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

« Last post by mouser on May 30, 2007, 02:23 PM »

i think the way the save game could use some improvement.
it's nice how it autosaves progress.
but a new player might not realize it, and might think they have to keep restarting from begining.
and if you make the mistake of pressing 1player you erase your past save game.

maybe the game should ALWAYS resume from where they left off (ie get rid of load option on main screen and always do a load if they select 1 player). and instead of Load option put at bottom "restart from first level" or "clear save same" or just let user delete the save game if they want to restart since most will not want to.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR V2 hyper-alpha - alias fiends available to test?

« Last post by mouser on May 30, 2007, 12:42 PM »

crap, i see that it's not auto-creating the myaliases.alias file. damn that may be the problem
ok i better release an update asap or no one is going to be able to create aliases!

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The Form Letter Machine / Re: Additional Templates

« Last post by mouser on May 30, 2007, 12:05 PM »

great questions.

first, as you guessed, the form letter machine comes with no templates other than the sample one.
it's currently made really for people who have their own special types of letters/emails that they write, rather than using present ones.

i think it would be a great idea to share useful templates.  we can do so simply by sharing the form letter data files and posting them on the forum here.

as for creating new templates, it's easy.  The Form Letter Machine calls a "template" a "Configuration Tree", so just go to File -> New Blank Configuration tree from the main menu, and create a new template and save it.  no programming required.

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

« Last post by mouser on May 30, 2007, 11:42 AM »

i enjoy it a lot.

i think the website needs a bit of work.
first, it needs a screenshot or 4 on the main page.

and i think the download links should be clear normal links, like people are used to.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR V2 hyper-alpha - alias fiends available to test?

« Last post by mouser on May 30, 2007, 11:35 AM »

Liquidmantis,
it was supposed to keep your aliases -- i think it's probably a vista issue.

as you say, the gui doesn't yet have a way to let you create a new alias file, but what you did manually should have worked.  can you check the appdata directories and make sure it didnt create folders in there? i have to check my vista version for this stuff.  when you modify your custom alias file, can you make sure its saving your changes, and see what alias file in what directory it is really modifying.

ps.
please save your backed up original alias prior to this new version! when i get the vista version working you will want to restore to that version in order to have it properly import your old aliases.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Interesting Behaviour

« Last post by mouser on May 30, 2007, 10:32 AM »

another thing is to compare the backup and hd files and see whats changed.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.32.01 - APR 09, 2007

« Last post by mouser on May 29, 2007, 06:07 PM »

there will be a new release in days and i'll make the versions right

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UrlSnooper / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - URL SNOOPER - v2.18.01, FEB 7th, 2006

« Last post by mouser on May 29, 2007, 11:12 AM »

it's a windows98 issue only, a few fixes have been posted recently.. i'm sorry for not releasing an update yet with fixes incorporated -- i will try to get it released asap. until then, see workaround here: https://www.donation...63.msg62642#msg62642

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General Software Discussion / Re: Pocket PC utility that allows price comparison for groceries/toys/gadgets?

« Last post by mouser on May 29, 2007, 11:10 AM »

this is a great idea.. i seem to remember there are shopping list type programs that include some of this functionality, so keep looking until you find a program to do what you say and let us know.  i really think this is a great idea, and if no free tool exists for this maybe someone here can make it.

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Word Processor Roundup / I've received Part 2 draft from zaine -- so now is the time to post any requests

« Last post by mouser on May 29, 2007, 08:59 AM »

if you have any requests for stuff you want zaine to address in parts 2+3, now is the time to speak up as he readies part2+3 for publication.

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Living Room / MOVED: A Warning about Thinkall.com

« Last post by mouser on May 29, 2007, 08:56 AM »

This topic has been moved to Company Complaints.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2083.0

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: AcroLiminator

« Last post by mouser on May 29, 2007, 08:05 AM »

actually it's a cool name, and a cool idea
might be nice to have an option to replace them with the full text OR with "full text (ORIGINALACRONYM)"

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Delphi and C++ Builder / Re: Getting Started With Borland C++ Builder Q& A ?

« Last post by mouser on May 29, 2007, 07:23 AM »

1-5 can be done purely visually, using the IDE.
Rather than people giving you a walkthrough with screenshots, the best advice other programmers like me can give you is to get used to using a search engine and figuring it out through experimentation.  All of the things you are asking are things that C++ Builder is *specifically* designed to make easy through point-and-click manipulation from inside the visual editor.  Get yourself a c++ builder book if you're going to use it seriously.

The last item #6 is going to require a 3rd party drop-in replacement editor component.  Adding such components is one of the fun parts about c++ builder, so your job now is to find one to use and learn how to install it into c++ builder.

But again, you don't really want to ask people's help for how to do these things..  Save your requests for help for when you get stuck *after* you've gone and done your searching and tried to figure it out for yourself

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Delphi and C++ Builder / Re: Something you should know about C++ Builder

« Last post by mouser on May 29, 2007, 07:14 AM »

you know justice, this would be a great feature to add to a 3rd party exe compressor.. going to pass this on to db90h who hangs out here and is the brains behind PECompact (www.bitsum.com), which I use on some of my programs.

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Best Website Change Monitoring Tool / Re: I stopped using WebSiteWatcher and started using OpenKapow

« Last post by mouser on May 29, 2007, 01:26 AM »

Openkapow RoboMaker looks very interesting: http://openkapow.com/Default.aspx

ps. RSS Bandit: http://www.rssbandit.org

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Living Room / Re: Sony's special screw will make your everyday screws blush in shame!

« Last post by mouser on May 28, 2007, 08:48 AM »

capitalism in action.

what i want to know is, how much is the special screwdriver you need to install it 

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Living Room / Re: Medieval Tech Support

« Last post by mouser on May 28, 2007, 08:42 AM »

thread locked; posted before, here: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=8050.0
it is quite hilarious though, and worth a 2nd viewing

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Site/Forum Features / ReadMe: Find out and rant about bad companies

« Last post by mouser on May 27, 2007, 07:24 PM »

I set up this section based on strong requests in the irc channel for a place on DC to rant about companies.

I'm a little hesitant to do so because there are already some very good other site for such posts.

Feel free to post here your rants about companies, but also feel free to post on one of the other great sites (like http://www.shitware.net) and just post a link to those sites here.

NOTE: This section has been expanded to include PRAISE about good companies -- we thought it was only fair to have both here.


UPDATE April 21, 2011: We have decided to merge the complaints and compliments section posts with our other forums so there is no separate forum section for such posts.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Tray Balloon messages auto-extinction ?

« Last post by mouser on May 27, 2007, 01:45 PM »

you can off course just turn off balloon tips in process tamer only, which is a bit safer, since you might not want to lose all balloon messages.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR V2 hyper-alpha - alias fiends available to test?

« Last post by mouser on May 27, 2007, 09:24 AM »

sorry, i'm just a bit slow responding.  i'll have it up and emailed today.

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Living Room / Re: Cached pages in IE - help please!

« Last post by mouser on May 27, 2007, 09:23 AM »

I used to use this *feature* quite often when the kids & nephews were younger -- the names of the image files were usually quite graphic enough to get them busted, & they never did figure out how they got caught.

 

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Using Clipboard Help+Spell to insert Tags?

« Last post by mouser on May 26, 2007, 12:01 PM »

I'm going to give this some real thought and write a sensible reply when i catch my breath.

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Screenshot Captor / MOVED: Using Clipboard Help+Spell to insert Tags?

« Last post by mouser on May 26, 2007, 11:53 AM »

This topic has been moved to Clipboard Help+Spell.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=8605.0

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Post New Requests Here / Re: tool to fullscreen (not just maximize) any application?

« Last post by mouser on May 26, 2007, 10:25 AM »

ace and mackal,
so what's the verdict? does the ahk script work well yet?
when it's ready perhaps we can convince you to make a little .ahk/precompiled-exe zip file for easy download?

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Living Room / Flash Game of the Week: FlashTrek Broken Mirror

« Last post by mouser on May 26, 2007, 10:17 AM »

Ok this is not an easy game to just jump into, it's pretty deep and it will require reading some instructions and taking your time learning.  But it's a pretty damn cool star trek space game which is clearly based on copying the "EV Nova" game engine, which is a damn cool indie shareware game which is a ton of fun (http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/)."

http://www.newground...m/portal/view/238585