New version of Fingertips 1.3 available

[Taco Oosterkamp]

Hi there,

I have released version 1.3 of Fingertips and it turns out that it has quite a few fixes and improvements over previous versions of Fingertips.

I'd like a small group of people to test it before releasing it to the general public, so if you want please download it here: http://www.getfingertips.com/downloads/gamma/fingertips-setup-1-3.exe

Enjoy,
Taco



Fingertips 1.3 gamma

Bugs fixed
Fixed a bug where Fingertips would crash when you executed a URL that was longer than 255 characters.
Fingertips will now see a double quote (") or a single quote (') as the end of a URL when checking the contents of the clipboard.
Implemented a better way to display the icon of the default browser.
Fixed a bug where the Clipboard History database file was not cleared when choosing the 'Clear Clipboard History' menu item.
Improved Twitter error handling.
Added two CRLF's after the 'FINGERTIPS ACRONYMS' title in the exported text of the List command.
We received a few reports from people losing their commands, on Windows XP computers only it seems. This release contains a modification that may fix that problem, but as we cannot test for an issue that happens only ever so often, we are not sure. Please send us an e-mail if you encounter this issue on your computer with this version of Fingertips.

Database location
You can now specify a different foldername for the settings and the databases using the fingertips.ini file that is located in the same folder as fingertips.exe. This should allow for running Fingertips from a USB stick, putting the files in the AppData folder or any other place where you'd like to store them. The sample fingertips.ini contains some suggestions on how to use this.

Options dialog
Upgraded the look and feel of the Options Dialog.
Added some explanation on the Options Dialog about the Start Menu Items. We received a lot of e-mail about this, and hope that this new functionality is more clear now.
The List command now respects the 'Hide' checkboxes and the words that are entered in the 'Search' edit fields for both commands and acronyms.
You can now copy a Start Menu item or an Internet Explorer Favorite. The copy will be a regular application/URL action.
Added a checkbox 'Hide Start Menu Items' to the Options Dialog.
Any double quote characters (") will now be stripped from a Filename, before trying to execute an application.
The 'select Outlook folder' button with the ellipsis (...) has been removed and replaced by another button named 'Folder' for easier access by keyboard.
The Fingertype list on the Options Dialog will now display a description, even if the description field has not been filled in. It will then show the first characters of the phrase itself.

Speed
Greatly improved the speed of re-reading the database after modifications have been made in the Options Dialog.

Parameter handling
New Twitter commands will now automatically have a '{1}' in the What are you doing? box. This {1} will be replaced with the first parameter (the actual text) you type in the Fingertips command window.
You can now use comma's in Tweets. When an action definition does not contain {2} or {3}, Fingertips will put all parameter content in {1}, including parameter separators (that is a comma by default).
You can now press the Tab key in the command window to add a parameter separator and a space. This makes it easier to add parameter separators that are not so easily reachable on the keyboard, like the pipe symbol (|) if you'd like to use such a symbol instead of a comma.

Outlook
Finally found a way to keep the default Outlook signature when creating a new mail! Right now this will only work if you do not modify the Body field from Fingertips.
Added some code to try to make sure that new Outlook Items would receive focus properly on Windows Vista, instead of showing the flashing button on the taskbar when another application has the focus. Not sure yet if this really does fix it.

Fingertype
Fingertype now recognizes a dot (.) as the beginning of a new line. Right after the dot you can start typing a Fingertype acronym.
When you use the spacebar to expand an acronym, Fingertype will now add a space after the phrase automatically. When you use the Tab key to expand to acronym, this will not be done.

Miscellaneous
Removed the Windows Taskbar Balloons - as they had some nasty side effects. Replaced the functionality with our own Fingertips balloon.
Fingertips will now display an error message (in the new balloon) when a file or document cannot be found.

[Taco Oosterkamp]

Hi mingwan,

Please send an e-mail to [e-mail] and I will help you solve this.

Kind regards,
Taco Oosterkamp

[mingwan]

I had to change the time (2038-12-31), will not be able to run the software prompts:
Your system clock appears to have been set back, possibly in an attempt to defeat the security system on this program. Please correct your system clock before trying to run this program again. If your clock is correct, please contact the author of this program for instructions on correcting this error (report code CCB-F).

Time to adjust to the present can not be used, I would like to ask how to deal with?Thanks