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Readme for "MegaClip" version .02
OBLIGATORY DISCLAIMER:
The author takes no responsibility for any loss of
data, hardware failure or other misfortune that
may befall the user as a direct or indirect result
of using this software. Use of the software
constitutes acknowledgement of, and agreement to
the above.
Hi. This is the second release of MegaClip and it
is still basically a beta. I'm looking for feedback
as to how useful the program is, which features need
work, and what new features or options would be
useful. Also, does the layout make sense? How would
you improve it? And of course... I love to hear about
whatever bugs, crashes, or whatever else you encounter.
Basically, if anyone who is currently using another
clipboard utility (ManyClip, other?) tries MegaClip
and does not switch to it full time, I want to know
WHY!!!
MegaClip is currently freeware and will remain so until
at least version 1.0. In the future, I may create a
shareware or commercial version with _additional features_
if there seems to be enough interest/demand.
Finally, I did not include any sort of installation
utility with this release, but hey... if you found and
downloaded this thing, I imagine you can create a
program object for yourself. I suggest placing it
(or a shadow) into your startup folder.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Using MegaClip
- Known bugs
- Future plans
- Contacting the author
Introduction:
-------------
MegaClip is a utility to manage multiple OS/2 PM
clipboards. It is inspired in part by the IBM EWS
program "ManyClip", as well as by a Windows 3.1
program I used Looong ago (but have forgotten the
name of now). MegaClip's key feature over ManyClip
is its ability to handle bitmaps and metafiles in
addition to text. Other benefits include the ability
to view more than one clipboard at a time (multiple
windows), to view details about the clip (date, time,
size, etc), and to 'hold' one clip in the system
clipboard -- even while copying other clips. Clips
may be stored within the main program window or placed
directly on the desktop and it is possible to turn
off 'Auto-Retrieve' so that only desired clips are
retained. These features are briefly explained below.
Using MegaClip:
---------------
- Show/Hide Container
LOCATION: main window popup menu
toggles visibility of information window
- Free floating clips
LOCATION: main window popup menu
toggles clip location between desktop and
MegaClip window -- which may then (optionally)
be resized -smaller- until it acts like a
toolbar.
- Auto retrieve
LOCATION: main window popup menu
toggles automatic clipboard retrieval when a
new item is placed in system clipboard.
- Retrieve now
LOCATION: main window popup menu
Copies system clipboard to a new clip.
- Place in clipboard
LOCATION: clip's popup menu
*SHORTCUT: double click anywhere in the clip
Copies selected clip to system clipboard.
- Hold in clipboard
LOCATION: clip's popup menu
holds the current clip in system clipboard,
even after another item is copied by the user.
- Save as...
LOCATION: clip's popup menu
Allows clip to be saved in user specified
location.
- Remove
LOCATION: clip's popup menu
Removes/Destroys/Deletes the selected clip.
(Gets rid of it!)
- Find...
LOCATION: _TEXT_ clip's popup menu
Find's text in the current clip ONLY. (so far)
Selected text will automatically appear in the
find dialog.
*Note: 'Replace' is only enabled if clip is
currently being edited.
- Edit text
LOCATION: _TEXT_ clip's popup menu
allows text in the clip to be edited. Clip
background will change color to indicate editing
is in progress. 'Edit text' must be selected
again for changes to take effect.
- Strip newlines
LOCATION: _TEXT_ clip's popup menu
converts text to one long line.
- Wrap text
LOCATION: _TEXT_ clip's popup menu
toggles text wrapping on/off
- Keep proportional
LOCATION: _BITMAP_ clip's popup menu
toggles proportional display of bitmap.
(Default is scaled to window size)
- View [Icon or Name or Text or Detail and Mini icons]
LOCATION: Container (information) window popup menu
selects desired display view
- Hide
LOCATION: Container (information) window popup menu
Hides the container window
- Cascade diagonally
LOCATION: toolbar
cascades the open clips diagonally
- Cascade vertically
LOCATION: toolbar
cascades the open clips vertically at full horizontal
width
- Tile
LOCATION: toolbar
tiles open clips
- Minimize
LOCATION: toolbar
minimizes open clips
- Up/Down arrows
LOCATION: toolbar
Moves up/down to next available clip and opens
unopened clip windows.
- Find active clip
LOCATION: toolbar
Locates (opens and/or brings to front) the clip
that is currently active in the system clipboard.
- Exit
LOCATION: toolbar, menus
Closes the program and saves current clips
Notebook Options:
----------------
- Auto close clips
LOCATION: Memory Usage page
Toggles between unlimited open clips and closing clips
(based on user criteria) whenever a new clip is inserted.
- Kb
LOCATION: Memory Usage page
Determines maximum clips to remain in memory based upon
the number of kilobytes in use
- objects
LOCATION: Memory Usage page
Determines maximum clips to remain in memory based upon
the number of objects (clips)
- Oldest first
LOCATION: Memory Usage page
Autoclose closes clips based on age
- Largest first
LOCATION: Memory Usage page
Autoclose closes clips based on size
- Remove entirely
LOCATION: Memory Usage page
Autoclose removes the clip entirely, rather than saving it
to disk and freeing its memory
- Autosave clips between sessions
LOCATION: Save Options page
Automatically save clips
- Text
LOCATION: Save Options page
Toggle autosave of Text clips
- Bitmap
LOCATION: Save Options page
Toggle autosave of Bitmap clips
- Metafile
LOCATION: Save Options page
Toggle autosave of Metafile clips
- Released from memory
LOCATION: Save Options page
Clips are saved when they are closed or else when the program exits
- Created
LOCATION: Save Options page
Clips are saved at the the time they are created
- Use Directory
LOCATION: Save Options page
Directory in which clips and associated information are to be stored.
Folders may be dropped on this control.
- Validate
LOCATION: Save Options page
The directory must be verfified as valid before it can be used.
- Strip newlines
LOCATION: Text page
Default text clip behavior is to remove all line breaks
- Wrap text
LOCATION: Text page
Default text clip behavior is to wrap text at right margin
- Edit
LOCATION: Text page
Brings up font dialog to determine default font.
- Foreground color
LOCATION: Text page
Determines default text color
- Background color
LOCATION: Text page
Determines default background color
- Keep Proportional
LOCATION: Bitmaps page
Toggles proportional as default on/off
- Background color
LOCATION: Bitmaps page
Sets the default background color visible when proportional is on.
Known bugs:
----------
- Bitmaps sometimes take a long time to save and colors may be
distorted when retrieved. Workaround: save only 24 bit images,
or turn off bitmap saving in the options notebook.
- Clicking on help button does nothing. However, this doesn't
matter at the moment because the help file contains nothing
useful anyway. (Smart people read the readme!!)
- Crashes when run from a directory that contains a space in its
name.
History:
--------
Version .01
- First public release
Version .02
- Multiple item selection/removal in container
- Settings notebook (with Warp 4 look)
- Memory options
- Save options
- Text clip defaults
- Bitmap clip defaults
- Window colors/fonts retained
- Clips may be renamed via ALT + mouse click
- Container window resizeable
- Fixed metafile display bug (previously displayed as black)
- Strip newlines from text clips
- Arrange feature made WarpCenter aware (won't cover it)
- improved window management and drawing
Future Plans (well, under consideration at least):
-------------
- active clip indicator in clip's titlebar and in container.
- 'Send to' option (e-mail)
- 'Append' and 'Glue' features for text
- multiple clipboards (IE, one for URLs, one for e-mail, etc)
- drag/drop operations
- file import/export
- URL support
- Search ALL clips for text
- better threading (clipboard retrieval, file operations)
- Printing
- Keyboard accelerators (possibly system wide)
- float on top
Your suggestions are welcome!!
Contacting the author:
---------------------
Dan Libby
dandaman@aloha.com
http://cjb.ico.net/~dan
Last resort: 408-637-5210