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Unicode Image Maker / Re: Might a Web version be possible?

« Last post by mouser on December 28, 2010, 08:43 AM »

Most of what Unicode Image Maker does would be easy to do on as a web application (turn some text into an image); the parts that could require some work would depend on what kind of interactive user interface you needed.

You can email me ([email protected]) or you explain in more detail here if you like what you have in mind.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Sound: How to turn off beep

« Last post by mouser on December 28, 2010, 08:18 AM »

there's a beep when you click on a thumbnail image in the side panel? i'm not sure why that would happen, and it does sound annoying.

the only sound that SC should make is when you capture a new image, and you can disable that from the "Post-Capture" options tab.

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Developer's Corner / Free manual for free software: How to Create Cool Music for Videogames

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2010, 05:31 PM »

From the TIGSource website for independent game developers:

Merry Chrimbus, everyone! To coincide with the opening of his new website, here’s a gift for you from Gryzor87, the musician behind Locomalito’s Hydorah and L’Abbaye des Morts: a full-color, 95-page manual on how to use Pixel’s free PXTone program to make your own game music. But the word “manual” doesn’t quite do the project justice – Gryzor87 not only walks you through the app’s features, he also provides a lot of excellent advice and examples on how to make music that sounds good and fits the theme of your game. The download comes with pxtone and plenty of sample songs, voices, and other examples, too.

In short, it’s a one-stop source for anyone looking to get into making their own game music, and a work of art in its own right.

http://www.tigsource...or87s-pxtone-manual/

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Developer's Corner / Re: Need help from Inno Setup gurus

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2010, 03:23 PM »

agree with ATH, using version # in start menus and start menu groups is messy and error prone.

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

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2010, 01:36 PM »

Hey i just thought of a really cool request idea:

What about a Specials Menu
With a menu item to: Queue ALL running process files.

That seems like a really cool unique and useful feature.

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

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2010, 01:29 PM »

I'll give it a long hard thought. I like the idea - just not sure I like the implied consequences. Why google, why not bing? Make it configurable? Why not add multiple search engines? Why not directly index into some virus/security related sites?

any of these solutions would be fine -- no reason to use google. im just suggesting that a common thing someone will want to do is search web for filename and it would be nice to make that easy.

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

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2010, 12:54 PM »

i still dont like the fact that the menu is not going to be fully visible for people without big screens.
changing some of the menu icons+labels to just small icons would fix.
or as i suggested earlier moving the per-item ones to bottom.

also, i think a right-click for an item and choosing "perform a google search for this filename" would also be nice.

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

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2010, 12:50 PM »

Would be nice to have an "Uninstall" entry in the start menu group; it's easy to do.
you can find sample, including a dll to let your inno setup close app if its running at install/uninstall time here:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=24786.0

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

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2010, 12:50 PM »

Setup works perfectly for me.. installed it and shell extension -- queuing items via shell extension worked perfectly even when dialog was already on screen.
Shell extension works here on WinXp Pro x64.

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder.com NEW SERVER ACTIVATED Dec 17, 2010

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2010, 12:42 PM »

it must be some slowdown related to sending mail from the new server; i have code that emails a copy of every forum post and post mod to a special email account, as a kind of low-tech poor-mans real time offsite backup system.  disabling that seems to have fixed most of the speed problems with posting.  I say most because i'm still noticing some slow posting speeds when posting to some threads (maybe ones currently being read by many users..)

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Living Room / Re: Need a New Mouse

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2010, 11:04 AM »

The cool thing about the MX revolution is (and I've already mentioned that), when it runs out of juice, the cable to charge it plugs in right at the front, where the cable of a non-wireless mouse goes. It just feels like a wired mouse then, while you charge it.

That's a HUGE improvement and very clever; the ones that kill me are the ones that have to "dock" to recharge, and so can't be used at all while recharging.

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder.com NEW SERVER ACTIVATED Dec 17, 2010

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2010, 10:46 AM »

ps you can always make test posts that others will not see in the special Personal Area: https://www.donation...index.php?board=55.0

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder.com NEW SERVER ACTIVATED Dec 17, 2010

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2010, 10:40 AM »

Let me know if the problem is fixed now please.

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder.com NEW SERVER ACTIVATED Dec 17, 2010

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2010, 10:38 AM »

we are working on the posting speed issue.. we should be able to fix it.

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Living Room / Re: complete 180 on mouse preference - what's the best cheap mouse?

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2010, 10:05 AM »

has anyone noticed that nudone is making an art out of doing 720 degree turns? 

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Living Room / Startup Applications List: Executables that do/dont need to boot with windows

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2010, 09:34 AM »

This looks like quite a useful reference.

If you're frustrated with the time it takes your Windows PC to boot and then it seems to be running slowly you may have too many programs running at start-up - and have come to the right place to identify them. This is the original startup programs (as opposed to processes/tasks) list - one of the most comprehensive and most accurate!

"Name or Startup Item" in the table below refers to how an entry is displayed in MSConfig, Windows Defender or the registry "Run" keys. "Command or Data" refers to the program the entry runs. For further information on this and how to identify and disable startup programs please visit the Startup Content page.

http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php

from http://lifehacker.co...up-applications-list

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Font size in Options window

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2010, 09:17 AM »

Ah yes.. ok so what we have here is the following:

• You have your Windows OS configured for "large fonts", meaning that normally all of your fonts are larger than the default setup, and the setup i design for.
• When my programs detect this, they explicitly force the fonts in the dialog to a fixed size so that they fit in the space available on the form.
• Unfortunately there is no good solution to this.
• Though i COULD make an option to disable this behavior, which would result in larger fonts in options, but some text would get cut off at the end.

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Living Room / Re: Naming and Shaming Bad Forums with Bad Ethics

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2010, 09:13 AM »

I think "read the manual" is a completely valid response, but only when it's fair to assume that *IF* the person opens up the manual/help file, they will be able to easily find the answer they are looking for.

Most of the time, if the person is asking for help, it means that they cannot find the answer in the manual when they looked, and so even if the answer is in there somewhere, simply telling them to "read the manual" is not helpful.  In those cases a more helpful answer would be "it's in the manual, in this section, at this location."

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Font size in Options window

« Last post by mouser on December 27, 2010, 09:00 AM »

could you attach a screenshot?

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

« Last post by mouser on December 26, 2010, 10:18 PM »

looks fantastic.

couple of quick suggestions:

• 1) on first use, in help file, and maybe even at bottom statusbar on startup it should explain "right-click on column titles to rename them"
• 2) have it auto-reload the last database file, OR the database file in the current directory if no config file entry for last database file exists; one reason this would be SO useful is because it would let users SHARE the exe+database with someone by sending it to them, and all they would have to do is run the exe to have the data loaded and ready.

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Living Room / Re: Cute jokes' thread

« Last post by mouser on December 26, 2010, 09:26 AM »

 

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Living Room / Re: Cute jokes' thread

« Last post by mouser on December 26, 2010, 08:57 AM »

curt, lol 

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Living Room / Re: Need a New Mouse

« Last post by mouser on December 26, 2010, 07:33 AM »

Jury is in...
Not happy with the battery life. It doesn't last a day.
Being as I'm using it on my desktop, I should have gone with the wired one.
Other than that, it's good. The battery life just isn't there though. But that's a common problem across all devices.
Verdict: Good mouse. Batteries suck. All batteries suck.

-Renegade (December 26, 2010, 03:38 AM)

in 2007 i wrote a long rant against logitech (internal rechargeable battery) mouse and vowed never to use one again.
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=10688.0

i've been using a microsoft intellimouse wireless that takes standard AA batteries, and they seem to last a long time.  i'm one of those people who found using a wired mouse to be hell.

finding a wireless mouse with good battery life is very important.

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Point Motivator / Re: How to create a category?

« Last post by mouser on December 26, 2010, 07:17 AM »

Hi Anne,

The way you create new categories and item types is by going into the "Item Definitions" -> "Launch Item Definition Editor" dialog.
From there you can load the default item definition file or create your own from scratch.  The help file describes the process.

It's not exactly the most user-friendly process I'll admit -- keep in mind that there are very few users of Point Motivator -- it's just one of my programs that never really caught on -- maybe because it requires quite a bit of work to configure these kinds of things.

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Living Room / Re: Contact information in one's profile

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2010, 11:55 AM »

nice, thanks app!