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Living Room / Re: Drive Dock: Turn bare drives into floppies

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 28, 2011, 07:30 PM »

I have an old Samsung SpinPoint 80Gb IDE drive that would do just fine for backing up my most important files (photos, C# projects, etc.)  What I'd really like to find is an enclosure for it that offers one-touch backup of any directories on my laptop that I've specified.

I don't really care whether I'm dealing with firmware or software, but I'd just like to be able to stick this 80Gb HDD is a box, push a button, and it begins backing up "Pictures"... "Visual Studio Projects"... etc.

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Living Room / Re: Drive Dock: Turn bare drives into floppies

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 28, 2011, 07:02 PM »

This product "complains" rather than "complies", but it seems to be touted as a feature  

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Kyrathaba's Hangman

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 28, 2011, 05:18 PM »

Nice email today from 'benubird' (a registered "Kyrathaba's Hangman" user).  He emailed me from the link within the app and states, "Cool app, and a nice site you have there at DC!".  I encouraged him to drop by the forum and visit us, and even consider joining!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Game Engines and Apps

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 27, 2011, 09:12 PM »

Anyone tried the beta of "Construct 2"?

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Idea Suggestion: Online Game Night Manager

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 27, 2011, 05:37 PM »

Good point.  I guess I allowed my enthusiasm for RPGs to cloud my thinking

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Idea Suggestion: Online Game Night Manager

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 27, 2011, 12:06 PM »

If time and interest permit, it would also be cool if character sheets could also be created and saved to an associated online DB, for later viewing, editing.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Kyrathaba's Hangman

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 27, 2011, 11:56 AM »

I've updated the relevant links in my OP to reflect the current online scoreboard URL.   Also, noted that we've gained our 9th competitor (welcome Jazper).


If anyone has any hangman puzzles they'd like to contribute, please PM me. I will acknowledge receipt. If I choose to use your suggestion, you'll receive recognition in the text accessed via the "Help" menu.  

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Kyrathaba's Hangman

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 26, 2011, 04:16 PM »

Is the in-game update supposed to update itself?

The in-game updater isn't really a separate component.  It's just a small method that checks a small file hosted on DC for available version number.  It then compares that available version # against the running app's version number.  If the online version # is greater, it let's the user know that an update is available for download.

What I do is update both this small "available version #" file and the same-version-number installer simultaneously, whenever I finish a new revision.

All the in-game updater does is let you know if there's an update available.  In the same Yes/No messagebox, it asks if you'd like to download it.  If you answer "Yes", it does so, then let's you know that it's opening to the downloaded file's location in Explorer, and exiting.  The assumption is you'll install.

I could fix it to where:

(a) yes, download it but don't exit: I'll install it later.
(b) yes, download it and launch the installer before exiting the current program instance.

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Living Room / Re: The law is for YOUR protection. Honest!

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 26, 2011, 02:10 PM »

+1 to everything you've said, Carol. 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Announcing freeware/donationware "KyrCrypt 0.16"

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 26, 2011, 01:12 PM »

[edit] with apologies if this is superfluous. I overlapped with your last post. [/edit]

@tomos: no problem

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Announcing freeware/donationware "KyrCrypt 0.16"

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 26, 2011, 12:18 PM »

Nah, not getting disillusioned.  Sorry if it came across that way.  Actually, I never really expected to get any donations, so the "Woo-Hoo, Yee-Haw" is legitimate

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Announcing freeware/donationware "KyrCrypt 0.16"

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 26, 2011, 12:15 PM »

Well, based on the fact that I had about 40 hours total in developing KyrCrypt, I've recouped, so far, about 35 cents for each of those hours, LOL.  Still, some recognition is better than none.  The comments I'm getting most is that people like the ability to schedulably encrypt an entire directory of files.  One guy is using it to do this, and then backup the encrypted (supposedly sensitive) info to a site using FTP.  

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Announcing freeware/donationware "KyrCrypt 0.16"

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 26, 2011, 09:55 AM »

Ooh, got another donation for KyrCrypt via PayPal.  $2.00.  Yee-haw!!

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Kyrathaba's Hangman

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 26, 2011, 09:02 AM »

Wow, yesterday was a busy day for "Kyrathaba's Hangman".  It incremented five complete revisions, thanks to the excellent feedback from Deozaan, steeladept, and Wraith808.  Thanks to all of you 

I've updated my OP's download URL to reflect the most current version, even though you can just update from within the program itself.  And I've added the PAD file's URL.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Idea Suggestion: Online Game Night Manager

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 26, 2011, 07:57 AM »

Nice! 

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

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 25, 2011, 05:25 PM »

That worked.  Thanks!

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

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 25, 2011, 05:04 PM »

I'm trying to create an alias to launch 2 applications.  Is that possible?  Here's a screenshot (I want typing "devMode" to launch my IDE and my favorite text editor, Notepad++).  The following doesn't work.  Only the IDE gets launched.  Notepad++ doesn't start:

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Kyrathaba's Hangman

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 25, 2011, 03:52 PM »

I agree 100% and like your wording better, Deo.  You can now update to v1.0.3.3.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Kyrathaba's Hangman

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 25, 2011, 03:07 PM »

I think this is a good solution. Before the round starts, there's a popup that tells you what the theme of the round will be, along with other things to be aware of. Perhaps in this popup it could explain or have a button to press to find the explanation for the theme.

Another thing I just thought of: When I first ran the game and it popped up a message recommending that I read the help file, I decided not to because I didn't realize that this wasn't your standard Hangman game. I thought "Pshaw! I don't need a stinking help file for hangman!" Perhaps it would be useful to explain in that popup that this isn't your Grandpa's Hangman (no offense meant to anyone who's grandpa was hanged) and that it plays quite differently from traditional hangman, thus reading the help file is strongly recommended.

By the way, I also just want to say thank you for being so receptive to my feedback. Thmbsup

You're quite welcome for my receptiveness.  In my experience, there's nothing more valuable than user-feedback to make my app more intuitive, more enjoyable, and -- most of all -- one that people will want to use!

As for your two ideas above, both are good, I think.  I'm not sure how to launch the help file with a pointer into a particular location within the help file.  But check out version 1032 and lemme know what you think.  If you want to see, again, the message box that pops up and says "It looks like this is the first time you've used the program...", you'll need to go into c:\users\[your username]\AppData\Roaming\Kyrathasoft\KyrHangman\ and delete file "previousRuns.dat".

Version 1.0.3.2 is available.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Kyrathaba's Hangman

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 25, 2011, 02:33 PM »

Does it get it from your assembly information, perhaps?  Is the version number in your assembly correct?

@wraith:

Here's screenshots from my assembly info within the IDE, then the version info I supply in the Inno Setup script:

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Kyrathaba's Hangman

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 25, 2011, 02:30 PM »

I've included the updated help file in the version 1031 installer.  But for anyone who has already installed that version, I've attached it here as a zip.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Kyrathaba's Hangman

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 25, 2011, 01:55 PM »

Good suggestion, steeladept.  And I need to update the help anyway, to remove the keyboard/mouse toggle option from the Help file.  Working on it...

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Kyrathaba's Hangman

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 25, 2011, 10:14 AM »

Deozaan,

I find your argument regarding vowels to be logically persuasive.  And I have resolved my concern about score skewing with the realization that people can update to the newer version and play until they beat their previous score.

Therefore, I've updated to v1031 -- vowels now cost nothing

I'm loathe to change the Wheel Of Fortune themes, even though I am sympathetic to your arguments, because they're so entrenched in the format of the default puzzle file, and so much time and effort was spent coding around those themes.  But I agree that for people not familiar with WOF, it's more difficult.  Still, it is a variant of hangman, rather than sticking strictly to the historical game.  I appreciate your allowances in that direction.

Same update process as before.  Click "About", then "Update" button.  Download and install newer version.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Kyrathaba's Hangman

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 25, 2011, 09:51 AM »

Does anyone know what exactly I'd need to change in my Inno Setup script so that the "File Version" info (as shown in the screenshot) is correct?

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge: Crush Turbochecker

« Last post by kyrathaba on June 25, 2011, 09:17 AM »

Sounds intriguing.  I look forward to seeing your progress on this, Crush!