Should I improve TmpCreat?
Harry Potter
* increasing its template limit to 64 templates each for 128 file
types;
* adding command-line options;
* creating a utility program to pack and distribute templates;
* perhaps add multiple customizable color schemes, and
* add a favorite directories option to the file dialog boxes.
Should I? I have 40 downloads so far. Please offer feedback!
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Joseph Rose, a.k.a. Harry Potter
Working magic in the computer commmunity...or at least striving to! :(
Jim Leonard
> I can improve TmpCreat (Template Creator for DOS) by:
>
> * increasing its template limit to 64 templates each for 128 file
> types;
> * adding command-line options;
> * creating a utility program to pack and distribute templates;
> * perhaps add multiple customizable color schemes, and
> * add a favorite directories option to the file dialog boxes.
No, I would put your efforts into a program that people will actually
use. There is no need for a graphical, more cumbersome replacement
for the DOS "copy" command. You seemed to have filled a need that
doesn't exist.
Or, make your program an *actual* template program by allowing the
templates to have user-replaceable fields in them, similar to how mail-
merge functionality works in word processors. That is functionality
not easily duplicated at the DOS command-line. While there still
isn't much of a need for that, at least it will be something that
there is no easy equivalent for in the DOS world for people who don't
own word processors.
aiia...@gmail.com
Ted Davis
> Or, make your program an *actual* template program by allowing the
> templates to have user-replaceable fields in them, similar to how mail-
> merge functionality works in word processors. That is functionality not
> easily duplicated at the DOS command-line. While there still isn't much
> of a need for that, at least it will be something that there is no easy
> equivalent for in the DOS world for people who don't own word processors.
I do this all the time, mostly to generate web pages that differ only in
such tings as a number, or to generate fully formatted links from a tab
delimited list of names and (partial) links. Awk one liners and pattern
files. For example, just yesterday, I had to redo several hundred pages
that are wrappers for images - they reload the image every 18 seconds (the
images are one-shot animations that need to be reloaded to cause them to
reanimate). This was what I did
for %A in (room_images\*.gif) do (awk "{gsub(/ROOM/, \"%~nA\");print
$0} room_html.pattern > room_images\%~nA.html)
That replaced the ROOM marker with the base name of the image file (the
room number) in two places in the pattern file and wrote the modified copy
to the same directory as the images with the room number as the name and
.html as the extension. A similar scheme is used to generate the body
parts of very complex index menu pages where the source file consists of
people or laboratory names and room numbers and the pattern file contains
the link string with markers for ROOM and NAME. That stuff is part of a
touch screen operated building directory built around Apache and Firefox
(in kiosk mode).
WHile I'm working in XP, gawk (awk) is available for just about every OS
that has a command prompt or terminal interface and so is functionality
similar to CMD's FOR, though it might be necessary to parse the file name
in awk itself and write to the file inside the script instead of by
redirection - in most cases, it would still be a one-liner.
--
T.E.D. (tda...@mst.edu) MST (Missouri University of Science and Technology)
used to be UMR (University of Missouri - Rolla).
Bill Buckels
"Harry Potter" <maspet...@aol.com> wrote:
>Should I?
If you want to make this even more robust than it already is, you should
definitely make this available as a bootable VMWARE or Virtual PC Disk
Image. That way people on MacIntoshes and on Linux machines could enjoy your
application in a virtualized environment.
>I have 40 downloads so far. Please offer feedback!
If you keep after us to download this you may even get 41 or 42 downloads. I
already count myself as among the first 40 to download this and I have no
use for it whatsoever. I wouldn't be surprised if the other 39 say the same.
All the best,
Bill
Polymorph
Joseph,
A couple of constructive criticisms. If you're going to write software
(and I encourage you to do so) and expect people to try it out and
report feedback, you need to at the very least:
(a) make the software download location well known (I have no idea
where to get it), and saying "search for XXX" isn't good enough IMHO;
and
(b) be able to articulate clearly what the purpose of the software is
and how its use would be beneficial to others, preferably on a web
site where you can detail its use, etc. If people don't know what the
software is useful for, they aren't likely to download it.
Without the above you are lucky to have even 40 downloads.
Just my 2 cents worth.
Cheers,
Mike
Garberstreet Electronics
"Bill Buckels" <bbuc...@mts.net> wrote in message
news:CTITl.37353$ho7....@newsfe10.iad...
>
> "Harry Potter" <maspet...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>>Should I?
>
> If you want to make this even more robust than it
> already is, you should definitely make this available
> as a bootable VMWARE or Virtual PC Disk Image. That
> way people on MacIntoshes and on Linux machines could
> enjoy your application in a virtualized environment.
>
>> I have 40 downloads so far. Please offer feedback!
>
> If you keep after us to download this you may even get
> 41 or 42 downloads. I already count myself as among the
> same.
I had surely downloaded it, but, not only do I not use
it, I've got no clue as to it's whereabouts. ;-)
Garberstreet Electronics
http://www.garberstreet.com
5k3105
why don't you take up a programming language that will make you some $
$? get a dreamweaver book and become expert, make a few web pages for
your resume/portfolio and hire yourself out. maybe you should become a
snazy c# developer. just buy the book and apply to some jobs. then you
could use that experience to come back and write some really
meaningful C64/128 apps.
good luck!
Groepaz
> JR,
>
> why don't you take up a programming language that will make you some $
> $? get a dreamweaver book and become expert,
ymmd
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