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General Software Discussion / Re: Upgrade to Windows 64-bit

« Last post by Ath on December 21, 2013, 08:09 AM »

You can't have a parallel install of 64 and 32 bit of Windows 7 on the same partition, as Shades already explained. In fact, the last installed OS will replace the existing OS. Separate partitions (or disks) is the way to go for this feature. It would require a reboot to switch to the other install, though.
Hassling with Hyper-V from Server 2008R2/Server 2012 is only for the not-fainthearted (IOW knowledgeable) IMHO, so instead of that, I'd advise to create a clean install of Windows x64, and run (after possibly doing a P2V conversion) the 32 bit incarnation in a virtualized solution like VMWare Player (or better the non-free Workstation) or VirtualBox. Ample RAM memory is a requirement for such setup ofcourse, but 8GB for the host system should suffice, allowing the 32bit install 2 GB with enough space for normal use.

A re-install of Windows x64 is required, and advised, though.

If there are no reasons to keep the 32 bit OS around, then that's an easy solution as well, bite the bullet and just stop running the (virtualized) 32 bit OS

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Post New Requests Here / Re: "Merge field" function

« Last post by Ath on December 19, 2013, 04:31 PM »

Ah, now I see what happened, you downloaded the old, obsolete and 'security'-hampered AutoIt release, that tries to get the data from the Excel file by opening it using Excel and then using select-all/copy to clipboard. There are issues with that method, as reported by others in that thread, giving the exact same error...
All these issues are resolved by the completely rewritten 2.x (Java) release, that can be downloaded from my dcmembers page, referenced in that thread (typing this on the tablet, so quite difficult to add the link here, sorry).
Maybe you could try that version.

I removed the AutoIt-based files from the Excel2Html thread.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: "Merge field" function

« Last post by Ath on December 19, 2013, 01:35 PM »

I'm getting an error: Line 574 Error: The requested action with this object has failed.
I have triple-checked my syntax, and it seems okay.

-ajamillion (December 17, 2013, 06:08 PM)

Can you share your template (anonimized ofc, PM for e-mail) and the exact errormessage & optional logfile? I'd like to debug this some more.
My current finding is that you have some conditional thingy that triggers the error, if it's actually in the Excel2Html program.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: "Merge field" function

« Last post by Ath on December 18, 2013, 05:06 AM »

You should not have the .xls(x) file open in any other application, like Excel, maybe that's the issue?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: "Merge field" function

« Last post by Ath on December 17, 2013, 02:45 PM »

Check out this coding snack I did 2.5 years ago, Excel2Html

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Circle Dock / Re: UnZippable Betas zip 4 Ellipse Dock

« Last post by Ath on December 07, 2013, 09:09 AM »

Try downloading the files with an other browser, that usually fixes it.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Out of System Resources error ONLY when trying to grab Selected Region

« Last post by Ath on December 07, 2013, 06:29 AM »

Nope, doesn't work for me.

-selt (December 07, 2013, 06:23 AM)

Could it be that you have a conflict in the hotkeys, that starts 2 applications, SSC and something else?

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2014 Submission: ESC Close

« Last post by Ath on November 29, 2013, 02:45 AM »

Hm, I don't fully get what the use-case is, here.

Some programs I don't want to close on <Esc>, and others explicitly support that (and it can be disabled) so that's also just fine.

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: Custom Location, DonationCoder parent folder

« Last post by Ath on November 25, 2013, 03:19 PM »

Unfortunately, I don't have Admin. privileges,

-tdittmer (November 25, 2013, 01:40 PM)

Then, how did you get the software installed in the first place?

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: Custom Location, DonationCoder parent folder

« Last post by Ath on November 25, 2013, 01:17 PM »

You should have a look at the ConfigDir.ini file in the directory where you installed BTS. It contains detailed information on how to move the location of these files.

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General Software Discussion / Re: curious win7 file issue...

« Last post by Ath on November 21, 2013, 01:40 AM »

- Virtualized folder? So the file may have been stored in C:\Program Files\blabla, but Windows tucked it away in a virtualized folder, C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\blabla

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Pledge: Blasteroids

« Last post by Ath on November 20, 2013, 01:36 AM »

For me, the left one too. Much brighter and to the point.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on November 18, 2013, 04:35 AM »

Here's a Honorary Member hitting a some-hundred-mark: skajfes @200 

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Open Source debate

« Last post by Ath on November 13, 2013, 08:55 AM »

It's a bit of a pitty that you had to mention the name of the product and it being open-source.
The only way you'll probably get the application on board is from a functional viewpoint: your users should tell that stubborn/short-sighted IT-guy that they want/need that application to be able to do their work properly, and that IT needs to provide it to them to be able to stay in business, instead of the other way around.
This is of course based on the assumption that a functional shoot-out has already been done
The fact that it's open source should not be part of the equasion.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for a seventies music title...

« Last post by Ath on November 11, 2013, 09:58 AM »

a song performed by Jane Birkin and written by Serge Gainsbourg

-joiwind (November 11, 2013, 08:47 AM)

Their most popular, EU-wide IMHO, was Je t'aime (lyrics)

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Living Room / Re: Looking for a seventies music title...

« Last post by Ath on November 11, 2013, 06:06 AM »

What country was it released in? Not every song is released/available in every country

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free FTP storage using my own FTP client??

« Last post by Ath on November 08, 2013, 09:36 AM »

AFAICS, FTP is not secure enough to be considered for transporting sensitive stuff across the internet, so DropBox and Wuala are often used as an alternative.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Suggestion: The ability to float screenshots on your workspace

« Last post by Ath on November 07, 2013, 02:43 PM »

Wraith, check out the Post-Capture options page in SSC's Preferences

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General Software Discussion / Re: new Site for my Software

« Last post by Ath on November 07, 2013, 10:19 AM »

Great to see you getting back on your feet again, kudo's

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on November 07, 2013, 07:12 AM »

We all missed your 2800'th posting...

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Living Room / Re: Issues in Windows 8.0 and 8.1 migration

« Last post by Ath on November 06, 2013, 09:31 AM »

Did you see this thread ? : https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=32883.0

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Solved] Multiple parameters to URL?

« Last post by Ath on November 05, 2013, 01:40 AM »

 ^car (.*) (.*):(.*)

results where $$1 substitues the first word matching (.*)

-wjamoe (November 05, 2013, 12:46 AM)

This only works when typing exactly 1 space after the first word.

A more reliable regex for capturing separate words, independent from the number of spaces, would be:

[Select]

^car (\w*)\s*(\w*)\s*:?\s*(\w*)

This way you can even have 0 or more spaces around the colon.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Solved] Multiple parameters to URL?

« Last post by Ath on November 04, 2013, 12:09 PM »

Should be \w* instead of .* within the round braces

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General Software Discussion / Re: Clever screenshot - automatical selection

« Last post by Ath on November 03, 2013, 01:38 PM »

Can you describe what the selection criteria for the area to capture are? Software (at least AFAIK) has no eyes, so it can't make a visual selection, but needs exact directions on what to select & capture.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on November 02, 2013, 09:17 AM »

Another scorer : Nod5 hits 700: