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Screenshot Captor / Re: How to hide all stuff in main window except menues ?

« Last post by mouser on June 28, 2007, 09:39 AM »

you can turn off the thumbnail panel, and resize the zoom loupe to 0 size, and resize the filename to almost 0 size.
you cant remove the toolbar completely though you can relocate it by dragging it to someplace different (like on meny bar).  vertical size slider also cannot be hidden.

i could add options to hide this stuff if people wanted.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Trouble saving aliases

« Last post by mouser on June 27, 2007, 08:54 PM »

I'm still unsure why farr wasnt working in this case..  It has code to check if it can write into the configuration directory and recreate the user alias in documents and settings if it can't, so i don't know why it wasn't doing that..

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Find and Run Robot (FARR) 2 - Plugin Programming Contest!

« Last post by mouser on June 27, 2007, 08:53 PM »

Update: I have received 9 beautiful mugs with the logo as seen above, which will be given out to the first 9 (non-trivial) plugin makers.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Docoto Defense - DonationCoder.com Game in Development

« Last post by mouser on June 27, 2007, 04:13 PM »

yeah i think it would be nice to see what it looks like on the shirt without the background and that just being transparent region.  you are right it would look more professional that way.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Docoto Defense - DonationCoder.com Game in Development

« Last post by mouser on June 27, 2007, 01:25 PM »

nudone -- that's soooo good!!!!!



That is going to look amazing on a black tshirt.

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Find And Run Robot / Custom Font Settings for FARR

« Last post by mouser on June 27, 2007, 01:19 PM »

I'm just finishing up the ability to have complete control over the fonts/fontsizes used by FARR, if you want to tweak them:


Note also that based on an idea by member akx, i've added a big number on the far left in large icon (slide) mode.  It's optional in case you prefer the old way.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Announcing a New Project

« Last post by mouser on June 27, 2007, 08:42 AM »

if you're having fun, go for it -- but keep in mind their are a LOT of well established toolbar launchers.  i'd love to see you work on a project soon in an area which is less crowded.  with skyide for example, you are doing such good work but it's a damn uphill battle to match the teams working on codeblocks, etc.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Maze Craze - Fun 2D game by Wreckedcarzz

« Last post by mouser on June 27, 2007, 12:20 AM »

level 35 looks fun -- if i had one request/suggestion for maze craze it would be to keep introducing a new kind of object every certain number of levels.  my favorite part of the game is when cars were first used, and i keep hoping to see a new kind of object in a subsequent level..

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Maze Craze - Fun 2D game by Wreckedcarzz

« Last post by mouser on June 27, 2007, 12:19 AM »

you could throw in crazy stuff like that camera, on a few levels near the end maybe, but im not sure it would be good for all levels.  if you upload a demo ill try it.

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Living Room / Re: Game of the day: Missile game 3D

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2007, 11:47 PM »

this is a great game of the day, especially for all time travelers who want to go back to November 2006 when Ken first posted it: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=6209.0

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Living Room / Re: Visual history of Apple, 1976-2007

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2007, 11:45 PM »

cool.
but you know what's odd is that looking back at the history of apple, i'm reminding how consistently ugly i find their stuff.  maybe it's just me, but aside from a few notable exceptions i really dislike the apple aesthetic.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Maze Craze - Fun 2D game by Wreckedcarzz

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2007, 08:55 PM »

i like the old website better.
i think you need a screenshot on the homepage also.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Do you want to see F&R with optional skins?

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2007, 08:18 PM »

i too am glad i added the optional skins.  i personally HATE skins 99% of the time, but i must admit i use them in my FARR setup, for some reason.

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UrlSnooper / Re: getting started

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2007, 09:54 AM »

you dont have to download and install winpcap, it should be installed automatically by the url snooper installer.

as far as how to use it, just start it up and assuming you are in default simple mode, it should find your network adapter and start "sniffing".  (if it doesnt then you have to go to advanced mode and select your adapter).

once it is sniffing, then just open your web browser and go to the multimedia websites you care about and perhaps start playing the streaming stations you are interested in.  url snooper should then start detecting urls.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Find and Run Robot (FARR) 2 - Plugin Programming Contest!

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2007, 08:50 AM »

I've just ordered the mugs that will be given out as the other prizes 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias autocompletion

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2007, 08:48 AM »

you can do this already, believe it or not

but yes it is very hard to figure out how since it's such a weird thing.

the funny part is that you already figured out how to do it with your first example

to learn more, go to the help file, and the section Advanced Use -> Using Alias Action Keywords:

A new feature with FARR version 2 is the ability to specify alias names in your search string using the + prefix (just like keyword modifiers).

When an alias name is specified in this way, anywhere on the search string, it does not effect search, but it will cause the alias results to be displayed AFTER the result file is selected, with the selected file name as argument $$1 in the alias.

In this way, you can perform a normal file/folder search and then launch a specific alias command with that file/folder as an ARGUMENT.

For example, you could create an alias named +hexedit

whose result contents are:
C:\Program Files\HexEditors\HexEdit.exe "$$1"

Now you can type in your search:
+hexedit mydocsearch...

As you type mydocsearch words, FARR will let you search for files as normal.

After you choose the result, instead of launching the result file, you will be presented with

C:\Program Files\HexEditors\HexEdit.exe "SELECTEDFILE"

Which you can then launch.

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Living Room / Re: Please help

« Last post by mouser on June 26, 2007, 08:36 AM »

One possibility you might consider is offering your services to an existing game development project, so you could join a team which is developing such a game.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.100 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - June 07, 2007

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2007, 10:07 PM »

rbeeger, i just realized that the ability to shut down running copy of farr wont work on older version of farr, just from now on.  can you try running the new installer again while your current new version is running, and see if it can shut it down ok, or if not, if it gives you a warning.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Do you want to see F&R with optional skins?

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2007, 05:34 PM »

skins have been added for quite a long time, and they are optional

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.100 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - June 07, 2007

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2007, 12:44 PM »

thanks johi, good point about digit keys and plugins. i can certainly fix it so that for plugins that display pure text (like fcalc) instead of results, digit keys are allowed.

rbeeger, thank you for that report, that is troublesome -- has anyone else tried the new setup program that tries to close any running copy of farr and found it works or doesnt?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.100 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - June 07, 2007

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2007, 10:13 AM »

thanks for that, i'll fix in the next distribution.   actually i'd really like some help organizing and adding to the alias files that now come with far if anyone wants to try to improve that i'd welcome it.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Some feature requests

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2007, 04:05 AM »

assign meaningful names

you should be able to do this already.

the others all seem very doable.
when you say pop up faster, do you mean the main menu, or the quick paste menu (which always seems to pop up quite fast for me)?, or both?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.100 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - June 07, 2007

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2007, 03:56 AM »

the last two options are somewhat redundant, in that if you have "always launch first result on hitting enter", then the option "if there is only one result, launch it when hitting enter" is covered by this already, and checking or unchecking this box has no effect, and so should probably be grayed out.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Activity logger (with screenshots)

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2007, 03:45 AM »

I've often thought of making such a program out of my Screenshot Captor tool, but there is actually an existing program that does this pretty well, TimeSnapper ($40):

http://www.timesnapper.com/index.aspx



There used to be a free version but it looks like they are phasing that out and not talking about that any more.

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Developer's Corner / Re: PHP Frameworks

« Last post by mouser on June 24, 2007, 11:22 PM »

nice find