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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Idea Suggestion: Virtual Collectible Trading Card Game Framework

« Last post by mouser on June 30, 2011, 04:38 PM »

I'd be very interesting in talking to you about this project, and maybe helping contribute to it.

I've long planned a generic card game engine.  I have collected some notes and links -- there are quite a few existing virtual card game and collectible card game software frameworks out there already, but definitely room for another.

My idea was to make it entirely in html5/javascript for online play, but however you do it, i think it's an interesting project.

I've spent some time writing back end python-based support utilities for creating card "pieces" suitable both for printing and using in a computer program.  See here.  While that may look like it's just about rapidly prototyping cards for printing -- that code is also designed to manage machine-readable card data.  I think it would be very useful to any potential computer card game engine.

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Living Room / Re: nearby lightning skrike kills neighbours computers (and mine)

« Last post by mouser on June 30, 2011, 05:34 AM »

yeah i didnt think of it but a laptop is a real win if you live someplace with frequent storms.

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Living Room / Re: nearby lightning skrike kills neighbours computers (and mine)

« Last post by mouser on June 30, 2011, 04:36 AM »

eleman, how do we tell if we have an online UPS or not?

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Living Room / Re: nearby lightning skrike kills neighbours computers (and mine)

« Last post by mouser on June 30, 2011, 04:20 AM »

wow.. that is scary.  what a relief you didn't lose any major data.

i look forward to hearing whether a UPS would actually protect you against such a thing.

it may be that the only real cure is to unplug your pc from the outlet in a heavy storm.. though i've never done that myself.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Not capturing Firefox 5 in "specific object" mode?

« Last post by mouser on June 30, 2011, 01:41 AM »

it could be ff5 is using some kind of accelerated rendering that it bypassing the normal capture process. 

but it sounds like tomos and ErikBahama have conflicting results.

erik, are you saying that capturing the entire desktop works, but doing an active window capture does not work?  can you try changing the accelerated graphics setting in ff and see if that makes a difference?

when you capture the entire desktop -- does it at least auto-select the region of the active window?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scroll-capture stuttering repeating

« Last post by mouser on June 30, 2011, 01:35 AM »

Hi psytech, welcome to the site and i apologize for the delayed reply.

Capturing a scrolling window is tricky stuff and sometimes the program can get fooled.  It's normal for it to scroll back up and repeat down again as it tries to scroll horizontally.

I've been meaning to revisit the scrolling capture code for a while now and try to make it more compliant with some of the recent changes to browsers.

However, one thing i always suggest is that for people who frequently need to capture large pages from browsers, there are some specific tools and plugins for this particular specific job, that are probably better suited to the task.

For firefox there are some good free plugins.  I'm not sure if there are good plugins for IE but there is iecapt, a free standalone utility to capture a large web page.

Having said that, i will try to improve the scrolling capture in Screenshot Captor.

Can I ask for a sample online url where the stuttering effect happens reliably?

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Initial configuration problems with VirtuaWin

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2011, 05:13 PM »

So it looks like LBC is fine with having docks that stay on all desktops (set using Window Rule as described above).

An initial test by me with dock in SLIDE mode (should be same as hide mode), shows that LBC also seems to do ok if there is no window rule -- and it is only on one desktop.

The part i don't know about is:

I would like to place docks with different configuration on specific desktops. LBC appears to provide the hooks using the dock node name as the window name.

Yeah now this is going to be the tricky part for sure.. i'm not sure how to do this but i don't know virtuawin enough to know if it has special features for this kind of thing.  I look forward to hearing your results.


 

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Initial configuration problems with VirtuaWin

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2011, 07:08 AM »

Just a note, i added the following to my windows rules in VirtuaWin:

Process name: *\LaunchBarCommander.exe
Checked: Show windows of this type on all desktops

And I have my LBC set to autoslide (should be same as autohide),

And it seemed to work well -- my dock was on all desktops.

I think it would help me if I understood better one issue at a time that you are having since i get lost when trying to figure out multiple issues at once.

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Living Room / Re: Halp! BSOD during boot up.

« Last post by mouser on June 29, 2011, 04:49 AM »

Ok so it sounds like the problem is with your hard drive, not with any other hardware on the pc.

My personal approach to hard drive problems is very straightforward:
1. Get any important data backed up from the pc first.
2. If possible, image the drive -- even if this means removing the hd, attaching it to another pc in an external dock.
3. Don't bother with trying to run any "repair" procedures -- reformat from scratch and treat the drive as suspicious for the next month.  If you can afford to, buy a new drive and use this one as an untrustworthy external backup/temp drive.

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Living Room / Re: Drive Dock: Turn bare drives into floppies

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2011, 07:21 PM »

in some ways it's nice to have an all in one combining dock+usb+card reader, BUT this is often a path to pain, when one or more parts stops working well.

there are a ton of sata hard drive docks, and i personally think everyone should have one.

newegg is a good place to buy since the user reviews are excellent:
http://www.newegg.co...dock&x=0&y=0

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Kyrathaba's Hangman

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2011, 06:32 PM »

neat 

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by mouser on June 27, 2011, 06:03 AM »

so cute!

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Bard - Organise your audio library

« Last post by mouser on June 27, 2011, 05:09 AM »

Nice 

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Initial configuration problems with VirtuaWin

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2011, 09:27 PM »

hi Geek!

I have used virtuawin in the past (nice app!), so i will experiment with it and LBC.

I'd be interested in knowing whether the non-hiding/sliding modes of LBC work properly with it.  I know a recent poster was having an issues with LBC and dexpot multiple desktop tool and managed to get it working by telling dexpot that LBC should be preserved across all virtual monitiors -- perhaps that is possible with virtuawin too.

Please keep us updated on anything you may find.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / NANY 2012 Idea Suggestion: Online Game Night Manager

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2011, 11:11 PM »

Ok here's a NANY 2012 suggestion for a little web-based service:

"Online Game Night Manager"

A user who hosts game nights at their house can create an account on the site.  They then create a list of entries for each of the games they own or have access to.

They can then schedule game night events, and ask (potential) attendees to visit the site and:

• rsvp for the game night
• vote for what games they want to play
• rate the games that they've played
• make public notes about games or past game night events

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Some shortcut keys don't work anymore.

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2011, 10:59 PM »

the question is.. do they need to be made to select?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Some shortcut keys don't work anymore.

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2011, 07:16 PM »

i may have broken some things in adding standard hotkeys for alt+left+right.

ctrl+Backspace is for deleting the last word, tab should autocomplete.

can others chime in here?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Focus Overlay

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2011, 06:57 PM »

Awesome 

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Living Room / Re: The Candy Enthusiast Blog

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2011, 05:56 PM »

Not just candy, but in a similar vein: http://www.theimpulsivebuy.com

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

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2011, 05:20 PM »

In FARR, when you have multiple items, they act like a menu when you type in the alias name -- letting you choose which to launch.

If you want to launch both you could hit Ctrl+Alt+Enter (i think).

Alternatively, you could but both items on one line, separated by ;;;
(in which case you probably want to use the | facility to give it a label, for example "Launch Both | C:\expresslink;;;C:\notepad.exe).

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DcUpdater / Re: DcuHelper.exe v1.08 (3/23/11) - Update checking for your apps (dcupdater compat)

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2011, 04:12 PM »

Any documentatiuon on how to expose the changelog?

In your server versioninfo.xml file you want to add a line specifying the name of the whatsnew/changelog file, like so:

[Select]

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<Program_Version>2.95.01</Program_Version>
<Program_Release_Month>6</Program_Release_Month>
<Program_Release_Day>6</Program_Release_Day>
<Program_Release_Year>2011</Program_Release_Year>
  <WhatsNewFile>whatsnew.txt</WhatsNewFile>
</root>

And then your whatsnew.txt file should be in same directory, with contents that look like this:

[Select]

@v2.95.01 - June 6, 2011
[BugFix] When capturing scans, the previous screencapture active window info could be kept in image comments.
[MinorFeature] Added Pixelate *outside* region special effect.
[Feature] Fixed bug in sorting by date and added new options to sort by either creation date or lastmodification date.

@v2.94.01 - April 8, 2011
[BugFix] Windows 7 (vista?) could give error on startup about inability to create a .redirect file for update checker.

@v2.93.01 - Mar 21st, 2011
[Feature] Added new Pixelate filter (see options on SpecialEffects tab).

(the list of changes can be ascending or descending, it doesnt matter; and only the version number after the @v is actually compared); the text lines after the @v# can be in any format you want.  it is simply grabbing the text between the @ lines corresponding to the new versions not installed by the user.

so if they have version 2.93.01 installed when this update file is checked, it will show the text from @2.95.01 through to above @2.93.01

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Show us your LaunchBar Commander Screenshots

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2011, 02:55 PM »

cavetrob, can you elaborate a little bit more about what yours is doing and what you want it to do?
do you yours set to auto hide/autoslide? or always stay visible?
if its set to always stay visible it should NOT be on top of the taskbar.

can you show us a screenshot?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Google Go

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2011, 08:25 AM »

Thanks for the good link 40hz, I'll be reading the article 

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: Is this possible....

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

gotcha.  yes i think i will soon be adding the ability to specify a partially transparent png file overlay, that will let you do what you want, and provide frame-like effects.

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: Is this possible....

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2011, 02:41 AM »

Custom background image: I don't think so currently but can you explain what you would like to do (and maybe help me understand why) -- it could be something i could add easily.

Full size image: You can adjust the size of the image and how much of the page it takes up by modifying Indents and Margins settings on the print tab and making them as small as possible.  However i'm afraid in flipsuite one of the concessions i had to make to the nice people who bought the commercial rights to the software is to limit the left indent to 5 or 10 % and show some tiny text saying "not for commercial use".