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General Software Discussion / Re: Must be too easy ? or Windows 10 does not like it

« Last post by wraith808 on September 15, 2015, 08:52 PM »

if you're going to run a powershell script from within the folder, don't forget to give yourself execute permissions using the Set-ExecutionPolicy cmdlet.  They have it pretty much locked down in Windows 10.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Clipboard Help and Spell - New Name?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 15, 2015, 07:56 PM »

Seriously, I'd leave it alone. What about all the existing reviews and so on? Are you going to append to any new name "was Clipboard Help + Spell"?
 

-cranioscopical (April 23, 2015, 05:20 PM)

This.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launching Win10 "Apps" from FARR.

« Last post by wraith808 on September 15, 2015, 07:54 PM »

I'm not sure about the others, but Microsoft Edge is not a simple installation like it was in windows.  You can see signs of this if you right click on the icon in the start menu.  You also cannot directly run MicrosoftEdge.exe even after you find it.

SuperUser has a question (and answer) on this subject, i.e. http://superuser.com...h-microsoft-edge-br#

to replicate the information, the correct link for the application is: %windir%\explorer.exe shell:Appsfolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge

(and on another point, looking at the comments on the question, it looks pretty toxic there towards asking questions...)

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Living Room / Re: Trying to Create a New Logo

« Last post by wraith808 on September 15, 2015, 07:38 PM »

I like the first hat better 

And I did mean wider, like your icon.  In your icon, the iris almost meets the brim of the hat, and that's what makes it look better, I think.

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: Super-sized Newsletter for Sep 15, 2015 - Codename: Upgrading Everything

« Last post by wraith808 on September 15, 2015, 01:25 PM »

Thanks for the newsletter! I found some good stuff that I missed, and rediscovered some older topics that interested me.

-Deozaan (September 15, 2015, 12:29 PM)

Deo sums up my thoughts! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for White-on-Black or Transparent Menu-Less Text Displayer

« Last post by wraith808 on September 15, 2015, 10:01 AM »

TextFileOverlay has been updated.  The same link from above should work to get it, or http://bit.ly/TextOverlayTool

I tested it with your text file, and it worked fine.

Let me know if there are any other problems!

-wraith808 (September 14, 2015, 10:09 PM)

Hi wraith808,

It works well with Desktop Corral, but without it the "Always on Top" is not working AFAICT.  At least it will not remain on top of the flight simulator window.

If you want to add some things to your app you could add these features...

• The ability to change font color (or tell me where I can find the setting).
• The ability to change the font size.  I use 12, 14 and 16 in my other programs I use.
• The ability to hide the titlebar
• Perhaps move the settings/options menu to a right-click.
• Add more transparency levels.

That's my wishlist so far, but feel free to include/exclude whatever you like.

Thanks.

-CodeTRUCKER (September 14, 2015, 11:54 PM)

Is your flight simulator running in windowed full screen?  If it's not, I'm not sure that I'll be able to get on top of that... you might look at borderless gaming to see if you can get it windowed with the same effect that you want.

https://github.com/C...sa/Borderless-Gaming

https://steamcommuni.../535151589899658778/

I have a couple of games that can go fullscreen rather than windowed full screen.  I'll check with that.

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Living Room / Re: Trying to Create a New Logo

« Last post by wraith808 on September 15, 2015, 09:54 AM »

I liked the larger hat and larger iris, personally.  It gave it more of the whimsical feel IMO.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for White-on-Black or Transparent Menu-Less Text Displayer

« Last post by wraith808 on September 14, 2015, 10:42 PM »

And the thread for the release with more information: https://www.donation....msg389111#msg389111

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DC Member Programs and Projects / TextOverlayTool

« Last post by wraith808 on September 14, 2015, 10:21 PM »

In this post, CodeTrucker mentioned that he was looking for a White-on-Black or Transparent Menu-Less Text Displayer.  Many people came up with some creative solutions using existing software, but it came to me that this was a logical extension of my Reference Overlay Tool, and shouldn't be too hard to code.

I was right and wrong- dealing with the varieties of text turned out to be a lot more intricate than dealing with a couple of set image formats.  But it's done, and I present Text Overlay Tool.


I now have a functional release- download it here.  And comment on the project below!

Installation

With .NET 4.5 installed, unzip application to location and run.

Feature Map

Implemented

• Opens Text or Markdown files (if the file is formatted in markdown, it displays the markdown format)
• Allows the preview to be refreshed manually
• Specify an opacity of the window
• Allow the changing of the background of the window
• Can export to HTML or PDF (determines which one you want by filename used)
• Borderless, movable, resizable minimal interface
• Window background can be set.
• Can be set to always on top
• Watches chosen file for changes, and updates on the fly.

Planned

• Global Hotkey to enable control no matter where the cursor is
• The ability to change the font style and color.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for White-on-Black or Transparent Menu-Less Text Displayer

« Last post by wraith808 on September 14, 2015, 10:09 PM »

TextFileOverlay has been updated.  The same link from above should work to get it, or http://bit.ly/TextOverlayTool

I tested it with your text file, and it worked fine.

Let me know if there are any other problems!

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Living Room / Re: The End of my Macbook Pro Experiment

« Last post by wraith808 on September 14, 2015, 07:58 PM »

As for quality of hardware, you can find some wonderfully built laptops that can rival a Macbook, but you won't find Dell selling one and you will pay just as much for it as you did that Macbook Pro.

-Innuendo (June 06, 2015, 06:36 AM)

Dell XPS 13 (2015) is getting good reviews and being called a MacBook Air and Zenbook killer, at much lower price. The other one that's also looking good is the HP Spectre x360.

-dr_andus (June 06, 2015, 08:44 AM)

I gave my Inspiron 7000 to my daughter and wife to share... and got one of these.  It *really* is nice.  I'll post some comparisons of the two.  They're both 13", but it's amazing how much smaller the XPS is.

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Living Room / Re: Kickstarter Highlight: Onion Omega

« Last post by wraith808 on September 14, 2015, 07:14 PM »

I just got a note that this is shipping!  So, I should hopefully be able to post more soon!  Very Excited!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bargain Watch software?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 14, 2015, 04:35 PM »

Dealzon.com is good for gaming and tech stuff. Again, it's a bargain aggregator.

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Community Giveaways / Re: Scrivener at 50% off

« Last post by wraith808 on September 14, 2015, 04:33 PM »

@Wraith - just noticed the Mod 5-block under your handle. Was that always - or is it something more recent? If recent, congrats!

-40hz (September 14, 2015, 04:12 PM)

It's just for the Found Deals and Discounts section - I was silly and tried to take over the Shareware Discounts.  Found out that too many providers either want everything said on the board about them in the 'nice' category, had decided that they didn't want to give discounts, or wanted some other kickback.  Or just preferred to ignore me. 

It's a lot more work than it should have to be running the discounts and giveaways.  There are some good eggs out there, but once you've exhausted those, what are you left with?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for White-on-Black or Transparent Menu-Less Text Displayer

« Last post by wraith808 on September 14, 2015, 03:52 PM »

Figured out what it probably is- your file could actually be interpreted as markdown, so it was parsed as such.  I'm going to make it a bit smarter and stupider at the same time, and parse it strictly based on the extension of the file.  I'll have something up this evening.

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Community Giveaways / Re: Scrivener at 50% off

« Last post by wraith808 on September 14, 2015, 02:53 PM »

Probably nobody does that anymore. But old habits die hard.

-40hz (September 14, 2015, 02:40 PM)

* wraith808 raises hand

Some people still do.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for White-on-Black or Transparent Menu-Less Text Displayer

« Last post by wraith808 on September 14, 2015, 01:47 PM »

Can you send me the text file?  It does not do that for me - I did test that.

-wraith808 (September 13, 2015, 09:55 PM)

Here is the file I used. 

[ Invalid Attachment ]

-CodeTRUCKER (September 14, 2015, 01:18 PM)

Remove attachthumb from your post.  It's trying to attach it as an image, and failing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for White-on-Black or Transparent Menu-Less Text Displayer

« Last post by wraith808 on September 13, 2015, 09:55 PM »

Can you send me the text file?  It does not do that for me - I did test that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Chocolatey...opinions? portable?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 13, 2015, 07:47 PM »

I use it all the time.  What do you mean by 'portably'?

-wraith808 (September 13, 2015, 09:39 AM)

Thanks for the comments.

I'd rather not "install" on a system but rather be able to have it and the associated apps be "portable" in the sense of "portable apps" so for example transportable on usb media.

AFAICT, the typical set up requires a specific environment variable be set on the system (got the feeling that just via a .bat file was insufficient).

Looking at some of the supported functionality I guess even if Chocolatey itself could be made portable, quite a few of the apps would not be (at least some aren't packaged in a "portable" way).

-ewemoa (September 13, 2015, 05:41 PM)

That is correct.  There are those that have .portable installs, some that have .install installs, and those that have nothing to differentiate.  Some use silent scripts, and others do something as simple as a wget to get the installer, then run it. (screenshot captor has a package, and it does exactly that).  It really depends on the packager, and the facility of the application/installer. 

What you might be able to do is create a portable repository that the chocolatey executable points to in order to install.  But I haven't tried that.

For more information, you can look at https://github.com/c...portable-application and the FAQ in general has a lot of questions similar to yours.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Forte Notation free until Sep 14

« Last post by wraith808 on September 13, 2015, 03:09 PM »

Last day for this great deal for some great software!  Just wanted to give a final heads up!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Chocolatey...opinions? portable?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 13, 2015, 02:34 PM »

^ That is the packagers fault.  Each one is going to behave differently depending on how it's packaged.

I also thought that maybe I should clarify what I mean by "what do you mean by portably".  Did you mean the repo?  Or the application installs?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Chocolatey...opinions? portable?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 13, 2015, 09:39 AM »

I use it all the time.  What do you mean by 'portably'?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for White-on-Black or Transparent Menu-Less Text Displayer

« Last post by wraith808 on September 13, 2015, 09:37 AM »

If you want to adapt it for him for the Text Overlay Tool, let me know what you need.  The class for the main window is TextOverlayToolView

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for White-on-Black or Transparent Menu-Less Text Displayer

« Last post by wraith808 on September 13, 2015, 12:47 AM »

Here you go... I didn't put in the global hotkey as your ahk seemed to be working:

https://www.dropbox....OverlayTool.zip?dl=1

TextOverlayTool is made to display text in a transparent window.  It has the following features:

1. Opens Text or Markdown files (if the file is formatted in markdown, it displays the markdown format)
2. Can export to HTML or PDF (determines which one you want by filename used)
3. Borderless, movable, resizable minimal interface
4. Window background can be set.
5. Transparency can be set
6. Can be set to always on top
7. Watches chosen file for changes, and updates on the fly.

Planned enhancements:
1. Global Hotkey to enable control no matter where the cursor is
2. The ability to change the font style and color.

Let me know if you have any issues.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for White-on-Black or Transparent Menu-Less Text Displayer

« Last post by wraith808 on September 12, 2015, 06:00 PM »

@wraith808 - Still standing by for your solution.  After all, I did give you quite a laundry list of specs, eh?

-CodeTRUCKER (September 12, 2015, 03:21 PM)

Still going to do it.  Unfortunately, I'm not Skrommel.   But if everything with my upgrade goes well, it should be done by early in the week.