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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: Automatic Screenshotter - v1.06 - May 7, 2017

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2017, 10:32 PM »

Sounds like I need to correct the hover over hint for that one -- it means it will check the screenshot and if it's all one solid color it will not save it.

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: Automatic Screenshotter - v1.06 - May 7, 2017

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2017, 10:14 PM »

Do I need to run it manually for each user the first time and redo that setting?

yes.

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: Automatic Screenshotter - v1.06 - May 7, 2017

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2017, 08:37 PM »

Just because it isn't running automatically doesn't mean it wasn't installed for all users.  You need to configure my apps to run at startup -- by default they don't start automatically when windows boots.

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2017, 02:49 AM »

The real question is.. some of you crazy people who were ranting about it, and telling us how bitcoin was going to take off during the early days of it.. are any of you rich enough to retire and bankroll the rest of us yet?

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Developer's Corner / Packt free programming ebooks every day

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2017, 06:50 PM »

Packt still offers free programming books every day -- you can find some useful ebooks here.
https://www.packtpub...offers/free-learning


Today they have one that looks fun for new coders who want to learn python:
Python Projects for Kids by Jessica Ingrassellino

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Undesirable interaction between CHS and Open Office

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2017, 02:57 AM »

I do see in CHS code to work around the open office bug -- it looks for the process soffice.exe or soffice.bin.

Is it possible that your open office has a different exe filename and that's why it's failing?  Can you check your process name for your open office?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Undesirable interaction between CHS and Open Office

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2017, 02:53 AM »

Thanks for the report, sosimple.

I have a distinct memory of this problem with Open Office at some point -- I just can't remember what the fix was.  I wonder why it is happening again..

Here are some threads:
https://www.donation....msg326136#msg326136
https://www.donation....msg267424#msg267424

And also:
https://forum.openof...php?f=15&t=29513
https://bz.apache.or...how_bug.cgi?id=49907


It has something to do with CHS and Open Office getting into some loop fighting over the clipboard..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Sending PageDown command in Post Capture CommandLine option

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2017, 02:47 AM »

The scrolling capture feature of Screenshot Captor should get you what you want to achieve, but it will produce 1 very long image file.

Yeah for 500 pages, that's going to run out of memory with a scrolling capture.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Sending PageDown command in Post Capture CommandLine option

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2017, 02:25 AM »

You have some options.

First things first, Screenshot Captor might not be your best bet -- you could possibly more easily script MiniCap, the commandline brother of Screenshot Captor.
That still leaves you having to script something that can send PgDown to your pdf reader window.  AutoHotKey would be a good solution and there are some expert AHK scripters here that could help.

Another alternative to MiniCap would be my Automatic Screenshotter tool.  Configured properly you wouldn't even ever have to trigger the captures since they would happen automatically every time the window contents changed.  With it running you might even find that you could simply press PgDown yourself manually repeatedly since that's all you'd ever have to do.

But again, AHK would make easy work of sending the PgDown key to the reader repeatedly.

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

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2017, 02:14 AM »

Those bottom sidebar elements are intended to be optional and never very important, so I don't think it's important if they are not noticed.

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

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2017, 01:48 AM »

Yeah I mean the top home page of the site..

Some have said it would be good if it were a more dynamic page -- like to show the most recent blog items on it.  But then the alternative idea is to keep it super simple as it is now.
But as it is now, the new cms home page is even more minimalist than the current donationcoder.com homepage, which at least has a 3 images on it corresponding to 3 sections..

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: Joomla Extensions

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2017, 01:12 AM »

Updated first post to list some of the extensions I will be releasing for joomla as part of my NANY 2018 submissions.

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

« Last post by mouser on November 04, 2017, 11:28 PM »

Yes you did.. I am just following my normal policy of ignoring all problems until they are reported multiple times 

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

« Last post by mouser on November 04, 2017, 09:05 PM »

Should be fixed now.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Score always 100 over what supposed to be

« Last post by mouser on November 04, 2017, 09:44 AM »

If an item is in your recent launch history, that will give it a bonus -- usually this is set to 100.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: How to automate batch proportional resize and hosting of captures ...

« Last post by mouser on November 04, 2017, 09:19 AM »

ImageMagick is a really good scriptable tool for resizing and manipulation:

https://www.imagemag...org/script/index.php

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by mouser on November 04, 2017, 08:51 AM »

Lion is friends with tiny dogs:

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Show name of printer in popup box

« Last post by mouser on November 04, 2017, 07:10 AM »

Ok I understand now -- you occasionally print to your color printer in SC, and then in the future when you print from SC, you want it to remind you that it's now set to print to color printer so you can change that.  Or alternatively always reset back to default printer after each print.

Let me see what I can do.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Show name of printer in popup box

« Last post by mouser on November 04, 2017, 06:46 AM »

Have a preference to use the system default printer.

Does it not already work this way?

Or are you saying that you occasionally change the system configured default printer, and SC does not change when that changes?

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

« Last post by mouser on November 03, 2017, 11:14 PM »

For beta testers of the cms site -- I'd appreciate any ideas on revamping the home page.  Let me know if you have any ideas or better yet mock-ups.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Windows 10 Search results folder icon wrong

« Last post by mouser on November 03, 2017, 09:28 PM »

How strange.. I know that sometimes windows icon cache can get corrupted.. have you tried restarting the pc -- does it fix the problem? Anyone else have this problem?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Show name of printer in popup box

« Last post by mouser on November 03, 2017, 09:27 PM »

If I can display the active printer on the print preview dialog i will (that's what we're talking about right, the print preview dialog shown before printing?)

If not, is there a way to keep the default printer each time a capture is done?

Can you explain what you mean -- do you mean that you want to be able to change the printer used for the current print, but then have it revert to default printer for next time?

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Mug/T-Shirt Design Competition

« Last post by mouser on November 03, 2017, 03:22 AM »

Less than 2 months to go before deadline!

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

« Last post by mouser on November 03, 2017, 03:15 AM »

Less than 2 more months until the NANY 2018 deadline!!!
This is typically the time when people start coding seriously.

I'll remind everyone that we will have at least $1000 to give away this year to participants, and that we need an alternate mug design.  Please help us spread the word!

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of a lightweight multi-user cms/blog for hosting coders

« Last post by mouser on November 01, 2017, 06:24 PM »

Awesome news.