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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Calling all BCB Contest Entrants - Post a Hello On This Thread

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2006, 07:08 AM »

I'd like to invite all entrants to the bcb contest to post a little hello here and introduce yourself if you like, and tell a little about the program(s) you submitted if you feel like it.

Let's get to know each other a bit!


ps. I will be posting an update about the contest in the next day or so.

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2006, 04:19 AM »

btw,
you can now fill in a biography info in your forum profile that people can see when they click the red paper icon under your name in posts.  you can also use bbcode and even images from posts like app103 did (click the red paper icon in her post above to see a good example).

for more info: https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=4349.0

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Site/Forum Features / Re: New biography mod added to the forum

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2006, 02:49 AM »

i have no idea if it will be officially, but like i said i made the modifications to make it work on 1.x

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Site/Forum Features / Re: New biography mod added to the forum

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2006, 02:41 AM »

i actually had to manually find and modify the files because this mod is made for older version of smf; there are a few places that need a little changing.. if you give me a couple of days to get past this bunch of work i have to do for the middle of the month dc stuff and remind me i'll try to prepare a change log.

here's the original:
http://mods.simplema...org/index.php?mod=89

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Living Room / Re: The lost Mac ads found

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2006, 01:27 AM »

from the sphere site list:

this one really made me laugh for it's sheer sillyness:
http://spherule.com/...itch_ellen_remix.mov

dark side one was funny to:
http://spherule.com/.../switch_darkside.mov

switch to mac for better pornography:
http://spherule.com/...rody/switch_porn.mov

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Calling the Modify Format/Case dialog box

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2006, 01:12 AM »

nothing should have changed in this respect..
should be as simple as clicking on the main button for modify format/case:



(note if you click on arrow area of button you get the dropdown menu so you need to click on main area).

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Living Room / Re: The lost Mac ads found

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2006, 07:00 PM »

 

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Site/Forum Features / Re: reply from simplemachines about search issues on the forum

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2006, 04:57 PM »

And hard work for you given the number of mods and tweaks you have set up !

you said it - going to be many  hours of work and testing.. 

By the way where has the search button gone from the button bar?

oops - i thought i was removing something redundant because of the search magnifying glass button at top which does same thing - but i realized you are probably going to tell me that some of you collapse the top info panel and so dont see it.. i guessi need to put back the search tab.

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Living Room / video game company hoax: long video

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2006, 04:26 PM »

long video of an elaborate and subtle hoak, where someone pretends to demo a horrible game. entertaining if you like such things.

http://www.techeblog...rate-video-game-hoax

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Site/Forum Features / reply from simplemachines about search issues on the forum

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2006, 04:08 PM »

There are some bugs in the SMF search in 1.1 RC2. These will be fixed in RC3 which is being released very soon

exciting 

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Living Room / Re: Texture Generators/Creativity Exploration

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2006, 03:59 PM »

awesome - keep 'em coming!

a screenshot of stile:

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Skrommel's Software / Re: ZoneSize and Two Monitors

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2006, 03:58 PM »

jgpaiva, another ahk coder on the site has been working a huge amount on his GridMove tool, which is pretty remarkable and has excellent multimonitor support.  still in active development:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=3824.0

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Living Room / Re: Firefox 2.0 beta available

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2006, 02:17 PM »

f0dder: spellchecking in the next input boxes in forms.

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Site/Forum Features / New biography mod added to the forum

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2006, 12:40 PM »

I've installed a very neat biography mod by Hans_de_Echte (www.de-echte.nl), that let's users fill in a little biography (you can use bccode stuff like bold and lists and url links and even images i guess).

The biography text will show up whenever someone views your profile, and a little red page icon will show up in your posts.

You can edit it from your normal profile page.

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Re: SweetDrawingEngine: open source vectorial graphic library for Delphi

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2006, 12:06 PM »

don't forget JEDI, a huge collection of open source components for delphi/bcb:
http://www.delphi-jedi.org/

Project JEDI is an international non-profit organization, which was formed in an effort to expedite the process of making emerging Windows technologies available to the Delphi development community. Comprised of a team of programmers, beta testers, documentation specialists and web designers, Project JEDI has a clear and unrelenting mandate: to provide Delphi developers with timely access to Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), libraries and any other facilities which extend the capability of the Delphi programming environment.

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Developer's Corner / Re: A rant on syntax and verbosity, why ruby is not for me

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2006, 11:51 AM »

yes, multiple return value stuff can be quite nice, BUT i tend to prefer a much more standardized syntax and grammar for that. e.g.: define an object called a "tuple" and let functions return tuple objects and assign tuple objects.

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General Software Discussion / Re: qad: some freeware utils and wordpress plugins

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2006, 11:34 AM »

ah!! you've been here for a while then ! i didnt connect your forum account with your email

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Official Announcements / Any Ideas for August Fundraiser?

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2006, 11:03 AM »

We are going to make August our yearly fundraising month..  Does anyone have any ideas for what we can do to make it special?

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Living Room / Re: Firefox 2.0 beta available

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2006, 10:59 AM »

i know one of the things added that people are looking forward to is the built-in spell checking.

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / annual Borland Developer Conference - call for papers deadline july 17,2006

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2006, 08:12 AM »

From borland developer network

Dear Developer:
Borland’s Developer Tools Group has begun planning for the 2006 US Developer Conference to be in held in the Fall of 2006 in Northern California (more details to come). 
For 16 years the annual Borland Developer Conference has been the premier event for technical education and has built a solid reputation as one of the most informative technical conferences in the industry. This year’s Conference will take a step further and return to its roots focusing entirely on developers and the challenges they face in our ever changing market.
You are invited to submit abstracts for consideration as a speaker at the Conference. Please submit an abstract for each of your proposed presentations. Please read all information carefully.

The deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended to July 17, 2006.

Abstracts will be published on the Borland Developer Network (BDN) where community members will vote for their favorite sessions.  After voting closes, a review panel will make final decisions regarding which sessions will be included in the program.  We will notify submitters in late July regarding the status of their proposals.

Thank you for your interest. We are excited about the Conference and the participation of our community is vital to the success of the event. We look forward to seeing your ideas!

Sincerely,
Christine Ellis
Developer Conference Program Manager
Developer Relations
Borland Software Corporation
[email protected]

http://bdn.borland.com/article/33526

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / SweetDrawingEngine: open source vectorial graphic library for Delphi

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2006, 08:08 AM »

Nice drawing components/bcb now open source:

from website

SweetDrawingEngine is a complete vectorial graphic library for Delphi that comes with full sources. It is fully OpenSource. You are now able to create complex and beautiful CAD-like interfaces to your application with the power of OOP and a native library for Delphi.

Basic functionality you will have:

• Drawing shapes on the designer canvas by mouse actions or code.
• Modifying the drawed shapes.
• Support multi-layers, deleting/visible/invisible layer(s).
• Using all colors possible.
• Gradient support.
• Using different style of pens ,different style of brushes if you need.
• Creating text objects with any font installed in the system.
• Necessarily shape action related events published.
• Unlimited level undo/redo actions.
• Cutting, copying, pasting and deleting the shapes.
• Sendtoback,Bringtofront all or be a step.
• Ordering the shapes(SendToBack, BringToFront, etc.)
• Dragging and Scaling the shapes by mouse or code
• Snapping the mouse point to grids or existed shape.
• Saving the drawing in XML format.
• Inserting bitmaps to the drawing.
• Locking/Unlocking Shape.
• Grouping and ungrouping the shapes.
• Packing shapes to use by library.
• Zooming and panning, viewing the drawing in any scale .

http://www.codeaccel.../drawing_engine.html

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Living Room / Re: Zidane's head butt mashup videos

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2006, 07:22 AM »

play the flash game: http://www.devilducky.com/media/48273/ (from wired blogs)

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General Software Discussion / Nvu: crossplatform wysiwyg webpage editor

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2006, 07:15 AM »

looks nice.

Nvu (pronounced N-view)
Finally! A complete Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Nvu (which stands for "new view") makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.

http://www.nvu.com/index.php

from www.shellcity.net discussion forum

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Developer's Corner / Re: A rant on syntax and verbosity, why ruby is not for me

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2006, 06:26 AM »

Paul Bartlett posted a reply at secretgooek and showed an interesting example of the kinds of useful things you can do with such assignments.

His example:

It's especially "sweet" when capturing arguments, e.g.:
(source, dest, *opts) = ARGV
would assign the first argument to "source", the second to "dest" and the rest into the "opts" array.

I want to be clear that i agree that being able to grab commandline arguments into such variables is useful functionality.
My quibble is about where you put such functionality - whether you build it into an increasingly opaque and complex internal syntax system - or whether you put such stuff inside proper FUNCTIONS.

My position is simply that it's best to have such elaborate stuff in functions, where it is obvious that something more involved is going on, and where you don't get into a language arms race where we are competing to build in increasingly elaborate processing into the core language syntax through special symbols and increasingly convoluted non-standard and unintuitive expressions.

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Living Room / Re: Zidane's head butt mashup videos

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2006, 06:16 AM »

kimmchii  - hahahahahaahahaha