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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by mouser on December 21, 2019, 06:51 AM »

Updated with some improvements to thumbnail sizing.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Choose to open a new program instance or show the windows if the program it's..

« Last post by mouser on December 21, 2019, 04:03 AM »

Welcome to the site, renatosl 

It's a good idea.. You can't currently do it with FARR, but it's a nice idea for a plugin..

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Living Room / Share your 2019 Top Ten Lists! - My Top 10 Board Games of 2019

« Last post by mouser on December 21, 2019, 03:38 AM »

Maybe we can all share our own personal Top 10 lists.

Here's one from me, my top 10 board games from 2019.  These weren't all *released* in 2019, but they were my favorite games I discovered and played in 2019:

10.Japiur: 2 player competitive card game; fast and clever
9. Fox in the Forest: 2 player competitive trick taking card game; fast and clever
8. Cahoots: 2-4 player (best with 2) cooperative card game, fast and easy and relaxing
7. Escape Tales the Awakening: Long escape room game with a dark story
6. Aeon's End Legacy: Legacy cooperative deck-building game (best with 2)
5. Rise of Queensdale: Legacy competitive non-take-that board game
4. Orleans: Brilliant competetive bag-building game with medieval art
3. Pandemic World Tour: Not a single game; we made a check list of every pandemic (coop board game) variant and played them
2. 7th Continent: Cooperative exploration board game with best sense of exploration of any board game
1. Chronicles of Crime: A masterpiece mystery-solving cooperative board game

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: NANY IDEA: Find start menu orphans

« Last post by mouser on December 21, 2019, 03:28 AM »

It is always a very tough personal decision when to stop working on a project because of someone else's work.

NANY is as much a programming excercise for oneself as it is to make something for others, so there is room for multiple versions..
But sometimes the motivation is hard to find when another program exists..

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: NANY IDEA: Find start menu orphans

« Last post by mouser on December 20, 2019, 01:49 PM »

Exciting!! 

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Automatic Screenshotter / Re: Automatic Screenshotter v1.15.01 beta - Dec 19, 2019

« Last post by mouser on December 20, 2019, 06:17 AM »

Btw I've been working hard on my Mouser's Media Browser tool, that AS comes bundled with. To use it just select from menu to "View -> Launch internal image browser".

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Automatic Screenshotter / Re: Automatic Screenshotter v1.15.01 beta - Dec 19, 2019

« Last post by mouser on December 20, 2019, 06:16 AM »

But I noticed that when the saving quality is set to "1" I get an error (Error on creating PNG). All the other quality settings seems to be OK.

Thanks for the report, I'll have a look.

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by mouser on December 19, 2019, 10:25 PM »

I increase the size of the thumbnail pane to most of the screen, leaving a small token column on the right for the actual preview/viewer pane.

You could try grid mode, which has no image view panel, and just double click to view image using an external viewer.

Using that slider I reduce the size of the thumbnails to below 30. The thumbnails go from showing maybe 25 thumbnails to showing just one image in the pane.

Will check into this.

FWIW using keyboard to navigate gets confusing:

Will look into this.

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by mouser on December 19, 2019, 09:00 AM »

A few words about the way that MMB works with large folders.

MMB lets you set a root folder path, and shows the subfolders under it.  You can choose whether clicking on a folder shows the recursive contents of that folder, which can be very useful.

For paths with only a couple hundred images, everything will happen fast enough to not worry about details.

Things become slightly more complicated when you are dealing with folders containing thousands of images.

In this case, clicking on a folder node (or the root folder note), can take several seconds (minutes even) to scan the recursive contents of that folder and all of it's subfolders.

After scanning is complete, exploring and clicking on any of the virtual date folders will NOT trigger a need to rescan the directories, and so should be very fast to drill down into the virtual date folder.

HOWEVER, clicking on a sub-directory currently DOES trigger a re-scan of that subdirectory.  Because of this, drilling down into a subdirectory and then BACK UP to the top node, or refiltering based on keywords, could present some annoying delays.
The benefit of this is that the program is happy for you to jump around without having to first rescan the entire path (aborting the initial scan, etc.)

What I will probably try to add soon, is a feature that will be a little smarter about rescanning -- so that if you have a giant folder you are working with, AND you let it do an initial completed scan of that folder, it will thereafter (on the same run) not have to rescan as you pop in and out of subdirectories.

That may be a little confusing.. To summarize: Each time you click on a subfolder in the DIRECTORY tree, or change the keyword filter, the program rescans that directory; each time you click on a node in the virtual date tree hierarchy, it does not rescan files, it simply filters them to show only those from the matching date.

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by mouser on December 19, 2019, 08:15 AM »

Updated with options for showing a virtual date node for each day of the month.. Might be useful for people with big image collections who want finer grain browsing.

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by mouser on December 19, 2019, 07:40 AM »

Btw, if people didn't know, Screenshot Captor comes with a "tool" menu item for Mouser's Media Browser, so if you install this program you can trigger it from Screenshot Captor to browse your screenshots more easily.

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Automatic Screenshotter / Re: Automatic Screenshotter v1.15.01 beta - Dec 19, 2019

« Last post by mouser on December 19, 2019, 07:20 AM »

I got a report about an error.  Has anyone gotten an "Invalid Window Handle" error from Automatic Screenshotter before? If so, can you identify what might have been going on when it happened? Or better yet, can anyone reproduce it?

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Automatic Screenshotter / Re: Automatic Screenshotter v1.15.01 beta - Dec 19, 2019

« Last post by mouser on December 19, 2019, 07:06 AM »

v1.15.1 - Dec 19, 2019

• [BugFix] Specification of maximum folder size for autodeletion could get confused with large values over several gb.
• [Improvement] New options to individually enable/disable different autodeletion criteria.

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Living Room / Re: Share your photos! Travel shots, photoblogs, etc.

« Last post by mouser on December 19, 2019, 12:10 AM »

vehicle:

but the rest of the trip looks amazing.

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by mouser on December 19, 2019, 12:01 AM »

New version uploaded.. let me know what you think!

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by mouser on December 18, 2019, 11:54 AM »

So I've finally got my virtual date tree working -- this it the main feature I had planned for this program when I first started coding it.  Still needs a bit of tweaking but here's a screenshot to show the basic idea:


The left hand tree is *NOT* a directory structure.. It has scanned the root directory specified and then created a virtual folder tree organized by year/month (i could do by day too for heavy photographers).
Clicking on a year will let you browse all images from that year, or click on a month to narrow down by that).
The numbers on the right are the number of files in each "virtual" collection.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: [Service] SPONSOR A SNACK!

« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2019, 06:59 PM »

I think this is ok, as long as people understand this isn't an official rule of the site, just one member stating that they would like to be compensated for working on a program..

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2019, 05:06 PM »

Let me think on it..

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by mouser on December 17, 2019, 05:09 AM »

The virtual date tree system I am going to write would make it pretty easy for me to filter things into different virtual folders..
Theoretically I could add a feature that created virtual folders for images based on the keyword "tags" in the (png/jpg) image files, plus add a feature that let you add keyword tags to images.

However, it would *incredibly* slow down the program to scan the files for tags (loading each image), and the only way to make that acceptable would be to cache information for unchanged files between runs, would would involve using a kind of persistent cache/database system.. And i'm not so keen on going down that road.  If there weren't so many good heavy duty image management tools out there it would be worth doing..

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by mouser on December 16, 2019, 11:56 PM »

It adjusts the thumbnail size, but it will have limited effect in certain viewing modes.  I think if you switch to Grid mode you will see it's effect most clearly.

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by mouser on December 16, 2019, 10:46 PM »

Any more feature requests?  I have one more killer big feature I have in mind to add to earn this a v2 labeling (virtual date folder tree), and then release the new major version as part of NANY 2020.

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: NANY 2020 - Ducky (A Simple Dock)

« Last post by mouser on December 16, 2019, 03:15 AM »

Glad to have another NANY entry! 

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by mouser on December 15, 2019, 01:23 PM »

 

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on December 15, 2019, 06:03 AM »

dog dancing funny:

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Mousers Media Browser / Re: Mouser's Media Browser v1.11.01 - Dec 14, 2019 beta

« Last post by mouser on December 15, 2019, 12:29 AM »

Updated with dramatically improved sorting speeds.  Let me know if you see any oddities.