Text Bucket is copyright and © 2004-2005 James A Thomason III (jim@ bassetsoftware.com). All rights reserved.

Text Bucket is not free, it is shareware. If you continue to use it, you are obligated to pay the $5 shareware fee.

For lots of help, usage tips, answers to questions, and so on, simply launch the application and press the "help" button to access the built-in help system.

I got tired of having lots of little text clippings of semi-frequently used snippets of text cluttering up my desktop. I don't need them very often, and they create a lot of mess. But when I do need 'em, boy do I need 'em and I need them immediately. Since they're random and unrelated, filing them was always a chore, and besides - if I did that, they weren't immediately accessible.

Enter Text Bucket. Just press your hotkey combo (command-option-control-T by default) to bring up the window. Press a number slot (or any key for the infinite slot!) to paste whatever text is on the clipboard into the slot. It then remains in Text Bucket until you delete it (by pressing the little "-" button next to the slot). When you want to recall a snippet, again simply press the number of the slot you need and the text will go to the clipboard, the window will close, and you're back where you are to use the text. Easy as pie.

Please note - Text Bucket does not deal with keyboard imput. It's strictly cut and paste. To get something into a slot, you copy it to the clipboard, then press the number of the slot you wish to place it in (i.e., copy the word "banana", bring up Text Bucket, and press the number 1 to put it in slot 1). Press the slot number of an existing slot to copy the text to the clipboard and shut the window.

Any key may be used for the infinite slot.

MACROs

You have two types of macro.

C#CLIPBOARD# - if this string is in a slot, then it will be replaced by the current value of the clipboard. So if your slot is:
"This is on the clipboard: C#CLIPBOARD#" and the clipboard contains "data", then by selecting that slot you will place "This is on the clipboard: data" onto the clipboard.

M#(letters)# any letters contained within M# and # are a MACRO (M#DATABASE#, M#NAME#, M#DOG#, etc.) These will prompt you to fill in values. Observe:

Hit command-option-control-T to bring up Text Bucket (unless you've change the value). Select slot 1 by pressing the number 1:

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That brings up the macro window. You can now fill in the values for FIRST and SECOND:

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Type in your values.

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When you're done, press return. The Text Bucket Window disappears, and then clipboard now contains "First Value is Value 1, Second value is Value 2"

Problems? Comments? Questions? Suggestions? jim@bassetsoftware.com, let me know what you think.

No warranty is provided with this software, use at your own risk.