My dad just finsihed upgrading our connection, we should have a lot more upload at this point.
If you experiance any problems, please email be at ryan@marcusfamily.info.
Archive for Clipboard Historian
On Vacation
This is my second day on vacation, but I could not get a post out before we left. I will be back in a few weeks!
Clipboard Historian 10.1 Released!
I released version 10.1 of Clipboard Historian today.
Changes:
- Single quotes now work properly in records.
- Timestamps now include seconds.
- Copying pictures that were captured close together now works.
- You can no longer add blank categories.
- Database file has been moved to the preferences folder, this means you can run Clipboard Historian from anywhere on your computer.
- Added help in the form of Lamtid! Look under the help menu.
You can download Clipboard Historian 10.1 from the offical site: http://rmarcus.info/ch
School is out, looking at things in a new way…
School ended yesterday! My friends and I had a 24 hour party (I’m tired!) and now we are ready to start summer…
Since I will no longer be at school, it should quadruple the amount of time I have to work on things.
I also thought that, for the summer, I would change the theme, so I hope you enjoy it!
Clipboard Historian 10.0 Released!
Check out the Clipboard Historian website: http://rmarcus.info/ch/, and leave a review on MacUpdate when the new version shows up.
Further Clipboard Historian Issues
I’m about an inch away from rewriting Clipboard Historian in Java because of the problems I’m having with REALbasic.
As you may know, Clipboard Historian has support for picture clippings.. in previous versions, these pictures were stored with the text clippings in a text file, which was really, really, slow.
So I start migrating my text clipping storage to a REALSQLdatabase, and everything works fine. Now, time to deal with pictures.
I have it working (at the moment) to, every single time you open and close Clipboard Historian, write every picture out to a file using f.SaveAsJPEG and then read it back in using f.OpenAsPicture. This works OK if you have one or two pictures, but once you get into 10 or 20, launching and quitting Clipboard Historian starts taking several seconds… which is way to long for me.
So I have a new plan. I have a record table, which contains a picture ID. Then, in the picture table, I am storing three things, picture ID, thumbnail, and the actual picture. Using a small script I wrote (I will post it later), I can change pictures into text and back again, but it is a slow process. When you copy a picture onto the clipboard, a thumbnail of the image is instantly created and displayed. The larger image is stored in the database… once. When you double click on an image, it is queried out of the database and rendered. This way, the larger picture only needs to be read when you first copy it (which might take half a second) and when you double click on it to view or copy it.
Problem solved, but wouldn’t it be nice if the features I paid for actually worked?
Clipboard Historian Back On Track!
I solved my database problems… I had to use the shell to create my database and I’m not using any of REALbasic’s built in database classes any more. Just SQL quereys. Clipboard Historian is back on track.
Delays on Clipboard Historian
The REALSQLdatabase is having some problems. I’ve filed two bug reports on the REALBasic website:
http://www.realsoftware.com/feedback/viewreport.php?reportid=wwcztwvs
http://www.realsoftware.com/feedback/viewreport.php?reportid=flkakdao
I’ve started to rewrite CH to use direct queries, and I will continue to do so. This will drop CH’s speed about 5%, but slow is better then not working.
“Its not your fault, but its your problem.” – Craig
