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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: A Custom Page for Inno Setup showing DoCo info and donation benefits

« on: March 13, 2011, 05:41 AM »

If you would like to spif up the installer with a skin I've used this free tool for Inno Setup in the past:

-MilesAhead (March 12, 2011, 05:47 PM)

That's not something I'll be adding, I really dislike any skins beyond the default Windows stuff, and IMHO are a big waste of energy when applied to an installer, that is only run once.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: A Custom Page for Inno Setup showing DoCo info and donation benefits

« on: March 13, 2011, 05:37 AM »

I've thrown something together, except for the text that I got from the Lorem ipsum generator Renegade did a recent micro-mini-review of:

-Ath (March 12, 2011, 12:54 PM)

That was actually cranioscopical. I can't take credit for that.

-Renegade (March 12, 2011, 07:52 PM)

Oops my bad, I typed that up from memory, so that's where it went wrong
I'll fix that (both the memory and the text).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: A Custom Page for Inno Setup showing DoCo info and donation benefits

« on: March 12, 2011, 03:11 PM »

Once you get it looking the way you want i'd like to see a version that is more focused on "Why you should donate to the author" rather that "What is donationcoder"

-mouser (March 12, 2011, 03:05 PM)

That's the kind of text I was asking for But I couldn't find anything that fitted the bill on the site, maybe it's there, then a pointer would help.

There is a transparent version of that cody image somewhere i can try to find it, if you can use it.

-mouser (March 12, 2011, 03:05 PM)

It has to be bmp format, and as I haven't checked for transparency settings in the image control, can't tell yet if that helps or even would look better...

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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread

« on: March 12, 2011, 01:38 PM »

Well, the mark is set, so somebody can start singing...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: A Custom Page for Inno Setup showing DoCo info and donation benefits

« on: March 12, 2011, 12:54 PM »

I've thrown something together, except for the text that I got from the Lorem ipsum generator Renegade cranioscopical () did a recent micro-mini-review of:





And with the 'Donate to author' not #defined in the script (disables the creation of the link-control)




And for those where "Cody should be on the 'right' side"  , that's just a #define switch away


(Cody is clickable, hence the hand cursor)

Any replies are welcome,

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Living Room / Re: Nice DIY project for computer- & cat- lovers: Keyboard Cat

« on: March 12, 2011, 11:28 AM »

You're sure the method was embroidery?

-cranioscopical (March 12, 2011, 10:29 AM)

I'm of good faith, I simply believed what they wrote up there, but your method also looks plausible

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Micro-mini Review of Lipsum text generator

« on: March 12, 2011, 10:04 AM »

Is the site DoCo'd already? (Just like Slashdotted, but by DoCo users alone), can't get the page to show it gives an 'Error 503 Service Unavailable, Guru Meditation...' message.
Seems the service has rebooted and now it's working again.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ

« on: March 12, 2011, 07:29 AM »

If the authentication for browsers is a webpage, then I assume it could be using cookies to store any previous used credentials, but that should be provided by the proxy, and is probably not re-usable by other applications.

Most other apps I use (Avast, Eclipse, and other stuff) have in their network page a proxy setting that facilitate optionally setting the authentication parameters, next to the proxy address, so I'm afraid that there's not much hope for a common solution. You could re-use the parameters of any of the other apps to provide these to the proxy, but what common app to choose?
It wonders me (too) that Windows Internet settings page doesn't have an option to define this.

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Living Room / Re: Nice DIY project for computer- & cat- lovers: Keyboard Cat

« on: March 12, 2011, 05:15 AM »

Oh, and credit where credit is due: It came from my wife's Machine embroidery forum (all in Dutch, sorry), where she posted the link earlier today.

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Living Room / Nice DIY project for computer- & cat- lovers: Keyboard Cat

« on: March 12, 2011, 05:10 AM »

http://www.urbanthreads.com/pages?id=695

I have a mostly typical if somewhat slightly dorky desk. It has a phone, a computer, a pencil holder, a slightly suspicious-looking robot, Cthulhu, and a keyboard.

OK, maybe your desk doesn’t have paranoid robots or cuddly gods of the netherworld, but I bet yours has other things. And I bet yours is missing something just like mine... something to rest those weary wrists on! And maybe something to up the geekiness level of your desk to new heights. Trust me, with this project, your desk will be the lord of geek. In a good way, of course. We at Urban Threads only take a positive view on geeks.

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Official Announcements / Re: UnReplied Topic Fridays on the DonationCoder.com Forums (URT-Fri)

« on: March 12, 2011, 04:57 AM »

Oh... It's not broken. It's just unintuitive.

I am confuzzled.

-Deozaan (March 12, 2011, 04:29 AM)

I can understand that, I'd (also?) like a few comboboxes allowing to select the criteria of the filter, on that page.

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Living Room / Re: Safe use of USB drives? Is there anything like a USB sandbox application?

« on: March 12, 2011, 04:48 AM »

Maybe a special set of physical connector should be designed for this situation, unique to that lab, and only installed on the computers over there, ofcourse.
Quite a laborious job, but then no external devices could be used on those computers, and the USB sticks could only be used in that lab. Combined with USB-Switch you could have a pretty secure operation.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ

« on: March 12, 2011, 04:39 AM »

worstje:
The standard procedure with authenticating proxies and other authenticating services, is to set up the credentials in your connection object, and then make the connection. The connection stuff then either automatically performs the authentication or fires an event (.NET kinda standard behavior) that you implement and return the proper credential information.

It's quite useless (iow nearly impossible) to try and catch the login page fired at browsers, as that's often a javascript page, you will have great difficulty executing in your application (JottiQ in this case)

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Micro-mini Review of Lipsum text generator

« on: March 11, 2011, 04:45 PM »

Whereas I have been the industry's standard dummy for a much shorter time.

-cranioscopical (March 11, 2011, 04:38 PM)

You are not alone in this I presume

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Baby Cody arrives in Stuttgart, Germany

« on: March 11, 2011, 04:29 PM »

Hm, moving house is always a good time to throw out some old or undetermined stuff

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Living Room / Re: Safe use of USB drives? Is there anything like a USB sandbox application?

« on: March 11, 2011, 04:28 PM »

Reboot the machine into the USB OS and then access the files from the HDD that way

-Deozaan (March 11, 2011, 04:01 PM)

That's as unsafe as hooking it up to a network, the booting OS could be infected with something

Labs like these do have specific requirements, it can take up to 5 years for a change like that to be officially processed, validated, confirmed, thought about some more, and maybe even approved
And then the proposed hardware add-on is no longer available or in use anywhere else

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands : Major update

« on: March 11, 2011, 03:58 PM »

Ok guys & gals, here it is, WinButtons is updated to 2.0.0

A quick rundown of the new features:

• Button arrangement, giving double-sized buttons, 1/2, 1/3rd, 1/4th, 1/6th and 1/9th sized buttons
• Application-focus button-context switching
• Configurable font-size, global with per button override

All changes (quite a lot...) are in the source change-history, download and an extra screenshot in the original release-post

Any bug reports or feature-requests can be posted here.

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Baby Cody arrives in Stuttgart, Germany

« on: March 11, 2011, 02:11 PM »

Hey, he is relatively close to my place (compared to DoCo home), but still a bit too far to make a quick visit to shake wings

gjehle, heads up with the move, with Baby Cody supervising I'm sure it will work out right

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Micro-mini Review of Lipsum text generator

« on: March 11, 2011, 01:22 PM »

That's a nice min-review.

I mis only 1 paragraph, and that's a comparison section, that holds this solution against similar offerings, like a web-based Lorem ipsum generator, ie. what makes this off-line tool one stand out?

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: A Custom Page for Inno Setup showing DoCo info and donation benefits

« on: March 10, 2011, 02:46 PM »

Hi,

Today worstje came with the great idea of adding a custom Donation Coder page to the JottiQ (Inno Setup) installer (I helped him finish that by adding the .NET/VC++ runtime dependency stuff), to be featured in the next release of JottiQ.
This page should show a text with/including 1 or 2 links that would promote this wonderful site, and convince anyone even slightly interested into making at least a visit to the site, and ofcourse consider to donate while visiting.

The custom page I'll quite easily mock up (this weekend I'll have time for that, it'll be a free 'plug-in' for all dc members using Inno Setup),
it's the text that should go in there that's bugging me a little.

I could copy/paste the text from the left column of the Donation page, but that's quite long to show while pressing next, next, finish during the installation process. I firmly oppose to adding a time-delay to that page (though not impossible; it could even be a delay for the 1st pass only, even when passing multiple times), but all the other apps/installers adding delays or other tricks (scrolling down the entire Windows NT 4 EULA during install to be able to press F8 to continue, comes to mind , and the silly WinZip shareware page where you press 1 of 3 buttons to continue, I often find on co-worker PC's), still these EULA/Shareware pages are not read in the way the supplier had in mind.

If there is an official "short version" of the Donation page text available, I'll be happy to use that, if not: any advise is more than welcome.

For those that haven't noticed, English is not my native language, so any spelling or grammar bloopers would have to be fixed as well

It's a bit of a pity that nobody, including myself, came with this idea earlier, so it could have been used for all apps released during the fundraiser (that need an installer), but when done right (and I intend to do that...) it's usable for more than this fundraiser alone.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: howto+script for android phone as 5 action programmable PC remote

« on: March 10, 2011, 05:28 AM »

Hm, I'll try to use/combine this asap with WinButtons

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« on: March 10, 2011, 03:35 AM »

Oh, another special number:

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Developer's Corner / Re: Automatic Updater

« on: March 10, 2011, 01:48 AM »

Hm, sounds just like... DcUpdater

And it also looks like a solution looking for a problem

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« on: March 09, 2011, 01:29 AM »

Wouldn't using the Windows standard internet/proxy settings be the right way to go here? Some of the browsers (IE, Chrome) use these settings to connect to the internet as well, AFAIK.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands

« on: March 08, 2011, 05:39 PM »

There is color (back) in the darkness already , but now I gotta find another itsy bitsy of information on where to fetch the current active font-size used. It's there somewhere, but I'm out of time for today