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General Software Discussion / How long since anything at GOTD worth buying, much less cracking?

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on January 29, 2013, 12:23 PM »

I mean, how many video converters/DVD burners/cheesy screensavers/Windows system tweakers would anyone need??

I still have GOTD bookmarked but only because the comments section occasionally turns up a good freeware program that may have escaped my notice.

Don't think I have actually installed a program from there in two years.

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LaunchBar Commander / Mouser - question about LBC backups

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on January 25, 2013, 08:58 AM »

I have three copies of LBC (on the hard drive and two different USB sticks) in a folder which contains many other portable programs as well. 

Because I add to/upgrade these programs periodically, I like to keep the folder synced.  However, doing that seems to occasionally toggle the LBC backup option back to "fill the drive with .bak files" which is what I don't want.

Can you tell me:

1 - in which file LBC stores the selection of backup frequency?
2 - what that selection looks like inside the file?
3 - once I have it set for no backups, can I write protect that file without affecting my ability to edit and save entries in the regular launchbar?

thanks!!

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: How to have docked launchbar not take up entire edge?

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on December 06, 2012, 01:19 PM »

Thanks.

Just a thought, when a new version goes up could you keep a link to the old version for a few weeks?

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General Software Discussion / Copies of earlier versions of DonationCoder software?

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on December 06, 2012, 11:27 AM »

Are they available on this site or anywhere else??

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: How to have docked launchbar not take up entire edge?

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on December 06, 2012, 11:13 AM »

Mouser:

Tested on another machine running WinXP, and same problem.  Minimize LBC and then exit the program, it forgets that it's docked.

So I do not think it's my computer.


LJ

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: How to have docked launchbar not take up entire edge?

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on December 06, 2012, 06:34 AM »

Yes, just confirmed that it does.  I toggled the "Do not stretch to full size" check box, and whether it is on or off, LBC does not remember its docked position if I exit the program while minimized to the system tray.

Where can I download a copy of the immediate preceding version 1.132?  Would like to check that this problem does not occur in that version and therefore it's not in my Windows setup, and I (facepalm) did not keep the earlier version before fully testing the new.

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LaunchBar Commander / Using a shorter bar on screen side, but problem

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on December 05, 2012, 09:06 PM »

If I minimize the launchbar to the tray and then shut down the computer or exit LBC, the launchbar forgets it was docked.  When restarting, it opens up as an undocked window mid-screen.

When I shut down the computer or exit LBC while the launchbar is visible and docked, this behavior does not take place.  Upon restarting, the launchbar is in the proper docked location.

Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit, LBC 1.133.01

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LaunchBar Commander / List of current version command line arguments for launching LBC?

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on December 04, 2012, 11:34 AM »

Hi Mouser, the subject line tells it all.  Is there a full list somewhere? 

thanks

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Importing and Exporting Configs for Manipulation

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on October 02, 2012, 04:01 PM »

Export to and Import from XML files

As someone who tries to maintain LBC on four different computers which have almost, but not quite, the same software installed on each, I would like to chime in here with a hearty "can hardly wait".   

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LaunchBar Commander / Hi Mouser - trying to get Win 7's "god mode" into an LBC menu item

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on July 11, 2011, 01:06 PM »

If you're not familiar with this, "god mode" in Win 7 allows the user to access a whole truckload of configuration options from one screen.

It is enabled by creating a new folder named

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

I have this folder on my desktop, but I'm a little OCD about wanting a super clean desktop, with all my command launching coming from the taskbar or LBC.

So far I have been unable to figure out a way to call "god mode" from within LBC.  Can you take a look?

thanks

LJ

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LaunchBar Commander / Launchbar Commander bug - flyout display with custom fonts selected

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on May 26, 2011, 11:14 AM »

When "custom fonts" are selected in the menu configuration dialog, the flyout menus do not display the menu items correctly while the cursor is hovering over them.

Using default fonts, the menu item appears in a light color which contrasts with a dark color bar that follows the mouse cursor.

Using custom fonts, the menu item appears in black which is impossible to read while the dark color bar is superimposed over it.

See the attached illustration

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LaunchBar Commander / LBC feature request - start a specific .mcf file from the command line

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on May 26, 2011, 11:08 AM »

It would be neat to have different menu files set up for different groups of tasks.   

And I have menu files on my desktop's hard drive which are different from those which are on my various USB devices carrying portable software.

It appears that launching LBC always launches the most recently closed .mcf file.  What I am suggesting is a command line argument that would permit pathing to a specific .mcf defined in the command line, regardless of what was closed last.

thanks Mouser again for this great proggie....

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: "Official Bug Tracking and Feature Request Thread" has no activity since 2007

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on May 26, 2011, 11:00 AM »

OK, will do.

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LaunchBar Commander / "Official Bug Tracking and Feature Request Thread" has no activity since 2007

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on May 26, 2011, 10:56 AM »

Is it still the place to go for that sort of thing??  I have one of each....

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Mouser - newest version of LBC installer was flagged as a trojan

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on May 25, 2011, 10:09 AM »

Just to close the loop, I got the same detail as ewemoa did

Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT

I didn't realize you were bundling some Nirsoft in the install.  That may explain it.  Nir writes great utilities, but the mindless AV scanners hate them, I've been there before.

- Jones

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LaunchBar Commander / Mouser - newest version of LBC installer was flagged as a trojan

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on May 24, 2011, 08:46 PM »

...by my antivirus app, Vipre Antivirus Premium (Sunbelt Software)

Since I have no reason to mistrust anything downloaded directly from Donation Coder, I disabled the virus scanner, downloaded and installed.  Did a system scan just afterward and everything was OK, including all the new LBC files.  So it appears to be something that's only in the installer itself.

- Jones

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LaunchBar Commander / Bugfix request - font display in menu flyouts

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on June 17, 2010, 01:37 PM »

Hi Mouser - I posted about this some time ago, it may have inadvertently dropped off your bugfix list.

When using the standard font, the selected item is properly reverse shaded in the menu flyout (see picture "flyout1")

But when using a custom font, the selected item keeps the same color as non selected items, making it harder to read (see picture "flyout2")

Not a four-alarm bug, take a look whenever......

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Mouser - need help on LBC portable use

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on June 18, 2009, 01:02 PM »

Mouser, got the new version this morning.  Appdrive works a treat.  Thanks!

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Mouser - need help on LBC portable use

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on June 17, 2009, 11:56 AM »

Hey no problem, a one day turnaround on a bug fix is many light-years short of being an "inconvenience" !!!!

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Mouser - need help on LBC portable use

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on June 17, 2009, 10:39 AM »

No other problems, LBC does not hang and can be closed.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Mouser - need help on LBC portable use

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on June 17, 2009, 10:11 AM »

I'm testing with a different program -CCleaner- which loads and starts a lot faster than Open Office.

LBC is located in the \LBC folder under root
CCleaner is in the \CC folder under root
USB stick is mapped to N: drive

Set up a new, clean dock and drop ccleaner.exe as a command item, we get
   N:\CC\CCleaner.exe
in the command window
Works great, launches in an eyeblink just like LBC on a hard drive.

Now I drop another ccleaner.exe into the dock, get the same command window, again launches fine.  After observing that, I edit the command window to read:
   %APPDRIVE%\CC\CCleaner.exe


This does not work.  CCleaner does not launch, and some program (I have to assume LBC) starts thrashing the stick.  The access light is still flickering as I type this, ten minutes later.

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LaunchBar Commander / Mouser - need help on LBC portable use

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on June 17, 2009, 08:59 AM »

I tried using LBC as my portable launcher a few months ago (left a message upstream in the forum) but could not quite make it work.  So I tried some of the other portable launchers and found them all wanting in one way or another.  So here I am back again.

This is what I want to do (if it's doable).

I have LBC on a USB stick in an \LBC folder. I also have the portable version of Open Office on that same stick in an \OO3 folder.

I want to assign OpenofficePortable.exe to a button on LBC so that:

(1) LBC -always- goes to the program on the stick, -never- looking for the program on the HDD.  This is important because I know I have the portable flavor of OO on the stick and don't have to worry about where it is writing.  (for that same reason, I don't -think- have to worry about configuring LBC to tell the app which directories to use)

(2) LBC does this irrespective of whatever drive letter the stick may be assigned when plugged into different PC's.

In other words I want LBC to always launch relative (based on the stick structure), never absolute (using drive letters).

I've tried a few different ways of setting up the folder structure and app parameters and nothing seems to quite work.  So I'm asking for the "cookbook" instructions - thank you!!!

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General Software Discussion / Need to downsample multiple page .tiffs - any suggestions??

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on June 10, 2009, 01:28 PM »

I have several hundred .tif files which were created by feeding pages into an office printer/scanner set at 600 dpi.  Each file is 30-50 pages long.

Now I need to downsample them to 300 dpi (don't ask why.....grrrrrrrr) and if possible I sure don't want to have to unpack each file into its separate pages, resample them one page at a time, and then repack.

Anyone on DC know of a program that will downsample a multi page .tif as a single file?  Doesn't have to be free but needs to be reasonable ($150 or less)

thanks!!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the Most Accurate Burner?

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on April 08, 2009, 03:42 PM »

I totally love "Prassi ONES" currently available at ww1.tx-software.com

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Drag/drop bookmarks between two html/xml files

« Last post by Lolipop Jones on April 01, 2009, 10:43 AM »

The problem:

I have two sets of Firefox bookmarks:  Set A is used at home and has over 500 entries.  Set B is used at work and is a subset of set A (does not include gaming, sports, hobby sites etc).   When I add a link to the "common area" (folders shared by both sets) I can't use any of the existing sync tools because they will sync everything in both folders, effectively creating two copies of Set A.  So I have to log in and out of Firefox with different profiles for the two sets of bookmarks, copying and pasting links one at a time, and hoping I remember to get them all matched up.

The solution:

If I could export Set A to homemarks.html and Set B to workmarks.html and then look at them in a two-pane window, dragging bookmarks back and forth, I could then re-import the files to their respective Firefox installs.