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37701
Living Room / Everyone happy with PayPal?
« on: March 28, 2005, 02:12 PM »
 :feedback:

Occasionally I get email from someone who is wary about using PayPal.

I've had a PayPal account for over 4 years, using it mostly as a a way to pay for things rather than receive money, and I have to say that I have never had a single bad experience, and overall my experience has been fantastic.

So far my experience in terms of using it to receive donations has been equally pleasent, and PayPal charges a much lower surcharge than other credit card / shareware processing services, and they are well set up for accepting user-chosen donation amounts.

But I am aware of all the sites on the web complaining about PayPal - all of them seem to be from seller's who have had their accounts closed by PayPal and had some of their money confiscated without warning.  I can certainly understand why this would be infuriating, especially if PayPal is not forthcoming about their reasons behind it..

I've also had at least one person tell me they were having trouble getting PayPal to accept their donation.

I'd be very interested in hearing other people's experiences with PayPal, both bad and good, and whether you think I should set up an alternative donation method (and if so, any recommendations?)

37702
Find And Run Robot / Re: New Version
« on: March 28, 2005, 08:29 AM »
fixed version 1.05.10 updated.
i also took the opportunity to remove the "Super Happy.." part of the installer name, which i should have done earlier; this change makes it seem like a different program to the installer, so if you want to avoid having an extra entry in your "installed programs list", you should uninstall prior version before installing this one - if you don't its not a big deal.

37703
Living Room / Daily Blog Columns have begun!
« on: March 28, 2005, 08:26 AM »
The daily blog columns have started !

They are arranged as 5 columns, one for each weekday, and each written by a different columnist.
More info can be found on the start page for the columns: https://www.donationcoder.com/Columns

But you can always get to the lastest column for the current day at: http://blog.donationcoder.com

There is even a link to this page in the upper right of this forum, in the news box.

Please show some love and appreciation to our bloggers by posting feedback in the comments sections of their blogs.

37704
Find And Run Robot / Re: New Version
« on: March 28, 2005, 07:46 AM »
yes it should say launch history - ill fix that now.
asking to delete or add should bring up a messagebox saying not allowed to do that..
if it's hanging on your machine, i know whats happening and i will fix (for some reason something is causing the options dialog to hide the messsagebox telling you you cant add/delete), which means you cant press the buttton to click "ok" which is in effect hanging the program.  thanks for report, should be new fixed version up in the next couple of hours.

37705
Open Source Roundups / Re: DrawSwf files submission
« on: March 27, 2005, 05:07 PM »
 :huh:
my bad, news updated.

37706
Open Source Roundups / Re: DrawSwf files submission
« on: March 27, 2005, 04:41 PM »
 :wallbash:

why am i wasting my saturdays writing these reviews if no one reads them??!?!?!?!

37707
Living Room / Should I increase avatar size? Poll.
« on: March 27, 2005, 11:21 AM »
should i increase avatar max size?
i was considering 130x65 instead of 65x65..
any other web site / forum design suggestions welcome

37708
Open Source Roundups / DrawSwf files submission
« on: March 27, 2005, 11:01 AM »
if anyoene wants to send me a drawswf drawing they made i'll upload it to the board and make a link to it here :)
this offer will be open for the limited time of 99 years so hurry and take advantage of it.

37709
Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Requests...
« on: March 27, 2005, 10:59 AM »
this was already implemented.  should work, if it doesnt let me know.

37710
Find And Run Robot / Re: Including some scripts with next version
« on: March 27, 2005, 07:38 AM »
i agree 100%
i am trying to make it usable right after install without any configuration,
but also tweakable for people who love to tinker with custom settings.

37711
Find And Run Robot / Bugfix, updated to v1.05.09
« on: March 27, 2005, 03:43 AM »
found a bug that was causing error message about not being able to focus a nonvisible window when launching an app while search was still ongoing.

37712
thanks shahram!

looks like GetASFStream is a good tool to have.

download info for latest version here:
http://p084.ezboard....ge?topicID=115.topic

37713
ProcessTamer / Re: ideas for process tamer
« on: March 27, 2005, 02:27 AM »
there is a program for this - and it's quite an elaborate one.. trying to think of the name, will modify this post with it when i remember.

a couple:
http://www.softperfe.../traffic-limiter.htm
http://www.homeqos.com/

and the one i was thinking about originally:
http://www.netlimiter.com/

if you try these out give us a report of how well they work and which one you recommend.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Including some scripts with next version
« on: March 26, 2005, 06:48 PM »
i almost included that in the last release.

f&r has an alias feature already that even lets you make groups of programs under an alias.
i will add the right click -> add to alias
exactly as you suggest.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Including some scripts with next version
« on: March 26, 2005, 08:05 AM »
thats a good idea, i will add it.
you can already have it search your ie favorites and launch them by clicking them,
just like launching any app.

but i think i will add the ability to type in a url directly.

i think i will also add ability to specify a custom file explorer and web browser for use in such operations and explore operations.

37716
Find And Run Robot / Including some scripts with next version
« on: March 26, 2005, 04:53 AM »
I was thinking it would be nice to add some ability to add functions that you could run through F&R robot,
like to be able to things like shutdown computer, etc.

but i was thinking maybe the cleanest most flexible way to do this is not to reinvent new features in f&r but rather use windows scripting and the normal ability of F&R to search shortcuts, and just maybe make it a tiny bit easier to work with.

so i was thinking to include with the next version some basic scripts in a subdir called Scripts, and automatically add this directory by default at the top of the search list with a reasonably high score bias.

scripts might include things like shutting down the computer, or performing operations like reporting disk usage, etc.

so you would hit break and then type "shutdown" and it would find the shutdown script and show it at top, etc.

if anyone has any scripts to recommend or can help me find scripts that would be useful i'd be happy to add them to the next release.

i could also add some minimal functionality to aid in working with scripts (ie editing and adding new ones).

opinions?

37717
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37718
best file manager/explorer replacement is DEFINITELY in the cards soon.  should be contentious award - i expect some real disagreements here.

37719
ProcessTamer / Re: wrong version number?
« on: March 25, 2005, 04:53 PM »
well that certainly does sounds annoying.
the option to disable the balloon will be #1 thing added next week.

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ProcessTamer / Re: wrong version number?
« on: March 25, 2005, 04:31 PM »
hi dv,

thanks for the report.
i'm afraid i am a bit lax in updating the internal version numbers of my programs;
if you right click the icon in the system tray and select "about" you should see it say "1.03.03".

i will try to be better about updating the internal version numbering in the future.

btw i expect to release a new version of process tamer next week, with ability to configure some options via a nice gui, ability to disable balloon tips, and a subtle icon change that will help you identify when a process is being "tamed"

37721
Find And Run Robot / Re: New Version
« on: March 25, 2005, 06:34 AM »
did you notice i added the alpha-blen (transparency) control?

37722
Find And Run Robot / Re: New Version
« on: March 25, 2005, 04:10 AM »
just again wanted to say how much i appreciate the beta testing!!
as a programmer it's so nice to know people who are willing to try these intermediate releases and report back, it's so much harder to fix these problems without such help.

37723
Find And Run Robot / Re: New Version
« on: March 25, 2005, 04:08 AM »
here's what i can tell you about the fix to shortcuts,
there is a windows API command called ShellExecute (google will find you lots of pages).
it can be used to start programs from within other programs, and can be used to tell windows to open an arbitrary file,
in which case windows is supposed to go looking for the program that handles that type of file and open it.
so basically ShellExecute does it all.

by default, F&R was invoking ShellExecute on the files selected for launching, whether they were exe files, other documents, or shortcuts to exes or documents (ie .link files).

apparently there were 2 problems with this.

the first was this policy i didnt know about which says the ShellExecute essentially hangs while waiting for the parent application of a document to start up and be ready to take input.  this was causing F&R robot to just sit on screen waiting and helpless.

the second problem was the fact that it seems on some computers, when ShellExecute is called with a ".lnk" file (shortcut file), it refuses to launch it.  i'm still not sure why certain machines do that and others don't.  it sounds like it could be a security issue but i've never heard it discussed before.

the solution to these problems were, first, to manually decode the shortcut file inside the program to recover the file being pointed to, whether it be an exe or a document.  then the second was to write a tiny like 1 line helper windows utility that basically just takes the name of a document on the command line, and calls ShellExecute on it to have windows open the appropriate program.  By using a separate helper to call ShellExecute, and by invoking that helper with a *different* kind of spawning api call (CreateProcess) i was able to hand off the "waiting for ShellExecute" responsibilities to a separate process and thereby let F&R get back to its job of minimizing or exiting after a launch.

probably more info than you wanted to know, but there it is :)


hehehe, well as i was telling someone before,
find&run is not really a competition for the desktop search engines which can actually look INSIDE files, find and run just works on file names, and because it actually searches for files on demand, its probably not ideal for searching entire hard drives over and over; in such cases its better to have a large database-driven constantly updating indexing system like one of those desktop search things.


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Find And Run Robot / Re: Thanks, with questions...
« on: March 24, 2005, 06:40 PM »
:beerchug:
woot! yippe.

im still not entirely sure why the shortcuts weren't launching on your machine.. maybe some security setting..
i just changed the method from depending on the system to launch the shortcut link to interrorgating the system to find the linked to object and launching it directly.

there is an added benefit from finding this bug though, which is that this method lets me use the new helper exe i just added which means that F&R can just hand it off to the other helper and resume its work more quickly.  so overall its a win.

strange about that gray bar - i thought i fixed it... well i'll just call it a feature and move on  ;D

i think i'll make this an official release..

and then decide whether the next round of work will be on new features in F&R or on Process Tamer improvements.

thanks for the help testing.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Thanks, with questions...
« on: March 24, 2005, 05:57 PM »
yes, if this latest version doesnt fix it im going to make a version that produces log output to help us find the problem.

but try this first:

https://www.donation.../FindAndRunRobot.zip
or
https://www.donation...AndRunRobotSetup.exe

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