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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Am I missing something obvious? How do you paste???

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2009, 05:52 AM »

I have uploaded a debug version of just the exe to:
https://www.donation...oardHelpAndSpell.zip

for those who can make the failure to paste problem occur, please try this version (might want to rename it or back up old version first before replacing it with this exe).

it will product a text file debugout.txt that contains some debug messages.

once you experience the problem, where selecting a quickpaste clip fails to paste it into the target application, you should then exit CHS, and open debugout.txt in a text editor, and pm me, and we can see if we can spot what went wrong.. i.e. did it misidentify the laste active window -- or fail to reactivate it, etc.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Free icons for developers

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2009, 05:45 AM »

nice -- thanks for sharing mahesh.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Am I missing something obvious? How do you paste???

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2009, 04:48 AM »

questions for those having the problem where CHS starts to fail to paste:

do you have the "Watch Windows" checkbox checked? does it make a difference?
if we are talking about triggering this from the quick paste menu -- does it matter if you use the mouse or keyboard to trigger the item to paste?

and am i right that you are triggering the quick paste menu with the hotkey (not from system tray)?



who can reliably make CHS fail to paste into the last active window -- are you willing to test versions of CHS if i upload for you -- to help me diagnose the problem?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: SuperDuperRoboPrinter

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2009, 03:59 AM »

did we set up dc member space for you yet, awop?
i ask because having different versioned attachments in a thread, rather than a link to a download page or file, sometimes leads to some confusion when people download older versions.  just a suggestion. 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: idea: FARR plugin school / tutorial / wiki

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2009, 01:05 AM »

please sign up at the wiki if you want to help edit it
sample page:
http://farr.dcisv.co...u.php?id=farrplugins

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Screenshot Captor / Re: "Sent to Imageshack" option

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2009, 12:02 AM »

hi klausk, welcome to the site and thank you for sharing!

if you are in the mood for it you might also create a tool pack for this:
see https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=18897.0

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General Software Discussion / Re: I want to add a password like field to my web form

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2009, 07:17 PM »

are you asking how to have make an input field in html which masks what you type with *** characters, or are you asking something else?

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Living Room / Re: The Pricelessware Scam (Alt.Comp.Freeware)

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2009, 05:56 PM »

alt.comp.freeware confuses me for all sorts of reasons.  i don't really understand the details of some of these controversies.. i wish one of the reputable online tech magazines like Wired would do a real investigatory story on ACF and explain some of this stuff to the rest of us.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Return Focus to last program after FARR search

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2009, 04:08 PM »

that happens for me automatically.. let me ask:
when you launch the search from farr.. the farr window dissapears right? what window if any then gains focus if it's not firefox?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Make Money Fast and be a Hero of these Internets. In one easy step!

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2009, 01:32 PM »

Thanks for the link SKA, i have used treepad in the past (though not for website generation), and it's an impression program.  It's doing a similar thing to what I want, but I'd be interested in something a little more scriptable and that working by analyzing different files in a directory tree that might have all kind of extra information to guide how the site is constructed and what menus are shown.

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2009, 01:51 AM »

Our heart goes out to you -- just remember that he lived a very happy life with you as his best friend -- not much more one can ask for in this life.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Make Money Fast and be a Hero of these Internets. In one easy step!

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2009, 12:28 AM »

Tranglos your system reminds me of what i've always wanted for DC:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=3689.0

My interest has always been on a tool that would take a directory tree of flat files and make a website out of them.

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: Need help switching browsers using FARR

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2009, 11:29 PM »

ok i'll look into it -- it should work.
you might try running those commands from the commandline to determine if the fault is with FARR or with browsertrayswitch.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Bug: Notification of saved license key cannot be closed

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2009, 04:23 PM »

thanks for the report i'll see if i can reproduce.

the library used in SC can save to postscript -- i think those files would probably load into latex.  let me add the support for it in the saveas box.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 30 More Days of DonationCoder Screencasts

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2009, 03:23 PM »

it's mainly focused on webcam recording, and is a bit similar to screenshot captor -- that's why i've said recently that screenshot captor is finally going to get an improved thumbnail panel, based on this code.  but i'm going to work on it for a few more weeks and figure out a few more details and best direction for it.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: autoprint + automatic mail message

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2009, 02:07 PM »

you probably already know that screenshot captor has a mail function which will send an email from screenshot captor on command, from the SendTo menu.
so you want to have it send the email automatically after a capture?
i could probably add that pretty easily. i actually thought about adding it earlier but then it seemed to me that it was a risky thing to do and users would be better of invoking it manually.

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Living Room / Re: Help with Toshiba Portege M200 Tablet PC

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2009, 01:24 PM »

i have an old hand me down portege (older model than yours) and it's a nice machine.
it also does uses an external optical cd rom.

my memory is that you can't just boot with any external cd rom -- to boot from cd you need their proprietary cdrom drive (or one made specifically to be compatible); that's my memory.

the boot from lan option sounds like something you should investigate -- i've never used it but it seems like it could be the way to go.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: Q to DC members especially mouser: How do you organize a community?

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2009, 01:21 PM »

i encourage all regular dc members to tell us about the stuff they create on other sites -- that's not spamming.

it seems to me in the course of the post you are asking some very different things and it's hard to know which to answer.

• is the question: now that we have an active community, how do we organize it to focus on important things and avoid getting distracted by unrelated stuff?
• or is the question: we have an active community, how do we get a more creative discussion instead of focusing on mundane stuff?
• or is the question: how do we build from scratch an active community?

the first two things are almost directly in conflict with each other -- which i think is important to realize.

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: not work with FARR

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2009, 01:12 PM »

do you have a custom browser configured in your farr options maybe?

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Minicap Border Area

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2009, 01:12 PM »

i can add the grayscale option.
for border -- do you want it to add border around the outside of the image?

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General Software Discussion / Re: 30 More Days of DonationCoder Screencasts

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2009, 01:11 PM »

i didn't think anyone was paying attention, let alone watching.

i actually did make 5 screencasts in the last week, but they were for a new program i've been working on and not yet released

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: Need help switching browsers using FARR

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2009, 01:08 PM »

try like this:
Browser Tray Switch - Firefox | C:\Program Files\BrowserTraySwitch\BrowserTraySwitch.exe -switch "C:\Program Files\BrowserTraySwitch\BrowserFiles\Firefox.btsregfile"
Browser Tray Switch - Maxthon | C:\Program Files\BrowserTraySwitch\BrowserTraySwitch.exe -switch "C:\Program Files\BrowserTraySwitch\BrowserFiles\Maxthon.btsregfile"

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Developer's Corner / Re: Netflix contest: $1M to developer of best movie recommendation engine

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2009, 08:19 PM »

Nice post on John Langford's "Machine Learning (Theory)" blog:
http://hunch.net/?p=949

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Developer's Corner / Re: Netflix contest: $1M to developer of best movie recommendation engine

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2009, 05:47 PM »

absolutely no reason one person could not have won netflix (or win the new one), using nothing more than a normal desktop computer.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Netflix contest: $1M to developer of best movie recommendation engine

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2009, 03:56 PM »

Prize Awarded:

http://bits.blogs.ny...ts-a-new-contest/?hp



For those AI researchers who wish they had participated.. it looks like Netflix is going to have another similar contest with another $million dollars in prizes..