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General Software Discussion / Re: Icons inside the restricted region?

« Last post by mouser on October 07, 2011, 01:19 PM »

I'll fiddle around with it to see if I can place the dock in the restricted space of DesktopCoral so it's always visible. Might have to force it to AlwaysOnTop, unless it does that automatically. Just don't want my windows covering it.

Most launchbars (including Launchbar Commander), behave just like desktop coral in terms of reserving space.. so there is no need to use Desktop Coral with them.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling capture is not working

« Last post by mouser on October 07, 2011, 12:14 PM »

right -- well it's clear from the window borders that it's incorrectly identifying the client region.

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Living Room / Re: work bathroom story

« Last post by mouser on October 07, 2011, 12:12 PM »

I think people may be getting a little carried away with the NSFW stuff.. let's remember we have a diverse readership.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Using FARR to Issue a Control F Command

« Last post by mouser on October 07, 2011, 10:25 AM »

just use $$c to send clipboard contents, so:
sendkeys ^f$$c

if you wanted to trigger the enter key automatically you could make it:
sendkeys ^f$$c{ENTER}

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling capture is not working

« Last post by mouser on October 07, 2011, 10:14 AM »

Non Aero - notepad - loses the bottom line.

do you mean it loses the bottom line from every page, or it does a successful scrolling capture but fails to grab the very last line in the file?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Using FARR to Issue a Control F Command

« Last post by mouser on October 07, 2011, 10:08 AM »

the result would like look this:

sendkeys ^f

for example:

send a control F to the last window| sendkeys ^f

NOTE: it's important the f be lowercase (other wise it's like sending a Ctrl+Shift+f which you dont want).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Locate32 Live Search - a web GUI for Locate32

« Last post by mouser on October 07, 2011, 07:47 AM »

Pretty cool!

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ContextMenu Commander / Re: ContextMenu Commander

« Last post by mouser on October 07, 2011, 07:46 AM »

I basically stopped working on Context Menu Commander when I came across FileMenu Tools, which seems like mostly the same idea and is freeware/donationware.

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DcUpdater / Re: DCUpdater does not recognize installed programs

« Last post by mouser on October 07, 2011, 07:45 AM »

Hi guys, ok could someone with this problem email me ([email protected]) who is willing to test something and i'll send you a test version to try to figure out what's wrong.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Icons inside the restricted region?

« Last post by mouser on October 07, 2011, 05:15 AM »

Here is my understanding:

Desktop Coral works by "docking" to the side of the screen and claiming some space there.  This tells the desktop not to maximize any windows over this area and keeps it from from other windows.  Some programs can draw images into this area but you cannot drag and use icons in this area.

It's possible that there is a way to circumvent this restriction but I don't know of any.

And i'm afraid there is no way to make a full screen app show inside the reserved space; the only way to do that would be to install and run them on a virtual machine -- which would let you run them in a window, albeit with greatly diminished speed.


What you could do however is give up the dream of using desktop icons, and instead of Desktop Coral use a dock that lets you configure your own icons and buttons on it.  Something like Launchbar Commander.  This serves the same function of reserving desktop space, but also provides a place where icons/buttons can be placed.

Thinking about the issue -- it would be possible to make a launch bar application that mostly simulated the look and feel of desktop shortcut icons.  That is, it would let you arbitrarily place shortcut icons on it and drag them around as if you were working with desktop icons -- but in fact they would be items on the dock.  But that's a lot of work to achieve something that i believe is almost entirely less desirable that a proper launchbar system of orderly icon arrangement.

My recommendation for people who want to be able to put their desktop icons in the reserved area remains: turn off desktop icons completely and use a launch bar tool.

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

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2011, 09:47 PM »

Right you are, it was Jibz, DC Member #3.

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

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2011, 09:30 PM »

Based on Miles test -- that looks like the cause.  +1 point for f0dder jibz.
I've replaced the uploaded version with the new one, without a version change; so if you want the fix just re-download.
I will release an official update soon.

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

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2011, 07:03 PM »

Ok let me try to answer some..

• 1.In the Launch History settings,if I right click on some history item or add a new one,I can modify the location and scores but I can't do anything in the "Optional Modifier keyword"...clicking there don't do anything,it's like the text field is disabled(the mouse cursor don't switch to typing mode when I'm over that text field)

Launch history is not for this kind of thing -- it's a dynamic list of previously launched items whose contents should not be relied upon to be permanent.

If you want to add a specific program with a specific score and keyword, use an alias.

• 2.Is there is some reason "%FARRDIR%\scripts" to be always added even if I delete it?

hmm.. didn't recall that it was, but regardless -- if you don't want that directory searched, just UNCHECK it rather than delete it.

• 3.What "+" is searching for when I just type "+" ...is it trying to display all of the files that are in the search locations?
• If yes,why...when you type + with in mind to add some modifier,until you start typing it,the program is trying to display all of the files that you have in the search locations

hmm that's a good question, it should probably just do nothing in that case; you could say the results are undetermined. it's probably matching EVERYTHING.  until you start typing words after the + then it is looking for modifier matches.

• 4.Is the space button(one time)not acceptable as a "Required Alias Prefix"...it works until I restart the program.

that tells me its being stripped off during save.  i can make it allowable.

• 5.Can the search result be displayed in normal view mode until it reaches what I set in "Max entries to display in normal result view" but the "launch History" items to be displayed in

hmm i didnt follow this question.

• 6.Switch between normal and extended view hotkey(and if possible,when you are switching between view modes,to not start searching again)

yes i could add a hotkey that would do same thing as typing +showall

• 7.Limit(on/off)the result...if the program find for example 5(you can set the limit)files/folders that match what you are searching for,to stop searching.

 didn't understand this question either.

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

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2011, 05:50 PM »

Wow that is odd.. I wonder if this has to do with what f0dder jibz warned me about -- putting the version # in the icon hint.. I can't think of anything else i did to cause a change in this.

Anyone else noticing this as well?

Miles, email me and I'll send you a link to a version that doesn't have the version# in the system tray icon hint -- let's see if that solves it: [email protected]

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Docked LaunchBar dimms icon text when focus is lost - unreadable

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2011, 05:47 PM »

Hi RPresser.

Since i've not seen this behavior i could use some help reproducing it.  Could you send me your .lbc launchbar file (or make a small sample one with same behavior)?

And/or attach some screenshots?  And tell me what Operating System you are using.

Send to: [email protected]

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General Software Discussion / Re: view photos

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2011, 08:02 AM »

What program are you using?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling capture is not working

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2011, 07:34 AM »

This is just the tip of the iceberg proof of concept.. The final scrolling capture will be top of class.

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for September 24, 2011 - "Fighting for Feathers"

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2011, 07:32 AM »

you can view any donationcoder forum page in a variety of mobile-friendly modes by adding something to the end of the url:
or example this thread in dif mobile modes:

• wap mode, add: ;wap
• wap2 mode, add: ;wap2
• imode, add: ;imode

So for example this page would be:

• https://www.donation....php?topic=28149;wap
• https://www.donation...php?topic=28149;wap2
• https://www.donation...hp?topic=28149;imode

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling capture is not working

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2011, 07:26 AM »

Why it got doubled up:

Screenshot captor thinks the horizontal scrollbar is telling it that the image is multiple windows wide, so it's trying to scroll sideways and stitch horizontally as well as vertically.

But the line numbers are messing it up since those don't scroll.

The way to handle that is by giving the user more control to specify the region containing scrollable content.

That will come in the final Deluxe scrolling capture solution.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling capture is not working

« Last post by mouser on October 06, 2011, 06:38 AM »

so, should we simply replace the exe in a current install?
Or does this work on it's own? OK it works on it's own I think:

no, it is a replacement exe -- it willonly work properly ifyou copy it over your existing installed version of screenshot captor.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Feature Lockdown

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2011, 10:30 PM »

Ah that was you. Great. 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling capture is not working

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2011, 08:46 PM »

Note:
The current code scrolls by pages when capturing -- which is very fast but can make alignment more difficult; i will probably be messing with this in upcoming test versions to try to balance speed vs accuracy.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling capture is not working

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2011, 08:17 PM »

Ok so let me talk a little bit about my scrolling capture plans.

I have rewritten the scrolling capture code from scratch, and i currently have a FRAGILE version of it working with the new method.

I would appreciate those especially on windows 7 who tried the notepad test and it failed, to give this new alpha version a try:
https://www.donation...ScreenshotCaptor.zip

NOTE: This zip contains a replacement exe that you need to copy into your existing SC folder over your existing exe file -- it will not work if you just try to run it on its own because it lacks the other files SC needs to run..


Now, do *not* expect this to work on all kinds of advanced windows like firefox, etc.  I'm more interested if it works on notepad and when/why not.

The old method used a windows api drawing trick to figure out where to stitch images; the new method uses what i believe most modern scrolling capture tools now use -- which is basically to align images based on overlapping content.

The current code does a reasonable job in lots of cases, but is not perfect.

So here is what I plan:

Rather than stitching on the fly with hard-to-configure options, I propose to add a serious best-in-class scrolling capture function to Screenshot Captor.

Basically when you select that you want to do a scrolling capture, a dialog will come up with some (remembered per application) options that will let you tweak various aspects of the scrolling capture attempt -- necessary since different programs need different techniques.  This will also allow user to customize some other options for the capture -- region area, max # of pages,

SC will then capture a large number of images to disk, and then stitch them together AFTER THE FACT, rather than on the fly.  This should enable one to do a much better job of automatic stitching, as well as allow post-capture tweaking of the stitching settings, which should let you tweak up any misalignment, etc. and choose to break up the stitched image into multiple images if it's too large, etc.


So anyway, i'm going to play with this new on-the-fly stiching for a bit, and then return to write the deluxe scrolling capture later.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Links to Reviews and Comments - Add yours!

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2011, 09:05 AM »

That's wonderful news!  Thanks to Steve for getting the ball rolling on this!

Now to celebrate and say thanks, I'm finally fixing the autoscroll capture for windows 7.  Back to work!

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Living Room / Re: Micro Reviews of Board Games From a Non-Competetive Perspective

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2011, 08:34 AM »

My review today is for King of Tokyo:


I learned about King of Tokyo from the Cracked LCD Review of it by Michael Barnes and the review on Drake's Flame, which I recommend you go check out.

When Michael said it was a simple game with lots of theme, that was one of the best board games of 2011 -- I just had to try it. And I'm glad I did -- It's exactly what I'm looking for in a game -- a fast fun experience that is easy to learn and a pure pleasure to play.  It's a great game.


It was designed by the same guy who created Magic the Gathering (Richard Garfield).  The artwork is out of this world, cartoon monster styled -- and the components are really fun to look at and read and use.  It's got a big stack of cards that are phenomenal.

I won't go into the rules, you can read them on the Board Game Geek site or the Cracked LCD review I linked to above.  Basically each player controls a monster and they fight to stay alive and gain victory points. Gameplay is fast and furious and there is a lot of luck involved.  But always tricky choices to make and tension and surprise around every corner.  We had a huge amount of fun talking during the game and enjoying watching the process unfold.

This game really worked for me in an area where games often fail for me -- and that is with the rule-changing cards.  King of Tokyo comes with a large deck of (beautifully illustrated) cards that give players special powers and change the (simple) base ruleset.  In many games that use this idea of rule-changing cards, the rules on the cards are long and complicated and are hard to absorb and incorporate.  But King of Tokyo does it so well -- with just minor changes, and perfect themeing -- it just works.

Final rating: 10 out of 10 if you are interested in a quick fun game with people who are learning for the first time.