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1976

N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2019 Announcement

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2018, 02:15 PM »

Yikes, NANY 2019 is fast approaching.. Just about 11 weeks to go...

1977

Living Room / 4-2: The History of Super Mario Brothers Most Infamous Level

« Last post by mouser on October 03, 2018, 07:46 AM »

Nice long video discussing all the different ways speed-runners worked to improve how fast they could complete a tiny level in the video game Super Mario Brothers, over the course of more than a decade.

1978

Developer's Corner / Inform: Past, Present, Future - Story of a Text Adventure Game Engine

« Last post by mouser on October 01, 2018, 06:40 PM »

A nice long picture-heavy version of a talk given recently on the past and future of the text adventure game engines that set the standard for text adventure games, and powered such classics as Zork.

Inform is a domain-specific language, and its domain is the creation of interactive fiction. When it began in 1993, Inform was simply a new hacker tool for making what we used to call adventure games: that is, textual games with a turn cycle in which the player typed commands and the game then revealed an appropriate piece of story — a story partly generated dynamically, but partly following a narrative already laid out by the author. This is a genre of writing which began with recreational computing in the 1970s, then passed through a commercial phase in the 1980s. Inform is called Inform in part because of the classic works of a company called Infocom:

http://www.emshort.com/ifmu/inform.html

from boingboing.net

1979

Living Room / Re: How has everyone been?

« Last post by mouser on September 30, 2018, 09:18 PM »

Hey Paul!! Good to see you.

1980

N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2019 -- ScrabbleScore

« Last post by mouser on September 30, 2018, 05:31 PM »

Yeah, always better to zip an exe i think, just less risk of antivirus false positives, and less chance people just auto download and run a random executable.
We should probably at this point make the forum insist on not uploaded exe files directly.

1981

Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on September 30, 2018, 04:43 PM »

Bunny digs out cat:

1982

DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Help with DC IRC Chat Server please, Thank you. [solved]

« Last post by mouser on September 30, 2018, 03:53 PM »

yep, we currently have the channel on a setting that requires us to manually enable their ability to speak.
good to have new blood in the chat room!

1983

Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by mouser on September 30, 2018, 07:19 AM »

I've been powering through a recent C++ book to get myself up to speed on the new stuff in C++14 through C++17 that I have not been keeping up with.

https://www.amazon.c...egoire/dp/1119421306

"Professional C++" by Marc Gregoire, 1184 pages.

There's a lot to like in the new C++ stuff, but the language is definitely showing it's age..

I think perhaps a standalone slim book on just recent additions to the language would be a bit more useful, so I'm keeping my eye open for that.  This fellow is good: https://www.bfilipek.com/

1984

Screenshot Captor / Re: Show name of printer in popup box

« Last post by mouser on September 27, 2018, 03:14 AM »

The issue isn't determining the current printer name -- the issue is adding it to the dialog box, because the dialog box is handled by a 3rd party library.
What I could do easily is add the printer's name in the menu text and in the hover over hint on the toolbar print button.

1985

General Software Discussion / Re: server app for movie scraper for HDi Dune?

« Last post by mouser on September 26, 2018, 10:35 AM »

GSmith221, can you let us know your affiliation with Showbox?

1986

Screenshot Captor / Re: Show name of printer in popup box

« Last post by mouser on September 25, 2018, 06:19 PM »

In all fairness, omega has been quite patient with me -- I tried to add it at one point but it was a bit trickier than I expected, so it's still in my todo list queue.

1987

Screenshot Captor / Re: SC main window shows up after capture

« Last post by mouser on September 25, 2018, 04:11 PM »

I don't really understand the hide and restore action of SC window in this case - in fact it's not something I ever really need (I think). Can that be disabled? (I unable to check atm.)

Yes, in fact you should be able to avoid this problem if you go to the Capture Options tab, and uncheck "Hide Screenshot Captor Window".

1988

Screenshot Captor / Re: SC main window shows up after capture

« Last post by mouser on September 25, 2018, 12:22 PM »

I think I can guess what's happening.

Here's one case where this can happen: If SC main window is left not minimized, but on screen and behind another window, then when you take a screenshot, SC will hide itself and then redisplay itself after capture -- suddenly becoming noticeable.
It will do this even if you have the setting set to "Stay minimized".

Said another way, the "stay minimized" option will keep SC minimized, but there are times when you've left the SC window open on screen and brought up other windows in front of it, obscuring it.  In such cases, the "stay minimized" option has no effect, and the default behavior of hiding before capture and then restoring after capture kicks in.

It can be disorienting.

Maybe I could change it so in that case SC would hide and restore, but then slink behind other windows as it was before the capture..

1989

Living Room / Re: How to model this?

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2018, 09:47 PM »

What are you talking about?

1990

Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2018, 07:51 AM »

Cat brushing volunteer:

https://www.neatoram...s-with-Shelter-Cats/

"They all know him, when he walks through the door they run over to him because they know he has the special brush and the special treats. They all pile on top of him and rub all over him and just love him," sanctuary owner Elizabeth told the BBC. But grooming 20-30 cats can get exhausting, and the other volunteers began snapping shots of Terry taking his daily siestas with his furry friends."

1991

Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2018, 07:50 AM »

dog trying to figure out how exercising works:

1992

LaunchBar Commander / Re: Can't get Sendkeys to work

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2018, 09:48 PM »

maybe try ^(+(b))

1993

General Software Discussion / Re: Mac license install

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2018, 10:57 AM »

Hi Shaun.

We don't make any mac apps that take our license keys.

You can contact me if you donated thinking you were getting a license key to some other program that we don't make and we will send you a refund: https://www.donation....com/help/contact-us

1994

LaunchBar Commander / Re: Show us your LaunchBar Commander Screenshots

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2018, 06:07 PM »

Hey Colin, thanks for sharing!  Looks nice

Regarding your white icons with no command, I wonder if folks would like me to add a special spacer item that would do that but leave the background transparent..

1995

Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder.com - Our Favorite Websites

« Last post by mouser on September 17, 2018, 09:58 PM »

Shell Extension City was the first site to acknowledge donationcoder and send people our way that appreciated us.  It was the earliest and most important nod of approval for donationcoder, and it meant a lot.

1996

Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Clips in Favorites Disappear ???

« Last post by mouser on September 17, 2018, 07:58 PM »

CHS uses a database to store the clips.  As such, it should be quite fast in sorting, filtering, displaying, navigating, searching, large number of clips.

The speed/memory of your pc will determine how large the database of clips can get before you might notice it taking a longer than usual time to do these operations.  Whether that happens at a thousand clips or a hundred thousand, at some point you would eventually feel the slowdown associated with having a huge database of clips.

So one way to combat that is to let CHS automatically move clips into an Old clip group that you never go into, keeping the number of the clips that you normally peruse in your New group more manageable.  Letting CHS actually purge very old clips would improve speed even more.

Bottom line -- if you're not troubled by the speed of your clip management in CHS, don't worry about it.  But if you ever do experience performance issues and huge have huge numbers of clips that you never need, consider getting rid of old clips, either using CHS automatic pruning functions, or manually.

1997

Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Date/Time Clips ???

« Last post by mouser on September 17, 2018, 10:04 AM »

 

1998

Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Date/Time Clips ???

« Last post by mouser on September 17, 2018, 08:50 AM »

Also, on the Quick Paste Pop-up Menu you can edit the list of Date/Time preset formats.

1999

Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Date/Time Clips ???

« Last post by mouser on September 17, 2018, 08:50 AM »

It sounds like maybe what you might want to do is set the CUSTOM date field, on the Clipbard options tab.

2000

Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Working with "Groups"

« Last post by mouser on September 17, 2018, 08:46 AM »

Try unchecking the "Favorite" checkbox for the clips, that should stop them from appearing in the favorites menu.