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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR Options Window keeps popping up...

« Last post by mouser on January 11, 2011, 01:30 AM »

i've had 2 or 3 reports of random options opening on win7 lately, and its my #1 issue to fix this week.

but i've not had any clues as to what could be causing it.

your idea that it might be related to update checking could be a life saver -- if that is what's causing it i'm going to give you a hug

can you try disabling the periodic update checking from that dialog and see if the options still pop up?

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Snap DB

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2011, 11:46 PM »

one thing i wanted to add -- because snapdb uses .dcupdate files for update checking -- advanced users could actually make your own custom package of snapdb and your database, and modify the .dcupdate file so that your friends check YOUR website for an updated snapdb and datafile combo.

good for if you want to distribute a custom data set and viewer with update support.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Snap DB

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2011, 06:26 PM »

nice 

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Ethervane Radio

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2011, 05:24 PM »

Ah!  Always great to see tranglos developing new software. One of the best!

agreed -- we are lucky to have kidnapped him first so we get to see his creations.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: UpdateVersion

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2011, 03:14 PM »

Agree that it would be nice to report on commandline the values inserted.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Links to Review and Comments - Add yours!

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2011, 02:33 PM »

Farr mentioned in this list by author and programmer Jesse Liberty:

http://jesseliberty....ogrammers/#more-4224

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: UpdateVersion

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2011, 02:22 PM »

An ability not to update the FileSize in the pad_file

i dont pay the slightest attention to filesize in my pad files -- i just make up numbers.  it's too hard to keep updated and no one seems to care.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2011, 01:18 PM »

Discuss in the new section i think:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=25182.0

And let's close this thread.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Just How Many Programs Have You Written and Never Released?

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2011, 12:41 PM »

It's really amazing how much extra work is required to get a program that you wrote for yourself, or as a prototype, into a state where it is suitable for release to the public.

I probably have a dozen such apps -- some small, some large, most of which i've thought of finishing up and polishing off and releasing but just can't get the energy to do.  Now in fairness most of these are incomplete and just not worth finishing.  But some are fully functional and just are too specialized and hard to use, such that releasing them would just cause frustration from people who tried to use them

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / NANY 2011 - press release discussion

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2011, 09:29 AM »

thank you, edited.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / NANY 2011 - press release discussion

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2011, 09:12 AM »

Have you done a press release?

quickie is up here for linking:

• https://www.donationcoder.com/nany2011/nany2011pr.txt

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2011, 08:35 AM »

JottiQ just got a long writeup with pictures at dottech.org:
http://dottech.org/f...eeware-reviews/21190

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 :: Wrap Up

« Last post by mouser on January 10, 2011, 08:30 AM »

Please help us get out the word about the NANY2011 wrap up!  Especially to other sites that have readers who might care.

The best url to use when telling people about it is: https://www.donationcoder.com/nany2011

And the best thing you could do is just tell them in your own words why it's a cool thing they might want to tell people about.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Snap DB

« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2011, 10:39 PM »

Can you add an option to automatically place the cursor on the filter, with the filter option enabled and if possible with certain column already selected?

Maybe cleanest solution is to allow ctrl+F to put cursor in search box and enable the filter (and maybe ctrl+F again to toggle it off).
I like the ALL COLUMNS idea; and it could remember the last column selected in the filter.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 :: Wrap Up

« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2011, 10:22 PM »

Other than perry, what makes NANY work is the group of coders who hang out at DC, who embrace these kinds of events and projects.  It's always a bit scary when we announce these things -- worrying that people won't participate.  I can't tell you how much I appreciate everyone who took the time to jion in and release something.  It makes the site a fun place to hang out and it feels like a family gathering and a fun a party in here.

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Living Room / Re: DC Demographics

« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2011, 09:45 PM »

results of our survey in 2009:
http://app.sgizmo.co...WYAI2/?ts=1239574715

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Goodness

« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2011, 09:10 PM »

down for me too

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 :: Wrap Up

« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2011, 08:08 PM »

Hooray!!!!

Please everyone if you have some donationcredits in your account, send a few out to some of the NANY participants (and PERRY too!), and let them know you appreciate their work.

The truth is, NANY could not happen if not for Perry Mowbray -- he is the one who keeps everyone going, and who makes sure everything happens on time.  On behalf of everyone at DC, thank you again Perry.

NOTE: I think this link will show you all NANY participants in one page to donate to.


Thank you Perry for taking such good care of NANY this year!  It was really fun this year  

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: How to stop backups

« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2011, 03:51 PM »

it's kind of crazy i dont have an option to disable backups -- i will add in next version coming this week.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: A centralised and updatable version of FScript

« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2011, 01:49 PM »

ecaradec was a bit late but he did get fscript2 up:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=25155.0

closing this thread so we can discuss fscript 2 there.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FScript2, a new way to build javascript plugins for FARR

« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2011, 01:45 PM »

I'm not sure how it could work within the current FARR plugin system although, loading several times the same DLL would not create different plugins in memory. Each API call would then need to be modified to add some context (the hostptr probably) to know which plugin it refers too.

ah i see, i knew it was too simple an idea.

ok i will start helping to test fscript2.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Mass Radio Button Select

« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2011, 01:21 PM »

someone who has basic experience coding firefox addons should be able to modify that to support radioboxes.

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Living Room / Re: DC Demographics

« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2011, 01:06 PM »

we have done dc surveys in the past that were fun..

actually i think we need to do a new fundraiser in the next couple of months, perhaps we can accompany that with another survey, and start brainstorming about questions we should ask now.  and then we need to get a volunteer who is willing to "analyze" the survey results and come up with some usless, wild, and unscientific conclusions about them.

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DesktopCoral / Re: Transparency, The Command Line and Multiple Desktops

« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2011, 12:11 PM »

Perhaps the transparency for the last instance to close is the one that's saved for all?

yep, i suspect that's right.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Duplicate Photo Finder

« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2011, 11:30 AM »

yep, i think as long as you can no longer accidentally delete all copies, the particular solution isn't important.