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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Plz Record the (X,Y) cordinates. 2 Versions Available

« Last post by mouser on June 23, 2008, 12:01 AM »

When a program advances to this state of excellence, there is really only one thing to do and that is to make a web page for it, and then to look at those other similar programs i mentioned initially and see what features Coordinator is missing, and then make Coordinator the best.

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Programmer Libs / Delphi and C++ Builder Components - DCTOptionsTree (Options Tree Component)

« Last post by mouser on June 22, 2008, 11:36 PM »

People have been after me to modernize my program options with the more stylish method of showing a hierarchical tree of sections on the left, and the current options panel on the right.

I finally decided to code a component to make this easier and I will be releasing the component soon.

A screenshot:


I decided to go ahead and write it in Delphi even though my primary language is C++, just because Delphi components can be used in both Delphi and Codegear's C++ Builder.

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Living Room / Re: What's this?

« Last post by mouser on June 22, 2008, 09:56 PM »

It's a teleprompter.

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Living Room / Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!

« Last post by mouser on June 22, 2008, 08:40 PM »

ok, sorry for misjudging you phil.

(on the other hand might i just suggest that we politely explain to people that we just dont do such things rather than trying to play tricks on them -- i think that's more likely to result in a constructive event).

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Living Room / Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!

« Last post by mouser on June 22, 2008, 06:47 PM »

Phil did you just post a purchased license code??!?!
That is not ok -- we don't allow such stuff on this forum.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Webcam Signature 1.0 - My Submission for the DC Programming Contest

« Last post by mouser on June 22, 2008, 05:53 PM »

With the Webcam Mouse program I was creating, I was stuck on was how to do all the clicks and scroll that a mouse could do with just your hands and not a whole bunch of cryptic coding. Mouse gestures may work for it but wouldn't there be a lot of false clicks and scrolls and I'm just moving my mouse around?

you could always use audio input so user could use voice commands

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General Software Discussion / Re: Webcam Signature 1.0 - My Submission for the DC Programming Contest

« Last post by mouser on June 22, 2008, 05:52 PM »

I think one important thing to note is that now that you've got this basic program skeleton which watches webcam and creates images based on tracking info etc., there are probably a lot of really interesting other programs you could write based on this code.. my mind is swimming with possibilities..  things that dont require perhaps such accurate fine detail tracking.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Webcam Signature 1.0 - My Submission for the DC Programming Contest

« Last post by mouser on June 22, 2008, 05:44 PM »

one thing im noticing is that the far right and left of webcam image dont map to far right and left of drawing surface -- it might be nice if that were the case.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Webcam Signature 1.0 - My Submission for the DC Programming Contest

« Last post by mouser on June 22, 2008, 05:39 PM »

I think a good feature would be let person press a button to take a snapshot of the webcam image, and then select a point or two in the image that defines the color to track.  would be easier and more accurate than trying to guess your pen color.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Webcam Signature 1.0 - My Submission for the DC Programming Contest

« Last post by mouser on June 22, 2008, 05:16 PM »

Everyone make sure you see the youtube video eric linked at top of his post.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Webcam Signature 1.0 - My Submission for the DC Programming Contest

« Last post by mouser on June 22, 2008, 05:15 PM »

This is such a fun cool idea.. I expect it has to be very hard to get this to work accurately and might require a bit of tweaking, but it's just so cool.

I haven't even connected my webcam to this pc, but i'm going to now just to try this out. 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: The javascript SDK Fscript now support VBScript, Ruby, Python et Perl.

« Last post by mouser on June 22, 2008, 05:08 PM »

couple of things:
you can create an .alias file and include it inside your plugin directory.
this can be extremely useful in terms of building helper menus like those shown above to work hand-in-hand with your plugin.

as far as stayopen not being available in the plugin, two things:
you specify /stayopen when you call from the plugin the set_strval("launch","file_to_launch /stayopen") like that
or add it to the end of your result that you return from your plugin.

OR if you are doing a takeover of the OnProcessTrigger, ecaradec just added the ability to tell farr not to close -- you return a value of 1 from that event function. BUT BUT BUT -- i don't think ecaradec has made that new version of fscript public yet (1.6) so you need that first.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Skip Detector

« Last post by mouser on June 22, 2008, 01:13 PM »

For data files, many cd burning programs have an option that will verify the data on the cd after burning.
For music cds i dont know.

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General Software Discussion / Re: False Positive on Software (Generic.Dx) by McAfee Today: McAfee Response and Fix

« Last post by mouser on June 22, 2008, 12:40 PM »

bartolome, something is definitely going wrong on your side -- those are not results that come from any version of screenshot captor that i can find.  either you got an antivirus from somewhere else and it's infected your whole computer, including screenshot captor, or you uploaded the wrong file, or else it's possible i guess that you have a really old version of screenshot captor which for some reason has these false positive alarms that no one else is seeing because no one has that version of screenshot captor installed.

maybe you can zip up your screenshot captor folder and mail it to me ([email protected]) and i can see what i can see.. i definitely would not ignore these results, as they look scary and they are not the results that any of the rest of us are getting.

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Assembly / What version of assembly? Any

« Last post by mouser on June 21, 2008, 02:49 PM »

You can use any assembler and any flavor of assembly that you want for these assignments.
Maybe people can post various assemblers they like for different platforms?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR 2.10.01

« Last post by mouser on June 21, 2008, 12:11 PM »

It's still not clear *why* the Google Calendar plugin would do this, except to punish lanux128 for something he did in a past life.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Using tab to complete an alias is stopping the search

« Last post by mouser on June 21, 2008, 12:10 PM »

sorry i didn't reply sooner --
yes i think i understand and will fix.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Tip: Htmlviewurl works for local files too! :)

« Last post by mouser on June 21, 2008, 10:46 AM »

please make this an option, since it would be a mess for a lot of users ...

of course, it will be an option inside each alias, to let you say that as soon as this particular alias is matched launch it.  it will not be useful for most aliases, just on rare occasions.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Feature request] Hotkey: Open FARR and run query

« Last post by mouser on June 21, 2008, 10:42 AM »

on my todo list.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: The javascript SDK Fscript now support VBScript, Ruby, Python et Perl.

« Last post by mouser on June 21, 2008, 10:42 AM »

1. Is it possible to stop FARR closing when a result is double-clicked?

add " /stayopen" to the end of the launch result to tell FARR to stay open after launching.

2. Can I get information from the found item into the EditBox?

there may be something i can do to improve the case of dragging and dropping into edit box or chooding jump to directory for these cases, but regardless, i think what you are wanting to, if i understand it which i might not, is to populate your results like this:
choice 1 | restartsearch tz pacific/auckland
choice 2 | restartsearch tz usa
etc

the restartsearch launch command will put the text that follows into the edit box when the item is selected, so it lets you build things like menus in FARR results.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: The javascript SDK Fscript now support VBScript, Ruby, Python et Perl.

« Last post by mouser on June 21, 2008, 10:35 AM »

When a plugin returns a result item, it gives it a score.  The score determines where the result is ranked in the result list.  The PostProcessing option tells FARR how to use this score:

• IMMEDIATE_DISPLAY=0 -- this tells FARR to use the plugin's score directly and do nothing more with the score
• ADDSCORE=1 -- this tells FARR to take the score given by the plugin and then add its own score to it based on how well it matches other stuff, BUT also instructs FARR to never reject the result (it will be shown no matter what the score)
• MATCH_AGAINST_SEARCH=2 -- this tells FARR to add it's own score to the plugin score and to reject the result if it doesnt match the rest of the search string.  this would be the method of choice if you want FARR to figure out whether to show the result or not based on the search string.  i guess this option is the most common and useful one.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug report] launching problem after installing 2.10.01

« Last post by mouser on June 21, 2008, 10:19 AM »

I'm going to try to release an update today which has an option so you can choose to use the launching method employed prior to 2.10.01, so just hang on for a little while longer and you will be able to use the old method.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Using tab to complete an alias is stopping the search

« Last post by mouser on June 20, 2008, 10:30 PM »

im going to have to ask for more help on this since i don't fully understand what you are saying.   could you email me ([email protected]) and try to explain a bit more -- and then we can test and post a followup once solved.

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Living Room / Re: U.K. growing more peculiar by the day. What's happening in your area?

« Last post by mouser on June 20, 2008, 08:14 PM »

I've bought desktop lamp lately and "Safety usage" instruction says that I should not remove a bulb without help from "qualified electrician".

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Tip: Htmlviewurl works for local files too! :)

« Last post by mouser on June 20, 2008, 08:13 PM »

I think i'm pretty much on board and agreeing with the requests here.