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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Alternate pasting method not handling shift key

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2010, 02:30 PM »

Ok i think i've got the lowercase/uppercase $ and number thing fixed; will be in next update.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR v2 - Official Bug Tracking and Feature Request Thread

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2010, 02:01 PM »

Interesting.. That is a bit troublesome isn't it.. Let me think a little on this, and if anyone has any other ideas please post.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR v2 - Official Bug Tracking and Feature Request Thread

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2010, 01:10 PM »

this is an interesting issue.

FARR should not actually have any trouble finding or launching 64 bit programs.. the problem is well described by you -- it seems to be finding+launching the 32bit version of cmd.exe and then what you see from that is not what you want.

It seems like a good workaround for now would be to create your own alias to launch the 64bit command.com  Can you test and see if that works?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Alternate pasting method not handling shift key

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2010, 11:50 AM »

CHS is actually already set up to do things like capture images and richtext, but i've hesitated in making the plunge to adding that code..

I'm always really happy to hear what people coming from ClipMate think are the high-priority items to add, so i'd love to hear your thoughts on that.

Btw as a workaround, you should be able to use +($100) to generate the shift versions of those letters until the update.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Issue with secondary windows from PopUp Choice Dialog...

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2010, 11:25 AM »

Glad to hear it seems to be working!  Once i get a few more reports I will make this version the new official release.

ps. This is also the first version that includes minimal built-in update checking for those who don't have the dcupdater tool installed.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR gets props at Freeware Genius

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2010, 10:20 AM »

Thanks for noticing, but i'm afraid someone else beat you to the punch: https://www.donation....msg223921#msg223921

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Alternate pasting method not handling shift key

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2010, 10:17 AM »

Sounds like i need to check for and send shift key in those cases.

Can I clarify, are you using the {sendkeys} method to trigger alternate way of sending test (as described in the help file under "Advanced Features->Advanced Sendkeys Method")?

You are using a feature that has gone basically completely unused since I introduced it, so it's only been very lightly tested..

I will try to release an update in the next day or so with a bugfix.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Issue with secondary windows from PopUp Choice Dialog...

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2010, 03:33 AM »

Can you test:
https://www.donation...nshotCaptorSetup.exe

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Site/Forum Features / Re: New Member Map Mod for the Forum -- Configure Your Profile Location!

« Last post by mouser on November 17, 2010, 10:48 PM »

We've finally reached 1000 members on the Member Map (boy it sure takes a while to load):

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Settings not being saved

« Last post by mouser on November 17, 2010, 08:10 PM »

can you check:

• is it just the skin setting or if its all settings that it doesnt save?
• is it writing the FindAndRunRobot.ini file in C:\configs\farr when you exit the program? (does the date of that file change), and just not reading it maybe?

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Living Room / Re: VectorMagic: Convert Bitmaps into Vector Art (Free)

« Last post by mouser on November 17, 2010, 05:05 PM »

Previously you had to download and install some pretty complicated software to accomplish this, but with YoHDR you can now do this easily online - just upload your photos and get your result right away.

I guess i've become one of those grumpy old people who hears BS like this and translates it to:

"In the past you used to be able to install a powerful, fast desktop application full of cool options -- now you can look forward to a world where every application is online, dumbed-down, slow, completely out of your control, and requires you to upload your files over the internet before you can work on them."

No thanks, i'll take the desktop application.

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Site/Forum Features / Attempt to fix semicolon problem with registration emails

« Last post by mouser on November 17, 2010, 02:56 PM »

SMF uses a ; separator instead of the common & when sending out emails with login validation links and password reminders.
As a result, it seems that some email clients parse these links wrong.

I've tried to change the code now to use & instead of ; so please let me know if you spot any troubles with your validation or password reset emails (you can email [email protected]).

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Living Room / Re: Greetings!

« Last post by mouser on November 17, 2010, 01:31 PM »

Welcome.. btw posting on this thread is probably the best place for people to introduce themselves or their family (rather than starting new thread):
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=124.0

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Living Room / Re: Allow me to introduce "Dieselbuff" and "HorseDuck"

« Last post by mouser on November 17, 2010, 01:30 PM »

Welcome to the site  

By the way, posting on this thread is probably the best place for people to introduce themselves or their family and friends!

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

« Last post by mouser on November 17, 2010, 12:23 PM »

Cool, I think I have use for this.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Hotkeys to control windows?

« Last post by mouser on November 17, 2010, 11:35 AM »

Hi Brig,

Welcome to the site and to farr

You could actually set up FARR to do what you want:

• You would do it by setting a custom hotkey in FARR, and specify a search string to trigger when you hit that hotkey
• And then use an alias pack like this one which includes commands to manipulate the last active window.  I think the exact text you'd use with that would be  "Window Management Minimize\n".

However, let me say that this sounds messy because it is messy to do in FARR, because FARR is not meant to be used to provide hotkey triggering of generic actions like window controls.  There are a lot of hotkey programs that can so this kind of stuff really well, and a lot of people on DC use the AHK language to write scripts to handle hotkeys and manipulate windows.. And it seemed like not a great idea to try to make FARR a generic program for handling hotkeys and macros.

In short, you can do it in FARR but you probably shouldn't.  If you like configuring hotkeys to do things, do yourself a favor get yourself a nice hotkey program, there are a lot of good free ones (here's just one example).

ps. Where FARR can excel and do things better than hotkey programs is if you like to press a hotkey and have FARR pop up with a MENU of options.. In this case you can easily set custom hotkeys in FARR that tell FARR to display and start out with a search string you specify, which can match an alias that shows choices you can select from, etc.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Discussion: How can we Improve DonationCoder?

« Last post by mouser on November 17, 2010, 05:48 AM »

there are no explanations of what the badges are for?

sounds like maybe i broke this when i added the latest badge.. i'll fix.

FIXED.  Thanks for spotting that CodeTRUCKER 

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Developer's Corner / Re: Wikipedia Posts Report on Effects of Banner Appearance on Donors

« Last post by mouser on November 16, 2010, 07:12 PM »

Yeah it was fun! Maybe we should try to do the fundraisers every year, or would that kill the fun?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Wikipedia Posts Report on Effects of Banner Appearance on Donors

« Last post by mouser on November 16, 2010, 07:04 PM »

We had a ton of fun with our Cody Thermometer Banner during our March 2009 fundraiser:
https://www.donation....msg154958#msg154958

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Developer's Corner / Wikipedia Posts Report on Effects of Banner Appearance on Donors

« Last post by mouser on November 16, 2010, 06:33 PM »

This is an interesting piece comparing how different appeals for donations (types of banners, etc.) have various degrees of success in Wikipedia fundraisers.

Useful information for anyone doing donationware services.

Since August, a team of dedicated staff members and volunteers has worked to develop the fundraiser for this year. We committed early to radical and full disclosure of all the data we had, in keeping with the spirit of the transparent nature of the Wikimedia movement. We quickly identified three major points in the donation process that were "levers" we could pull to optimize the process: banner messaging, banner design, and landing/donation pages.

http://meta.wikimedi..._2010/Banner_testing
http://meta.wikimedi...%27ve_learned_so_far

from http://waxy.org/links/

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

« Last post by mouser on November 16, 2010, 05:54 PM »

Welcome to the family Wenbin!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Issue with secondary windows from PopUp Choice Dialog...

« Last post by mouser on November 16, 2010, 02:31 PM »

thanks for reminding me -- give me 2 more days and i'll see if i can release an update, it's long overdue.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Twigatelle

« Last post by mouser on November 16, 2010, 08:29 AM »

 

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

« Last post by mouser on November 16, 2010, 08:28 AM »

It's worth emphasizing what he says is the key thing about farr:

But the real, difficult-to-replicate edge it has over other programs like it is the community over at Donationcoder which has embraced it and continuously develops plugins for it that enable it to perform a wide range of tasks.

So let me express my thanks to everyone who has contributed to FARR, whether it be by making a plugin, sharing alias packs, suggesting and testing features, etc.  Not only do you guys make the program so much better, but you are what makes it fun for me to keep developing it.  Thank you!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FreewareGenius Review

« Last post by mouser on November 16, 2010, 08:26 AM »

But someone beat you to it by over 40 minute

https://www.donation....msg223921#msg223921