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General Software Discussion / Re: The Best Of: text editors

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2009, 03:59 PM »

See also this old roundup of text editors on DC from 2005:
https://www.donation...extEditor/index.html

19752

General Software Discussion / Re: The Best Of: text editors

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2009, 03:53 PM »

great post! like 7 mini-reviews in one!

19753

Living Room / Re: The horror that is my kitchen upgrade project

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2009, 03:07 PM »

very nice 

19754

Find And Run Robot / Re: Stop FARR From Searching Further?

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2009, 02:36 PM »

another alternative would be to stop search on press of alt or ctrl or shift key.. that might help i think.

19755

Living Room / Re: Request: fixes for geshi syntax formatter

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2009, 12:55 PM »

i'd like to fix this now.. looking into it.

19756

Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA - AHK script - Outlook'03 Apply Category Label

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2009, 12:47 PM »

i dont get the all-on-one-line problem, BUT i also have trouble copying and pasting the code in the highlighter box.. let me see if there is some way to fix that..

19757

Find And Run Robot / Re: Stop FARR From Searching Further?

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2009, 11:09 AM »

Tuck's suggestion to hit escape should work, or you can hit the down arrow.
Superboy, i'm not sure people would like having to press a key to search further..

19758

General Software Discussion / Re: software that tracks changes made during install

« Last post by mouser on April 27, 2009, 10:28 AM »

And don't miss Tiny Watcher, created by a donationcoder forum member!
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=14304.0

19759

General Software Discussion / Re: Comodo Software Removed from Softpedia (licensing problems)

« Last post by mouser on April 26, 2009, 10:56 PM »

Agreed, good for Softpedia for standing up for their principles.

ps.
I've tried Comodo software in the past and been very impressed with it, but that's not the point.  It's always nice to see a site like Softpedia stand up for its principles and write about these kinds of decisions. 

19760

Developer's Corner / Re: Hotkey nostalgia

« Last post by mouser on April 26, 2009, 06:20 PM »

Borland Sidekick!! That was the one!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SideKick

19761

Developer's Corner / Re: Hotkey nostalgia

« Last post by mouser on April 26, 2009, 05:59 PM »

i remember those TSR hotkey tools.. they were very very cool.

there was one really famous one for DOS, but i can't remember the name of it.. Maybe made by Norton?

19762

Official Announcements / Re: April 2009 Giveaway Results - Posted

« Last post by mouser on April 26, 2009, 05:08 PM »

Sorry for the delay -- just sent out the emails to dc mug winners to confirm email addresses; soon as you reply i will send off the gift certificate for the mug. 

19763

General Software Discussion / Re: Announcement: Way Simple Folder Cache for Windows

« Last post by mouser on April 26, 2009, 01:27 PM »

Miles, it might be nice to put a screenshot in the first post (and on your website)?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on April 25, 2009, 08:28 PM »

anyone?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Need help with optional parameters in aliases

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2009, 10:41 PM »

is tab doing anything that i am missing? it autocompletes the text, right? if it's all it does why couldn't it be like launchy? autocomplete plus a separator for the arguments?

this could be done.. tab would autocomplete and then add the ++ for you automatically so you could put some optional commandline options.  certainly i could add an option for this at the very least.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2009, 07:49 PM »

New version up 2.56.02 -- just an attempt to fix the #filecontents and other %aliasdir% problems introduced by last version.
would appreciate hearing if it solves the problem for you rulfzid.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Sort images into folders based on resolution

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2009, 07:36 PM »

an alternative to what you are trying to do would be to not try to physically sort the files on your hd, but use a good image management tool that would let you sort views based on image dimensions (like ACDSee, etc.). whether this is a better solution would depend on your needs.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2009, 06:34 PM »

i was afraid of this.. i believe you've found a problem with the use of %aliasdir% variable the way things are done with my new change.
working on it now.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Small feature requests

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2009, 01:12 PM »

In the options/Aliases I like to have the result/command as a browse column.

can you elaborate?

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Living Room / Re: Best programming books ?

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2009, 11:55 AM »

I maintain that the hardest part for a new programmer is staying motivated.  So when people ask me the best book to get I usually say go to a bookstore, spend some time looking at books, and find the book that really seems to speak to you and inspire you and make you want to code, and go with that one.

This is an especially good technique if you are interested in programming but don't know yet what language you want to learn.

19771

FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWindowsSearch 0.1.0

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2009, 11:51 AM »

Search as you type is what i should have said..

Now that phitsc has the framework working.. how long before he adds the other index search engines to it like Google Desktop Search, etc. 

19772

Find And Run Robot / Re: Need help with optional parameters in aliases

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2009, 05:58 AM »

im open to other ways to handle arguments with spaces.. it's just that tab is out of the question since it's used differently in farr.

we could use an option that says that arguments are separated by some other character, and farr can auto quote args with spaces.

for example, we could have it so that if you type:

notepad ++ arg string 1 ++ arg string 2 ++ arg string 3

farr would pass that as

notepad "arg string 1" "arg string 2" "arg string 3"

19773

Find And Run Robot / Re: Need help with optional parameters in aliases

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2009, 04:33 AM »

new version is up, give it a try and let me know how it works for you.

19774

Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2009, 04:19 AM »

Some useful improvements:

Version 2.56.01 - April 24, 2009

• [BugFix] - Replacement of variables was happening prematurely in alias launch strings; hopefully this bugfix doesn't cause unintended changes in behavior.
• [Feature] - You can now pass commandline arguments to any launched program by typing "++ any args here" at the end of your search string.
• [Feature] - New Search Behavior Option that lets you enable or disable(default) scoring of files in explicit directory browsing mode.

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Official Announcements / Re: April 2009 Giveaway Results - Posted

« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2009, 04:15 AM »

we'll be giving away mugs for the next couple of months, as sort of a celebration of the fundraiser and anniversary.