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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2019: Clicador- A simple and fast free auto clicker

« Last post by wraith808 on February 18, 2018, 01:53 PM »

Great application... a few suggestions for improvements.

1. The ability to change the hotkey for activation/deactivation
2. The ability add drift or some other way to randomize where you click within an area. I'd imagine this feature gives a text box in which you specify a number of pixels (perhaps two text boxes - one for X and one for Y).  The application then takes the X,Y position to click, and adds/subtracts a random number of pixels within the parameters specified, and adds that to the two to get the actual point to click.  This would allow it to simulate a person clicking, as over time, a person isn't going to click the same pixel.
3. If you could spy the object on screen, you could also add the ability to click a specified object, and click within the confines of that object randomly.  But I think that 2 would actually cover it- that would just be a nice to have.

Thanks again!

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by wraith808 on February 17, 2018, 11:17 PM »

When I worked at BellSouth and they had glass pillars all over the place, we had the same problem.  It was a result of the "Blackberry Prayer" (head down looking at the Blackberry while walking) more than anything.

It was amusing, I must say...

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: new home page

« Last post by wraith808 on February 16, 2018, 02:21 PM »

You folks may be genius programmers, but apparently no sense of literary style. What would Shakespeare have said? "Best-known," you may be sure. Ask your local English teacher.

-Tiesenhausen (February 16, 2018, 11:53 AM)

I'm going to assume that was tongue-in-cheek rather than an ad-hominem statement.  Do you have any references to back up your position?  Because all of the grammar tools that I use in writing don't flag either of them as incorrect.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest GOG Giveaway

« Last post by wraith808 on February 16, 2018, 10:40 AM »

GOG is giving away Dungeons 2 as part of their CNY sale.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: new home page

« Last post by wraith808 on February 15, 2018, 09:30 PM »

I think both are correct, and one is just as grammatically correct as the other.  As far as native English speakers, I am one, and use most well-known.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: Desktop URL Embed

« Last post by wraith808 on February 15, 2018, 01:27 PM »

From https://fileinfo.com/extension/gadget

A GADGET file is a small program that runs within the Windows Vista or Windows 7 sidebar. It stores several web-based files in a Zip archive format and may include .HTML, .CSS, .JS files, as well as other web files. GADGET files are used for small programs such as news feeds, search tools, system utilities, and small games.

So it appears that the supported OSes above is indeed correct, and it doesn't work on anything past that.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Gathering suggestions for improving region select mode

« Last post by wraith808 on February 14, 2018, 12:13 PM »

Another thing I could do is show hints for the list of keyboard shortcuts for region select mode in the zoom panel overlay, to make it easier to remeber them..

-mouser (February 13, 2018, 01:39 PM)

YES!

-cranioscopical (February 13, 2018, 09:54 PM)

Agreed as long as they're minimal and don't get in the way of the region.  I don't use  anything other that the basics because I don't remember...

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on February 13, 2018, 06:36 PM »

And my response is in that same vein, I thought.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on February 13, 2018, 05:11 PM »

Say what now?

-mouser (February 13, 2018, 12:42 PM)

Don't try to understand- look at it as a Koan.  Ommmm...

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by wraith808 on February 13, 2018, 05:08 PM »

Very cute and smart dog!  Strange that he had to put up the disclaimer.

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by wraith808 on February 12, 2018, 07:08 PM »

Thor.  And critics and basically everyone that I talked to about it.

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by wraith808 on February 11, 2018, 07:07 PM »

To be fair, the first two Thor movies played it straight and were just not good. So I guess it's an improvement that at least Ragnarok was funny and entertaining.

I felt GotG2 suffered from many things, but not the humor. With the exception that Drax, who it was established in the first film didn't understand humor and sarcasm, was the one cracking all the jokes and laughing all the time, which seemed very out of character. (I felt that many of the characters acted out of character in 2.) So in that sense, and in those instances, the humor fell flat in my opinion. But otherwise, I came into it expecting a lot of humor, since the first was so funny.

-Deozaan (February 11, 2018, 02:26 PM)

I actually liked the first one best as a movie, just not the pacing. I never saw the second for anything other than what everyone ekse was saying which colored my views, but I couldn't get past that in order to formulate my own opinion.

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General Software Discussion / MOVED: Save/Load list of hotstrings in ini autohotkey

« Last post by wraith808 on February 11, 2018, 09:14 AM »

This topic has been moved to Developer's Corner.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=45052.0

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by wraith808 on February 11, 2018, 08:50 AM »

It seems the marvel movies are suffering from the same thing that (as I understand) tends to happen in comics: Each one tries so hard to out-do the previous entries, with the characters and their enemies becoming even more powerful, until the stakes get raised so high it becomes increasingly bombastic and absurd.

-Deozaan (February 11, 2018, 12:25 AM)

It seems that it was more the director, than the overall marvel movies, IMO.  It seems like it's more along the lines of Heavy Metal, which works if you know that going in, like I did (and many others as it's at 92% RT).  The only ones that were really humorous through and through were GotG 1 & 2 and Ant-Man.  GotG2 suffered for it- Ant-Man did not.

It seems to me that there is some fatigue with Superhero movies, but it's not necessarily as much as the fatigued would want it to be, and much like Pixar, people are waiting for the fall, so their predictions can be right.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by wraith808 on February 04, 2018, 10:14 AM »

Store would seem the likely answer.

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Living Room / Re: Help - not sure what happened but windows seems to be hosed

« Last post by wraith808 on January 28, 2018, 11:58 AM »

So, it looks like it's superfetch, and using at the peak 800MB, but currently almost 600 MB.  I've had problems with SuperFetch before on another system, and just disabled it.

It has an entry in the services control panel.  Just go to that entry and disable it.  It doesn't affect anything, so you can try this without worries.

More information:

https://superuser.co...stemnetworkrestricte

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Living Room / Re: Help - not sure what happened but windows seems to be hosed

« Last post by wraith808 on January 28, 2018, 07:44 AM »

Process Explorer might help.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Opening Favorite Folder

« Last post by wraith808 on January 26, 2018, 01:21 PM »

Hi

Yes, that was what i asking for.
Part that make confuse was , when you open command path it will ask for exe,bat, - you cant select folder.



So, i just put manually folder path and its done . Thanks for assistance 


btw Insert Image is different from most of forums ...... there is popup on click but no explanation how to use. Its not big deal just for info
Thanks 1 more time.....

-Formingus (January 26, 2018, 12:43 PM)

I fixed your image.  The difference from other forums is that you have to upload the image as an attachment, and then insert it into the post as an image.  This way makes it so that the image is hosted on the DC server in case the other server goes down, and it also keeps the browser away from questionable advertising techniques.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Opening Favorite Folder

« Last post by wraith808 on January 26, 2018, 12:18 PM »

^ That's what I assumed as we're in the LBC section of DC.

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by wraith808 on January 25, 2018, 07:20 AM »

During an 'intercom' call I find myself resorting to the old 'over' convention   

Even so, were I making a call in a >2-person household, I would want the ability to cut out people for whom the call was not intended. Google Home Mini doesn't offer that.

-cranioscopical (December 07, 2017, 04:34 PM)

We only have 2 devices

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Official Announcements / Re: New DonationCoder, New Ideas

« Last post by wraith808 on January 21, 2018, 08:24 AM »

I know that's the reason that I haven't chimed in... I can't reliably commit to once a week.  I could commit to a guest spot or a backup spot, but not once a week.

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Living Room / Re: Did you know DoCo has a Facebook Page? You do now!

« Last post by wraith808 on January 14, 2018, 04:03 PM »

I thought this seemed like it had been 'announced' before, but I  didn't care enough to look it up.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 free upgrade loophole closing in December

« Last post by wraith808 on January 13, 2018, 10:31 PM »

But that's it, the headless computer at home was running 8.1 for a couple of years after all other machines were upgraded to 10, (it only changed from 8.1 to 10 in the last couple of months}.

So for the last 2 years or so I've been RDP from 10 to 8.1.

Yeah, sorry, I should have said I've been RDP from 8.1 and 10 for the last couple of years.

-4wd (January 13, 2018, 08:59 PM)

Not sure.  But I deal with it every day, and have since I was given a Windows 8.1 machine  I think it also has to do with RDPing non-direct, i.e. from network to network over VPN.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 free upgrade loophole closing in December

« Last post by wraith808 on January 13, 2018, 05:23 PM »

Must be a YMMV thing, I never had any problem using RDP to my headless XP/8.1 machine either from the same LAN or from the UK, using laptops/computers running 8.1.

-4wd (January 13, 2018, 04:59 PM)

The problem is going from Windows 10 to Windows 8.1, and the Support guy showed me the MS advisement.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 free upgrade loophole closing in December

« Last post by wraith808 on January 13, 2018, 10:03 AM »

Even though I'm using Win 10 Pro, Windows 8.1 Pro was better.

More efficient than 7 but with less aggravating "we want to know everything you do, it's really our machine" than 10.

-4wd (January 12, 2018, 09:41 PM)

I hated Windows 8, more for the interface features, and the little peculiarities.  And example... I connect via RDP to my work laptop from home.  I've stopped using  it and use my Windows 7 box instead, mostly because after RDPing for a bit (random amount of time) it flakes out.  And it's a known problem, and the only fix is to RDP from some other platform.