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Site/Forum Features / Re: RSS Feeds for DonationCoder.com and this Forum

« Last post by mouser on July 10, 2005, 08:41 PM »

welcome to the site jason,

your request would be satisfied if we set up a special section of the forum for "official announcements",
like new reviews being posted, new software being released.
i.e. just the rare occasional official announcement.

probably not a bad idea; i think i will set this up unless people would prefer i don't.

the other solution would be to use a program like website watcher (see our review on webpage change monitors https://www.donation...bWatchers/index.html), and have it monitor the reviews archive page or front page of the site.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Possible bug in Find and Run?

« Last post by mouser on July 10, 2005, 07:40 PM »

well what i wanted to confirm, it sthat its the hotkey component i use (which you seem to be saying is the case), rather than anything specific in f&r.  now to try to find an alternate component.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Possible bug in Find and Run?

« Last post by mouser on July 10, 2005, 06:03 PM »

it's a good question kevin, i'm really not sure, except that maybe the edit box that accepts and captures what you type is somehow not programmed to intercept windows key.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Possible bug in Find and Run?

« Last post by mouser on July 10, 2005, 05:34 PM »

can you try this one, hopefully it wont complain about borlndmm:

http://donationcoder...stHotKeysProject.zip

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Find And Run Robot / Re: HotKey feature being added to Find&Run

« Last post by mouser on July 10, 2005, 05:28 PM »

ok i will add that too.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Possible bug in Find and Run?

« Last post by mouser on July 10, 2005, 04:47 PM »

no, doesnt have to do with D drive, my fault - i'll recompile it so it doesnt need that, just give me a minute.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Possible bug in Find and Run?

« Last post by mouser on July 10, 2005, 02:45 PM »

i've uploaded 2 things to test.
the first is a new test of f&r, just built with the latest hotkey component i use.
i'm guessing this is still going to fail like the other one, but its worth a try.
http://donationcoder...AndRunRobotSetup.exe

(you dont have to test everything anymore, just run the program and exit and see if your hotkeys are gone as usual).
(note this new version can just be installed on top of old, no reason to uninstall old first, just make sure it isnt running in tray)

assuming that doesnt work,
can i ask you to reboot and try this utility:
http://donationcoder...stHotKeysProject.exe

just (reboot first so your hotkeys work) and then start it and enter some hotkey into box in top left, and click Add.  then test it by hitting the hotkey.
then exit and see if your normal hotkeys are still broken.

that will tell me if its the hotkey component i am using that could be causing this.  if so, i will try a test using another hotkey component.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Possible bug in Find and Run?

« Last post by mouser on July 10, 2005, 02:21 PM »

well that last test is a great help, and *suggests* that i should be able to fix this bug 100%.

thank you so much for doing all the tests.

i'll tell you what i tell other people that report bugs to me -
it's simply not possible to get these things fixed without those of you willing to give me these reports.
for every person who reports a bug, there are probably 10 or 20 more who encounter the bug and just uninstall the program out of disgust.

i can't thank enough those of you who are willing to test stuff and report back.

i am on the problem and hopefully will have a fix very soon.  like i said that last test suggests that i should be able to solve this problem.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Possible bug in Find and Run?

« Last post by mouser on July 10, 2005, 01:31 PM »

thanks jacques0, thats helpful information.
we are definitely on the same page, i understand the shortcut hotkeys you are talking about.
i definitely dont have your problem on my winxp machine but i will try it on a win98 machine and see if i do.

im definitely curious to hear if the problem happens regardless of whether you choose the:
"Find and Run Robot Hotkey Tray - Use Main Application (runs faster)"
or the
"Find and Run Robot Hotkey Tray - Use Tray Utility (uses less memory)"
way of launching F&R.

i will definitely have a fix for this in the next day, the only question is how elegant the fix is (ie whether you will have to choose between using break key and having bug or using something other than break key and not having bug).

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Find And Run Robot / HotKey feature being added to Find&Run

« Last post by mouser on July 10, 2005, 11:51 AM »

I have generally held off on adding the ability to add custom hotkeys to launch applications to f&r, thinking that that would be better left to dedicated hotkey utilities.

But i've decided that f&r can offer something somewhat unique to this picture so i have started to add it; any suggestions are welcome.

Basically what i am planning on adding is a "HotKey" tab to the options dialog where you can specify combinations of SearchText and Hotkey.

So for example, you could say that hitting Alt+M should invoke f&r and start searching as if you typed "mp3"

You will also be able to use this to trigger aliases, so that alt+B could invoke f&r and start with the alias group of "Backups" to choose from  (if you don't know what aliases are in f&r they are basically just a list of programs under a group heading, like a menu).

so in other words, hotkey support will just invoke f&r and then start the search going with some pretyped text; very simple and very flexible.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Possible bug in Find and Run?

« Last post by mouser on July 10, 2005, 08:57 AM »

jacques0,

ok i see now you are saying f&r is interrupting not with a 3rd party hotkey system, but rather the windows internal hotkey handling.

the windows shortcut hotkeys all work for me even with f&r running, but i'd like to see if i can figure out what might be causing your troubles.

one question, if you exit f&r from the system tray (make sure its not shown in the system tray), do your hotkeys start working again?

what operating system do you have?

do you have any other hotkey manager running?

and does the break key actually work to launch f&r or not?

also one other thing, if you dont mind trying: if exiting f&r restores your hotkeys, or if you are feeling experimental, disable the "start with windows" option in f&r and try both different "tray-bases" ways of starting f&r from start menu and see if they both have this effect.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Arovax Shield

« Last post by mouser on July 10, 2005, 02:02 AM »

cool.
looks pretty too.

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General Software Discussion / NirExt (from shellcity.net)

« Last post by mouser on July 10, 2005, 02:01 AM »

NirSoft (http://www.nirsoft.net/)  is producing some fantasic freeware.  NirExt is just what i've been wanting, a shell extension that does the best job i've seen of letting you right click on an exe and adding a shortcut into the start menu:

Advanced Run: This option is available in the context menu when you right-click on an executable file (*.EXE). It allows you to instantly run an application with command-line and some other options.
Create Shortcut+: This option is available in the context menu when you right-click on any file in your system. It allows you to instantly create a shortcut and drop it into one of the following folders: Desktop, Start Menu, Programs folder under Start Menu, Common Desktop (for all users), Common Start Menu (for all users), and Common Programs folder (for all users) under Start Menu.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nirext.html

ps. I came across NirExt listen on today's Shell Extension City (http://www.shellcity.net/) update.
And if you are not a daily visitor to our friends at that site, you don't know what you are missing.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Anti-Naffness Request?

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2005, 06:10 PM »

 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Possible bug in Find and Run?

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2005, 05:37 PM »

i will still leave the break key as an option.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Possible bug in Find and Run?

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2005, 04:45 PM »

thank you for the bug report - while i've never heard of this bug before,

the ability to change keyboard shortcut is something that is long overdue, and i will release a new version in next day or two that let's user configure hotkey to whatever they want and solves your problem with other shortcuts.

catching the 'break' key was actually  a lot more work than normal keyboard shortcut responding, so it's probably interfering with your other hotkeys (not sure why it's not affecting others but still i'm sure that is the cause).

anyway, i will be uploading a fixed version in next day or two, which solves your problem so don't give up.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Clipboard manager

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2005, 02:21 PM »

nudone was just saying this in his last column, how all of us use apps for years and there are still things we never discover; it's nice to have a place where people who love using tools well can share discoveries.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: FeatureRequest: FTP Upload

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2005, 02:20 PM »

i'm making a list in help file of useful free addon tools that might be useful to add to screenshot captor tool menu.
crono do you think you would be willing to send me the little c# script you made for me to add in like an addon download or something?

so far all i have listed is your script and ColorCop:
http://www.datastic.com/tools/colorcop/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Clipboard manager

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

do any clipboard tools group clips by application you are in when you do the copy? if not, that's a shame..
i wonder if i could whip up such a clipboard tool in a weekend.


EDIT: i see clipmate does this

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General Software Discussion / Re: Open/Save Dialog Utilities - response to Nudone's Blog from May

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2005, 01:16 PM »

well i've wanted to make such a tool, and add other features as well.. so it just might be in the cards.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request Thread

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2005, 01:07 PM »

i am going to add this extremely soon - maybe next week - i agree it would be very useful and help people to see the value of aliases.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Clipboard manager

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2005, 01:05 PM »

my 2 cents on clipboard tools:

i use them for 1 and only 1 purpose, to keep a history of stuff copied into clipboard so i can go back and grab something old that i lost,
and so that if app crashes i can retrieve text from clipboard.

so in that sense, almost any tool would be sufficient.

the only problem ive found that my windows system sometimes loses the connection with the clipboard tool, and needs to be "repaired" through the tool.  so if you are like me you might want to just look for a freeware tool, but look for one written by an author with some experience with reliable connections to clipboard chain so you dont lose the connections.

i've been trying clipmate myself - its wayyyy overkill for me, but it does seem able to maintain a good clipboard chain connection and i like having it make a sound when i copy stuff to clipboard so i know it got it.

i'd love to hear some recommendations for free clipboard tool.

oh and ability to search for text would be nice.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Open/Save Dialog Utilities - response to Nudone's Blog from May

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2005, 11:56 AM »

nudone,
i couldnt live without one of these open/save dialog extenders.

i NEED them to be bigger, and in details mode, and have a list of my fav folders.

this is one of these tools you can't live without once you get used to it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Open/Save Dialog Utilities - response to Nudone's Blog from May

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2005, 11:48 AM »

excellent post  

yep xfilesdialog is a nice one.
some of these dialog extenders have problems with certain programs - and it definitely pays to try them again when they release a new version as they often improve.

i happen to agree with you that i prefer a nice titlebar button, small and out of the way.

we plan to do a review of dialog box extenders sometime in near future.

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Living Room / Re: rss autodiscovery for the site?

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2005, 11:42 AM »

done.
i added it to main homepage, all forum pages, and main columns page too.