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Official Announcements / Re: So we gave up the March Ad Experiment Idea - What about a 7day mini fundraiser?

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2012, 05:39 PM »

4 days *is* short notice, but then what would a longer notice get us?

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Official Announcements / So we gave up the March Ad Experiment Idea - What about a 7day mini fundraiser?

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2012, 03:56 PM »

What do you guys think about running a 7-day mini fundraiser for the last week of the month?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Using Ctrl+C to Copy to Clipboard

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2012, 03:54 PM »

I've noticed that Ctrl+C doesn't seem to be working to copy a previously taken screenshot to the clipboard.

this may depend on what area of the interface you last clicked on.
if you click on a past thumbnail and then hit Ctrl+C, what's happening is that the FILE ITSELF is being copied to the clipboard, exactly as it would if you were in a windows explorer window.

wheras if you click your mouse on the image itself (or use menu), it will copy the IMAGE to the clipboard as a bitmap.

does that make sense? I could try to intercept the ctrl+C in the thumbnail panel, but inevitably some people would not like that.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture cursor?

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2012, 03:26 PM »

I'm still going to be adding additional ways to get cursor into position, like capturing its position at START of capture, i just wanted to get out this new release first.  So i'll probably add an option that will let you choose whether to use cursor position at start of capture or end of capture.  if you choose start then there won't be the delay.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Some help needed with ScreenShotCaptor

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2012, 02:17 PM »

but Ctrl+Click has no response

this can happen if you are trying to capture from an evil application that is intercepting keys it shouldn't be.
you could also try right hand ctrl key alone (no mouser click).

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v3.03.01 - Mar 2-, 2012

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2012, 12:49 PM »

it will be an option to go back to old smaller crosshairs; the new big ones will be default.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture rounded corners in Vista/Win7 Aero Glass

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2012, 11:54 AM »

jmoslander,

there is no reason it shouldn't be preserving transparency with PNG captures.

can you email me ([email protected]) a sample screenshot or two and maybe you and i can figure out what's happening in your case?  i've gotten a little lost in this thread with what's working and not working, but i would like to get this solved.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v3.03.01 - Mar 2-, 2012

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2012, 11:52 AM »

Any chance the CrossHairs of Death can be (optionally?) removed on the next update?

yes; i almost added it in this release -- i will try to put it in next.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Some help needed with ScreenShotCaptor

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2012, 11:51 AM »

When you say it doesn't work -- have you tried ignoring what test window says, and just manually choosing to simulate pagedown key -- that should work in almost all cases.  But you need to make sure that the target window is activated and you aren't in any kind of input field that would block the PageDown key from working.

Remember you can also try the method "Human user will manually scroll" if you are in a program that doesn't respond to page down keys.

You might have to increase the Inter-scroll delay as well to give it enough time to redraw the screen.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Stich 2 screenshot togheter

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2012, 11:09 AM »

Remember you can easily drag images from the SC thumbnail panel out onto other applications (like ImageGrid), and drop images into the SC thumbnail panel as well.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Some help needed with ScreenShotCaptor

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2012, 11:08 AM »

Still working fine here with Firefox 11.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Stich 2 screenshot togheter

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2012, 10:32 AM »

I highly recommend the free tool ImageGrid for this -- a tool created by DC member vlastimil for our NANY 2012 event in January.

It was created specifically to make it easy to combine images in a strip or grid.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v3.03.01 - Mar 2-, 2012

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2012, 10:27 AM »

Minor improvements:

v3.03.01 - Mar 20, 2012

• [BugFix] Moving of screenshots into OLD folder based on dates was not using local time zone, so folder date labels could be off by a few hours.
• [MinorFeature] New option to clear arrow endpoint text when new arrows are created.
• [Feature] From File menu you can now save selected screenshots into one PDF; improve page sizing for PDF files.
• [Feature] New function in File menu to delete all selected files.
• [Feature] Added some system SendTo items to the SendTo folder.
• [Feature] When sending email via MAPI you can now leave TO field blank (to be filled out in your email program).
• [MinorChange] Added longer delay after capturing selected region image with cursor, in order to give time to move cursor to desired position.
• [Feature] After you initiate an object capture, you can now hit the hotkey to trigger it again in order to indicate that the current region should be captured and saved, but object mode left open to capture another; useful for performing several repeat captures.
• [Feature] New option to not show email info dialog when using MAPI.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The start of the Start Button Menu things for Win8

« Last post by mouser on March 19, 2012, 02:24 PM »

Just a plug that my LaunchBar Commander tool is quite happy to show the Start Menu contents as a menu in its dock.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Happy B-Day FARR

« Last post by mouser on March 19, 2012, 10:04 AM »

ok ok that's enough.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Happy B-Day FARR

« Last post by mouser on March 19, 2012, 09:42 AM »

I was just about to correct you and tell you it's not nearly that old.. then I checked the help file, and indeed the first release was March 18, 2002.. so yep, 10 years..   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Superboyac is throwing in the towel: I'm going to transition to Linux

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2012, 03:23 PM »

It's good, but honestly, Windows is not going to be replaced anytime soon.  And I'll tell you why

ok who won the pool? i know skwire and i both had bets in 

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of: Tool to show multiple (hard drive) temperatures in the system tray

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2012, 11:43 AM »

Just a quick follow up that I am still loving CrystalDiskInfo -- even picked up an external esata drive when i plugged it in, showing another icon on the system tray with its temperature.

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Older DC Contests and Challenges / Re: "Unconventional Encryption Challenge"

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2012, 08:03 AM »

I don't mean to throw cold water on anyone but as creative as all of these homebrew encryption schemes are, and they come up every once in a while, there is very wide agreement among people who are very serious about cryptography and spend their whole life studying it, that these kinds of approaches are not the way to go.

I think the root of the problem is that you are designing encryption algorithms that would be hard for another person to sit down and figure out with a pen and paper -- but modern cryptanalysis is done using mathematical tools that look for deeper mathematical patterns.

Modern cryptography is much more focused on employing a few very well known mathematical non-invertible operations that have withstood decades of attempts to defeat.  People don't use the algorithms simply because they "seem" tricky to figure out.

I strongly recommend you pick up a book on cryptography, like Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography.

Again, I don't want to dampen your enthusiasm -- cryptography is wonderfully fun -- but just don't think you can make a truely secure encryption algorithm just by combining a bunch of obfuscation and random functions.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Ability to *up*vote a post

« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2012, 08:01 PM »

As far as helping me make the newsletters, it's true it would.

However, we already have the ability to mark threads as rated from 1 to 5 stars -- it's just only used for personal use.  You can see the rating menu if you click the word "MARK" on the top right of each thread page.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture cursor?

« Last post by mouser on March 16, 2012, 04:02 PM »

Ok let me add that, it's better than nothing!

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Living Room / Re: A change I've seen in the forum

« Last post by mouser on March 16, 2012, 03:22 PM »

We already had that discussion and decided that the karma type stuff (where you rate people up or down) was not in keeping with the spirit of the site.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture cursor?

« Last post by mouser on March 16, 2012, 02:52 PM »

This is a continuing frustration for users.. my problem is it's not clear WHEN to set the cursor location.  you're suggesting capture cursor location right when select region is triggered.  that would work but i can see that being frustrating.  or i could pause for a second or so after the region is selected but before capturing..

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Living Room / Re: A change I've seen in the forum

« Last post by mouser on March 16, 2012, 08:27 AM »

Yeah i don't think we need any new systems or rules or voting, we just need to ask everyone to be mindful of not dragging threads off topic, and to try to mindful of how their posts might appear to new visitors, since a forum like ours needs a healthy number of new participants on a regular basis to keep things fresh and interesting.

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Living Room / Re: A change I've seen in the forum

« Last post by mouser on March 15, 2012, 03:42 PM »

From my standpoint, the problem is not in having topics that are about something trivial -- it's when a topic that starts out about something that might be of interest to others veers off into personal conversations that aren't on topic.

As TaoPhoenix says, the living room has a very wide open scope -- I just think that discussions should try to stay on topic, and be conducted with an eye towards their permanent existence on the site as a knowledge repository.