Toucan 3.0.4 Pre-Release 4

I installed 3.0.4 PR1 on two different USB sticks and tried running on two machines, an XP and a Win 7 machine. When I click on 'Toucan' in the portable apps menu nothing happens in either case! I reinstalled just in case something went wrong but the program still does not run.

When I click on a rule to edit it, I don't see any cursor, although I can still edit the rule. Unfortunately I have to delete something first to see where the cursor position is.

I initially tried double click the "Rule" column to edit it so I don't know if that messes with something.

How do you specify a regular expression to exclude files beginning with "touch"?

a simple text exclusion will also exclude "untouched"
If I try to use the hat (^) regex operator to specify "match only from the beginning" the regex fails.

I suspect this is because the regex parser is not actually matching on the filename but the full path and naturally "touch" is not at the beginning of the full path. Further evidence of this can seen by the fact that if you create a subfolder called "touch" then any files in it will be excluded or not regardless of whether they match the criteria or not.

Is this why you have to begin a regular expression with an asterisk, as a sort of wildcard that get the regex parser to ignore the path? Because I have to confess the asterisk is a strange inclusion.

I have to confess I haven't really use regular expressions previously in Toucan but I was spurred on by this issue. Try as I might, I cannot find a regular expression for it that works, primarily because any regexs that I do get to work exclude files they shouldn't.

I'm wondering if this is by design since one instance where I think this "feature" could be useful is if you want to exclude "touch" files in a particular directory only. You could simply add the parent folder name to the file exclude regex. However, this seems very counter-intuitive and not really the standard behavior that a user might expect. Plus you have the problem above of entire directories being excluded if you have happen to have a folder name that matches your expression.