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Find And Run Robot / Re: I have some questions about FARR

« Last post by mouser on October 19, 2011, 12:00 PM »

im not clear exactly what you want to do -- can you rephrase it?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS: New Formatting Dialog

« Last post by mouser on October 19, 2011, 09:40 AM »

But I cannot paste it as formatted text again - Ctrl+V just pastes it as plain text.

ah you caught me.  i can add an option to fix that.  right now it uses the clipboard to sanitize it and leaves the plaintext on it.  i could use a different technique.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Quick CHS Tip: Pasting current clip as plaintext

« Last post by mouser on October 19, 2011, 06:33 AM »

Does this new alpha version support retaining the full "layout" on the other hand (so that it makes sense to add a hotkey to paste as plain text only)? *g*

not yet, but it is coming.

that's why it only makes sense to have this hotkey work for the last clip, which still has multiple formats since its managed by windows when you hit ctrl+V.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS: New Formatting Dialog

« Last post by mouser on October 18, 2011, 06:55 PM »

The new alpha includes new options to:

• redirect stdin and stdout instead of working from files (see new sample perl file -- you MUST include lines in your perl to flush stdout!)
• ignore output -- useful if your tool doesn't modify text but launches some action
• pass cliptext itself on commandline (only useful if its short!)

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Request of New Modify Format/Case Method

« Last post by mouser on October 18, 2011, 06:53 PM »

new options in latest alpha to deal with this scenario.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Quick CHS Tip: Pasting current clip as plaintext

« Last post by mouser on October 18, 2011, 06:52 PM »

There is a new customizable hotkey in CHS alpha to paste the last clip as plaintext.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS: New Formatting Dialog

« Last post by mouser on October 18, 2011, 06:50 PM »

The new alpha has the hotkey to plaintext paste.

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Living Room / Re: Moved: DC Gamer Zone

« Last post by mouser on October 18, 2011, 02:49 PM »

hmm.. what i said was, i wasn't sure if it got enough traffic to deserve a section move, but let's have a trial move and see how it does, before possibly being banished back to the nether regions of the forum.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Main window font size

« Last post by mouser on October 16, 2011, 08:28 PM »

How's this for custom ugly:

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Ethervane Echo

« Last post by mouser on October 16, 2011, 02:14 PM »

maybe consider recording a screencast video explanation?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fairware: an interesting experiment in getting paid for Open Source

« Last post by mouser on October 16, 2011, 01:20 PM »

I think the discussion just accidentally veered off course with regard to bundling, let's get back on topic..

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Request of New Modify Format/Case Method

« Last post by mouser on October 16, 2011, 05:50 AM »

I have multi-line text clips

thats the problem -- it looks like the current code is working in line-mode, operating at line boundries and not matching multi-line stuff.  i will make it an option. stay tuned.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Error EX4: DBISAM Engine Error #11013

« Last post by mouser on October 16, 2011, 05:44 AM »

Awesome.
Thank you guys soo much for sticking with me and helping me test things.
Keep me informed if you get any more errors.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Request of New Modify Format/Case Method

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2011, 10:46 PM »

you should be able to do this from the search+replace tab using regular expressions.

but it still might be something worth adding since it seems like it might be a pretty common thing people want to do.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Error EX4: DBISAM Engine Error #11013

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2011, 10:42 PM »

yeah!!! thank you Mark!! keep me informed if you get any more.
now we wait for spknapp to report in.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR not a commonly downloaded program?

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2011, 08:00 PM »

I actually already have one.  Got it cheap through StartSSL which I reviewed for their great services here.

I tried using it on one of my programs and it was very annoying to do, and it didn't seem to have any real benefit so i stopped using it.

But i could start again i suppose.

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Living Room / Re: LiteOn DVD writers?

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2011, 07:09 PM »

LiteOn DVD drives have always worked perfectly for me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: modem lag. (problem solved)

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2011, 05:21 PM »

Love to see these threads where people help each other -- way to go rgdot
(Modem integrated firewall? Never even heard of that!)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fairware: an interesting experiment in getting paid for Open Source

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2011, 04:32 PM »

If i ever fall on my head and try to do something evil with this site -- I request -- nay, I demand -- that all of you hardcore DC members rise up in rebellion and attack it until it dies.  That should be some protection against that ever happening

We may experiment with ads again one day, we may experiment with different systems for the free license keys, commercial licenses, etc. who knows (I'm keen to try the idea i suggested on this thread, of making two user-chooseable paths, one for those commercial types who want to buy, and one for donators or freeware users) -- but the core of the site will always be an embrace and advocacy of the donationware concept -- of users deciding how much they want to pay.  The domain name demands it.

We're all of us free to start new projects, new websites, new organizations, etc., but DonationCoder has carved out a space and i'm happy with where it is.

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DesktopCoral / Re: I can't get the options menu back up

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2011, 03:12 PM »

there is a system tray menu, you can access options from there. 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Improving Region Select Capture Mode

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2011, 12:48 PM »

I actually don't like the guidelines, I'd like to see an option to choose the new guidelines or the old crosshair.

i could make it an option if some people prefer the old way.  Can you say why you prefer the old way?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR not a commonly downloaded program?

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2011, 10:50 AM »

And then the dialog practically begs the user to delete the dangerous file.

Here we go again.

This is an absolutely outrageous unacceptable message, just as bad if not worse than the false positive fiasco in the antivirus world.

You cannot go telling people that you think a download could harm their computer without any basis for doing so.

If you want to tell people that "Hey i've never seen this program so i'm not going to vouch for it's safety" that's fine.

But you just cannot tell people downloading a file "this could harm your computer" just because the program hasn't passed some mystery f*cking qualification.

This is how these big guys play this game -- they know they don't have to worry about their software being marked as harmful so they don't give a damn if they scare people away from independent developer stuff.

IE should be avoided like the plague until they fix this.  Absolutely outrageous.


Please complain loudly and share this information widely -- these companies cannot be allowed to keep playing this game of scaring the life out of users every time they find a file that hasn't made it to some "approved" software list that the big companies control.

PROTEST LOUDLY -- this is not ok.

Once again Microsoft seems absolutely hell bent on destroying their reputation and running their company into the dirt.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Error EX4: DBISAM Engine Error #11013

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2011, 10:47 AM »

New alpha version uploaded for my brave alpha tester team 
Fingers crossed (again).

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR not a commonly downloaded program?

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2011, 10:09 AM »

this means war! 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Improving Region Select Capture Mode

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2011, 08:00 AM »

what about identifying the region then doing transforms on it, such as skew, rotate, etc so you can, for example end up capturing a diamond shape instead of an entire rectangle?

i'm going to draw the line here -- in such cases it's always better to just FIRST do a simple capture -- and then manipulate from within the program, where the program has access to all features like undo, save, etc.