Re: Simple macro programs - report back

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Posted by sub
2006-01-04 01:37:37

Jack,

Thanks for the wrap-up; it’s very useful as a starting point regardless of the actual application one has in mind.

Your findings on resource use seem to confirm my own experience, about a year ago, when searching for a clip manager. I found ClipMate the heavier and X2Net Smartboard not far back.

I ended up with a Smartboard license because I required scripting for what I had in mind (a sort of poor man’s Zoot auto-classification of useful text clippings). In practice, I never used it. The program was slow, as some programs based on the .NET framework tend to be, even on my faster machine.

I find that the heavy resource use in a clipboard manager is a serious drawback because, as copy/pasting is such a regular activity, it interferes with most other applications. Add to this the reluctance of most developers to provide a global hotkey to switch their clip managers on/off.

I’m eagerly awaiting the release of ClipCache 3 to try it out; I didn’t have much patience with the Beta version. But I admit that my eagerness probably represents CRIMP more than actual need. In practice I ended up using Brainstorm with MagicPaste as my clip manager, which suits me fine;again, the only thing I missed was a hotkey.

alx

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