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Living Room / Re: File associations screwed - anyone help?

« on: September 05, 2005, 09:44 AM »

Thanks, hopefully Jason will shed some light ... 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: WANTED: Resurces for to use with ScreenCaptor

« on: September 05, 2005, 08:28 AM »

Sorry for the confusion ...

The link back request means include a link (URL) back to the originating website so that credit is given. Which you did ... http://www.internetc...art.com/contents.htm

The site owner specifically requests that you don't link directly to graphic files on the website (which is what you did in your post above). You are asked to download the images and then upload them to where you want them displayed (in this case as attachments in your message). He has made this a condition of use of the images. (See http://www.internetc...art.com/contents.htm ... Please, don't link to INDIVIDUAL graphics.)

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Living Room / Re: File associations screwed - anyone help?

« on: September 05, 2005, 07:48 AM »

Thanks both of you.

I had completely forgotten about ShellEx (even though I have it installed).

It turned out to be two context handlers causing problems ...

IrfanView shell extension has long been installed on my system but now it causes the main context menu to lose its Open/Print etc. items from the top. The Open With ... menu is however left untouched.

But CryptoSuite was the big culprit - removing both Open/Print etc. and clearing the Open With Menu ....

Strangely these problems only applied to graphics files.

I presume there must be something more subtle going on with my system.

Could someone please confirm that the context menu work properly with Ghost Security Crypto Suite installed on a JPG file. (I am using windows XP Pro SP2) before I send a potential bug query to Jason 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Clean up your right-click menu (NirSoft's ShellExView)

« on: September 05, 2005, 07:42 AM »

I just rediscovered this from another thread. Used it ages ago and then forgot.

Excellent little tool.

NirSoft has some really nifty utilities. The only problem I have with some of the stuff is that virus and spyware scanners constantly complain - especially about the password utilities. They aren't infected (despite the fact NOD32 keeps quaranting the installers!) it is just that the heuristics of these things don't like programmes that potentially grab passwords !

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Living Room / Re: File associations screwed - anyone help?

« on: September 05, 2005, 06:28 AM »

The really strange thing is that the context menu works correctly in Servant Salamander but not in Windows Explorer

Here are two images to compare:

The first one is from Windows Explorer - the second from Servant Salamander

Both have the Opne With ... submenu open

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Living Room / Re: File associations screwed - anyone help?

« on: September 05, 2005, 05:51 AM »

Nah - rebooted umpteen times - also been switch off all night, and was messed up then too ...

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Living Room / File associations screwed - anyone help?

« on: September 05, 2005, 05:32 AM »

All my graphics file associations are screwe up so that Explorer conext menu no longer has any open options ???

"Open With" menu consists of "Open With" and does nothing.

I have checked through folder options to see what is going on and files still have correct command assocations for Open, Print etc., they just don't appear in the context menu.

I tried reinstalling PhotoShop to see if that would reset all the file associations etc. correctly but it hasn't managed to change the context menu.

If I look at a file's properties and change the apllication used to open the file the application list has the "Always open with this application" ticked and greyed out.

Anyone got any idea what the heck is going on and how to fix it ?

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Official Announcements / Re: Yearbook Mod for SMF Forum Admins Now Downloadble

« on: September 05, 2005, 04:19 AM »

Hey thats great.

I don't suppose you fancy trying to tackle the lack of email support as a mod?

Ideally I would like it if the user could subscribe to individual boards and receive an email notification of each post to that board. The email would be simple text with a link to the latest message, the board name, titel and message authors user ID.

In a really ideal world it would be good if email support could be extended to receiving and posting messages by email list too - but that would probably be far to hard to construct as it would need to hook in very deeply to the main code and incorporate security measures to stop spamming and email spoofing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Worst. Interface. Ever.

« on: September 04, 2005, 08:20 PM »

PhotoShop's interface is coming in for some stick here ...

I must say I use it a lot and really like it.

The screen really isn't overclutter - you can toggle most of the 'screen clutter' on/off simply by pressing tab, and a single mouse click makes the work area full screen.

There is a bit of a learning curve (mainly because it does absolutely everything anybody would ever want to do with digital images) and you need to get to know the keyboard shortcuts. Once you do it is really slick and well thought out. It is also common to just about all the Adobe products so you only need to learn once.

The other thing is PhotoShop really isn't designed for mouse use (why would you want to use a mouse for photo retouching etc) and once you use a tablet with one hand and the keyboard with the other you quickly find you use it most of the time with just the image filling 100% of the screen ...

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Screenshot Captor / Re: WANTED: Resurces for to use with ScreenCaptor

« on: September 04, 2005, 06:23 PM »

Stefan - can I point out that by linking those images from the other website you are breaking the terms of use.

Can you save them to your disc and then modify your email and add them as attachments.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone ever get Lasik eye surgery

« on: September 04, 2005, 03:11 PM »

A friend of mine had it done fairly recently (in Toronto) and was very pleased indeed. He said that the process was less offputting than anticipated.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Version 2 beta preview release now available (!)

« on: September 04, 2005, 01:25 PM »

I didn't mean vertical text - just align the text vertically so that it appears at the top, bottom or middle of the coloured background. That way text can be truly centred in a rectangle.

When you create objects they have handles around them to resize etc. It would be useful to have a dotted outline that appears on screen when an object isn't selected so you can see where unselected items extend to and where they can be selected. This is esp. useful when you have overlapping items where you can't "see" the whole area of the object you are trying to select because it is behind another object. Text boxes with a transparent background are an example - if the text is behing another object you can't see anywhere to select the text box - a dotted outline would allow you to do this.

Obviously you wouldn't want the dotted outlines in the final image - just available during editing.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Version 2 beta preview release now available (!)

« on: September 04, 2005, 12:30 PM »

This new version seems a bit more stable. I haven't tried saving in TIFF format because of comments you made above but PNG+change file works for me.

Text also works now.

Are you going to add bump up and down (layers) for floating objects? If you add text and then want to place it onto a callout ballon or similar there is no way to do this (that I can see) short of deleting the text and entering it again.

Also can editing be restricted to the image area and/or allow image area to be expanded? At the moment final output files crop to the original captures edges.

How do you save a final image (without the objects file)? The only way I have found is to use MoveTo on a finished imaged ??

A couple of other requests ...

1) Group and ungroup objects

2) Optional object outlines (so for eample the text editing box could be made visible with/without handles depending on whether it is being edited or not).

3) Vertical text alignement (Top, centre, bottom) within text object.

4) Not sure if this is possible - transparency effect on text background (so you can fade the coloured background without affecting the text)

5) Text rotation?

Looking good though - you have been working really hard!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Version 2 beta preview release now available (!)

« on: September 04, 2005, 05:44 AM »

What is too big?

This is what I did - I placed a call out on the image (one of the clouds) and then put a text box on top. Type some text but it was too small to read. I increased the font size, but it still fit inside the box (and the cloud) but from then on it could only be seen when selected for editing.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Version 2 beta preview release now available (!)

« on: September 04, 2005, 04:35 AM »

Looks good, but I can't use text!

I put a text objet in, and while it is being edited it is visible but as soon as I click anywhere else it disappears and becommes invisible.

When I double click where I know it is it reappears ???

Also I tried "Save as copy" in TIF format (using the sample) and then got contant 'access violation' errors when ever I used the thumbnail browser (and the save failed).

Sorry it was too late when I was playing and I didn't note the exact error codes.

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Living Room / Re: Mark thread as unread - Side map - checkbox right hand side

« on: September 03, 2005, 11:22 AM »

It allows you to enter the filename/path but when you save the settings it reverts to no visible avatar. The radio button for "I will upload" says selected but the field is blank.

In Internet Explorer the Avatar is replaced with a graphic not available placeholder (the square with a red X inside) in Firefox there is no evidence of an avatar at all - not even a placeholder or a blank space where it should be ???

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Living Room / Re: Mark thread as unread - Side map - checkbox right hand side

« on: September 03, 2005, 10:41 AM »

Yes the options were set but wouldn't work.

For some reason the URL is now working, but I can't get upload to work at all.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Worst. Interface. Ever.

« on: September 03, 2005, 09:59 AM »

Try Real Alternative - can't get any simpler interface and works great. Minimal impact too.

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Living Room / Re: Mark thread as unread - Side map - checkbox right hand side

« on: September 03, 2005, 09:58 AM »

Since you have got them to work can you tell me how to setup to allow users to upload avatars or link to URLs.

I have set permissions for all groups and the the options page but it just doesn't  seem to want to do it ???

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Living Room / Re: Mark thread as unread - Side map - checkbox right hand side

« on: September 03, 2005, 08:25 AM »

Ah, I hadn't noticed the 'page thingy' on the right.

That's what I wanted

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: Features being considered..

« on: September 03, 2005, 06:32 AM »

I downloaded the default browser utility and it seesm to work OK. It does however have the same issue with Firefox as BrowserTraySwitch.

Did you get a chance to look at that after my previous post?

I wonder if it is build specific? I am using Firefox 1.0.6

Jus to remind ...

Set Explorer as default - works fine
Set Firefox as deafult - works fine but reports that it is not the default browser.

The simple solution, I suppose, is to switch of 'check to see if Firefox is the default browser' option.

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Living Room / Re: Ramesh's Windows XP Troubleshooting site

« on: September 03, 2005, 06:28 AM »

I second that - I have used Ramesh's site for quite some time and there is a wealth of useful information.

He is also very helpful on some of the MS usenet support groups.

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Living Room / Re: Mark thread as unread - Side map - checkbox right hand side

« on: September 03, 2005, 05:18 AM »

Thanks - trouble is there are loads of 'managed' forums out there that do precisely this but you end up with advertising in each email. SmartGroups is one such forum (www.smartgroups.com) which is free and pretty full featured. The disadvantage is that you can't set up a hierarchy of boards on the same forum - you have to set up totally separate forums.

One of the nice things in this forum software is you can restrict access to sectioin forums and not others, so I can set up a private  'club members' area within my forum structure and an even more private 'committee' forum within that.

I went over to SimplyMachines support forums and there does seem to be a lot of demand for full email support, but the developed working on it is reluctant to give a full blown interface because he argues configuration would be too difficult for administrators and too open to spoofing and other forms of abuse causing spamming, virus and other malware problems.

As you say the new beta has a mod which allows posting replies from email, but you can't globally set notify me by email for each user, and you would need to go to the website to set notify on individual threads - which rather defeats the object of mail based access.

Personally I can't see why it shouldn't be possible to allow a 'secure' type of posting in the form that:

• Only registered emails can be used to post
• No attachments by post
• Only pure text messages by post
• For each user during sign up a 'pass phrase' could be set up which would have to prefix every email subject, but is then stripped by the server. That way spoofing would be pretty difficult

If you are interested shall we head over and start badgering for this to be implemented?

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Living Room / Re: Mark thread as unread - Side map - checkbox right hand side

« on: September 02, 2005, 08:52 PM »

Never mind - installed, up and running in less than 20 minutes (including download, upload and basic config). Excellent - and free!!!

FWIW You can get most recent posts at the top of threads (which solves my problem) by editing your profile.

One last question - is there anyway to turn specific child boards into separate mailing lists that you know of?

What I want to be able to do is to set up a number of private forums for my local outdoor club to quickly exchange messages regarding planned activities and some people prefer a web board and others prefer email. I want to be able to make individuals able to receive all messages (not replies) from a specific forum (or child form) and not others. I also want to make it so that some forums are only accessible by certain people (eg. club committee members).

Any ideas?

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Living Room / Re: Mark thread as unread - Side map - checkbox right hand side

« on: September 02, 2005, 06:47 PM »

Hi interesting link.

Can I ask some dumb questions ? ....

I have never set up server side scripting etc. before but would like to do something useful with my website (it has been dormant for too long).

I have had an unused forum on that website for the last couple of years which is run by www.network57.com and it is either paid for or add supported. I don't like it too much and want to change it when I get round to a new web design. I like this forum but am not too sure how to proceed.

I have looked at Simple Machines website and it appears that provided my server supports PHP scripts and MySQL (it does) all I need to do is upload the files, run the server side installer and the forum is up and running. Is it really that simple?

Also is all the traffic restricted within my own webspace or do Simple Machines 'manage' any aspects of the forum? I suppose what I am asking is  is it a free standing package once installed?

Cheers.

In response to your question I couldn't see any extensions that I particularly want. As Stefan said it might be a nice extension to have a personalise favourite threads page (or a watched threads page) and I have already mentioned the idea that it would be nice to have the option of jumping to the first unread message in a thread rather than always starting at the first post - especially in multipage threads.