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Drag&Drop Robot / Re: Suggestion: Use Comspec

« Last post by mouser on June 06, 2008, 06:11 PM »

Just to reiterate in case there is still some confusion.  it's not a matter of me using %COMSPEC% in place of cmd.  because i never use "cmd".  The OS chooses to use cmd and the OS invokes it when i call CreateProcess.

So the solution cannot be to use %comspec% in pace of cmd in my code.  The solution could be to modify the commandline given to CreateProcess and to manually override the OS choice of command processor by explicitly passing something like CreateProcess("%COMSPEC% NORMAL_COMMANDLINE_HERE") instead of the normal CreateProcess("NORMAL_COMMANDLINE_HERE").  If that works without issue then it's a reasonable solution.  I just have to see if that works ok and doesn't break io redirection piping.

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Drag&Drop Robot / Re: Suggestion: Use Comspec

« Last post by mouser on June 06, 2008, 05:56 PM »

The reason that there is a bit of confusion and probably what f0dder is getting at, is the fact that i dont ever call cmd.exe explicitly.

I actually dont use shellexecute either, i usee CreateProcess because it allows me to pipe the output and capture it to be displayed in the program.

So the point is that the OS is the one deciding to launch cmd.exe to execute the .bat files.  Which is i think why f0dder was suggesting that maybe there are other places where you should configure the OS to tell windows to always launch .bat files with tcc.exe.

I could however try to either check the environment and try to launch bat files with replacement COMSPEC or allow an option of how .bat files should be launched explicitly rather than relying on OS to decide which program to use.

Question: Would you ONLY use %COMSPEC% for launching .bat files? or would you use it for ALL shelling of any executable?

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PopUp Wisdom / Re: (help!) Unclickable windows

« Last post by mouser on June 06, 2008, 05:49 PM »

reinstall wont help.

but that's an interesting clue regarding clipboard help+spell having same issue.

what operating system are you using?

the really strange issue is the fact that it was working for you before..

i think the best thing would be for me to rebuild pop up wisdom using latest codebase and see if that doesn't solve the problem.. if not we can investigate other causes.

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Official Announcements / Re: Programming Contest from DonationCoder.com and Veign.com - Deadline July 1st

« Last post by mouser on June 06, 2008, 04:58 PM »

doesn't matter, webforms is fine.

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Official Announcements / Re: Programming Contest from DonationCoder.com and Veign.com - Deadline July 1st

« Last post by mouser on June 06, 2008, 04:23 PM »

Just a note in response to an inquiry I got.

I don't think the use of visual express tools is going to be a really strict thing.  If you use another tool for writing code, but are sure you will have use for Visual Studio, just ask us.

We have no arrangement to promote MS products and this is mainly an attempt to help insure that whoever gets this will really use it.  And also if someone submits a program that needs the full version to compile and borrowed someone else's copy of visual studio to make it, that would be fine too.  Again the point isn't to force people to use the express version, it's just to help us make sure that the person who enters is going to have use for these tools.

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Living Room / Re: PC Mag's Top 100 Web Sites - Vote for your Favorite (DonationCoder.com Love?)

« Last post by mouser on June 06, 2008, 04:19 PM »

and sent one more, with another email

even though such behavior is common on the internets, this is not the way of donationcoder, so please no one do such things, and don't mail them if DC isn't one of your top 100 sites.  let's be good web citizens. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Educators/Teachers software...

« Last post by mouser on June 06, 2008, 03:36 PM »

I'm not sure how I missed this originally.. I think this would be a great idea..
OR if someone knows a good website with this info, or wiki page, please post, there should be one somewhere.

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General Software Discussion / Re: another interesting software site

« Last post by mouser on June 06, 2008, 03:23 PM »

Wow a lot of tools on that page!

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Drag&Drop Robot / Re: Suggestion: Use Comspec

« Last post by mouser on June 06, 2008, 03:01 PM »

I'll see what i can do for next release..

Maybe a nice solution would be an options tab that let you specify pairs of:
EXTENSION PATTERN | PROGRAM USED TO LAUNCH FILE

So:
*.bat | c:\program files\jpsoft\tcmd9\tcc.exe
*.php | c:\program files\languages\php\php.exe"


Note that you could already do that manually by putting the full line in the commandline, this would simply be a way to let you specify things differently for general use and then skip having to put the info on the commandline.

But just to clarify i'm understanding things.. if you manually change your commandline item to start with "c:\program files\jpsoft\tcmd9\tcc.exe" then does it do what you want?  OR are you saying that this issue only comes up when D+DR is auto-creating .bat files and launching them (which happens when D+DR sees a commandline that doesnt start with a .exe).

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Site/Forum Features / Nofollow tags added to all external links

« Last post by mouser on June 06, 2008, 02:00 PM »

Just wanted to mention that NoFollow tags are now being added to all url links that appear on forum posts (thanks to this smf mod).

nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring in the first place.

This should make it less attractive for spammers to post links to their sites, and reduce any benefit to them if they do.

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Drag&Drop Robot / Re: Suggestion: Use Comspec

« Last post by mouser on June 06, 2008, 11:40 AM »

Hi myarmor,

This never occurred to me.
Actually D+DR just tells the OS to launch the program, so the OS takes care of it, but perhaps i could have an option to manually specify a replacement command processor.

If you specify the command processor exe on the D+DR commandline before the program to execute, does it work?

Or do you have any alternative explanation for how to launch another exe programmatically using an alternative command processor.  Remember that D+DR needs to capture the output of the processor in some cases which involves remapping the i/o, so i'm curious to know if this will still work ok.

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Living Room / Re: PC Mag's Top 100 Web Sites - Vote for your Favorite (DonationCoder.com Love?

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2008, 10:33 PM »

keep it up!!

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Official Announcements / Programming Contest from DonationCoder.com and Veign.com - Deadline July 1st

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2008, 09:56 PM »

DC member Chris Hanscom (who runs veign.com) has a copy of Microsoft Visual Studio Team Suite (with MSDN Premium subscription) to give away, and has decided to let us host a contest to decide who should get it.

This is a prize worth over $10,000 (yes you read that correctly), and so should go to a programmer who is serious about using it.

To choose a winner, we've decided to hold a little programming contest.  The winner will be chosen by Chris and myself, and will be influenced by the votes of longtime DC members.

Contest Details:

• You must code a new, never-released application, using one of the free versions of Microsoft Visual Studio Express.
• Deadline for submitting your finished entry is July 1st, 2008.  Winner will be chosen soon after that.
• You must provide the source code for your application, but you do not need to release this publicly if you don't want to.  The winning program must be freeware or donationware.
• The winning program will be featured on the donationcoder and/or veign websites, but all entries (winning and otherwise) remain the property of the authors. We will provide permanent web hosting space for entrants who want it, and we would love to welcome new coders to the DC community.
• We encourage authors to make their programs available for others to test and use prior to the end of the contest.  You are free to work in a team and/or solicit feedback on the DonationCoder.com forum.
• We may give out extra fun special prizes (rare DC Cody mugs, etc.) to participants who don't win the main prize, so you should enter even if you don't think your program will be judged as the best entry.
• You may code any kind of program you want, but we strongly discourage any submissions that alter the user's system dramatically and would make testing difficult (please no intrusive system driver replacing tools).

How Do I Enter?

• To participate, please post a reply to this thread and email [email protected] stating your intention to enter, well in advance of the deadline (July 1st, 2008). We will then follow up with entrants about the best way to submit entries.

Good Luck -- Chris and I are both looking forward to seeing what you guys and gals come up with!  If you know any coders who you think might be interested in participating, please let them know and help us spread the news about the contest.


fine print:

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Living Room / Re: PC Mag's Top 100 Web Sites - Vote for your Favorite (DonationCoder.com Love?

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2008, 08:32 PM »

who's next?

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Living Room / PC Mag's Top 100 Web Sites - Vote for your Favorite (DonationCoder.com Love?)

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2008, 07:42 PM »

Looks like PC Magazine is asking for people to vote for their favorite websites.

If you consider DonationCoder.com one of your favorite sites -- please let them know!  Send email to: [email protected]
What a wonderful world it would be if we caught their attention.

The voting committee for PC Mag's Top 100 Web Sites list has a few meetings left before the list is done, so if you've got any sites you'd like us to consider but haven't yet sent us, please do so... You can e-mail your nominations to [email protected] all we need is the URL, and you can send as many as you like. Nominate your favorites, including your own site, your friend's site, your company's site, or your client's site, but not your cat's site. All cat blogs will be tossed out without consideration.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Photo watermarking

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2008, 01:55 PM »

Even if she is using photoshop, you might be better off with a standalone tool that could be used regardless of the source of the pictures.  There are some good ones but i don't have much experience with them. I'm curious to hear what others recommend. Maybe post a mini-review of the program you decide to go with?

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UrlSnooper / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - URL SNOOPER - v2.22.01, June 4th, 2008

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2008, 12:59 PM »

ah, that makes sense!
you should probably drop the winpcap people a message about it.

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UrlSnooper / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - URL SNOOPER - v2.22.01, June 4th, 2008

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2008, 12:34 PM »

WinPcap 4.1 beta4 download
http://www.winpcap.o...inPcap_4_1_beta4.exe

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PopUp Wisdom / Re: (help!) Unclickable windows

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2008, 11:56 AM »

That is really strange and i've never heard about this phenomena before..
Couple of questions:
can you click the close buttons on these forms or not even those? If not even those, then it sounds like it might be one of those cases where there is another modal window on screen that you cant really see but that is blocking being able to click on the forms at all.
if you restart the program (or computer) does the problem get fixed?

ps.
i've just recently been getting around to updating all of my programs so expect a popup wisdom update sometime in june.

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UrlSnooper / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - URL SNOOPER - v2.22.01, June 4th, 2008

« Last post by mouser on June 05, 2008, 11:25 AM »

I got it from the winpcap page, it's the second link down on this page:
http://www.winpcap.o.../install/default.htm

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Developer's Corner / Re: System Information Tool... im stuck...

« Last post by mouser on June 04, 2008, 08:28 PM »

The other suggestions were all good, i wasn't knocking them -- just trying to address Codebyte's original question.

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Developer's Corner / Re: System Information Tool... im stuck...

« Last post by mouser on June 04, 2008, 07:28 PM »

Codebyte,  no one is really giving you good programming help.  You might search CodeProject for some code.

Also you say:

EDIT: Forgot to mention im coding this with CodeGear C++ Builder 2007..

There are a few good system-information components for Delphi/C++ Builder that you might look into.

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Living Room / How the Web Was Won: An Oral History of the Internet

« Last post by mouser on June 04, 2008, 03:36 PM »

This is a long magazine article about the origin of the internet..

Fifty years ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S. military set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It would become the cradle of connectivity, spawning the era of Google and YouTube, of Amazon and Facebook, of the Drudge Report and the Obama campaign. Each breakthrough—network protocols, hypertext, the World Wide Web, the browser—inspired another as narrow-tied engineers, long-haired hackers, and other visionaries built the foundations for a world-changing technology. Keenan Mayo and Peter Newcomb let the people who made it happen tell the story.

http://www.vanityfai...&currentPage=all

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Post your FARR v2 Plugin Idea Requests Here - Plugin Writers Read In

« Last post by mouser on June 04, 2008, 03:28 PM »

I've long requested a plugin for http://Twitter; now there is a competitor called http://Plurk, which would also be nice to have a plugin for.

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UrlSnooper / Re: URLSnooper Feature Request

« Last post by mouser on June 04, 2008, 03:01 PM »

This is back in the new version as of v2.22.01.