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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 29, 2010, 10:19 AM »
And finally, Replacements aren't working at all... AutoCompletions are.
That's a real surprise - I would always have expected the Replacements to be more consistent. Is there any chance you could go through step-by-step what you do? There must be a missing link!

Got it ! It was 'older' entries that don't work - and still don't, whereas if I enter a new Replacement then no problemo... so I'll just re-do the 'old' ones.

And thanks for the other replies.
-joiwind (October 29, 2010, 06:49 AM)

Completely my fault, I should have explicitly warned you about that. I had changed the hashing function which meant that old Replacement's index values were broken.  :-[

There's a button in the Options->Advanced which will re-create them.
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 29, 2010, 10:16 AM »
Just a quick question (not sure if it's been asked)... are there plans to have a selection to choose from from the Replacements? ie if there's more than one that matches the string typed the user gets to select one of the entries that pop-up??


-Perry Mowbray (October 29, 2010, 07:03 AM)

You'll never believe me of course, but I thought of that myself last night. I intend to add a 'search' trigger too. (e.g. "Find and offer me all Replacements that contain the word 'daquiri'")

Mr Cranio, I'm afraid this is as close as we'll get to replacing what you said with what you meant. In my case I have a wife to do that  :o
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 28, 2010, 07:30 PM »
This one has probably been the case all along and may even be the design:

Auspex can't insert in certain circumstances, for example:

in "this is/something"

try to insert anywhere between "s/s" and Auspex won't play.
-cranioscopical (October 27, 2010, 08:35 PM)

Could you explain that a bit more please senor? Do you mean trigger a Replacement after moving back with the cursor or mouse?
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 28, 2010, 07:09 PM »
But, when correcting something in the AutoCompletions 'Name' box, the correction appears in the list on the right but doesn't stick or show in the Name box.

By gum, you're right. The change IS there (if you hit the refresh button it corrects itself). On the list!

Also : create a new entry, drag into AutoCompletions, edit - it turns back into a Replacement and won't stick as a AC (I hope that's clear ?).

This may just be a shortcoming in the GUI. Items do not change by being dragged around - the folder names are purely to help you keep organised. To chage from a Replacement to a Completion, you must use the little combobox on the left, called 'Action'

And finally, Replacements aren't working at all... AutoCompletions are.

That's a real surprise - I would always have expected the Replacements to be more consistent. Is there any chance you could go through step-by-step what you do? There must be a missing link!
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 27, 2010, 12:29 PM »
Build 52
New Features

    * (Work in progress) New 'Clean Up' page which will help you to trim out unwanted or old completions.
    * (Work in progress) New 'Organize' page which will help you to sort your completions into useful folders.
    * 'Close' now sends the program to the system tray instead of quitting. Use 'Exit' from the menu to shut Auspex down.
    * You can now select and delete multiple items from within the tree.
    * Changed the main program icon. Still likely to change again.

Bug Fixes

    * Replaced the system tray component with my own code. Hopefully fixes the minimize not working.
    * Manual edit of completions should work a whole lot better now.
    * Fixed at least one accession violation and one index out of bounds error.
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 26, 2010, 09:52 AM »
hmmm
it doesnt seem to work with GridMove, no matter which setting I choose under exception...
I only use the keyboard shortcuts for Gridmove - Win+G shows grid, then number key selects 'area'
With Auspex running, and Grdimove in 'Block' / 'Compatability Mode' or 'Allow' mode, the Win+G combo doesnt work (the grid shows, but the start menu pops up and takes focus so I cant resize window).
Oddly it works okay with the Auspex window (no matter which setting in Exceptions), but doesnt work with any other windows.

Again, this is simply after a clean 'install' of current version

XP SP3

Gridmove: http://jgpaiva.dcmem...rs.com/gridmove.html
-tomos (October 26, 2010, 03:34 AM)

I'll 'ave a look. Sure hope it's not as much fun as KEdit to fix!

Thank you for the comments  :Thmbsup:
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 25, 2010, 10:09 PM »
I agree - which is where the 'completion' type operation should kick in... it's coming along! And your feedback (all of you) is really helping  :Thmbsup:
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 25, 2010, 09:39 PM »
BTW can you define spaces in mnemonic? I was trying to add an address I'm always typing "2 Civic..." but I got errors....
-Perry Mowbray (October 25, 2010, 08:56 PM)

Not at the moment... but soon!
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 25, 2010, 07:15 PM »
Perry, I'll be uploading a new build in  the next day or two with further stability enhancements... I  agree it's also not clear why Auspex fills the mnemonic field automatically sometimes. I'll be cleaning that sort of thing up when I get to the end of cranioscopical's bug list. So, around May... 2037  :Thmbsup:
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 25, 2010, 07:14 PM »
Y'know what I all need to do? I all need to create a little video thingy on how to create Replacements and Completions, and in fact, demonstrate what the blimmin' difference is.
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 25, 2010, 05:12 PM »
One other little quirky thing... I was trying to set up an auto-complete email address -- I'm pretty sure that Auspex doesn't like the punctuation.

Would it work to have an ignore punctuation for single entries?
-Perry Mowbray (October 25, 2010, 04:43 PM)

Should be ok: I have several emails addresses set up (e.g. t@m -> [email protected]. Would you mind sending me an example so I can try and spot what's going on?
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 25, 2010, 09:54 AM »
I'll look into the IE thing. I must confess I don't use it and it's all too easy to forget that it's still by far the majority browser.
-timns (October 24, 2010, 07:06 PM)

I use FF illegally at work  ;)  There are other issues with DC on IE too (like the TextArea scrolling).

Have you thought about profiles? I was thinking the ability to switch between different settings could be quite handy if you have lots of entries in each and would mean I wouldn't need work.perry and private.perry to define the same type of data but different for different purposes.
-Perry Mowbray (October 24, 2010, 07:25 PM)

Yes I have thought about profiles - now you've mentioned it  :D - such a good idea. Thanks Perry!
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 24, 2010, 07:06 PM »
Thanks Perry. I think the acc vio is now fixed, but I'll do a bit more testing before a new version... and I believe the weird naming in the tree is related, so all being well that'll be gone next time round.

I'll look into the IE thing. I must confess I don't use it and it's all too easy to forget that it's still by far the majority browser.
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 24, 2010, 02:32 PM »
v 49

I really like the Import feature but still having problems minimizing : one way round is to click twice or thrice on the tray icon and then I can minimize.
-joiwind (October 24, 2010, 12:53 PM)

Ah ha! Thank you very much. Import seems to be a very popular feature. More improvements to come with that thing - I'm working in a way to extract frequently-used phrases too. Hard work, and will take a little while to run, but I hope would be very practical.

Thanks for the info on the minimizing. I may simply throw away the component I'm using and start again with that thing. And in which case that will have been the 3rd third-party thingy to have gone kablooie on me with this project.  :'(
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 24, 2010, 10:41 AM »
Any chance of multiple selections in the tree?
(Handy for making a bunch of deletions.)
-cranioscopical (October 23, 2010, 09:35 PM)

Yes! And in fact I'm also going to add a filter option: "select all thingies not used since date x, or only used once or whatever" type of thing...
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 23, 2010, 07:43 PM »
Ok ignore build 47 - compiled with completely the wrong settings and everything went bonkers.

Build 49 online.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 23, 2010, 04:19 PM »
Build 47

New Features

    * Button to re-index the Replacements, Completions etc. Use this if you are running this build after using an earlier version.
    * Faster hashing function, also with better mixing and differentials
    * Import feature to allow you to read in your own word and phrase lists, or simply parse your own documents to track frequently used words and phrases

Bug Fixes

    * Auspex now checks to make sure you are not trying to create a mnemonic that already exists
    * Fixed (another!) bug in the tree view, this time when deleting an item
    * Fixed a bug when loading the current keyboard layout

Perry - does this one work for you now?
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 19, 2010, 08:59 PM »
Did we get anywhere with a logging version? 43 still is not working for me... but what's somewhat annoying is that when I run the version that still works (32) it quits saying that it's out of date  >:(
-Perry Mowbray (October 19, 2010, 08:46 PM)

I  can upload a logging version tomorrow by all means. What happens with 43? Simply nothing appears when you type your trigger phrases?
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 19, 2010, 11:04 AM »

I understand the action but it wasn't happening.
Thinking back, since Kedit has been snatched from the jaws of Auspex, I probably assumed that drag-drop wasn't working at all when, in fact, it doesn't work from Kedit (which does support drag-drop). When dropping on the tree didn't work I *could* drop into the replacement-text box. Maybe I tried the tree at a point where things had come looose. I can drag-drop today from FF and WordPerfect but not from Kedit.

Good thing you have so many Kedit users, or you might feel that the time spent on it was wasted!
-cranioscopical (October 19, 2010, 10:36 AM)

Actually I  can't drag from KEdit into anything else either, so I'm going to say KEdit is to blame for this one. I  just tried to drag its text into this text box, and also Thunderbird with no luck.

I found testing with KEdit useful. It's such a finicky little SOB with keyboard events it really made me tighten up the code.  >:(
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 19, 2010, 10:17 AM »
Bug : it sometimes happens that you cannot minimize to tray, nothing happens when you click on the hyphen, you have to quit and open Auspex again - but I can't see under which conditions that occurs.
-joiwind (October 18, 2010, 12:37 PM)

I have found one occasion when this happens : if you create a new entry (either completed with text etc or not) and then drag and drop it into a folder
-joiwind (October 19, 2010, 06:30 AM)

Is that consistent? I can't get it to go wrong here. Were you trying it with a completely empty tree?

By the way, thank you all for your continued and helpful feedback. If anyone has to tell me I have software that's buggier than a dead rat, I'm glad it's you guys.  :Thmbsup:
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 19, 2010, 10:13 AM »

Dragging text to the tree doesn't seem to work. Can you elucidate?
-cranioscopical (October 19, 2010, 01:04 AM)

Select a block of text in some program. Let go of the mouse, and then single-click the text again so you can drag it. Drag to the tree, and wait a heartbeat. The tree will detect a drag over, and the cursor should change to your ghosted text.

Drop.

You will see a new item created with random name and mnemonic, and your text in the replacement field.

Edit to suit!

You can also drop your text into an existing Replacement's text area on the bottom left.

If that does not work, please let me know  :Thmbsup:
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 19, 2010, 10:10 AM »
  • Created new folder
  • Hit refresh
  • New folder disappeared
  • Stop/restart
  • New folder still gone
  • Created new folder
  • Stop/restart
  • New folder disappeared
  • Restarted again
  • A new folder appeared in the tree, not created by me (AutoCompletions)
  • Within that is a new entry, "folder," again not created by me
  • (So, when Auspex is first installed/launched is it meant to appear with the tree already populated? If not, from whence came that second folder?)
  • Once the new (program created) AutoCompletions folder appeared I could add another folder and it was persistent
  • Autocompletions begin to be erratic
  •     first one doesn't work
  •     then the other does work
  •     then the first does work
  •     following that I have "List index out of bounds (1)"

(If Joy saw the wiki I hope it helped her ) ;)
-cranioscopical (October 19, 2010, 01:04 AM)

Ohhh kay then. Thank you!

First off, at the moment, if a folder is empty it is discarded when the tree is refreshed (either by the button or by a stop/restart) - so that explains 1 thru 10 (stupid list got renumbered!)

11: AutoCompletions is where Auspex parks completions it has made for you on-the-fly, as you probably guessed. The 'folder,' inside is simply the *word* 'folder' that you have probably been typing so often it decided it would store it for you as a suggestion.
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 18, 2010, 10:18 PM »
It's uploaded now. I made a few fixes as follows:

Build 43
New Features

    * Fuzzy Search algorithm in place, but not really doing anything yet (see Options->Advanced)
    * Drag-Drop of text into Tree now creates a new item

Bug Fixes

    * Tab key in KEdit working
    * Completion and Replacement handling cleaned up (no more disappearing items we hope)

Coming soon

    * Scan files for often-used words to auto-create useful completions!
    * Use fuzzy matching to help pop-up completions you can't quite remember!
    * Small drop-target to create items more easily!
    * Something else!  :-[
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 18, 2010, 05:07 PM »
@timns

Just had a few more minutes to play with .42

I just deleted everything from \Local Settings\Application Data\Auspex
Launched Auspex, all is blank (as expected)
Created no folders at all in the right-hand pane
Entered "Paddle To The Sea" as an auto-complete. Typed "Pad" and got the correct suggestion.
Entered "Martin Smith" as an auto-complete.
Hit the refresh button.
Martin Smith simply vanished from the right pane as I watched; Paddle To The Sea is unaffected.
Entered "Martin Smith" as an auto-complete once again.
Closed Auspex
Started Auspex
Paddle To The Sea has vanished
Martin Smith is in and works
Entered "Paddle To The Sea" again  leaving the Mnemonic field with the numeric id
Paddle To The Sea doesn't fire
Removed the numeric identifier
Type "Pad" and am offered Martin Smith
Closed/restarted Auspex
Both items are in the right pane:
 Typing "Pad" pops up Paddle To The Sea
 Typing "Mar" pops up Martin Smith  ; Martin Smith ; Martin (one on each of 3 lines, with "Martin" selected)
-cranioscopical (October 18, 2010, 04:58 PM)

Thanks for this! I think it's helped me find the issue. I had made a fix to Replacements, but Completions are handled slightly differently. New build coming out later today.
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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App
« Last post by timns on October 18, 2010, 12:52 PM »
Bug : it sometimes happens that you cannot minimize to tray, nothing happens when you click on the hyphen, you have to quit and open Auspex again - but I can't see under which conditions that occurs.
-joiwind (October 18, 2010, 12:37 PM)

Does it still appear to be functioning? Still adding text etc? And can you  quit by using File->Exit or the 'X', or do you have to kill it from the Task Manager?
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