In Sense, you can reference a list to control what your program does. By default, the [line X from_file “file.txt”] references the Sense project folder, but it can reference one of many locations. How this works differs on Windows and Mac, but the approach is much the same.
The way you do it, as you can see in the screenshot above, is that you simply enter the path you want to reference. On Windows, that would look like this:c:\result.txt, while on Mac OS X, it would look like this: /Users/Example/Desktop/Sources/results.txt. Keep in mind that you can address any mounted share on either platform.
Category: Software
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Sense: Referencing files from wherever you want
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Exporting Sense scripts as clear text
As part of my studies, I have been “programming” in Sense, a version of Scratch, the graphic programming environment developed at MIT. The programs developed in Sense are stored as .sb-files. Now, the problem is that these files are only readable by the program that made them (and Sense programs are apparently not readable by Scratch). The problem this poses is that I can’t be assured of being able to read the files when, at some point in the future, I might want to.
Luckily, Sense, and presumably Scratch, too, has an export facility, allowing you to export the program you’ve made to clear text. Here’s how:
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Color Factory estimates the time left to process the files in queue
Curious how much longer you can expect to wait before Color Factory has finished processing your files? If you go to the Operations Center, you will see a monitor, telling you the estimated queue time remaining:
Keep in mind, though, that this is only an estimate of the time remaining to process what is currently in the queue. If you have channels that output to the input folders of other channels, you can expect the time displayed to be wrong.
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Applying a metadata macro when saving metadata
Did you know that you can apply a metadata macro when closing the metadata editor?
FotoStation’s metadata editor can automatically apply a metadata macro after adding metadata to a file. Here is how you activate that option:
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Two options on how to work with images in FotoWeb Desktop plugin for Adobe CS
You can either check them out, or download a local copy. Here’s how:
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How to: Use synonym lists to modify search results
By modifying the thesaur.xml-file, Index Manager will return hits containing synonyms to the specified search words.
Say, for example, that you want to search for fast food, and want your search results to also find more specific kinds of fast food, such as pizza, hamburgers and french fries. Included with every installation of Index Manager is a file called Sample-THESAUR.XML, which can be modified to achieve this. To make your own synonym list, and enable them for search, follow these steps:
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FotoWare Connect supports upload to and download from FotoWeb Archive Agent
One of the many options when setting up a server in Connect, is to set it up to use FotoWeb Archive Agent. To set it up, simply create a new server, and select FotoWeb Archive Agent when selecting which protocol to use.
When setting up the server, you have options to select which archive the image should or come from. This can be used in many ways, for example to clean up an upload area at set intervals.
Keep in mind that the connection to FotoWeb does not allow deletion of files in the FotoWeb archive. Instead, Connect has some internal logic to avoid processing the same files over and over again, based on modification date.
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FotoWare Color Factory checks whether a share is offline
In Service Release 4 of Color Factory 7, FotoWare introduced a new feature, enabling it to check whether a network share is offline. When it finds that the share is offline, the channel is temporarily stopped, allowing other channels on the server to keep running.
When a share is found to be offline, this will be logged and displayed on the Operations Center status page.
For some shares on non-Windows systems, this check may appear to fail even though the share is online. From Color Factory 7.0.511 and later builds, this function may be turned off on a channel by channel basis, on the error handling tab of the channel:
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Searching for images with no metadata or no metadata in specific fields?
By entering xnoword search into the search box, you will get hits in images which do not have metadata. When searching for xnoword in a specific field, you will get hits for images where that field is empty.
Note: For indexed archives you also need to make sure that the fields that you want to search as empty are “indexed as empty” inside the “Fields” tab on index properties. For all changes a rebuild is required.
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Creating alerts in FotoWeb Desktop for iPhone
Alerts are notifications of files that have been added to an archive. They are created by first performing a search and then saving that search as an alert. To check the status of your alerts, tap Alerts on the main screen in the application.
To create an alert, perform a search from the main screen. When the list of archives with the search result is displayed, tap on the action icon in the lower left corner and tap Save as alert. You can now optionally modify the search string and set the frequency of the alerts, i.e. how often you would like the alert to refresh. Setting the alert frequency to “As it happens” implies that the alert will update every five minutes.
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Unable to write @ in Microsoft Office
For a while, I’ve been having an issue, which only occurred when I was using a computer using Norwegian Keyboard Layout (the only other keyboard layout I use with any kind of regularity is English US), which was that I was unable to write the character @. I investigated it, and realized that the error occurred whenever I tried to use the third option on any key, while pressing Ctrl+Alt. If I used AltGr, the character would appear normally.
Now, why this is so, I do not know, and frankly, I do not much care. I would classify it as a minor bug in Microsoft Office, and whatever other software where the same error is encountered. I do know that I have encountered it on both Microsoft Office 2007, and Microsoft Office 2010.