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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Edit Text Anywhere with Your Favorite Editor [Freeware]

« Last post by mouser on August 08, 2011, 03:12 PM »

Congratulations on a nice writeup at BetaNews:
http://www.betanews....name-says/1312829104

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Living Room / Re: Your favorite quotes: 2011 edition

« Last post by mouser on August 08, 2011, 02:55 PM »

And if you want to search for the perfect quote quickly, you can try my PopQuotes plugin for Find and Run Robot:


All 3 of these programs can read the same quote "book" files, which support standard fortune file formats and other formats, and include several big quote files and find others on the web.

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Living Room / Re: Your favorite quotes: 2011 edition

« Last post by mouser on August 08, 2011, 02:52 PM »

And while i'm pimping my own programs, I should also add Multi Photo Quotes, the (multimonitor) screensaver that shows quotes and photos:

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Living Room / Re: Your favorite quotes: 2011 edition

« Last post by mouser on August 08, 2011, 02:23 PM »

This might be a good time to plug my PopUp Wisdom program:

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2012 Brainstorming, Suggestions, General Discussion

« Last post by mouser on August 08, 2011, 10:16 AM »

justice, i think its a very good idea.

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DcUpdater / Re: DCUpdater does not recognize installed programs

« Last post by mouser on August 07, 2011, 04:42 PM »

I use Inno Setup as the installer.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / CHS Feature Idea: Application-context-specific favorites?

« Last post by mouser on August 07, 2011, 04:07 PM »

It seems to me there would be some value in letting you customize the favorites section of the quick-paste menu so that it showed different contents depending on the current application that you trigger it from.

So for example if you pull up quick-paste from your financial application, you would see a different subset of favorites than if you pulled it up from your programming editor, etc.

Does anyone else think this would be a useful feature to add?

Assuming so, I just have to figure out a good way to let the user configure such a thing.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013

« Last post by mouser on August 07, 2011, 03:23 PM »

Ah that sounds like a flaw... i'll look into it. 
It should be saving them into the program configdir\PresetViews

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by mouser on August 07, 2011, 01:57 PM »

a slow clap.

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Living Room / Re: I Find This HILARIOUS~! =D

« Last post by mouser on August 07, 2011, 01:48 PM »

My trend projections put the advent of full-bore fascism in the USA sometime between 2024 and 2050.

I think this reflects an important misreading of the main lesson that American corporatists and political ruling class have solved, which is that you need to give enough of the people enough democracy, kabuki theatre, and stock market investments so that they will never rise up and have a revolution.

The good news is it means we won't ever have full-bore fascism.  The bad news is things never get any better than bad.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013

« Last post by mouser on August 07, 2011, 11:19 AM »

but not an Open item.

you just select an item in that menu to load it.

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DcUpdater / Re: DCUpdater does not recognize installed programs

« Last post by mouser on August 07, 2011, 11:18 AM »

Actually the program's themselves are SUPPOSED to overwrite those files with the proper locations on first run, but that's not apparently not happening.  I'll see if i can figure out if it's a bug in my code or else some windows permission issue blocking them from modifying their redirect files.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software Hall of Fame

« Last post by mouser on August 07, 2011, 11:11 AM »

For the original IBM PC:
Turbo C, XyWrite, BasicA.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013

« Last post by mouser on August 07, 2011, 10:57 AM »

but, how do you "save layouts for easy switching," and is there a quick "panic button" way to get back to the default layout in case of screwing it up?

Yes and yes.  All under the "Presets" menu -- I should rename that to "Layouts".  Im not sure why it deserves a top-level menu of its own except that in the early days i envisioned people might be switching often between different layouts.

Note that you can save not just the tiled panel layouts, but it will also save the column list as well, which can be useful.

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Living Room / Re: I Find This HILARIOUS~! =D

« Last post by mouser on August 07, 2011, 10:55 AM »

You can count me in the group of people that believe our political and economic systems are broken and corrupt, and that trying to work "within" the system is looking more futile than ever.

On the other hand, a good test to me of whether a group is really serious about improving the situation is the care it takes in precisely targeting the sources of corruption and limiting collateral damage.

So without going into specifics, if an organization releases reams of information without regard to hurting good innocent people, I do not look upon that kindly, regardless of where the information came from.  I'm much more impressed when an underground activist organization says: There is illegal/immoral activity we need to expose, and we've done our best to redact the irrelevant information that would expose innocent people not involved in illegal/immoral acts.

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DcUpdater / Re: DCUpdater does not recognize installed programs

« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2011, 04:43 PM »

To answer my own question, apparently it's now in a folder called ProgramData off of the C drive, which is completely hidden from user.

And furthermore, apparently now in windows 7 to show hidden folders you have to go into control panel, Appearance and Personalization, and then Folder Options. I can only imagine by the time we get windows 8 we will get 50 new hidden directories and MS won't even give us a way to show them except with a phone to tech support.  I swear every time i start to feel like MS gets a bad wrap they make sure that feeling doesn't last.

Boydon, can you turn on the view of hidden folders and check your ProgramData\DcUpdater\RedirectFiles directory and tell me what you find and see about those questions I asked earlier.

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DcUpdater / Re: DCUpdater does not recognize installed programs

« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2011, 04:35 PM »

Where is %COMMONAPPDATA% on Windows 7 and why is it so hard for me to find this information on the web?

I've said it before, I'll say it a hundred times -- the only explanation for some of the f*cked up stuff Microsoft does is that the company is filled with sabateur's trying to bring it down from the inside.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Hotkey for capture only?

« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2011, 03:05 PM »

Try new download.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.23.01 - Nov 22, 2013

« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2011, 03:04 PM »

Minor update:
v2.04.01 - August 6, 2011

• [MinorFeature] New hotkey that can be used to sent a Ctrl+C and copy the text to CHS storage even when clipboard monitoring is disabled; this gives you a way to use all of the CHS features but not have it capture text automatically on normal Ctrl+C, but only when you explicitly say to.
• [BugFix] The clipboard monitor disable checkbox was not working properly.
• [MinorFeature] Added %shortexcerpt% to clip title replacement fields.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Hotkey for capture only?

« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2011, 11:08 AM »

I still think the best thing is to let CHS copy everything (and configure a few applications in the Exclude list), BUT i can see the value in this, so i will add it.  Should be easy enough to add into the next version.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2011, 09:22 AM »

At 5,000 you are supposed to get a special mug.. but i'm still waiting for someone to design the 5000 post mug.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Discussion of CMS suggestions for the DC software directory

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

As april says, it wouldn't be that surprising if we used Drupal.  I definitely have a love/hate relationship with Drupal, but i have used it now in several projects and i have quite a bit of experience with it.

I find it completely unintuitive and unpleasant, but there are still good reasons to use it as a CMS, and it would be at the top of the list of contenders for DC.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: What are these dll files used for?

« Last post by mouser on August 05, 2011, 08:34 PM »

but SC still creates a folder named "Screenshots", I wonder if this can be avoided?

hmm that shouldn't happen if it can write into the directory you specify.. ill explore that and the other issue on my windows 7 vmware and see if i can get a clue about it.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: What are these dll files used for?

« Last post by mouser on August 05, 2011, 08:03 PM »

Hi Huidong.

the mousehook and keyhook are actually ONLY used in redbox capture mode -- which is optional, and is used to capture regions in windows and menus, and scrolling windows.  they are not loaded until these modes trigger.

closeapp.dll and closeapp2.dll are identical dlls and their only purpose and use is to close an already running version of screenshot captor when the setup installer needs to shut down the application to install an update, or before uninstalling.   The reason there are 2 is that i couldn't find a way to just use 1 with the inno setup installer in both the cases of install and uninstall.

you can see i tried to name them appropriately

if you are concerned about them, know that they are all compiled by me personally.  and if you wanted you could delete them, you just wouldn't be able to use red box capture mode in screenshot captor, and you'd have to make sure you manually exited the program from the tray before running update or uninstalling.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Software Revenue/Licensing Thoughts

« Last post by mouser on August 05, 2011, 07:54 PM »

As everyone has said, complexity is a killer and you pay a real price for it..

I know that DC methods are more complex and confusing than they should be and it scares away people.