Q-Clips 4.01 is a Windows Clipboard Extender that enhances and extends the Windows clipboard by remembering all items (text, graphics, color numbers and files) that are copied to the clipboard and storing them in a collection for later pasting... even after you shut off your computer. The program also features a built in Screen Capture tool, with magnify window, so you can capture any portion of the screen, the desktop, or active window, and send the contents to Q-Clips. While you work in your editor, word processor, graphic imaging program or virtually any Windows program, Q-Clips sits in your windows system tray... capturing all data that is copied to the Windows Clipboard. When you need to access those clips press the system wide HotKey... click on the desired clip and it will automatically paste into your program. Many features and options including saving Images as JPEG, multiple capture types, color themes and a color capture tool. For details on all features and their use view the Q-Clips Help Manual included in this upload and available from the Q-Clips Help Menu. (Ver. 4.01 Update: Added View Color Tool to view actual color of captured color number and more. Please see readme.txt file for all Update History Details.)
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Very, very nice! The program is extremely helpful. I will be using this program frequently. Thanks! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Anyway to set files back into the clipboard? It shows the path but loads back into the clipboard as text. Just wondering if I'm missing something. Thanks for sharing. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Hey this is really a nice one.... I liked the way everything in the clipboard is preserved ... Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing this (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Hi Mark: You are correct. Files to be copied appear as text and are pasted as text. Initially had request from users to have the filenames available as text. Now I've created a way to do both. Version 3 update (to be posted this week) will paste to clipboard and programs like Windows Explorer as actual file copies. To view filenames as text you can choose Open, Open with..., or by left clicking on Thumbnail. Thanks for the feedback! (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Okay... update now available. Couple new features plus a modified paste feature for file-copy clips. See the readme.txt file for details - Tom (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Sorry but this doesnt work, take a screen shot then view the captured image and its blank, doesnt matter what I try its blank, something has changed since the previous version as the one before the update worked. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Hey Jason: I downloaded this update file from PSC on three different computers today after receiving your comment. Two XP machines and one Vista. The screen capture works perfectly on all three systems. I'm not sure what's going on with your system... especially since the first version worked on your computer. The only change to the screen capture module in this update was adding the ReleaseDC command in the Load event in frmCapture.frm. See if commenting that line out makes any difference. The ReleaseDC function releases a device context (DC), freeing it for use by other applications. It's not critical to successful operation of this capture routine and could be removed since I believe the DC is released by VB when the capture form is unloaded anyway. Please let me know if that made a difference on your system. Also I'm curious as to the operating system/config you are using. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
A couple of minor comments. There are a lot of occasions where you use variants (e.g. Dim i, j) instead of properly defined variables which is very inefficient. Also your definition of Writeprivateprofilestring is incorrect - it returns a long not an integer as you have it. However this is probably the best clipboard manager I've seen - 5 from me. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
This is a really great thing; thanks for sharing. The Capture function is well made but here I have a proposal: In the most cases where we have to take a screen shot, we would like to save the Active Window (e.g. an Explorer Window showing a diretcory or Error messages delivered by MsgBox).
So Q-Clips should have a Button "Capture Active Window" and say in a MsgBox: "Five seconds after you close this dialog the active window will be captured. Please activate the window you want to capture!
I have the appropriate code and will try to integrate it. But I think this option would be usefull for the whole world using your excellent Q-Clips... ;-) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Hi Alfred: Thank you for the kind words and feedback. Actually capturing the active window is already built in. Just press Alt-PrtScn buttons on your keyboard and the active window will be captured and saved in Q-Clips. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Wow - already implemented: Alt/PrintScreen! Mea culpa, Tom; I should RTFM (Read The F_%_*ing Manual)!!! The PDF is a perfect User Guide - but as always - we don't read it. Sorry - and thank you! Q-Clips will now have the same status on my systems as Kernel32... ;-) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Excellent code and enjoy using it. One thing to make this better (in my view) would be to save the files as .png. 5*'s. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Alfred: More correctly, you should read the Windows Help documentation. Alt+PrintScreen has been built into Windows since Windows 95, along with dozens of other keyboard shortcuts. As for the code...: There's a lot that can be shortened and simplified, such as all of the successive calls to the INI APIs (WritePrivateProfileString, etc.). Also, as a suggestion, upon saving, you should ZIP or otherwise archive the collected files together, and name the saved files with the date/time, and add a variable to hold a session ID that can be used to differentiate between which archive(s) hold data for the present application session, and which ones are simply archives; on this note, if the auto-save functionality is enabled, rather than ZIPping the files, you should simply name the files sequentially and ZIP/archive them all at the end of the session; it may even prove useful to save the files in some sort of file system structure, such as Cache\[Date]\[SessionID], and then [CONT->] (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
[<-CONT] simply ZIP all of the day's sessions at the end of the day, or collect and archive based on the current session when the user chooses to save the session. Also, you should reduce the size of your resources, as half of the executable size is simply bitmaps. One more idea: List the data length of each entry. Overall a decent submission; with a few slight modifications, this is also VB5-compatible. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
AOTChronoTrigger: Thanks. But the Windows/Office-complex is much too large to Read all TFM and to pick up all the hidden features in only one lifetime ;-) Alfred (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Nice code, one suggestion when saving files please give the option to save the file as text with the option ANSII and UTF8, SO THAT UNICODE TEXT WILL COPIED CORRECTLY. OTHERWISE IT SAVE AS RTF FILE BUT THESE FILES DOEST SHOW CORRECTLY WITH WORD (RTF) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Mr. Moran, thank you for sending the pdf file, and I admit I inadvertently overlooked it in the original download from Planet Source Code. Great Program!
Herman Carnell McCrea (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
Hermano: The Q-Clips Help Manual (PDF) is included in the download and is accessible from the Help Menu of Q-Clips. Enjoy! - Tom (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
In responce to some comments above, I quite like the way the old and new clips all list together just like a real Windows utility, rather than like a more complicated application - the immediacy is what I love about it..
cont'd (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
I have made some small changes - to skip adding repeat items, and to skip adding all the VB Ide icons that are blasted to the clipboard when it loads. Would be happy to pass these changes on to you.
Again, great utility, and big thanks for sharing.
Happy coding, Rd :) (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
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