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Find And Run Robot / Re: Access to the IE URL History and storage of FARR typed URL history

« Last post by mouser on December 26, 2006, 01:55 AM »

my plan for the next major version of farr is to make it heavily plugin based, so this would fit in well with that.  im reluctant to add too much of such stuff until then though.

i will however be adding an internal history thing to farr though so you can scroll through past launches.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.07 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - December 23, 2006

« Last post by mouser on December 26, 2006, 01:35 AM »

I can't tell you all how helpfull it is to have your bug reports and suggestions.. Really makes it fun.

ps.
Josh found another real bug: the directory searching stuff has messed up any aliases with / and \ in them, so you can no longer type: "http://www.amazon.com" and be offered to browse to it, since the regex never sees the // any more.  will be fixed in next update.

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / A Dark and Deadly Path - v1.05.01 - December 31st, 2006

« Last post by mouser on December 26, 2006, 01:14 AM »

A Dark and Deadly Path v1.05.01 - December 31st, 2006
A super tiny little audio game engine



ADDP (A Dark And Deadly Path) is a tiny little interactive story game engine.

It works like the old Dragon's Lair LaserDisc game [1], or like those "choose your own adventure games [2], but is audio only and involves no graphics.

Basically an ADDP story/game is an audio story where the reader/play must choices along the way by pressing a key on the keyboard. The chioces may have to be made rapidly in quick succession within a narrow  time window which can add an element of panic to the story - and make it a particular appropriate device for for suspense stories.

Audio files are normal .mp3 files that an author records with standard software.  The game script is an .xml file with a format to be described in a separate file.

DOWNLOAD: Here.

READ:

• ReadMe
• AuthorManual

Special thanks to Della for creating a test game/story for it!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.07 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - December 23, 2006

« Last post by mouser on December 26, 2006, 01:08 AM »

also, how do i turn off the frightening big bold text on the edit line?

-lanux128 (December 25, 2006, 10:59 PM)

i was afraid not everyone would love that.. looks like i will have to add an option to go back to normal..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.07 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - December 23, 2006

« Last post by mouser on December 26, 2006, 01:07 AM »

...
2. Why does the wildcard * only find files, not folders? As a result, it seems that there's no way to show folders which must begin with ABC. (One tries to enter ABC* but only files appear.)
...
4. IMHO the all-grey edit/input line is confusing, a violation of the windows norm that input fields are white (or sometimes another color, but in any case different than the basic grey color of buttons and status lines and menu bars etc. Personally, I can adapt to any color, but I do think that it's likely to be confusing to new users, to be expected to type into a field that doesn't LOOK like an input field.
...

-jdmarch (December 25, 2006, 10:23 PM)

2.
You actually dont need to use the * with folders or files, it will find patterns that have just the first few letters already.  the only time to use * is when you want like *.mp3 file patterns.  otherwise just do ABC and FARR interprets that as *ABC*.

4.
i'm afraid you are probably right about this one, it just looks so much nicer when it's skinned this way, imho.  i'll put an option maybe to use normal standard input box colors.

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SMF Forum Mods / Re: 8: Undefined variable: scripturl

« Last post by mouser on December 26, 2006, 12:58 AM »

$scripturl refers to the url of your forum and should be initialized by smf during normal processing.
check the function where the line is that it is reporting the error, make sure any function that refers to the variable says this somewhere near the top:
global $scripturl
which tells php to make the function available.

ps.
gri these are issues that would be more appropriate to ask on smf forum.. unless that message in your sig is true in which case.. maybe you need to figure out a way to get back in the good graces of smf people..

One of the users of my smf forum has got errors:

8: Undefined variable: scripturl
File: /home/megasmf/public_html/gri/vitation/Themes/default/BoardIndex.template.php (eval?)
Line: 656

and

8: Undefined variable: scripturl
File: /home/megasmf/public_html/gri/vitation/Themes/default/MessageIndex.template.php (eval?)
Line: 656
?board=13.0
.

What does it mean ?

-gri (December 25, 2006, 02:47 PM)

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Living Room / Someone who might want to write and narrate a short horror radio story thing..

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2006, 12:18 PM »

I'm working on a very simple game thing and I'm hoping to find someone (or a couple of people) adventurous who might want to write and narrate a little scary audio play of sorts, for a tiny little game thing i'm making.. 

If you know someone who fits the bill please mail me ([email protected]), the sooner the better.

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General Software Discussion / SHELLCITY'S BEST OF 2006

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2006, 12:13 PM »

Many of the first visitors ever to DonationCoder.com almost 2 years ago came from the consistently wonderfull freeware discovery site shellcity.net.

Alll this week they are doing a series on the Best of 2006.. Definitely worth checking out..

SHELLCITY'S BEST OF 2006 -- All week long, friends....... In reverse order, as picked by you....

http://shellcity.net/

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: an indication that "start-up" is finished

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2006, 09:53 AM »

f0dder i think it's important to distinguish doing this EXACTLY and doing this using heuristics that work well.

while it might be difficult to precisely tell the exact moment all startup programs were launched, it really shouldnt be too hard to use a few heuristics to make a very good estimate.

for example, registering a program that starts on startup and checks for 5 seconds of no new processes starting would probably do it just fine.  super easy, no muss no fuss, and likely very accurate.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Acronis True Image for FREE

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2006, 07:32 AM »

Quick answer:

All I need then is a USB Drive (with a SATA interface) to plug another harddisk into the laptop and use Acronis True image to clone the system partition onto the harddisk in the USB Drive. Once cloned, I assume that I can then place the cloned SATA harddisk into the laptopn and reboot it successfully.

yes.  Acronis (and now others as well) can do a succesfull clone of your windows system while it is running.  and it works well - ive used restored systems made from acronis images for a long time and not had a problem.

i also find it quite fast backing up through usb2.

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: SelectoSurf v1.0.2 - Dec 25,2006 - AutoHotkey Script for Plaintext URLs, etc.

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2006, 04:14 AM »

ps.
i use this constantly to open non-standard urls from mirc chat window, etc., because it does some cleanup of urls that other programs might not recognize as being a url.  i welcome any further updates to the script to do more fixing of broken urls.

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / SelectoSurf v1.1.0 - Jan 25,2008 - AutoHotkey script to open plaintext URLs

« Last post by mouser on December 25, 2006, 04:13 AM »

;------------------------------------------------------------------
; SelectoSurf
;  by [email protected]
;  see https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=6714.0
;
; v1.1.0, Jan 25, 2008 - improved browser option, added split-line reconstruction, added about box
; v1.0.2, Nov 10, 2006 - initial release
;
; Select plaintext in any program and hit the hotkey (ctrl+space)
; If the text looks like a url or website name (like donationcoder.com), it will be opened.
;  otherwise a google search will be conducted with the phrase.
;  urls will be cleaned of unnesc. punctuation and split-lines will be merged.
;
; Compiled exe and .ahk source script included.
;------------------------------------------------------------------

There are a lot of scripts that do this kind of thing, but i still thought it would be nice to have another that people could customize.

• Just select a url or something that looks like a url in any program and hit hotkey to open proper web page in browser.
• Fixes urls that are malformed (missing prefixes, extra surrounding characters, etc.)
• If you select a non-url phrase a web search is conducted
• Compiled exe included that uses default browser and hotkey Ctrl+Space, but autohotkey source is provided you can customize
• Cleans up split-line urls, perfect for email urls

Download: https://www.donation...surf/SelectoSurf.zip

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Developer's Corner / Re: What Websites Offer Free Multimedia Resources For Use In Software?

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2006, 11:28 PM »

There are some sound effects and loops here:
http://www.flashkit.com/loops/

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Idea: Shift + Rightclick should directly show the Explorer contextmenu

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2006, 11:26 PM »

making the right arrow key pop-up the context menu when highlighting a file

this sounds reasonable to me.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Idea: Shift + Rightclick should directly show the Explorer contextmenu

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2006, 11:25 PM »

you can navigate through folders with left+right already.
(ctrl or alt held will also do it)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.07 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - December 23, 2006

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2006, 10:42 PM »

ps.
anyone who wants to try the alpha version please message me.

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Living Room / Re: merry chrismis y'all

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2006, 10:18 PM »

happy *mas 

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Living Room / Re: Merry x-mas 2006

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2006, 10:17 PM »

Happy holidays to all 

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Accessibility Game Contest / Re: Switch Game Submission: 'Go Rabbit, Go!'

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2006, 03:18 PM »

Welcome mslaybau,

What is that a picture of in your avatar.. kind of looks like the tip of a dalmation dog tail

In addition to just smoothing out the movement a bit, might be nice to have some "power ups" (like things to eat which make you faster or make you be able to scare the tortoise) or other enemies.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Idea: Shift + Rightclick should directly show the Explorer contextmenu

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2006, 03:07 PM »

sure i can do that; i could also make a pure keyboard shortcut for it, not using mouse.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.07 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - December 23, 2006

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2006, 02:46 PM »

which icon above should i make the default?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.07 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - December 23, 2006

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2006, 02:41 PM »

Could you explain the modified history heuristics in a bit more detail?

yep, i need to write up a whole thing about it, and make some movies, but basically it works like this:

you set the min and max for history items in heuristic scoring tab.

the first time you launch something it will get stored in history with min score.

each time you launch it again, it will get +1 points
each time you lanch something else it will lose -0.1 points

it wont ever get higher than max, or lower than min.

in this way, when you launch something a lot it will grow to max score, and so thus be on top of other items in history.

also note you can set any item manually to a score in history lower or higher than min and max (respetively), and it will maintain a fixed position when displaying hisotry on blank search.

let me know if this doesnt make sense, or wasn't what you had in mind.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Introducing a New Project: Forever Flash Games

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2006, 12:17 PM »

http://forum.ebaumsw...wthread.php?t=158863

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: an indication that "start-up" is finished

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2006, 11:58 AM »

Nope - here is just fine..
I was just suggesting that one of the readers of this post might decide this is a good project to use for their NANY app.

This is one of those clever little useful ideas that is fun enough to code that it will get coded pretty soon.. now you just wait

There are other things that could be added to this:
For example when windows first starts up, the file system directories don't appear to be cached, so the first time you open start menu or browse program files is slow.. might be fun to add an option that would sort of pre-scan common directories in order to bring them into the cache, etc.  In other words just do some things ahead of time to make it so that when the program finally reported that your newly booted pc is "ready for action", it was all primed and fast.

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Living Room / Re: What present should we get Cody for xmas?

« Last post by mouser on December 24, 2006, 11:10 AM »

a flash game staring cody would a great gift, as would a mini flash movie staring cody..  he obviously likes the attention 

getting him a play pal might be nice too, like maybe a teddy bear he can carry around with him (teddy bear should have its own coin he can carry)..