to write some help pages for it and tweak the style sheets and stuff, and i think that we should concentrate on getting the other apps all updated before releasing this new major tool.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bugs 'n' suggestion

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2005, 08:52 AM »

hi gottadoit,

if you can figure out anything more about that access error i'd love to hear more, i've yet to see one and any clues would help.

good idea about basefilename, i will add it in next release.

im not sure im fully understanding what you are saying about the copy to clipboard interception of application name.. can you try to explain it a bit more?

i think the timer idea is a good once, and a smart mode to only capture when screen changes is a good idea, i just have to figure out if i can do it efficiently.


ok fair enought about right hand side of window, i will fix that so that the rightmost edge of window doesnt trigger zoom.

ill have to check out the problem with long file names - i will definitely add an autotruncate if thats a problem.  any more insight into this you can shed would be welcome.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: F&R fans get an update

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2005, 08:45 AM »

kfitting, yes good point - it's currently not at all keyboard friendly..
two possibilities - allow user to assign hot keys to them vs. ctrl+1 through ctrl+9 to be equiv to hitting buttons 1-9 ?
or else just say this is a non-keyboard thing aspect.

carol,
1) i am currently debating with myself whether to use an optional database snapshot.. i still have to think about it more.
2) i think maybe best solution would be in the aliases allow user to specify a more meaninful name, that is a reasonable compromise i think.
3) i can actually make it so user can decide easily whether to have tools on separate row from text edit, so that is a good idea.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: F&R fans get an update

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2005, 08:03 AM »

help file hasn't been updated yet but it should launch when you select help, i'll fix that.

you can adjust the size of the area reserved for buttons, just drag the divider (perhaps ill try to autosize it in next versoin).

ok so the buttons...
you can put on the buttons documents or programs (you can also right click an entry to add it to toolbar buttons), or configure specific commands directly.

commands to launch as buttons can be simple standalone launches, OR can be configured to launch the currently selected file, by using the %file% parameter in the commandline.

so for example, you could add buttons for your text editor, hex editor, mp3 player, etc.
do a search select the file and then push the button to open it in the text editor.

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as for drag and drop out.. there aren't too many cases where it would be useful, but let's say you had an ftp program, you could search for files and then drag them out of find and run robot into the ftp program to tranfer.  stuff like that.