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Living Room / dc site slowdown june 15, 2007?

« Last post by mouser on June 15, 2007, 10:37 AM »

the site seems to be really slow this morning.. anyone else experiencing this? looking into it..

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Developer's Corner / TwinForms: A WxWidgets Form Designer in C++ Builder

« Last post by mouser on June 15, 2007, 10:34 AM »

Just saw this new tool (commercial but cheap, $30), which looks very cool.  It basically adds a wxwidgets form designer into your C++ Builder and attempts to help you build cross-platform code from C++ Builder.

There are a couple of screencasts on the site which look pretty nice.  There are other wxwidgets form designers, and some IDE's for windows (like CodeBlocks) that will ensure that your C++ code is cross-platform compatible, but this may be a nice solution for people who really like C++ Builder and want to experiment with wxwidgets stuff in a more comfortable setting.

wxForms is an integrated form designer plugin for Borland C++ Builder that helps you to create cross platform applications for Windows, Mac OSX , Linux (gtk) using single source base. The wxForms code from C++ builder can be compiled in Mac OSX, Linux and Windows Mobile without much change using GNU GCC toolchain (in Windows, Linux, Mac OSX), VC++ , eMbedded VC++ (for Windows CE), Digital Mars and other compilers supported by wxWidgets Framework.

wxForms allows you to use all the C++ builder's powerful Form Designer/ Editor features (Form Alignment, Object inspector, Component Palette etc ) to quickly create Cross platform applications. Components can be easily customized by modifying their properties in the object inspector.

Unlike other wxWidgets Form designers, wxForms allows you to do form designing, code editing and debugging in one single place.

http://www.twinforms...com/wxforms-home.htm

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Living Room / Flash Game of the Day: RatMaze2

« Last post by mouser on June 15, 2007, 12:31 AM »

The people at pixeljam do some of the very best retro 8bit atari style flash games on the planet, and they are always fun.

http://www.pixeljam.com/ratmaze2

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

« Last post by mouser on June 14, 2007, 11:41 PM »

I am soooo excited about this game i can hardly sit still..  I hope we get a lot of participation, testing, suggestions, from members on the site 

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Living Room / MOVED: Docoto Defense - DonationCoder.com Game in Development

« Last post by mouser on June 14, 2007, 11:40 PM »

This topic has been moved to Developer's Corner.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=8878.0

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Official Announcements / Re: Zaine Ridling's Massive Word Processor Review is now Live (Jun 14, 2007)

« Last post by mouser on June 14, 2007, 10:50 PM »

ps. if you guys are members of any other communities or websites that you think would like to read the review, please let them know about it.

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Official Announcements / Zaine Ridling's Massive Word Processor Review is now Live (Jun 14, 2007)

« Last post by mouser on June 14, 2007, 10:31 PM »

Zaine's Massive Three Part Word Processor Review is now finished and live on the site: here.

If you enjoyed part 1 which was published a few months ago, you won't want to miss the full thing which looks at the online contenders and lesser known tools.

https://www.donation...s/Archive/WordProcs/

It's a long but great read.. A Classic. 

ps. please send zaine a credit or three and a little thank you, to show him how much we appreciate his hard work.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to make a video from a sequence of images?

« Last post by mouser on June 14, 2007, 04:51 PM »

My Flipbook Printer page lists this free tool: ImageToAvi.

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Official Announcements / DC-IRLDD #2: DonationCoder Real Life Dinner+Drinks, Sat 7/14, Champaign Illinois

« Last post by mouser on June 14, 2007, 04:46 PM »

The 2nd DonationCoder.com International Real Life Dinner(+Drinks) Lunch and/or Dinner will occur on Saturday, July 14th, 2007.

We will meet at my house in Champaign, IL as before, email me for directions and address ([email protected]).

This is going to be a very early dinner (we will meet at 4pm) to give people a chance to rest up and then drive home if they aren't staying over.

I think the current plan is to go have lunch around noon and then figure out what to do, so anyone thinking of joining us should email me asap!

All forum members are welcome -- but keep in mind that only 1 or 2 people ever show up. But that's ok too it's just a casual get together and we won't be talking about DC much.

-Jesse (mouser)

ps1. Please RSVP by July 10th as soon as possible if you intend on coming.
ps2. I will pay for dinner+drinks for anyone who travels more than a couple of hours to get here.
ps3. Anyone who needs to is welcome to stay the night (I have wifi and air conditioning).



See you there!

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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 June 14, 2007, 04:04 PM »

An official plugin writing contest for FARR 2 has now begun (deadline July 14).  Read details here:
https://www.donation...index.php?topic=8875

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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 14, 2007, 04:04 PM »

Let's not forget this thread where non-coders can make suggestions about good plugin ideas:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=8071.0

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Official Announcements / ANNOUNCEMENT: Find and Run Robot (FARR) 2 - Plugin Programming Contest!

« Last post by mouser on June 14, 2007, 03:23 PM »

Please see this post for full details: https://www.donation...index.php?topic=8875
(this is just a redirect announcement)

We'd love to see some plugin work by some new faces so don't be shy!

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Official Announcements / Re: Only one day left to enter the June software drawing

« Last post by mouser on June 14, 2007, 02:43 PM »

Carl, since we're only putting out one newsletter this month (due to me being backlogged), can we extend the deadline to enter to the end of day on the 17th? I'll get the newsletter out tonight and that will give people time to at least get a newsletter warning about it before it ends?

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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 14, 2007, 01:28 PM »

ps. I would personally really love to see some nice plugins written for FARR, it would mean a lot to me.

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

« Last post by mouser on June 14, 2007, 12:10 PM »

ANNOUNCING
Find and Run Robot (FARR) 2
Plugin Programming Contest

To celebrate the imminent release of FARR Version 2 and it's support of plugins, we are holding a FARR Plugin Writing Contest.
Winners will be chosen by FARR users here in the forum, but it's likely that every plugin writer will win at least a custom DonationCoder collector's item Mug starring our mascot Cody (the mugs are really beautiful).  Top plugins will also win some programming tools.

How are plugins coded and what development tools can I use?

• Plugins are standard windows DLLs, and can be written in any language that supports creating DLLs.  If you've never written a DLL before, it's not that hard but it will require a little bit of learning (This contest is not appropriate for people who have never coded before, sorry).
• However, helper code is included in the sdk for creating plugins using C++ (any compiler), and it will surely be easier to use C++ to write plugins.
• If you are willing to make equivalent wrappers for other languages (delphi, vb, c#) to help others code new plugins in those languages, we would love that and would love to give you a mug as thanks for doing that.
• Sample plugins are included to help you get started -- if you use Borland C++ Builder, Dev C++, or MS Visual Studio, you will find complete projects included.  The big plugins included (FarrFox and FCalc) are written in C++ Builder.
• Warning: Please expect some frustration when writing your first plugin -- the SDK has almost no documentation at this point, besides the sample plugins provided.  You are going to have to experiment. If you have a question about how to do something, don't suffer in silence, post a question on the forum or email me.  Please help each other as well.
• Invitation: As the first plugin writers for FARR you will get the utmost attention from me in adding features to the SDK that you need.  If you think of some aspect of FARR that you would like to control, or information you need, just ask and I will try to add it to the plugin interface.  In other words -- it's likely you are going to find things you want to do from the plugin system but can't yet.  In such cases, email me immediately ([email protected]) and i will try to add it to the plugin system so you can do it.

Prizes:

• Lots of Custom FARR Plugin Writer Mugs
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Standard
• Borland Turbo C++ Pro
• The appreciation of all FARR users, as well as some of their donations

Deadlines:

• The top winners will be chosen in one month (July 14th).
• All working non-trivial plugins submitted before the deadline of July 14th will receive a custom mug.

Download:

• Plugin SDK here: https://www.donation...ds/FarrPluginSDK.zip (comes with source code for FarrFox and FCalc plugins
• FARR v2 Early release: email [email protected] for download url.

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DcUpdater / Re: DcUpdater - Coming Soon - Teaser Screenshot

« Last post by mouser on June 14, 2007, 06:05 AM »

It doesnt matter if the software is officially installer or just unzipped into a folder,
BUT
one problem is that its looking for updates, which for donationcoder are mostly in the form of full setup installers.

That is, it was not my intention to only upload the modified exe, but rather stick with the full installer download when an update is needed.  So my problem is that if you are using it in a plain folder without an install, when it finds that an update is needed, it will want to download the installer and run it.

I suppose i could have an option that says, when you find an update, just download the file and give it to the user instead of running it.  or of course you could just use the updater tool to find out about new updates without using it to download and install stuff.

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Living Room / ATTN Flash Coders - JayIsGames.com Flash Game Programming Competition #3 Begins

« Last post by mouser on June 13, 2007, 05:48 PM »

www.JayIsGames.com is one of the best sites to discover casual Macromedia flash games and they have been running some of the best small game programming competitions, with very high quality results.

Competition #3 is starting today and you have 4 weeks to submit something which fits in with the competition theme.

Here's the scoop: you, casual gamer / game designer / Flash whiz, design a game in Flash (version 8, AS 2.0) that incorporates our theme (see below). It doesn't have to be complex nor large in scope, in fact since you will have only 4 weeks to complete your design, simple ideas are probably the way to go.

Game design competition #3 theme: replayHere's the catch. Your game design must incorporate this theme: "replay".

You are, of course, free to interpret that any way you choose; however, the extent to which your game addresses the theme is left up to the competition judges to decide.

http://jayisgames.co...gn_competition_3.php

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Add an ability to sign in on the Home page

« Last post by mouser on June 13, 2007, 01:29 PM »

you really should only have to sign in once per computer; it remembers you using cookies.  if it keeps forgetting who you are, make sure you aren't deleting the donationcoder cookie.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Update of FarrFox Plugin (v1.03.01) for FARR v2 - Mar 29th, 2007

« Last post by mouser on June 13, 2007, 10:29 AM »

ok i'll add a fix that will allow you to tell farrfox not to autoscan for bookmark files and let you specify them explicitly.  i still wish i knew where it is finding all of these duplicate bookmark files on your system!

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Mouser's Zone / Re: HOW and WHERE to report bugs and suggestions!

« Last post by mouser on June 13, 2007, 10:27 AM »

jpar reminded me i should post here that the bugtracker is disabled for now, because it was becoming redundant with the forum and too hard to maintain; please post bugs in the forum instead, in the section specific for the program you are having trouble with.

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Living Room / Basic Instructions: Great Cartoons

« Last post by mouser on June 13, 2007, 06:53 AM »

I've really been enjoying it lately.  Today is a gret one.

http://www.basicinstructions.net/

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Living Room / Re: Links page - suggestions wanted

« Last post by mouser on June 12, 2007, 10:20 PM »

wordzilla has been trying to get at me to make a site map -- we really need one.

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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 12, 2007, 10:05 PM »

just an fyi - with armando's help, the latest versions (2.00.108) seem to be not hanging any more, but what's even better is farr comes up faster now, and try as i might i cannot get it to miss any initial keystrokes after hitting the break key.  for those who suffered from this in the past, it's no small thing to have it (apparently) fixed. yipee 

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Living Room / Re: Firefox Bookmark tool to tag/index/search FAST?

« Last post by mouser on June 12, 2007, 09:02 PM »

FARR v2 now comes with a pre-installed firefox bookmark searching plugin (also searches IE and Opera bookmarks):
see https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=7919.0  just type and go.

ps. it doesnt yet search special firefox bookmark keywords but i'll be adding that asap.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Anti-spam utility generating complaint, running whois to generate data.

« Last post by mouser on June 12, 2007, 07:07 PM »

i think this is a wonderful idea actually -- i'd love to see someone write it.
it would be nice if it could take as input the complete email received, and parse the email headers, etc.  in doing so it could also avoid being tricked by fake "from" fields, etc.

great idea -- i'd really like to see someone here write this, AFTER a comprehensive search to make sure such tools don't exist yet.  it would make a nice addon for email clients too like thebat and firebird.