First Public release of Cumulus Toolbox

nitrx · **Posted:** Sat Jan 30, 2010 9:27 pm

Good guess its's a ; (semicolon) I've a German PC with China parts and US-Parts running Win 7 Ultimate Dutch

daj · **Posted:** Sat Jan 30, 2010 9:59 pm

Build 39 available

*Should now take into account your PC regional settings for the field delimiter :oops:

nitrx · **Posted:** Sat Jan 30, 2010 10:03 pm

Great job this makes it much easier to correct 'defects' :clap:

gemini06720 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:44 am

David, if I may, I would like to make another suggestion...

Quote:

The default is to View, however you are able to Edit if required, and Save. When saving, 'Toolbox' will create a backup of the file.... starting the file name with 'backup'

May I suggest that the file be saved, not with the word 'backup' preceding the name but with the date in the format '_YYYY-MM-DD_00':

- first, underline character, followed by 4-digit year number, followed by 2-digit month number, followed by 2-digit day number, followed by underline character, and finally followed by the save number starting with a double zero.

Example:

- first time the file is saved today (ie: January 30, 2020): 'cumulus_2010-01-30_00.ini'
- ...
- fifth time the file is saved today (ie: January 30, 2020): 'cumulus_2010-01-30_04.ini'

On my system, any backup file with an ending number of '_00' means the first backup of the original file - I know, I could have started my count at '_01' but looking at a folder/directory with a large number of modified files (such as used for my Web pages, where every saved file is being renamed using the above mentioned standard), the extensions ending with '_00' seem to stand out ... maybe it has to do with the binary '00'... 8-)

I have used that format for years, and more so when I do modification to scripts and templates - it allows me to follow the progression of my work (in a very few cases, that ending file count went into 3 digits ... all in one day) and, if something goes wrong, I can go back 1 or 2 or 3 (or more) previously saved file - also, that format make it easy to sort by file name...

Just another of my suggestions... :mrgreen:

hills · **Posted:** Sun Jan 31, 2010 2:08 am

The file editor facility is brilliant, can the template web files be included too?

hills · **Posted:** Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:47 am

Does running the toolbox minimised to the system tray prevent the PC from rebooting? I've just tried rebooting my PC twice and both times I had to stop the toolbox before the PC would reboot. I only waited a couple of minutes each time so I don't know if I left it longer if it would have rebooted ok, but after I stopped the toolbox it rebooted immediately. Has anyone restarted their PC successfully with it running?

daj · **Posted:** Sun Jan 31, 2010 10:31 am

If 'Toolbox' is in the System tray it will not allow a reboot -- if the computer attempts a reboot it will pop up a bubble saying "Cumulus Toolbox is Running" as a gentle reminder. If it is open on screen it will allow a shutdown

I thought that was a good feature :?:

I rely on the 'Toolbox' doing a number of regular tasks so I wanted to make sure I did not shutdown without considering the implications
But hey, its not all about me. LOL

gemini06720 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 31, 2010 11:56 am

David...

Quote:

...I thought that was a good feature...

And, please DO NOT remove it - it is an excellent feature... 8-)

hills · **Posted:** Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:09 pm

Its fine by me if I'm the one rebooing my PC, but sometimes my PC automatically reboots overnight to apply updates. I guess the toolbox will stop that won't it?

daj · **Posted:** Sun Jan 31, 2010 3:35 pm

Build 40 available

Added the option to select where backups taken by the File Editor are stored. Default is in the Cumulus Folder, but can be changed to any location.
Backup files now retained for every change and named with the date and an incrementing counter.
Add the Standard Web templates files to the File Editor

mcrossley · **Posted:** Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:36 pm

I'm having trouble getting the SMTP to work. I'm using:

server: smtp.gmail.com
port: 465
SSL: Yes
Authenication: yes

I can telnet to the server/port OK, and just tried setting up Outlook Express with the same settings (on the same PC), and that works OK.

The tools gives a 'general failure' error after a minute or so.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Mark

daj · **Posted:** Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:53 pm

Try port 587 -- I use gmail and it works fine on 587 (which is their other supported port).

mcrossley · **Posted:** Sun Jan 31, 2010 10:35 pm

Thanks David, that works - strange but the setup FAQ I found for Google Apps listed port 465.

Now to see what I can do with this -I want to try and build a SQL DB on my web server for historic queries.

Mark

daj · **Posted:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 12:20 am

That's great Mark

For some reason Google offer two ports for their SMTP mail, i have never had much success with the first one.

I am doing exactly what you say....I use 'Toolbox' to upload my dayfile.txt just after midnight. I have a PHP script to parse this file and place it in an SQL database. I use 'Toolbox' to call this PHP file (again just after midnight) to populate my SQL table. The result is....http://www.grantownweather.co.uk/historic/historic.php

n9mfk · **Posted:** Mon Feb 01, 2010 12:59 am

Hi David,
cool idea http://www.grantownweather.co.uk/historic/historic.php
any fix for the size of realtimelog.txt
Beau

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