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Living Room / Re: Safe use of USB drives? Is there anything like a USB sandbox application?
« Last post by Ath on March 11, 2011, 04:28 PM »
Reboot the machine into the USB OS and then access the files from the HDD that way
-Deozaan (March 11, 2011, 04:01 PM)

That's as unsafe as hooking it up to a network, the booting OS could be infected with something :-[

Labs like these do have specific requirements, it can take up to 5 years for a change like that to be officially processed, validated, confirmed, thought about some more, and maybe even approved :o
And then the proposed hardware add-on is no longer available or in use anywhere else :'(
3252
Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands : Major update
« Last post by Ath on March 11, 2011, 03:58 PM »
Ok guys & gals, here it is, WinButtons is updated to 2.0.0

A quick rundown of the new features:
  • Button arrangement, giving double-sized buttons, 1/2, 1/3rd, 1/4th, 1/6th and 1/9th sized buttons
  • Application-focus button-context switching
  • Configurable font-size, global with per button override

All changes (quite a lot...) are in the source change-history, download and an extra screenshot in the original release-post

Any bug reports :huh: or feature-requests can be posted here.
3253
Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Baby Cody arrives in Stuttgart, Germany
« Last post by Ath on March 11, 2011, 02:11 PM »
Hey, he is relatively close to my place (compared to DoCo home), but still a bit too far to make a quick visit to shake wings :-\

gjehle, heads up with the move, with Baby Cody supervising I'm sure it will work out right ;)
3254
Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Micro-mini Review of Lipsum text generator
« Last post by Ath on March 11, 2011, 01:22 PM »
That's a nice min-review.

I mis only 1 paragraph, and that's a comparison section, that holds this solution against similar offerings, like a web-based Lorem ipsum generator, ie. what makes this off-line tool one stand out?
3255
Post New Requests Here / IDEA: A Custom Page for Inno Setup showing DoCo info and donation benefits
« Last post by Ath on March 10, 2011, 02:46 PM »
Hi,

Today worstje came with the great idea of adding a custom Donation Coder page to the JottiQ (Inno Setup) installer (I helped him finish that by adding the .NET/VC++ runtime dependency stuff), to be featured in the next release of JottiQ.
This page should show a text with/including 1 or 2 links that would promote this wonderful site, and convince anyone even slightly interested into making at least a visit to the site, and ofcourse consider to donate while visiting.

The custom page I'll quite easily mock up (this weekend I'll have time for that, it'll be a free 'plug-in' for all dc members using Inno Setup),
it's the text that should go in there that's bugging me a little.

I could copy/paste the text from the left column of the Donation page, but that's quite long to show while pressing next, next, finish during the installation process. I firmly oppose to adding a time-delay to that page (though not impossible; it could even be a delay for the 1st pass only, even when passing multiple times), but all the other apps/installers adding delays or other tricks (scrolling down the entire Windows NT 4 EULA during install to be able to press F8 to continue, comes to mind >:(, and the silly WinZip shareware page where you press 1 of 3 buttons to continue, I often find on co-worker PC's), still these EULA/Shareware pages are not read in the way the supplier had in mind.

If there is an official "short version" of the Donation page text available, I'll be happy to use that, if not: any advise is more than welcome.

For those that haven't noticed, English is not my native language, so any spelling or grammar bloopers would have to be fixed as well :-[

It's a bit of a pity that nobody, including myself, came with this idea earlier, so it could have been used for all apps released during the fundraiser (that need an installer), but when done right (and I intend to do that...) it's usable for more than this fundraiser alone.
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: howto+script for android phone as 5 action programmable PC remote
« Last post by Ath on March 10, 2011, 05:28 AM »
Hm, I'll try to use/combine this asap with WinButtons :up:
3257
Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by Ath on March 10, 2011, 03:35 AM »
Oh, another special number:
housetier-1234-post.png
3258
Developer's Corner / Re: Automatic Updater
« Last post by Ath on March 10, 2011, 01:48 AM »
Hm, sounds just like... DcUpdater :-[

And it also looks like a solution looking for a problem :huh:
3259
Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)
« Last post by Ath on March 09, 2011, 01:29 AM »
Wouldn't using the Windows standard internet/proxy settings be the right way to go here? Some of the browsers (IE, Chrome) use these settings to connect to the internet as well, AFAIK.
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands
« Last post by Ath on March 08, 2011, 05:39 PM »
There is color (back) in the darkness already :), but now I gotta find another itsy bitsy of information on where to fetch the current active font-size used. It's there somewhere, but I'm out of time for today :huh:
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands
« Last post by Ath on March 08, 2011, 04:36 PM »
It's actually that the colors for buttons no longer show >:( (but background color still does... :huh:), now that I've switched to GUIOnEventMode (that was a message-loop that only fires if a message for 'me' is available).
The detection of the currently active app, and switching the set of buttons, is already working quite fine 8)
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands
« Last post by Ath on March 08, 2011, 03:59 PM »
Just an update,
  • I'm a bit later then I promised with my next release, but I'll get to that in a minute...
  • I'm still testing with the buttonarrangement settings and ironing out the last minor bugs. Placement has to be just right when combining several kinds of smaller buttons in place of 1 big button.
What I got so far for this: (smaller buttons)
  • 2 buttons horizontal or vertical
  • 3 buttons horizontal or vertical
  • 4 buttons equally divided
  • 6 buttons arranged 3x2 or 2x3
  • 9 buttons equally divided
  • And a big button spanning 2 standard buttons
And the smasher that is taking some more time:
  • A set of buttons depending on the active application...

I'm fighting with the colors (disappearing) now, as it's obviously in beta, but I'll report back soon.
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Official Announcements / Re: What DonationCoder.com Would Do with a Two Million Dollar Donation
« Last post by Ath on March 08, 2011, 03:45 PM »
This is a post that all Billionaires should read carefully.  The rest of you can skip it.
-mouser (March 08, 2011, 03:31 PM)
And what happens if we don't :o
3264
DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Stoic Joker's (File & Folder) Fix When
« Last post by Ath on March 08, 2011, 05:19 AM »
Nice, Stoic Joker, kudo's 8)
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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve
« Last post by Ath on March 07, 2011, 04:16 PM »
So, Mouser, is the proposal that you send the Cody replacement around to deserving members?
No wonder the fundraising is going so well.
-Dormouse (March 07, 2011, 04:14 PM)

Hey, you where not supposed to guess that... :o
3266
Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by Ath on March 07, 2011, 09:10 AM »
And just shortly after reaching the 1000 milestone, timns made a more binary milestone:
timns-1024-posts-2011-03-07.png
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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve
« Last post by Ath on March 07, 2011, 09:07 AM »
@nosh, @PhilB66, @Ath,
You've all been moved to the questionable conversation list  :P :P :P.
-barney (March 07, 2011, 08:53 AM)
Why, because we are (hetro) males that like the looks of these fine young-ladies? :'(
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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve
« Last post by Ath on March 07, 2011, 03:40 AM »
Both would be just fine, IMHO :-[
3269
N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ
« Last post by Ath on March 07, 2011, 01:39 AM »
Does Internet Explorer (most other browsers have other mechanisms for auth.proxies!) present you a proxy-login-page when you start browsing, or is it automagically providing the proper credentials to the proxy?
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Living Room / Re: Win 7 XP mode
« Last post by Ath on March 06, 2011, 01:11 PM »
Well, and then there is the issue of support...



I use an employer paid-for Workstation license, but I've never even once used the support options available, either it's found in the VMWare forums, or googling, or in a just released update.
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands
« Last post by Ath on March 06, 2011, 11:50 AM »
There are screen-savers with pretty ladies that can do the inside of your screen. You could equip them with magnetic double-side window-cleaners :P
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Living Room / Re: Win 7 XP mode
« Last post by Ath on March 06, 2011, 11:48 AM »
Workstation has multiple snapshots (and gets earlier updates), which is quite usable when testing several phases of a software installation...
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Living Room / Re: Win 7 XP mode
« Last post by Ath on March 06, 2011, 10:16 AM »
VMware - difficult to use the free version (by comparison to the others) or expensive to buy the Workstation edition but with best hardware support. You can download VMWare Server for free and set up a VM and then use VMWare Player for simpler use by your father-in-law.
-Carol Haynes (March 06, 2011, 05:10 AM)
VMWare Player 3 and up allows you to easily create complete virtuals from the ground up, no need to get the (quite outdated) Server version first.
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands
« Last post by Ath on March 06, 2011, 10:13 AM »
That looks perfect. One extra thing to ask though, could the background (behind the buttons) be a user defined colour - or just black - or even a user defined graphic? Just black would be the first option.
-nudone (March 06, 2011, 07:02 AM)
Never thought about that until now you bring it up :-[
I can add an option for that, it'll be in the 1.1 update I'll publish probably around tomorrow night (CET) (won't be working on it much today any more), it'll get the same color options the buttons have.
And the 1/3 button size I got also finished.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: an app to stop installers from launching web browsers and opening pages
« Last post by Ath on March 06, 2011, 04:44 AM »
You can hardly block internet access, as a lot of installers often fetch parts to install from the internet, check for updates during install, or register your copy with the supplier based on account information entered during install.
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