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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Latest Multi Photo Quotes Release v1.29.01 - Mar 11, 2009

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2009, 08:37 PM »

New version up:

v1.29.01 - March 11, 2009

• [Feature] Added max. image count option to Image Cell tab -- let's you turn off images completely (and just show quotes/clock) limit the # of images shown.
• [BugFix] Sped up loading of quote books (significantly if you have lots of disabled books).
• [Feature] Added option to choose whether the goal of the crop mode should be to shrink minimally to fit the shorter edge (leaving part of image offscreen), or fit entire image on screen.
• [BugFix] Some computers had fonts with large linespacings which could cause mpq to oversize characters resulting in cut-off text. New code takes line spacing into account [thanks ewemoa!]

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PopUp Wisdom / Re: PopUp Wisdom - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.06.01 - MARCH 11, 2009

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2009, 07:40 PM »

Latest version uploaded:

v1.06.01 - March 11, 2009

• [BugFix] Time was being wasted loading excessive quote info from disabled quote files.
• [Feature] Added support for wikiquote screensaver data files and better parsing of quote files.
• [BugFix] Program was crashing on badly formatted quote files.
• [Feature] Added support for configdir.ini portable/custom config directory file configdir.ini (should also improve functioning on Vista).
• [BugFix] TaskBar icon could be shown on repeated triggering of new quotes before minimizing.
• [MinorFeature] New option to not steal focus when popping up.
• [MinorFeature] Fortune files with %% separators were not being parsed properly.
• [MinorFeature] Fortune files without a first-line PopupWisdom description special line were causing an access violation fault.

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: How to display only "Quetes" on one monitor without showing "picture"?

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2009, 06:24 PM »

you're quiet right -- i didn't realize you couldn't turn off images -- i will add it this week.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug report] about html view

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2009, 06:06 PM »

i shall look into it.

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Mozilla FireFox Extensions/Addons / Re: Getting Started Easily

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2009, 04:18 PM »

Another new guid as of March 2009:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=17400

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Developer's Corner / Re: Firefox Addons Developer Guide published

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2009, 04:18 PM »

Nice find 

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Living Room / Re: I'm BACK!! (was: Greetings from the Atlantic!)

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2009, 03:44 PM »

I think 4wd needs to share with us the info for his Travel Agent because it looks like an incredible trip.

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Living Room / Facebook: How to Friend Someone Without Showing Your Status Updates

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2009, 02:13 PM »

From www.makeuseof.com:

I’m sure that this has happened to you before. Someone you have ties to, whether it’s a co-worker, your boss, or even worse, a parent, has finally discovered social networking and wants to be your newest Facebook friend. For me personally, that’s no big deal. I’m fairly open about my online activities. Everything I write, Digg, ...
Here’s what I would do to keep that fact confined to my closer friends:
On your Facebook home page, you should see the ‘Settings’ menu close to the search field on your upper-right. Open that menu and go to ‘Privacy Settings’
...

http://www.makeuseof...m-all-your-business/

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Idea: File Association Snapshot

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2009, 01:44 PM »

yes, i think this is a very good idea.

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: Can't print flipbook

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2009, 01:43 PM »

hmm that's an interesting question..
you might be able to create a custom template that would have only 1 item per page.. never tried it though.

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Programmer Libs / Re: JrDebugLogger - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.08.01 - March 10th, 2008

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2009, 08:52 AM »

v1.08.01 - Mar 10, 2009

• [minor bugfix] Fixed some deprecated compiler warnings generated by the latest gcc. (thanks Gothic).
• [minor bugfix] added string.h and stdlib.h to compiled-in headers needed to compile on latest gcc (thanks Gothic).
• [feature] added some documentation about using under *nix build system (thanks Gothic).

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alt+P hotkey broken?

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2009, 07:41 AM »

i think he is saying the new alt/ctrl+P functionality that works from within the edit box can be accidentally triggered if you pull up farr with something like Ctrl+space and then start typing a word that begins with P, for example.  am i right?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: can I add new favourite to "end" of list?

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2009, 07:04 AM »

currently it's not possible to do -- but i will try to figure out a way to add this -- i know what you mean about wanting to be able to preserve/customize the order of items.

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DesktopCoral / Re: Can not get it to work

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2009, 06:58 AM »

another mystery solved 
thanks for updating us -- useful info if someone else has same problem.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias icon not showing

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2009, 03:16 AM »

so everything is showing properly in farr now? that's great.
and now we know what to look for next time it happens.

now what picture viewer were you using that caused all this trouble?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Need help in creating an algorithm that calculates rugby scores

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2009, 03:08 AM »

By the way, some people hate to use brute force algorithms, and work very hard to come up with very efficient clever ways to perform calculations like this.. personally few things please me more than having a program that has to think for a few minutes (or hours or days) to come up with a solution.. 

it reminds me of the days when i would go have dinner while the c++ compiler was running.  plus i think it makes my computer happy and it's just a nice warm feeling to know the computer is working so hard doing what it does best.

You just have to be careful because the difference between taking an hour to compute something and taking 1 trillion years to compute it is just a couple of extra for loops, and if you aren't careful you'll find yourself having written some brute force code that is totally unusable.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Need help in creating an algorithm that calculates rugby scores

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2009, 03:02 AM »

seems like a reasonable algorithm to me.

it might be worth pointing out that because in this particular problem the # of possibilities are so small (to a computer), you could also use the most brute force way of finding all possibilities, something like

for tries = 0 to maxtries
 {
 for conversions = 0 to maxconversions
    {
    for goalkicks = 0 to maxgoalkicks
       {
       if (conversions>tries)
         {
         // illegal score so skip this one
         continue;
         }
       testscore = tries*5 + conversions*2 + goalkicks*3
       if (testscore == score) print "Found a way to achieve score with $tries , $conversions, $goalkicks"
       }
     }
  }

i'm not saying to use this, your way is smarter -- just pointing out that sometimes a brute force method is the most straightforward if we are talking about a worse case runtime approaching 1 second

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alt+P hotkey broken?

« Last post by mouser on March 11, 2009, 02:18 AM »

i'll look into it.. ctrl+P does the job until fixed.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias icon not showing

« Last post by mouser on March 10, 2009, 07:36 PM »

some useful finds on the web that may be related:

• http://groups.google...%22#21bfad5d118b984e
• http://www.vistahead...ons-all-generic.html
• http://groups.google...%22#8c15777f933353dd

seems like it has to do with icon cache.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias icon not showing

« Last post by mouser on March 10, 2009, 07:32 PM »

what operating system are you using?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias icon not showing

« Last post by mouser on March 10, 2009, 07:28 PM »

i wonder if this has to do with a registry setting changing the default size of small and large icons; farr assumes 16x16 for small and 32x32 for large.. i wonder if changing this setting in windows can cause the problem..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias icon not showing

« Last post by mouser on March 10, 2009, 07:09 PM »

and i notice that even in thumbnail mode, some are showing generically.. seems like it might be related to the problem..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias icon not showing

« Last post by mouser on March 10, 2009, 05:38 PM »

let me look into it and see if i can reproduce.
one thing you could check for me is if windows explorer shows the icon when you go into that icon directory and browse the icon files.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Software Tester / Troubleshooter Dream Features

« Last post by mouser on March 10, 2009, 05:22 PM »

you can always post the ideas here for everyone to discuss.. but if you want to email me directly that's fine too ([email protected]).

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Circle Dock / Re: More Support For CD & VIP / PC Magazine Publishes Circle Dock as #1 Launcher

« Last post by mouser on March 10, 2009, 03:46 PM »

I really want to hear from eric.. please let us know if you hear from him.