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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool

« Last post by Ath on January 20, 2012, 03:19 PM »

+10000 

This looks very good, love it!

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Developer's Corner / Re: The most insane review of Visual Studio 2010 I've ever read...

« Last post by Ath on January 20, 2012, 01:23 PM »

I didn't know the achievement system was *real*!  Thanks Ath!

-wraith808 (January 20, 2012, 01:16 PM)

I talked it through with a colleague yesterday, and it kept me laughing/grinning all afternoon

Seems like 169 points is the current maximum achievement, and 164 seems 'doable' (Or those guys are just bored with their jobs)

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Kyrathaba Software / Re: Kyrathasoft Source Code Line Counter (a NANY 2012 entry)

« Last post by Ath on January 20, 2012, 01:13 PM »

Hey, nice and quick

But, like with the standard *.cs and *.vb filters (I didn't request this yet, did I ), it might be smart to exclude the generated stuff in the *\obj\* project directory:

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Developer's Corner / Re: The most insane review of Visual Studio 2010 I've ever read...

« Last post by Ath on January 20, 2012, 11:44 AM »

I could hardly find the list of achievements, so I dug it out, it's here

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General Software Discussion / Re: Icon not displayed in standard warning popup window (Win7x64)

« Last post by Ath on January 20, 2012, 11:37 AM »

Replayed that scenario, my reasonably normal Windows 7 x64 displays this:

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Kyrathaba Software / Re: Kyrathasoft Source Code Line Counter (a NANY 2012 entry)

« Last post by Ath on January 20, 2012, 09:49 AM »

I have no project I can share here, but I quickly threw together a HelloWpfWorld thingy

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Mugs, etc. -- All participants please read in

« Last post by Ath on January 20, 2012, 06:26 AM »

HINT: Ignore the ugly person but notice the nice pad! *LOL*

-JoTo (January 20, 2012, 03:16 AM)

So that's just someone you pulled in from the street to model for you, then?

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: better keyboard language switching

« Last post by Ath on January 20, 2012, 05:18 AM »

Do I need to do anything to mark the thread as such?

-klausbh (January 20, 2012, 03:54 AM)

You could update the title of the original post to show 'SOLVED' instead of 'IDEA', Skwire/a moderator will later move the thread into the right forum folder.

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Kyrathaba Software / Re: Kyrathasoft Source Code Line Counter

« Last post by Ath on January 20, 2012, 01:30 AM »

Ha, my favorite tool to post feature requests for

Could SCLC count the lines of .XAML files, when also counting .CS files? Would need extra entries in the selection combobox (*.cs/*.xaml and probably *.vb/*.xaml), but the xaml is a rather large part of WPF projects these days.

Not sure if it should plainly count the lines as found, or normalize to 1 attribute per line, or a complete item, including all attributes, as 1 line. Lines as found in the file should be good enough, I guess.

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: better keyboard language switching

« Last post by Ath on January 19, 2012, 05:09 PM »

Found this solution (last message on that page), but it requires a bit of manual labor. IMHO it's quite brilliant!

The “something even better” is to use Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator to create a custom layout which uses CapsLock as a language switch, then delete all other layouts (including the default English). I have done this with English+Russian and I can't express how better my life has been from since.

It has a lot of Pros listed there, but I guess the only (imho small) drawback is that Word has some difficulty recognizing the language that you're currently typing.

Only if that doesn't work I'd consider it for a Coding Snack

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread

« Last post by Ath on January 19, 2012, 03:18 PM »

Hit guess margins, THEN manually tweak them, THEN hit "guess overlaps"

-mouser (January 19, 2012, 03:11 PM)

Sounds like what I did, but I left the scrollbars in place to be able to find the stitch-seams

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Mugs, etc. -- All participants please read in

« Last post by Ath on January 19, 2012, 01:41 PM »

Must be some good vibes flying from the US of A to Europe, as my mug arrived today, while the earliest estimation was around January 26

Here's a picture, next to the box it arrived in and a 5 Euro bill for scale. Well in fact, that's a coupon for a DYI store, about twice the height of a normal 5 Euro bill


That mug is HUGE, it doesn't even fit under my coffee-pad machine

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread

« Last post by Ath on January 19, 2012, 04:34 AM »

I ran into memory issues

-Svampen (January 19, 2012, 03:47 AM)

Please provide some specifics on your system and the Windows Virtual memory/swap-file settings

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Mugs, etc. -- All participants please read in

« Last post by Ath on January 19, 2012, 04:28 AM »

(see attachment in previous post)My growing collection!

-justice (January 19, 2012, 03:18 AM)

but I'm jealous

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Living Room / Re: DC Apps alternatives for LInux

« Last post by Ath on January 19, 2012, 03:03 AM »

My coding snack Excel2Html is explicitly also available for Linux, as it's written in Java

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread

« Last post by Ath on January 17, 2012, 05:56 PM »

Hm, With FireFox 9 it's improved (from the previous beta) on the overlap detection, but the horizontal scroll is way out of line, in fact I have to disable that to get it to do the margins and overlap at least a bit OK. When leaving the vertical scrolls on the default of 10 pages, it kind of gets confused. Setting it to the actual 3 is perfect ofcourse, but 4 or 5 it can handle. The margins are still troublesome though, all but the bottom margin is way off, like a top margin of 19 where 86 is needed, and a left and right margin of 2 where 9 is perfect.
After correcting the margins the Guess Overlap is perfect though.

Internet Explorer 8: (I still refuse to upgrade to crap-o-rama 9 )
Same issues with selecting for Start Capture as Stoic had:

Ctrl-Click is apparently caught by IE to select text. Solution (by mouser) is to use the gear button, but that's kinda out of reach with a maximized window
Selecting the IE8 internal browser area, and doing a scrolled capture, disabling horizontal scroll though (same issues as with FireFox), and leaving vertical scrolling at the default of 10, works just fine. It grabs 3 pages as expected (DC frontpage). Guess Margins did a fine job. Guess Overlap merged it all together just fine.
Doing a longer page capture, I had (could have been expected) to increase the vertical scrolls to 20 to fetch it all.
Guess Margins and Guess Overlap was almost right, mostly off-by-one, so some textlines where a bit compressed.
When setting the vertical scrolls to the expected number of pages (17 in my case) both guesses where exactly right! (And was that unexpected?)

Capturing IE8's outside Windows frame, it requires the method to be changed to 'Simulate Keypresses (PgUp/PgDn)' to get the scrolling to work, but the Guess Margins is off by a few centimeters (instead of pixels) on the top and bottom margins, and the left and right margins by about 6 pixels, but after correcting that and setting the near correct number of 'pages' beforehand, the Guess Overlap is perfect. The method of selecting the inner page only is way better.

It might be worthwile to 'pre-detect' the actual number of pages that are in the scrollable object, and suggesting that automatically

Scroll Capturing a (wide) readme file from NotePad++ was rather un-eventfull, it captured the page in the first try, and with correct margins/overlap both maximized and non-maximized. So not much to say there......  


(Hm, a bit longer story then I thought )

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread

« Last post by Ath on January 17, 2012, 05:11 PM »

Oh, and for the first reason it would be necessary to save the raw, unaltered, images/parts, and for the last reason it's required to save the images after the margins and overlaps are applied, but without the actual stitching has happened

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread

« Last post by Ath on January 17, 2012, 05:08 PM »

So will we also be able to save the uncombined pages as individual files?

can someone shed some light on a scenario where that would be useful?

-mouser (January 17, 2012, 05:01 PM)

• Where you'd want to use some other panorama software to stitch it together?
• Or desperately need a different kind of stitch (not seamless) (that's just a crap reason, wanted to write at least 2 good ones)
• Can't paste the combined image into another document/cms/blog, but the parts would fit just about right (MS Word anyone?)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software to watch the Web for specific words to appear

« Last post by Ath on January 17, 2012, 02:59 PM »

How about a simple program wrapper around the Google (or some other search engine's) API?

-timns (January 17, 2012, 02:56 PM)

That's what mouser's WLC is but without the simple

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Coding Snacks / Re: IDEA: Explorer context menu entry to convert paths between Windows and Mac

« Last post by Ath on January 17, 2012, 02:02 PM »

Maybe this NANY2012 entry Paste Like Text is a place to start. We just have to persuade Anand to add a regex replace feature

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Living Room / Re: Cute jokes' thread

« Last post by Ath on January 17, 2012, 05:46 AM »

Edit again:

Looks like it only works in Chrome...

-Renegade (January 17, 2012, 04:25 AM)

Just ran fine in FireFox 9 here (nice result ), using google.com site but also in our local google page and also your original link works fine 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Headed List Builder

« Last post by Ath on January 17, 2012, 01:26 AM »

and just kept looking through the Help files to figure out the rest.

-thancock20 (January 17, 2012, 12:01 AM)

You've got my respect, by solving your own Coding Snack request.

I don't know if anyone else would have much use for the program, but I'll post it here anyway.

-thancock20 (January 17, 2012, 12:01 AM)

Expect some takers, this select&paste&moderate stuff is often discussed here

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Headed List Builder

« Last post by Ath on January 16, 2012, 03:52 PM »

Hm, sounds like mouser's Form Letter Machine could be able to do this, with one minus: No unicode support . But if it fits, then maybe we can persuade him to to upgrade it to unicode

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Living Room / Re: Best USB/Bootable recovery and "utility" tools

« Last post by Ath on January 16, 2012, 02:52 PM »

Is USB Pendrive Linux helping any in this context? Or are you actually searching for recovery/repair tools to be able to fix crashed systems?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Background Canvas

« Last post by Ath on January 16, 2012, 01:05 PM »

Preferences page "Interface Options 2" has what you request. Both the Canvas and the Thumbnail panel background colors can be set as you like.