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UrlSnooper / Re: EAccessViolation error

« Last post by mouser on February 12, 2018, 12:54 PM »

Did you move over an old ini file from another computer or is it a new install?   If you moved over an old ini configuration file from another computer you might try deleting it and restarting to see if it's something in the old ini file.
If it's a new install, I will try to reproduce the issue here on a vmware.

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UrlSnooper / Re: EAccessViolation error

« Last post by mouser on February 12, 2018, 12:01 PM »

And it happens every time you start it?
Are you running in portably or did you use setup installer?  Did you let it install the winpcap drivers?

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2018, 09:53 PM »

Have I posted about this one yet? Jinjing The Penguin, returns to visit the man who saved him every year:

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Living Room / Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble: Long article on blockchain and cryptocurrency

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2018, 07:45 PM »

Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble: Long article on blockchain technology and cryptocurrency and the core ideas that might be useful

Longish article on blockchain and cryptocurrency recommended by Kevin Kelly:
https://www.nytimes....-bitcoin-bubble.html

History is replete with stories of new technologies whose initial applications end up having little to do with their eventual use. All the focus on Bitcoin as a payment system may similarly prove to be a distraction, a technological red herring. Nakamoto pitched Bitcoin as a “peer-to-peer electronic-cash system” in the initial manifesto, but at its heart, the innovation he (or she or they) was proposing had a more general structure, with two key features...For our purposes, forget everything else about the Bitcoin frenzy, and just keep these two things in mind: What Nakamoto ushered into the world was a way of agreeing on the contents of a database without anyone being “in charge” of the database, and a way of compensating people for helping make that database more valuable, without those people being on an official payroll or owning shares in a corporate entity. Together, those two ideas solved the distributed-database problem and the funding problem.

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2018, 04:31 PM »

Woman re-adopts dog she lost as a child:

https://www.thedodo....dog-she-had-as-child



From http://www.neatorama.com

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

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2018, 04:08 PM »

Beta release (see first post in thread for download url).

Nothing really major but hopefully this will get me warmed up for some bigger improvements, and it fixes the weird titlebar date bug.

Version 2.233.01 beta - Feb 10, 2018

• [BugFix] Titlebar with date and time in it (Advanced Visuals options tab) was being overwritten with fixed date/time.
• [Improvement] Variable replacements (like %APPDRIVE%) are now performed on external tools paths, making them more suitable for portable use.
• [Improvement] Added context-menu item to copy all result paths to clipboard.
• [Feature] Added an advanced-user feature for customizing the htmlview mode using a custom css style sheet.  See the Html View Mode help page for more info.
• [Feature] New ability to specify custom directories to load additional alias files from (could be used to point to a shared dropbox folder for example, to aid synchronizing accross pcs).
• [Feature] New ability to specify custom search folder paths  (could be used to point to a shared dropbox folder for example, to aid synchronizing accross pcs).

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2018, 02:42 PM »

For the record I loved Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and thought the humor was perfect.  And I liked #2 as well, though not as much.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: cannot find folder c:\bin or files in c:\bin\ using folder match

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2018, 02:12 PM »

Just following up -- I cannot reproduce the problem -- it makes me think you have some other alias or directory modifier that must be interfering.

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Living Room / Re: Gencon board (and video) game convention, Indiana Aug 2-5, 2018 - Ill be there

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2018, 12:01 PM »

We are confirmed in the Hyatt Regency Indianapolis Aug 1-5, 2018 if anyone wants to meet up to play board games!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Missing the toolbar

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2018, 09:13 AM »

Assuming that exiting and restarting Screenshot Captor does not fix the problem, try this:

1. Exit Screenshot Captor.
2. RENAME the file C:\Users\jesse\Documents\DonationCoder\ScreenshotCaptor\ScreenshotCaptor.ini to something else like ScreenshotCaptor_Bad.ini
3. Restart Screenshot Captor.

This should restore all your settings, including toolbar positions, to defaults.

Now if this fixes the problem I would love to see your ScreenshotCaptor_Bad.ini file so I can understand what could have made the toolbar not visible.

Let me know if it works.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: request: dosearch_noregex (dosearch but ignore regex in other aliases)

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2018, 09:01 AM »

You tend to build some incredibly useful (if not brilliant) functionality into your software, and then seem to forget about it.
But is it documented?

I do tend to forget features I add, it's true.
Thankfully yes, it is documented.  That's the key isn't it -- to document these things as they are added.

From the help page on "Special Search Modifier Keywords":

+sall
show all matching results, bypassing the normal limit on result count

+alias
match search only against aliases

-alias
do not show any matching aliases (only files)

-history
do not give bonus scores to items in history

-.
do not show any files, only folders (and aliases)

-\
do not show any matching folders, only files (and aliases)

+\
show matching folders

+launchone
as soon as there is one (alias) result in the result list, launch it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: request: dosearch_noregex (dosearch but ignore regex in other aliases)

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2018, 02:10 AM »

Oops I just realized this already exists.. You can use -alias to not match aliases, or +alias to only match aliases.

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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately

« Last post by mouser on February 11, 2018, 12:35 AM »

I find the recent focus on constant humor jarring in these super heroes movies.. the same thing bugged me in the last star wars.. It seems like it is the way things these movies are made these days.. It's just too much, it takes me out of the movie.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: request: dosearch_noregex (dosearch but ignore regex in other aliases)

« Last post by mouser on February 10, 2018, 11:49 PM »

Agreed, it would be useful to be able to bypass alias matches...

What about adding support for "-noalias" keyword in search -- if found it would bypass trying to match any aliases (regex or otherwise).  Would that also solve your case? (you would do a dosearch -noalias)?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: bug report

« Last post by mouser on February 10, 2018, 11:47 PM »

New version being worked on now will be released this week with a fix for this.

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Developer's Corner / The hands-free creation of a full video game

« Last post by mouser on February 10, 2018, 05:26 AM »

Nice article on coding using voice recognition without the use of your hands.  Where there is a will, there is a way.

Longtime developer and Austin resident Rusty Moyher was diagnosed with Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) roughly five years ago... Moyher wanted to prove that his dream—of making legitimate video games without using his hands—was possible. For him, the only true answer was to make and launch a good, working game—and to tell the world how he did it so that others might follow suit.

https://arstechnica....f-a-full-video-game/

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Developer's Corner / Essay: Designing Windows 95’S User Interface

« Last post by mouser on February 09, 2018, 09:06 PM »

The OSNews blog once again brings us a fascinating article on the modern history of user interfaces.  This time it's an older essay about the user interface design for Windows 95.

However you feel about Windows 95, there's no denying that its user interface is probably one of the most iconic and well-known user interfaces ever designed and developed. Literally everyone knows it and has used it, and it singlehandedly defined what a personal computer's UI should work like. It's incredibly fascinating to read about the thought processes behind its development.

https://socket3.word...-95s-user-interface/

from http://www.osnews.co..._95_s_user_interface

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Mug showoff

« Last post by mouser on February 09, 2018, 01:08 PM »

excellent!   

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Clip H&S's interaction with MSFT Word?

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

Hmm.. I'd like to hear more about this.. I don't remember hearing it before..
CHS doesn't do anything when you hit Ctrl+V -- that is an operation that CHS stays completely out of.  So I'm not sure why anything should fail to work when you hit CTRL+V on your own..
 

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Mug/T-Shirt Design Competition

« Last post by mouser on February 07, 2018, 09:56 PM »

I hope we can convince folks to post some photos of themselves with the mugs.. they should be arriving soon..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Automatic screenshot but only on Mouse Clicks?

« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2018, 08:08 AM »

Nice! Thanks for sharing that -- I'm sure someone else will find it useful 

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Official Announcements / Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2018, 11:14 PM »

Would folks be interested in a long rambling post about the migration of the dc server(s), the move to content management systems, and all of the options I considered and why each decision was made?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Automatic screenshot but only on Mouse Clicks?

« Last post by mouser on February 04, 2018, 10:32 PM »

I think this should be easy for me to add to Automatic Screenshotter, since I already have a mouse-hook dll that should do the hard lifting for me.. Thanks for the reminder.  Let me see if I can't get it added this week.

Note: I won't be adding this to Screenshot Captor, but to Automatic Screenshotter.  I think.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Capture 4.21.1--- How do i 'Backup' my settings

« Last post by mouser on February 04, 2018, 11:07 AM »

See this thread for the answer: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=44234.0

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Official Announcements / Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server

« Last post by mouser on February 03, 2018, 10:02 PM »

If anyone feels like leaving a new testimonial, it would be very welcome.  Here's the page: https://www.donation...estimonials-about-us
Button in upper right to leave a new one.