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

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2012, 03:09 PM »

Dave Brubeck:

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FarrSpell - Spelling and Thesaurus Plugin for FARR

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2012, 02:39 PM »

Don, If you remove the FarrSubScript based plugins, does FarrSpell then work perfectly? No missing icons, etc.?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FarrSpell - Spelling and Thesaurus Plugin for FARR

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2012, 02:34 PM »

Now that is starting to ring a bell..

FarrSpell does not use FARRSubScript, so they are totally independent things -- not sure why FARRSubScript would be interfering with FarrSpell.

It may be that the FARRSubScript.dll is out of date and needs to be updated.  Does anyone know the latest download for it?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Ron's Editor (excellent CSV editor) and Ron's Renamer (batch file renamer)

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2012, 03:48 AM »

Welcome to the site Aaron, glad to see you here.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge - ClueMeIn, a logic / math puzzle game

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2012, 09:39 PM »

Looks great, as always.
Still, wouldn't hurt to put a pic of twiggles or cobbe down in the lower right hand corner...

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge - Progress Bars of Life

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2012, 09:35 PM »

Minor update posted to fix some docking bugs.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2013 Pledge & Release: 2x2 List Sorter

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2012, 08:55 PM »

great idea 

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Additional actions on last clip

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2012, 06:56 PM »

Let me chew on the idea.. It's very sensible but not quite as trivial to implement as one might think.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge - Progress Bars of Life

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2012, 03:50 PM »

2) Would this be possible - install with an example bar e.g. Installed since

Yes, eventually i think i will include a default bar with a variety of items.

Regarding 3,4,5, there are still some bugs regarding docking and OnTop behavior that I need to work out.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge - Progress Bars of Life

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2012, 06:44 AM »

I see the bars are different lengths - is that user-modifiable or automatic some way?

yes, there are various options for that.

e.g. 15 wks, 5 days, 29 mins, 12 secs to go

i'll have to add some settings for that; perhaps just simply a choice of long and short text modes.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge - Progress Bars of Life

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

done.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FarrSpell - Spelling and Thesaurus Plugin for FARR

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2012, 12:55 AM »

Hi Don,  let me try the addon on a win7 machine and see what kind of issues i get.. It may just be a minor bug that doesn't show up in my normal development machine but which is an easy fix..  Or it could be something that requires a more elaborate fix for the plugin -- for example if i was assuming that the plugin directory was writable.

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

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2012, 10:19 PM »

load up your dock as normal, then go to config, and do a File -> Save File As
and then save your dock file someplace under your documents directory.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge - Progress Bars of Life

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2012, 09:13 PM »

Another view, docked again to top of screen:



And another:

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge - Progress Bars of Life

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2012, 08:32 PM »

With Jibz suggestion of showing times remaining in bars (it's an option):

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge - Progress Bars of Life

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2012, 05:19 PM »

ok here's horizontal band style, dock to top of screen:

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge - Progress Bars of Life

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2012, 03:42 PM »

you could even have it like the new docking auto-hide SC "Quick Capture Bar" (could you reuse the code?)

already done -- you can configure it as an auto-hiding dock.

however it is a good idea to let the user set the width and let it flow multiple bars on one line -- that's something i didn't think of and will add.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor v3.13 Beta Test

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2012, 03:41 PM »

hushz is correct, the auto-uploading feature of SC directs you how to install ShareX, which it will then use to upload files.

Adding built-in support for uploading without needing to install a separate program is on my todo list -- it's coming.

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

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2012, 03:36 PM »

On Windows 7, LBC should not be trying to save anything to its Program Files directory.. The only time that should happen is if you edited the ConfigDir.ini file to try to make it portable, or if you moved the files from a WinXp machine maybe.

Can you check for that? If you are purposefully storing your dock data file in the LBC program files directory, you need to not do that.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge - Progress Bars of Life

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2012, 05:06 AM »

could make it say "21 days" instead of "94%" on the Christmas bar, or "41 min" instead of "69%" on the Left in Current Hour bar.

that is a very good idea, putting it on todo list.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge - Progress Bars of Life

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2012, 04:25 AM »

Yeah thats just me picking bad labels -- but you assign your own labels so call them what you will.
And of course the progress value depends on what the start date is..  Presumably you would set the start date to something useful.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge - Progress Bars of Life

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2012, 03:45 AM »

Teaser screenshot, of the display window docked to the top of my screen:


Colors and looks will eventually be adjustable.

Obviously you can add as many bars as you want -- that's the whole point.  You can show the bars in a window or docked to the side of a screen.

The most common kind of bar is one where you set a start and end date and it tracks progress; you can also set a manual range and position for things that aren't date based.

You can also tell the bar how to repeat when it reaches the end -- so you can use progress bars for each minute/hour/day/month/year, and they will reset and cycle as they complete.


Potential future features:

• An API so you do things like fetch some web data to retrieve progress position.
• Ability to read or import standard calendar files so user can easily import important dates.
• Other features

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Mafia 1 and Mafia 2 - Atmosphere done right - Travel back in time to the 1940s

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2012, 06:12 PM »

Official Mafia 2 Trailers:

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Developer's Corner / Re: Why C++ Is Not “Back”

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2012, 03:51 PM »

I gave D a good long look a while back.. it's definitely got the feel of an evolved C++, but didn't quite do it for me, and I have concerns about its longevity.

Never heard of Rust, going to give it a look.

I'd love to be involved in designing a new modern language that could capture the spirit of C++..

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Developer's Corner / Re: Why C++ Is Not “Back”

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2012, 03:29 PM »

Perhaps a better way to say what i was trying to say is that, C++ is now trying to do two things that are very fundamentally at odds with each other:

It is trying to continue the C++ tradition of being strictly backwards compatible, for which it pays a very heavy price in terms of simplicity and consistency, while at the same time trying to absorb the more modern advances in programming language design.

Trying to do both of these things feels to me like you are courting disaster.

And you have to ask yourself -- who is clamoring for this?  The people who want to use modern programming language features don't want to be tied to ugly backwards compatibility compromises.  And the people for whom backwards compatibility is of top importance, I can't imagine they would welcome all of these new features.

There is a big market for modern programming language design -- C++0x is never going to be at home here because of all the cruft baggage it has to carry from its past.  And there is a smaller market for legacy C/C++ code -- this market is not going to be thrilled with these new features.

I just don't see an audience for C++0x.

Now I still think there *IS* a market for a new modern programming language that embraces the control over resources and the emphasis on performance that C++ has always focused on. That's something that I've been waiting a long time for.  But it's not going to be C++0x, it's going to be a new language that doesn't have to carry the baggage of backward compatibility that C++0x is burdened with.