Welcome

Contents

• Introduction
• Using Memorizer
  • Quick Start
  • Actions
• System Requirements
• Customizing Memorizer
• Ordering, Registration and Technical Support

Introduction

The windows clipboard is a shared memory space that allows you to transfer data between applications. Once you copy data to the clipboard it can be pasted to any application that can handle that type of data. This could be a fragment of text, a picture, wave data (sound), a file or folder, OLE-object, etc.

The Windows clipboard is a convenient tool, however it has several limitations; primarily it can only store one piece of data at a time. When you copy new data to the clipboard, the previous contents are destroyed and replaced by the new. Another limitation is that it is not easy to view what is stored in your clipboard without pasting it to some temporary place such at the notepad.

Memorizer was designed to overcome these difficulties. When Memorizer is running and you copy any new piece of data to the clipboard the previous contents 'clips' are not destroyed. By default Memorizer stores the 15 latest clips, but that can be increased to any desired number (customizing Memorizer). Moreover you can easily edit or view any clip that is stored by Memorizer (see actions).

Memorizer was developed as an "always running" application. That is why we concentrated on its stability and operation speed. Unlike similar utilities that also support all clipboard data formats, Memorizer works correctly and clearly even when copying huge amounts of data (for example from Excel) or when some buggy application damages a clipboard chain.

Memorizer eXP has been almost completely rewritten since the 1.xx releases to use less memory and operate faster (readme.txt).

Using Memorizer

Quick Start

To begin with we will need something to put in the clipboard. Just run Notepad, type in some text (or load a file), select it and strike Ctrl+C. The text you selected was copied to the windows Clipboard as usual and you can paste it (Ctrl+V) wherever you want as you would normally do.

Let's check what is in Clipboard now. Click on the Memorizer's icon in the system tray or strike a hotkey (Alt+V by default). Memorizer's menu will appear next to the mouse cursor.

An arrow points to the current contents of Clipboard, if there is no arrow at all, then the Clipboard is empty. but if you have followed our instructions correctly you will see the text you copied in notepad. To the right of the arrow you see the Notepad's icon, it is there to remind you where you copied the clip from (customizing Memorizer).

If you select another piece of text in the Notepad and press Ctrl+C the new text will be entered into the clipboard replacing the previous clip, but Memorizer will still store it. Let's try to paste this old text. Press Alt+V (or click Memorizer's icon in the system tray), select the text you want to paste in the menu and strike Enter or click it with a mouse, the text will be pasted into the Notepad. Now the arrow in Memorizer's menu points to this text indicating that it is in the clipboard, this means that now you can also paste it just with Ctrl+V.

Let's do something more interesting. Double click My Computer, select a "Program Files" folder and press Ctrl+C. Switch back to Notepad and strike Alt+V (configuring hotkey).
Do you see the arrow pointing to the File: C:\Program Files? It is in Clipboard now. Select this menu item (you need only to hi-light it, please do not strike Enter) and press 'P', this means paste as text (see actions). Now you will see that the path to your "Program Files" folder has been inserted into the Notepad (ex. C:\Program Files).

Do you want to edit or view the text we copied to Clipboard before the "Program Files" folder? No, it hasn't been destroyed, Memorizer stored it for you! Strike Alt+V (configuring hotkey), bringing up the Memorizer menu. Select the menu item (point it with mouse or keyboard but do not strike 'Enter') with the Notepad's icon containing the text we've previously copied and strike 'Space' (see actions). Now Notepad will be launched and the text will be in there.

The basic idea is the following:

• the arrow indicates what is in the clipboard. Remember only one item at a time can be in the Windows clipboard.
• the action is performed on the item that is highlighted in the menu, regardless of what is in the Windows clipboard.

So if you want to move a MEMORIZER clip into the clipboard, select it and use shortcut: C (copy to clipboard) or merely click on the desired item with your mouse.

If you want to paste a MEMORIZER clip directly into an active application, bypassing the Clipboard, use shortcut: ENTER (Paste).

If you want to open an item in its original application (that application which is indicated by the icon to the left of the item), select it and use shortcut: SPACEBAR (Open item).

Tip: Memorizer can handle any type of Clipboard data, including text, graphics, files/folders, OLE-objects or MS Word documents. Moreover you can open any type of data for editing in its original application with the "Open item" action described above.

Tip: When you select an item in the Memorizer menu a preview window will pop up. The popup preview window can be disabled by deselecting the "show preview" option in the Options menu. (customizing Memorizer).

Actions

Tip: Remember that actions will be carried out either:

a) on the contents of the Windows clipboard, which are indicated by an arrow in the Memorizer Clip menu

b) the selected Memorizer clip as indicated by highlighting in the Memorizer Clip menu

c) the selected area in an active application.

The 'Actions' submenu could be accessed by either right-clicking and item containing data, pressing an 'M' key, or by clicking on the text 'Actions', located second from the top in the 'Clip' menu.

Note: the first two way to access 'Actions' submenu by right clicking an item may not be available on old versions of Windows (Windows 95 and NT 4.0). This is because these versions of Windows do not support multiple context menus.

The 'Actions' submenu which is accessed by clicking on the text 'Actions', located second from the top in the 'Clip' menu, is best utilized as a short cut reminder. When the Action submenu is visible, it is not possible to simultaneously highlight items in the 'Clip' menu, consequently all actions performed by clicking on actions will only apply to the Windows clipboard, - the item indicated by the arrow. If none of the items is indicated by the arrow (i.e. the clipboard is empty or Memorizer is ignoring the clipboard data) then the action is ignored.

Once you have learned the shortcuts or printed them out, you will not need to access that 'Action' submenu. To use a shortcut you first hi-light which item you want to apply an action to (you should only highlight it, please don't press Enter or click it) and then enter a shortcut using your keyboard.

Available Actions

• Delete item (shortcut: 'backspace')
  This action deletes an item. If the item is pointed to by the arrow (i.e. it is currently in the clipboard) then the clipboard is emptied.
• Lock/UnLock item (shortcut: 'L')
  This action lockes or unlockes an item. This means that this item will not be automatically deleted, to delete it you can use backspace (see delete item). The locked items are indicated with a lock icon to the right. If an item is already locked this action unlockes it.

  Note: for compatibility with previous versions of Memorizer 'F' shortcut was left as a synonym to 'L'.

• Open item (shortcut: 'Space')
  Puts an item in the clipboard and launches an application that can handle the item's data. If an item is a text line that can be interpreted as a URL (such as http://www.aylabs.com, mailto:support@aylabs.com, etc.) then a browser, mail-reader, telnet or other application that handles URLs will be launched. A text is interpreted as u URL if it matches common URL syntax, i.e. starts with a protocol name (such as http, ftp, etc.) followed with "://", host name and file name, and parameters. All leading and trailing spaces are ignored.

  Note: This procedure can take some time, so be patient, otherwise you may end up opening an application several times.

• Edit as text (shortcut: 'T')
  Puts an item in the clipboard, converts it to text, writes the text to a temporary file (Memorizer-Temp-xx.txt) and opens the file. If an item contains files or folders their paths will be in the file. If an item contains formatted-text all formatting will be lost. (see paste as text)
  

  Note: if an item does not have text representation than its title will be thaken as text representation. For example if an item is a bitmap than the title will be Data: Bitmap.

• Copy to clipboard (shortcut: 'C')
  moves a highlighted item to the clipboard.

• Paste (shortcut: 'Enter')
  Auto-pastes an item into the active window.

• Paste as text (shortcut: 'P')
  Converts the item to text, puts it to the clipboard and pastes it. If an item contains files or folders their paths will be pasted. If an item contains formatted-text all formatting will be lost. (see edit as text)

• Remove UnLocked (shortcut: 'R')
  Removes all unlocked clips.

• Delete All (shortcut: none)
  Deletes all stored data and clears the clipboard.

System Requirements

Customizing Memorizer

Tip: To get help on a particular option point at it with the mouse and strike 'F1' (or click on the "?" button at the top of the dialog and then point and click on the option) this will bring a "tool tip" window with a brief description of an option.

In the Memorizer Options dialog you can configure the following options.

• Remember items.
  Specifies the number of clips to be stored by Memorizer.
  Note: if a user has (say) 30 clips enabled and filled with data and then goes and reduces the specified amount to a lesser amount (say) 15 than 15 oldest clips including locked ones will be removed.

• Display first # chars.
  Sets the number of characters of the item's description to be displayed in the menu.

• Latest copies at Top.
  Sorts the menu items in the ascending order. This means that the most recent data will be displayed at the top of the menu.

• Latest copies at Bottom.
  Sorts the menu items in the descending order. This means that the most recent data will be displayed at the bottom of the menu.

• Menu font.
  Click here to select the menu font. It is highly recommended that you select large font if you are using "rainbow" theme. Recommended fonts are: Tahoma, 12pt regular and Lucida Sans Unicode, 12pt regular.

• Use system default colors.
  Selects system default color theme.

• Use Rainbow theme.
  Selects an attractive "rainbow" color theme. This theme requires true-color display. It is highly recommended that you select a large font if you are using this theme.

• Display source icons.
  When checked, Memorizer will additionally display an icon of the application where the clipboard data originated.

• Disk storage.
  Memorizer can save all stored data to the Memorizer database file and load it up again on startup. If this option is enabled you should also provide a mnemonic file name that Memorizer uses for its database.

• Hotkey.
  A hotkey is a key combination that when pressed brings up the Memorizer's menu. Recommended hotkeys are Alt+V and Ctrl+Q.

• Copy notification.
  Memorizer can play a music file when clipboard-copy operation is performed. If this option is enabled you should also provide the corresponding music file name.

• Load automatically when Windows starts.
  If this option is enabled, Memorizer will automatically load when Windows starts.

• Show preview.
  When checked, small preview popup window will appear near menu elements which contain data.

• Capture mode.
  Smart capture (default) ignores some rarely used formats such as compatibility between MS Office 2002 and Word 6.0.
  Ignore pictures: when selected, Memorizer will not capture bitmaps and metafiles. Memorizer still copies OLE-data and other data formats, this means that you can copy/paste data inside an application (for example from Paint Shop Pro to another image opened with it), but not between different applications. Moreover Clipboard still holds the bitmap until the next copy operation.
  Capture all do not skip any data - this takes most memory and some times may make buggy applications jump to the infinite loop, i.e. hung.

Ordering, Registration and Technical Support

Please read Ordering Information and Technical Support for further details.

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