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Developer's Corner / Re: Keeping the UI Responsive - What Would You Do?

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 07, 2011, 09:41 PM »

Renegade,

Of the ideas you've mentioned, I'd favor this one:

Create the "waiting" window at startup so it's already in memory and doesn't need to be created, then update it's UI and .Show() it when needed

Show the window just before entering the worker-thread, then as the thread completes have it close the window.

I ran into a similar but not analogous issue when coding KyrCrypt; in my case, I wound up using both a per-item progress bar and a batch progress bar (along with the requisite Cancel button).  

The in-memory window should be serviceable enough, I'd imagine.  Maybe not as elegant as you'd wish, but simple and intuitive, two things users need

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Developer's Corner / Re: Keeping the UI Responsive - What Would You Do?

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 07, 2011, 01:34 PM »

I'd use a BackgroundWorker thread for the heavy-lifting.  Keeps UI responsive AND a BG-worker thread permits certain UI elements to be updated from within the heavy-lifting thread.

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Living Room / Re: should I ragequit?

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 03, 2011, 06:56 AM »

the reality is that this forum is a mix of different people with often (very) different ideas of what's acceptable or not. I thought the response was very mixed -

The only thing I have to say to both parties is using the internet requires tough skin. I hope I haven't done anything to offend anything and would certainly want to make amends if so, but it is unrealistic to believe all of us will agree on every subject.

+1.

House, remember that a lot of what you're reading is quick, emotion-motivated posts, many of them by Americans who are glad to have some form of closure after almost a decade of grief and smoldering anger over the Twin Towers.  I daresay most would not have pulled the trigger, had they had a gun pointing at Osama.  To a certain degree, we have to learn to overlook or shrug-off dissenting points of view.  

I hope, therefore, that you'll choose to stay.  Just don't read posts whose titles suggest they might contain posts offensive to you.  That's what I do

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Living Room / Re: Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading List

« Last post by kyrathaba on May 01, 2011, 07:33 PM »

I love Lewis (one of my absolute favorites, if not #1). He's brilliant. His apologetics are amazing. His essays are remarkable. A wonderful author for anyone to read, and if he recommends it, hey, it's got to have merit~!

+1

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Living Room / Re: Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading List

« Last post by kyrathaba on April 30, 2011, 07:15 AM »

A Voyage to Arcturus - David Lindsay

+1. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1329

Also, the Kindle edition is free.

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Living Room / Can you read this?

« Last post by kyrathaba on April 29, 2011, 06:09 PM »

I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

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Living Room / Re: Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading List

« Last post by kyrathaba on April 28, 2011, 07:41 AM »

Anything by Patrick Rothfus; you won't be disappointed.

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

« Last post by kyrathaba on April 26, 2011, 01:54 PM »

That's the price you pay when you make great stuff, like you do

Skwire does make great stuff!

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

« Last post by kyrathaba on April 26, 2011, 11:53 AM »

Fortunately, I'm not upset 

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

« Last post by kyrathaba on April 26, 2011, 11:03 AM »

Hmm, did a search and discovered that Ognilab has listed KyrCrypt.  Funny thing is, I hadn't submitted it to them...

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by kyrathaba on April 21, 2011, 09:28 PM »

Just finished Book I of the KingKiller trilogy, The Name of the Wind.

If this is any indication of the quality of the next two books, I'll not be getting much sleep anytime soon!

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

« Last post by kyrathaba on April 21, 2011, 07:48 PM »

I appreciate the suggestion.  I may well include password-validation in the next upgrade.

NEWS:  KyrCrypt 0.16 has been reviewed by SoftSea.

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

« Last post by kyrathaba on April 19, 2011, 08:31 PM »

Gracias

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

« Last post by kyrathaba on April 19, 2011, 03:40 PM »

@skwire

Hey, thanks for taking time for a run-through! I will look into reconciling the font issue. As for the unusable "decrypted" file versus the "password accepted" message: the output will be gibberish IF the wrong password is used to decrypt (meaning NOT the same one used to encrypt). The "password accepted" message doesn't mean that the program verified the submitted PW against an encrypted copy of the PW (PW are not 'remembered', not included within the encrypted file). Rather, "Password Accepted" simply means the submitted password meets some sort of RegEx requirement. I will make this clear in my next update, and will ensure the help webpage elucidates it.

From the documentation:

Important: the password you use to encrypt is NOT stored within the encrypted file. Thus, when decrypting, the program does NOT somehow ensure that the supplied password is the same as the one that was used to encrypt. The upshot of this is that if you supply a different password to decrypt than the one that was used to encrypt, you'll get a 'decrypted' file that is 'giggerish'.

Thanks!

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

« Last post by kyrathaba on April 19, 2011, 10:10 AM »

Thanks, Curt!

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

« Last post by kyrathaba on April 19, 2011, 07:56 AM »

Congratulations!

nice looking software, thanks for releasing this..

Thanks, cranioscopical and lanux128!

Why TripleDES, though?

To be honest Fodder, I had just learned how to implement that particular encryption, in a Programming School assignment, and was I suppose eager to put it to use.  I think that in a future update of the software I may provide the option to select from among several encryption algorithms.

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

« Last post by kyrathaba on April 18, 2011, 07:54 PM »

I have two old college-buddies who used it some while I was developing, and provided feedback.

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

« Last post by kyrathaba on April 18, 2011, 07:44 PM »

I'm pleased to announce that I've released a piece of donationware called KyrCrypt.  It has been accepted by Softpedia and I anticipate soon to hear good news from CNET and other sites.

"Its function is to encrypt/decrypt individual files or entire directories of files using 168-bit TripleDES encryption. It offers an optional virtual keyboard for entering passwords with the mouse or touchpad, so that the actual computer keyboard doesn't have to be utilized for this purpose, thereby negating the threat of keyloggers."

As a completely self-taught programmer, I'm pleased with this first serious effort to place myself in the freeware/donationware community of contributors.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Introductory C# web-based tutorials

« Last post by kyrathaba on April 16, 2011, 09:40 AM »

I've added a very simple demo project demonstrating how to do C# Screen Captures.  Well-commented.  Thought it might be useful to someone.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: idea: time between two time & dates

« Last post by kyrathaba on April 16, 2011, 07:07 AM »

Came across this.

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Living Room / Re: For a good cause, please take a moment to donate some goodwill only.

« Last post by kyrathaba on April 10, 2011, 06:42 PM »

Just voted for Quinn

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Living Room / Re: Amazon Clouddrive Sync Clients

« Last post by kyrathaba on April 08, 2011, 05:26 PM »

Anyone tried Deja Dup, which purports to work with S3/Rackspace?

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by kyrathaba on April 06, 2011, 08:58 PM »

The most recent trilogy I've enjoyed has been the one that begins with "The Blade Itself".  Highly recommended!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Need help from someone who's used NetSpell

« Last post by kyrathaba on March 29, 2011, 07:51 PM »

I think I figured out what I want to do.  I'm attaching a screencast of it in action, along with the updated C# project (zipped).

P.S.  How can I embed a .SWF version of the screencast in this post?  I know that'd be a much smaller file, just not sure how to do it.

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Developer's Corner / Need help from someone who's used NetSpell

« Last post by kyrathaba on March 29, 2011, 07:27 AM »

I'm using Paul Welter's Netspell for the first time, and have rigged up a test harness.  I've placed the needed DLL and dictionary files in the necessary /bin/ subfolder (I'm programming in C#, and will attach a zip of my test project):



I've created a test harness C# WinForms application with a textbox and a command button that invokes the SpellChecker.  I enter a single intentionally misspelled word, "dictionery" (which should be "dictionary") into the textbox, and click the command button to invoke the spell checker.  The SpellChecker_MisspelledWord() method gets called, as it should, and NetSpell's internal "Suggested Words" form pops up.  I select the first suggested word, which happens to be the correct spelling, and click the "Replace" button.  



Of course, I get a Not Implemented exception because I've not yet implemented the SpellChecker_ReplacedWord event.



I know there's a SpellChecker.ReplaceWord() method, but am not sure where/how to use it.

What I want to happen: when I select the correctly spelled word, "dictionary" (see second screenshot above), and click the Replace button, I want to programmatically replace my program's textbox's incorrectly spelled word "dictionery" with the replacement word.  Even more helpful that a post of corrective action would be a post of corrective action and an attached zip of my project modified so that it works.

Any help appreciated.  I've been looking at the methods and events in Object Viewer, but so far nothing has clicked in my head...