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Screenshot Captor / Re: How to capture drop-down menus?

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2008, 12:45 PM »

For Screenshot Captor, from tray menu you can toggle the delay capture mode and autocapture mode (set times in options dialog):

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Screenshot Captor / Re: How to capture drop-down menus?

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2008, 10:59 AM »

most screenshot programs, like screenshot captor, will let you take a sequence of images automatically in a timed fashion.

however 40hz's idea of using a screen recorder to capture basically a movie, where you can extract the particular images you want after the fact has some real merit in some cases and is definitely something to consider.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: How to capture drop-down menus?

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2008, 10:42 AM »

If you want to capture ONLY the dropdown menu, use Screenshot Captor's object capture.

If you want to capture the screen with dropdown menu dropped, just hit prtscr like normal -- nothing special to do.

Now, if you want to capture only the active window, with the dropdown menu dropped, THEN you might have run into a problem, since the default hotkey for active window capture is ALT+PRTSCR and when you hit the ALT key the menu will close.   The solution in this case is to change the hotkey for active window capture to something else, like SHIFT+PRTSCR.  I probably should have not made ALT+PRTSCR the default hotkey for active window because of this reason.

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Living Room / Re: Your favorite quotes?

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2008, 05:26 AM »

nah i just saw that upton sinclair post and it struck me as good enough reason to start a thread

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DcUpdater / Re: bug: all updates shown twice, any idea?

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2008, 05:23 AM »

the key giveaway is the DcUpdate File lines you pasted at the bottom.
it thinks it found 2 sets of .dcupdate files.

how are you launching dcupdater? did you install it using the installer?  knowing these answers would help me a bit.

regardless, i will fix this on my end -- thanks for the clues, i think others had this problem but until now i didn't realize what the problem really was.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Intro

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2008, 05:00 AM »

Welcome kwacky!

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Ontop bug?

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2008, 02:20 AM »

i'm working on this now -- but i need a test fullscreen app that lbc misbehaves on in order to test.

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DcUpdater / Re: DcUpdater Feature Requests

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2008, 12:24 AM »

I'm trying to get ready to do a big round of work on DcUpdater.. so any feature requests are welcome now.

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General Software Discussion / Re: New duplicate file finder... I am open to features suggestion

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2008, 11:45 PM »

city_zen's suggestions are all good.
i also always like various options for setting how the program should select the default one to keep.

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Living Room / Re: Christmas Gift Ideas Under $25... Make a List!

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2008, 10:08 PM »

i bought a $13 electronic dart board on a whim at store.
sure it's a tiny bit buggy, but actually it's quite fun.  great little xmas gift i think.
http://www.target.co...ard-16/dp/B001J4COBE

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Teaser: Keyser

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2008, 09:28 PM »

Been testing this with ewemoa privately, all i can say is: wow!!
this is something farr users asked for quite a bit and the implementation is great. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009: CZB package

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2008, 09:18 PM »

yes the $ is important or it starts loading my .js.bak backup files!

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009: CZB package

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2008, 08:25 PM »

Testing it all i can say is: WOW.

Really really really cool.  The activate/deactivate stuff is extremely cool -- and this works for ALL fsubscript stuff not just czb pack so you've really added a lot to that!

And the new html settings system works great -- Supercool.

A couple of things:
1) can another line be added to each item in the fssc list which shows author info and web page link?  Maybe also a line with sample usage?  or these can all be combined into the description field.
2) when an fsubscript script is disabled, it probably shouldnt show up in the aplugins list
3) i think the settings stuff and the script listing/disabling should be part of the official fscript release when it goes final -- no point in not having this amazing functionality.
4) i think in aplugins list, there should be some indication of which items are fsubscript scripts vs. standalone plugins.
5) double clicking an fsubscript script in the aplugins list should bring up fssc i think.

I would also like to start bundling f(sub)script into the farr releases -- there is absolutely no reason anyone should have to live without this.

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Site/Forum Features / Longtime DC Member JoTo is in hospital again -- address for sending postcards

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2008, 07:15 PM »

A long time DC member who is not as active on the forum but is very active in the daily DonationCoder Chat Channel is in the hospital again, with a relapse of his past serious infection.

Last time we sent him postcards and it really cheered him up and made him seem like a star celebrity in the hospital, and it seemed to help, so i'm hoping we can do so again.

Here is his address, please send a postcard if you can:

Katharinenhospital
Jörg Töllner - Zimmer 673
Kriegsbergstr. 60
D-70174 Stuttgart
Germany

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Fractal Explorers

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2008, 06:24 PM »

dcmembers just went down briefly, it's back up.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: blank pages

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2008, 04:17 PM »

can you explain a little more what is happening?
is it happening no matter what window you try to capture -- or only when you capture certain windows like from movies?

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Living Room / Re: Why Windows Rules: the QWERTY phenomenon?

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2008, 01:08 PM »

keep going 40hz, i'm loving it.
and nice pic Edvard -- how about the two of you team up and make a version of the book for mac vs pc.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Screen saver that isn't a screen saver...

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2008, 12:33 PM »

It's autohotkey (ahk): http://www.autohotkey.com/
once you install it you can easily compile the .ahk to .exe as well.

ps.
skrommel used to post all his snacks in .ahk and .exe format here until he got lazy!

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Need undo!!

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2008, 12:30 PM »

you could have simply exited and said NO to saving.

but anyway, for recovery:

• exit LBC.
• make copies of your backup files and your main file (copy your whole directory or whatever)
• ok now move your bad .mcf file (thats the file with the real content) to a safe place.
• and copy one of your backup .mcf.bak or .mcf.bk2 to filename.mcf
• of if you've made *explicit* backups using the maintenance menu, they will be anmes FILE_date_.mcf
• and then restart.

now the main danger with recovering from backup is that you will mess up and overwrite your backup files in the process, so please do make a copy of everything safely before trying to restore stuff.

keep in mind something that may confuse you.  LBC uses 2 files, a .mcp and a .mcf
the .mcp is what tells it which .mcf files are loaded.  the .mcp file gets backed up but it's really pretty insignificant.
the files you care about are .mcf files.  usually you have only one .mcf file open at a time but you can have multiples.

let me know how it goes.
email me at [email protected] if you need more help.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009: CZB package

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2008, 11:16 AM »

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Living Room / Re: Your favorite quotes?

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2008, 12:36 AM »

two of my favorites:
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. -Plato
If you meet your master on the road, kill him - Buddhist quote

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / FSubScript Feature Requests

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2008, 11:10 PM »

I thought it might be useful to start a new thread for feature requests and future work discussion of the amazing FSubScript multiscript plugin which is described here: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=15686.0

I'll start off with a major and minor feature idea.

Major one:
This is not restricted to FSubScript, but could be used by other plugins and even aliases.  The idea is to have a system by which it would be easy to let users customize options for a plugin by simply letting the plugin writer design a simple html form that was shown in the embedded html result mode, and have farr auto populate the values and auto save them using the new User Variables fields.  This would make offering options for a plugin or alias 1000x easier than it is now, for both coder and user.

Minor one:
Define some variables in the subscripts like author, version, description, webpage, sample usage, etc. and auto show these when the user types "pluginalias help".

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Living Room / Re: Christmas Gift Ideas Under $25... Make a List!

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2008, 04:42 PM »

not me, thats a pic from the amazon page.

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Living Room / Re: Christmas Gift Ideas Under $25... Make a List!

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2008, 04:13 PM »

Salon gift guides: http://www.salon.com/gift_guide/2008/

Includes luxury, moderate, and cheapo gifts for the whole family, including "Da Bird" for cats:

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Living Room / Your favorite quotes?

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2008, 01:26 PM »

Just came across this today and it's a good one:

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. -  Upton Sinclair