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General Software Discussion / Re: ReOpen 3.11

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 03, 2009, 05:53 PM »

ReOpen 3.2 Added code to prevent the hotkey from opening the popup window while the About Dlg is showing. This prevents a possible hang if the hotkey were pressed while About Dlg is up.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Numpad key requires hitting Enter to launch numbered result

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 03, 2009, 03:29 PM »

Seems to be erratic.  Sometimes it fills in the input line and waits until you press Enter, other times it launches the result without it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera 10

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 03, 2009, 03:21 PM »

I became disillusioned with Opera (user since v. 5) when I requested a feature (keep formatting when pasting) for several years and it never got implemented. Mind you, not that it was hard: every other browser on earth but maybe text based ones have it

Honestly, they are even worse than apple in their arrogance and lack of attention to user requests.

-urlwolf (September 03, 2009, 01:29 PM)

One of the things that put me off Opera after using Firefox for awhile was no AutoCopy.  Tough enough to avoid Carpal Tunnel Syndrome without having to triple click the mouse to copy a line to the clipboard.  When I suggested an AutoCopy type feature it was treated like some sort of blasphemy.  I mean, get real!!!

Granted one of the things that felt weird about Linux and XWindows was auto copy when highlighting with the mouse, and single clicking instead of double in some environments.  But as long as you can enable/disable it, what's the big deal?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Selector 1.5

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 03, 2009, 12:54 PM »

Selector 1.5 As you can see in the screenshot in the first post, I've enlarged the popup window.  More items can readily be seen in the ListBox.  Also I got rid of the Minimize and Maximize Buttons on the window frame.

Selector 1.51 Added code to prevent the hotkey from opening the popup window while the About Dlg is showing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: JkDefrag further developed as MyDefrag

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 03, 2009, 12:03 PM »

Speaking of MyDefrag, I'm trying it out now. But it seems like it want scripts and you have to pick drives by category.  
...

-MilesAhead (September 02, 2009, 11:12 PM)

doesnt sound very user friendly . .

-tomos (September 03, 2009, 01:58 AM)

It is a bit different.  I guess that's why the JkDefragGUI programmer is going to come up with a GUI for it.  As f0dder pointed out, it just needs a command line param added of x: to limit it to drive x:

edit:  btw it's easy to forget in Windows that you can pass params to shortcuts.  When you drop a file on a desktop icon and click "open with" Windows adds the filename to the end of whatever command line params are in the shortcut already. Comes in handy for dragging the shortcut onto a launcher or other means of passing the param, instead of just using the exe file path.

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General Software Discussion / Re: JkDefrag further developed as MyDefrag

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 03, 2009, 01:40 AM »

Hmmmm, I caught myself messing with editing the shortcut, then lightbulb went off.  Use my own software!!  Dragged Fast Optimize shortcut onto Selector.  That way I can enter any drive on the Text param input line instead of having a bunch of shortcuts.

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General Software Discussion / Re: JkDefrag further developed as MyDefrag

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 03, 2009, 01:11 AM »

You sure that isn't cheating? 

Thanks.

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Living Room / Re: Help? Learning how to drive...

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 02, 2009, 11:13 PM »

How about some tips for a parent (me) teaching a son to drive ?
          Thanks,
                       Stan

-stansrailpix (September 02, 2009, 10:18 PM)

Wear a motorcycle helmet.  Not for crashes, but to keep you from pulling your hair out.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: JkDefrag further developed as MyDefrag

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 02, 2009, 11:12 PM »

Speaking of MyDefrag, I'm trying it out now. But it seems like it want scripts and you have to pick drives by category.  I'm using the predefined "fast optimize" script but it wants to do all the HD partitions and the drive I have in the USB Docking station.

Ain't there a way to tell it just to defrag C: ??  Sheesh!!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera 10

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 02, 2009, 09:18 PM »

I put it on and found it broke my utility that encrypted the Wand form fill info when not in use.  I wasted about 1/2 hour trying to figure out where they stick the info, then put 9.64 back on.  I don't use it often enough to mess with it.  Mainly I use it as convenience when buying something online.  I Firefox until I get to the shopping cart then open that page in Opera to fill in all the address info etc..  If I don't have that, then I have no reason to use it.

Hmm, oh yeah, that and playing samples on AllMusic.com without the need to mess with a media plugin.  Guess I'll stay with 9.x for awhile longer.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 30 Days of DonationCoder Screencasts - Video Links Here

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 01, 2009, 09:57 PM »

Why thank you.
I'm going to take today of and then.. begin ANOTHER 30 DAYS OF DC SCREENCASTS!

-mouser (September 01, 2009, 04:48 PM)

Hmmmmmmmm, sounds like you're addicted.  Soon they will be 20 minutes long, then 1/2 hour, then you'll be all dehydrated from sittin' in front of the machine for 12 hours straight!!!   

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Numpad key requires hitting Enter to launch numbered result

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 01, 2009, 08:49 PM »

That did it thanks.  Automatic updates never worked smoothly for me in Vista64 or W7 so I've been wingin' it manually. Anyway, good to go.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Selector 1.4

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 01, 2009, 08:32 PM »

Selector 1.4 Fixed bug where empty param was double quoted when Go " Button pressed.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Selector 1.3.0.1

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 01, 2009, 08:29 PM »

Xvarnah glad you are enjoying experimenting.  Please download latest version of Selector (1.4).  As noted in the next post, I fixed a few minor bugs.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Selector 1.3.0.1

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 01, 2009, 02:54 PM »

Selector 1.3.0.1 Added Go " Button (Go with a quote symbol after it) to wrap the param in double quotes and launch the selected item.

This is handy for file paths with spaces especially.

Also fixed a bug where a duplicate short name could be added to the ListBox.  The old one was filtered out on the next window popup. Now the ListBox is checked and the old entry removed before a new entry with the same short name is added.

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Find And Run Robot / Numpad key requires hitting Enter to launch numbered result

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 01, 2009, 02:48 PM »

I have "Numpad keys launch results from search window" checked in FARR 2.75.01 but for some reason now I have to hit Enter to get it to fire.  Before I just hit the number in the number pad. The corresponding result goes into the input line, but it doesn't launch without Enter press.

I'm running Vista64 Home Premium SP1.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Selector 1.2

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 31, 2009, 12:57 PM »

Instead of Bookmarklets there is an easy way to map mouse clicks to hotkeys.  This AutoHotKey script is an example:

[Select]

MButton::
Send +{NumPadDiv}
Return

In the example, every time you press the middle mouse button, it would send the Shift-{NumPadDiv} hotkey to open the Selector window.  If you download AutoHotKey look in the help under Hotkey and it has the various ones for the Mouse.  Just change "MButton" for the mouse click or wheel action you want.  Once you have it the way you want you can compile it to exe.  You can even have it launch Selector using the Run command, so that you only need to have one icon in the Windows start folder.

You might find it fun.  There's an AutoHotKey forum too where people will help with fixing your scripts.

Thanks for the donation.  It helps keep my web site going.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Selector 1.2

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 31, 2009, 12:01 PM »

I'm very mouse-oriented myself.  'cept for mouse gestures.  Too much stuff to remember.  I guess what you are saying is have a bookmarklet launch the other browsers instead of using an exe file?  I'm still not sure what happens when you click the bookmarklet you envision.

edit: ok, if I get this right, you are just saying launch Selector using a bookmarklet instead of a hotkey? Sorry for being dense.  Lots of times stuff goes right over my head that's obvious to everyone else.  I claim it's due to genius but that could just be PR heh heh heh.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Selector 1.2

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 31, 2009, 11:47 AM »

Ok, thanks mouser.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Selector 1.2

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 31, 2009, 11:36 AM »

Glad you like it.  You know when I started doing it I thought well, maybe I'll have a couple of browsers and maybe 3 text editors in it, so I made the Add button to just add one item.  When I added drag & drop and realized it would pass the params onto shortcuts, that made it more flexible.  I think I'll be using it a lot more than I expected myself.

I haven't used Bookmarklets much. I think I did one that backs up 2 pages if the history is 2 or more pages deep, one if not(iow even with those back arrows that have a history you have to click to open the history, so you don't save a click when going back 2 pages. I call it Double Back)  Can you tell me more what you have in mind with the bookmarklet idea? I'm not sure I see how it would hook in.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA : delete files with a mouse

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 31, 2009, 11:29 AM »

In this "10 right click utilities" article there are a couple in the list.  One is just a secure eraser, the other has a bunch of file utilities and lets you edit the list.

http://www.killertec...oftware-for-windows/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Selector 1.2

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 31, 2009, 11:23 AM »

btw I'm glad you mentioned this topic.  I updated the Readme file with a tip suggesting various ways to customize entries via the shortcut. I was considering having the entry remember switches that could be entered in an input line but since Windows already provides it I think it's better to keep the utility simple.  Since when you drag a shortcut onto the ListBox the path is to that shortcut, to modify the behavior of that app you just need to edit the shortcut.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Selector 1.2

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 31, 2009, 11:01 AM »

Xvarnah glad you like the program. I didn't realize it until I started playing with drag & drop that Windows would pass command line params onto the shortcut as well as a bare .exe program.  I guess I should have because of the drag & drop "open with" when you drop a file on a desktop icon.

Please try deleting the browser entry and dragging a shortcut with the command switches filled in, onto Selector.

Also since only the Key value is unique, you should be able to have various shortcuts in the list for the same program as long as the short names are unique.

I just tried a shortcut to my TestCmdLine program with the icon having "/x=1 /y=2 /z=3" then in Selector I added the Text param "FakeFile.txt" and the command line tester showed all those in sequence.  It should work.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Selector 1.2

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 30, 2009, 11:37 PM »

Selector 1.2 Fixed a bug where the input box for short name could be hidden by the popup window.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Enable 'drag+drop' of text into Win7's Start-Menu Search Box

« Last post by MilesAhead on August 30, 2009, 04:40 PM »

Thanks for the reply. Instead of trying to do a lot of things with Pasty I left it as it is.  I did another utility called Selector that holds a bunch of programs in a ListBox and you can select one to launch with selected text or clipboard text. Useful to open a url in another browser without using a plugin, or you can type a filename in an editor and select it, then hit the hotkey.. that type of thing.

Here's a link to the announcement:

https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=19717.0