Justins Fat Tire

Well it had to happen sooner or later. I have released a new version of the IP Viewer tool. It now hides from the alt-tab menu and runs quite a bit faster. For some reason it was hitting the .config file way to much. Now it keeps those values in memory until the settings get updated and then it re-reads them. Also Tile Puzzle 1.0 has been released. You can take an image from your PC and turn it into a tile puzzle game. It took me about a week of hard coding to get it working. It's pretty cool actually, it uses GDI+ to cut an image, and uses collections, and sorting methodology to manage the puzzle pieces. No source yet but the game is working pretty bad ass. Head on over to: JRL Software and check out the goods.

So you need to copy data to the clipboard using .net. Usually Ctl-C, Ctl-V is good enough for me. But there arose a need to copy data from a context menu. Microsoft has actually made it pretty easy to get data to/from the clipboard. They have conveniently created a class to do this and called it Clipboard. For my uses I just needed to copy some basic text to the clipboard. To achieve this I simply use the method SetText. Easy as pie! so a qucik and dirty example is Clipboard.SetText( "Hello World!"); Will put the text Hello World in your clipboard. There are of course different methods for copying all sorts of data into the clipboard. Read the MSDN for the complete breakdown. Read the MSDN article

Woot! I am now officially a published shareware author! I released IP Viewer to the masses on topshareware.com. 19 suckers , I mean users have downloaded my software so far. I even released it under the GPL 3.0 so if any of you cave dwellers wants to use it feel free. I have pushed it to version 1.1 already to include the host name as well. Now let's hope I don't get sued by some douche who beat me to the punch! So go to the site or visit my website and download the thing.