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Programmer Libs / JrDebugLogger - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.12.01 - May 7, 2013

« Last post by mouser on August 19, 2007, 06:36 PM »

JrDebugLogger - The Cross-platform Debug Logging toolkit for C++.

Download from program web page: https://www.donation...buglogger/index.html

v1.12.01 - May 7, 2013

• Now properly saves time/date stamps by default in output.

v1.11.01 - Nov 13, 2010

• By default if a relative filename is specified for debug output (-dbo), it will be created in the application directory.  HOWEVER with windows vista/win7 this has become illegal/problematic.  JrDebug will now attempt to use the AppData directory (e.g. Users\Documents and Settings\AppData\JrDebug\Exename) by default on vista/win7 in these cases.  You can specify ;info along with the -dbo to have the directory used output;
• Added debug directive to disable all windows-specific code, see Application Switch Files and Compile Flags.

v1.10.01 - Apr 7, 2010

• [bugfix] due to an ambiguous matching of function definitions, dbprintf could result in wrong passing of arguments (only happened with 2 args passed to it, one int and one char*), which could cause assertion fault message. -- thanks ewemoa

v1.09.01 - Mar 27, 2010

• [minor bugfix] debug messages sent to system were sometimes being split onto 2 lines (thanks ewemoa)
• [minor feature] added option that can be specified with plain text outputters (including system output) to not show the "MessageType:" prefix on messages.

v1.08.01 - Mar 10, 2009

• [minor bugfix] Fixed some deprecated compiler warnings generated by the latest gcc. (thanks Gothic).
• [minor bugfix] added string.h and stdlib.h to compiled-in headers needed to compile on latest gcc (thanks Gothic).
• [feature] added some documentation about using under *nix build system (thanks Gothic).

v1.07.01 - July 26, 2008

• [minor feature] added code to add an AnsiString streaming helper for C++ Builder users (nothing extra for users to do, you can now stream AnsiString objects; define JrDebugDIRECTIVE_DontAddAnsiStringStreaming to disable its creation).

v1.06.01 - July 5, 2008

• [minor feature] put -a at the end of a log output filename to signify it should be opened in append mode (otherwise it will be overwritten).

v1.05.01 - Aug 19th, 2007

• bugfix -- jrdebug_notcompiled_macros.h had a missing #define
• added fflush() after each file line output -- ensures file output is always up to date
• re-ordered this changelog to put more recent stuff at top.

This update includes one bugfix that would cause a failure to compile in some cases, and one very important but minor call to fflush which ensures debug output files are always up to date.  So it it definitely a recommended update.

ps. This is one of my least well known releases, and it takes a bit of experimentation to get used to using it, BUT i personally find it extremely useful when debugging things like dlls are other background processes where showing stuff on the screen is not normally practical.

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General Software Discussion / Re: microPledge: Funding Software by Pledging to Donate Money

« Last post by mouser on August 19, 2007, 04:55 PM »

Welcome to the site berwyn 

I should say that generally speaking I think the pricing scheme looks quite reasonable to me.  I particularly like the idea that the open source licensed software is free, and i like how you seem to have thought out the issues involving canceled projects, etc.

With such services and sites my focus is always on the "incentives" of the system -- do the rules of a system motivate people to behave well or behave badly?  Does it motivate them to create stuff that helps everyone involved? Or game the system to take as much as they can and give as little as possible?

And it seems to be that microPledge has set up a nice system where the incentives will lead to good stuff being produced in a fair way, with everyone benefiting.  I hope the project succeeds.  Our own experience with donations suggests it may be a hard uphill climb, but a fulfilling and interesting one.

It will be interesting to see how the thing about leaving a project early or not continuing work on a project works out.. i can see that it might be difficult to say when a program is "done", and i can see differences in opinion coming apart regarding how to decide when someone should be able to receive the money pledged vs. ensuring someone doesn't stop working on a project while there are still deadly bugs in it.  Of course that dilemna is found in all such contract programming projects and is not in any way unique to your system (in fact you may be able to work our a more democratic way to mediate such decisions and thus avoid the worst case scenarios where one rogue employer insists the program is never finished").

I hope you'll drop in and tell give us an update every once in a while

-mouser

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Delphi and C++ Builder / Re: Installation & adding component on C++ builder or delphi?

« Last post by mouser on August 19, 2007, 04:27 PM »

Hi arunpawar,
I think that the developer of SkyIde (https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=4966.0), uses the component and hangs out here a lot, you might send him a message about it.

-mouser

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Living Room / Re: Bloons Tower Defense - Very Well Done

« Last post by mouser on August 19, 2007, 03:35 PM »

I made it to round 40.. never got the hypersonic monkey though

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DcUpdater / Re: For developers who want to add DcUpdater check to their apps: dcuhelper.exe

« Last post by mouser on August 19, 2007, 01:36 PM »

Another fun tip for Inno Setup users:

What if you want to add a "Check for Updates" item to the start menu group of your program?

Just add this one line to your inno script, in the Icons section:

• Name: {group}Check for updates; Filename: {app}\dcuhelper.exe; WorkingDir: {app}; Parameters: "-ri PROGRAM_LABEL ""{app}"" ATTENTION -show"; IconFilename: {app}\YOUR_MAIN_PROGRAM.exe; Flags: runminimized

(you can leave off the IconFilename if you dont want to give the shortcut the icon of your main program).

When the user chooses the "Check for Updates" item from the start menu group, dcuhelper.exe will find and invoke the DcUpdater tool or show user how to install it if it isn't installed yet.

NOTE: this gives you a complete way to add update checking to your program without modifying the actual program at all.  you could even use this technique to add update checking to a package you make (which could contain multiple updatable components), consisting of programs you didn't compile yourself.

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DcUpdater / Re: For developers who want to add DcUpdater check to their apps: dcuhelper.exe

« Last post by mouser on August 19, 2007, 01:08 PM »

ps.
If you use Inno Setup, here is a line you can add to your [Run] section which will use the dcuhelper.exe to automatically register your newly installed program with the updater so the updater itself will know how to check for updates to your program, even before the first use of your program:

Filename: {app}\dcuhelper.exe; WorkingDir: {app}; Description: Create Update Check Helper File..; Flags: nowait runhidden; Parameters: "-r PROGRAM_LABEL ""{app}"""

Basically this just invoked the dcuhelper to create the file described above, silently at end of install (user is not prompted).  Note that this doesnt invoke an update check and doesn't require the updater tool to be installed on the user's computer.  It just creates the dcupdateredirect file so that the dcupdater tool can find it if/when it's installed.

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DcUpdater / Re: For developers who want to add DcUpdater check to their apps: dcuhelper.exe

« Last post by mouser on August 19, 2007, 12:16 PM »

An example of suggested way to invoke update check from your program using dcuhelper.exe, from a C++ program:

ShellExecute(NULL,"open",dcufullpath,comlineargs,NULL,SW_HIDE);

where:

• dcufullpath is the full path to the dcuhelper.exe you installed with your program, e.g.: C:\Program Files\ProcessTamer\dcuhelper.exe
• comlineargs is: -ri ProcessTamer "C:\Program Files\ProcessTamer" "Warning" -show

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by mouser on August 19, 2007, 12:10 PM »

jgp when are we going to see dcupdater support for gridmove!
see this thread for info on how to easily add a "check for updates" menu item to your tray icon.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug report] can't see alias

« Last post by mouser on August 19, 2007, 11:11 AM »

thanks, i guess i got over-eager in my recent changes to warn about read-only alias editing.  fixed and uploaded new minor release.

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Living Room / Re: Bloons Tower Defense - Very Well Done

« Last post by mouser on August 19, 2007, 10:19 AM »

Onslaught was first posted on the forum back in April: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=8183.0

It may be the best Flash Tower Defense game in existence.

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Living Room / Bloons Tower Defense - Very Well Done

« Last post by mouser on August 19, 2007, 09:46 AM »

This is a nice example of the Tower Defense genre, which I am a huge fan of.

It's nice to study these games and learn what works and what doesn't, which ones are fun and which aren't.  From a game design perspective it's fascinating to see how authors work within the constraints of the basic paradigm.

For aspiring TD designers, Bloons has an extremely clean and elegant interface (the upgrade system in particular in fantastically intuitive).  The game itself also seems to be very well balanced and challenging.  The only thing perhaps lacking is that the enemies aren't very motivating.

http://ninjakiwi.com/bloonstd.html

from http://flash.plasticthinking.org/

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UrlSnooper / Re: XP Install - Worked, then didn't...and doesn't

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2007, 09:25 PM »

you did install any of the language packs did you?

you should cancel the auto adapter detection and go to advanced options and disable this auto adapter detection feature.

then see what adapters it shows in advanced tab for you to select from.

are you running as an administrator account? if not, try that.

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UrlSnooper / Re: XP Install - Worked, then didn't...and doesn't

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2007, 08:59 PM »

Maybe try this:

Make sure urlsnooper is not currently running, then go to the urlsnooper directory and rename the settings.ini file or move it somewhere out of that directory to reset the settins, and then restart it.

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Living Room / Re: KenR's health and situation

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2007, 02:31 PM »

In honor of Ken, i have blogged my diagram.  I can only imagine what people who just visit the blog and don't follow the discussions here will think of it..

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UrlSnooper / Re: XP Install - Worked, then didn't...and doesn't

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2007, 02:21 PM »

ok first, there is nothing in any of our programs that cause them to work in one way with license key and another way without them, just to be clear.

Can you try this new, not yet public, release of URLSnooper:
https://www.donation.../URLSnooperSetup.exe

It fixes a strange bug i found in the last version that could be related to what you are experiencing (though im not sure).

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General Software Discussion / Re: how do you write a .chm file?

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2007, 01:29 PM »

Well for those that want it but can't quite afford it yet, we will try hard to have another discount on Help+Manual this year, it really is a pleasure to use, and a real powerhouse.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA:Wordpress theme creator

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2007, 11:20 AM »

this is a fun idea.. there is a large community of wordpress hackers, i wonder if anyone has considered this or made something like it..

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General Software Discussion / Re: The software awards scam

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2007, 10:04 AM »

A problem with these sites is they clog up the search results, and make it harder to find the worthwhile sites.

Moreover, because they are all about advertising money, the search engines have a vested interest in not filtering them out, and they are more focused on search-engine optimization and attracting search engines then real sites.

So basically we have a vicious circle where the least useful sites are the most focused on getting high placement on search engines, and search engines make big profits from them.  Not just with software sites of course but most content.

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Living Room / Re: KenR's health and situation

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2007, 09:47 AM »

I already promised to buy him his freeware application of choice.

Lease it.

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DcUpdater / Re: Extra Update Files

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2007, 09:26 AM »

OK, first thing is that (currently) the updater tool only works with programs made to support it, so it's not going to work with CSDIFF5 no matter what you drop on it

Second,
I've just been updating all of my software to work with the updater.  If you have the latest copy of the updater tool, you should see a tab labeled "Available for Installation" and ClipboardHelpAndSpell v1.14.01 should be on it.  You need to install that latest version of CHS in order to get update checking for it.

Once the new version of CHS is installed you will have update support for it thereafter, and no need to drag any folders anywhere.

Really the only time you have to manually add folders to DcUpdater is if you bypass the installer for that program; and the thing you are doing when you add folders to DcUpdater manually is helping it locate the .dcupdate files for that program -- so if the program doesn't have a .dcupdate file then there is no point adding its folder.

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Living Room / Re: KenR's health and situation

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2007, 09:14 AM »

I thought Ken would appreciate the academic dark humour -- he knows how much I care about him 

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Living Room / Re: KenR's health and situation

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2007, 08:44 AM »

I made this diagram to illustrate why I'm not getting a present for Ken:

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Will LBC support openning of Bars via HotKey?

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2007, 08:13 AM »

I'll be adding this very soon.. probably this month.

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General Software Discussion / Jeff Atwood's School of Blog Writing, Episode 999

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2007, 12:32 AM »

Somehow Jeff Atwood, who might be expected to be mostly good at programming, has become one of the best examples of how to write a good blog.  His essays just seem to hit all the right notes in terms of content, size, style, you name it.  So when he gives tips on blog writing, you'd be wise to listen..

I started out in early 2004 as a blog skeptic. But over the last four years, I've become a born-again believer. In that time, I've written almost a thousand blog entries, and I've read thousands upon thousands of blog entries. As a result, I've developed some rather strong opinions about what makes blogs work so well, and what makes blogs sometimes not work so well.

I'd like to share some of the latter with you today, in a piece I call Thirteen Blog Clichés...

http://www.codinghor...archives/000834.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: how do you write a .chm file?

« Last post by mouser on August 18, 2007, 12:19 AM »

You know I'd love to see a more organized process on this forum where a small group of people could agree to do an organized, exhaustive, frenetic testing of programs and try to come up with some consensus of best tools for a task.

In other words, it would be nice if we could take a thread like this and have a few people just go out and try every help file maker they can find and winnow down the list of top candidates.  Not only would that be helpful but we could then go and try to get some discounts on these, as well as provide some guidance to the non-top authors on how they could improve their programs.