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no, even turning on "adjust for best appearance" didnt fix itThere's an article on the Windows Shell blog about MS having to fix scaling for Vista, so there may have been a Windows Update patch that fixed something there for XP as well.-iphigenie (March 24, 2007, 04:55 AM)
Something's not quite right here...For machines where it's not working as a gradient, try IrfanView (.com). Once you load the pixels into it, you can either do ctrl-shift-S (for Stretch) to show it as wallpaper, or go fullscreen and tap the "3" key just to view it. (Ctrl-R will let you Resize it to save it permanently -- the recommended setting is "resampled" with Lanczos filter.)-cthorpe (March 22, 2007, 11:09 AM)
ps.all this talk makes me realize that this might actually make for a good firefox extension task..That's a great idea -- I wonder if there's a way to get at IE's scrolling by hosting the IE control? IE has the smooth scrolling built-in, and when you middle-click a textfile in IE and move the mouse up/down you can get it to scroll by pixel instead of by line. Maybe that'd be a way to avoid reinventing the steel-belted radial?-mouser (March 20, 2007, 07:51 AM)
ps.What, you didn't like where the apartments were located before? Where did you move them to?
I've been moving apartments for the last two weeks so i've been a little scarce on the forum, but i'm back now, and glad to be back-mouser (March 09, 2007, 06:42 AM)
(Unless you are on an airplane with your laptop and freaking out about the wasting batteries during the 10 minutes bootup).Heh! MS did put some effort into optimizing the startup process for XP -- maybe they've tweaked it some more in Vista. Still, for battery considerations, maybe it's better to do the initial boot/login on A/C power and then use hibernate mode until you're ready to use it. The tradeoff for the potential battery savings would be a little less security protecting the logged-in account.-mouser (January 23, 2007, 02:03 AM)
Thanks, actually modifying in HKCU is indeed a better choice, no drawbacks as I see it.Good deal!(updated ver 1.0.52 reads/writes only in HKCU->Run)
-Mobysaurus (January 22, 2007, 09:50 PM)
Yup -- except for the part about "temporarily bypass running those items at login (shift key)". Still, if it's easier to program the reg check, that's a reasonable consideration too.On the flip side, the StartUp folder lets you temporarily bypass running those items at login (shift key) and you can drag & drop items in and out to change their behavior.True. However I think users can still easily enable/disable the auto-run behavior in Moby just as what they can do with it in Startup folder-Cavalcader (January 22, 2007, 05:29 PM)
I doubt it. Just detailing all the benefits of the startup location.The shortcut properties sheet also lets you specify whether to start minimized, maximized, or "normal". What would the benefit be of a registry-based start?Would anyone want Moby to auto-start in any other way than "minimized"?
P.S. you know I always let moby stay in my system tray, this 1.0.52 ver prevents it from auto-hiding from me even if I ignores it.You mean it overrides the "hide when inactive" thing in the XP tray somehow? Definitely not unreasonable -- I think that function is pretty unreliable anyway. I've got a number of programs that don't stay visible even when I set 'em to "always show". Very annoying! Here's hoping they made sure it works reliably in Vista...
I have added the option to "auto-run and minimize-to-tray when windows starts". When you enable this option, the program adds a key to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunThat's a neat idea, but why not just use the StartUp folder for more user control? The reg "run" key is more for security software or stuff that might have negative side effects when it's not running. (It also starts a little earlier in the login process.)-Mobysaurus (January 22, 2007, 10:52 AM)
On-screen character recognition has always been one of the features i want to add to moby, however it seems v tricky to me and I'm not sure how to code it.One idea might be to just send a doubleclick to the active window at the current pointer location. That'd select the word in most programs -- then all you have to do is copy it to the clipboard. OCR might be overkill for that particular functionality.-Mobysaurus (January 14, 2007, 05:35 AM)
Actually, the user could doubleclick the word desired (so that clicks aren't accidentally sent to the wrong place) and Moby could do the rest, but a <hotkey>-click might be pretty neat.
Awesome, Skrommel -- thank you sir! And, good to see you back around the board.-skrommel (January 12, 2007, 03:29 PM)
(BTW, the quoted link is "1hoursoftwrawe.com", but I figured it out...) Wow, sorry to hear that. (Hmm, maybe my "goreous" typo was more accurate, as in, gored by a bull.Code: AutoIt [Select]I have it on good authority, umm from James himself, that's she pretty much a witch to work with.
) Then again, maybe they didn't hit it off, but that doesn't guarantee that Gellar's like that with everybody. Still, it could be the curse of a beautiful face -- so many times, "the beautiful people" (really attractive men & women) tend to be rather self-centered if they're used to people fawning on them. Kind of a vicious circle -- they come to expect it.
Sorry about my typos.Ehh, no harm done.-jenbert (January 12, 2007, 01:54 PM)
It helped out a lot, thanks again.Kewl! Glad it did the trick.
However I am appalled that you don't know who James Marsters is!Heh! Thanks for the background info -- sounds like the guy must be talented to be working so much. Guess I never really got into Buffy or Angel (although of course the gal that plays Buffy is drop-dead goreous).
The P.S. I Love You movie sounds worth seeing -- I'll have to check it out when it opens.Did I mention I have been happily married for 14.5 yrs and this was my birthday present?Sounds like a memorable one.
Way to go, too, on the marriage -- it's always nice to see people that make it work instead of cutting and running after a couple of years. Nice to meetcha!
The only problem I have with it is I can get to to go into my program files or hace and an icon on mydesk top.Hi, Jennie -- welcome to the board! I tried to figure out what in the world you were asking. (Reread your note -- the message uses words that don't even exist. Heh! The message "preview" and "spell check" buttons work wonders.-jenbert (January 10, 2007, 12:39 PM)
) I think you're asking about "installing" the program so it shows up on your Start Menu (and maybe the desktop). Let me know if I misunderstood.
A few suggestions for 1.2:
- add something so that one could see if the program is still scanning the folder. Of course this is only a problem when you scan BIG folders, then then it really IS a problem.
- maybe add a "stop" button to stop it from scanning?
- IMHO, the tool should not set the checkmark for folders that contain 0 files, 0 folders BUT 1 .exe!
- when you mark several folders with Shift-CursorUp/CursorDown and hit Space then, only the last marked folder will get/lose its checkmark, not all the marked ones.
-brotherS (March 17, 2006, 01:56 PM)
I don't know what to do with the source code.Good point. If you go to www.autohotkey.com you can download the program that lets you run the .AHK files, and it can also convert them to executables.-Cynic (November 25, 2006, 02:57 PM)
Cavalcader, check out the new alpha (1.0.44) - Safe Search!Nice! I'll check it out.-Mobysaurus (November 22, 2006, 11:44 PM)
The next feature to add to moby will be "auto-detection of inflections and spelling variants"Aha -- fuzzy logic. Sounds good!-Mobysaurus (November 23, 2006, 11:49 AM)
If that takes your lamp, is the attaching screw that rearranged?
Cavalcader: Words in blue are headwords in the existing Moby database, on which you can click to see more synonyms, while red words are just synonyms.No problem -- I see it now after browsing the pages a bit.-Mobysaurus (November 13, 2006, 11:54 AM)
I'd like to allow users to freely & easily edit this profane words list after installation based on the default one.That's a great idea -- the profanity category definitely varies from person to person, and culturally as well.
If it's been edited by the user, it won't get replaced next time he upgrades, unless he "restores default".
Took me a minute to figure it out -- but the color code tells the story. Blue words listed have candidates for the filter but are not themselves in question.lesbian..are these "profane" words?
penis..
prostitute..-tomos (November 13, 2006, 07:26 AM)
What would you think about a "safe search" option...etc.-Cavalcader (October 19, 2006, 09:50 PM)
1 this is a quality alpha, not a bug-ridden one.Heh! Love it.-Mobysaurus (September 10, 2006, 10:31 PM)
i probably should not make those red - i did so to draw attention to them since they are new and very importantHow about bold instead? Of course, that makes the text bulkier, so it might have to be reformatted a bit.-mouser (November 09, 2006, 11:20 AM)
Process Explorer is a super powerful & handy program, no wonder Microsoft bought SysinternalsYeah, those're a couple of creative guys. They've done a lot for the Windows community, and not just in all the free tools they've posted. Hopefully they'll be able to make a difference at MS too...-Mobysaurus (October 26, 2006, 11:56 PM)
(Dunno about the difference between the two initial dialogs, though.)
I'm a bit excited about this new "Suggest Roots" tab in v1.0.35.Very nice! You don't let any grass grow under your feet!-Mobysaurus (October 19, 2006, 08:39 PM)
