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Drag&Drop Robot / Re: Replace a text file input with a pipe or redirect for DDR?

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2009, 11:58 AM »

Pipes or redirects can't do anything like this?
well actually you might be able to -- i'm just not good enough at dos commandline stuff to know.

19652

Drag&Drop Robot / Re: Replace a text file input with a pipe or redirect for DDR?

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2009, 11:38 AM »

thats a very good question.. as you say a two step process might be the way to go, where you first run a batch (or other program language script) to create the cr.txt and then run the import.

there is no easier way that DDR has for creating text files for you.  i could add such a feature, but my feeling has been that it's more sensible to encourage people to use a real scripting language to do such things and launch those scripts, rather than doing some adhoc thing built into DDR.

19653

Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: New program: ActiveHotkeys (freeware)

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2009, 08:59 AM »

And now lifehacker:
http://lifehacker.co...h-keys-are-available

Congratulations Tranglos.. you still got it.   

19654

Screenshot Captor / Re: Feature Request: sort order of thumbnail panel

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2009, 08:46 AM »

thanks for reminding, will try to do so.

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Living Room / Re: The Geek's "100 things to do before you die" list

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2009, 02:49 AM »

Shouldn't this be on your list?

hey.. i'm working my way down the line, slowly but surely.  this week i'm re-learning how to drive a car.

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Living Room / Re: The Geek's "100 things to do before you die" list

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2009, 02:49 AM »

Didn't he have to talk to her first?

nope.. he met her in a computer chat room.

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Living Room / Re: The Geek's "100 things to do before you die" list

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2009, 02:40 AM »

Clearly the intent of the list is to expose a certain class of people to goals that they would not normally do.

So maybe if we rename this list to "100 geeky things for non-geeks to do before you die"

And then for people like Gothic we need a list of "100 normal person things for geeks to do before you die"
it can include things like:
"learn to drive a car"
"learn how to cook yourself a real dinner"
"learn how to talk to a girl"
"talk to someone about an operating system other than linux while keeping your blood pressure under 220"
...

19658

General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for Search and Replace tool for MS Word Files

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2009, 02:32 AM »

good point by criss:

Be careful, don't replace text inside a word file with a tool suitable only for plain text files (txt, html, xml, ~rtf).

and in general, make sure you BACK UP your word files before experimenting with such things.

19659

LaunchBar Commander / Re: Bug: Portable LBC issues when switching machines

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2009, 02:26 AM »

Fixed but not yet uploaded; will be in next update. 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 2.44.01 hangs when capturing IE window

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2009, 02:10 AM »

i will look at this again this weekend and report.

19661

General Software Discussion / Re: Converting the middle/wheel click to drag-n-drop

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2009, 01:48 AM »

its an interesting idea.. so the middle click button would be like a TOGGLE -- click one to simulate left click and hold, and again to simulate release.

19662

Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: New program: ActiveHotkeys (freeware)

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2009, 01:41 AM »

also featured now in ghacks and freewaregenius 

http://www.ghacks.ne...ive-windows-hotkeys/
http://www.freewareg...keys-on-your-system/

19663

General Software Discussion / Re: Unknown Icon Overlay

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2009, 12:48 AM »

weird.. nice that you figured it out -- i'm guessing someone else will stumble on this thread while searching one day and be thankful to read the answer.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Want to print artist/album list of ogg/mp3 files

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2009, 12:46 AM »

it might be nice to hear people's recommendations in general for programs to print playlists/songfile lists, in various ways using mp3/ogg tags.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Vignette 6/7 "CMA" software is killing me

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2009, 12:45 AM »

i'm afraid i dont have any good suggestions, but i feel your pain, if that's any help.. very frustrating when you have to use tools that limit what you can do so much and make it feel like you are trying to squeeze blood from a stone.

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2009, 12:35 AM »

welcome proximo and erikts 

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Older Newsletters / Re: Newsletter for May 6th, 2009 - Codename "Here Comes Summer"

« Last post by mouser on May 07, 2009, 12:35 AM »

Two things i should have said in the newsletter:
Thank you to fenixproductions for arranging the awesome TC giveaway for us. 
Thank you to Darwin for helping me with the newsletter preparation. 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: "Explore at Screenshot directory" opens C:\Program Files\ScreenshotCaptor

« Last post by mouser on May 06, 2009, 02:52 PM »

i'll look into it.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: PROPSYS.dll Was Not Found

« Last post by mouser on May 06, 2009, 02:51 PM »

that's quite strange.. it's not a dll installed by Find and Run Robot, or called explicitly, but it looks like it it's a system dll that is used to get information about files which is used by FARR.

it looks like propsys.dll should be installed by default with windows.

a quick search shows posts like this where people just grabbed the dll from another site:
http://www.techtalkz...640-propsys-dll.html

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Looking for current vesion of Console (FARR2 Plugin): get version failed

« Last post by mouser on May 06, 2009, 02:43 PM »

sorry if i wasn't clear -- i was proposing that as something i could implement easily, but haven't yet.

19671

FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Looking for current vesion of Console (FARR2 Plugin): get version failed

« Last post by mouser on May 06, 2009, 01:46 PM »

Any way of returning the console output immediately when there is an output? and not waiting for the console to terminate?

that is a great question.  the answer is yes -- i just have to figure out a different command to say that is what is wanted.
probably what i will do is something that looks like this:

[Select]

Run console command: $$1 $$2 | showmemo Output is:;;;appcapappendmemo $$1 $$2

which would basically say to put the text "Output is:" in the memo, and then run the command console program $$1 $$2, appending the output lines to the memo in the process.

seem reasonable?

19672

FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Looking for current vesion of Console (FARR2 Plugin): get version failed

« Last post by mouser on May 06, 2009, 12:51 PM »

FARR built in console stuff is all working well now.

if you create an alias and make the result:
aptest | appcap c:\windows\system32\ping.exe donationcoder.com;;;showmemo %lastappcap%

then you will see how it runs the console command "c:\windows\system32\ping.exe donationcoder.com" and then displays result in window.

19673

General Review Discussion / Re: Free Total Commander licences

« Last post by mouser on May 06, 2009, 12:50 PM »

One rule to remind people of:  You should not write a review of something you are personally involved in or stand to benefit from financially.

19674

Living Room / Re: Lawn of the Dead

« Last post by mouser on May 06, 2009, 12:49 PM »

how about a link??

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Bug: Portable LBC issues when switching machines

« Last post by mouser on May 06, 2009, 12:48 PM »

can you tell if the other main feature works? where LBC will find the right drive for a program to be launched?