topbanner_forum
  *

avatar image

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?

Login with username, password and session length
  • Saturday September 19, 2026, 7:11 am
  • Proudly celebrating 15+ years online.
  • Donate now to become a lifetime supporting member of the site and get a non-expiring license key for all of our programs.
  • donate

Recent Posts

Pages: prev1 ... 60 61 62 63 64 [65] 66 67 68 69 70 ... 404next
1601
Living Room / Re: Court Rules Copying Photos Found on Internet is Fair Use
« Last post by wraith808 on July 02, 2018, 10:48 PM »
Comments by and large on the side of the photographer. What are the chances it would the same if this was about a song (writer/company distributing it)?
Humans

It should be.  I wonder what this does for the bit with Elon Musk that just came up.
1602
Living Room / RIP Harlan Ellison
« Last post by wraith808 on June 29, 2018, 09:57 AM »
Harlan Ellison was one of the most influential writers of short fiction and nonfiction of the 20th century, writing in every genre he could and protesting any attempt to pigeonhole his work.

RIP.

“For a brief time I was here, and for a brief time, I mattered.”

Harlan Ellison Obituary on TOR
1603
He's not asking for a solution for Outlook for himself, but for copying and pasting from messages sent to him by an Outlook client if I'm understanding correctly.
1604
Mircryption / Re: Mircryption for Mirc 6.35
« Last post by wraith808 on June 28, 2018, 01:48 PM »
I almost posted that earlier, then realized what he was asking.  He isn't asking for mIRC, he's asking for a version of micryption that works with mIRC 6.35
1605
I highly recommend DisplayFusion if you have multiple displays. :Thmbsup:

Agreed.  Clipboard Fusion and LogFusion are definitely musts for me in addition.
1607
Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2018, 06:09 PM »
Two more down in my book challenge for 2018.

skinwalker.jpg


Skinwalker by Faith Hunter


I'd heard good things about the series, but the beginning made me think that they were wrong. She uses a lot of glue words, and they slow down reading. The dialog of the Beast is quite gimmicky. But as I read, and was caught up in the backgrounds and mystery, my reservations faded. It became enjoyable instead of a chore, and the story was quite good. I'm not sure if I will continue the series, but it was an enjoyable read, and I am considering more of the Jane Yellowrock books- more for the characterizations and background than anything else.

skyborn.jpg

Skyborn by David Dalglish

It started out slowly, though it rapidly picked up the pace, and enthralled me with the story of flying islands far in the sky and their winged protectors. I'd thought it predictable, but it took an unexpected but welcomed turn into other territories. I'm looking forward to the next book to continue the story!
1608
download.jpg

I LOL'd.
1609
N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: ScreenshotCaptor (Link) in autostart
« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2018, 02:27 PM »
What version of screenshot captor do you have?  That's a really old dialog... It's been a treeview for a while now.

It's the help file that's out of date. I see the same screenshots of the settings in the help file that HelmutWe posted above.

Ah... ok, that makes sense.
1610
N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: ScreenshotCaptor (Link) in autostart
« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2018, 01:43 PM »
What version of screenshot captor do you have?  That's a really old dialog... It's been a treeview for a while now.
1611
Screenshot Captor / Re: Donated once, then had to donate again.
« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2018, 06:37 AM »
It hasn't happened to me, but if it does happen you dont have to donate again; you can just go to your profile and retrieve your registration.  Whn logged in to your account, go to https://www.donation...rieve-my-license-key to retrieve another key.
1612
Living Room / Re: Hating on AVG antivirus/firewall (internet security)
« Last post by wraith808 on June 25, 2018, 01:39 PM »
https://www.binisoft.org/wfc.php

Malware yes just bought it, so not sure of the future of it.
from the homepage:
We at Malwarebytes are big fans too. That’s why we’ve asked Binisoft founder Alexandru Dicu to join our team. Moving forward, we will be integrating the Binisoft Windows Firewall Control technology into our cybersecurity products. This key integration will enable Malwarebytes to deliver more flexible and robust cybersecurity to you or your business. And not to worry—we will maintain, support, and [we will] keep Binisoft products free for everyone in the short term. Learn more about the acquisition here.
my emphasis

That short-term is my worry.
1613
Living Room / Re: Hating on AVG antivirus/firewall (internet security)
« Last post by wraith808 on June 25, 2018, 08:31 AM »
The Windows Firewall is good and doesn't demand much resources. It's interface isn't that great, but there are solutions for that as well.

What is the best solution that you use? Thanks.


https://www.binisoft.org/wfc.php

Malware yes just bought it, so not sure of the future of it.
1614
Living Room / Re: Interesting, low-effort, blackmail-esque spam
« Last post by wraith808 on June 25, 2018, 08:26 AM »
Also amusing was Gmail trying to be helpful with one-click auto-responses: "I accept the terms," "No worries, thanks for the update," and "I'm not interested."

 ;D ;D ;D

... So which auto response did you choose?  ;D
1615
^ +1.  We really need a way to endorse posts so we don't have to just post that we agree...
1616
True. But it's aimed at online help or user manuals (small market, corporate bias). May well be very competitive in that field (that's why I didn't say it was expensive). But for more general use, where it has a good range of normal features, it's feature list looks OK but nothing special. Better value in $ than € or £, but $598 is still way above most general writing programs. So may be a good choice if you already have it, but hardly enticing otherwise. Of course I don't write user manuals.

PS I have a lifetime subscription to ProWritingAid, and it was very cheap in comparison.


I have a lifetime sub to ProWritingAid too... got it on sale.  HnM also has sales, and I've seen it for about the same as a ProWritingAid lifetime sub.
1617
my 2 Cents when it belongs to Writing "Help and Manual" is great authoring Software
I don't know it at all, but looking at its features, I can see that you might be right.
But the price! ... is .. er.. very corporate; a lot of writers think it too much of a stretch to pay $40 for Scrivener.


It depends on what you're buying it for and what your writing brings in.  If you're doing it for pay, then the equation changes.  I know that's the reason I invested in ProWritingAid - it helped me make money, so the outlay was small in comparison to the rewards.
1618
Developer's Corner / Re: Delphi / Windows 7 / ColorFonts like Emoji
« Last post by wraith808 on June 22, 2018, 11:54 AM »
 :Thmbsup:  That looks like a good resource to get Cairo working if standard rendering doesn't work.  Hope it works out!
1619
Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR vs LISTARY
« Last post by wraith808 on June 22, 2018, 11:52 AM »
Listary had problems in the past interfacing with Dopus, so I disabled a lot of features / shortcuts. I know it got updated but I never did get to getting-to-know it better after that. FARR I had first.

The same reason I'm not currently using it.
1620
Developer's Corner / Re: Delphi / Windows 7 / ColorFonts like Emoji
« Last post by wraith808 on June 21, 2018, 07:07 PM »
No offense taken :)  Just thought it might be good to give the perspective from which I was asking.  Are you using a standard text control to show it?

Also, if you that's what you're doing, you might try to draw the font on a TCanvas, and see how that turns out, i.e.

Code: Delphi [Select]
  1. procedure WriteTextOnImage(imgResult: TImage, strTextToOutput: string);
  2. var
  3.     bmpText: TBitmap;
  4. begin
  5.      bmpText:= TBitmap.Create;
  6.      try
  7.         bmpText.Canvas.Font := <FontName>
  8.         bmpText.Canvas.TextOut(X, Y, textToOutput);
  9.         imgResult.Picture.Assign(bmpText);
  10.      finally
  11.         FreeAndNil(bmpText);
  12.      end;
  13.  end;

(Keep in mind, it's been many moons since I touched Delphi, so forgive any errors, but the theory should work)
1621
Developer's Corner / Re: Delphi / Windows 7 / ColorFonts like Emoji
« Last post by wraith808 on June 21, 2018, 02:51 PM »
Just to be clear, I wasn't asking from an I don't know what Delphi is perspective, but from the perspective of someone that worked in it for years before jumping to C#, so I was just asking if it was in the list of fonts.  :-[
1622
Living Room / Re: Beware of punycode phishing attempts
« Last post by wraith808 on June 20, 2018, 11:49 PM »
I don't have firefox installed, but I opened this page in Edge, navigated to it (fine), copied the text from this page, and pasted it into Chrome, and it was fine....

I just got what you meant.  You right-clicked on it, and it pasted wrong.  Is that right?  I was selecting and copying it, and it was right.
1623
Developer's Corner / Re: Delphi / Windows 7 / ColorFonts like Emoji
« Last post by wraith808 on June 20, 2018, 11:42 PM »
Sorry if i spelled question wrong.

I have already the Font. I am able to attach to that Font. I can show Text with that Font. What doesnt function yet is the part when i try show ColorFonts (like a smiley: yellow skin, white eyes, red lips, black outline).

When i try dispay such it end up with empty space or in bad cases with a transparent rectangle with black border.
After reading MSDN i know that its restricted to Windows 8.1 or higher.

My .exe will work on Windows 8.1, display everything like expected (Direct2d/Win2d used to do it), Windows 7 = white space
What makes me wuzzy is that FireFox can display and i am not able to do, equal how tricky i try.

I am pretty sure i can apopt Code from non-Delphi, i just mentioned it cause i use it  :-* so if someone has an Idea, please feed me  :D

Does Delphi show the font in the list of fonts in the property editor?
1624
Living Room / Re: Beware of punycode phishing attempts
« Last post by wraith808 on June 19, 2018, 10:22 PM »
Actually the point I was driving at is the Windows shell itself fell for the exploit when I put the link on the Windows Clipboard and pasted it into the FireFox address bar. FF never got a chance to pass/fail, it was just being used for an edit field.

Case in point, copy the link to the clipboard and paste it into Notepad … It comes off the clipboard as apple.com


Strange.  Mine worked - it just pasted the url direct.  Do you have something else in the background that might be the cause of it?
Pages: prev1 ... 60 61 62 63 64 [65] 66 67 68 69 70 ... 404next