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I agree we could use a "Forum Guidelines" topic somewhere.. Though there is so much info scattered everywhere on the forum and so much to read, i'm not sure we would benefit from yet another sticky post that people need to read before getting started.

Still, it's an excellent idea to have a thread somewhere where we can point people to when a question arises, that summarizes all guidelines..

I've started one here: http://www.donationcoder....rum/index.php?topic=34981

This post will be update with forum guidelines and rules as they evolve.

Basic rules of the forum:

• Be respectful to everyone, even if they don't return the favor.
• Do not post any spam advertising.  If you want to tell us about a program or product that you personally are involved with, that's ok, as long as you disclose your relationship to the program/product and do not simply copy and paste some info being posted on other places.
• When including URLs, do not add affiliate links and do not use URL shorteners.

Let me chew this over a bit..

Ok, i'll have a look and report.

I'll fix this in next release and try to get an update out this month.

Thanks for the mini-review p3lb0x 

but some at Wikipedia thought he wasn't notable enough to deserve it and so it was deleted.

I never saw such a page, but to whoever deleted it: thank you. 

any reports?

We're all just figuring out this stuff as we go I'm afraid..

No one's saying you're the bad guy -- we're all the guinea pigs here making mistakes and trying to come up with better ways to do things.

[Shortented links should not be used on this forum.]

I have to agree with the comments against link shortening on the forum:
Shortented links should not be used on this forum.

Because a shortened link hides the destination, it should be considered a security risk and inappropriate in all cases except where you have a VERY good reason to be concerned with the length of the text (like in a twitter post).

No one should be using shortened links (or any kind of link proxies) on the forum.


ps. how is it that this thread is still alive? 

Pretty amazing job of animation.

If it's not to much trouble, I'd appreciate knowing if my guess about capturing windows 7 widgets is correct -- if so i'll add some info to the help file about it.

Thank you very much for the report simakuutio  
I think the biggest bug in Easy Screencast Recorder is that it's not (yet) actually easy to use.

But to address your points:

1. Windows Widgets won't capture?
I suspect this means they are using some accelerated graphics rendering to display, much in the same way that video playback can, causing screen captures to be blank.
When you can do is temporarily *disable* HARDWARE ACCELERATION for your graphics card (found on Troubleshooting tab of video card properties dialog) during capture, and then re-enable it.
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2. Thanks, will fix.  The proper page is: http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/esr

New beta version is up at url listed above; hopefully it will work better.

New beta version is up at same url listed above; hopefully it works even better now.

I am a bit of a board game fan.  I very rarely get to actually PLAY board games but I am a bit obsessed with reading about them (usually at the Board Game Geek website), and watching video playthroughs and reviews.

You can see a few of my previous posts about board games on the forum here:

• Micro Reviews of board games
• Links to some of my favorite board game review websites

Over the last year I have been watching quite a few board game review videos and playthroughs.

Board game reviews are usually pretty short and entertaining if the game is one I'm curious about,so the technical quality of the review (video and sound) is not critical.  So if you're interested in a review of a particular game, you can't go too wrong just searching for it on youtube.

Long playthroughs are quite a different matter though.  The long playthroughs can end up being several hours long spanning a dozen separate video uploads over the period of a month, as you watch someone play a full game.  For these -- it's really quite important that whoever is doing the recording and editing do a good job of it, or it becomes exhausting to watch.

Anyway, I thought I'd post some of my favorite board game youtube "channels" -- that is, people who regularly post reliably good quality videos either reviewing or playing through full games.

My favorite Playthrough channels (multi-part full game playthroughs):

• Watch It Played - This youtube channel, run by Rodney Smith, is the high water mark of board game walkthroughs -- you'll not find another source of walkthroughs done with higher production quality or with more love for the process.  It's genuinely fun to watch Rodney and his children play through board games and you get a real feel for whether you would enjoy the game as they play.  Rodney also does a better job of (and takes more time) explaining the rules of each game than anyone else, by a large margin (Board game designers have caught on to this and are starting to hire him to do their official tutorial videos).  Highly recommended.
• Black Belt Gaming - Usually just playing by himself (often taking the role of multiple players), Robert takes his time playing through full games.  With good sound and video you feel like you are learning the game from a friend.
• Box of Delights (Ricky Royal) -This channel is much like Black Belt Gaming; Ricky takes his time playing (along) through some great games and by the time the series is over you have a very good feel for how to play the game and whether you would like it. I'm currently watching his 18 part series on "Arkham Horror"

My favorite Review channels (these don't teach you how to play or go over all the rules) but tell you if the like it:

• The Dice Tower - Tom Vassel regularly puts out a high volume of very watchable and informative board game reviews (and year-end top 100 lists), and has recently gotten into previewing kickstarter games.  Definitely one of the best channels for board game reviews. His reviews are medium-depth and quite opinionated -- sometimes he loves and sometimes he doesn't.
• Board to Death - This channel is run by a bunch of fun canadians; it's a little uneven but they have a good time and review quite a few games; usually don't review games they dislike but will rate the game
• Star Lit Citadel - Very brief reviews of board games but well filmed and highly watchable; only review games they like, no ratings
• Cat and Mouse Game Store - Again, brief reviews of board games but well filmed and highly watchable; only review games they like but make recommendations of similar games, no ratings

Now -- what are your favorite youtube channels? They don't have to be about board games -- maybe you have a favorite person who posts a lot of reliably good videos about cooking, sewing, etc?


ps. A shout out to my own Web Link Captor tool which took my list of favorites and found the website urls and autoformatted them for me.

What I mean is simply this:

There are hundreds of checkboxes and options in the SC options dialog.  In order to have the Apply button enable after you make a change to one of them, I'd have to Enable the Apply button after you change any of those hundreds of controls, which means that I'd have to trigger an event time any of those hundreds of control get triggered, and that's simply not something I do.

Not a big fan of making / naming things differently than everyone else, just to be different.

i'm not either -- i hate that! i'm just very bad at figuring out what the standard way to do things is !  

Still, after applying changes in most apps, convention is to gray them after applying changes.

yes, that would be better -- i just don't track changes well enough to do that for the SC options.

the apply button is pretty much useless in this case -- it only has value for a couple of settings like thumbnail options, where hitting Apply can show you what the effect of a settings change would be before you accept.

I'll have a look.

So this is a global change

correct.

however if you are using an alias, you can solve this simply by not specifying just a url in the alias but specify the entire explicit path to the browser with the url as an arguement.

so for an alias to open bing in internet explorer:

[copy or print]
Open Bing in IE | C:\Program Files\iexplore.exe "http://www.bing.com"

As much as I appreciate the sentiment, I don't think I have much to do with this being a nice place to hang out -- things just happened and we are stuck with each other.. I feel lucky that so many interesting characters have decided to call this place their home.

I haven't felt like i've lived up to DC lately -- that I haven't progressed in improving the site to a new content management system and that there are still some very rough edges on the site -- i will try to do better as we move forward.

Given that, I think the best way for me to take this thread is as a REMINDER that i have to take my responsibility to the site seriously and that i have an obligation to the folks who have supported the site and decided to call this place their home -- an obligation to make sure this site stays true to its principles and stays useful.

But let's not become too self-absorbed.. It's always fun to be thanked but I'd feel better about it if we were creating more good stuff and content, and more new faces were joining in the conversations with us old timers.  We've got some improving to do.

Ed Bott (writes about Microsoft software) says he's done with ads on his website:
http://www.edbott.com/web...ore-ads-no-more-trackers/

The advertising industry, on the other hand, seems to be engaged in a race to the bottom. I finally got tired of ugly, misleading ads, which in turn were accompanied by tracking code that aggressively monitors your movements on the web.

Great to see a reply from project wonderful folks -- welcome to the site

my default browser is IE but I want to open donationcoder.com in Firefox?

just specify the full path to your firefox exe in that option; for example:
[attach=1]

So, as you figured out, the SpecialFx2 spliceout command can be very useful if you have to fix a scrolling capture that didn't turn out right.

But you should also PROBABLY be able to fix that from within the scrolling capture interface by tweaking some of the overlap options in the final step of Scrolling Capture.  It may be that it doesn't GUESS the overlaps correctly on that page, but you should be able to manually tweak them and see the results before you complete the stitching.