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Official Announcements / Re: SSL Certificate Temporarily Expired | Fix In Progress.

« Last post by mouser on December 10, 2012, 08:54 PM »

Gothic and I are working on it, should be fixed by morning.  Sorry about the delay.

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Living Room / Re: A different perspective on the failure of a Kickstarter

« Last post by mouser on December 09, 2012, 06:35 PM »

The author makes a good point: kickstarter *might* be a way to find out if there is enough interest in the idea and if it's worth pursuing.  So that a "failed" kickstarter is really a successful test of the marketplace that demonstrates limited interest in your idea.

On the other hand, the impression I get from kickstarter and other similar things is that success is as much based on your *MARKETING* skills and luck as it is on the quality of the idea -- probably more so.

So a failed kickstarter may very well mean little about the quality of your idea -- and more about *your* ability to *market* your idea.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: sImgurUploader

« Last post by mouser on December 09, 2012, 01:46 AM »

Note: You can also optionally tell Screenshot Captor to use it as your default image uploader, by providing the path to the tool here:

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: Automatically create a site link list

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2012, 10:24 PM »

Right, so basically what you are looking for is a windows tool that will generate a nice index page with site links, based on the idea that some directory is going to be uploaded to a website.

So the tool will at a minimum need to ask which directory to scan, what files to create links for, and what the web url will be where that directory is going to be uploaded.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: is a program from 2010 really still 'new'?

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2012, 09:20 PM »

The word new was meant to convey not that the programs were recent but that they were newly created for the event.. I've changed it do custom to clear up any confusion.

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: Automatically create a site link list

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2012, 09:19 PM »

For coders reading this, can i suggest that something like with some additional features would make a good app for the NANY 2013 event?

I think one important thing to clarify is whether you are wanting a solution that runs on a windows-only platform, or something that runs in a language more suitable to running it on a web server (perl, python, php, etc.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Text based alternative to PowerPoint

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2012, 10:45 AM »

That's very neat.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge - Skyrim Character Manager

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2012, 10:35 AM »

Congratulations Wraith  

Are you posting about this at some skyrim sites I hope?

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2013 Submission - CommandPromptHere for FARR

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2012, 10:27 AM »

Great, works well here 

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by mouser on December 07, 2012, 05:05 AM »

My gadget for today is one I've posted about before on DC, a carbonation machine for making your own seltzer:


From http://www.sodaclubusa.com/

Here's my original DC post on it: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=5598.0

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General Software Discussion / Re: File sharing advice

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2012, 10:32 PM »

One approach would be this:

• Set up an account at an image hosting/sharing site, like SmugMug, etc.
• Have everyone install an app that will let them send photos to that account and tell them password, OR maybe easier, see if you can set the account up to accept new images by email.
• Then have your local program download new pictures uploaded to that account.

Alternatively, find a cheap usb drive camera model.  Buy 20 of them.  Let people just come "borrow" one of them to use for a while and return it with photos that you would download and wipe and make ready for the next person.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: How to have docked launchbar not take up entire edge?

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2012, 12:01 PM »

Try:
https://www.donation...nderSetup_041912.exe
or portable version
https://www.donation...rPortable_041912.zip

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Living Room / MOVED: The Pro-Business distaste thread

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2012, 09:45 AM »

This topic has been moved to The Basement.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=33172.0

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge - Progress Bars of Life - v1.03.01 - December 5, 2012

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2012, 08:04 AM »

First thing I noticed is how difficult it is to read the black text on the red bars, and to some extent the brown ones as well.

choose the new Smooth theme -- without those boxes with white backgrounds it's a lot easier to read.  once we decide on the best theme i'll make that one the default.

The textual progress appears to only work for the modern visual theme.
The smooth visual theme has the "update glow" effect on it every time the bar is updated, which is slightly annoying.
I am guessing the visual themes are a new addition, since the colors are wrong as well.

i've done away with all but modern type bars for now, but added theme files for them so you can customize the looks.

Maybe the option to create bars that just count an amount of time with the ability to start/stop/reset? .. I am thinking along the lines of a "Take a 5 min break" bar that you could reset and start whenever you needed a break.

good idea.. i was also thinking for manual bars a simple "right click to increment" option.

Is there an option somewhere to have it not always on top when windowed?
Would be nice if the right-click menu of the individual bars would let you open the properties for that bar.

good ideas.. the ontop behavior is slightly buggy and annoying.

I still think it would be a good idea to give the user the option of full controll via strftime. I can imagine there could be bars where you would prefer to always have the time left in say days instead of the smart setting. Would also make it easier to "localize" the bars for people outside US/GB.

i don't think it's as simple as you are suggesting -- remember this isn't a date/time that's being formatted -- it's an "elapsed time" or time "difference" ..  is there a strftime like function for that?

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge - Progress Bars of Life - v1.03.01 - December 5, 2012

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2012, 08:00 AM »

Some events are "full day", I am a little confused about what I should set the time at. Like my birthday, should is tart at 00:00:00 and end at 23:59:59 the same day next year?

I can understand the confusion but the START date is not the date at which the event starts.

It's the date at which TRACKING for the event starts.

So the two common choices for start date are the CURRENT date, or the first day of the year.

The END date for a bar is going to be what you set to the event.

So for your brithday, you would set the end date to the morning of your birthday, and the start date to the first of the year (or the current date).

That way the bar tells you how close you are to your birthday starting from the starting date.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge - Progress Bars of Life - v1.03.01 - December 5, 2012

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2012, 07:55 AM »

New version is up which now supports bar "theme" files; two are included that are very basic.
If you want to add more themes, make copies of the .bartheme files in the Themes directory and edit with text editor.

You can adjust lots of settings from those files, though it's decidedly manual labor.  You can even make the bars larger than default.

You can configure the default bar theme to use from main options Appearance tab, and then override the theme on each bar if you want.

I'll comment on jibz suggestions next.


Please share any good theme files you come up with -- i'd love to include them in the official release!

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge - Progress Bars of Life - v1.03.01 - December 5, 2012

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2012, 04:31 AM »

I'm thinking of adding a bar type that will dynamically generate its value from occasionally running a specified (invisible) commandline tool.  That could be used to fetch progress info from a website, or system process, etc.

Question is, would anyone actually use such a feature?

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

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2012, 01:56 AM »

And while we're traveling in time, one of my favorites, the Andrews Sisters from an Abbott and Costello movie:

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LaunchBar Commander on Windows 7 x64?

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2012, 10:23 PM »

Can you send me (or post) a screenshot of your configuration tree window.

When you get that error now, you didnt say whether it was still first complaining about not saving
"C:\Program FIles\LaunchbarCommander\Jims Main Dock-02_bak_121130_0959.mcf"

I need to make sure we are talking about the same problem.

If it is still complaining about that file, how about exiting LBC and deleting that file (C:\Program FIles\LaunchbarCommander\Jims Main Dock-02_bak_121130_0959.mcf) -- since it seems that its still loading that file.

Also can you delete any configdir.ini and configdir_default.ini file that is in your C:\ProgramFiles\LaunchbarCommander directory.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LaunchBar Commander on Windows 7 x64?

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2012, 10:18 PM »

So now I must exit every damn one of those - or reboot the computer!

No, just hit ctrl+alt+delete to show the Task Manager, find LaunchbarCommander.exe, and terminate it.


I apologize for the problems that the program is causing you -- hopefully you are the test pilot who will eventually help me find the bug and fix it for future users.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: How to have docked launchbar not take up entire edge?

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2012, 09:08 PM »

does this happen even if the dock is full width?

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge - Progress Bars of Life - v1.03.01 - December 5, 2012

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2012, 05:10 PM »

ps I suggest if anyone has the "auto size main form" option enabled, that you turn it off.  it doesnt work very well and it will cause docked bars to be undocked and redocked when options are changed.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge - Progress Bars of Life - v1.03.01 - December 5, 2012

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2012, 04:58 PM »

v1.03.01 posted.

I tweaked the gauge text a bit, so now it will drop down to the finer grain as you get close.  For example, if you have it set to display only 1 level of details, where before it would report "2 days remaining", now it will drop from days to hours if it's under 72 hours remaining; ditto for dropping down from weeks to days, hours to minutes.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge: Brolands, a mod for Cortex Command

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2012, 04:40 PM »

It doesnt have to be finished finished -- but the goal for NANY should be to have something useable by the public.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LaunchBar Commander on Windows 7 x64?

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2012, 04:04 PM »

If you open up your LBC options, on the left you should see a node labeled "FILE [NAME OF YOUR FILE]".
Select that, then choose File -> Save File As from the menu.
See where that is trying to save your file.
If it's not saving it in D:\Documents\DonationCoder\LaunchbarCommander\, then change to that directory and save it there.
Then exit LBC and restart.
And then let me know if you see that error about failure to save file again.

The error you posted clearly showed it was trying to save a dock file of a different name in your Program Files directory:


So the thing you need to make sure is that it's not still loading that old file in your Program Files directory, or if it is, that you do a Save As to move it to the new D:\Documents directory.

So what I'm trying to walk you through is making sure you aren't still working with that dock file, and that you save a new version of it in your Documents folder if you want to continue using it.

NOTE: If you have multiple *FILE* nodes on the left hand side of your options, make sure to do the same with each.