Yankee Clipper Plus (c)1997 J.LeVasseur VER 1.50

Thanks for trying the Yankee Clipper, (c)1997 J.LeVasseur. This program is Freeware - therefore you're Free to try it, and Free to take it off your computer if you don't like it. No guarantees expressed or implied. I cannot be held responsible for any calamity whatsoever.

That said, on to the description of the program. The Yankee Clipper Plus (YC+) is a Windows95/NT4.0 clipboard memory/stacker that resides in the system tray. It acts as a silent sentry, continually watching the clipboard, waiting for a change in the text contents. If a change is detected, YC+ saves a copy of the clipboard contents in the event you may want to reuse it. Clicking on the little clipboard in the system tray brings the Yankee Clipper to the top or makes it visible if it was hidden. There is a read-only textbox at the top which contains the current contents of the clipboard. Directly below there is a listbox which displays past clipboard content. Double-clicking on an item in the listbox, or selecting with the arrow keys and hitting <Enter> will place that item back in the clipboard.

New stuff -Yankee Clipper Plus: (Stuff that Yankee Clipper didn't have...)

• Ability to save "clippings" between sessions. (Or not save, you choose.)
• Ability to choose between 20 or 50 items saved in the history.
• Boilerplate files. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this term, it is similar to a template.The boilerplate file capability is perhaps the least understood by most useful feature of Yankee Clipper Plus. There is now a Boilerplate file editor included. Just paste entries into the editor, give the entry a name and save the file. Up to fifty entries per file. I have boilerplate files for FAQs for my programs, commonly used code snippets, addresses, etc. To change boilerplate files just hit configure and choose one from the listbox. If someone thinks of a better way to explain this, please send me an e-mail.
• The ability to run a batch file at program termination. This can be quite useful if you need it. For example to delete certain temp files when Windows exits.(Just put it in the same directory and call it YCPEXEC.BAT )
• Yankee Clipper Plus and its accessories remember where you put them last.
• There is now a calendar included, making it easy to copy dates in various formats to the clipboard.
• You now can combine all entries into one and place that info into the Clipboard. For culling over your e-mail and saving only that which is important, to name an example.
• You can load any entry into your text editor by right-clicking  on the entry and selecting "load in editor".
• Other stuff you ask for....

In my opinion, the best way to use the Yankee Clipper is to make a shortcut to it in your startup folder. This way it will always be running and instantly available. You may, of course, start the program manually by double-clicking on its icon in the Explorer. Either way it's a good idea to right-click on the icon, select "Properties" and assign a Hot-key combination. (I use <Ctrl-Alt-Y>.) This way you can start or bring to the top Yankee Clipper with your chosen key combination.

The Yankee Clipper can handle large (HUGE) text "clippings". Therefore, sometimes you may see an error like this "Error displaying clipboard content". This is because the standard windows textbox can only display up to 64K- actually less. Don't be concerned- your data is still there, Windows just can't display it. When you paste back into your word processor, the text will all be there.

Another feature of the Yankee Clipper is its ability to print the clipboard's text contents, why fire up a huge word processor while you're running Netscape (Maybe crashing the computer.) to simply print an address or quote from a web page? The output is nicely word-wrapped and dated. You say you don't like my Copyright notice on the top of every printout? Unhide Yankee Clipper,click on the middle button, type in a new caption.

Right-clicking on the icon in the system tray brings up a list of self-explanatory options. Right-clicking on the listbox in the main program displays a menu with these choices: "Clear history" and "Combine all entries" and "Configure". These choices should be self-explanatory.

You need the VB4 Runtime,MFC,OLE files. If you have VB4-32 you already have them. If not, check the homepage of Yankee Clipper Plus for where to find them.

Problems? E-mail me at lvasseur@tiac.net

The Yankee Clipper Plus Homepage: http://www.tiac.net/users/lvasseur/ycphome.html

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Joe LeVasseur

279 Elm St A-4

Windsor Locks, Ct 06096

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New Version 1.51- Fixed a problem for users using "Non-standard" colors.

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FREEWARE- this software is free, and says "Freeware" prominently. That is to keep you out of trouble with your boss. It's not freeware, it's Make_my_day_ware. What in the world is that? Well Make_my_day_ware is software you can do whatever you want with, with one condition: you have to do something for me. I knew it, you're thinking, right? What does this ugly guy with the beard want? I want you to do something for me- for example: you find a really neat website about ancient Egyptian dogs, tell me about in an e-mail and you're "registered" under the concept of Make_my_day_ware. ( I actually could care less about ancient Egyptian dogs, but I would probably get quite a chuckle out of it.)

Another way to "register" your software is to go home and tell your spouse/child/friend/neighbor that you care about them. You don't need to tell me that you did it, that's not the point. The point is to do something to make my day nicer- or someone else's. No fees or registration numbers, you will know if you are registered or not. On a more practical note, you could also register this software by sending me a big bag of money in the denomination of your choice. Hey, it was worth a try...

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The C.Y.A. part:

THE INFORMATION AND CODE PROVIDED HEREUNDER COLLECTIVELY REFERRED TO AS "SOFTWARE" IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL JOSEPH LEVASSEUR OR HIS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF JOSEPH LEVASSEUR OR HIS SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.