There are some files like GEDCOM and ADIF that are plain text files, but many people tend to work with them through GUIs. Say I wanted to do data entry on these files directly without any GUI.There are a number of things that make this a little dangerous. Things like misspellings of necessary file-grammar, missing a necessary key, incorrect types for values, etc. There is also something to be said for the additional difficulty of having to type additional characters relative to a GUI.
From what I can tell by thinking about this for 15mins ;) is that having the following would make the job of plain text entry much easier.
A formatter. I think of something like Python's Black which is a CLI that can be run on a file. It can let users know of bad formatting and can provide fixes.
A linter. I think of flake8 to ensure the styling matches the standard.
Autocomplete. The file type examples I showed above have a dictionary of key words. To save on typing it would be nice to have autocomplete.
Syntax Highlighting. Having a way to know if my data entry is good or bad in real-time would be helpful.
It seems like requirements 1-2 could be solved by making a file specific CLIs that combs through plain text files.
Requirement 4 seems IDE specific. vim and vscode allow users to make syntax highlighting plugins. The problem is that this is normally solved by connecting to a language server. When you are not looking for a language server, but for key words and proper values in a plain text file how does let their IDE know that to look for? Is this just a regex soup solution or is there a better way?
Requirement 3 may also be IDE specific, but the same question applies as for requirement 4. When there is not a language server how can I let an IDE know what/how to autocomplete?
Any examples of plain text data entry made easier would be appreciated.
Thanks!
I just want to do a quick project on my spare time :
I take a photo (with my webcam) of a page of a book with my finger pointing at a word on the page. Something like that:
I want to use opencv so I can isolate the word and translate it with OCR, etc ...
I cant' figure out exactly what to use in opencv to achieve this (I mean the "extraction" of the word in the complete photo), i read the tutorials but there is a lot of possibilities, so if someone can guide me by telling me what kind of functions do I need to use that would be kind :)
Thanks :)
So, for some quick background, one of my favorite musicians, Scandroid, put out a riddle that states "If you alter the extension of a new beginning, you can READ what others can only SEE." When you purchased the song from their label's website, you got a bonus picture. the picture was titled "Origins" (New beginning) so i had the idea to convert the .jpg file to a .txt and just see if there was a hidden message. Inside I found some unusual coding that my friend seems to think is in java language, and thinks it may be an audio file because there are some stream commands. unfortunately neither of us have the skill to separate this coding, nor do we know how to use it in the way it was intended. Below is a link to a google doc that contains the segments of the .txt file that seemed unusual to me. Please note, the segments were separated by quite some space inside the txt file. If you would like to take a look at the whole file feel free to give me your E-Mail and i will be glad to send it to you. Thanks in advance - Pat D.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nTTfxcrNZRtb9otybuG4VAhJRFlnAmfBnuTDE1o43UM/edit?usp=sharing
Its a pdf file. You should be able to open it with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
I was using notepad++ to create a report and its taking a quite a while for me to type and do so.
Well i had tried a software called typing assistant it was really good(except for the money part :D).
TO the Point :
is there any way tat i can link a dict(text file of words) and use notepad ++ as typing assistant please tell me if so i
can speed my report.
Cause i am a programmer too so i really like the keyword completion and stuff .But is there a way to use it for text ?
already tried Phrase Express -.-:
Takes long and its kinda for macro text and text completion don't work tat fast for me to tab and complete
if there's a question in the form like mine link me to tat :
i searched it and i didn't get it
Yes, you can set up your own custom auto-complete dictionaries in notepad++. You need to create an xml file with your language name and put it under the plugins/APIs directory in notepad++. Of course this assumes you know how to write xml. There's a formal description of how to implement this here.
I've never tried to create an auto-complete dictionary for plain text files, so I'm not sure if it's possible, but I have successfully created them for user-defined languages, which you could also do if you can't get it to work with text files.
I'm not sure if this question is really a duplicate, but here is a very similar one, which may help you in your research.
all!
I'm trying to run programs to control stepper motors. The PC and software and stepper motor controller I have already in place are pretty old and I'm new to almost everything I'm doing here-learning as I go sort of thing. I've 'coded' a bit in Matlab, so I have a very basic level of coding logic, but basically no knowledge of any common syntax. So, I know some about the steppers and the stepper controller, but not much else!
I have a program called "Hoop.exe" that I'm trying to modify to slow down the speed of one of the steppers (I just need to change a 300 to a 200!) when I run the program. There is also an associated (assuming) hoop.bas and a hoop.txt file on the floppy disc. From looking at the txt file, it looks like basic code from examples of basic I've seen. I'm working with visual basic 2.0 and qbasic 1.1 on Windows 98.
So, I tried opening the hoop.bas file first with qbasic and with vb. With qb, I get a 'bad file mode' message. With vb, I get 'invalid file format' and it seems it wants me to open a mak file but I have no 'hoop.mak'. I did this thinking that I could open the bas file with vb or qb, and then edit it, and then save it as an exe, and then run that.
I found a pdf that showed how to incorporate a qb file into the command button of vb, and I tried that. But, I got an "Expected: end of statement" error in the first line! when I tried to save it as an exe.
So, all I really want to do is change my hoop.exe. I would assume that since qb and vb are both on the PC, one of them wrote the bas (maybe not!), so I'm wondering why neither of them can read it.
I've never used vb or qb, but if I have to get into the nitty gritty, it seems like I'd rather use qbasic, since I've never used a graphical interface to code before. But, is either one of those necessary in order to do what I want to do? (I'm going to need to write some programs to control these steppers when all is said and done, but I figured that I should take it one step at a time.)
I tried some form of copying and pasting into qb, but I couldn't immediately figure out how to do that. (Probably because I have no idea how to use qb.)
So, what would be the most efficient way to modify my hoop program?
If the answer is that I just need to learn basic with qb, that's fine, but I'd like to get some sort of indication from people who know what they're talking about before I put that much effort in.
I would really appreciate any pointers because I'm apparently completely clueless on my own!
8/10/2013:
Just in case it's helpful, here are some lines from the Hoop.txt I opened:
10 CLS : CLEAR 1000: P = 512
20 LOCATE , , 1
100 A% = INKEY$: PRINT A$;
105 IF A$ = "*" THEN GOTO 700
110 GOSUB 510: GOSUB 610: GOTO 100
500 REM
510 IF A$ = "" THEN RETURN
etc. This is the beginning of the interface code that allows me to talk to the motor controller
QuickBASIC and Visual Basic are very different, despite their common name of "BASIC" and despite the fact they were both made by Microsoft. First you need to determine if the .BAS file is QuickBASIC or Visual Basic. A simple quick way (though not the most accurate) is to open the file up in Notepad or some other text editor. If keywords such as "OPEN" or "LEN" or "MID" or "CLOSE" are in uppercase, then its more likely a QuickBASIC file. If the keywords look more like "Open" or "Close" or "Len" or "Mid", then its more likely a Visual Basic file.
Now keep in mind that there are other versions of BASIC that have been developed, such as Turbo BASIC (Borland's version) or GW-BASIC or BasicA or PowerBASIC and even Color Basic.
Now if you can't figure it out this way, the next thing I'd suggest is downloading a hex editor, such as XVI32 (though there are many other free ones out there). Look through the file (especially towards the end of the file) and there are usually signs that indicate what kind of compiler was used. You might see the words "Microsoft Basic Compiler" or "Borland Turbo Compiler". Usually towards the end of the file, there are string "stubs" put in by the compiler or linker that you can use to determine the compiler.
If all that fails and you are desperate and that "300" number is hard coded in the program and you need to change it, then there is another way to do this. First back up your original exe file. Then Use XVI32 or some other hex editor and search for the string "2c01" (300 is 012c hex and you need to reverse the 01 and 2c since Intel machines are little-endian). Once you find an instance of 2c01, change it to "c800" (200 is 00c8. Little Endian version would be c800). Save the file, then rerun it. This is a gruesome trial and error way to fix this. If it was changed from 300 to 200, then everything is good! If not, restore from your backup and try again!
Have you considered getting an Arduino or some other low cost and friendly electronics development platform? I think it would be the way to go for you to control stepper motors...
take a look:
http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/StepperUnipolar
If you google around you'll find tons of you tube videos showing off some arduino controlled stuff.
Modifying your current .exe seems to me a too long and hard path to follow instead of making your own and proper source code for achieving what you want, as you would need to disassemble the executable file and literally "know what you're doing" with all that assembly language to find where to patch the binary with the right value.
Anyway, if you post a picture or a schematic of your old hardware I could try to help you a little more, but I guess that would be better suited to this other stack exchange site:
http://electronics.stackexchange.com