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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, 10:09 AM »

Two suggestions :

* as you are integrating Drag and Drop we will need an option for 'always on top'
* make the *.exe icon the same as the tray icon, the *.exe icon looks like a bit of squashed chewing gum...

Then : the popup with suggestions or corrections doesn't show up near or at the cursor as I think it is supposed to, it is sometimes way up left.

-joiwind (October 18, 2010, 09:21 AM)

Ok, I'm working on a 'mini-mode' which you can have always tucked away somewhere, which will be a drop target.

I have a Top Man on the logo right now, which will then also become the new icon.

The cursor is a tricky one: I have to very politely ask the currently active application's currently active control where it thinks its caret is. I don't always get a very satisfactory reply, and have to guess a bit. I'll see if any more can be done about that.

Thanks!

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by timns on October 17, 2010, 04:22 PM »

OK, yes that works - I reckon I was expecting it to create a new entry from scratch (which I think is what you mean in the first part of the quote - and which is still to come ?)

-joiwind (October 17, 2010, 04:13 PM)

Correct senor... I'll be adding that almost immediately, plus a couple of other things which I hope will improve the program's usability further.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by timns on October 17, 2010, 03:57 PM »

* Structures in place to allow drag of text from other apps to automatically create Replacements/Completions (already working if you want to drag text into the Replacement Text area on the left of the app)

-timns (October 17, 2010, 03:18 PM)

That was the suggestion I was going to make...! but I don't see how it works - if it does ?

Teach your Grandmother...?

-joiwind (October 17, 2010, 03:41 PM)

Ok: Create a new Replacement by clicking the new button, and fill in the usual fields (name, mnemonic etc)

Then select some text in your external application. Single click it again, and drag over to the "Replacement" area on the bottom left of Auspex, just above the dials.

Drop.

Should work!

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by timns on October 17, 2010, 03:25 PM »

Aurochs, Auspex… what next?

-cranioscopical (October 17, 2010, 07:41 AM)

Ah 'spect you'll tell us  

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by timns on October 17, 2010, 03:18 PM »

Jeez, you guys! 

Ok here she is:
http://redmine.dcmem...9/Auspex1.0.0.42.zip

Build 42
New Features

    * Can now set the typing speed when Auspex adds text to your application (see Options->Advanced)
    * New Splash screen (removed reliance on 3rd party component)
    * New Unicode XML encoder/decoder (removed reliance on 3rd party component)
    * Structures in place to allow drag of text from other apps to automatically create Replacements/Completions (already working if you want to drag text into the Replacement Text area on the left of the app)
    * Improved the efficiency of the keyboard mapper
    * Made the application able to communicate with a larger numnber of other programs (e.g. KEdit)

Bug Fixes

    * Hopefully nailed the bug where creating new items can sometimes overwrite an existing one
    * Hopefully nailed the bug where dragging an item into a sub-folder sometimes caused it to be lost

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by timns on October 17, 2010, 12:27 PM »

Dead Auspex here - I thought that was a joke ! - but looking forward to the next version.

-joiwind (October 17, 2010, 04:16 AM)

No, sorry. When I first put the teaser together I gave it an end date, which of course I forgot to change with all the other faffing about.

New build coming up today... please be warned your replacements will look rather strange on re-start since I had to throw away the xml encoder I was using and roll my own. Stupid thing did not work with unicode properly, and was also replacing spaces with + signs. Argh.

Conversion services available if anyone wants me to fix their existing files, otherwise you just have a bit of editing to do in the name and replacement fields within the program itself.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by timns on October 16, 2010, 07:10 PM »

The current version of Auspex will die on you today.

I'll be uploading a new version over the weekend with some significant improvements, especially for those of you who insist on using tricky applications.

I have fixed many stability issues, improved unicode support, got it working with KEdit and added several new features.

There'll be a complete list in the history section of the Wiki, as well as a new section containing some ideas of what to do with the program. I am asking for people to submit other suggestions too please (suggestions involving the words 'insert' and 'orifice' will be ignored in an aloof manner)

Obviously I have also introduced several new bugs to keep you on your toes 

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by timns on October 13, 2010, 09:27 PM »

Thank you Cranioscopical and Perry. I'll do a logging build in the next day or so.

@cranio: I think there's still a bug whereby you can lose Replacements if you drag them around into sub-folders after a change (or something like that) - could that possibly fit with what you were doing when you lost a couple of items?

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by timns on October 13, 2010, 05:04 PM »

Done but still no dice  

Actually... doesn't just sit there... it seems to be sending an Right Mouse Button click to the active window? I had to quit Auspex to type this because the Window's Context menu kept coming up. (see attachment in previous post)
I've noticed it before, but after restarting Auspex it's back to doing nothing again...

-Perry Mowbray (October 13, 2010, 04:50 PM)

It doesn't do anything with mouse messages at all... is there a chance you have a windows hot key set up to bring up the context menu?

Can I send you a logging version? It doesn't track any passwords or anything as you hopefully know...

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by timns on October 13, 2010, 02:53 PM »

By the way, I should start a thread with "what's the most ridiculous completion you've had so far?"

I've seen a few boring ones with repeated typos (which actually gives me ideas for new replacements to set up to cover my crappy typing) but I've also had "pinhead" "humdinger" and "capini" suggested to me. I should probably stop writing such idiotic emails

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by timns on October 13, 2010, 02:39 PM »

    * Can't enter master pwd to Roboform with Auspex running (tried all 3 exception settings)

Still on my todo list

    * Replacement text always positions the cursor at the beginning of the replaced text

Hangover from me changing what the 'cursor pos' value represents. Please visit your replacements and change the Cursor Pos field from 0 to -1.

    * Sometimes, clicking on a 'replacement' item that I've modified fails to open the "Replacement" text window
    * Sometimes, Auspex won't let me create a new item

Well it's a capricious little bugger isn't it? I'd love to get a set of steps to reproduce these!

Tried all settings with above.
One thing that would help a bit with testing is if there were a mechanism for Auspex to refresh itself once changes are made, rather than stop-starting.

There's a new, tiny button in the top toolbar that does that very thing.

Auto-completion writes the (tab) trigger into the file.

#$##!! Yes it probably does. KEdit is a bit of a rotter to deal with... I'm getting there though.

Thank you very much for all your comments Senor Cranio.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by timns on October 13, 2010, 02:36 PM »

Could you explain the sliders on the Advanced Program Options page : why two ? Are they lower and higher ?

Eventually they will control the speed at which Auspex enters text for you. If the sliders are split, it'll represent a random variation of typing speed to look a little more natural. Feel free to suggest why I might be adding this!

Please do also make any and all suggestions, either here or raise them in redmine.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by timns on October 13, 2010, 02:33 PM »

1.0.0.37 seems to be working here, at least on my simple test of entry that triggers after i type a space.

A brief help file that just showed a sample entry and said how to test it would be useful for first time users -- since i suspect many people will not be familiar with the basic logic behind using this (though they will grasp it from a simple example).

-mouser (October 13, 2010, 10:31 AM)

WIKI!

http://redmine.dcmem...ex/wiki/Replacements

Or can most folks not get to this thing?

I'm actually in the process of setting up a website for Auspex anyway, so I'll certainly make sure this text is all available there, but in addition I have a 'Wizard' planned for the system so that folks can get the idea of what to do a bit easier. Ooh, that gives me an idea also for a "test this" feature.

Thanks - I should shout "WIKI" at you more often 

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by timns on October 13, 2010, 10:09 AM »

Tim: Auspex b37 has ceased to work?? Well it runs... but doesn't replace anything or trigger anything???

I can quit and go back to previous version OK.

-Perry Mowbray (October 12, 2010, 11:07 PM)

Yoinks! Can you clear your Exceptions list, and maybe also try creating a new replacement? Maybe I was clumsy when adding defaults to new fields.

(It's working here but I would not swear to anything given that I've just completely screwed my own replacements file by playing with different character encodings - but words are popping up ok as I type this)

Can anyone else look at 37 also please?

I believe you Perry, I just don't want to 

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Living Room / Re: if proxy connection works - who is blocking me: my ISP or the server?

« Last post by timns on October 13, 2010, 10:01 AM »

I just set up an account with 'Pingdom' and I believe they load my homepage every minute from a random server. Here are the first few results:

-timns (October 12, 2010, 12:30 PM)

You seriously need another host, my ping times are lower than the ones from the hosts country, and I'm on the other side of the planet:

C:\>ping 98.131.45.219

Pinging 98.131.45.219 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 98.131.45.219: bytes=32 time=288ms TTL=43
Reply from 98.131.45.219: bytes=32 time=330ms TTL=43
Reply from 98.131.45.219: bytes=32 time=492ms TTL=43
Reply from 98.131.45.219: bytes=32 time=541ms TTL=43

Ping statistics for 98.131.45.219:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 288ms, Maximum = 541ms, Average = 412ms

-4wd (October 12, 2010, 09:53 PM)

In my post, these were page load times for the front page, so not too bad.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by timns on October 12, 2010, 09:20 PM »

how about adding update support using my dcuhelper utility?
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=9607.0
i stand ready to help!

-mouser (October 08, 2010, 09:19 PM)

I may well take you up on that when I reach that point on the map! Thank you, as ever, mr mouser

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by timns on October 12, 2010, 09:20 PM »

From the wiki wiki wiki:

Build 37
New Features

    * Icons for menu items and the options tree
   * You can now freely edit completions to make them even more useful
   * Compatibility mode introduced to try and get Auspex working better with those 'difficult' apps such as KEdit
    * All new and exciting "Productivity Boost Bar" indicator now available in the Statistics window.
   * Completely re-wrote the keyboard handler to try and get it working better with dead keys and Unicode characters
    * About screen's credits window now supports URL's
    * Tree view of all items is now sorted correctly
    * New Refresh button updates the Tree view so you can see any new items which have been added on-the-fly
    * Program's screen size and position are now saved

Bug Fixes

    * Spacebar now closes the completion pop-up

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Living Room / Re: if proxy connection works - who is blocking me: my ISP or the server?

« Last post by timns on October 12, 2010, 12:30 PM »

I just set up an account with 'Pingdom' and I believe they load my homepage every minute from a random server. Here are the first few results:

Date/Time    Status    Response Time    Error    Location   
12/10/10 10:29   UP   784 ms   OK   New York, NY   
12/10/10 10:28   UP   1,101 ms   OK   Chicago, IL   
12/10/10 10:27   UP   1,527 ms   OK   Copenhagen, Denmark   
12/10/10 10:26   UP   1,382 ms   OK   Tampa, Florida   
12/10/10 10:25   UP   1,633 ms   OK   Seattle, WA   
12/10/10 10:24   UP   760 ms   OK   Washington, DC   
12/10/10 10:23   UP   1,426 ms   OK   Madrid, Spain   
12/10/10 10:22   UP   1,102 ms   OK   Las Vegas, NV   
12/10/10 10:21   UP   839 ms   OK   Denver, CO   
12/10/10 10:20   UP   1,092 ms   OK   San Francisco, CA   

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Living Room / Re: if proxy connection works - who is blocking me: my ISP or the server?

« Last post by timns on October 11, 2010, 11:00 AM »

I just got this reply from the admins on my host:

I want to let you know that our system administrators reviewed your traceroute logs and explained that they are absolutely normal, there is nothing strange. They explained that for other networks (ourside of our office) it is normal to have time outs after our MLSes, right after this line:
OH-MLS1-609.Te-9-2.opentransfer.com (98.130.213.18) [AS32392 {Ecommerce}]
That's why please re-check this issue from your side once again, make sure that there are no problems in your network, contact your ISP to investigate it from their side as well.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: Response to Question: Can shareware be released in the NANY event?

« Last post by timns on October 10, 2010, 03:56 PM »

The way I look at DC is as a splendid resource and proving ground for my work. Plus I have made some good friends 

The gang here have so far: suggested neat features, patiently tested, helped to fix, created logos and graphics, offered to document, and yes, donated hard cold cash to help me create my software.

All of that is worth a lot to me - probably more than the price of a few loose sales, and (I hope) reflects in the stability and quality of the final product.

Therefore, in return, I believe that anyone who is an active DC member has earned the right to a copy of my program. If they really like it they will, I hope, donate... but the real key here is that they are part of the DC community, and thus help keep it alive, interesting and fun.

The rest of the world has a choice: buy a license and help me, or join DC, hopefully make a donation, and help a lot of people. I shall give them the option to do either or ideally both 

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Living Room / Re: if proxy connection works - who is blocking me: my ISP or the server?

« Last post by timns on October 09, 2010, 03:31 PM »

Oh, it must have "magically gone right all by itself"

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Living Room / Re: if proxy connection works - who is blocking me: my ISP or the server?

« Last post by timns on October 09, 2010, 12:22 PM »

I know, it makes you want to weep. I have a ticket so let's see if they have some real tech staff that they simply keep away from the first line support.

Yes, the site is pingable. Well, from here at any rate.

Would someone be able to do some tracerting to the site again next week perhaps please?

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Living Room / Re: if proxy connection works - who is blocking me: my ISP or the server?

« Last post by timns on October 09, 2010, 11:24 AM »

and oh boy, were they hopeless when I did a 'live chat support' session.

I pasted a failed tracert to them, and the guy goes "those 3 stars at the end of the tracert mean you've reached your destination" 

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by timns on October 08, 2010, 11:59 AM »

All going well here with v.32.

A suggestion : remember window size and position from last session - but that's probably already in the roadmap.

-joiwind (October 08, 2010, 11:47 AM)

It is now 

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Living Room / Re: if proxy connection works - who is blocking me: my ISP or the server?

« Last post by timns on October 08, 2010, 11:06 AM »

Hi folks, I just found this thread courtesy of nudone.

Thank you for all your efforts at looking into this. I'm glad Nick picked up on it - I'd hate to think that my other 2 readers are missing out on the comic strip as well