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Living Room / Anyone watching the 2021 chess championship matches?

« on: December 04, 2021, 04:10 AM »

Game 6 was INTENSE!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Objects not displayed in Screenshots (clipart, or other screenshot dropped)

« on: December 03, 2021, 10:47 PM »

That is odd..
Is it possible that there is another object in front of the invisible one?  If you restart SC do you then see the object?
Does it matter if you change the "Blend Mode" option near top of that sidebar?
Could you try changing this option and restarting SC to see if it makes a difference:

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General Software Discussion / Re: searching for a solution to simulate pressing F11 Key on Keyboard

« on: December 02, 2021, 07:32 PM »

Autohotkey does sounds like your solution -- someone with knowledge about AHK will no doubt be able to reply here and tell you exactly how to do it.

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Living Room / Re: Nuclear missile silo keyboard repurposed for usb

« on: December 02, 2021, 06:39 PM »

can this count as my NANY?

Official answer: yes.

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Living Room / Re: Nuclear missile silo keyboard repurposed for usb

« on: December 01, 2021, 02:00 PM »

Make sure you check out John's video:

Highly watchable.

When I saw John in real life over thanksgiving, I thought I would flex my youtube creator knowledge, and warned him about getting a copyright strike on the music playing in the background.
To which John replied that he had created the music himself, specifically for the video.
To which I thought, yes, of course you did, John.  Of course you did.

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Living Room / Nuclear missile silo keyboard repurposed for usb

« on: December 01, 2021, 12:25 PM »

Gothic (John), a programmer and electronics savant, who used to handle server administrator for DonationCoder, had a project featured on Hackaday.com today.  Very cool stuff.

He found a weird old keyboard (with trackball) on ebay and it turned out to come from a nuclear missile silo.  After some work with an Arudino board he got it talking to USB interface.  Very cool.

https://hackaday.com...-re-launched-in-usb/

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Android Apps / Re: Google sent me email today saying all my apps are removed from the store

« on: November 28, 2021, 02:30 PM »

All my apps are still available to direct download the apks.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: How not to have a popup of explorer window after screenshot

« on: November 24, 2021, 10:09 PM »

It only happens by default after a "Save As.." action.  You can disable it here:

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Living Room / Re: Wordle: simple web word game

« on: November 24, 2021, 09:51 PM »

Awesome! Nice to meet you and thank you for stopping by.  We're loving wordle and I'm very curious to read more about your design thoughts on it.. Heading over to read now. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: NANY 2022 Pledge: Progress Bar and Jam (PB&J)

« on: November 24, 2021, 09:49 PM »

Nice 

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Living Room / Re: Wordle: simple web word game

« on: November 23, 2021, 06:18 AM »

I've been having a blast playing this every day and talking with a friend about strategies for purposefully trying to lose in hard mode.
"Hard Mode" may make it harder to think of words to guess, but it seems to us that it *mostly* makes it hard to lose since being restricted to previous clue consistency quickly narrows down word possibilities.  But it is still possible to lose with some creative use of double letters, etc.  One thing to consider when trying to lose is that hard mode says it restricts guesses to be consistent with clues, but it will actually let in some guesses that are inconsistent -- for example when you use a letter twice and you get the location right and then for the second use you get a "not in the word", you shouldnt be able to guess a word with that letter doubled up any more, but the game won't stop you from doing that repeatedly.

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: Adobe Premiere Extension coding: TimeStamper, Multicam Deluxe, SoundFx Adder, et

« on: November 21, 2021, 08:01 AM »

Moves this thread to NANY 2022 section as I will be releasing these extensions freely for NANY 2022.

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General Software Discussion / MOVED: Adobe Premiere Extension coding: TimeStamper, Multicam Deluxe, SoundFx Adder, et

« on: November 21, 2021, 08:00 AM »

This topic has been moved to N.A.N.Y. 2022.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=51718.0

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General Software Discussion / Re: ScreenshotCaptor Hanging for a long time

« on: November 19, 2021, 02:43 PM »

There are a couple of things that can slow down SC:

• Having hundreds and hundreds of screenshots in the current screenshot directory (you can use the Move to Old function in the move menu)
• When SC tried to grab the url when making a capture from a web browser; try going into capture options and disabling the capture of url address

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Mouse hover hints on main window not working

« on: November 19, 2021, 03:15 AM »

The best part of any mystery story is hearing the solution.. Good detective work and thanks for sharing it HarveyHe. 

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Living Room / Re: Wordle: simple web word game

« on: November 18, 2021, 02:10 PM »

yep, same word for everyone. i take it that and the fact there is only one per day is part of the charm.
it's a neat little unintuitive lesson for game developers.  here's a simple way to have a kind of shared experience among all players.

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Living Room / Re: Wordle: simple web word game

« on: November 18, 2021, 12:50 PM »

There is an advanced mode in options that requires each guess be consistent with the previous clues.. i think it makes it more interesting and challenging.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Mouse hover hints on main window not working

« on: November 18, 2021, 05:30 AM »

Very strange..

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Living Room / Wordle: simple web word game

« on: November 18, 2021, 01:26 AM »

Been enjoying this:

https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

There is only one new word each day, so you can't keep playing it.  Simple fun little brain puzzle word game you play in your web browser:

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Custom Date Format not work

« on: November 15, 2021, 03:40 AM »

See my answer here: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=51868.0
The trick is to also use "%customdate%" in your file name template.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: How to change the format of the date "Custom Date Format": 10.30.2021>2021.10.30

« on: November 15, 2021, 01:33 AM »

The confusing trick is that it's a two-part process to use a custom date:

• First you configure your custom date field as you have
• And then you use %customdate% in your file name template

So at the top of the File Naming tab, instead of the default of "Screenshot - %datetime%" use something like "Screenshot - %customdate%"

Does that help?

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Living Room / Re: Youtube will hide dislike counts under all videos

« on: November 13, 2021, 04:35 PM »

At first I didn't give it a second thought, but I think you have a good point that I can't see why they didn't simply add it to the options available to the owner of the channel.
I'm sure there are some good reasons to hide it at least some of the time -- like if it encourages people to be trolls and doesn't serve a useful function -- but I haven't seen any discussion of these reasons, nor would I be inclined to believe the explanations.  Whatever the real reasoning is for removing them, you can bet that they have everything to do with the profitability of YouTube and very little to do with making things better for the viewer, except to the extent that these things happen to overlap.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Two Launch Bars - one instance in Task Manager

« on: November 05, 2021, 06:55 AM »

In LaunchBarCommander you can have multiple bars/files open at the same time.  Just go to the LaunchBarCommander options and close one of them.

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Developer's Corner / Re: 'Trojan Source' bug

« on: November 03, 2021, 07:46 AM »

the weakness involves Unicode’s bi-directional or “Bidi” algorithm, which handles displaying text that includes mixed scripts with different display orders, such as Arabic — which is read right to left — and English (left to right).

It seems like one fix might be just detect when a file mixes different display orders and block this.. but maybe im missing the fact that sometimes this has a real use case..

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: Adobe Premiere Extension coding: TimeStamper, Multicam Deluxe, SoundFx Adder, et

« on: November 02, 2021, 03:50 PM »

My plan is to open source them all for NANY 2022.

I will have to decide before then if these videos are good enough or if it's worth the time and effort to remake them.