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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR crash related to changing monitor sizes.

« on: November 27, 2023, 04:32 AM »

I apologize for the frustration this must be causing and the creative workarounds you've been willing to create for it!
I will try to fix. 
This seems like a good clue: "1) Farr doesn't actually crash at runtime, it crashes when it's hotkey (alt space) is pressed."
FARR has some code that tries to fix up the window position if it is off screen -- something must be going wrong here.

Quick question first, have you tried changing some of the options that tell FARR whether you want it to automatically position itself on the monitor when it shows?

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: NANY 2024 - Tools for New York City Detective Mystery Boardgame

« on: October 14, 2023, 06:42 AM »

Thank you Still so much to do but making progress.

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: NANY 2024 - Tools for New York City Detective Mystery Boardgame

« on: October 05, 2023, 07:40 PM »

I will be doing a livestream game design update/diary this sunday october 8th, at 12 noon CST, if anyone is interested:
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=h9-hC6y8Uzk

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: NANY 2024 - Tools for New York City Detective Mystery Boardgame

« on: September 30, 2023, 01:25 AM »

Latest map sample:


thumbnails of all neighborhoods:



Giant pdf (80mb):
https://donationcode...ow/MapAtlas85x11.pdf

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Screenshot Captor / Re: I need to know how can i auto save selected snip area

« on: August 30, 2023, 02:23 AM »

Screenshot Captor was made for things like this.  You can set a hotkey to do "Grab repeat last size+position" so that your first capture is a selection of the area on the screen, and after that just hit the hotkey to recapture from the same area on screen.  And you just need to tell screenshot captor to save each capture without popping-up the post-capture dialog and it will just stay in the background after each capture and auto save them.

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Living Room / Re: Where is Mouser ?

« on: August 24, 2023, 05:46 PM »

I'm still around

I do have to apologize for being so quiet for the last year -- nothing went wrong I just seemed to fall down this rabbit hole of making youtube boardgame videos (https://www.donation....msg443025#msg443025), and for some reason it seems to be harder than normal for me to multi-task.  Probably because the youtube project is such an unnatural thing for me.  I have ended up doing quite a bit of coding related to the project (Adobe Premiere video editing plugins, and OBS livestreaming plugins), but my windows software has gotten largely ignored for the last couple of years.

In the last 6 months or so I have also been devoting a lot of spare time to designing a narrative mystery detective tabletop game (set in NYC in 1940s), and have spent a lot of time coding Python support tools for it.

I really do want to get back and do some rounds of work on it, I just have to learn to multitask better.

-jesse

ps. I want to express my deep thanks to Deozaan and others who have been keeping the forum free of spam!

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« on: June 25, 2023, 05:06 AM »

Have we already posted about the band Heart?

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Changes won't save anymore...

« on: June 15, 2023, 09:33 PM »

how strange!!! yes please let me know if it happens again or if you discover any more clues..

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Changes won't save anymore...

« on: June 13, 2023, 04:32 PM »

Gut instinct is that its saving to one place and loading to another.. But I suppose it could be something else.   Can you try a Save As and verify that it is saving the file as a new file, and then load that file explicitly, and see if its still not showing changes?

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / NANY 2024 - Tools for New York City Detective Mystery Boardgame

« on: June 07, 2023, 11:22 PM »

I have embarked on a daunting project of creating a mystery tabletop game (similar to Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective), which is set in New York City in the 1930s.
It's a giant project that is likely to fail, but I'm going to make a go of it.
A big chunk of what I have to do is prepare game maps for the city, and a fascimile directory.
I've spent the last few weeks coding tools to help me manage real public domain New York City GIS/geospatial data.

So I think this year my NANY may be (Python) tools for working with this GIS data for generating game-related maps and data.

Some screenshot samples:



You can read about the game project on the boardgamegeek section for my youtube channel: https://boardgamegee...high-and-low-stage-2

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / New Apps for the New Year 2024 section is open

« on: May 31, 2023, 08:30 PM »

The NANY 2024 (New Apps for the New Year) section is now open.

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Living Room / Re: My new project is now live: Co-op For Two on YouTube

« on: May 18, 2023, 05:47 AM »

2.5 years later: Ten subscribers away from 2000 subscribers.  421 videos.
These are not good numbers, but they are numbers.

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Other Software / Re: My OBS Plugins

« on: April 30, 2023, 08:23 AM »

Here's another one:
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=N4X-UTs7Q6Q

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Other Software / Re: My OBS Plugins

« on: April 02, 2023, 04:18 PM »

New tool created, a custom plugin for Elgato Streamdeck to send user-configurable websocket messsages to OBS.  I pair this with a small custom OBS plugin to let me use streamdeck to do anything I want in OBS, but it could be used to communicate more generically with websocket tools.



I'm considering whether it might be worth it to extend this plugin to support multiple independent websocket servers (currently it just supports one).

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor print option problem

« on: March 31, 2023, 02:53 AM »

I think I fixed a printing problem in the beta version of screenshot captor which I still havent promoted to official.  Can you try the beta version of SC and see if that solves it: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=3474.0

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Other Software / Re: My OBS Plugins

« on: March 31, 2023, 02:45 AM »

if you get yourself a blink(1) usb rgb light, I could probably whip up a little python or lua OBS script for you that showed different colors based on whether you were streaming, recording, etc.

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Other Software / Re: My OBS Plugins

« on: March 28, 2023, 02:21 AM »

It would be exceedingly easy to make a plugin that turned on or off a tally light like a usb blink(1) based on status of recording/streaming, and set the light color based on different status etc.
As long as you have an api to turn the lights on or off, it's very easy to react to OBS signals that are send when broadcasting/recording starts and stops.

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Other Software / Re: My OBS Plugins

« on: March 20, 2023, 06:30 PM »

Video on my youtube chat plugin and tools:

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Delphi and C++ Builder / Re: Please let me earn badges for Delphi (OOP) Pascal, I am really good in that one

« on: March 07, 2023, 08:05 AM »

People don't know but when donationcoder was being first experimented with in 2003 or so i think, one of the main features on the previous version of the website was a programming school section where people could see assignments for ideas to program and submit their implementations to move forward..  This was before all the great professional programming teaching websites came into being which do a great job of encouraging new coders.  It was very primitive but some people had fun.

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Other Software / Re: My OBS Plugins

« on: March 07, 2023, 07:59 AM »

I also forgot to post about Dock Sets, a feature I coded for OBS (not a plugin requires changes to OBS source code which I submitted a pull request for but which never got accepted).
This let's you save and load your UI configuration of docks.  I use it to switch between a setup I use for livestreaming and one I use for editing and configuring:

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Other Software / Re: My OBS Plugins

« on: March 07, 2023, 07:48 AM »

New OBS plugin and helper tools.

JrYouTubeChat

This is a combination of 3 "tools" to assist in interacting with your youtube audience during a livestream.  It includes: An OBS plugin dock, a python utility, and an html browser source.  Plus a small modification to the OBS source code.

What does it do:

• First, a small modification to the OBS source, which is not strictly necessary, which automatically broadcasts a message when you select a youtube broadcast to connect to from the broadcast connect dialog.  This change makes everything that follows automatic.
• Next, the OBS plugin goes through all of your scenes and sources and changes any browser source which links to a youtube chat to update to the current video id; this ensures any chat browser source is automatically updates to the current livestream
• Next, the OBS plugin will (auto) launch a python script which connects to the youtube chat (not using youtube api which is rate limited but direct fetching of chat browser page and parsing results using Pytchat), and fetches all chat messages.
• These chat messages are displaying in a listbox in the OBS dock.
• The python script will also interface with a blink(1) hardware device to alert you with a physical rgb light if any configured keywords are mentioned.  This will let audience get your attention if there is something you should pay attention to.
• Any item in the chat list of message can be double clicked, and websocket will be used to send a message to a special browser source you can add to a scene, which will display the highlighted message, along with any youtube avatar, in a lower thirds overlay (using exeldro's open source Downstream Keyere plugin).  See screenshot.  This can be used to highlight someones comment on screen when you want to react to it.  You can even configure and toggle automatic rotation through messages if you just want them shown as they come in.
• Lastly, you can configure various hotkeys to move through the message list and toggle items, to facilitate using something like a streamdeck to control what's shown.

Screenshots:






Available with my other open source OBS plugins, though by no means easy to set up currently, at github: https://github.com/dcmouser/obsPlugins

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Other Software / My OBS Plugins

« on: March 07, 2023, 07:35 AM »

I need a thread to link to all of my OBS plugins and addons.

Here's a few threads so far
OBS multi-line text plugin/enhancement - https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=52699
OBS Flip Screen Plugin and Modification - https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=52701
OBS Plugin for AutoZoomCrop using machine vision - https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=52634
Obs Youtube Timestamps, DelayedFade, custom browser CSS, Browser Timer, and more small OBS plugins and mods - https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=52727

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Living Room / Re: Arduino anyone?

« on: February 08, 2023, 12:41 PM »

Also, tell us more about your projects!

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Living Room / Re: Arduino anyone?

« on: February 08, 2023, 12:41 PM »

I have a new idea for a project using wireless and lowest battery power requirements.. maybe we can chat about ideas.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Convert images to grayscale or blak and white

« on: February 04, 2023, 10:19 PM »

Yep, you found it