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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to change background color for the results area

« Last post by mouser on July 29, 2009, 08:33 AM »

glad you like it!
actually i think this may have come up before and we figured out i needed to add something to make this possible.. easy enough to do if so.
did you find a skin you like that works in all other respects?

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General Software Discussion / Re: $20 if you make me a 6' Molex cable. $10 for recommending a better solution.

« Last post by mouser on July 29, 2009, 12:33 AM »

i'd like to point out what i like about the models 4wd posted -- which is that the opening is full 5.25 opening which holds exposed racks.  i prefer this to a case with a door and internal mountings that wouldn't allow you to use a rack of your choosing.  if you know you're never going to want to swap drives in and out then it doesnt matter of course.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why can't my computer detect the 6th Sata drive?

« Last post by mouser on July 29, 2009, 12:31 AM »

my limited experience with motherboard recognizing large numbers of drives (6 qualifies as large for a desktop) is that it can be tricky to diagnose.

i would suggest your first task would be to try various configurations and narrow down a little more what's not working.

in other words, if you disconnect the first external hd in the enclosure, is the second one recognized?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: NOD32 False Positive

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2009, 06:23 PM »

thanks carl.

in case anyone else is reading this -- it's a false positive -- there is no virus.  it's just another case of an antivirus program over reacting and mistakingly marking something as a virus.

eset is usually good about not giving these false positives 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.70.01 - July 26, 2009

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2009, 03:51 AM »

something did occur to me -- and that is the delay between the capture and this transparent border window removal when using the pop-up dialog..  because sc only queries windows for the screen region after the pop-up dialog closes, its possible if the window moves that this would cause a problem..  is it possible you moved the window being captured while the popup dialog was being shown?

regardless, let me try to make sc do the transparent window border cropping right away after capture and see if that fixes it.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.70.01 - July 26, 2009

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2009, 03:37 AM »

i guess you have the standard xp style silver theme, its in the appearance tab of right click on desktop properties.
i have my style set to classic which is why i am not familiar with it.

i can't manage to reproduce the problem -- on my pc it seems to capture the active window fine and even gets the rounded corners right.
really strange..

if anyone else experiences this please let us know.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.70.01 - July 26, 2009

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2009, 02:45 AM »

can i ask what operating system and what skin/theme you are using?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.70.01 - July 26, 2009

« Last post by mouser on July 28, 2009, 02:21 AM »

i think it must have to do with screenshot captor trying to do non-rectangular transparency effect fixup on the rounded borders of the active window.. but why it's suddenly acting up i don't know yet.  this happens AFTER the preview in the post capture box is shown, so that would explain why it looks ok in the pop up.  i could change that but it wouldn't solve the problem just give you an earlier warning.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.70.01 - July 26, 2009

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2009, 11:42 PM »

ok so in the main window the screenshots are also messed up, and you are inserting them into your other programs by browsing for them.
it has to be something simple when the image is saved from the quick post-capture popup -- maybe some new scanner functionality i added that is bleeding over.
ill see if i can reproduce -- let me know if you figure out any more clues.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.70.01 - July 26, 2009

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2009, 10:42 PM »

i need some clarificaiton.

you say

when I subsequently attached the image to another app

can you elaborate on the steps.  i get that you have it set to show the sc popup window.
then what do you do.. and do you see the full image in your sc window?
how are you getting the images from sc to the other app?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Remote Keypad

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2009, 09:25 PM »

sounds like a really fun project to me 037 -- maybe something that someone should start as a coding project.
i can definitely see the value of using one of these cheap netbooks or touch tablets as a glorified customizable keypad.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SC: Discussion of Scanning Functions

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2009, 08:00 PM »

i think the idea of saving a pdf to a different directory would make even more sense since that would remove the confusion of why the file couldnt be re-opened and edited by SC.

let me start by adding a button for it, and then we can talk about tweaking the feature.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SC: Discussion of Scanning Functions

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2009, 07:57 PM »

i think maybe ill split the scan discussion to a different thread.

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Living Room / A Dog Goes Blind: It's nighttime always now. Huh. How about that.

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2009, 07:52 PM »

Neat little essay about someone whose dog goes blind.

So, when she went blind, I did end up going a bit nuts. She's a profoundly sweet-natured and smart dog, and seeing her struggle, without benefit of understanding why, was wrenching...

In far less time than you'd ever guess, she adapted-- far, far better than I ever realized would be possible. I made the usual mistake of anthropomorphizing the animal I live with. Her brain just works differently than ours do: I'm told when they go blind, dogs just think something along the lines of "It's nighttime always now. Huh. How about that." and they get on with it.

http://www.boingboin...he-blind-d.html#more

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SC: Discussion of Scanning Functions

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2009, 07:19 PM »

can you explain the idea of TWAIN/VIA on or off being in toolbar button?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SC: Discussion of Scanning Functions

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2009, 06:53 PM »

There are of course programs that offer only these limited options but I imagine some people discover SC and find it too difficult to use.

i have another program (URL Snooper) which has a switchable advanced vs. simple interface, and that is useful in keeping it from overwhelming new or light users.

but i think you've hit on the key point here when you mention "other programs".  there are lots of other screenshot programs designed for novice and light users.  Not that SC is hard to use once you understand the concepts, but some people may find it unintuitive and there are other screenshot tools that may just click with them better.

There are some screenshot tools that are just much more gentle all around, and take a wizard like approach of guiding users through the common things they will want to do.

So in short, while i think i could make a simpler mode that was a little bit easier to use and less daunting, i don't think i could substantially change the character of the program enough to make a real difference.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SC: Discussion of Scanning Functions

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2009, 06:47 PM »

PDF should definitely be added to the option in Override Screenshot File Format.

i was going to do that but ran into a small problem.
SC relies on the windows shell to show thumbnails of screenshots in the left side panel.

for many (most?all?) people (does it require a special extension?), the windows shell will not show a thumbnail image of a pdf file.  that means that if SC saved your scan as a pdf, you wouldn't actually see a preview of it in the left sidebar, just a generic adobe icon.

worse, once saved as PDF, SC cannot re-open a previously saved PDF and edit it (such a thing might be possible to add eventually but not without much work).

so in short, using PDF as the default image file format for scans is not something SC can do currently.

the best i can do in the sort term is making it really easy to save a copy of an image in PDF form, or to save a collection of images as a pdf multi-page document.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SC: Discussion of Scanning Functions

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2009, 06:09 PM »

i understand the confusion over the weird way i did the 2 toolbar scan buttons, and i agree it's a bit confusing.

i'll tell you why i did it that way:
there are several places where you can say what should trigger scanning -- for example with a hotkey, and when pressing the physical scanner button.
rather than try to have multiple options there where you say what kind of scan to perform on those triggers (with or without dialog), i decided it would be easier to let user configure their default way of scanning (with dialog or without), and that these triggers would always do that.  then on the occasional times you want to do the other, you have that additional menu item/toolbarbutton.

anyway, we can revisit it later if it stays a problem.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SC: Discussion of Scanning Functions

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2009, 05:22 PM »

How hard would it be to implement saving to PDF? I can use other software to do this or print to PDF, but if I'm going to use SC as a primary scanning option it would be useful.

you can already do a Save As and save a screenshot as PDF.
since it seems like such a common thing people would want to do, i was thinking of adding a button to the scanner toolbar to say Save as PDF; i was also thinking of making it so you could select multiple images from the thumbnail panel and it would save them all to one pdf multi-page document.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SC: Discussion of Scanning Functions

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2009, 05:20 PM »

I'd like a keyboard shortcut for scanning.

already exists, go into hotkey options and set one.

Do I understand correctly that Acquire image from scanner (Dialog toggled) does the opposite of whatever is selected in the scanning options? That is, if Show and use native scanner dialog is selected, then the dialog will not be selected when using Dialog toggled? That had (or perhaps has) me confused.

you have it right; i know its a bit confusing, but you do have it right.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SC: Discussion of Scanning Functions

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2009, 05:19 PM »

In an attempt to test what would happen if WIA was selected and there was no WIA driver I unplugged my scanner with SC running. This deleted this scanner (and I think another one) from the list of options, and it's not there even after a reboot. Fortunately the scanner is still installed in my document imaging program (or I would not be happy), but apparently I will have to reinstall the scanner for it to work in SC.

not true -- the way SC works is it does NOT re-query the list of available scanners until you hit scan, and it doesnt update the options list until you re-select from the TWAIN/WIA dropdown.

this is on purpose but might be a bit confusing.

the point of it is specifically to keep SC from clearing your scanner selection even if you unplug or turn off your scanner.  the way it is now SC will remember your scanner selection even when no scanner is selected.

only when you tell it to rediscover the list of available scanners by (re)choosing TWAIN/WIA will it re-fill the list with those it can find.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: How to install

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2009, 05:01 PM »

are you saying you downloaded the launchbar commander setup file:
https://www.donation...arCommanderSetup.exe

and when you double click it to run it, it pops up with a message saying "This link needs to be opened with an application..."?

what operating system are you using?

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

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2009, 04:56 PM »

Which led me to believe that the leaderboards are not calculated on the full/exact data set that the winning algorithm will be tested on.

ah that's an interesting point.. i'm trying to remember now what the rules said about that.
it does seem like with scores this close, it's a bit silly to say that one of these 2 teams one, and the other "lost."

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for July 27th, 2009 - Codename "30 Days of Screencasts"

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2009, 06:25 AM »

Due to constraints on my time, during the month of August I will focus soley on creating new bugs in my applications, not eradicating existing ones.

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

« Last post by mouser on July 27, 2009, 06:02 AM »

I've read some of the previous papers published by both teams that broke the 10% barrier and it will be fascinating to read the final papers.