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Developer's Corner / Anyone ever used Swig or other c++ wrapping tools? recommendations

« Last post by mouser on August 11, 2006, 12:35 AM »

Anyone ever used Swig to automatically create wrappers around C++ class?

Swig: http://www.swig.org/

I know there are some others and i'd be interested in hearing any comparisons or experiences.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: "Custom File Explorer" option...

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 11:18 PM »

hmm..
that's odd.. ill look into it.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: A new name

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 11:14 PM »

after so long, i think we are stuck with the current name.. ah well lesson learned for next time to be smarter about naming a product.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Corrupted *.mcf file

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 11:12 PM »

ok send it to me ill see what i can do.

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Living Room / Re: Free blog hosting for members at DonationCoder - might be a good idea?

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 11:12 PM »

i want to restart this thread as the new secondary server for hosting member stuff is now up and working well and so i'm ready to install some wiki/blogging/cms software for users.

we need to figure out a good solution that doesnt require a separate install for each user and isn't hard to maintain, and wont drag down server.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: setting up a secondary server for hosting member accounts

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 11:05 PM »

move is complete and went smoothly.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: "Custom File Explorer" option...

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 10:49 PM »

it knows to pass the folder on the commandline so no need for the $$1

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General Software Discussion / Re: best tool for separating (cropping) figure from background?

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 09:31 PM »

i guess they are saying you have to be an administrator to install the program and run it for the first time, after which is should work for any user account?

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Official Announcements / Re: Should we add graphics (and other) challenges to the self-teaching school?

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 09:29 PM »

let's remember, leaving aside whether this is a good idea or not, the section we are talking about here will not have tutorials and lessons - i definitely think that is definitely better done on a site devoted to that purpose.

the same thing holds with lessons and tutorials on how to program.  there are other great sites for that and i think it would be a mistake for us to try to do it also.  what the self-teaching programming school section here does is just offer a "ladder" (and increasingly difficult sequence) of assignments/challenges that the user can use to help motivate themself.  so that is the only thing up for debate here really, whether we might add ladders of self-teaching assignments/challenges for graphics programs and other tools, not just programming languages.

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UrlSnooper / Re: URLsnooper didn't work.

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 09:24 PM »

when i use manual and it does give me links but no script box shown

can you explain this more?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scripting to be added to Screenshot Captor

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 09:17 PM »

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "big oop programs" versus scripts. Do you mean "big C++ programs", where the meaning of the code is more explicit, at the expense of being larger (not to mention about a squillion times faster)?

yes i meant oop as in object oriented programming.

my philsophy of programming is that verbosity is good.  i find that some people are really drawn to languages like perl where you can write one line that does a lot.  i prefer having a longer function and bigger infrastructure that feels to me more organized.

>Are you likely to add scripting to any of your other apps?

yep, that's part of the calculus involved; even thought sc will have only minimal scripting, ill be using it more in other more substantial roles in other projects, so i have to take that into consideration yet.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: "Custom File Explorer" option...

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 09:13 PM »

it's not as complicated as you think; it basically just says to launch an alternative file explorer like directory opus, or explorer^2 or powerdesk, instead of the built in windows explorer, if you ever ask to open a folder, etc.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Corrupted *.mcf file

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 09:09 PM »

see if its just the mcp file which just holds the name of the last loaded node files that was corrupted, by trying to open the mcf file now in your new project file.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Aligning the icons - center

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 09:08 PM »

that is a good idea, i will add it in some way.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Corrupted *.mcf file

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 09:03 PM »

send me the mcp and mcf file and i will try to fix.
there is a backup tool in the menu, but as you say it's not automatic.  i agree that that it should be automatic.
i will also add code to prevent the possibility of it saving a bad file.

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Living Room / Re: Superman is now a college student!

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 01:46 PM »

hahaaha.  good one.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scripting to be added to Screenshot Captor

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 12:39 PM »

for some reason lua just didn't capture my heart from the book i read; ruby the same, though i feel more like i could maybe adjust to ruby.  my programming style in general lends itself more to big oop programs rather than scripts.  i always do things in 100 lines which could be done in 1 line of a scripting language, for better or worse.

but squirrel (http://www.squirrel-lang.org/) really seemed to appeal to the c++ coder in me, so i may give that a try.  on the other hand, scripting for screenshot captor will be very light weight and minimal, and so lua might end up being perfect for that.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scripting to be added to Screenshot Captor

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 10:45 AM »

i am not that fond of lua.  but i might try squirrel.

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Re: SqlManager component

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 04:57 AM »

that sounds really useful actually.

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Official Announcements / Re: Should we add graphics (and other) challenges to the self-teaching school?

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 02:52 AM »

one of the nice things about this section is that it really doesnt require much work to maintain it; people just tackle the assignments on their own and its not like anyone has to actively be there to teach them, so it's not a big commitment.  it's just a matter of thinking up some assignments.  the only real downside is whether people wouldn't be better off being just pointed to some serious website devoted to learning graphics techniques, etc.

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Official Announcements / Should we add graphics (and other) challenges to the self-teaching school?

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 02:41 AM »

The programming school section of our forum (https://www.donation...index.php?board=77.0) let's people learn at their own pace by proceeding through a ladder of increasingly difficult assignments.

It has been suggested that we extend this perhaps to include things like lessons in photoshop or graphics techniques in general.
It could also be extended to include audio processing, math, etc.

Are people interested in this?  Is anyone willing to volunteer to make up assignments for such sections? What sections should we add?

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Screenshot Captor / Scripting to be added to Screenshot Captor

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 01:58 AM »

I have decided to add a scripting facility to Screenshot Captor.

This will let you define any number of scripts which can be triggered manually or automatically, that do various operations.
You will be able to define a script to do bordering, cropping, shadows, rename, save, etc., as well as launch other programs with the file (ftp, mail, etc.).

This is just a heads up, i'm not starting work on it yet, i still have FARR 2 which will be done before this.  It's just a heads up for people who want to add suggestions related to this, and so there is time to debate about this new feature.  I havent decided whether to use an existing language like lua or python, or go some other route.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Print Size Bug

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 01:55 AM »

no worries

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Living Room / Re: Tea anyone - Bubble Tea that is....

« Last post by mouser on August 10, 2006, 12:40 AM »

bubble tea flavors i like: bannana, taro.

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Living Room / Re: build your own shirt folding machine:

« Last post by mouser on August 09, 2006, 10:49 PM »

i tried it and couldnt figure it out