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Living Room / Re: Micro Reviews of Board Games From a Non-Competetive Perspective

« Last post by mouser on April 12, 2019, 11:23 AM »

We've been playing through Chronicles of Crime, and it continues to impress.
If you think you'd like being a detective and solving a real crime with a partner, I cannot more highly recommend you and a friend give this one a try.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Clipboard Help+Spell errors

« Last post by mouser on April 10, 2019, 09:58 PM »

That's very odd.. I wonder if maybe CHS is getting the wrong directory information somehow and trying to write somewhere it shouldn't.
Maybe I can have it report where it really is trying to write.
AND at the lease I can have it try to give a better error about the likely source of trouble so people less rigorous than you have a chance at fixing the problem. 

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Clipboard Help+Spell errors

« Last post by mouser on April 10, 2019, 11:32 AM »

That's a fascinating discovery -- thanks for reporting it!
Following up, here's what I'd like to know the answer to: If you change back to the "system temp" directory that causes the error, but manually restart CHS after it has booted, does the error disapear?
If so, and the problem is only that at early BOOT time the system temp directory causes trouble, another solution would be to have CHS start up late in the boot process (by using a 3rd party tool for that or otherwise doing it), instead of having CHS do its own operation to start at bootup time.

Having said that, I would worry that if CHS is having this error trying to reach the system temp drive, maybe other apps could too -- but in a way that might not be so obvious..

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Clipboard Help+Spell errors

« Last post by mouser on April 08, 2019, 11:11 PM »

Having migrated/copied across to another PC, CHS is getting the error:

this does sound like a problem where you might have CHS running from (or trying to save to) a directory that it does NOT want to allow access to, assuming you are using portable=true.

a good first thing to try would be to move it to another directory where your user files are and see if you have the same problem.

yet another thing to check is the "Backup/Maintenance" tab, and look where it says "Directory where backups should be stored" and the line under that where it tells you the ACTUAL DIRECTORY it is trying to use to store backups -- make sure that is a directory that an app can write to.

And also the "Tweaks" tab, look for "Temporary DB file location" and try changing that.

If these still fail, let us know the full directory where you are running CHS from.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: When you use Clipboardhelpand spell, is there a delay when you press the hotkey

« Last post by mouser on April 08, 2019, 11:06 PM »

And the second most important question is, is the same delay there if you press it again soon after the first time that caused the delay? or is only the first time delayed when you do it after a long period of not using the program, and the subsequent times without delay?

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Developer's Corner / Re: if(file_exists..) is Failing!

« Last post by mouser on April 06, 2019, 03:31 PM »

In your code, the commented out version of the line is closer to what you want.  By putting double quotes around everything you are not getting the string you want.

Here's a tip for you, use some intermediate variables.  Instead of going right to

Code: PHP [Select]

1. if(file_exists($directory_path . $user . '/' . $file_name))

Try instead using a few lines like

Code: PHP [Select]

1. $fpath = $directory_path . $user . '/' . $file_name;
2. echo 'About to check if this file exists: ' . $fpath;
3. if (file_exists($fpath))

Then maybe you will see the problem with how you are creating the full file path.  You might find that you've got an extra / where you dont expect it, or that $user is not what you expect, etc.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: auto create .lnk shortcuts for all currently installed Windows Store Apps

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2019, 01:57 PM »

Very cool -- thank you for this 

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Developer's Corner / How BioWare's Anthem Went Wrong

« Last post by mouser on April 03, 2019, 11:46 AM »

Interesting article on how a big game development team went off the rails.

Very few things went right in the development of BioWare’s latest game, an online cooperative shooter that was first teased in mid-2012 but spent years floundering in pre-production. Many features weren’t finalized or implemented until the very final months, and to some who worked on the project, it wasn’t even clear what kind of game Anthem even was until that E3 demo in June of 2017, less than two years before it actually came out.

https://kotaku.com/h...ent-wrong-1833731964

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Draw a rectangle on W10

« Last post by mouser on April 02, 2019, 12:03 AM »

try changing the blend mode

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Living Room / Re: accessory DVD & usb port for laptop?

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2019, 11:54 AM »

i think your first step is getting a powered usb hub.. or look into a dock for your laptop if you mostly use it at home.
the portable dvd burners i've seen seem to require power from 2 usb ports, so you need more open and powered usb ports.

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2019, 08:12 PM »

squirrel and cat best friends:

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Android Apps / Re: ScoreTracker DC (Android app) - v1.32 - Aug 20, 2018

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2019, 03:08 PM »

V1.40 - Mar 30, 2019

• When you finish a game (or whatever) you can now add the current scores to a history log along with a date/time stamp and comment.  Useful for keeping track of scores over time.

v1.33 - Nov 2018

• Improved control over custom font sizing -- separate font scaling options for portrait and landscape orientation.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Grab selected region

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2019, 12:06 PM »

Remember that SC is very good at letting you crop AFTER you take a screenshot of the entire workspace.. The difference between grabbing a selected region, and grabbing the entire workspace and then cropping is quite small..

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General Software Discussion / Mozilla's X-Ray Goggles, browsing web page modifier?

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2019, 06:54 AM »

Anyone check this out?

X-Ray Goggles makes it easy to see and remix the code behind your favorite web pages.  The best part: you don't need any prior coding experience! Just activate Goggles, click on a section,  and edit. Then, share your remixes with others.

A video demonstrating it:

from my sister

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC delete the target instead of shortcut

« Last post by mouser on March 23, 2019, 03:51 PM »

I uploaded it as a beta:

• https://www.donation...arCommanderSetup.exe
• https://www.donation...ommanderPortable.zip

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2019, 08:43 PM »

At some point it would be more fun to see photos of other people's DIY home improvements.. 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Imageshack upload no longer working

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2019, 03:51 PM »

To clarify the problem I think steve was having: The built-in Imageshack uploader in SC works fine.
When you upload it uploads to a generic shared Screenshot Captor ImageShack (paid) account, so you do not have to have an imageshack account of your own or configure it in any way.

In addition, with the SC uploader you also have the OPTION of specifying your OWN imageshack login credentials instead of using the generic SC account.  This could be advantageous because you have greater control over the images (you could delete them after upload, or control visibility, etc.).  This requires you to have your own imageshack account.  And furthermore, it may be that imageshack will block you from uploading (after a certain amount?) if you do not pay for one of their monthly plans.

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Easy Screencast Recorder / Re: Display keystrokes in video?

« Last post by mouser on March 19, 2019, 05:47 PM »

It's a good question.  Have you tried Skrommel's "ShowOff"

Discussed here as well: https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=792.0

I'd like to hear what features you'd like to see added in such a tool.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?

« Last post by mouser on March 19, 2019, 08:57 AM »

Good lord this Cranioscopicallity is spreading like a virus.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2019, 02:24 PM »

Someone suggested that I make a video of myself while I'm in misery half-way done with these projects, cursing myself for starting them.
That way I won't forget how miserable I was doing it and will think twice before I begin the next project.
The problem is that when the projects are complete all I remember is the nice result, and I forget that I promised myself not to do another one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?

« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2019, 09:54 PM »

I've built some surrounding small cabinets/shelves to make the range look more built-in and use every available inch of storage:




(the left hand side has a little door; the right hand side is open shelving)
they both have a piece of tile on top of them for easy cleaning.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?

« Last post by mouser on March 16, 2019, 12:10 AM »

new kitchen done!

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC delete the target instead of shortcut

« Last post by mouser on March 14, 2019, 09:31 PM »

I have disabled the delete/cut/rename functions from the context menu; will be in the next release.

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General Software Discussion / Re: taking line-feeds and end-of-line hypens out of the clipboard text

« Last post by mouser on March 14, 2019, 01:37 PM »

You could also trigger a Clipboard Help+Spell preset to copy text under cursor, transform it and repaste it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2019, 11:29 PM »

i interrupt this PUN war to report in from the field: I have somehow finished all electric wiring and plumbing, and everything works (!)