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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2019, 10:51 PM »

Knives Out:

Good stuff!

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by mouser on November 28, 2019, 11:12 PM »

The Irishman (netflix):

3.5 hours long and worth every minute.

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Living Room / Happy Thanksgiving 2019 to all DonationCoder folks!

« Last post by mouser on November 28, 2019, 11:35 AM »

I've had my head down coding (nodejs) for the last few months, so haven't been as active on the forums lately... Though soon I will switch into NANY mode.

I hope everyone is having a nice thanksgiving with family, friends, or your online friends (us included).

Whether you celebrate this arbitrary holiday or not, it's a good time of the year to remember to be thankful for the small happiness you find in life, wherever you find it, and let people know you appreciate them.

I appreciate my virtual family here at DonationCoder so much.. I appreciate your spirit and camaraderie.

I'd love to hear more about what people are up to these days.  Today we are going over to a friends house to eat pot luck and watch scary movies.  We (wife and I) made swiss/spinache/goatcheese/sundriedtomato quiche, olive+cheese bread, chocolate chip cookies with cognac.  [A few weeks ago I was mad at this friend and was holding a bit of a grudge. but then watched the new Mr Rogers move (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood) and decided to just forgive and forget ].  What are you guys up to?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: ScreenShot Captor changed website I was trying to capture a scrolling shot of

« Last post by mouser on November 25, 2019, 05:59 AM »

SC can't change the web page -- but what it does is send simulated keyboard presses to the target application to get it to scroll up and down..

Although I've never heard of this happening, it's conceivable that one of the keyboard presses it sent to the web page (pageUp, pageDown, Home), could have temporarily changed the way the web page was displaying.. But SC can't make real changes to the way a website displays..

More likely it's a coincidence, and the web page became unavailable or if you loaded it a few times the website got paranoid that you were reloading it too frequently and put a temporary block on you.  It should fix itself.

Let us know if the problem persists, and perhaps we can help figure out what went wrong.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SC programmed for remembering preset and adjustable enhancement settings

« Last post by mouser on November 25, 2019, 05:55 AM »

To shed a bit of light on this.  I think it would be useful to make an SC "addon" tool with some menu presets to run a 3rd party commandline image manipulation tool on the screenshot.  See this thread for setting up 3rd party tools as tool addons in SC: https://www.donation.../index.php?topic=785

Does anyone have any free 3rd party commandline image manipulation (increase contrast, set gamma, etc.) that they can recomment.. I can help make sc tool configuration menus for them and we can add to sc tool menu.

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by mouser on November 23, 2019, 02:13 PM »

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood:
https://www.rottento..._in_the_neighborhood

All I can say is be prepared to make some phone calls afterwards to patch things up with estranged friends and family members.

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

« Last post by mouser on November 23, 2019, 05:45 AM »

I envision totally different use case than FARR.
FARR is good for quickly finding something you know exists (by typing it's name).

I still use the Start Menu sometimes to browse to see what is installed on my computer.
And I think it can be helpful when the Start Menu is "complete"..

Plus I think searching for executables not in the start menu would turn up some occasional surprises, like executable tools that come with a program that you didn't know existed, or portable apps that you forgot about.

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

« Last post by mouser on November 22, 2019, 05:57 AM »

Here's my idea: A utility that scans a set of (user configurable) directories, to find executables (.exe) for which there is no matching start menu item.

Bonus feature: Show the list with checkboxes and offer ability to create shortcuts for the items in a special subdirectory of start menu.

This utility would be useful to find programs that aren't on your start menu for some reason, maybe because they were left over from an uninstall, or maybe one is scanning their own portable app directory that one would like to have added to the start menu.


Some subtleties to this app:

1. You will have to be smart about scanning and caching the start menu shortcuts.  That is, you will have to FIRST scan the MULTIPLE start menu folders, and parse all shortcuts found, and cache the paths in a datastructure that you can do fast string lookup on.
2. And only then start scanning the directories and looking up paths.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LaunchBar Commander Suddenly Hanging

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2019, 09:52 AM »

Somehow I missed this post -- I apologize for not replying sooner.

I've not heard of this problem before.  I'm not sure what would cause the problem.  Do you have any shortcuts on your docking bar that might refer to items on a shared network drive?

I think the first step might be to go check out the backups that LBC makes of your launchbars and save them to a safe space.

Are you comfortable emailing me your launchbar configuration file so I can try to load it and see what goes wrong?
([email protected]) The file will be an mcf file.

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: NANY 2020 Release - Android App - DiscussionList

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2019, 08:02 AM »

Quotemarks dont get read / come through as that diamond shaped symbol with a question mark in it.

This must be one of the quote characters not native in ascii.. That is, a quote that is different from standard doublequote and apostrophe or backtick.

So I think it may have to do with UTF8..

BUT I know i "solved" this issue in some sense..  DiscussionList *will* support such characters, but the file has to be encoded in utf8 i think.

See if you can tell notepad to save the file in utf8 encoding..

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General Software Discussion / Re: Planet Zoo - the wonderful world of simulation games

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2019, 07:36 AM »

Here's a fascinating blog post about how creating a multi-player economics engine in planet zoo has led to some extreme examples of supply and demand:
https://www.rockpape...-knackered-warthogs/

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: NANY 2020 Release - Android App - DiscussionList

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2019, 06:57 AM »

Yeah that should do it.  I can't remember if I strip the extra spaces.. You don't need them.. If I don't strip them currently I will add code to do so, so you don't get extra spaces in the display.

Just remember that in the text file you want to import the first line should be:

[Select]

@FILEFORMAT:CB1

And if you want to assign the newly imported items a tag (highly recommended, will make it easier to delete them all if you want to), put something like this on a line before the items:

[Select]

@TAG:tomos

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JGPaiva's GridMove and Ahk Tools / Re: GridMove: Grids Here

« Last post by mouser on November 17, 2019, 05:29 AM »

Thanks for sharing!

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Mouser's Zone / Re: easy screencast recorder?

« Last post by mouser on November 14, 2019, 12:00 PM »

btw capturing screenshots and video from aaa games can be especially tricky because they use directx and accelerated graphics drivers to achieve maximum speed and bypass normal windows capture stuff.. so you may be out of luck using SC or ESR.. there may be other advanced software tools that can do it, or you may have to turn off video acceleration option for the graphics driver, etc.  it may require some experimentation..

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Mouser's Zone / Re: easy screencast recorder?

« Last post by mouser on November 14, 2019, 09:45 AM »

You don't have to make another donation.. it uses the same license keys you already have

The only problem with Easy Screencast Recorder is that it isn't particularly easy to figure out what codecs to use for best tradeoffs of size and quality in the recording.. Other than that, it should do what you want.

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Google Boomerang / Re: Please help!

« Last post by mouser on November 14, 2019, 01:04 AM »

Yeah it looks like google made some major changes to try to stop 3rd parties from using the translate engine.. boomerang doesn't appear to be working currently.. I'll try to take a deeper dive into it in the near future, but I'm afraid for now my Translator Boomerang app is blocked from working

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Running ClipBoard Help+Spell block char "|"

« Last post by mouser on November 13, 2019, 08:48 AM »

Ah I see..  ok good to know.. if anyone has this problem in the future hopefully they will find this thread.  Thanks for your detective work!

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Running ClipBoard Help+Spell block char "|"

« Last post by mouser on November 13, 2019, 08:24 AM »

very interesting.. so any hotkey with CTRL+ALT triggers this problem?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Running ClipBoard Help+Spell block char "|"

« Last post by mouser on November 13, 2019, 07:09 AM »

When I open the Edit Group Properties, the problem disappear. Then it seams to be very much related to the GROUP aspect...

I think this confirms it is hotkey related, since i disable hotkey processing when that group dialog is open.

So it must be a hotkey is set somewhere in CHS causing this problem -- either in the main dialog or in one of the groups.

(But it could be my hotkey component is somehow malfunctioning on a non-english pc..)

I wonder if one of those Ctrl+Alt hotkeys is somehow also catching the | pipe character, OR if the hotkey component is getting confused by the NONE/NINGUNO issue.

Can you try this maybe:
Exit CHS and then using your screenshot in a text editor type all those hotkeys... See if one generates the pipe character.  If so, that is our culprit!


If that fails, maybe clear all of the hotkeys in chs options dialog and see if that fixes it.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Running ClipBoard Help+Spell block char "|"

« Last post by mouser on November 12, 2019, 07:28 PM »

Hi Hilario!

Thank you for taking the time to post and making such a clear video showing the problem. 

I'm thinking that it must be that somehow the pipe character has been set as a hotkey in CHS.

There are two places that hotkeys can be set.  The first is the main hotkey tab in the options of CHS:


So look there for the | character set as any of your hotkeys.

Now, if it's not there, there is another place that a hotkey could get set, which is in a GROUP (a node on the left of the folder tree).  But I'm thinking it's probably not that, since that would cause a pop-up menu of the group.

Let us know if that helps solve it!

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Living Room / Little Runmo: Animated short

« Last post by mouser on November 12, 2019, 08:40 AM »

16 minute animated video inspired by side-scrolling video games.  Haven't watched it all yet (wanted to share it first), but so far so great:

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2020: How can I be of service to you?

« Last post by mouser on November 10, 2019, 09:55 AM »

One of the hardest things can be choosing WHAT to program.. These days there is so much out there it's hard to think of something that hasn't been done (well).
publicdomain: I encourage you to keep looking for ideas until you find one you can implement well, in the given timeframe, that might have some use (not be done better by other apps).  Not an easy task, I'll admit!

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on November 09, 2019, 12:30 AM »

whale in the wild playing catch with people on boat:

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Highlighting

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2019, 09:37 PM »

I was going to suggest changing blend mode -- that would be my first guess.. Can you attach an example of the best you can get it and then an image of some other application showing the look you'd like.
This is obviously an important feature so I'd like to improve it if I can see a way to do so.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Rearrange Order of Clips ???

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2019, 09:28 PM »

See this thread:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=32162

Basically you have a few options.  You can manually set the "Ordering" value for any clip to change where it appears in the sorting order.. Or change the ordering sql that governs the display for a given group.