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AICkieran · Jan 25th, 2006, 8:53 PM

This may sound a bit jumbled but........

I get pissed with text files EVERYWHERE, My idea is to have like a global hotkey that when pressed will grab the highlighted text in any window and put it into an SQLite DB, or an xml file. Does anyone else think this is a good idea? Which you can later access the text with a simple client and from there save > print > export to a PDF, other random crud.

I would like to hear peoples opinions, Would it be worth spending the time on, Do you think people other than myself will use it? Do you think its a stupid idea? any problems i may run into?

Thanks

kieran

:banana:

jayme · Jan 25th, 2006, 9:42 PM

Wouldn't highlighting all the text files, right clicking on one and selecting "Open with..." have the same affect? Or do you mean put all the text files into one file?

AICkieran · Jan 26th, 2006, 9:36 AM

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Originally Posted by jayme

Wouldn't highlighting all the text files, right clicking on one and selecting "Open with..." have the same affect? Or do you mean put all the text files into one file?

into one file or database. Database probibally the best option. Just sick of seeing them all over the place :-)

jayme · Jan 26th, 2006, 10:11 AM

I would be able to do it if i knew more about managing windows files. It would be as simple as copying the file to a string and appending it to a single text file then deleting the file being copied. I guess you could use a wildcard to select all the text files, but unless the program asked for input, the user would have to copy all the files to be combined, into a specific folder which not everyone would have. Some people have one C drive, some people have one D drive..

I'm going to try this out, i'll post back once i'm done. It most likely won't be done in a database, probably just a text file. I haven't worked with any databases yet.

AICkieran · Jan 26th, 2006, 1:13 PM

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Originally Posted by jayme

I would be able to do it if i knew more about managing windows files. It would be as simple as copying the file to a string and appending it to a single text file then deleting the file being copied. I guess you could use a wildcard to select all the text files, but unless the program asked for input, the user would have to copy all the files to be combined, into a specific folder which not everyone would have. Some people have one C drive, some people have one D drive..

I'm going to try this out, i'll post back once i'm done. It most likely won't be done in a database, probably just a text file. I haven't worked with any databases yet.

It will be more complicated than that, thats the point it doesnt ask for input, You just highlight the text and press say F5 (user can define the hotkey) i just need to find an efficient way to do this. Im not talking about just copying text files to a database, its for say i go onto this site and theres a code snippet i wanna save i highlight press F5 and it goes into a database, hopefully it will solve the problem of text files everywhere.

Jan 25th, 2006, 8:53 PM	#1
AICkieran Programmer Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: UK Posts: 55 Rep Power: 3	Hello :-) This may sound a bit jumbled but........ I get pissed with text files EVERYWHERE, My idea is to have like a global hotkey that when pressed will grab the highlighted text in any window and put it into an SQLite DB, or an xml file. Does anyone else think this is a good idea? Which you can later access the text with a simple client and from there save > print > export to a PDF, other random crud. I would like to hear peoples opinions, Would it be worth spending the time on, Do you think people other than myself will use it? Do you think its a stupid idea? any problems i may run into? Thanks kieran :banana:

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