Register Text Bucket online for $5
I got tired of having lots of little text clippings of semi-frequently used snippets of text cluttering up my desktop. I don't need them very often, and they create a lot of mess. But when I do need 'em, boy do I need 'em and I need them immediately. Since they're random and unrelated, filing them was always a chore, and besides - if I did that, they weren't immediately accessible.
If you have questions, just launch the program and click the "Help" button"
Enter Text Bucket. Just press your hotkey combo (command-option-control-B by default, but user configurable) to bring up the window.
For lots of detailed information, please view its built-in help system
Press a number slot (or any key for the infinite slot!) to paste whatever text is on the clipboard into the slot. It then remains in Text Bucket until you delete it (by pressing the little "-" button next to the slot). When you want to recall a snippet, again simply press the number of the slot you need and the text will go to the clipboard, the window will close, and you're back where you are to use the text. Easy as pie.
New in v1.1 You can add macros to your slots. There are two types, clipboard and macro:
- C#CLIPBOARD#If you insert the literal string C#CLIPBOARD# into your slot, it will be replaced with the current clipboard value. For example, if your slot contains "This is my C#CLIPBOARD#", and the clipboard contains "value", then you would end up pasting "This is my value".
- M#MACRO#This is more exciting. If your slot contains the phrase M#(letters), that's interpreted as a macro. When a macro slot is activated, you are presented with a new window allowing you to fill in the values of the macro slots. Observe:
Press '1' to select slot 1.
You're prompted for values
Fill them in and hit return. The clipboard now contains "First value is Value 1, second value is Value 2"
No warranty is provided with this software, use at your own risk.
Version History:
- v1.7.5 May 11, 2005
- The macro window now scrolls for long lists of macros.
- Fixed an intermittant double-free crash.
- Fixed a warning when trying to activate a slot with no text on the clipboard.
- v1.7.0 April 27, 2005
- Added S# (slot to slot) macros
- Fixed a bug if a macro was at the start of the slot string
- v1.6.0 April 17, 2005
- Added unicode support to the slots
- fixed an error when using a slot with multiple macros and short replacement strings
- v1.5.1 February 7, 2005
- Saves slot values to disk more regularly
- Updated minor documentation inconsistencies
- v1.5.0 January 25, 2005
- Added drag and drop support to and from the slots
- Added edit buttons to the slots (you can still click-to-edit on empty slots)
- Label names are now editable
- Labels in the slot editor and label editor now stay in sync
- If a label is deleted, all slots with that label will lose it
- Now properly remembers window position
- Various internal improvements
- v1.4.0 January 12, 2005
- Changed the default hotkey from cmd-opt-ctrl-T to cmd-opt-ctrl-B
- Added the option to name the slots
- Improved macro support to allow for the same macro to occur multiple times w/o requiring the user to re-type the same value
- Fixed a bug in 1.3.5 preventing letter access to the tabs
- v1.3.5 January 11, 2005
- Added the Text Bucket menu to access the main window.
- The color panel now automatically closes when shutting the editor window.
- v1.3.0 January 5, 2005
- Added labels to the slots
- Added the "+" and "-" keyboard shortcuts
- v1.2.1 December 19, 2004
- Added big introductory splash screen window with access information and encouragement to read the included documentation.
- Complete built-in help system
- Added multiple tabs (for a total of 260 slots!)
- Added keyboard shortcuts to tabs (including left & right arrow keys)
- Added copy button to copy text to the clipboard
- Added ability to edit text by clicking the text field
- You are prompted with a confirm box before allowing deletes
- Replaced the "infinite slot" with the "0 slot"
- Added macro support
- v1.0.0 December 7, 2004
- Initial release