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Edit: Adding Files to the Windows MRU/Recent Document List - Rick Strahl's Web Log[^]
And there it is.
When you right click on an app on your taskbar you get a most recently used file list for the app.
Historically, I thought each app's MRU was proprietary to the app - like how it was stored in the registry was individual to the app.
So how the hell does windows 10 do this?
Basically i want it to happen with my app, and i want to understand it before i go and just dump an MRU in the registry.
maybe my google fu is just off tonight, but after hunting everywhere, including ForensicWiki it seems that i wasn't wrong to assume each app's MRU is proprietary - they appear to be.
The only other possibility that occurred to me was that windows was monitoring all app starts and openfiledialog calls to build its own MRU for each application. However, that doesn't make sense for a number of reasons.
I'm stumped.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
modified 17-Aug-19 1:37am.
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I'm staying away from 3rd party components for this app. Plus I'd have to test it to see if it would work with this - and based on the answer i found - it wouldn't at least without additional stuff on my part (registering a file extension with windows - didn't know that was a requirement, but i understand how global MRU management works now at least)
After perusing that component, no it will not work as it does not use the shell API to register recent files
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Hi Griff, Using working code would distract HTC from posting on the Lounge, so that's a no go 
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Microsoft *almost* has a PEG parser generator built into .NET
I believe the Regular Expression engine already does memoization in matching.
So all that would really need to be added is
a) an op like PERL5's regex recursion
b) a grammar model for a PEG grammar
c) a simple way to compose a compound series of regex to match the PEG
Unless i miss my guess they really did us all a disservice by stopping with regex.
They made their regex so advanced it may as well be a parser, but for some stupid limitations.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I may not be as familiar with pegging as you, please explain?
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I believe PEG = Parsing Expression Grammar.
Not that I know what that exactly means....
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You're right. And PEG is just a style of parsing based on what is essentially a souped up regex engine with backtracking and recursion. Memoization (keeping track of partial matches) is used to make the backtracking feasibly efficient.
Microsoft has implemented like 75% of one maybe in their regex engine.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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sorry, it's a style of parsing. PEG stands for "parsing expression grammars" and it's basically a glorified backtracking regex matcher with memoization and recursion.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Unless i miss my guess they really did us all a disservice by stopping with regex.
back of the line mate:
#1. ms did us a disservice by stopping with windows, why not a complete operating system?
#2. ms did us a disservice by stopping with metro (or whatever it's called now), why not a proper window manager
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not to mention the disservice of things introduced and then dumped, hard & soft (notwithstanding things long promised and never delivered)
not to mention the the disservice of other peoples toys they grabbed (stole, or if that failed squeezed the life/market out of then bought for pennies) and smashed
and not to mention joining other clubs (linux, opensource/github...) and [in their usual approach] swamping those with their ms-only toxic crap (as they've been known to do in the past with iso/industry standards/consortiums)
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don't hold back man. Tell us how you really feel! (maybe over at soapbox though  )
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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For no reason I can discern, my phone didn't charge last night. It ran down its battery and shut itself off instead. So no alarm this morning.
Then, to add injury, once I had ensured that it was charging and powered it up... it informed me that I had missed an alarm.
Oh, thank you _very_ much.
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You use a phone for your alarm clock?
K.
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I think about 90% of phone owners use a phone as their alarm clock.
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I used to use my phone for my alarm. Now I use Cortana [substitute your voice assistant device here]. It's easy just to tell her what time I want to wake up (as opposed to thumbing through the alarm settings on the phone). And I haven't hit snooze once since I've stopped using my phone alarm. 
I suppose if the power goes out I will be hosed (but if I had a traditional alarm clock this would also be true).
I wonder if they listen to me sleep 
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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littleGreenDude wrote: I wonder if they listen to me sleep
NSA guy 1 - "Oh no, he's asleep"
NSA guy 2 - "Oh, what does he say ?"
NSA guy 1 *switch on loudpseaker* - *ELEPHANTASTIC SNORING NOISES*
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littleGreenDude wrote: if I had a traditional alarm clock this would also be true
Not if you remember to wind it before you go to bed... Proper alarm clock.[^]
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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littleGreenDude wrote: I wonder if they listen to me sleep
Yes they do.
Apparently, a lot of the voice assistant recordings are "accidental" recordings (yeah, right).
littleGreenDude wrote: And I haven't hit snooze once
I'm so wrecked in the morning I can't hit nor talk to it 
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Sander Rossel wrote: I'm so wrecked in the morning I can't hit nor talk to it
Oh you. I slept 3 hours last night. And I don't use an alarm.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I slept nine and a half hours last night, got out of bed at 12:00 (but was awake a bit earlier) 
That's what happens when I don't set an alarm.
When I do set an alarm I often sleep through it, especially after I wake up and snooze.
Snoozing is very risky when you sleep as tight as me
And after so much of sleep I wish I could say I feel well rested 
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I remember fondly days when I used to be able to sleep 6.
At this rate, by 45 I'll be sleeping 2 hours a night.
Conclusion: I'm turning into margaret thatcher with age.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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That can't be healthy, but at least you have plenty of time to do other things.
Like writing parsers... Wait, could there be a connection? 
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There's nothing to be done about it. It's a product of my madness. The meds help but folx with my condition either get too much sleep or too little. The part that regulates that goes haywire.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: It's a product of my madness.
The parser thing or the sleeping thing?
And did the madness cause parsers or did the parsers cause madness?
Must be tough, though 
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The sleep thing.
And honestly, i think the madness causes the parsers. I could never figure this parsing stuff out before - i've been at it on and off for years. Then one day, boom, I manage to implement LL(1) parsing and LALR(1) the same week. (This was what, a month, two months ago?)
A few years ago I went crazy - not related to parsing, but while it has a lot of downsides, and I don't want to downplay those, it helped me think differently and in many ways I'm smarter now because of it.
Now I don't have to think about code so much anymore. It just flows from me. Like some of my fellow crazies that speak in tongues I guess. That really helped with making these parsers. I can channel things in my head I never used to before. I can't easily explain it but the upshot is I can code things before I understand them. Once I code it, I can read the code to understand what I did.
And that comes naturally now. So bully for me.
On the other hand, it kind of screwed up my employability.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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