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2426
Find And Run Robot / Re: last window id
« Last post by ewemoa on March 18, 2009, 10:06 PM »
I am using Windows XP Pro SP3 -- non-English though.

Thanks for your efforts  :Thmbsup:
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Find And Run Robot / Re: last window id
« Last post by ewemoa on March 18, 2009, 09:30 PM »
Excellent add-on  :Thmbsup:

BTW, I'm not finding root drives to work mostly (e.g. C: nor C:\) -- though it seems to work by accident(?) for cmd.exe.  Any one else experience this?

As far as specific situations where I had problems is concerned:

  • the save as dialog in notepad
  • working with windows explorer windows
2428
Mozilla FireFox Extensions/Addons / Extensions, Tools, etc. that Might Help in the Development Process
« Last post by ewemoa on March 18, 2009, 07:01 AM »
I found the QuickRestart add-on to be helpful while working on assignments:

https://addons.mozil...S/firefox/addon/3559

May be if other folks use specific add-ons or other things to aid in their development process, they wouldn't mind sharing the info ;)
2429
Developer's Corner / Re: Beautiful Code: In your opinion, what makes code Beautiful?
« Last post by ewemoa on March 18, 2009, 06:36 AM »
On the other hand, we get ever wider screens ;)
-phitsc (March 18, 2009, 06:09 AM)

This is one of the reasons I indent only 2 spaces and try to have shorter variable names -- fitting things in 80 cols is tough sometimes...

I'm thinking of experimenting w/ using CJK characters for identifiers (at least you can do this in some programming languages) -- meaningful names (at least to those who can read them) that don't take up so much space!  I guess it's not so likely to catch on...may be the following will some day:

http://www.mediaglyp...g/mg/index.eng.shtml

Not?

Edit: Ah, sorry, should have started the post saying something about digressing :)
2430
Developer's Corner / Re: 7 Reasons Not to Direct Link to a Developer's Download Files
« Last post by ewemoa on March 17, 2009, 05:25 PM »
I also have difficulty with sites like the example f0dder provided -- but this is usually if I'm not used to the layout already.  If I've visited a site often (e.g. like I have for a place like freewaregenius), I'm usually already "wired" to quickly find certain links (because of my previous visits) -- most places haven't pulled the "layout differs wildly on subsequent visits" trick yet ;)

(Darwin, is it so bad that other folks can relate to your point -- so much that we want to post separately about it?  I thought your point about updating was a good one, btw :Thmbsup:)

(On a side note, is it just me, or do you all find that sometimes the most recent comment you haven't read in a thread ends up being on a previous "page" -- and you don't think to look for it, or just don't bother?)
2431
Developer's Corner / Re: 7 Reasons Not to Direct Link to a Developer's Download Files
« Last post by ewemoa on March 17, 2009, 04:36 PM »
I try to do something similar to what f0dder mentioned -- but for some sites where the primary languages used are not ones I interface with very well, it can be difficult to find a download link!

Usually I also try to do some "research" on the side before running new applications -- e.g. check DC forums  :Thmbsup:, see if there is a Wikipedia article, etc.  By the time I'm done w/ this, I try to visit the "official" site, which by that point is usually obvious.

It is true though that I find having to "parse" each site's layout to be taxing at times -- I can relate to the ease of already knowing where to look to find download links at a few sites (e.g. freewaregenius) -- brain is already trained to handle those layouts.  I'm reminded of the various collections of software provided by various OS distributions (e.g. the *BSDs) -- for things in those collections, the process of installing software is so nice and uniform (not to mention checking for updates!).
2432
Mozilla FireFox Extensions/Addons / Re: Getting Started Easily
« Last post by ewemoa on March 16, 2009, 11:53 PM »
Yes -- specifically for assignment 2 :)
2433
FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FScript Javascript SDK - Write FARR plugins in javascript and more.
« Last post by ewemoa on March 15, 2009, 04:08 PM »
Thanks for the clarification -- I am happy to be using the version with socket support (and it is nice to hear from the creator that that's probably ok ;) ).
2434
Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 11-09
« Last post by ewemoa on March 14, 2009, 11:11 PM »
Thanks as usual, Ehtyar  :Thmbsup:

Re: 8 - I keep wondering whether some feedback loop will form w.r.t. ads and you might end up seeing only one ad wherever you go (at least for a while -- then at some point may be you'll start to see another ad, but it'll just be that one for another while...) :)
2435
Living Room / Re: WIkileaks: My Life In Child Porn
« Last post by ewemoa on March 14, 2009, 11:02 PM »
Some repeated text?

For example, a section starting:

But how, specifically,
2436
FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FScript Javascript SDK - Write FARR plugins in javascript and more.
« Last post by ewemoa on March 14, 2009, 05:43 PM »
Thanks for the clarification.

I think it is worth noting that at least one of them (the former one mentioned in my earlier post) doesn't appear to support the FARR.newTCPSocket().  If you don't mind, perhaps you could update that one or confirm whether it supports FARR.newTCPSocket().
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New FARR plugin : FFTab allow to switch firefox tab
« Last post by ewemoa on March 14, 2009, 08:40 AM »
So, I finally tried this out -- actually I ported the code so I could use it w/ vanilla fscript.  In the process of trying to get it to work, I became puzzled by the following code:

Code: Javascript [Select]
  1. trigger:function(path, title, groupname, pluginid, thispluginid, score, entrytype, args, triggermode) {
  2.         if(entrytype!="fftab")
  3.             return;

That didn't work for me, but something analogous to the following did:

Code: Javascript [Select]
  1. trigger:function(path, title, groupname, pluginid, thispluginid, score, entrytype, args, triggermode) {
  2.         if(groupname!="fftab")
  3.             return;

After making the appropriate change (and using the appropriate FScript.dll included in the CZBFSubScript.zip attached to the OP) it appears to be working locally.  Prety neat!  Now if I could get myself to switch back to FF ;)

Nice work  :Thmbsup:
2438
FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FScript Javascript SDK - Write FARR plugins in javascript and more.
« Last post by ewemoa on March 14, 2009, 08:23 AM »
A side note -- I compared checksums of the FScript.dll (1.15) mentioned in this thread:

  http://e.craft.free.fr/farr/FScript/
  SHA-1: 5f71f21959139002bb022d0c7ae9d0f1edc83ca6

to that of the one (also comes up as 1.15?) included in CZBFSubScript.zip in the following thread:

  https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=16942.0
  SHA-1: 96bba6cb3480025bc7e357cc143eec2c0b4f7605

I suspected the files were different after failing to get the socket stuff to work with the former one.
2439
Post New Requests Here / Re: GIMP script to batch split + rotate TIFF images
« Last post by ewemoa on March 14, 2009, 06:32 AM »
Congratulations!  Glad that it's working for you :)

(Thanks to Ehtyar for bringing up ImageMagick -- it's been years since I've used it -- didn't know there was a Windows port!)
2440
FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: Akete
« Last post by ewemoa on March 14, 2009, 01:06 AM »
as i said i would be very happy with a plugin that does not try to handle precedence
-nitrix-ud (March 13, 2009, 07:22 PM)

As I understand it, it's a problem to not address the precedence issue.

Perhaps one useful way of looking at this situation is to see that multiple plugins trying to handle file extensions is potentially murky.  If you've got two such plugins installed and both either are configured or set up to handle a particular file extension, which one should end up doing it?

May be I'm misunderstanding how things work in FARR -- perhaps mouser could clarify :)
2441
Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Get current directory
« Last post by ewemoa on March 14, 2009, 12:26 AM »
Nice thread!

I looked for GetCurDir (or something similar) on Skrommel's 1 HOUR SOFTWARE and didn't succeed at locating anything.

If indeed there isn't anything comparable there, may be it's worth placing GetCurDir on the page :)
2442
Post New Requests Here / Re: GIMP script to batch split + rotate TIFF images
« Last post by ewemoa on March 13, 2009, 10:48 PM »
Don't know if the following is of any help, but after looking at:

  http://www.imagemagi...e/crop/#crop_percent

I tried the following (with success locally) to get at the right-half of an image:

convert inputimage.extension -gravity east -crop 50%x100% outputimage.extension

FWIW, I noticed a "Offsets in geometry" section in:

  http://imagemagick.o...cessing.php#geometry

and a bit on -gravity at:

  http://imagemagick.o...-options.php#gravity

The following page had some pointers to groups of examples:

  http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/
2443
General Software Discussion / Re: PortableApps - Manage your collection of install-less utilties and usb drive
« Last post by ewemoa on March 13, 2009, 10:20 PM »
I've been using ASuite as I based my installation off of Lupo PenSuite.  It's ok I guess -- has anyone compared this with any of the others mentioned in this thread?
2444
FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: Akete
« Last post by ewemoa on March 13, 2009, 04:46 PM »
I took a look and my initial impression is that I very much doubt I have the resources or inclination to try to make something like that -- if FARR provided some way for plugins to easily provide configuration panes that integrated with the existing Options dialog, I might consider it, but AFAIK that doesn't exist currently.

I think the kind of thing that might be practical is doing something within the existing User Variables mechanism -- so imagine a potential user is going to be specifying their configuration via the User Variables pane in FARR's Options dialog box.  With this approach we've got:

  • Separate sections (e.g. Akete, Akete.Folders, etc.)
  • Name, value pairs separated by equals signs

As I understand it, those are our practical building blocks.  Do you have any ideas that can be expressed well using these pieces?

May be there are other practical approaches that don't involve creating basic configuration-related building blocks...I know there is some support available via FARR/FScript for handling INI files, but as I understand it, that's not too different from what User Variables supplies.

If you have any thoughts regarding other approaches, I'm happy to hear them :)
2445
Find And Run Robot / Re: custom file explorer ?
« Last post by ewemoa on March 13, 2009, 04:13 AM »
I have posted a reply at:

https://www.donation....msg154844#msg154844
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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: Akete
« Last post by ewemoa on March 13, 2009, 04:12 AM »
if AketeFolder plugin was first then the same questions about precedence would have arised with Akete plugin  :D
-nitrix-ud (March 13, 2009, 03:33 AM)
My leaning on this issue so far has been not to do a separate plugin -- it may have seemed like it because of the configuration example, but actually that configuration example would work fine from a suitably modified Akete plugin.

The motivation for me to split the configuration sections into Akete and Akete.Folders was because my impression is that handling the configuration is clearer -- I think that everything living in the Akete section makes for a mess in terms of design as well as in terms of users specifying configurations.

with an hyper complex filtering system where you could see things like :

(if the extension of the file is xxx
AND
if the file is in Folder yyyy
AND
file has been modified within zz hours)
then open with notepad++

Do you think you could start spelling out specifically how this kind of thing would be specified by a user?
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Post New Requests Here / Re: GIMP script to batch split + rotate TIFF images
« Last post by ewemoa on March 13, 2009, 03:52 AM »
Perhaps the following will get the ball rolling:


Translated -- how about something like the following?

  • use mogrify to rotate
  • use mogrify with crop or extract to get at one page
  • use mogrify with crop or extract to get at the other page

Perhaps there are other options to mogrify that would be better choices :)

Don't know what platform is relevant here, but if it's Windows, may be the following will be of some use:

http://www.imagemagi....php?f=8&t=12926
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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 10-09
« Last post by ewemoa on March 12, 2009, 11:25 PM »
Re: 1: If you don't look, you're not likely to find... ;)

Re: 9: Definitely interesting w.r.t. djbdns.  FWIW, I had years of trouble-free system administration thanks to qmail and djbdns -- I don't worship him, but I am thankful for his existence and efforts :)

Thanks again, Ehtyar!
2449
Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Latest Multi Photo Quotes Release v1.29.01 - Mar 11, 2009
« Last post by ewemoa on March 12, 2009, 11:20 PM »
[BugFix] Some computers had fonts with large linespacings which could cause mpq to oversize characters resulting in cut-off text. New code takes line spacing into account
-mouser (March 11, 2009, 08:37 PM)

So far it's looking pretty good :)  Thanks for your work on the fix!
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Find And Run Robot / Re: custom file explorer ?
« Last post by ewemoa on March 12, 2009, 10:08 PM »
In case my attempt at humor failed -- my previous post was meant as an invitation to try to jointly explore the precedence issue further.  My intention was to point out that I'm not the only one who could try to come to some resolution with regard to precedence -- nor that it has to be done by just one person :)
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