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151
Living Room / Re: Valve launches Linux blog
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 17, 2012, 09:26 AM »
I aprove this!  :Thmbsup:
As soon as they create a steam client for linux, some of my games (especially the ones from humble bundle) will work right out of the box (hopefully!). By porting the source engine, I guess only 5% wouldn't be available in linux, so this is awesome news.
I also like that they are doing it for ubuntu, since that's the distro I usually go for :)
152
Post New Requests Here / Re: idea: editors
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 17, 2012, 07:46 AM »
I'm not saying InfoQube is for you or your needs, but maybe some outliner out there is what you need - as opposed to an editor.
-tomos (July 17, 2012, 07:41 AM)
I agree. Even though I don't know much about outliners, from what I've read on the long discussions here on DC, it sounds more suitable than an editor.
There's at least one thread here on DC which seems relevant to this discussion: https://www.donation...x.php?topic=2362.840 (warning: it's *very* long :P )
153
Skwire Empire / Re: Release: Comic Book Archive Creator
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 16, 2012, 09:34 AM »
In fact, without a license, no third-party compression app, e.g., 7-zip, PeaZIP, IZarc, etc., can create RAR files.
-skwire (July 16, 2012, 08:23 AM)
I think that's the detail that is missing in this whole conversation: .cbr is just a renamed .rar file, and no program other than winrar can create that kind of archives (see explanation above).
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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: Comic Book Archive Creator
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 16, 2012, 08:13 AM »
The Comic Book Archive Creator application does use the 7-zip commandline exe to create CBZ, CB7, and CBT files.  You only need to provide your own Rar.exe file if you want to create CBR files.  Does that make things clearer?
-skwire (July 16, 2012, 08:05 AM)
Just to clarify something which I hadn't understod and I believe PhotoComiX also hasn't:
The program already includes 7zip to do some stuff (cbz, cb7 and cbt), however, 7zip can't create CBR files; that's what you need winrar.exe for (which, presumably is the only one which does support the creation of CBR files?)
155
General Software Discussion / Re: How can a b/w photo's thumbnail be in colours?
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 16, 2012, 05:42 AM »
Imagine you're at home, getting out of the shower, and your spouse snaps a photo of you. While you don't want to post full frontal nudity of yourself, perhaps the facial expression is really funny, and you want to share that. So, you crop the photo and email or upload it...

Now, if the software didn't erase the stamp, you've just sent that original stamp of your naked body around. Not good. And probably not what you'd intended to do.
-Renegade (July 15, 2012, 11:52 PM)
Thanks a lot for that explanation, I had no idea it could happen!
156
DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for July 9, 2012 - 100 Days of Summer Slumber
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 16, 2012, 05:20 AM »
Just saw it in my RSS Feed - didn't get email...
-CleverCat (July 16, 2012, 02:00 AM)
I've forwarded it to you, in case you want to archive it :)
157
Find And Run Robot / MOVED: Does the "Process Tamer" work on a "Placebo effect"!?
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 14, 2012, 05:40 AM »
This topic has been moved to ProcessTamer.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=31620.0
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Alt-Tab with AltGr-.
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 12, 2012, 03:45 PM »
think I'll retire from (my very short career in) the coding world, too many variables & unknowns there for me :p :-)
-tomos (July 12, 2012, 03:10 PM)
Ah ah, I understand your pain :P Thanks for the help!
159
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Alt-Tab with AltGr-.
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 12, 2012, 02:43 PM »
nope, I think it's a totally different problem. The error is that ":ShiftAltTab" is an unrecognized action. This indicates that the parser is identifying the first "::" as the hotkey delimiter, and using the last ":" as part of the action.
Hence, one of these might work:
[Select]
>!: ::ShiftAltTab
:>!::ShiftAltTab
160
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Alt-Tab with AltGr-.
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 12, 2012, 06:00 AM »
I think the problem is -
using the Shift key changes the "." key.
On my keyboard (German) it changes it to ":"
which is going to totally screw with any combination, well, especially this one :):
-tomos (July 12, 2012, 04:44 AM)
Oh! You're probably right :)
Does this work?
[Select]
>!:::ShiftAltTab
161
DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for July 9, 2012 - 100 Days of Summer Slumber
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 12, 2012, 03:53 AM »
And it becomes a self-perpetuating problem as people that receive it have it moved to spam without realizing it, so don't move it back (I've been guilty of that)...
-wraith808 (July 11, 2012, 01:31 PM)
Yes, moving it even once to the spam box sounds like a sort of "death sentence" for an email :/
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Alt-Tab with AltGr-.
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 12, 2012, 03:51 AM »
Doesn't something like:
[Select]
>!+.::ShiftAltTab
Work for the second line?
-jgpaiva (July 11, 2012, 06:26 PM)

looks for Right or Left - but if I add R, as in
>!R+.::ShiftAltTab
it says invalid hotkey :-\
-tomos (July 12, 2012, 03:42 AM)
:/ bah, without actually experimenting, it's hard to get it right. Maybe our ahk guru skwire will come by and fix this :)
163
Site/Forum Features / Re: Moving messages to another thread
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 12, 2012, 03:48 AM »
You want even more humor?
-wraith808
I want even more Human.
-gri (July 11, 2012, 11:03 PM)
Thank you for your concern :) (and for calling us "primates", that's really nice of you).

Given the fact that no one here seems to be interested in evolving from your definition of "primate" to your definition of "human", I would now ask the members of the forum to consider this matter closed.
Thanks you for your participation.
164
Site/Forum Features / Re: Moving messages to another thread
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 11, 2012, 06:28 PM »
It is because Move Topic does not change the topic id in message link.

Split and Merge topics - do change topic id
and do break grivitoniks, if they were used.
-gri (July 11, 2012, 06:17 PM)
Right, that's it.
165
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Alt-Tab with AltGr-.
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 11, 2012, 06:26 PM »
After a bit of experimenting, this works for me:

>!.::AltTab

but I cant get the second line to work

>!RShift.::ShiftAltTab
-tomos (July 11, 2012, 04:25 PM)
Thanks Tomos!!

Doesn't something like:
[Select]
>!+.::ShiftAltTab
Work for the second line?
166
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Alt-Tab with AltGr-.
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 11, 2012, 03:00 PM »
Does this work? (sorry for not really testing it, but I don't have a windows machine available anymore :( )
Code: AutoIt [Select]
  1. <^>.::AltTab
  2. <^>!+.::ShiftAltTab
167
Developer's Corner / Re: Light Table - a new way to view IDEs
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 11, 2012, 12:30 PM »
Very interesting, thanks for the share!
I like how the IDE takes full use of the space available by displaying several functions.
In terms of functionality, this does sound very interesting.

The only thing that gripes me a bit is the "live preview" of executions. Even though it sounds interesting, it looks like for large projects it might be impossible to configure the IDE to run it decently enough to get the live preview. Also, I'm not sure how that works if the functions take a lot of time to run (think of factorial with 400 as an argument :P ), does it timeout or does it hang up the editor?
168
DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for July 9, 2012 - 100 Days of Summer Slumber
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 11, 2012, 12:26 PM »
It's their world and they make the rules.
-mouser (July 11, 2012, 12:08 PM)
I would figure that it's not really their option, but maybe many people receiving the newsletter have moved it to spam and google/yahoo assumed that everyone else considers it spam too?
169
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Alt-Tab with AltGr-.
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 11, 2012, 10:08 AM »
In Autohotkey, this should work: (I think  :-[ )
Code: AutoIt [Select]
  1. AltGR & .::AltTab
  2. AltGR & RShift & .::ShiftAltTab
170
General Software Discussion / Re: What is the ctrl-alt-del and does it exist in other OSs?
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 11, 2012, 08:47 AM »
(I could have done this before  :-[) Just went to read up on wikipedia about it. Looks like linux has this cool stuff: Magic SysRq keyw, which appears to have a low level effect (kernel level) similar to ctrl-alt-del. In particular, sysreq + k seems to do something useful:
Kill all processes on the current virtual console (Can be used to kill X and svgalib programs, see below)
This was originally designed to imitate a Secure Access Key
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key#Commands
171
General Software Discussion / Re: What is the ctrl-alt-del and does it exist in other OSs?
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 11, 2012, 08:38 AM »
Look for the Keyboard Shortcuts control panel (or settings) available in most Linux distros. In Linux you can program virtually any key or key combo to do anything you want. 8)
-40hz (July 11, 2012, 08:29 AM)
I do understand that if I want to go through the hassle, I can make linux machines kill processes while doing backflips and eating bananas. :P
My question isn't so much related with how one can trigger the killing of processes, what I'm asking is if ctrl-alt-del has any "special treatment" in Windows (is it launched in a highest-priority-possible process?) that causes it to be more responsive than launching a regular process, and if so, if there's something (out of the box?) equivalent in other OSs. It seems to me that when I used Windows, my experience when trying to kill processes was much better. As a simple example, when my mac hangs up, just doing alt-tab to get to the process manager is a terrible pain that takes 10minutes, but I can't remember the Windows ctrl-alt-del taking 10minutes to answer (again, it may very well be that I just hate OSX so much that I'm creating false memories of the time I used Windows :) )
172
Living Room / Re: Is Linux just a hobby?
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 11, 2012, 08:19 AM »
BTW, someone posted a comment their was no equivalent to the Windows Task Manager, there is - it is the "System Monitor", found under "Administration".
-bobc4012 (July 11, 2012, 02:27 AM)
After reading this, some questions popped into my mind. I did a post here on DC asking for more details on the inner workings of ctrl-alt-del in Windows and other OSs: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=31575.0
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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the ctrl-alt-del and does it exist in other OSs?
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 11, 2012, 08:16 AM »
For MacOS applications try Cmd/Alt/Escape
-Carol Haynes (July 11, 2012, 04:55 AM)
Oooh~! A few goodies I didn't know before! :) Thanks!
-Renegade (July 11, 2012, 07:44 AM)
You're right, I forgot to thank Carol, I think that will come in handy soon! :)
Thanks Carol!
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Site/Forum Features / Re: Moving messages to another thread
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 11, 2012, 08:15 AM »
DC's move thread doesn't break the quotes though o_0
-Stephen66515 (July 11, 2012, 07:47 AM)
From what I understand, if you move the post that is being quoted, the link should be broken (I'm not sure, though).
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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the ctrl-alt-del and does it exist in other OSs?
« Last post by jgpaiva on July 11, 2012, 07:33 AM »
Not to nit-pick, but actually Ctrl+Alt+Delete is the SAS (Security Attention Sequence) which does allow access to TaskMan, but is really a speed menu for user account related stuff. The (direct Windows) TaskMan shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+Escape ... Which is actually surprisingly close to Carol's Mac tip above.
-Stoic Joker (July 11, 2012, 06:33 AM)
Yep, that's why I mentioned that it changed somewhere along the line and tried (without success) to avoid using the words "process manager".
But that's exactly the kind of details I'm looking for. From what I understand, this SAS triggers some special running environment (similar to what the UAC prompt does?). How does that affect the responsiveness of the key shortcut?
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