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Announcements => Third party => Topic started by: maxnd on November 23, 2017, 08:21:34 pm
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Hi all,
I'd like to present EncNotex, a free and open source software made with Lazarus to manage encrypted notes and tasks. It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS with Carbon libraries. It’s aim is to grant the user an highly secure tool to manage very confidential data, but it can be used just to manage text of every kind. In some way, it's a reduced version of MyNotex, but has some unique features.
To have more information, see the website in https://sites.google.com/site/encnotex (https://sites.google.com/site/encnotex).
Massimo
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Hi Massimo
Thank you. This looks very interesting. Is there by any chance a "portable" version for Windows (that does not require installation)?
Thanks & cheers,
Peter
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Hi Peter,
yes, EncNotex does not need installation :D. On Windows, just get the EncNotex.exe file from an installation and copy it in a USB key. To run the software, double click on this file. The software leaves only a configuration file (encnotex.ini) in the directory given by GetAppConfigDir. So, no need to delete anything else to clear every trace of its use. Maybe in a future version I'll add an option to clear this file automatically on exit.
All the best,
M.
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Ehm, actually the new version of EncNotex, 1.4.2, has the possibility to avoid to save the configuration file, plus few more things. So it can work better on a pen drive used on a shared computer.
Massimo
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Dear Massimo
Thanks, EncNotex works really great and I like to work with it.
Small issue -> In the first menu (see attached screenshot) I have now several entries for the same file (I changed the location of the file a few times). Is there a way to clear/empty the list?
Question -> Can I automatically load the last file (showing directly the password dialog) when starting EncNotex?
Feature/Idea -> Sometimes there are important words/phrases or text blocks within a note that need to be remembered (so a function to highlight or bookmark them somehow would be great).
Thanks & cheers,
Peter
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Hi, Massimo, I can't access this site https://sites.google.com/site/encnotex from China, It's blocked, do you have an Github account?
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For people can't access certain websites because the IP is blocked, I recommend Tor Project:
https://www.torproject.org/
I am web designer. I accidentally blocked my IP due to the high security settings of the website, I used Tor Project to login and unblock my IP.
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Small issue -> In the first menu (see attached screenshot) I have now several entries for the same file (I changed the location of the file a few times). Is there a way to clear/empty the list?
You should open 4 other files or delete encnotex.ini in UserName\Appdata\Local\EncNotex.
Question -> Can I automatically load the last file (showing directly the password dialog) when starting EncNotex?
No, but I'll add the function to the next version.
Feature/Idea -> Sometimes there are important words/phrases or text blocks within a note that need to be remembered (so a function to highlight or bookmark them somehow would be great).
You may use bold/underline. The highlight could possibly conflict with the background color.
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For people can't access certain websites because the IP is blocked, I recommend Tor Project:
https://www.torproject.org/
I am web designer. I accidentally blocked my IP due to the high security settings of the website, I used Tor Project to login and unblock my IP.
Thank you, Handoko, But https://www.torproject.org/ is also blocked, and I don't know how to use tor. I have bought the ShadowSocks proxy, but it expired. maybe I need buy it again.
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Do you use Linux, don't you? Tor usually is available on Linux's repository. I checked my Ubuntu Mate using Synaptic Package Manager, yes it is there.
More information about Tor Project can be read here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29
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Do you use Linux, don't you? Tor usually is available on Linux's repository. I checked my Ubuntu Mate using Synaptic Package Manager, yes it is there.
More information about Tor Project can be read here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29
Thank you, Handoko, I Installed the tor-borwser, but it also can't vist www.google.com.
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I can use Tor Browser to access Google.
I guess you used it wrong. After installing Tor, you will get a customized browser (which looks like Firefox browser), at the top left corner you will find 2 icons: S (no script) and Tor logo (an onion picture).
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My Tor Browser's appearance may looks different because I use older version.
Sometimes, the ID is blocked. You need to generate a new ID by clicking the onion icon and choose New Identity (ctrl+shift+U)
If you still can't use Tor (after several attempts), then it means your government is very cleaver, they managed to block successfully.
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Thank you, Handoko, I use version 6.5.1 (based on Mozilla Firefox 45.8.0), I will update it, and then try it again.
Powerful government, weak people.
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I can access google now, although it's slow, but it's already connected. Thank you very much, Handoko !
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Question -> Can I automatically load the last file (showing directly the password dialog) when starting EncNotex?
The new 1.4.4.version has this possiblity. See the options of the software.
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I can access google now, although it's slow, but it's already connected. Thank you very much, Handoko !
In any case, now the source code of EncNotex and the binaries are available in https://github.com/maxnd/encnotex (https://github.com/maxnd/encnotex). See the folder Binaries to get the installation package you need.
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[In any case, now the source code of EncNotex and the binaries are available in https://github.com/maxnd/encnotex (https://github.com/maxnd/encnotex). See the folder Binaries to get the installation package you need.
Are you aware of this feature (https://help.github.com/articles/creating-releases/) of github ?
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Are you aware of this feature (https://help.github.com/articles/creating-releases/) of github ?
Thanks, I didn't know it. Anyway, I use Github just as a repository to let users with Google IP locked :( to know and possibly use my software. So I need to upload the code as easily as possible...
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@maxnd:
No problem. I just wanted to let you know in case it would be helpful. Perhaps another day/week/month/year :)
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The reason is more than storing the binaries in the right place. Your GitHub repositories has a size limit, and if you just do a lot of commits changing the executables, all of them get into the history of the repo, creating a lot of unused binaries, one for each time you change them. And that increases a lot the size of your repo. Maybe you will not reach the limit but your sources are polluted with binaries.
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The reason is more than storing the binaries in the right place. Your GitHub repositories has a size limit, and if you just do a lot of commits changing the executables, all of them get into the history of the repo, creating a lot of unused binaries, one for each time you change them. And that increases a lot the size of your repo. Maybe you will not reach the limit but your sources are polluted with binaries.
Thanks, I didn't realize this issue. Anyway, EncNotex now is pretty much stable and has all the features I need. So I'm planning to release a new version every year or so. Hopefully I'll not exceed the Github size limits very soon.
I know that the binaries should be separated by the code, but I've no other way to give people that cannot connect to Google the possibility to use the software I've shared.
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Hi, Massimo.
Thank you for sharing your software, it is a nice software, compact and safe and convenient, I tried it, and found a few problems, I want to tell you:
1, if I only changed the format, but did not change the text content, when I switch to other nodes, then switch back, the format of the change will not be saved.
2, if I did not selected any text, accidentally click the "bold, italic, underline" button, then the entire paragraph format will be overwritten, leading to the loss of the original format.
I hope your software is getting better! :)
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Hi, Massimo.
Thank you for sharing your software, it is a nice software, compact and safe and convenient, I tried it, and found a few problems, I want to tell you:
Thanks, on which operative system are you using EncNotex?
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Thanks, on which operative system are you using EncNotex?
My OS is Linux Mint MATE 18.2 64-bit.
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My OS is Linux Mint MATE 18.2 64-bit.
I tried EncNotex 1.4.4 on Linux Mint 18.3 Mate in Virtualbox on Fedora 27 Gnome 3.26.2, and I could not reproduce the bugs you wrote about. An only format change is saved whenever I change the node, and if I click on the bold, italic or underline icons when no text is selected, only the current word is formatted. So I cannot really help you. Sorry :(
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Here are the animated screenshots:
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Here are the animated screenshots:
The issues you mentioned should be related to the Chinese or Japanese (?) language, because it's written from right to left (am I wrong?). Few procedures of EncNotex could not work properly for this reason. Anyway, it's hard from me to adapt them to these languages because I cannot write them :( Of course, if you wish you may do this yourself, according to the GPL v.3 licence or following under which I've released the software.
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The issues you mentioned should be related to the Chinese or Japanese (?) language, because it's written from right to left (am I wrong?). Few procedures of EncNotex could not work properly for this reason. Anyway, it's hard from me to adapt them to these languages because I cannot write them :( Of course, if you wish you may do this yourself, according to the GPL v.3 licence or following under which I've released the software.
It's Chinese, it's written from left to right. Thank you for your reply, I also have my own software to maintain, I have no time to write other code, I just want to tell you what I met, thank you!
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Dear Massimo
I bought a new Microsoft Surface device with higher DPI (excellent device by the way).
EncNotex does not look that good on the screen (see attached screenshot).
P.S: The default font scaling is set to 200% in Windows.
I found a page talking about this, but I don't know actually if this is device-, Lazarus- or EncNotex-related!
-> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/High_DPI
Thanks & cheers,
Peter
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EncNotex does not look that good on the screen (see attached screenshot).
P.S: The default font scaling is set to 200% in Windows.
The interface of EncNotex is shown properly if the font scaling is set to 125% or less. Anyway, in the next version I'll try to make it look fine also on bigger scales.