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Living Room / Re: For those with a CrashPlan...

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2017, 01:22 AM »

Im a week into SpiderOak.. Despite a very slow initial backup and some slow responsiveness, all seems to be working reasonably well..

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by mouser on December 02, 2017, 12:03 AM »

How about some new gadgets, folks!?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Fixes Size Captor - How to with Minimum Key presses

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2017, 10:49 PM »

Unfortunately that process does not save to clipboard, based on the settings mouser suggested for fixed size capture - a dialogue box opens and I need to make choices - eg Save (1) it then copies to clipboard.

Is there an easier way to force these screenshots to copy to clipboard and have no dialogue box or no further options to select eg (1 to 4)?

I gave you the steps!

• Go to Interface Options and tell SC to "After Capture Show: Stay Minimized".
• Go to Post-Capture Options and choose "Copy to clipboard:" and make your choice.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FaRR not closing after launch

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2017, 10:30 PM »

Hmm.. I'm trying to think what could explain it.. I wonder if it's possible that one of the disabled plugins is still misbehaving?
Does the problem still happen if you exit and restart FARR?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alphabetize the Alias Keywords?

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2017, 10:29 PM »

Yeah I can see why that might happen.

There's currently no way to do what you want, though you can drag and drop to re-arrange them.

Let me put it on my todo list.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2017, 02:18 PM »

I really want to return to this project and do a second version of it.. I'm still convinced that some better hardware (maybe 3d printed) that implemented a clever way of centering the die roll landing position would make all the difference,

I'm thinking now that perhaps a small robot arm would be the coolest solution -- and have the advantage of being able to potential evaluate "realistic" dice "rolling" (randomization) mechanisms.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Favorite Preset sizes are capturing 2px smaller than settings

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2017, 12:23 PM »

Let me check into this.  It sounds like an easy fix on my end.
Just to be sure -- are you using the latest version?

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Community Giveaways / Re: Deal on Writing Software

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2017, 05:06 AM »

What dormouse said.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2017, 04:03 AM »

I was inspired to experiment a little today with the stats and graphs to verify some expectations using simulated data.

So I added some code to let me use the standard python random number generator (which turns out to be quite fair looking) to simulate dice rolls, and then injected some biases to see if they could be detected.

So here is a simulated 20 sided die that is ever so slightly unfair.  It has a 0.2% chance (0.002 probability) that any given roll will be same as previous roll, and a 0.2% chance above normal equal probability that it will land on face side 01.


So our first screenshot is with 10,000 rolls.  The stats analysis of the software says it could very well be a fair die -- insufficient evidence to suggest otherwise:


Now we try 100,000 rolls.  And now we start to see a pattern, and we have enough rolls to be pretty certain of our evidence that the die is unfair.  The lower heatmap shows correlations between pairs of rolls -- after 100,000 rolls of a d20 it's hard to visually see patterns there (yet).


Let's try a 1,000,000 rolls and see how it looks.  Yep now we are virtually certain that the die is quite biased.  And now in the lower heatmap you can see the hotter colors on the bottom row and leftmost column and on the diagonal, showing the bias between pairs of rolls:


And just for the hell of it here are 10,000,000 rolls:

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project

« Last post by mouser on December 01, 2017, 12:38 AM »

I really want to return to this project and do a second version of it.. I'm still convinced that some better hardware (maybe 3d printed) that implemented a clever way of centering the die roll landing position would make all the difference, since I believe the major difficulty with the visual recognition is the fact that the die final resting point for different rolls can really skew its appearance and confuse the recognition system.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2018 Announcement

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2017, 08:45 PM »

Come on folks spread the word let's get some more NANY pledges going!!!

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2017, 06:37 PM »

Edited

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2017, 05:57 PM »

The new cms version of the site will should go live this month in December, and I expect will happen simultaneously with a server move (the first since 2010).

I hope everyone will set aside a little money from the holiday stockings as we will do a fundraiser when the new site goes live to help pay for the next year or two of server hosting costs. 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Change default styles of HTML View Mode?

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2017, 04:07 PM »

That's a really good question.. Let me see if I can add a feature that loads in a user-editable style sheet when in html mode..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Minimizing to taskbar / Hiding zoom slider

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2017, 02:51 PM »

I probably can.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: Image Card Printer

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2017, 02:30 PM »

I checked out the links above.  Let me make some brief comments about where my program fits in.

Most(all?) of the links from wraith are pretty fancy tools for creating cards for certain games, with images, stats, and lots of text.

My program is purely for laying out large numbers of image files very precisely to fit card stock paper for printing.  You can customize the details of the card stock and save templates, so it can be used to print on playing card punch-out paper, or business card paper, etc.

My program has no features for creating nice layouts with text and stats, etc.  It's just for taking a large collection of images and laying them out precisely for printing, with a few options for how the images are resized, etc., and then doing the actual printing. 

While it has a few extra features, like things to help you align the card stock, you can see that it's focus is very limited.


Note: I also have an older set of open source python utilities for making/prototyping custom playing cards programmatically: https://www.donation...ser/pythonprotocards

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: About signing up to download freeware license keys - READ IN PLEASE

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2017, 12:40 PM »

You can get the key from this page:
https://www.donationcoder.com/Keys

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: Image Card Printer

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2017, 11:28 AM »

Very useful, thank you!
I will put these in the help file under related programs as well. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: Image Card Printer

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2017, 02:29 AM »

Updated with some new images.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Minimizing to taskbar / Hiding zoom slider

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2017, 09:44 PM »

There is currently no way to do either though I am inclined to add an option for #1.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / NANY 2018 Release: Image Card Printer

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2017, 12:18 PM »

For NANY 2018 I would like to introduce you to "Image Card Printer" a windows desktop app designed to help you print lots of images on card (or business card) stock.

Downloads

• Installer: https://www.donation...CardPrinterSetup.exe
• Portable: https://www.donation...dPrinterPortable.zip

It's based heavily on code from my older Flipbook Printer and FlipSuite programs, but just simplifies the user interface.

The purpose of this program is to help you print out a bunch of images on business card or playing card stock.

I have used this myself to prototype card games or create accessory cards for some board games, etc.

Hope it's useful to someone!

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Community Giveaways / Re: Deal on Writing Software

« Last post by mouser on November 28, 2017, 04:24 PM »

I finished my NaNoWriMo efforts even though I have a lot going on.

Congratulations!! Are you going to share your novel with us?  At least tell us about it and about your experience with NaNoWriMo.

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General Software Discussion / Cool Retro Music Devices

« Last post by mouser on November 27, 2017, 08:49 PM »

I've been watching the retro music device videos from this fellow.  Some very cool devices I never imagined existed:
https://www.youtube....user/Techmoan/videos

A sampling:

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Pasted images too large with new laptop

« Last post by mouser on November 27, 2017, 09:00 AM »

Yep those settings look correct.
Can I ask what version of SC are you using? Just trying to make sure you are using the latest version.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Pasted images too large with new laptop

« Last post by mouser on November 27, 2017, 08:22 AM »

Well that's strange.. It should work.  Excel and other MS office apps use the DPI setting of captured files to scale them, which is why this issue happens in ms office apps.  But changing the dpi should fix it.