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PopUp Wisdom / Problem Using Mouse Wheel

« on: July 16, 2008, 12:18 PM »

When "Shrink Font to Fit" is deselected, certain long quotes put a scroll bar on the side of the popup window. In such cases, however, clicking on the window and rolling the mouse wheel does not produce the desired result of scrolling. The text stays put. This is so even though the mouse is a standard PS2 wheel mouse, no fancy features or incompatible software running.

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PopUp Wisdom / Feature Request: Scrolling Window

« on: July 16, 2008, 07:25 AM »

It would be neat if PopUp Wisdom had an option whereby the quote window scrolled up from the bottom of the screen, and disappeared back down when clicked, similar to the behavior of MSN Live Messenger alert windows.

Edit: If this feature were to be implemented, it would also be useful to have an auto-close-after-time-period option, again similar to MSN Live Messenger. I haven't timed it precisely, but MSN Live Messenger alert windows auto-close after around 5 seconds. The time period should of course be modifiable.

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PopUp Wisdom / Parsing of Fortune Files

« on: July 16, 2008, 07:18 AM »

I am having some trouble with the parsing of fortune files.

First off, I note that I like to have a blank line separating the quote from the speaker, as follows:

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

-- Bertrand Russell

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However, Popup Wisdom displays such formatting as follows:

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
-- Bertrand Russell

So I tried putting a space on the blank line separating the quote from the speaker.

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
(there's one space here)
-- Bertrand Russell

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But Popup Wisdom displays such a quote as follows:

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
 -- Bertrand Russell

In other words, it ignores the line with the single space on it, and concatenates the space with the content of the line following it, displaying the result on one line.

Now, I know that I can always try and convert my quotes file to Popup Wisdom's own format to get the precise formatting that I want, but that's a lot of work, especially for multi-line, oddly formatted quotes. I haven't figured out a way to automate the conversion. I'd much rather be able to use fortune format.

I'm also not sure if the above is buggy or expected behavior, not being intimately familiar with the fortune format specification. Nor am I sure if there is a way to get the behavior that I want using the fortune format.

I am open to ideas and suggestions. Thanks.

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PopUp Wisdom / Big Skin Set Has Unnecessary Files

« on: July 15, 2008, 05:36 PM »

bash.org.txt is included in the Big Skin Set. Not only is it misplaced under the Skins directory and inappropriately included in this archive, it blows up the size of the archive by about a megabyte. Please remove it.

Also, it makes little sense to include the iTunes, Longhorn and Mac OS skins as part of the Big Skin Set, since these three skins are already installed as default with the program.