Recent Posts

251

Living Room / Re: I bought an Oculus Quest and I'm blown away by the current state of VR

« Last post by mouser on December 11, 2021, 02:57 AM »

They are offering $60 credit to referrer and referree to anyone who buys an oculus and activates it before the end of december -- that's pretty substantial.

So if you're planning to buy one, find a friend who has one to exchange a referral -- or message me, I'm happy to do it

252

Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Powershell Script to block certain part of the screen like the taskbar

« Last post by mouser on December 09, 2021, 07:31 PM »

You could also try my Desktop Coral app:
https://www.donation...ws-apps/desktopcoral

"DesktopCoral is an unusual program designed to "reserve" some portion of your desktop which is shielded from maximized applications..

Essentially, it acts like an invisible resizeable docking bar, which can be docked to any side of your desktop. This invisible dock acts as a barrier to maximized applications and essentially shields this area of your desktop from other applications.

Within this shielded area you might put certain application windows that you want to be always visible, or you might put one of the many desktop tools like a calendar or system information component.

Why would you need a tool like DesktopCoral?

DesktopCoral was requested by someone who uses the Samurize desktop system information utility. This fun utility and others like it draw text and graphics on top of your desktop. But when working with other programs, this information can be covered by these other windows. DesktopCoral solves this problem by reserving an area of your desktop where normal programs will not be expanded into."

253

Screenshot Captor / Re: Objects not displayed in Screenshots (clipart, or other screenshot dropped)

« Last post by mouser on December 06, 2021, 05:41 AM »

oops i didn't even notice that 

254

Find And Run Robot / Re: Location of .ini and Alias folder in Win 10 and Win 11

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2021, 03:59 PM »

Is there a way to force FARR to look at a local folder for .ini and Custom Aliases?

If you edit the ConfigDir.ini file in the FARR program files directory you can point it to where you want the data files to be stored.
I'll have to check out this change in windows 11 -- Sounds like I may have to change the default location to be local documents area that onedrive will not alias.

255

Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.41.0 - May 31, 2021

« Last post by mouser on December 05, 2021, 03:56 PM »

Thanks, will fix.  New update coming this month.

256

Screenshot Captor / Re: Add support for WEBP

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2021, 01:57 PM »

I'll look into it.
-jesse

257

Living Room / Anyone watching the 2021 chess championship matches?

« Last post by mouser on December 04, 2021, 04:10 AM »

Game 6 was INTENSE!

258

Screenshot Captor / Re: Objects not displayed in Screenshots (clipart, or other screenshot dropped)

« Last post by mouser on December 03, 2021, 10:47 PM »

That is odd..
Is it possible that there is another object in front of the invisible one?  If you restart SC do you then see the object?
Does it matter if you change the "Blend Mode" option near top of that sidebar?
Could you try changing this option and restarting SC to see if it makes a difference:

259

General Software Discussion / Re: searching for a solution to simulate pressing F11 Key on Keyboard

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2021, 07:32 PM »

Autohotkey does sounds like your solution -- someone with knowledge about AHK will no doubt be able to reply here and tell you exactly how to do it.

260

Living Room / Re: Nuclear missile silo keyboard repurposed for usb

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2021, 06:39 PM »

can this count as my NANY?

Official answer: yes.

261

Living Room / Re: Nuclear missile silo keyboard repurposed for usb

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2021, 02:00 PM »

Make sure you check out John's video:

Highly watchable.

When I saw John in real life over thanksgiving, I thought I would flex my youtube creator knowledge, and warned him about getting a copyright strike on the music playing in the background.
To which John replied that he had created the music himself, specifically for the video.
To which I thought, yes, of course you did, John.  Of course you did.

262

Living Room / Nuclear missile silo keyboard repurposed for usb

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2021, 12:25 PM »

Gothic (John), a programmer and electronics savant, who used to handle server administrator for DonationCoder, had a project featured on Hackaday.com today.  Very cool stuff.

He found a weird old keyboard (with trackball) on ebay and it turned out to come from a nuclear missile silo.  After some work with an Arudino board he got it talking to USB interface.  Very cool.

https://hackaday.com...-re-launched-in-usb/

263

Android Apps / Re: Google sent me email today saying all my apps are removed from the store

« Last post by mouser on November 28, 2021, 02:30 PM »

All my apps are still available to direct download the apks.

264

Screenshot Captor / Re: How not to have a popup of explorer window after screenshot

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2021, 10:09 PM »

It only happens by default after a "Save As.." action.  You can disable it here:

265

Living Room / Re: Wordle: simple web word game

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2021, 09:51 PM »

Awesome! Nice to meet you and thank you for stopping by.  We're loving wordle and I'm very curious to read more about your design thoughts on it.. Heading over to read now. 

266

N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: NANY 2022 Pledge: Progress Bar and Jam (PB&J)

« Last post by mouser on November 24, 2021, 09:49 PM »

Nice 

267

Living Room / Re: Wordle: simple web word game

« Last post by mouser on November 23, 2021, 06:18 AM »

I've been having a blast playing this every day and talking with a friend about strategies for purposefully trying to lose in hard mode.
"Hard Mode" may make it harder to think of words to guess, but it seems to us that it *mostly* makes it hard to lose since being restricted to previous clue consistency quickly narrows down word possibilities.  But it is still possible to lose with some creative use of double letters, etc.  One thing to consider when trying to lose is that hard mode says it restricts guesses to be consistent with clues, but it will actually let in some guesses that are inconsistent -- for example when you use a letter twice and you get the location right and then for the second use you get a "not in the word", you shouldnt be able to guess a word with that letter doubled up any more, but the game won't stop you from doing that repeatedly.

268

N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: Adobe Premiere Extension coding: TimeStamper, Multicam Deluxe, SoundFx Adder, et

« Last post by mouser on November 21, 2021, 08:01 AM »

Moves this thread to NANY 2022 section as I will be releasing these extensions freely for NANY 2022.

269

General Software Discussion / MOVED: Adobe Premiere Extension coding: TimeStamper, Multicam Deluxe, SoundFx Adder, et

« Last post by mouser on November 21, 2021, 08:00 AM »

This topic has been moved to N.A.N.Y. 2022.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=51718.0

270

General Software Discussion / Re: ScreenshotCaptor Hanging for a long time

« Last post by mouser on November 19, 2021, 02:43 PM »

There are a couple of things that can slow down SC:

• Having hundreds and hundreds of screenshots in the current screenshot directory (you can use the Move to Old function in the move menu)
• When SC tried to grab the url when making a capture from a web browser; try going into capture options and disabling the capture of url address

271

Screenshot Captor / Re: Mouse hover hints on main window not working

« Last post by mouser on November 19, 2021, 03:15 AM »

The best part of any mystery story is hearing the solution.. Good detective work and thanks for sharing it HarveyHe. 

272

Living Room / Re: Wordle: simple web word game

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2021, 02:10 PM »

yep, same word for everyone. i take it that and the fact there is only one per day is part of the charm.
it's a neat little unintuitive lesson for game developers.  here's a simple way to have a kind of shared experience among all players.

273

Living Room / Re: Wordle: simple web word game

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2021, 12:50 PM »

There is an advanced mode in options that requires each guess be consistent with the previous clues.. i think it makes it more interesting and challenging.

274

Screenshot Captor / Re: Mouse hover hints on main window not working

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2021, 05:30 AM »

Very strange..

275

Living Room / Wordle: simple web word game

« Last post by mouser on November 18, 2021, 01:26 AM »

Been enjoying this:

https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

There is only one new word each day, so you can't keep playing it.  Simple fun little brain puzzle word game you play in your web browser: