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fitwell
(Thanks for key for the dialogue assisant. Forgot to add that.)
lol, yes. I like that phrase, "carpaltunnel down"!
(Thanks for key for the dialogue assisant. Forgot to add that.)
lol, yes. I like that phrase, "carpaltunnel down"!
O
omega
Re: Moon Software's RegKeyBackup
I went looking again. Closest I could get was this:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/tools/#regkeybackup
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/download/backup_oe_registry.zip
I downloaded it and looked. That zip contains the normal "Registry Key
Backup" program. It contains with it a couple of extra files that can just
be deleted:
BackupKey.rbk
Backup OE5 Registry.vbs
The only other difference is a very minor version thing. That zip has
v1.2.2 instead of 1.2.3. The bugfix relevant to the ver update was that
the toolbar images wouldn't display in 1.2.2 if end user had an older
comctl32.dll in sysdir.
Oh, I'm now reading the text of the "Backup OE5 Registry.vbs" file. Maybe
you oughtn't delete it after all. Just instead open it with notepad and
change the path, as well as the display text, and you can have your own
custom message box pop up.
.. . .
One other thing I found on my search. It helps better address my question
as to why the author pulled down his utility from his site. Sounds like
he decided to pull it until he put out a new version.
http://www.moonsoftware.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=193
: Oct 09 2003
: I have planned some minor updates to the program, so
: maybe there will be update.
: Ahto/Moon Software
:
On that page, learnt that he was from Estonia. I think this must be the
only Estonian software I've got on my rig. A rig who loves having things
from every part over the world.
I went looking again. Closest I could get was this:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/tools/#regkeybackup
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/download/backup_oe_registry.zip
I downloaded it and looked. That zip contains the normal "Registry Key
Backup" program. It contains with it a couple of extra files that can just
be deleted:
BackupKey.rbk
Backup OE5 Registry.vbs
The only other difference is a very minor version thing. That zip has
v1.2.2 instead of 1.2.3. The bugfix relevant to the ver update was that
the toolbar images wouldn't display in 1.2.2 if end user had an older
comctl32.dll in sysdir.
Oh, I'm now reading the text of the "Backup OE5 Registry.vbs" file. Maybe
you oughtn't delete it after all. Just instead open it with notepad and
change the path, as well as the display text, and you can have your own
custom message box pop up.
.. . .
One other thing I found on my search. It helps better address my question
as to why the author pulled down his utility from his site. Sounds like
he decided to pull it until he put out a new version.
http://www.moonsoftware.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=193
: Oct 09 2003
: I have planned some minor updates to the program, so
: maybe there will be update.
: Ahto/Moon Software
:
On that page, learnt that he was from Estonia. I think this must be the
only Estonian software I've got on my rig. A rig who loves having things
from every part over the world.
S
Spacey Spade
[snip]
If you are in Windows Explorer want to save the current path to your
"history of paths", can you do it with your current setup?
The only thing I know to do is copy the path from the address bar (or
with freeware NinoTech PathCopy) and paste it in a save dialog, but
would be nice to streamline... imagine dragging a save icon in any
program to windows explorer on the taskbar...
[snip]
If you are in Windows Explorer want to save the current path to your
"history of paths", can you do it with your current setup?
The only thing I know to do is copy the path from the address bar (or
with freeware NinoTech PathCopy) and paste it in a save dialog, but
would be nice to streamline... imagine dragging a save icon in any
program to windows explorer on the taskbar...
F
fitwell
Interesting. Sounds neat. Will check all this out.
O
omega
Spacey Spade said:
In DBA, it has nothing "global" going on. So you'd have to manually enter
any explorer paths, within DBA's registry key, for each individual program's
"history of paths" list. And then such a workaround would surely be too
much a time-involved a hassle to be worth it.
The closest I came to what you are talking about, it was with "FileBox
eXtender." This one does store "history of paths" from explorer navigations.
As well, this one puts histories accessible from explorer's interface, via
little icons on explorer's titlebar, with drop-down lists.
"FileBox eXtender" does global, to some extent, as far as one open/save as
used with any program, and explorer navigation histories; those generally
get combined into one central history. That which I want. The success of
this implementation, in FileBox eXtender, it is unfortunately flawed. Often
as not, I don't see a recent path. I have not identified what the pattern
is for when the path gets in there and when not.
"FileBox eXtender," in current versions, it is shareware. (time-out=no ;
nag=yes)
When I first started using it, prior to, roughly, version 1.4 or 1.5....
<AFAIR> It was completely nagless -- and further, it never told me that I
was merely evaluating and was required to purchase. It only told me that
if I wanted the option of more than two "favorites" entries on the lists,
that I would need to purchase the pay version. At the same time, it never
explicitly used the word "freeware" nor "liteware." </AFAIR>
Anyway, there is a possibility that early versions of FileBox eXtender could
be seen as sitting somewhere in the spectrum of freeware, even if borderline?
If so, leaves the other questions. 1. where to find the earlier version ;
2. does it work satisfactorily.
As far as clear freeware common dialog extenders that do path histories...
There are only a total of three available, as far as I've ever been able
to find. First, the two discussed in this thread: Qfolders and Dialog Box
Assistant. The third is Powerdesk Dialog Helper (pddlghlp.exe, distributed
with the full PowerDesk download).
DBA and Powerdesk Dialog Helper, neither of them do global, and neither
do anything about explorer histories. Qfolders, I don't remember. Fitwell
probably knows.
I'm always on the look-out for if there are ever any more options out there
within this category of add-on....
In the meantime, I've pretty much taken to FileBox eXtender. But it
leaves things to be desired, not to mention that current incarnations
are payware.
(Most recently, I discovered that I can load up three of these at once
(-qfolders), and they don't fight w each other. Of course I'm probably just
going to get myself confused that way, but we'll see.)
[snip'd]
I've not seen any satisfactory implementation for this, particularly not
in the freeware department. Like you, I constantly use explorer's address
bar, as well as a copy-path extension, for pasting into the open/save-as
dialogs.
S
Spacey Spade
If by Qfolders you mean Alexey Rubtsov Quick Folders, then I currently
use that. I also use LastQF, whose purpose in life is to start Windows
Explorer to the xth folder logged by quick folders ("...\lastqf.exe x"
with default x=1). I have LastQF right next to Explorer on the Quick
Launch toolbar.
Someone in ACF made it and emailed it to me, with the request that I
reply with either: "it works" OR "don't waste my time you bastard", so I
replied: "it works you bastard". I can upload it somewhere on request.
Spacey