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dartClip

Introduction

dartClip is a powerful plain text clipboard extension and manager.

It's not designed for anything but plain text files, though it will actually convert RTF as well but it's one of those times where I had a need and created a solution. Perhaps no-one other would want this but it allows you to keep a selection of entries that can quickly be swapped into the clipboard and kept arranged and managed in files. You could then have a dartClip file for various projects for often used text and the alike, or for me specifically spelling of special words and names.

It runs in the system tray (By the clock on your taskbar) and it's all driven from a right click popup menu, so it's quick and easy to use, and it's all right there.

If you have ideas, let us know at the usual places, the about box is a good and easy way to do that, and obviously if there are any bug's we want to hear about those especially.

Top Features

URL List:
Keep a list of URL's that pass through your Clipboard automatically for launch or copying to the clipboard.
Files:
For set's of entries for projects etc.
History:
A collection of the last 255 text's that have been on your text board.
Keyword Catcher:
Set a keyword and automatically add an entry when it's found on the clipboard
Clipboard Viewer:
View the current text on the clipboard and optionally change it.
Easy to Use:
The application is easy to use and everything you need is quickly to hand.
Dynamic Entries:
Through the use of MojoTags you can actually change the content of an entry on execution
Dynamic Clipboard:
It's possible to set the clipboard to Auto-Change. Just set up what's to change and the clipboard will auto-change within around a second.
Consolodation:
Through the use of the 'Include' MojoTag it's possible to copy a consolodated file to the clipboard, or export it the same way to a file.
Execution:
Run a list of filenames, (With or without parameters) or just execute the contents of the entry.
Export:
Export entries to text files. This will run and change the MojoTags too. This works with MojoTags too!
Managers:
A host of managers for the special features, all using a similiar interface to be easy to learn and quick to use
Quick Start Guide:
It comes with a quick start help file with how to get going quickly, as well as a little more detailed information for other functionality (WIP)
Sort Into Categories:
Now you can add categories to your entries and they will be displayed in sub-menu's to each of the commands, (i.e. Copy To, Edit Etc..). To further sort your entries into managable menus.

Updates

01/07/2023
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Updated: URL Collector checks for ">" as an ending now as well for links copied from tags.

Update: Various quality of life improvements, and hints added to controls.

Added: Search Entries (Title, Contents, Tag) - Not Case Sensitive, list's found and you can copy from the search result dialog.  Might Add Other Functionality Later.

Added: Search Action to Popup Menu

Updated: Improved Search by adding a proper dialog with optionals, and Added Export To, to Search Results Dialog.

30/06/2023
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Added: Execute Selector on Popup, will shell exec the entry

Updated: Reorganized the popup menu

Updated: Execute only enables File or Directory Exists for contents.

Update: Recent Items didn't have code hooked up, fixed that.

Add: Clear history to History menu, only enabled menu if history is present

Add: Clear Recent Items, only enabled menu if mru has >0

Update: Reassigned a few Short Keys

Removed: LF from DoNotifier Calls, so should get rid of extra lines.

Updated: Execute has a few tricks, put @ in the title and it'll run each line seperately, put a | in the line and it'll seperate into command and then the parameter and run the first as the exe file to run and pass the second.,  If you add another parameter say WAIT then it'll wait for execution otherwise it'll just continue execution without the wait.

Added: Help File, with useful quick start. (Copy QStart to Website).

Updated: Copy to...now has similiar functionality in that if first char of title is '#' then it's treated specially.  It'll replace mojoTags, there's some standard which I'll need to put in the help file, and you can have your own too. (Need to add the ability to add/edit MojoTags).  This means that the MojoTags will be replaced at copy to selection allowing for dynamic clipboard entries in effect.   But first char of title must be '#' and then tags are surronded by '#' in the actual entry content.

Updated: Copy To Mojo Tag Entries show the mojoTag icon.

Updated: The use of standard macro's is enabled in Execute Entries.

Added: The Include Tag to Standard MojoTags, takes the form Include=<filename> surronded by #'s (Hashes).

Updated: Export To now allows the use of tags too.

Updated: Execute allows the use of custom tags now.

Updated: All Menu Items for Entries now tidy out '#' and '@'

Updated: You don't actually need the '#' now on "Copy To" it automatically does the macro replacement on any item, left the other identifiers in anyway, it's a good way to make them stand out on the list.

Added: Auto-Change, Dynamic Clipboard Word Changing.

Added: Categories, can file the entries via category now. Also a category List Manager Dialog has been added.  Empty categories will be disabled.

Added: Category Manager Button to Entry Dialog

29/06/2023
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Updated: Created Project

Updated: Created UI

Updated: Basic Functionality

Updated: Slowed down the update to 1 second, it was catching per line @ 250ms

Added: URL Functionality, capture, copy to, launch

Added: Keyword Catcher, enter a keyword and it it's found in the clipboard it'll automatically add an entry in the file.

Added: Relavant Keyword Catcher Options, enable and case-sensitivity.

Updated: Enabled URL Optional, didn't actually code it in.

Added: MailTo: and Steam: to checked URL Protocols

Added: URL Capture should now strip the url out of the text and nothing before or after the URL.  (Only does this once per the Capture).

Updated: Will not add entries that are blank for history now, in fact it exits the checker if the clipboard.astext is '';

Added: Last Entry to Clipboard for History

Updated: Current History Entry is Defaulted (Bolded)

Updated: Adding a keyword catch no longer will add if the contents already exist in another entry, this should stop a lot of duplicate entries being created.  Still allows duplicates to be added purposefully, this only applies to catching keywords.  Even a single character will change the entry though and it'll add the different entry, but that's expected behaviour and what we want.

Downloads

Download:	Size:	Type
dartClip_Inst.exe - This Site	approx. 4 mb	Installer - Help

Screen-Shots

The Main Interface (Pop-Up Menu)
Displaying the right click menu from the System Tray.

The Entry Editor
When Adding/Editing/Importing Entries this dialog allows you to edit the entry.

The URL Manager
An example of one of the manager dialogues.

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