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Text Grabber ~~~~~~~~~~~~ An OmniDesk Utility by Richard G. Hallas Text Grabber is a very versatile utility for transferring text around the desktop. It can be used to copy text between virtually any two text areas, and there is no limit on the amount of text that can be handled. Therefore, Text Grabber can also be used as a kind of extra clip-board for text which is external to your word processor. Its use is slightly more complicated than might at first be apparent, and will be dealt with shortly. Clicking Menu over the coordinates window presents the main utility menu: 'Info' leads to a standard information window. 'Clear text' will make Text Grabber lose the text it currently knows about, and release the memory which it was occupying. 'Type text out' makes Text Grabber type the text to the caret, just as if it were being typed at the keyboard. The menu item will be ticked whilst this is happening, and you can stop the process before it has finished by choosing the menu item again. If there is no caret, the computer will simply beep. Note that whilst Text Grabber is typing text the keyboard is still enabled, so if you type something yourself it will mix in with the text from Text Grabber. Also, if you move the caret, the typed text will of course follow it. 'Window position' leads to a window which lets you determine where the coordinates window appears on the screen. This corresponds to an invisible grid, and when you change screen mode the window will snap to this grid. (This feature can be disabled by clicking Adjust on the small window icon, which makes it disappear.) 'Save text' lets you save your grabbed text out as a file. 'Save settings' will save the screen location of the coordinates window. Using Text Grabber ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Grabbing -------- Text Grabber can take text from two sources: icons on the desktop or text files saved into it. Saving text into Text Grabber is a simple matter of either dragging a file onto its window from a Filer display, or marking some text in your word processor (etc) and dragging the file icon from the save (or save selection) window into Text�Grabber. In order to grab text from icons, you must use the 'Grab text' button. When you click on this, the pointer changes into a hand with a pointing finger. Move the finger to the text you require, and click. With any luck, the text you pointed to will appear in the Text�Grabber window. Unfortunately, due to the way the desktop works, this cannot be guaranteed. Some bits of text which look as though they ought to be icons are not icons at all (for example, files in Filer directories) and cannot be grabbed. Text Grabber can, in fact, grab sprites! For example, if you click on the 'Grab text' button and follow it by pointing on the Palette utility icon on the icon-bar, you will see "palette" (the name of the sprite) appear in the Text Grabber window. As well as text and sprite icons, Text Grabber can also grab the contents of window title bars. This is very useful for extracting full path-names from Filer windows. Note: Although Text Grabber can hold any amount of text (memory permitting), only a small portion of text can be displayed in the Text Grabber window. As much text as can fit will be shown, and if some overflows an arrow (�) will appear at the end. In some rare cases the displayed text can overflow the display area. This looks messy, but is nothing to worry about (and is unavoidable). Also note that Text Grabber filters out control characters, and displays carriage returns as '�' to save space. When exporting text, carriage returns are preserved but other control characters are not. Exporting --------- Exporting text is slightly more complicated than grabbing. There are four ways of exporting text: transmitting, injecting, saving and typing. In order: 'Transmitting' text: When you click Select on the 'Export button', the text in the Text Grabber window will be sent to the caret instantly. This is the normal method of operation. 'Injecting' text: This is the exact opposite of the way the 'Grab text' button works. If you click Adjust on the 'Export' button, the pointer will change into a pointing hand, with which you then indicate to Text Grabber where you want the text to go. If you point at the background of the window containing the caret, Text Grabber will behave just as though you transmitted the text to the caret in the normal way; otherwise it will try to inject the text into the icon you pointed to. This is less likely to work than the grabbing equivalent, as many icons are 'read-only'. 'Saving' text behaves in exactly the same way as any other application: you open the Save window from the main menu, and drag the file to where you want the text to go. If you are dragging to another application (rather than a Filer directory), RAM transmission is used so that the operation is very fast. 'Typing' text is for cases where none of the above work. Choose the 'Type text out' option from the main menu, and Text Grabber will type it for you. This is the least preferable option as it is the slowest, and is susceptible to accidents if you continue to use the computer whilst it is operating. Hot-keys -------- Hot-keys play a very important part in Text Grabber. As well as duplicating some of the functions mentioned above, they also provide a couple of extra features which are not otherwise available. There are four hot-key combinations: CTRL-COPY: This is similar to the 'Grab text' button, but works instantly, and grabs the text under the pointer. CTRL-SHIFT-COPY: In one move, this key-press grabs the text under the pointer and sends it straight to the caret. CTRL-INSERT: This is similar to the Adjust-'Export' button, but works instantly, injecting the text into the icon under the pointer. CTRL-SHIFT-INSERT: This is the same as the normal 'Export' function, and sends the grabbed text straight to the caret. It is possible to grab text from menus, but only by using the CTRL-COPY and CTRL-SHIFT-COPY hot-key combinations. Although you can click on 'Grab text' and then point to an open menu structure, as far as Text Grabber is concerned, the menu will be closed before it can grab the text. However, using the hot-keys should usually be successful. WARNING ======= Every possible effort has be made to ensure that Text Grabber functions correctly and does not cause the computer to crash, and it is unlikely that any problems will be experienced with its use. Illegal actions simply result in warning messages from Text Grabber. However, Text Grabber performs some unusual functions, and the 'inject text into icons' facility is potentially capable of causing the program it is used on to crash. Therefore, be careful that you do not have any unsaved work if you use this facility. There is one potential way of making the utility crash, although the circumstances are highly improbable: if you try to grab the contents of a title bar of a window which is more than 32K in size, then Text Grabber may crash. However, this would require the window in question to contain a vast number of icons (they only take 88 bytes each), and so it is highly unlikely that it would happen.
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Note that wh| 00000430 69 6c 73 74 20 54 65 78 74 20 47 72 61 62 62 65 |ilst Text Grabbe| 00000440 72 20 69 73 20 74 79 70 69 6e 67 0a 74 65 78 74 |r is typing.text| 00000450 20 74 68 65 20 6b 65 79 62 6f 61 72 64 20 69 73 | the keyboard is| 00000460 20 73 74 69 6c 6c 20 65 6e 61 62 6c 65 64 2c 20 | still enabled, | 00000470 73 6f 20 69 66 20 79 6f 75 20 74 79 70 65 20 73 |so if you type s| 00000480 6f 6d 65 74 68 69 6e 67 20 79 6f 75 72 73 65 6c |omething yoursel| 00000490 66 0a 69 74 20 77 69 6c 6c 20 6d 69 78 20 69 6e |f.it will mix in| 000004a0 20 77 69 74 68 20 74 68 65 20 74 65 78 74 20 66 | with the text f| 000004b0 72 6f 6d 20 54 65 78 74 20 47 72 61 62 62 65 72 |rom Text Grabber| 000004c0 2e 20 41 6c 73 6f 2c 20 69 66 20 79 6f 75 20 6d |. Also, if you m| 000004d0 6f 76 65 20 74 68 65 0a 63 61 72 65 74 2c 20 74 |ove the.caret, t| 000004e0 68 65 20 74 79 70 65 64 20 74 65 78 74 20 77 69 |he typed text wi| 000004f0 6c 6c 20 6f 66 20 63 6f 75 72 73 65 20 66 6f 6c |ll of course fol| 00000500 6c 6f 77 20 69 74 2e 0a 0a 27 57 69 6e 64 6f 77 |low it...'Window| 00000510 20 70 6f 73 69 74 69 6f 6e 27 20 6c 65 61 64 73 | position' leads| 00000520 20 74 6f 20 61 20 77 69 6e 64 6f 77 20 77 68 69 | to a window whi| 00000530 63 68 20 6c 65 74 73 20 79 6f 75 20 64 65 74 65 |ch lets you dete| 00000540 72 6d 69 6e 65 20 77 68 65 72 65 20 74 68 65 0a |rmine where the.| 00000550 63 6f 6f 72 64 69 6e 61 74 65 73 20 77 69 6e 64 |coordinates wind| 00000560 6f 77 20 61 70 70 65 61 72 73 20 6f 6e 20 74 68 |ow appears on th| 00000570 65 20 73 63 72 65 65 6e 2e 20 54 68 69 73 20 63 |e screen. This c| 00000580 6f 72 72 65 73 70 6f 6e 64 73 20 74 6f 20 61 6e |orresponds to an| 00000590 0a 69 6e 76 69 73 69 62 6c 65 20 67 72 69 64 2c |.invisible grid,| 000005a0 20 61 6e 64 20 77 68 65 6e 20 79 6f 75 20 63 68 | and when you ch| 000005b0 61 6e 67 65 20 73 63 72 65 65 6e 20 6d 6f 64 65 |ange screen mode| 000005c0 20 74 68 65 20 77 69 6e 64 6f 77 20 77 69 6c 6c | the window will| 000005d0 20 73 6e 61 70 0a 74 6f 20 74 68 69 73 20 67 72 | snap.to this gr| 000005e0 69 64 2e 20 28 54 68 69 73 20 66 65 61 74 75 72 |id. (This featur| 000005f0 65 20 63 61 6e 20 62 65 20 64 69 73 61 62 6c 65 |e can be disable| 00000600 64 20 62 79 20 63 6c 69 63 6b 69 6e 67 20 41 64 |d by clicking Ad| 00000610 6a 75 73 74 20 6f 6e 20 74 68 65 0a 73 6d 61 6c |just on the.smal| 00000620 6c 20 77 69 6e 64 6f 77 20 69 63 6f 6e 2c 20 77 |l window icon, w| 00000630 68 69 63 68 20 6d 61 6b 65 73 20 69 74 20 64 69 |hich makes it di| 00000640 73 61 70 70 65 61 72 2e 29 0a 0a 27 53 61 76 65 |sappear.)..'Save| 00000650 20 74 65 78 74 27 20 6c 65 74 73 20 79 6f 75 20 | text' lets you | 00000660 73 61 76 65 20 79 6f 75 72 20 67 72 61 62 62 65 |save your grabbe| 00000670 64 20 74 65 78 74 20 6f 75 74 20 61 73 20 61 20 |d text out as a | 00000680 66 69 6c 65 2e 0a 0a 27 53 61 76 65 20 73 65 74 |file...'Save set| 00000690 74 69 6e 67 73 27 20 77 69 6c 6c 20 73 61 76 65 |tings' will save| 000006a0 20 74 68 65 20 73 63 72 65 65 6e 20 6c 6f 63 61 | the screen loca| 000006b0 74 69 6f 6e 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 63 6f 6f 72 |tion of the coor| 000006c0 64 69 6e 61 74 65 73 0a 77 69 6e 64 6f 77 2e 0a |dinates.window..| 000006d0 0a 55 73 69 6e 67 20 54 65 78 74 20 47 72 61 62 |.Using Text Grab| 000006e0 62 65 72 0a 7e 7e 7e 7e 7e 7e 7e 7e 7e 7e 7e 7e |ber.~~~~~~~~~~~~| 000006f0 7e 7e 7e 7e 7e 7e 0a 0a 47 72 61 62 62 69 6e 67 |~~~~~~..Grabbing| 00000700 0a 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 0a 0a 54 65 78 74 20 |.--------..Text | 00000710 47 72 61 62 62 65 72 20 63 61 6e 20 74 61 6b 65 |Grabber can take| 00000720 20 74 65 78 74 20 66 72 6f 6d 20 74 77 6f 20 73 | text from two s| 00000730 6f 75 72 63 65 73 3a 20 69 63 6f 6e 73 20 6f 6e |ources: icons on| 00000740 20 74 68 65 20 64 65 73 6b 74 6f 70 20 6f 72 0a | the desktop or.| 00000750 74 65 78 74 20 66 69 6c 65 73 20 73 61 76 65 64 |text files saved| 00000760 20 69 6e 74 6f 20 69 74 2e 20 53 61 76 69 6e 67 | into it. Saving| 00000770 20 74 65 78 74 20 69 6e 74 6f 20 54 65 78 74 20 | text into Text | 00000780 47 72 61 62 62 65 72 20 69 73 20 61 20 73 69 6d |Grabber is a sim| 00000790 70 6c 65 0a 6d 61 74 74 65 72 20 6f 66 20 65 69 |ple.matter of ei| 000007a0 74 68 65 72 20 64 72 61 67 67 69 6e 67 20 61 20 |ther dragging a | 000007b0 66 69 6c 65 20 6f 6e 74 6f 20 69 74 73 20 77 69 |file onto its wi| 000007c0 6e 64 6f 77 20 66 72 6f 6d 20 61 20 46 69 6c 65 |ndow from a File| 000007d0 72 20 64 69 73 70 6c 61 79 2c 0a 6f 72 20 6d 61 |r display,.or ma| 000007e0 72 6b 69 6e 67 20 73 6f 6d 65 20 74 65 78 74 20 |rking some text | 000007f0 69 6e 20 79 6f 75 72 20 77 6f 72 64 20 70 72 6f |in your word pro| 00000800 63 65 73 73 6f 72 20 28 65 74 63 29 20 61 6e 64 |cessor (etc) and| 00000810 20 64 72 61 67 67 69 6e 67 20 74 68 65 0a 66 69 | dragging the.fi| 00000820 6c 65 20 69 63 6f 6e 20 66 72 6f 6d 20 74 68 65 |le icon from the| 00000830 20 73 61 76 65 20 28 6f 72 20 73 61 76 65 20 73 | save (or save s| 00000840 65 6c 65 63 74 69 6f 6e 29 20 77 69 6e 64 6f 77 |election) window| 00000850 20 69 6e 74 6f 20 54 65 78 74 a0 47 72 61 62 62 | into Text.Grabb| 00000860 65 72 2e 0a 0a 49 6e 20 6f 72 64 65 72 20 74 6f |er...In order to| 00000870 20 67 72 61 62 20 74 65 78 74 20 66 72 6f 6d 20 | grab text from | 00000880 69 63 6f 6e 73 2c 20 79 6f 75 20 6d 75 73 74 20 |icons, you must | 00000890 75 73 65 20 74 68 65 20 27 47 72 61 62 20 74 65 |use the 'Grab te| 000008a0 78 74 27 20 62 75 74 74 6f 6e 2e 0a 57 68 65 6e |xt' button..When| 000008b0 20 79 6f 75 20 63 6c 69 63 6b 20 6f 6e 20 74 68 | you click on th| 000008c0 69 73 2c 20 74 68 65 20 70 6f 69 6e 74 65 72 20 |is, the pointer | 000008d0 63 68 61 6e 67 65 73 20 69 6e 74 6f 20 61 20 68 |changes into a h| 000008e0 61 6e 64 20 77 69 74 68 20 61 0a 70 6f 69 6e 74 |and with a.point| 000008f0 69 6e 67 20 66 69 6e 67 65 72 2e 20 4d 6f 76 65 |ing finger. Move| 00000900 20 74 68 65 20 66 69 6e 67 65 72 20 74 6f 20 74 | the finger to t| 00000910 68 65 20 74 65 78 74 20 79 6f 75 20 72 65 71 75 |he text you requ| 00000920 69 72 65 2c 20 61 6e 64 20 63 6c 69 63 6b 2e 0a |ire, and click..| 00000930 57 69 74 68 20 61 6e 79 20 6c 75 63 6b 2c 20 74 |With any luck, t| 00000940 68 65 20 74 65 78 74 20 79 6f 75 20 70 6f 69 6e |he text you poin| 00000950 74 65 64 20 74 6f 20 77 69 6c 6c 20 61 70 70 65 |ted to will appe| 00000960 61 72 20 69 6e 20 74 68 65 20 54 65 78 74 a0 47 |ar in the Text.G| 00000970 72 61 62 62 65 72 0a 77 69 6e 64 6f 77 2e 20 55 |rabber.window. U| 00000980 6e 66 6f 72 74 75 6e 61 74 65 6c 79 2c 20 64 75 |nfortunately, du| 00000990 65 20 74 6f 20 74 68 65 20 77 61 79 20 74 68 65 |e to the way the| 000009a0 20 64 65 73 6b 74 6f 70 20 77 6f 72 6b 73 2c 20 | desktop works, | 000009b0 74 68 69 73 20 63 61 6e 6e 6f 74 0a 62 65 20 67 |this cannot.be g| 000009c0 75 61 72 61 6e 74 65 65 64 2e 20 53 6f 6d 65 20 |uaranteed. Some | 000009d0 62 69 74 73 20 6f 66 20 74 65 78 74 20 77 68 69 |bits of text whi| 000009e0 63 68 20 6c 6f 6f 6b 20 61 73 20 74 68 6f 75 67 |ch look as thoug| 000009f0 68 20 74 68 65 79 20 6f 75 67 68 74 20 74 6f 20 |h they ought to | 00000a00 62 65 0a 69 63 6f 6e 73 20 61 72 65 20 6e 6f 74 |be.icons are not| 00000a10 20 69 63 6f 6e 73 20 61 74 20 61 6c 6c 20 28 66 | icons at all (f| 00000a20 6f 72 20 65 78 61 6d 70 6c 65 2c 20 66 69 6c 65 |or example, file| 00000a30 73 20 69 6e 20 46 69 6c 65 72 20 64 69 72 65 63 |s in Filer direc| 00000a40 74 6f 72 69 65 73 29 0a 61 6e 64 20 63 61 6e 6e |tories).and cann| 00000a50 6f 74 20 62 65 20 67 72 61 62 62 65 64 2e 0a 0a |ot be grabbed...| 00000a60 54 65 78 74 20 47 72 61 62 62 65 72 20 63 61 6e |Text Grabber can| 00000a70 2c 20 69 6e 20 66 61 63 74 2c 20 67 72 61 62 20 |, in fact, grab | 00000a80 73 70 72 69 74 65 73 21 20 46 6f 72 20 65 78 61 |sprites! For exa| 00000a90 6d 70 6c 65 2c 20 69 66 20 79 6f 75 20 63 6c 69 |mple, if you cli| 00000aa0 63 6b 20 6f 6e 0a 74 68 65 20 27 47 72 61 62 20 |ck on.the 'Grab | 00000ab0 74 65 78 74 27 20 62 75 74 74 6f 6e 20 61 6e 64 |text' button and| 00000ac0 20 66 6f 6c 6c 6f 77 20 69 74 20 62 79 20 70 6f | follow it by po| 00000ad0 69 6e 74 69 6e 67 20 6f 6e 20 74 68 65 20 50 61 |inting on the Pa| 00000ae0 6c 65 74 74 65 0a 75 74 69 6c 69 74 79 20 69 63 |lette.utility ic| 00000af0 6f 6e 20 6f 6e 20 74 68 65 20 69 63 6f 6e 2d 62 |on on the icon-b| 00000b00 61 72 2c 20 79 6f 75 20 77 69 6c 6c 20 73 65 65 |ar, you will see| 00000b10 20 22 70 61 6c 65 74 74 65 22 20 28 74 68 65 20 | "palette" (the | 00000b20 6e 61 6d 65 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 0a 73 70 72 69 |name of the.spri| 00000b30 74 65 29 20 61 70 70 65 61 72 20 69 6e 20 74 68 |te) appear in th| 00000b40 65 20 54 65 78 74 20 47 72 61 62 62 65 72 20 77 |e Text Grabber w| 00000b50 69 6e 64 6f 77 2e 0a 0a 41 73 20 77 65 6c 6c 20 |indow...As well | 00000b60 61 73 20 74 65 78 74 20 61 6e 64 20 73 70 72 69 |as text and spri| 00000b70 74 65 20 69 63 6f 6e 73 2c 20 54 65 78 74 20 47 |te icons, Text G| 00000b80 72 61 62 62 65 72 20 63 61 6e 20 61 6c 73 6f 20 |rabber can also | 00000b90 67 72 61 62 20 74 68 65 0a 63 6f 6e 74 65 6e 74 |grab the.content| 00000ba0 73 20 6f 66 20 77 69 6e 64 6f 77 20 74 69 74 6c |s of window titl| 00000bb0 65 20 62 61 72 73 2e 20 54 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 |e bars. 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