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

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2009, 02:56 PM »

yksyks, just try to think of how happy you made their lives while they were around, and how much happiness they brought yout.

Whereismyangel -- hahahaha love it! what a great looking cat! what's it's name?

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

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2009, 12:27 PM »

get in the back of the line.

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

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2009, 11:58 AM »

awesome 

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: BrowserTraySwitch V2 BETA

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2009, 10:37 AM »

Ok, so it's working! yay!
i guess i'll release this to public in a day or so.

ps.
regarding it not working on your non-installed avant.. keep in mind that because of the snapshot functionality, it relies on the browser to be able to set itself as the default, and just restores that state.  so you have to be able to set the browser as default first, before BTS can memorize it.  But if you can do that, then BTS should be able to restore it to default -- if not let me know.

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

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2009, 10:14 AM »

My cat, Saffron:

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

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2009, 10:11 AM »

Don't get any funny ideas about posting a pic of your wife or husband, i'm talking about pets!

Let's see some pictures of the wildlife pals of DonationCoder members!

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2009, 10:10 AM »

you know this dog pic gives me a new idea..

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2009, 09:56 AM »

1.7mb image? maybe better linked using the attachthumb method?
nevermind, i see you already did.  nice.

this thread needs some new activity, glad you got it going again -- let's see some more pictures!

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: BrowserTraySwitch V2 BETA

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2009, 09:10 AM »

i don't really understand what you're saying happens.

i tested with avant, ff, ie, and seemed to work fine.

maybe mail me ([email protected]) and we can figure out what is wrong.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LaunchBar Commander Idea: Submenu from commandline tool

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2009, 08:53 AM »

phitsc, in august i'm doing my 30 days of screencasts.. when i do my farr plugin screencasts i'll be sure to link to yours -- maybe we can wake some people up about the power of your plugin (or as i call it, FarrMilk).

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LaunchBar Commander Idea: Submenu from commandline tool

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2009, 08:49 AM »

we need to have a special link on the forum: Take Pity on a Coder and Respond to Post About New Feature

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LaunchBar Commander Idea: Submenu from commandline tool

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2009, 08:19 AM »

thanks guys

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR Error message

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2009, 08:09 AM »

save the backup and the original now in a safe place.

can you email me the file ([email protected]) and i'll try and see what's wrong?

if you don't have important settings you could of course just delete the file and FARR will recreate a new one,
or exit far and delete (after making a backup copy) the current one and rename the backup so it tries to load that next time.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LaunchBar Commander Idea: Submenu from commandline tool

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2009, 07:35 AM »

i suppose no one is using these new features that i was so excited to release?

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: McAfee again. Don't ask.

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2009, 07:29 AM »

Don't need to remove nircmd. Just update it to v2.37. It doesn't get false positives.

good idea, done that.
i'll still probably remove it in next release, since no one seems to care about my new Tools feature

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General Software Discussion / MOVED: FARR Error message

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2009, 06:25 AM »

This topic has been moved to Find And Run Robot.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=19109.0

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR Error message

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2009, 06:25 AM »

go into your farr directory and take a look at the file -- see if it is 0k in size.  see if there is a backup.
This generally means something really went wrong with that configuration file.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: McAfee again. Don't ask.

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2009, 05:59 AM »

I included Nirsoft's excellent nircmd as an example of LBC's new tool interface system.
I will remove it to avoid such hackery.

McAfee and the rest of these retarded, lazy, irresponsible antivirus companies can go to hell.

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Mircryption / Re: Please I need help with blowssi/mircrytpion: 3 problems

« Last post by mouser on July 09, 2009, 05:26 AM »

1+2 sound like minor bugs in the plugin and should be easy to fix.

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: No longer switching default browser..

« Last post by mouser on July 08, 2009, 10:31 PM »

v2 beta thread:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=19100.0

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BrowserTraySwitch / BrowserTraySwitch V2 BETA

« Last post by mouser on July 08, 2009, 07:08 PM »

Looking forward to hearing how the beta works for you..
There is no help file yet, or install file, its just a zip with the new files.  You can overwrite your existing copy or run it from any location.
Download url is a full setup program which can also be manually unzipped.

Note:
unlike BrowserTraySwitch v1, this one is built with visual studio runtime libraries, which means if you have an older version of windows it will complain about missing dlls or libs or some such nonsense.  After testing i'll probably go back and compile it with visual studio 2003, which i think was the last one that had sane options for static compilation for win9x stuff.

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BrowserTraySwitch / BrowserTraySwitch V2 BETA

« Last post by mouser on July 08, 2009, 07:08 PM »

Tips and Tricks:

Advanced users can manually add additional registry values to change when switching browsers by editing the btsregfile files .. this should let you change default identities in Firefox, etc.

Rename shapshot .btsregfile files to have them say what you want in the BTS menu.

In previous versions, if you left clicked on tray icon to bring up the menu, it launched the browser without setting it as default, which i think confused people.
In v2, it doesnt matter if you left or right click on the tray icon to bring up the menu -- but if you RIGHT click on the actual browser name instead of the normal left click, it will launch it without setting it as default.

The new v2 understands the ConfigDir.ini mechanism for specifying custom/portable config directories, and will default to docs+settings if run under Vista/Win7.

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BrowserTraySwitch / BrowserTraySwitch V2 BETA

« Last post by mouser on July 08, 2009, 07:03 PM »

yes you have it exactly right.

only modification to that is that BTS2 will actually automatically detect if you pull up the menu and you have a not-yet-snapshotted browser set as your new default and will take a new snapshot.

so the procedure is:

• start BTS2.
• for each of your browsers, run them and set them as default, then Click on the BTS menu to have it snapshot it.

after that you can select browsers from the BTS menu as normally.

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BrowserTraySwitch / BrowserTraySwitch V2 BETA

« Last post by mouser on July 08, 2009, 03:41 PM »

V2 Beta of BrowserTraySwitch is now available for the brave:

• Download: https://www.donation...rTraySwitchSetup.exe

The beta should be fully functional with all features working. BUT.. this stuff is inherently weird and i advise people who are really scared of registry to not mess around with this.

If you don't have a need for this program, don't use it.  It's only for people who really want to be able to switch their default browser very frequently (e.g. multiple times per day), and don't want to have to go through the normal processes.


I should have done it this way to begin with.. i would have if i had known how weird all these different browsers and registry settings would be.

Let me explain a bit about how the old way worked, and how the new way will work.

OLD WAY:

• It turns out there are more than a dozen various registry values that are set differently when the default browser is changed.  These are not fully documented anywhere, and are a mishmash of strange items.  Most of the dif registry values point to the browser exe, but some specify the icon to display, some specify a commandline to invoke the browser exe, and some are just weird.  They used to be in LOCAL_MACHINE section of registry, now it seems they are in CURRENT_USER mostly.
• The old(current) version of BrowserTraySwitch takes the browser exe path as specified in the its config file, and tries to set all of these values.  [It stopped working for you because BTS sets HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and it seems the new use of HKEY_CURRENT_USER was overiding that, rendering BTS settings ignored].
• Setting all of these values correctly is tricky -- especially when it comes to a browser deciding if it needs to ask the user if it should make itself default -- even a change in the uppercase/lowercase value of any registry key could make a browser think its not the default and offer to set it for you on startup.
• So what is the better way?

The New Way:

• BrowserTraySwitch knows which set of registry values are affected by the default browser.
• The new version lets you take a "snapshot" of these values and save them to different browser config files.
• Then it lets you restore these when you choose.
• The GUI for the user is unchanged.
• The main difference now is: You dont have to configure a settings file with your different browsers, but you DO have to take "snapshots" of each different browser you use after it is set to default.

Make sense?

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DesktopCoral / Re: Problem with new version 1.05.01

« Last post by mouser on July 08, 2009, 10:43 AM »

i remember this problem happening in another program of mine.. it is strange.
perhaps you could try turning off the "start with windows" option in Desktop Coral, and then just making a shortcut yourself to the program in your Startup subdirectory of your Start Menu.

or if you can wait a bit i will add code to Desktop Coral to ignore the silly "/autorun" parameter that seems to cause this problem.