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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Income 4 Dummies

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2007, 03:05 PM »

Ok, i think the points have been made well and i'll lock this thread for now.  As IQLover said himself, he wasn't sure if the post was appropriate and we can leave it here for now so people can see what the general consensus is about such things.  As Josh says, the real problem is not with announcing a for-profit thing, but rather with not making it clear the nature of the thing.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.135 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - July 17, 2007

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2007, 02:23 PM »

So if I open FARR and then just close it again, I'd want my clipboard contents prior to starting FARR to be intact.

this was one of the reasons i totally redid the hotkey system.  now it works exactly as you say -- you can configure a specific hotkey (ctrl+break by default) to copy selected text to clipboard when launching farr.  other hotkeys (break or whatever), wont do this.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Income 4 Dummies

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2007, 01:34 PM »

I am always very suspicious of these kinds of things.  Clearly the point is to build a mailing list for future for-profit mailinings.  I don't know if he will be selling the email mailing list, and/or using it to sell other stuff, but seems clear this is not a site where someone is sharing information out of the goodness of their heart.  However I guess that doesn't necesarily mean it's a bad ebook..

Anyway, I'm moving this to the advertise your stuff section since it fits in better there than in the living room.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Navigational Panel - Zoom Tab - Crosshairs in or out?

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2007, 01:20 PM »

this has been suggested before, and it's a good idea, but it's a little tricky because it depends on which corner of the selection you are focusing on.. i'll see what i can in august though.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Post your FARR v2 Plugin Idea Requests Here - Plugin Writers Read In

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2007, 01:12 PM »

Here's a simple plugin idea:

A plugin which shells another program with commandline arguments, captures it's output, and displays it in the FARR Text Memo display mode.

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Living Room / Re: DC get together in Western Europe?! July 2007?

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2007, 02:47 AM »

i thought i noticed something strange about that picture so i took out my magnifying glass, and look what i found:

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Developer's Corner / Big list of Open Source Help Desk software

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2007, 02:12 AM »

Big list of Open Source Help Desk software to manage issues and track phone call problem reports, etc.

http://www.opensourcehelpdesklist.com/

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Long Time to Find Programs

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2007, 01:12 AM »

should search both

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Long Time to Find Programs

« Last post by mouser on July 22, 2007, 12:31 AM »

farr is meant to search the start menu, not program files.

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The Form Letter Machine / Re: General use issues.

« Last post by mouser on July 21, 2007, 07:35 PM »

Hi Kim,

welcome to the site!  I've been building up a small list of features to add to the program for a while and once i get my latest big program released at the end of this month (FARR 2), i will delve into new updates of my other programs including The Form Letter Machine.

Let's take a look at your requests:

1. When the program retreats to the system tray, the active variable list is changed.  If the variable list was not saved, it is lost.  This is a major fault in the program that defeats its value.

Sounds like a bug that would be easy to fix.

2. When saving a tree or variable list, it should default to the correct folder. Having to remember to change directories is another huge loss in productivity.

Agreed -- i've experienced this once too and consider it a bug to be fixed.

3. Manipulating the tree is not intuitive.  For some reason moving buttons, check boxes and folders requires mulitple attempts to get the hierarchy right.

I have to figure out if i should redo this code or just tweak existing code -- i know it's not perfect but i'm not sure i want to tackle it yet -- if we can identify specific reproduceable oddities i may be able to fix them.

I am generating 5-8 variable files a day.  The list is becoming too long to manage efficiently.  There should be a method of changing the variable directory so old files can be moved to a inactive location that can be accessed by simply changing the variable directory.  When the program restarts, it should go back to the default variable directory.

This sounds intriguing but i'd love to hear some more elaboration on what the best way to do this might be and how the interface might be set up for maximum productivity.  If you could give some thought about the best way to present the interface i'd be interested in hearing it.

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Living Room / Re: DC get together in Western Europe?! July 2007?

« Last post by mouser on July 21, 2007, 05:54 PM »

tomos - there was a mini gathering?
tell me and i'll give you your badges.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Magnify cursor in “grab selected region“ mode

« Last post by mouser on July 21, 2007, 01:55 PM »

By the way, one other thing I noticed, is that the object options on the right side panel don’t keep their settings after close.  Another bug, or not implemented to begin with? v2.32.02

another thing to add to my to do list.. i'll have an SC update in august and try to get these things all done 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Magnify cursor in “grab selected region“ mode

« Last post by mouser on July 21, 2007, 01:09 PM »

hmm.. now that i try it it doesnt seem to work.. looks like i have something to fix/add for the next version..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Magnify cursor in “grab selected region“ mode

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2007, 11:04 PM »

the lack of this basically reflects my bias towards doing a full screen capture and then cropping afterwards.
if you do this, you can nudge and resize the current selection within screenshot captor by one pixel by using cursor keys, and you have an always-visible magnifier at bottom right.  then hit the crop button to crop (or hit Ctrl+R).

i can consider adding a magnifier in capture mode, as i know a lot of people like doing a selection capture, but i try to encourage every selected-region capture person i know to try getting used to full screen cap followed by crop, it has the additional benefit of being able to undo.

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Living Room / Re: Very clever time-travel themed flash games: Timebot + Time Raider

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2007, 10:47 PM »

Another hard one, but also wonderfully clever, Time Raider:
http://mirror3.cgdc3...lebot.com/?gameID=11

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.135 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - July 17, 2007

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2007, 08:15 PM »

Another question (probably an old newbie question but I didnt find an answer on a quick search): sometimes a search gets 10-30 matches. If I have set FARR max entries to display to 10, can I still jump to results 10-20, 20-30 ..

add +sall to your search.

The second part, "selected" is the variable for the selected text.

This is *supposed* to work already when you type $c but it doesnt seem to be working.. fixing now.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: A long shot: anyone up for creating a fake satire hype video for FARR v2?

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2007, 07:47 PM »

I'm going to be making real video demos showing how FARR is useful and what it can do.

So i suggest that this satire video be pure humour, and not try to show real abilities of FARR, but instead make fun of the whole hyped demo thing, and pretend FARR can do all sorts of crazy stuff it can't.  Like a mac commercial on crack.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.135 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - July 17, 2007

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2007, 07:44 PM »

farr actually does track the program that was active before it was triggered, and i will be adding variables for accessing window name, exe name, pid (process id), so that you could do the things you are talking about with pkill example.

i'm not sure i followed your notepad example though..

what i thought you were starting to suggest, which is a very interesting idea, was to trigger different responses based on the program running when you hit the hotkey..  definitely an interesting idea..  so if you brought up farr while working in Outlook, you might have farr start up with your alias for outlook clip text pasting menu.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 2007 Shareware Industry Award Winners

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2007, 06:56 PM »

I also use Help+Manual, and my discussions with the author were very nice -- he seems like a great guy 
He should be winning a lot of awards with H+M.

ps. we've had a discount on H+M in the past and maybe we can get a repeat of the discount when we do our fundraiser at the end of the year.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Farr configuration decision: what's your opinion?

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2007, 06:10 PM »

we should say a few more things:

• I'm going to add a checkbox option so you can choose for a hotkey which behavior you want, so the question is simply which is better as a default.
• In the first example (pre-selected text), you would hit end key to go to end and simulate initial state of 2nd example.
• In the second example (non-selected text), you would hit escape key once to select all text and simulate the 1st example.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: A long shot: anyone up for creating a fake satire hype video for FARR v2?

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2007, 06:00 PM »

http://www.stickpage.com/

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Post your FARR v2 Plugin Idea Requests Here - Plugin Writers Read In

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2007, 05:46 PM »

How bout a search plugin that finds errors in FARR's source code?

who wants to die? 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: A long shot: anyone up for creating a fake satire hype video for FARR v2?

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2007, 04:51 PM »

hehehehe nice
but isn't it illegal the rules to make a stick figure gif animation where one of the characters isn't getting murdered?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Post your FARR v2 Plugin Idea Requests Here - Plugin Writers Read In

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2007, 04:31 PM »

How about someone making a simple plugin that just displays a bunch of info about your computer in memo mode (super easy to set this, see calc example).  If you can find open source code on the web for showing uptime, memory, computer info, etc, this would be a really easy plugin to write.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.135 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - July 17, 2007

« Last post by mouser on July 20, 2007, 03:58 PM »

great working tracking this down, rssapphire.  i'm going to try to fix the behavior asap.

meanwhile, version 1.00.135 is now up, with a MAJOR new feature - a completely reworked hotkey system (see the new Hotkeys tab).  This makes it easy to create a variety of hotkeys that bring up far in different ways.

To demonstrate the new features, iadded a new default hotkey: ctrl+break.
To use it, select some text in any program and hit ctrl+break.  The text should be copied to the clipboard for you automatically, and FARR brought up with "search %cliptext%" in the editbox, resulting in a web search menu to select from.  Of course you can customize the hotkeys and make as many as you want.

ps. for those of you who have been nagging me to support Winkey hotkeys you can now relax (yes Josh i'm talking to you!)