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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.

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Screenshot Captor / Request for 3rd party freeware tool configurations

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2005, 06:20 AM »

I'm working on the new object drawing stuff for screenshot captor.. i think this is going to take screenshot captor to a whole new level.

I'd also really like to demonstrate the power of the 3rd party tool configuration system.
what i would love is some help finding freeware tools and configurations for them.

So far i have 2, color cop, a great color picker tool.
And the mini ftp upload tool by crono here on the forum.

Here is what i would love to add (preferably freeware)
tools and configurations for watermarking tools <-- this one especially
tools and configurations for steganography
more ftp tools.
an email tool.
picture frame tools.
special effects tools.
image optimization (ie png compression tool)

in case its not clear what im asking for, im asking for freeware programs that can be run from the commandline, plus the proper commandline configuration for using the tool from screenshotcaptor tool menu.

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Living Room / Re: A thank you page for our donators.. Link Inside

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2005, 03:52 AM »

thanks strayte,
actually i recommended checking out the first story from the 12 christmas stories on that page - a really nice and different story 

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Living Room / New Columnist and Some Prizes to Award - READ IN + ENTER DRAWING - DRAWING OVER

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2005, 01:45 AM »

We have a new columnist starting today, Jason from Ghost Security software.  He will be blogging weekly, mainly on issues in security
 and shareware.  You can view his first blog post here: https://www.donation.../mts/b_dc/index.html

In honor of his joining our collection of columnists, jason has decided to donate 5 copies of his software (http://www.ghostsecurity.com), which we will be giving out at the end of the week, like a raffle.

If you would like to win either RegDefend or CryptoSuite, just specify which one you would prefer in an email to me ([email protected]).

At the end of the week we will randomly select 5 winners from those who have submitted their names.

Note: you must be a charter (donating) member or honorary member of the site to enter - please provide your forum name.

Dont forget to check our Supporter Yearbook page and add your quote! :
https://www.donation....php?action=yearbook

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

« Last post by mouser on August 29, 2005, 01:03 AM »

ok i'm really interested in you guys/gals take on this latest version..

Version 1.05.24, August 29, 2005
added ability to drag files out of f&r window into other programs.
added ability to drag and drop url links as urls.
changed help/options button to icon toolbar
added user-configurable toolbar items (and right-click option to add app to it)

i hope you guys like the new toolbar solution i came up with..


download from beta location:
https://www.donation.../FindAndRunRobot.exe

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA : monitor windows and resize (and reposition) them

« Last post by mouser on August 28, 2005, 05:39 PM »

winwarden looks great.

request (if it's easy to add) -  a command to center the active window on the current screen would be lovely.

to be more clear:
so the idea of winwarden, if i understand it, is that you can make a configuration file that says, whenever program XXX is started, put it here on screen, set it to ontop, change transparency, etc.  very useful.

it might be nice to allow you to hit a hotkey (or system tray menu) to change *active* window immediately without needing to edit config file.
for example a hotkey to center active window on screen would be cool i think.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Titlebar Clock

« Last post by mouser on August 28, 2005, 05:01 PM »

skrommel, please contact me for your vmware prize if you haven't gotten it already - it should make testing on different platforms easier. either email ([email protected]) or forum message.

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

« Last post by mouser on August 28, 2005, 02:34 PM »

rebeeger can you check if this still happens in current version, if so i'd like to try to fix it now and will ask for more details to try to reproduce it.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Plugin idea

« Last post by mouser on August 28, 2005, 02:29 PM »

chs is going to get another round of work soon, first just to address the slowness and efficiency of it - which is clearly an issue as the database gets bigger. then i will begin in ernest implementing the quick paste and generic database functionality.  it's helpful to get a little distance from it in order to get a perspective on what works and doesnt.

i'm also cognizant of the fact that F&R and process tamer are the more popular apps on the site and has been waiting for some updates for a while, so i'm going to spend the next week or two upgrading F&R and doing some minor updates to the rest of the programs before i go back to major work on chs.

however i should say that i think using it as a removable media database would really be asking for trouble since there are so many truly excellent programs for this (whereisit as an example), and it's such a specialized task..

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Living Room / Re: Scheduled server downtime, 30minutes on the morning of Aug 28

« Last post by mouser on August 28, 2005, 07:59 AM »

ok i think it's over. pretty painless and server seems more snappy at the moment at least.

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

« Last post by mouser on August 28, 2005, 07:49 AM »

i've never included a manifest - did v.19 really show luna look?
i will make a manifest for next version though, can't hurt right? (famous last words)

thanks for pointing out i forgot to update the version#

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Living Room / Yahoo Power Tools Forum Group

« Last post by mouser on August 28, 2005, 07:20 AM »

an active yahoo group where people share ideas about the best software to do various things - definitely a group worth checking out, with some knowledgable people:

http://groups.yahoo..../powertoolssoftware/

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Living Room / Re: Improving downloadability, new license system, etc.

« Last post by mouser on August 28, 2005, 03:53 AM »

great - i'm glad it worked out.
seems like a good compromise, those who know what they want can quickly check releases page for any new updates.
others can browse the program pages and get lost

btw ive expanded the "other software" section more in anticipation of hosting the ocassional software from other authors that aren't quite suitable for their own major section.  System Path Commander is the first app on it:

https://www.donation...are/Other/index.html

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Living Room / Re: Zaine's HD crashed, he'll be back after the weekend

« Last post by mouser on August 28, 2005, 02:33 AM »

its common to have to perform an operation on the hard disk to make windows "happy" with the new hard disk mbr.  it sounds like that is not your problem since when that happens winxp will just refuse to boot.  but thought i should mention it just in case.

third failure in 21 years is quite good.

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Living Room / Re: A thank you page for our donators.. Link Inside

« Last post by mouser on August 28, 2005, 01:02 AM »

welcome back zaine!!
did you get your computer fixed?

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

« Last post by mouser on August 27, 2005, 08:14 PM »

tiny update:

Version 1.05.23, August 27, 2005
 · fixed numerous minor form layout issues 
 · added file browse button to alias form. 
 · added properties menu item to right click 
 · changed from default of startmenu\program files to startmenu\   

download from beta location:
https://www.donation.../FindAndRunRobot.exe

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

« Last post by mouser on August 27, 2005, 06:16 PM »

good idea carol about start menu, i will make that change

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

« Last post by mouser on August 27, 2005, 09:42 AM »

i i will add the browse button, i will fix the button locations.

i will improve context menu thing.  i will *try* to make it a submenu, but i can't guaruntee it, just because of the steps involved in fetching it and displaying it.  at the least i think i can make it appear exactly where it should if it were a submenu.

im going to be adding more features in the next week - i'd like to start with the non-revolutionary features first and go from there, so i'd definitely be interested in hearing peoples favorite things they have been waiting for..

i will also try to add the ability to drag and drop from results out of f&r and into other programs now.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Irc Chat - plus new web-based java interface from forum

« Last post by mouser on August 27, 2005, 08:14 AM »

ok i configured a new server, give it a try.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bugs 'n' suggestion

« Last post by mouser on August 27, 2005, 08:09 AM »

ps.
am i hallucinating or does stefan's avatar keep changing 

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Irc Chat - plus new web-based java interface from forum

« Last post by mouser on August 27, 2005, 08:08 AM »

oh i didn't realize it was the same everything else..
sometimes irc servers can act up - let me try to configure a different server right now and ill post when i do and you can try again.