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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by tomos on September 19, 2017, 04:27 PM »

Following the meerkats:

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Color Warlock

« Last post by tomos on September 19, 2017, 08:14 AM »

I just uploaded build 2 as well which hopefully fixes the delete message you mentioned.

-hamradio (September 19, 2017, 07:46 AM)

yes, that's sorted

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Color Warlock

« Last post by tomos on September 19, 2017, 07:32 AM »

2) The chart menu uses the name you specify in the chart builder for the name.  If you don't specify a name it uses Untitled Color Chart.

-hamradio (September 19, 2017, 06:58 AM)

of course, thanks!

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Color Warlock

« Last post by tomos on September 19, 2017, 05:21 AM »

I dont work with colour often, but this is just a lovely app

A couple of minor things:

1) In the chart builder,
if I delete a colour, I get the following message:

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Error!
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Error with CurrentChanged.

Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index
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OK   
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the colour deletes as expected.

2) I'm a bit confused re saving charts:
the first one kept it's name in menu: Charts >Custom
The next two charts created are just called "Untitled Color Chart" in that menu -- why dont they used their saved name?
(I saved them as Test/Test2/Test3)

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by tomos on September 18, 2017, 07:42 AM »

Bitcoin cash is crashing

-Arizona Hot (August 23, 2017, 12:03 PM)

I hadn't even known it had split...
Bitcoin cash^w

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Coding Snacks / Re: Reading a book and learning vocabulary

« Last post by tomos on September 18, 2017, 06:27 AM »

Can you do a mockup of what end-result you would like Contro, and take a screenshot of it?

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Living Room / Re: irma-geadon

« Last post by tomos on September 16, 2017, 03:33 PM »

^ well there's no shame in not knowing that -- I only knew it because it was mentioned at some stage

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: ytsearch - A command line youtube searcher / streamer / downloader

« Last post by tomos on September 16, 2017, 11:09 AM »

Oh Linux OS !

Wonderful !

-Contro (September 16, 2017, 05:20 AM)

yes, I'm envious again..

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Living Room / Re: irma-geadon

« Last post by tomos on September 16, 2017, 11:08 AM »

Miles, do you play guitar ?

In the photo I think you are with a guitar...

I am not sure. Are you singing in the avatar ?

Do you play drum ?

-Contro (September 16, 2017, 05:22 AM)

that's Miles Davis in the avatar

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Living Room / Re: Any native english speakers?

« Last post by tomos on September 16, 2017, 11:06 AM »

2) The difference is £1.182

-Curt (September 05, 2017, 05:18 PM)

I'm presuming you mean one thousand etc., in which case it would have a comma:
£1,182

-tomos (September 06, 2017, 03:37 AM)

Regional difference Tomos, a period is used in some countries, prefer spaces myself as per ISO standard.

-4wd (September 16, 2017, 06:24 AM)

Yes, I live in one of those countries (where a period is used), but was presuming the answer should also be in 'native english'. I didnt realise though it was more complex than that. Using spaces is nice, especially for bigger numbers.

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Living Room / Re: Arizona sunsets

« Last post by tomos on September 15, 2017, 04:55 PM »

You do that by pointing the camera at a slightly different place. I do this until I get something I like to get a picture that looks like what I want to see. The camera tends to produce orange sunsets if you don't do this. See pictures in #30, #34 and #35 for examples.

-Arizona Hot (September 15, 2017, 03:56 PM)

 

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Living Room / Re: Arizona sunsets

« Last post by tomos on September 15, 2017, 04:15 AM »

The left picture is how it looked to me. The right picture looks more dramatic.

-Arizona Hot (September 14, 2017, 09:39 PM)

presuming they were taken about the same time: what was the difference when taking the pictures - i.e. how did you make one darker?

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Living Room / Re: Jumpy: Animated videogame short

« Last post by tomos on September 14, 2017, 02:59 PM »

It's when the player presses the reset button that the epic journey happens, and going back to the beginning, at the end, seems fine.
As a metaphor, that's open to different interpretations -- as you were saying earlier mouser, that makes it interesting.

I was starting to post one interpretation, but didnt want to pin it down :p

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by tomos on September 14, 2017, 03:39 AM »

[ Invalid Attachment ]

The $5 million Billy the Kid photo bought for $2 ..

-Arizona Hot (September 12, 2017, 11:06 PM)

here you get a decent look at the full picture, where they're playing croquet:
https://www.theguard...unk-shop-two-dollars

and here comments from the maker of a National Geographic documentary about it (two hours, ouch -- well worth a read though)
https://truewestmaga...quet-photo/#rebuttal

what the heck

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Mug/T-Shirt Design Competition

« Last post by tomos on September 14, 2017, 03:15 AM »

I've scoured the forum for all the mug designs from over the years, and here's what I've found:

-Deozaan (September 13, 2017, 08:33 PM)

Wow, deozaan, many thanks for that comprehensive report!

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Living Room / Re: irma-geadon

« Last post by tomos on September 14, 2017, 03:04 AM »

MilesAhead, great news, best of luck with everything!

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Mug/T-Shirt Design Competition

« Last post by tomos on September 13, 2017, 10:37 AM »

Thanks mouser, found this one too:

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Mug/T-Shirt Design Competition

« Last post by tomos on September 13, 2017, 07:11 AM »

I'm looking for image/s that show a bunch of the different designs over the years.
Someone uploaded a picture at some stage of all their mugs over the years -- skwire maybe?

(PS this type of thing not my strength, but am asking someone else if they interested, and want to give them an idea of the other designs used)

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Living Room / Re: Original DonationCoder's members computer quotes

« Last post by tomos on September 12, 2017, 03:57 PM »

what we really need is a book of quotes of donationcoder puns -
(anyone feel like going through cranioscopical's posts?)

Some versions of Windows are a paneful experience.

-cranioscopical (September 12, 2017, 02:06 PM)

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Living Room / Re: Any native english speakers?

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2017, 03:37 AM »

2) The difference is £1.182

-Curt (September 05, 2017, 05:18 PM)

I'm presuming you mean one thousand etc., in which case it would have a comma:
£1,182

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Living Room / Re: Any native english speakers?

« Last post by tomos on September 05, 2017, 12:41 PM »

The paragraph says that *some* doctors have an "absolute confidentiality" policy, but *most* doctors have a policy that allows them to report when there's a danger to society.  So I would answer the question with "Cannot say" because the text says that some doctors will not report under any conditions, and therefore you cannot say what an arbitrary doctor would do.

-mwb1100 (August 30, 2017, 05:26 PM)

True, but at the same time, an arbitrary doctor "would" report, because there are some doctors who do report.

-kalos (August 30, 2017, 05:39 PM)

No.
What mwb1100 says is correct.

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Living Room / Re: Weather notifications

« Last post by tomos on September 02, 2017, 09:42 AM »

Usually the weather forecast authority relevant to your country is the best source of info, eg. The Met Office for the UK.

What have you tried, and why are they unsuitable?

-wraith808 (September 01, 2017, 03:29 PM)

Cue round of 20 questions ...

-4wd (September 01, 2017, 10:55 PM)

Well, he says that

I am struggling to find an androip app that will notify me early in the morning if it is going to rain in my area during the day or not.

I have tried several but none is suitable.

-kalos (September 01, 2017, 02:24 PM)

But doesn't give answers for that.  The alternative to asking him to unpack those statements is to cue the rounds of a lot of different suggestions that might have those same limitations.

-wraith808 (September 02, 2017, 07:59 AM)

I'm sure 4wd's comment was directed at kalos, who unfortunately so far always needs to be asked 20 questions in order to find the relevant info

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: NANY 2017: Calculor - A Live, Handy, Dandy, Inline Calculator

« Last post by tomos on August 17, 2017, 03:04 AM »

Okay, try it now, please!

-BGM (August 16, 2017, 10:40 PM)

tomos - there are two ways that I thought of as "normal"
First, if you right click on the main window, you get the entire menu (this is in the help file).
Second, and I don't think I mentioned this in the help file, in fact, if you type the word hotkey in calculor, it will launch the dialogue.

-BGM (August 15, 2017, 09:23 AM)

all methods present and working correctly in latest version (I did a fresh 'install' to test)

I love the 'type hotkey' method -- this is a very impressive piece of software

edit// just in case: I'm off for a couple of weeks so will only be here occasionally the next while

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Ghost Process [SOLVED]

« Last post by tomos on August 16, 2017, 05:50 AM »

^ I dont understand -- except that you think it is solved.
Are you going to tell us the solution?

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Living Room / Re: I need more english knowledge

« Last post by tomos on August 15, 2017, 04:09 PM »

I've spoken English my whole life and it took me a bit of thinking to realize what they were looking for.

-mwb1100 (August 15, 2017, 03:50 PM)

Yeah, same here. The first word that came to mind was 'despot', which also distracted me for a bit...