I know I’m a few years behind the times, but as I admitted in a recent post, I’ve just changed my development operating system from Windows XP to Windows Vista. Continue reading
I’m finally leaving my trusty XP PC and moving to a (urgh) Vista one I bought a couple of years ago, but couldn’t face moving all the files and installing the software etc I use for programming.
I’m now editing the Ruby Rake setup file, that controls the compilation and building of the DDFileCatcher installation file, and using DDFileCatcher to get the new filepaths. Here’s how I did it: Continue reading
DDFileCatcher has been around long enough now to have gained a lot of awards from download sites. One of the first was from Shareware Junkies, the world’s oldest shareware site. Continue reading
In September, I wrote about how to use DDFileCatcher to put a file list with hyperlinks in Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice Calc, and HTML documents. Hyperlinks would display the filename, filepath, MP3 track title or filestem. For each of the four types of hyperlink, there was a choice of output document: Excel, Calc or HTML, giving a total of 12 combinations. A problem with that approach was Continue reading
Short filepath is already a file property available with DDFileCatcher. An example is: C:\PROGRA~1\ROBINM~1\DDFILE~2\ddfc400.exe.
Short filepaths can be useful in MSDOS batch files for calling external programs that do not understand long Windows filepaths, or to prevent having to put filepaths in quotes. Continue reading
A strange thing has happened over the past couple of years – as DDFileCatcher has improved, its sales have declined. The reason, I have found, is that even now, most sales are to users with Windows XP. Continue reading
I’m pleased to announce the release of version 4. What does it do?
Version 4 adds every improvement I could think of all at once. As I added more features to DDFileCatcher, I tried to keep the interface simple, but it is difficult to present options to users without increasing the chances of causing confusion. The result was too many dialogs popping up and too many steps needed from dragging and dropping files onto the program to outputting the files to the Clipboard or file. Continue reading
Windows uses back slashes in filepaths, but there are times I need to put filepaths with forward slashes into documents. Continue reading
A customer asked how he could make the file list from DDFileCatcher in Excel into a list of hyperlinks. Then he could open the files from within Excel. Continue reading
In Excel, numbers are right aligned in cells, but for a file property such as file size, which looks like this: “125 KB”, Excel would treat that as text and left align it. That doesn’t look very tidy if the values had different numbers of digits. Continue reading
