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[Boskoop]

You are right of course. Thanks for the hint! I posted an updated version.

Boskoop

[finet]

Kollektor is very usefull. Thanks!

(1) I wonder if it would be possible to refine the search in het following sense.
I have a collection of 1000 sentences.
500 sentences have the word "Kollektor" in it
100 "Kollektor" AND "wonderfull".
7 "Kollektor" AND "wonderfull" AND "Thanks"

-> First I enter "Kollektor" and the 500 sentences appear. Then I put a mark (e.g. |) and type "wonderfull" and I have 100 sentences. Then | and "Thanks" and I get 7 sentences.

(2) It works now with one line sentences. Is it possible to have paragraphs (e.g. when entered in collection.txt a special mark is added in stead of lthe line break, before pasting the mark is replace by line break)


Dirk

[finet]

If it would be possible to exclude lines with certain strings, one could use a Treepad file as the "collection" file.
Treepad is a very fine program for maintaining information.

Thanks!

Dirk

[Boskoop]

Thanks for your nice feedback and your ideas.
1. Unfortunately I cannot add Boolean operators. In the first place this task is too complicate for me. Furthermore- Kollektor and its "mother" SearchNPaste (a similiar tool that can search small databases in CSV-format) are rather slow. When the lists or databases get large enough to make Boolean operators useful, the tool is too slow.

2.

[SoLong&Thx4AllTheFish]

I've made a modified version of the Kollektor script to suit my needs, perhaps someone else will find it useful as well. See below for a list of changes/new features.

Name: Kollektor++
Last update: 27/05/2007
Version: 0.4 (0.3 = Kollektor)

Based on Kollektor_03.ahk (Author: Boskoop, Date: 23.3.06)
Download here : http://autohotkey.net/Boskoop/Kollektor.zip
AHK Forum here : http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2534
--> Boskoop also made SearchNPaste which works with CSV files
and can be found here http://autohotkey.net/Boskoop/SearchNPaste.zip

With Kollektor++ you can search in multiple taglists, or collections.

After you start the script you can activate the program by pressing the hotkey (CAPSLOCK by default).

Based on the active program title, a specific taglist can be loaded into memory and searched. By pressing ENTER, clicking OK or a double click on an item in the list the text is pasted in the active program.

You can also use the up and down keys to navigate trough the list or manually select a different taglist. If you choose a taglist from the dropdownlist, that file will remain active until you click the 'Reset' button.

To add to contents of the clipboard to a taglist, click on the ADD button.

German comments in the script came from the original script Kollektor_03.ahk (see link above). Most new/changed lines are marked with ; k++

INI FILE

You can define the triggers/taglists in the INI file like so (X = digit)

TriggerX= part of a window title
FileX = filename of taglist

Example:

[LISTS]
Default=Default.txt ; if no title match is found, load the default taglist
Trigger1=css
File1=css.txt
Trigger2=Microsoft Excel
File2=projectcodes.txt

--> If the window title of the active program contains 'CSS' the taglist css.txt will be loaded if you start Kollektor++. If it was 'Microsoft Excel' projectcodes.txt is loaded, etc.

BUG(s):

- The type ahead behaviour of the file dropdownlist doesn't really work as it should, at the moment I don't know how to fix this, but I do not find it annoying

- I did notice that with some programs the text is pasted twice (firefox and thunderbird on w2k), but I don't use it much for those programs. Perhaps replacing {Control down}v{Control up} with ^v in ButtonOK might help (not tested)

- Not really a bug, but: The separator sign is shown in ListBox1, but I need that to be able to search multiple lines, can be easily change back to original behaviour, see commented line in ReadDBFile

CHANGES to the script:

Minor:
- Removed some variables from the script that where being read from INI file
- Translated some of the shorter German comments to English

New / updated sections:

- Rewrote MakeINI, ReadINI -> Now merged into one function
- At the beginning of GUIStart get ActiveWindowTitle, check if the ActiveWindowTitle matches a trigger if so change DBFile accordingly
- ButtonAdd now asks for confirmation before adding text to the current taglist
- Removed help

GUI Modifications:

- Added status bar, indicating active file, number of hits/total
- Removed delete button (files are managed in INI file)
- Removed help button (removed help function)

Suggestions for improvement:

- It wouldn't be to hard to introduce variables in the taglist, e.g. %d inserts the date at that position (just like texter)
- Negative search: find|exclude (just like iswitch)
- Skip commented lines, e.g. lines starting with ; or empty lines
(The first solution I had wasn't foolproof and the second reads the taglist twice making the script slower)

[emirvisir]

Hello there,

Thanks for this wonderful script!

What I intend to do is to add the following:
- If I search in my kollektor list and the entry I want to paste is three lines below, keypad 3 will go there
- key combination will highlight previous word, copy it and call kollektor

I want to think about ways to make it faster.

Cheers,

Miguel

[SouzaRM]

Extremely good. Very nice
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[stressbaby]

Ditto, great script.
Can this script be adapted to accept text with formatting?

[anon]

[c8ped8p]

will listbox or kollector allow me to look for lines of words in a txt file and be able to exclude showing those lines if they contain a specific keyword?
An example would be display all "Item sold:" instances in the file but exclude showing them if the line has the keyword "statue" anywhere in the line.

[Joy2DWorld]