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General Software Discussion / Screen Calipers is currently free

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 23, 2012, 02:24 PM »

Just noticed this.
http://www.bitsdujou...are/screen-calipers/
Pretty useful little program   

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Sticky window-specific reading guide.

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 22, 2012, 03:19 PM »

I've been a long time fan of Mike Lin's excellent Cross Hair app http://www.mlin.net/CrossHair.shtml
I find that about 80% of the time, I'm using it as a reading guide on a webpage or on a CHM help file for an app.  When this is the case, I want it to be present only on the given window, not the entire screen.
In the image http://i.imgur.com/KJiRl.png I'm reading item #2 in this help file.  I'd like the reading guide (which I've drawn as a gray rectangle) to be associated with this window so that it is only visible over the given window.  If I click away from the window (see bottom of image) to work on another window, I want the reading guide to stay in place with the assigned (now inactive) window.  It would be like a placeholder for my reading, but also would stay out of my way.

Does that make sense and/or seem like a good idea?   

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Rearranging some board sections

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 21, 2012, 12:19 PM »

Not sure if this is off-topic...
Would it be possible to have a [My Favorites] or [My Followed Topics] link at the top near my avatar?  Maybe under the [Show new replies to my posts].

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.43

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 21, 2012, 12:08 PM »

Hey you're right. Up to $10 now (on top of that old $17.50)

-Twinbee (July 20, 2012, 07:33 AM)

Woo Hoo--thanks!!!  This is becoming quite lucrative!

Regarding order of operations, I also agree that you should stick with the scientific community's standard.  Maybe you can just briefly reference this in the Quick Start Sample thingy in Opal Calc.  You can ask people to "Please excuse my dear aunt sally."   
http://en.wikipedia..../Order_of_operations
(note:  According to the above article, PEMDAS is a US thing... I guess other countries have other mnemonics??)

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.43

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 21, 2012, 12:00 PM »

Also fyi I'm a 7-zip fan too
Here's the option I typically use

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.43

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 21, 2012, 11:56 AM »

@Bob99:   Everything seems like it posted correctly...  I'm not sure how to interpret the defaultPrefs.txt content, the developer (Twinbee) will need to do that.  
I am curious about how you files are grouped into one folder...  Are you using TotalCommander to display all the contents into one flat view, or are they actually all *in* one folder?  When I unzip mine, I get the main OpalCal_Demo folder with the img folder inside


but then, inside the img folder I have only PNGs and an ICO.

is your img folder empty??

Maybe move those PNGs and the ICO into that folder....  

Also, is it possible that you have some advanced setting on your unpacker plugin that is putting everything into one folder, rather than reserving the folder hierarchy of the zip?  If so, Maybe try just downloading it to your Desktop, then Right-click and use the generic Windows extractor(?)

EDIT: Okay that's good!  Now I'm curious what file manager you use though

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.43

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 20, 2012, 02:54 PM »

@ Bob99:  Is it possible that the "Img" folder got removed?



It should be a folder with 40 items in it...  I find that if I delete the folder, I get the exact same error message and empty toolbars...

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.43

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 19, 2012, 11:41 PM »

Here try this:  Use Ctrl+Q (which is a pretty cool feature btw!).  After using it, the Esc button doesn't work.  (OC can only be quit via the red

• button on the window border.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.43

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 19, 2012, 01:15 PM »

Bug!  



Everyone knows that 2 wrongs don't make a right!  Ha!

Edit:  BTW, yes, I did figure out how to do user-defined units

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.43

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 18, 2012, 09:26 PM »

Here we go...  I was seeing all the ways to confuse OC...


1 gizmo and 1 gizmo
add 1 and 3
5 by 3
divide 5 by 3
divide 5 via 3
5 divided by 3
The quotient of 6 by 3
subtract 6 from 9
how many 6s in 36
how many times is 6 in 36
6 goes into 36 how many times
increase 2 by 3
total of 2 and 4
7 less 4
difference of 7 and 3
difference between 7 and 3
deduct 3 from 7
decrease 7 by 3
product of 5 and 5
multiply 4 with 4
multiply 4 and 4
multiply 4 by 4

Pay extra attention to how "Multiply" works...  The bottom three items each = 55.  Not sure why/how.

Also, how does "total of 2 and 4" yield 49,320, rather than just "24?"

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Edit:  By the way, I'm not suggesting that each of these are statements that should be recognized by OC, they are just examples of verbiage that might get used by the average (non technical) user. I got ideas for the terminology from here http://www.mathsisfu...ath-definitions.html

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.43

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 18, 2012, 09:14 PM »

Ideas for energy unit conversions...  
It occurs to me that a pound of fat = 3500 kcals  
Also, 1 gram of carbs = 4 kcals
1 gram protein = 4 kcals
1 gram fat = 9 kcals
1 gram alcohol (ethanol, like you drink) = 9 kcals.
It might be fun to include dietary and exercise info:
One cola = 35 grams sugar.
Ten minutes jogging = (??) kcals.
Of course dietary and exercise would always be estimations.  
  

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.43

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 18, 2012, 08:42 PM »

As for currencies updating, well they automatically do once the answer is shown. Maybe I misunderstood?

 
Oh that's even better!  I was assuming that the conversion rates for the different currencies could only be updated via the Options "Update Now" command.

Aha, that was implemented for 1.50. Try pressing Ctrl+Alt+C (with no text selected). That should the sum and the answer to make 1+1+1 = 3.
Also FYI, Ctrl+C copies the whole sum, and Alt+C copies the answer (again if nothing is selected).

Excellent!  Yes, it does work as described--very nice! 
Do be sure to update the GUI elements in OC

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.43

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 18, 2012, 07:12 PM »

v-1,000,000.

-Twinbee (July 18, 2012, 03:45 PM)

    

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.43

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 18, 2012, 07:08 PM »

Feature idea:  
The newer Excel versions have this auto-completion popup gizmo



Would it be feasible to have this in OpalCalc?

As always, DON'T add it if there is going to be a huge performance cost--speed is more important.
If you do add this, please consider allowing me to choose what types of functions are offered preferred in the list.  I use unit and currency conversions a lot, but never use the fancy trig and calculus operations, so I don't really want to see them at the top of the list.  Also, if I have a certain type of unit already defined, the list should not show items that would result in an error.  (e.g. if I type "2 USD as C" then the list would have "CAD" as an item, but it would not have "Cubits.")  

Another idea for a feature:  Have it so that if I have any currency abbreviations typed in, a button appears on the toolbar that says [update currency db] that I can click to update it.  

Question/request/possible bug:  
Would like to copy this

And paste it as text.   Either like this
1+1+1 | 3
or maybe like this
[1+1+1][3]

Currently if I use the "Copy answer to clipboard" function, it only copies "1+1+1."

 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.43

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 18, 2012, 03:29 PM »

Hey wait, if finding a bug in v1.50 got me $15, then shouldn't a bug in v1.51 be worth $15.10?  He he--just kidding.   

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.43

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 18, 2012, 03:16 PM »

Probably not a "bug," but I'm curious why/where/how we get this answer



Edit:  Sorry, was just re-reading posts and so where you mentioned that <Mixed types> should be have been displayed.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.43

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 18, 2012, 03:11 PM »

Muah ha ha ha .... 
http://screencast.com/t/tyWRTT5cjHXF
Evil Stevil strikes again!

Only crashes on jpeg files...  png and ico seem to be okay.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.43

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 18, 2012, 12:18 AM »

Hey this thing is pretty smart!

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: OpalCalc 1.43

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 17, 2012, 11:28 PM »

Woo Hoo !! First try !!
http://i.imgur.com/FPMa3.png

Actually it's probably just my fragile system...  I will try to reproduce.


Edit:  I am able to reproduce...  Still, my system is buggy.  So that could actually be the problem.
Win 7 that is setup to run from a network, but I'm not pluged in to the network, so if anything ever tries to access My Documents, the whole thing goes haywire...

Anyway, to reproduce:  I click on the Pi button, then go to "Own Stored Units."  The only thing there is "hogh," which I think might be a built in sample, since I don't remember putting it there.  I choose hogh, and get
hogh    |    1 hogh
http://i.imgur.com/vbp3X.png

and the hint-toolbar at the top tells me it's a hogshead.

I click <Backspace><Backspace><Backspace><Backspace> to get rid of "hogh" from the left.   Then, as soon as I press <Enter> the error happens.

Is anyone else seeing this?

Edit2:  Tried to record steps http://screencast.com/t/lnvGaoMsS

Edit 3:  Am on my (more stable) Vista machine now.  Still getting the bug, but it appears to occur with ANY of the functions, operators, etc.  So Opal Calc has 17,456 different functions and each one has a bug.  So 17,456 times $50....    Hmmm I'm gonna need Opal Calc for this!    
Nah, just messing with you.  
Actually it appears to be ONE bug and it doesn't matter what gets typed and deleted.  If ever the entry field is empty and you press <Enter>, you get the effect.  Or at least that's what I'm seeing.   Of could if this does pan out to be a certifiable bug, I have a friend who might like a free copy of Opal Calc  

Edit 4:  Okay last edit...  That hogshead thing wasn't on my other computer which means it's not built in....   Which means I put it there....  WHAT THE HECK IS A HOGSHEAD ANYWAY????

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Program is running ! or not ?

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 08, 2012, 02:25 PM »

A similar thing happened to me a while back, and it was because I accidentally had installed 2 versions.  I had the portable version of SSC which I had forgotten about, then I installed the regular version too.  The portable version was set to start at system start up, and that was blocking the other version when I tried to launch it... 

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Living Room / Re: Help me design my next Tattoo!

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 07, 2012, 08:33 PM »

You should get the words "your name" tatooed on your left testicle.  Then you could say to people, "Hey, I got your name tattooed on my left testicle!"

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Living Room / Re: Help me design my next Tattoo!

« Last post by kunkel321 on July 07, 2012, 10:48 AM »

Can you post some pics of your current tats--especially around where you want the new one.   I don't have any ink of my own, but I've always felt they look better if they somehow match the other tattoos around them.  Live creating an overall theme or something.

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General Software Discussion / Re: DemoBlock - my new (now titled) video game

« Last post by kunkel321 on June 25, 2012, 08:09 PM »

 

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Batch adjust shortcut targets

« Last post by kunkel321 on June 22, 2012, 05:43 PM »

Could bulk re-create the LNKs via Ctrl+A (select all the images), then hold Alt and click-n-drag to bulk create shortcuts for each image file....   Unfortunately this would put them all into where ever you dropped them (you'd then have to re-create your directory tree).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fast as the wind

« Last post by kunkel321 on June 14, 2012, 11:01 AM »

I would recommend using Word's native VBA.  Unfortunately this will only work in Microsoft Office applications.  Not FF, N++, etc.  You can also try to create a script using AHK, but you may find that it acts differently in each application.

RE: The cursor going to the 'home' position after a deletion:   I don't see this happening...  If I use Word, and delete a section, the cursor stays in that spot.