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Screenshot Captor / Re: How to hide all stuff in main window except menues ?

« Last post by mouser on September 11, 2010, 01:00 PM »

ok i will add.

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Mircryption / Re: tcleggdrop_mcpsfuncs.tcl problems..

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2010, 08:30 PM »

welcome to the site jon8.

the two things that jump out at me are:

set mcreplyneverplaintext "true"
set mcdontlistentoplaintext "silent"

the plaintext ignoring stuff is notoriously flakey, and i think i added comments in the settings file to not use them and to use the newer plaintext blocker.

but either way, best thing is to avoid all of these plaintext blocking functions and the standalone plaintext blocking script until the rest is working.

and do join #mircryption on efnet for more live help -- mircryption is a rare case where chatting online is easier to help sometimes.

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Living Room / Re: PayPal horror stories: Getting uglier each day

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2010, 12:28 PM »

having a payment processor review a payout of $600,000 euro that came in during a 3 week period, doesn't even enter the universe of issues i consider sad or terrible.  i'd basically file that under the "i'm so happy i could cry and so what if it takes them another month to sort it out".

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Living Room / Re: PayPal horror stories: Getting uglier each day

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2010, 12:22 PM »

Sounds frustrating but this is surely wrong:

What's more, if PayPal detects something suspicious during their reviewing process, PayPal keeps all the money, and Markus will have to start again from almost zero.

it's fine to be upset over paypal's bad tech support, but i think this is just another case of a company that is being paranoid before paying out large amounts of credit card orders for fear there is fraudulent activity, which is paypal's modus operandi.  the idea that this guy made 600,000 euro in one week seems like it might spook any payment processor, and he should be proud and happy to get such amazing business. if only more us could be 1/10th as lucky.

but i think it's unfair to say paypal is going to keep his money -- i don't think there is a chance in hell of that.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Possible infection in 2.84.01 after unpacking.

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2010, 09:23 AM »

I suppose responsible developers could do with a way to submit potentially awkward files (like these hooks) to the AV companies - I guess there isn't a simple comprehensive way to do that.

we do.  problem is that:

• 1. these companies don't put many resources into handling such submissions.
• 2. inevitably they do eventually remove the false alert if you complain a lot.. until a year later when some other malware again uses similar code instructions, or a shared library, and then it happens all over again.  multiply this by a dozen antivirus companies and you see it's a battle you find over and over again month after month.. it gets tiring.

The troubling thing is that only a small fraction of people are as smart/experienced as you to investigate further.  The overwhelming majority of people see an alert like that and freak out, uninstalling the program and scrubbing their pc and spending a week scared that they have some horrible virus infection.

And most of the blame for that lies squarely on the shoulder of these antivirus companies -- because they refuse to present accurate information to the user.  We have discussed at length on the forum how an antivirus program *should* alert the user when it encounters code that it has low confidence in the danger of -- it needs to be very clear to the user that the program is probably safe but has matched against some new generic pattern that could possibly but not-likely be dangerous, and point them to a link to get one of these multi-engine scans, and provide a clear path for discussing and resolving the issue.

We've even flirted with the idea of setting up an award to give to security software that lives up to this standard.. I still think that would be a good way to try to reform the industry -- by providing positive encouragement and a seal of approval to those few antivirus companies who handle this correctly and responsibly.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Sceenshot captor only shows me a white plain.

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2010, 08:51 AM »

replied on the other thread about the false positive alerts.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Possible infection in 2.84.01 after unpacking.

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2010, 08:43 AM »

Hi lemonstar61.

You did good to check them against multiple scanning engines as you did.

Those are false positives, alerting merely to the fact that these DLLs capture keyboard and mouse actions (which one might have guessed from the DLL names themselves).

There is no malware or infection, this is just the normal stupid irresponsible behavior of antivirus companies alerting falsely because they see generic code that they don't understand -- we deal with it all the time here, and it's extremely frustrating from a programmer's point of view.  it's similar to the way so many valid emails are now blocked and falsely marked as spam.

As an aside, you can actually run screenshot captor without these DLLs as long as you don't use the RedBox capture mode which is used to capture windows objects, scrolling windows, etc.  The RedBox capture mode is used to overlay a red box on top of existing windows to let the user select them with the mouse or keyboard.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Sceenshot captor only shows me a white plain.

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2010, 03:43 AM »

i apologize for not replying to this post originally.. i'm sorry SC failed for you.

i have a faint memory of this problem being caused in the past by, of all things, a (Kaspersky) security program (see here).

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Running FARR (and other) on virtual desktop

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2010, 03:18 AM »

Reading the Sysinternals page on their "Desktops" program is quite interesting, and might be something those of you who like this kind of esoteric windows-internals stuff would be interested in:

http://technet.micro...ernals/cc817881.aspx

Unlike other virtual desktop utilities that implement their desktops by showing the windows that are active on a desktop and hiding the rest, Sysinternals Desktops uses a Windows desktop object for each desktop. Application windows are bound to a desktop object when they are created, so Windows maintains the connection between windows and desktops and knows which ones to show when you switch a desktop. That making Sysinternals Desktops very lightweight and free from bugs that the other approach is prone to where their view of active windows becomes inconsistent with the visible windows.

Desktops reliance on Windows desktop objects means that it cannot provide some of the functionality of other virtual desktop utilities, however. For example, Windows doesn't provide a way to move a window from one desktop object to another, and because a separate Explorer process must run on each desktop to provide a taskbar and start menu, most tray applications are only visible on the first desktop. Further, there is no way to delete a desktop object, so Desktops does not provide a way to close a desktop, because that would result in orphaned windows and processes. The recommended way to exit Desktops is therefore to logoff.

SO.. it sounds to me like Desktops is a very strange virtual desktop tool.  I think the best solution to the FARR problem might be in fact to stop using Desktops and start using something like VirtuaWin or Dexpot, or another "normal" virtual desktop tool.

But it still leaves two questions: 1. is there a way to make programs like FARR work right on Sysinternals Desktops, and 2. Is there some real value in the unusual way Sysinternals Desktops works that offsets the strangeness of the way it works (or is it more of a circus attraction)?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Running FARR (and other) on virtual desktop

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2010, 03:12 AM »

Very interesting.. anyone else know anything about this?

It's the first i've heard of it and it does seem like something we need to fix so that it gets invoked no matter what desktop one is on.

I will try downloading the Sysinternals Desktops program.. the only other multiple desktop tool i've used is VirtuaWin, but i see we've discussed it here and the comments are pretty negative.

We've discussed a bunch of alternative virtual desktop tools here and here.

This must be something that affects other kinds of programs.. I wonder if there is some setting somewhere in the sysinternals program (or other virtual desktop tools) that can solve it.


-jesse

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Living Room / Re: Good news for old windows games fans: The DirectDraw Hack

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2010, 02:53 AM »

very cool.

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DcUpdater / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DcUpdater - 1.27.01 - Sep 7, 2010

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2010, 02:45 AM »

just means i uploaded a slightly newer version of farr without updating the file on the website saying the new version is available.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LaunchBar Commander Screencast Videos

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2010, 09:24 AM »

thanks for the feedback guys  

don't forget to share your screenshots with us! https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=18759.0

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Screenshot Captor / Re: "Grab Selected Region"

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2010, 08:43 AM »

I miss the cross hairs way of selecting a portion of my screen.
For quick capturing this works fast and preferable for moving speedily.
Maybe it's still in the program, but I can't find it.

Go to the "RedBox Capture Mode" options tab and tell it not to use RedBox mode for region capture:

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

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2010, 08:17 AM »

i'm afraid you can't multiple select in the program list but you can use Ctrl+# to launch an item and stay open (you can change the effect of keyboard modifiers on the Keyboard Interface tab of options); so if you want to launch programs listed as items 1,2,3 you would hold Ctrl and hit 1 2 3.

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DcUpdater / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DcUpdater - 1.27.01 - Sep 7, 2010

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2010, 11:39 PM »

everyone please install and report any crashes; it certainly won't be any worse than previous versions and has a few other fixes and new features.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Explorer-Style List View?

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2010, 10:04 PM »

welcome to the site wfunction 
can you elaborate a little for me since i don't use windows 7 -- maybe attach a screenshot showing the light blue highlight and the dark blue selection, so i know what you have in mind?

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DcUpdater / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DcUpdater - 1.27.01 - Sep 7, 2010

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2010, 06:50 PM »

i have a suspicion that the crashing bug may come back now that i have recompiled it with MFC statically built-in; if the problems to return i will try to release it with mfc not bundled in.

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DcUpdater / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DcUpdater - 1.27.01 - Sep 7, 2010

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2010, 02:14 PM »

strangely enough, you can't really ask dcupdater to generically run automatic update checks.
only FARR has an auto update check that invokes it, and you can access that from the FARR options tab "Plugins and Updates".

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General Software Discussion / Re: 27 Good Reasons to Love Linux

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2010, 06:12 AM »

Welcome to the site Linuxaria 

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DcUpdater / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DcUpdater - 1.27.01 - Sep 7, 2010

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2010, 12:05 AM »

i've pushed out another update because the previous version (beta) was linking to mfc71.dll, the microsoft runtime dll which isn't installed on all windows PCs, because that would be too easy -- resulting in an error for such users*.  (if the crash resurfaces, we will know that this was the cause).

* one day i predict it will be revealed that half of microsoft was infiltrated 15 years ago with people determined to sabotage the company from within.. nothing else could explain the consistently stupid self destructive behavior from such a smart company.

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

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2010, 10:43 PM »

its impossible for any other site to get a version more recent than the one on dc.  they all originate from DC.

what happens is that i sometimes release a "silent" update, which means i might make a tiny change and increment the 3rd component of the version number, but not announce it because the change is so slight.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Portable apps suites - is there a good one?

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2010, 09:41 PM »

Remember that as others have pointed out -- FARR and LBC are both happy to run in portable mode out of the box.  Both installers can be unpacked with any un-zipping program, and are more than happy to run portably.

That doesn't mean that we can't make them easier and pre-configured to run as a portable application launcher, just want to make sure it's clear that they can already be used for this.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Marketing - program is far better than you say!

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2010, 08:14 PM »

By they way, the most important thing anyone can do who likes our software and our site, is to post a user review at sites like cnet saying why you like the program.  I don't ask people to do this often enough -- it can be the best way for people to learn about our programs and our community.  And without advertising and publicity stunts, we rely on our members to help spread the word.

So please if you are reading this, the next time you see a dc program that you use mentioned somewhere, won't you take the time to post your feelings about the program and the dc website?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Portable apps suites - is there a good one?

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2010, 07:32 PM »

what i'd really like to do is come up with something so that LBC and FARR can parse the portable-app-collection formats, so that you can use LBC and FARR as a drop-in replacement for those portable app menu launchers without doing any special configuration.

that may mean including a set of pre-defined launchbars with different category icons and looks that users can choose, that could be provided by people on the dc forum.