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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Auto draw 2 lines about 1 inch apart & curve around but not overlap.

« on: December 01, 2012, 06:27 AM »

This is great guys. I'm overwhelmed by the number of ideas  and don't know where to start.

Regarding printing big, I think I can use a program called The Rasterbater or another called Poster Forge to do that.

Yes, as per my "IDEA", it would be interesting to see a "track" being drawn automatically. I'm sure my son would love it.

Looks like I've got some work to do.

Thanks.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Auto draw 2 lines about 1 inch apart & curve around but not overlap.

« on: November 30, 2012, 04:10 PM »

@ tomos - "Draw one line, make it a heavy line. Then duplicate it/clone it - but make the second line thinner and make it white."

I was thinking the exact same thing last night. I'll give it a try before anything else.

Thanks all,

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Auto draw 2 lines about 1 inch apart & curve around but not overlap.

« on: November 29, 2012, 10:12 PM »

Hi,

I'm after program that will automatically draw two thin lines about one inch apart. The lines would curve around randomly and parallel but not cross over previously drawn lines and would eventually return to the starting point and join up. Varying the length would also be desirable. Outside the lines should be white and inside the lines should also be white. I want to be able to print off the results after enlarging it with a paint program. In effect, it will be a racetrack for my sons Hot Wheels cars.

Hope this is practical.

Cheers,

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: Progress Bars re-visited.

« on: July 17, 2012, 11:12 PM »

Hi,

Thanks for pointing me to PixelWindow. It's the ideal solution.

Many thanks.

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Finished Programs / SOLVED: Progress Bars re-visited.

« on: July 13, 2012, 09:36 PM »

Hi,
I'm currently running a partition recovery program which may take days to complete. It has the typical graphical progress bar. It's difficult to see if there is any progression along the bar over several hours. I'm running three iterations of a portable program called "On-screen Ruler" and have placed one ruler below the progress bar, another vertically at the midway point and another vertically at the current progress point. This is at least helping see some progress is taking place.

I was wondering if there is a better way of measuring the progression of the progress bars and found "IDEA: Text-less progress bar calculator". I'm not sure about installing anything like that, at least while I'm doing the partition recovery, so was wondering if anyone knows of an on-screen ruler that has three moveable pieces like I have been able to do with "On-screen Ruler".
I think this would be more practical then my current solution.

If no such 3 piece ruler (2 vertical & 1 horizontal with all rulers moveable) exists, then perhaps someone here would like to produce one.

I know the progress bar is only a rough indication but like I said above, I feel that in cases where the operation may take days, then visual indication of progression along the bar would help.