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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: clips stored in reverse order

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2012, 06:15 PM »

Hi Sam,

Sounds like it must be something simple -- have you changed the sorting order?

When you say the clips are in the wrong order, do you mean in the quick paste popup menu, or in the main window or both?

Can you take a screenshot for us?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot lighting

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2012, 01:07 PM »

A few days ago, I looked at the differences in screenshots after having saved the file.
Can it be that the differences are made during the saving method?

As long as you are saving as PNG files, the images will be perfect (lossless) and should not be even 1 pixel different.

If you are saving some as jpg, that will result in degraded images.

(I suppose one thing that could make a screenshot "dark" is if it is of a semi-transparent window, but i'd think you would know that if it was the case).

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2012, 11:44 AM »

Any one try the new version and find that all your old stuff is working fine?  I'd like some confirmation that I haven't broken things before I release it as official.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot lighting

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2012, 10:41 AM »

It sounds like you are doing something unusual.

Screenshots are not normally "lightened" in any way -- they are taken as is.

There is a color enhancing tool in SC where you could increase the gamma or contrast, etc. if you want -- no reason it should be applying to center unless you are applying a special effect that is designed specifically for that.

NOW,

what you *might* be describing with the apparent "darkness" is a smoothing/blurring view that may be applied when the screenshot is being shown at below 100% magnitude (it doesn't effect the actual image).

Next time you compare screenshots and think SC image is dark, click the 100% zoom and see if its fixed and normal after changing to 100% zoom.

If so, you can turn off the slight smoothing/blurring effect used when resizing from here:



Again, screenshots are simply not brightened or darkened by screenshot taking programs as a rule -- they are left as is.  Whatever darkness you are seeing has to be just an artifact of some display mode, etc. 

Let me know what you discover.

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2012, 09:05 AM »

Welcome to the site Andem.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS Feature Request: Switch to "New" folder on certain hot-key actions

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2012, 08:41 AM »

One is that the new clip was never captured at all by the CTRL-ALT-C operation.

It just occurred to me that this seems to confirm why this is failing, and it has to do with how Ctrl+Alt+C needs to operate.. It needs to send a simulated Ctrl+C keypress to the active window to trigger the capture, after which it shows the CHS window etc.

So in fact this operates very differently from normal Ctrl+C, which windows handles and then INFORMS CHS about via an event after the fact.

It could be that when its sending the simulated Ctrl+C keypress, it's getting tripped up over the alt key still being held down, or over losing focus in the active window -- that's the kind of thing that could happen unpredictably.

Let me go through the code now that I realize that, and look for places where it might mess up.

As a minimum first step, I can have Ctrl+Alt+C process only make the copying sound when it actually succeeds in simulating a ctrl+C copy to the clipboard prior to triggering -- that will at least give us an audible clue when it KNOWS it failed to capture the last clip.  I suspect though that now that i know the problem, I should be able to fix it.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Newbie question on Dbl. Click to paste.

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2012, 08:33 AM »

Ok, I'll look into it and report.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Newbie question on Dbl. Click to paste.

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2012, 08:24 AM »

It sounds like the double click of the tray icon may be confusing CHS about what the last active window was..

Does it also work fine and reliably if you bring up the main CHS window by using the hotkey (ctrl+alt+W by default), or via the quick popup hotkey and then hitting w (ctrl+alt+Q followed by W)?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2012, 05:32 PM »

v2.107.04 is a new update with substantially improved search speeds in some cases, especially directory listings, and especially for machines with slow antivirus engines.

But i'm a little nervous about the possibility that i may have broken some alias parsing, parsing where commandline parameters are being passed to executables, so let me know if you spot anything.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2012, 03:22 PM »

Version 2.107.04 - Sep 23, 2012 - Beta

• [Feature] Built in replacement vars (e.g. %WINDIR%) now accept lowercase version as well (%windir%)
• [Feature] Environmental replacement now performed in search box text.
• [Feature] New option to use generic icons for folders when directory browsing -- speeds up win8 browsing and in cases where custom dynamic folder icons are used.
• [Feature] Added auto-completing environmental variable listing feature/alias; type % to see list of all environmental variables.
• [BugFix] Last selected alias file was not always remembered between runs.
• [MinorChange] Right-clicking on a result to bring up context menu now stops any running search.
• [Improvement] Small improvement in caching item icons for faster display of updating search results.
• [BugFix] Fixed crash when displaying dates on files whose file timestamp is after year 9999.
• [Feature] You can now tell FARR what to do when you hit enter and there are no results showing, by setting the new option on the Launching Files tab (this used to require creating a special noresults alias); FARR will remind you of this the first time you hit enter when there are no results.
• [Feature] Added shellexec special virtual launch string command that simulates typing a line into a dos command console (e.g. supports arguments and will launch executables on the system path); changed default run alias to use.
• [Feature] First experimental attempt to have CapsLock trigger for FARR preserve caps lock state.
• [Feature] New experimental tweak option on Display Options tab, labeled "Speed up display by avoiding lookup of some icons"; disabled by default.  Enabled if some search results cause a pause in your FARR when displaying them.
• [Change] Removed Ctrl+Alt+O shortcut, as it could conflict with some diacriticals.
• [Improvement] Improved speed of large directory listings.
• [Change] Default options are now to show 100 (previously was 30) entries in directory browsing mode; and not show more by default (previous was to do +sall) on directory browsing.
• [Improvement] Huge speedup in displaying results in some cases.
• [Feature] New alias options to show certain aliases only on certain versions of windows (used in control panel alias).
• [Feature] Brand new Windows-8 updated control panel alias (cpanel) and windows admin control center (mmc), created by DC member Josh.
• [Feature] Added new "Add Alias" button to alias tab, which automatically brings user to the myaliases.alias file if the currently selected alias file is read-only.
• [Improvement] Miscellaneous improvements to working with aliases and other options lists; now remembers your position in the list as you edit/add/delete items.
• [Major Improvement] Huge speedup in displaying results in some cases, Huge speedup in directory browsing speeds.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / TiddlyWiki alias pack for FARR

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2012, 01:33 PM »

Prior to version 1.107 (september 2012), the FARR came pre-installed with a TiddlyWiki alias pack (gwp and tiwi).
I've decided to remove these from the default install and upload it as an optional download:
https://www.donation...ddons/TiddlyWiki.zip

You install it by unzipping into Farr/AliasGroups/Installed/TiddlyWiki directory.

Fore more information on the TiddlyWiki aliases see here: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=13673.0

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2012, 10:16 AM »

How strange!

I don't think removing core aliases is the cause of this problem, but i'm not sure what is..

I'm guessing you might have one of your own aliases configured to use %?

Can you do a little more experimenting to figure out what's going on?

The special use of % is actually governed by a new alias "AliasGroups\Installed\EnvVars\EnvVars.alias", so if you delete/disable that you will see behavior when it is around.

Love to hear some more clues about what might be causing this.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: File path and icon issue, incorrect path "C:\Program Files (x86)\..."

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2012, 09:05 PM »

Vanav, can you verify the problem still exists with the latest FARR beta?

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Living Room / Re: Ubuntu will now have Amazon ads pre-installed

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2012, 08:44 PM »

Nope.

Though I have to confess, I'm not sure exactly why I do -- seems like it would hurt no one to give some affiliate credits to someone.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: New CPanel alias discussion and suggestions

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2012, 06:43 AM »

With 2.107.02 seems much faster

Josh's new alias was added in 2.107.02, so I guess what you are saying is that Josh's new cpanel alias is a big improvement over the old cpanel shotcuts that FARR used to use.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: New CPanel alias discussion and suggestions

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2012, 11:05 PM »

Does it still pull from %FARRDIR%\scripts?

NO.

in fact you better back up yours if you've someone changed it, becase the new farr installer will remove the old FARRDIR\Scripts\cpanel when run.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2012, 08:59 PM »

Huge thanks to Josh for creating a totally new replacement control panel alias (cpanel) from what FARR used to have.  This one includes a big update for Windows Vista/7/8.

Type: cpanel to see the control panel list, then filter away.

It's brand new so their are likely to be a couple of issues with an occasional control panel items, so report any issues.

Huge thanks to Josh! 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2012, 08:58 PM »

Version 2.107.02 - Sep 21, 2012 - Beta

• [Feature] Built in replacement vars (e.g. %WINDIR%) now accept lowercase version as well (%windir%)
• [Feature] Environmental replacement now performed in search box text.
• [Feature] New option to use generic icons for folders when directory browsing -- speeds up win8 browsing and in cases where custom dynamic folder icons are used.
• [Feature] Added auto-completing environmental variable listing feature/alias; type % to see list of all environmental variables.
• [BugFix] Last selected alias file was not always remembered between runs.
• [MinorChange] Right-clicking on a result to bring up context menu now stops any running search.
• [Improvement] Small improvement in caching item icons for faster display of updating search results.
• [BugFix] Fixed crash when displaying dates on files whose file timestamp is after year 9999.
• [Feature] You can now tell FARR what to do when you hit enter and there are no results showing, by setting the new option on the Launching Files tab (this used to require creating a special noresults alias); FARR will remind you of this the first time you hit enter when there are no results.
• [Feature] Added shellexec special virtual launch string command that simulates typing a line into a dos command console (e.g. supports arguments and will launch executables on the system path); changed default run alias to use.
• [Feature] First experimental attempt to have CapsLock trigger for FARR preserve caps lock state.
• [Feature] New experimental tweak option on Display Options tab, labeled "Speed up display by avoiding lookup of some icons"; disabled by default.  Enabled if some search results cause a pause in your FARR when displaying them.
• [Change] Removed Ctrl+Alt+O shortcut, as it could conflict with some diacriticals.
• [Improvement] Improved speed of large directory listings.
• [Change] Default options are now to show 100 (previously was 30) entries in directory browsing mode; and not show more by default (previous was to do +sall) on directory browsing.
• [Improvement] Huge speedup in displaying results in some cases.
• [Feature] New alias options to show certain aliases only on certain versions of windows (used in control panel alias).
• [Feature] Brand new Windows-8 updated control panel alias (cpanel), created by DC member Josh.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: File path and icon issue, incorrect path "C:\Program Files (x86)\..."

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2012, 06:26 PM »

great work.

ok so it looks like it's a crazy shortcut.

is it the case that the only shortcuts with this problem on your pc that you know of are those from vandyke?

or is this a more common crazyness?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: File path and icon issue, incorrect path "C:\Program Files (x86)\..."

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2012, 05:50 PM »

ok i think i may have a clue:

i wonder if the problem isnt because of the . in the shortcut file name.


Can you try this for me,
make a copy of your securefx shortcuts, and confirm the problem remains with them.
now rename your shortcut copies but without any . periods in the name before the .lnk and see if the problem is fixed for these shortcut copies with no . in their names.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: File path and icon issue, incorrect path "C:\Program Files (x86)\..."

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2012, 05:28 PM »

Can you tell me what you have for these two settings, and if changing them makes a difference:


I need to be able to figure out how to reproduce this problem as this program files x86 workaround code i have in place is a total mess of confusion that i don't understand.. and if i can't reproduce it i stand no hope of fixing it except by accident.

So if you can find any clues as to why this bug is triggering in some cases and not others and what it is about these shortcuts that is causing it, please let me know.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: File path and icon issue, incorrect path "C:\Program Files (x86)\..."

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2012, 04:18 PM »

If you go to your Launch History tab, is the wrong path for these items in the launch history?

If you right-click and clear all entries, are the icons now all correct when you search?

If so, does launching one of the items subsequently make the icon break again?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Old List of Text Based Sims via Face Punch

« Last post by mouser on September 20, 2012, 10:59 AM »

Nice find.

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Find And Run Robot / FARR slow searching/pauses - tips

« Last post by mouser on September 20, 2012, 08:19 AM »

I wonder if I can check for MSE on install and warn user.

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Find And Run Robot / FARR slow searching/pauses - tips

« Last post by mouser on September 20, 2012, 08:19 AM »

the other two have Microsoft Security Essentials installed...

Second item in help file:

It has been confirmed that Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus can slow down FARR searching (and result in delays/pauses during searching).
The fix is to exclude FARR's process from MSE scans.
For more info and instructions see:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=29756.0

Big thanks to DC member Armando who was the first to discover and document this.