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Screenshot Captor / Re: idea: temp. pre-template, accessible by right-clicking the tray icon

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 10:44 AM »

ah just saw it - let me check it out.

yes i see, it thinks its a file extension and then doesnt know how to save it with that file extension..
i will fix.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: idea: temp. pre-template, accessible by right-clicking the tray icon

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 10:31 AM »

You mean an option for popping up a tooltip 'bubble' in the tray after the images was saved to notify the user?

no, what i meant was to make it so that if you move your cursor on top of the screenshot captor icon in tray, it will remind you what your current template or quickfield is (ie it would tell you how the next screenshot you take will be named).  just as a quick reminder and easy way to tell if you need to open up program and change it.

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Living Room / Re: Who said life isn't fun ...

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 10:20 AM »

im not sure how accurate that is; do most people pay attention to that setting when then sign up?

i wonder how that compares to other forums..

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General Software Discussion / kbang - kids type safely on keyboard with pictures

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 10:17 AM »

we've talked about such programs before on this forum.
here's a freeware one:


http://www.dimadsoft.com/kids/index.php

KBang shows images of different animals and plays corresponding sounds (like meow for cats and bark for dogs) when kid plays with the keyboard.

Don’t be afraid that kid will damage your computer, well, may be keyboard itself :-). Program locks keyboard so that kid can't do anything to your computer. To exit the program it is necessary to click in top-left and then in top-right corner of the screen.

[found via freeware world team]

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Screenshot Captor / Re: idea: temp. pre-template, accessible by right-clicking the tray icon

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 10:03 AM »

do you remember what values you were trying to set when it crashed?
i have my doubts that this is significant enough to warrant changing icons..
but i could have it should the quickfield value in the system tray menu or tooltip..


ps here is what it looks like if you keep telling sc to take a screenshot of itself, over and over:

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General Software Discussion / Bunch of neat and fun freeware apps

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 09:55 AM »

http://support.it-mate.co.uk/


one app:

"Index.dat Suite is a rather unique program that allows you not only to delete the index.dat files, temporary internet files, temp files, cookies and history, but it also allows you to view the index.dat files on your system. "

there are also some very funny apps there.
check out "cup holder" and "mouse mat"

 

[found via snapfile]

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Screenshot Captor / Re: idea: temp. pre-template, accessible by right-clicking the tray icon

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 09:27 AM »

screenshot captor has a feature made for exactly this purpose.

The "File Name QuickField" on main screen is where you are supposed to enter things like a custom name for a series of screnshots.
the quickfield can be added to the default template in any way you want, because its just a field in your template.

OR if you DONT have quickfield entry in your template, quickfield will be used INSTEAD of your template filename.

i know its a bit convoluted but it's especially set up to do the kind of stuff you are talking about.


as for date and time, see the Templates field you have lots of choices, including a comepletely custom date/time

Available Fields:
%quickfield% - quick text field from main screen
%datetime% , %date% , %time% - local date/time
%customdate% - obeys custom date format
%num% - 3digit counter
%resolution%, %capturemode%
%windowtitle%, %filename%, %nicename%, %fullfilename% ,
%description%, %fileversion% ,
%company% , %productname% , %versionstring%

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Finished Programs / Re: Fun games from Mikes Software Co

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 09:09 AM »

I have a vague idea that might make a fun game.

imagine something like tetris or one of those block games.

but in this case each block would be like an animal. and when blocks come into contact with each other some rules would govern how they interact.

like if a lion block connects to a single antelope block.. bye bye antelope.
if penguin block meets a fish block, bye bye fish.

if lion block meets 4 penguin blocks... well i don't know, i havent gotten that far yet..

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Finished Programs / Re: Fun games from Mike's Software

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 09:06 AM »

Mike,

you got any plans for new games/puzzles?
i think its time fore Miketris..

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Suggestion: FAQ readonly forum (or webpage)

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 08:27 AM »

great idea.

this is similar in fact to the suggestion by someone that we set up a wiki.  ill think about which would be best.
definitely a good idea.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: an idea for an effect

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 08:26 AM »

good ideas carol - i was thinking to add a command to copy the current selection and auto save it as a new image file in the screenshot directory, which would do what you say.

and you gave me a good idea to support dropping image files into clipart panel to copy them into clipart directory.

it think your resize idea is a good one - might be a little hard to do it exactly as you suggestion, but i think i might be able to come up with something close.  an easy temporary fix of course is to just select resize dialog, enter a large value in upper right box, and let it grow entire space around the image, and then crop to desired size by eye.

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Screenshot Captor / an idea for an effect

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 07:16 AM »

i had an idea for adding a command for an effect, wanted to see if i could explain it.

i was thinking of an effect where you select some region, and it would get copied and placed to the right of the main image, and then the main image shrunk down to match the height of the selected region.

the effect is to have a side by side overview vs. zoomed view.

so i was thinking of providing a command to do this.  would this be useful?  any other related ideas?

here is sample of the effect in action.

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Living Room / Re: Thinking about a DonationCoder.com fundraising thing.. opinions wanted

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 07:03 AM »

carolhaynes - hehehe


An Update on the Fundraiser Idea:

• We have decided to go ahead with the Fundraiser for the month of November.
• We are going to contact the companies that have offered discounts in the past and inquire about revisiting these discounts and/or offering a few more donation copies for us to give out in drawings.
• The software giveaway drawings seem popular and so i think we will try hard to get a bunch of copies of stuff.  which is why i'd like to make a request:  if you know of any shareware authors who might be willing to donate a few copies of their program for us to give away, please ask them nicely for us, and if they are willing to, please have them make a post here or email me ([email protected]).  We will make a special page of all such companies/authors who have donated copies for us to give away during our fundraiser.
• We need a new logo and/or mascot!!!! If you have the skills or know someone who does and is willing to donate their time, please submit something.
• We will try to offer some kind of tshirt or hat or something with donationcoder.com catchphrase+logo for people who want it.
.

• We will try to revamp the site a bit in honor of the fundraiser; this will include some excerpts of nice things people have said in emails; if you haven't written us a nice email but have been meaning to, now is the time
• If you know of some site that would be interested in receiving a kind of blurb about our fundraiser and/or our site in general, it would be nice if we could get out some publicity in november, so let us know.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request - Mind Reading

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 05:51 AM »

just looking again at your wishlist nontroppo.

i will try to add adaptive frequency scoring

running task list seems like it would be fun to add - and actually you've given me a good idea:
an option that says in an alias to launch an app IFF its not already running (but switch to it if it is running)
this is what would be used in task list but might be useful for other aliases too.

and thanks for reminding me to look into performance tweaks.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request - Mind Reading

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 05:49 AM »

hehehehe.

F&R uses the force and zen anticipation:

you can never press the wrong key - whatever app launched is the one that the universe wants you to use.  don't fight it, just use the app that launches.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: DLL Error Messages

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 04:52 AM »

the left sidebar of screenshot captor is basically a component that provides full windows file explorer shell support.
as such, it supports all the operations found in windows explorer, and it will attach to the dlls that are registered as shell extensions just like any file explorer tool will (it doesnt use more memory is just links in automatically to existing shell dlls).

this answers why the dlls seem linked to screenshot captor but doesnt answer the ctrl+copy effect.
i tried it here and it worked like normal shell.

question:
if you open windows file explorer and do ctrl+C on a png file, do you get same dll error?

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Mouser's Zone / Re: IDEA - Webpage archiving

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 03:35 AM »

another app:

http://www.netpicker.net/netpicker.html

[found via freeware world team]

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DesktopCoral / Re: Help

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 02:32 AM »

ive never heard of it not being able to dock to some sides of screen...

you should be able to drag it to any side of the screen and it should auto dock to it.

what exactly happens when you drag it to extreme side of your screen?

what operating system are you using?

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Mouser's Zone / Re: if you submitted a bug and i didn't credit you in help file, let me know

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 01:40 AM »

if he was in my house i dont think he would live more than 1 second.
either cat get him or i do.

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Finished Programs / Re: Next Big Coding Snacks Weekend October 7

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 01:39 AM »

there is a button on the liar thing to show you the answer.

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Unicode Image Maker / Re: Unicode Text-to-Image v1.00.01

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 01:32 AM »

very good ideas!

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Unicode Image Maker / Re: Unicode Text-to-Image v1.00.01

« Last post by mouser on October 11, 2005, 12:58 AM »

its mainly meant for unicode text BUT if you have text that requires fixed formatting like ascii art
the solution is to load the text, select it all,
and then select a fixed ascii format font.

but you gave me an idea to add a button to do that with one click, for such things.
i will add to next version.

--

i will add save confirm option.

-

as for capturing only what is shown, yep i'm afraid that is how it currently works.. maybe can make a fix for that sometime in future but currently thats a limitation.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Chante France URL

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 11:14 PM »

this is a sneaky embedded asf stream url.
in fact url snooper can discover it, but it changes constantly (it's a live stream).
the real url looks something like this:

mms://streamwmt.chantefrance.com/ChanteFrancec145a3353c5a6c3aee6c44137c869434

and is found by url snooper once the stream starts playing.
you can paste it into something like streambox vcr 1.30 (note you want 1.30 not 1.31 since its an asf stream).

the thing is that that mms url is going to change constantly because i guess it is timestamped, so i think youd need to sniff it again by first connecting to the browser and using snooper each time before you started recording to get the new url.

here is the place for better answers on all this kinds of stuff:
http://p082.ezboard....m/fstreemeboxvcrfrm4

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Screenshot Captor / Re: REQ: Custom Modifier key shortcuts

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 03:26 PM »

ps: if you forget your hotkeys just click on system tray and it will list them.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: REQ: Custom Modifier key shortcuts

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 03:25 PM »

yes, i have to fix the hotkey editboxes in my apps to support the windows key, it sucks that it wont accept it currently.