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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018

« Last post by mouser on February 26, 2018, 12:36 AM »

Thanks, fixed!
It's almost like I forgot I had to update the web pages..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: selecting a region slow/delayed

« Last post by mouser on February 25, 2018, 02:38 PM »

Ok I compared to the old version and the new version is somewhat improved from that.  However I know I can get it smoother and eliminate this delay completely.  It will have to wait a week or two for a new version however.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: selecting a region slow/delayed

« Last post by mouser on February 25, 2018, 01:02 PM »

This is actually probably due to my new code in the region capture function -- the updating of the cross-hairs lines are slightly delayed in order to make the actual performance better.. Let me see if I can tweak it to be faster.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.27.3 - Feb 24, 2018

« Last post by mouser on February 25, 2018, 12:58 PM »

My bad, I completely forgot about the need to update the new web site page!

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Developer's Corner / Design difficulties of making the stealth game Thief

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2018, 06:33 PM »

Nice short video on the design difficulties of making one of the early first person stealth games, Thief:
https://arstechnica....g-almost-didnt-work/

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2018, 05:43 PM »

I have made 2.33.01 the latest official release; it should now be available from the updater.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.27.3 - Feb 24, 2018

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2018, 05:42 PM »

I have published v4.27.3 as an official release.  It should now be available when you do an update check.

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General Software Discussion / Re: any bug tracking tool suggested?

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2018, 04:43 PM »

Wraith named all the ones I know.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.27.1 beta - Feb 21, 2018

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2018, 06:06 AM »

I didn't change anything that should have affected that option.

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Official Announcements / Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2018, 10:57 PM »

I am on page 12 of the essay about the server move.. Will post it this weekend.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2018, 05:14 AM »

not at all, glad you found the solution!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2018, 01:48 AM »

can you give me a tip for fixing Region?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2018, 01:26 AM »

I created a duplicate copy of cpanel in myaliases and named it "cp". (I also do this on my main account to save keystrokes.) Afterwards, the real "cpanel" aliases were still working ok, but the custom alias "cp" all showed a generic icon.

I'll have to go remind myself about creating duplicate aliases.  It may simply be that it copies the alias but the icons aren't in the new alias directory so they aren't being found.

One thing you should check out though is that FARR now has a "Quick Search Words" area specifically designed to make it easy for you to specify shorthands for things, so if you just added
cp=cpanel
To that, you could type cp instead of cpanel.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018

« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2018, 08:12 PM »

Regarding icons, it could be really handy to add a feature/option to show batchfiles icons in a different way:

This is an interesting idea.. perhaps an option to set custom icons by file extension would be useful..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018

« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2018, 08:12 PM »

Strange, testing it on a vmware windows 10, the cpanel alias icons all showed fine..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.27.1 beta - Feb 21, 2018

« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2018, 07:12 PM »

Thanks, fixed.

4.27.3 minor update:
[Improvement] When copying a selected region to clipboard or saving a selected region as a separate file (see toolbar button and save menu for this handy operation), it will now properly save alpha transparency if the selection is non rectangular (for example made using lasso selection or auto adjust region action).

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.27.1 beta - Feb 21, 2018

« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2018, 06:52 PM »

And for anyone who ever wants to regularly capture images at certain sizes, or crop to certain sizes, I encourage you to check out the MyFavorites tab and set some favorite sizes, and check out the new feature where you can quickly select these using keys 1-9 in region capture and in editing mode.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.27.1 beta - Feb 21, 2018

« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2018, 06:51 PM »

At this point I would appreciate any and all beta test reports.  I have made some non-trivial improvements and I want to make sure I didn't break anything before I push out an official update.  You don't even have to try the new features, just use what you normally use and let me know if the thumbnail panel ever acts up on you.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018

« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2018, 09:01 AM »

ok i will look into it and report back soon.. it's good timing, so hopefully i'll have a fix this week.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018

« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2018, 06:57 AM »

If you could check that the alias folders have the icons in them.. and let me know if this is a portable or setup install.

Can anyone else confirm this issue?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018

« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2018, 06:17 AM »

How strange! I shall look into it.
So you say it happens with all of the alias icons on windows 10??

Missing icons is not a minor snag -- icons are a key feature of FARR!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.27.1 beta - Feb 21, 2018

« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2018, 05:51 AM »

4.27.2beta - Minor update to fix auto-adjust selection bug -- it could be off by one in some cases.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.27.1 beta - Feb 21, 2018

« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2018, 02:43 AM »

Thanks very much for the testing, dluby! I appreciate all the feedback and bug reports.

That seems to have fixed it, there's still a slight delay when closing the preferences screen (without making any changes) but it's fine.

Let me take a guess that you have a fair number of screenshots in your thumbnail panel (screenshot directory).  In such cases there will still be some delays on operations that cause that thumbnail panel to repopulate.

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Living Room / Re: Peculiar windows problem

« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2018, 12:48 AM »

App has a good point.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.27.1 beta - Feb 21, 2018

« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2018, 12:17 AM »

Dluby give the latest version a try and see if I haven't fixed the issue.
I have some concern that in some of my zeal to improve the thumbnail panel sort/refresh, and fix related bugs, that there may be cases where it doesn't resort when it should, etc.  So if anyone notices that let me know.