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General Software Discussion / Re: MIDI data and screensaver

« Last post by ayryq on March 27, 2009, 01:00 PM »

MIDIzzy works perfectly. Jabberwock's comment made me think about key emulation - if MIDIzzy were to press a normally-unused key (say, Scroll Lock), the program could run all the time without interfering with the mouse. As it is, if I'm using the keyboard to enter music into the computer (and using the mouse at the same time), I have to disable MIDIzzy and remember to restart it when I'm done.

I feel bad, since I have really no idea what was involved in coding this, and I appreciate it greatly, but I would have the following feature requests if you decide to follow up.
1. My MIDI ports are longer than the control size. I have three that appear identical when truncated. E.g. "1:Roland SC-8850 MIDI IN 1"
2. It would be nice to minimize to tray.

Again, thanks so much - it's very usable and useful as is.

Cheers,
Eric

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Site/Forum Features / Re: RSS Feeds for DonationCoder.com and this Forum

« Last post by ayryq on March 26, 2009, 04:47 PM »

I turned off "Synchronize this folder with NewsGator" under edit/folder properties

bob99, that did the trick. Weird. Thanks.

Eric

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New FARR Plugin: FCalc

« Last post by ayryq on March 21, 2009, 12:02 PM »

The most recent version of FARR (from the website) is 2.49.01. I have version 2.52.02. (from DC Updater)
I have version 1.10.01 of FCalc, which is the current version available for download.

I just double checked (in case an update recently fixed this) and am still experiencing the NumPad problem.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: RSS Feeds for DonationCoder.com and this Forum

« Last post by ayryq on March 16, 2009, 08:34 PM »

Subscribing to the blog doesn't work for me at all. I'm using feeddemon. The URL I'm using is

[Select]

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=.xml%3Blimit=10%3Bsa=blogs%3Btype=rss2

I see a list of posts from the day I signed up, and no new ones since. My most recent post is from March 2 - Comic Strip Generator - which now that I look I don't think it appeared on the blog. I subscribed by using the link on http://donationcoder.com/blog/.

Help?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New FARR Plugin: FCalc

« Last post by ayryq on March 13, 2009, 04:15 PM »

I currently use the number pad keys to select results during normal FARR use... but this disables use of number pad keys to enter calculations in fcalc. Is there a way around this? Or must I uncheck "Numpad keys launch results..."

Thanks

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General Software Discussion / MIDI data and screensaver

« Last post by ayryq on March 04, 2009, 10:00 PM »

Does anyone know of a way (or program) to make MIDI data stop the windows screensaver or power saving mode, switch the power "profile" or anything similar?
 
I.E., if the screensaver is running and I tap a few notes on my (piano) keyboard, the screensaver should shut off, and if I'm playing a song, the screensaver should not start.
 
The problem is that if I'm playing music on-screen with my MIDI keyboard, the screensaver may turn on, so I have to move a hand from the MIDI keyboard to the computer keyboard or mouse.

I'd like to do this without disabling the screensaver, so that after 10 minutes of MIDI (or mouse or keyboard) inactivity, the screensaver comes on as usual.

I am running MIDI-OX (http://www.midiox.com/) all the time, which routes my keyboard to an external sound module.

Thanks, and great forum. I'm a long-time lurker.
Eric

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your mouse of choice?

« Last post by ayryq on February 22, 2009, 08:58 PM »

I have a VX Nano and an MX Revolution; on both I have mapped the small button just behind the scroll wheel to the "middle click" function, which works fine for me. Yes, you can set the wheel to send a middle-click when pressed instead of the default clutch behavior (toggle from clicky to free-spinning), but as was pointed out, the button is just too hard to use that way... to me it feels like the click is too "deep"

Also, I wanted to point out to users of the MX Revolution (and a lot of other Logitech products), check out the so-called "uberOptions" which allow many additional functions to be assigned to each button.

http://www.mstar.net/users/rlowens/

In fact, I can't remember now, but maybe that software is required to get the middle-click function.