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976
I'm going to go ahead and move the clipboard capture delay option up to a more prominent location in the "More Capture Options" tab, and add an explanation for it; that will make it easier for people to notice.
977
Can I actually compare two clips in this 'Interrogator'
There is no explicit compare function -- it's just the list of formats and hash values you would compare manually.
So what I'd like you to do is look at the two *seemingly* duplicate entries within CHS and view the database views of the blobs from the interrogator window, and see what's different in the interrogator list of formats for those two clips.

Can you show me screenshots of the interrogator for each of the two clips?

It's EITHER going to be the case that the clipboard blobs are different, or that CHS has a bug in dupe detection.


With the same vector drawing and delay set to 500ms -- one clip gets copied.
So I think that probably suggests that your having that same problem with apps that put a lot of info on the clipboard where CHS first grabs the clipboard and then the app adds more info and chs has to go again.  As before, there are a couple of options here -- either forcing a longer delay for CHS from some apps, or some process where i auto-delete the prior copy when there are 2 in close succession.
978
Updated with some miscellaneous bug fixes to handling of duplicates and other things.

Most notable fix was that the new multi-format code was not deleting external image files associated with clips when the clips were deleted and removed from the recycle bin, so if you have image clips from a previous alpha version, you'll need to delete those image files manually when the clips are deleted.
979
N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: NANY 2020 Wrap-up
« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2020, 12:07 AM »
What Deozaan is saying is that in general we don't sell the NANY mugs, we give them out for free to the coders who make the apps..
980
Or the problem could be my hash calculation on blobs has some bugs.
981
Could we get some scroll bars on the HTML Source preview tab?
yep, done.

Is the blob interrogator in there yet, or is that yet to come?
it's there, in view menu.

Here's an interesting twist.  After I posted the last screenshot, two more of the exact same clip showed up out of nowhere spaced a couple of minutes from the original two.

Ok I see these have different hashes, so the contents of the seemingly duplicate clips are different.  See my reply above about this, and go into the blobs with the blob interrogator and let us see which formats are different...

I have noticed that MS excel this can happen also -- its happening maybe because these MS Office apps are doing something strange.. perhaps copying to the clipboard in two separate events in quick succession, for some reason I don't understand.  Or perhaps CHS is trying to read the clipboard before the app finishes with it..

Here's something that may fix it.  I've added a new option to increase the delay between the triggering of a clipboard event and CHS acting on that trigger, so that 2 quick success triggers will only result in the final capture:
Screenshot - 2_21_2020 , 8_12_03 PM.png

As I said earlier, the other fix which will be available in a future version of CHS will be if the clips are duplicates except for a one or two irrelevant data formats, to mark those formats as IGNORE or IGNORE-FOR-PURPOSES-OF-CALCULATING-UNIQUE-HASH.

Other possible solutions would be: Having a list of applications that CHS should increase delay-before-capture behavior, or some kind of smart process to overwrite the previous clip when the subsequent one happens in super fast succession.
982
Can you see if the duplicate clips have identical clob hash values?
I see the hashes are different.  But now with the new Clip Blob interrogator you should be able to view both blobs with hashes for each format and see WHERE they differ.  If they only differ in a format chunk that is irrelevant, I will soon have options that let you ignore those formats.
983
New version uploaded, with clipboard blob viewer.  You can access it through the View menu.. Let me know what you think and of course report any bugs.
984
Screenshot Captor / Re: Congratulations Mouser for #1!!
« Last post by mouser on February 20, 2020, 10:45 PM »
Awesome!  :Thmbsup:
985
nice would be the ability to name image (and vector) clips. Could e.g. then be saved in favourites with clarity as to what exactly it is (often not clearly visible in thumbnail).
You can customize clip titles.
986
Can we actually *stop* image thumbnails showing in the quick-paste menu /sub-menus?


Try these options:
Screenshot - 2_20_2020 , 6_53_48 AM.png
987
Next version will include a little clipboard viewer tool you can bring up:
Screenshot - 2_21_2020 , 5_01_41 AM.png
988
Updated with some fixes.  No more blank captions on quick-paste popup if a clip has no text or image.
Grabbing urls when copying from web pages is now done by looking at the html source content (and saved in Notes field of clips); in addition to being more robust it captures much faster and solves the slow firefox capture in previous versions.

I'd appreciate testing on more web browsers to see if there are any where CHS can't capture the urls. (i have tried firefox, ie, and chrome).
989
The vector clips from Freehand shown here are identical:

Ok, so what you are saying is you copied something multiple times, and CHS is not figuring out that the clips are identical and should be regarded as duplicates?
I noticed this happening in firefox too, but as you point out, the hashes were different, so I'm guessing that their is something in the blob data that is NOT identical, like perhaps a timestamp.

The solution to this is:
  • 1. Live with it and don't worry about having duplicate clips in such a case since it won't happen too often.
  • 2. Wait for rules that would let you ignore blob items irrelevant to the content, which could solve your problem if the timestamp (or whatever) is not the main vector content.
  • 3. I may add display of hash values for the individual format chunks in a blob so you could ID which one is changing..

I'll also try to add a better caption in the quick paste menu for blob data that has no text.
It might be nice to have a hex viewer dialog you could bring up for blob contents so you could actually see the raw contents of the blob data for this kind of debugging.
990
it's very nice that the url is saved when copying text from a webpage
Yeah i think i will add code to grab those source urls and put them into the normal clip info, so they are available in the grid and even if you don't store html.
991
Can you give me some screenshots to show me what you are talking about regarding #1 and #2?
992
LaunchBar Commander / Re: back up restore question
« Last post by mouser on February 19, 2020, 06:19 PM »
That shouldn't be happening -- I'd like to find out why and fix it.  It sounds unacceptable.

But whats most likely happening is not that its losing your data but that it's forgetting what launch bar FILE you had open last.

So go to the options and choose from the File menu to open your launchbar file..

If the program is crashing on you please do tell me anything you can about what seems to be causing the crash -- you shouldn't have to worry about that happening.
993
Any more thoughts about what features are most important that still need to be added to make this multi-format stuff useful?
994
Is there a database schema somewhere so we can understand what's available to construct a WHERE clause from?

I will try to make one.  The help file needs some real updating.
995
Find And Run Robot / Re: minor bug: FARR locks #filecontents file if empty
« Last post by mouser on February 19, 2020, 06:32 AM »
I have confirmed the bug and fixed it in my version; will be fixed in next release.
996
Jibz's Tools / Re: dina download page still links to v2.92 (not v2.93)
« Last post by mouser on February 19, 2020, 05:15 AM »
Belated thanks for the post -- let me get Jibz (Dina author) to check it out.  :up:
997
Updated with some improvement to the organization of the options dialog.
998
Here's a little trick, create a virtual folder(group) showing you only Large clips in your database (those bigger than 100k):
Screenshot - 2_18_2020 , 9_24_57 PM.png


There are actually now 2 fields related to a clip's size.  DataSize is total size of clip INCLUDING any external image size.  BlobSize does not include size of external image.

You can click on the little button to the far left on the column header to see and show more clip field names.
999
Find And Run Robot / Re: minor bug: FARR locks #filecontents file if empty
« Last post by mouser on February 18, 2020, 07:07 PM »
Will fix. Thanks for report!
1000
I'm still not seeing images in a the HTML Preview tab. 



Try re-downloading to get the latest version and then enable this option:
Screenshot - 2_18_2020 , 5_07_02 PM.png
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