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General Software Discussion / Re: Most Pirated Software?

« Last post by skwire on February 27, 2011, 04:58 PM »

- Its official...Alcohol + Forums = Bad Combination 

-Stephen66515 (February 27, 2011, 10:41 AM)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Psychonauts 24-Hour Sale at GOG.com (75% off)

« Last post by skwire on February 26, 2011, 07:01 AM »

Great game; I own it for the XBox.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)

« Last post by skwire on February 25, 2011, 08:37 PM »

Here you go, Armoured.

Website | Installer | Portable
v1.0.5 build 78 - 2011-02-25
    + Added hidden Write_File_INI and Write_File_XML settings.  Enabling either
      or both will cause Trout to write a track_info.ini and/or a track_info.xml
      file to Trout's folder with the tag data of the currently playing track.
      You can then read/parse this data for use in your own scripts.  (Thanks,
      Armoured)
      To enable these, add the following lines to the [Settings] section of
      Trout's config.ini file:
          Write_File_INI=1
          Write_File_XML=1 

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)

« Last post by skwire on February 25, 2011, 07:24 PM »

Website | Installer | Portable
v1.0.5 build 77 - 2011-02-25
    ! Fixed IPC_GETLISTPOS to be zero-relative.  (Thanks, Winkie)

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Anuran

« Last post by skwire on February 25, 2011, 05:52 PM »

Hi jeromy.  Welcome to the site.  Regarding your requests, I'd have to agree and say that it would over-complicate the program.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Serial Key Storage for Windows

« Last post by skwire on February 25, 2011, 08:39 AM »

SoftCAT: http://www.fnprg.com...softcat/softcat.html

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)

« Last post by skwire on February 25, 2011, 01:47 AM »

Winkie, let me know how your tests of these go.  Thanks.

Website | Installer | Portable
v1.0.5 build 68 - 2011-02-25
    + Added support for the following WinampAPI messages.  (Thanks, Winkie)
        122 - IPC_SETVOLUME
        124 - IPC_GETLISTLENGTH
        125 - IPC_GETLISTPOS
        250 - IPC_GET_SHUFFLE
        251 - IPC_GET_REPEAT
        252 - IPC_SET_SHUFFLE
        253 - IPC_SET_REPEAT
        40154 - Go to start of playlist.
        40158 - Go to end of playlist.

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Official Announcements / Re: March 2011 DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Celebration -- Pledges?

« Last post by skwire on February 25, 2011, 01:25 AM »

Where did all the money go to?

-lotusrootstarch (February 25, 2011, 01:01 AM)

Do you realise what it costs to host a site of this magnitude?  It's hardly free.

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Living Room / Re: need recomendations for burning audio file

« Last post by skwire on February 24, 2011, 02:48 PM »

I would highly recommend "red book" standard audio CD here, given your apparent needs and "users". Fortunately it just so happens that an hour and 20 minutes *is* 80 minutes.

-JavaJones (February 24, 2011, 02:30 PM)

Agreed.  My only hesitation before was that 80 minutes is the theoretical maximum and would mean that you would, most likely, have to overburn a CD-R.  Most players/burners these days can handle that but, if you happen to have an older burner, I would check.  Likewise, some older players won't play a full 80 minute CD but I don't think that's much to be concerned over.

That's why I mentioned above that 74 minutes is the norm.  Apologies for any confusion I created. 

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Living Room / Re: need recomendations for burning audio file

« Last post by skwire on February 24, 2011, 12:23 PM »

how would I split the file to get 2 cds out of it.

-techidave (February 24, 2011, 12:17 PM)

http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html

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Living Room / Re: need recomendations for burning audio file

« Last post by skwire on February 24, 2011, 12:04 PM »

Again...you're dealing with different formats.  Most DVD players can play an audio CD but not the other way around.  You could definitely make a DVD with just that audio track on there but it's not going to play in anything but a player capable of recognising a DVD.  See what I mean?

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Living Room / Re: need recomendations for burning audio file

« Last post by skwire on February 24, 2011, 11:55 AM »

most definitely. so the redbook route would be the way to go???

-techidave (February 24, 2011, 11:53 AM)

Normally, I would say yes.  However, you're not going to be able fit your audio track onto one CD.  Remember...there is a limit of ~80 minutes for a Red Book audio CD.

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Living Room / Re: need recomendations for burning audio file

« Last post by skwire on February 24, 2011, 11:51 AM »

What you have to understand is there are, basically, two types of players:

• Players that can only play Red Book audio CDs.  The audio CDs you buy in a store are Red Book audio CDs.
• Players that can play Red Book audio CDs but can also recognise and play discs with other types of audio files on them (mp3, wma, etc.).

For the sake of simplicity, let's say you're working with only mp3 files.  Now...when you burn an audio CD, you have to make a decision.  Do I want to burn a standard Red Book audio CD?  Or, do I simply want to burn my mp3s to a CD-R?  If you choose the Red Book audio CD route, that standard limits you to around 80 minutes of music/voice/whatever (74 is the norm).  The software you use will convert your mp3s to the proper Red Book audio format and burn the CD-R.  However, what you have created is a standard audio CD...and it should be playable in almost any player provided that player can recognise a CD-R; some older players can't.  The other option is to simply burn the mp3 file to a CD-R.  This type of disc is really just a data disc.  It will not be playable in standard CD players that don't support "MP3 discs" as they like to refer to them.  To be fair, more and more players these days are able to support these type of data discs.

Clear as mud?

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Living Room / Re: need recomendations for burning audio file

« Last post by skwire on February 24, 2011, 11:31 AM »

Define "players."  Are you talking about stand-alone CD players? 

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Right Click any file and create New Folder by its Name

« Last post by skwire on February 24, 2011, 10:55 AM »

Can't get this working in W7 64 bit. Is files2folder compatible?

-Harpagon (February 24, 2011, 10:32 AM)

Welcome to the site, Harpagon.  Under Windows 7, you need to run this with administrator privileges.  Are you doing that?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: gridmove forum

« Last post by skwire on February 24, 2011, 10:47 AM »

https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=3824.0

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Developer's Corner / Re: To persist with Windows 2000 support?

« Last post by skwire on February 23, 2011, 03:01 PM »

skwire: win2k supports unicode just fine, all NT builds of Windows do - and Win9x even has limited support for it via unicows.

-f0dder (February 23, 2011, 02:52 PM)

I know.  However, the unicode builds of AHK don't work on Win2k and below (at least in my tests).  No big deal, though.

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Developer's Corner / Re: To persist with Windows 2000 support?

« Last post by skwire on February 23, 2011, 01:50 PM »

I'm in this conundrum as well.  I recently developed a private build of Trout that is Unicode capable.  However, this would cause support for Win2k and below to cease.  I really have no desire to keep two builds (Unicode/ANSI) concurrent either.   

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Official Announcements / Re: March 2011 DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Celebration -- Pledges?

« Last post by skwire on February 23, 2011, 11:38 AM »

How come people aren't more excited about my new card game? 

-mouser (February 23, 2011, 11:19 AM)

Based on the picture, I deduce that Cody did it...in the bird bath...with the napalm.  We all know he's a pyromaniac.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Program to beautify crappy exports from other applications?

« Last post by skwire on February 23, 2011, 09:59 AM »

I avoid putting in printing options in my apps like the plague.  From a programming standpoint, it's a huge pain in the arse with very little reward.  Mouser and I were talking and, sometimes, the easiest thing would be for the app to dump its data to an HTML table and let a browser handle the printing.

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Coding Snacks / Re: IDEA: Plain text checklist manager

« Last post by skwire on February 22, 2011, 05:05 PM »

Tudumo costs $30.

-superboyac (February 22, 2011, 04:51 PM)

Good enough.  Wraith mentioned he might want to write this one; if he doesn't, I can.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Group files from within folders

« Last post by skwire on February 22, 2011, 04:39 PM »

Thanks for the feedback, cubensos, and welcome to the site.  As for creating folders in the bucket, I think this falls outside the design of File Bucket which is to collect files and folders destined for a single destination.

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Coding Snacks / Re: IDEA: Plain text checklist manager

« Last post by skwire on February 22, 2011, 04:09 PM »

If I may be so bold...if the TuDoMo app does what it did originally, who cares what the backend is like.  I mean...you're not interacting with the backend, are you?  If so, you really have no need for a frontend, right?  Something like this is trivial to write...but why reinvent the wheel if TuDoMo still does what you want on the frontend?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software to share To-Do lists?

« Last post by skwire on February 22, 2011, 02:44 PM »

This is what I use for my quick ToDo list:  http://todotxt.com/  For larger projects, I use ToDoList.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software to share To-Do lists?

« Last post by skwire on February 22, 2011, 01:38 PM »

I believe some if the private VPN apps like Hamachi will let you map a connected computer's folders and drives to your machine. Don't know if the free versions allow mapping. I know they definitely allow file transfers.

-40hz (February 22, 2011, 01:36 PM)

The free version allows mapping; I do it myself when I travel for business.