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Screenshot Captor / Re: REQ: Custom Modifier key shortcuts

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 03:06 PM »

already supported:

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request V2 — Drag'n'Drop Config…

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 02:44 PM »

i LOVE drag and drop!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request V2 — Drag'n'Drop Config…

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 02:08 PM »

not a bad idea and easy enough to do.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Still having problems ... ignoring rules with full shutdown/reload of PT

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 02:07 PM »

the reason i may have done it the way i've done it could be this:

with the current approach, if you want the process to bump back up to normal, then its just 2 more clicks from the same page you are adding the rule on.  and if you want to leave it at low priority, you do nothing.

but if i made the program automatically go back to normal priority then you would be out of luck if you wanted to leave it at low priority.
(for more complicated reasons the configurator cannot know that the process was lowered by the tray tool, so it cant restore it, it has to wait until it closes and tray tool would restore it). so youd have to reopen the config after that and go manually lower it again if you wanted it to stay lowered.

perhaps the best clearest solution would be very simple:
If user adds a new rule to IGNORE an app and priority is low, the configure app can simply pop up a simple message saying:
"Process Tamer will now ignore this application completely.  It is currently set at low priority - if you would like to boost it back to it's normal priority, just choose 'NORMAL' from the processes priority drop down box now."

what do you think?

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ProcessTamer / Re: Still having problems ... ignoring rules with full shutdown/reload of PT

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 01:39 PM »

yes, i think that probably makes sense.  i know i considered this at the time, but i can't remember if i had a good reason for doing it the way i did.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Still having problems ... ignoring rules with full shutdown/reload of PT

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 01:25 PM »

it's not just you - it's basically how PT currently works.

when you added a rule saying "IGNORE"
PT assumed you had taken over responsibility for the app, and completely stopped all management of it.

it assumed that you would change the priority back to normal this time if you wanted it back at normal.
(you can easily change priorities from the same process tamer configuration screen as the one you added the rule).

so this is just the way process tamer currently works - as soon as you say IGNORE, it IGNORES it, it does not restore its priority, it assumes you will do it.

but i can change that if its counter intuitive.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Still having problems ... ignorinmg rules with full shutdown/reload of PT

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 01:19 PM »

ok,
so once PT is exited and restarted, then forever after the rule is applied. is that right?

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Official Announcements / Re: WinRAR GIVEAWAY - INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO ENTER DRAWING

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 01:16 PM »

ive emailed winrar about 5 times in last 5 weeks -
seriously they are messed up -  most emails are just ignored.

however i started getting hysterical and cc'ing different email addresses in yesterdays email and i did finally get a response this morning promising to get back to me tomorrow.. i apologize for the annoying nature of this, but believe me no one is more irritated than me and i am on top of this.  i expect will have it sorted this week.  i hope.  thanks everyone for being patient.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Config always says Tray prog isn't running.

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 01:13 PM »

ok great to know - thanks for reporting that and letting us know the issue.
i'm sure it will come up again and this may save some time troubleshooting issues in the future.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Still having problems ... ignorinmg rules with full shutdown/reload of PT

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 01:11 PM »

oh.  ok says it is running...  that's different issue then.

ok let's try to isolate the problem.

1) so if you launch the config tool from the tray tool, it does show as running in the config dialog.
that's good, at least the apps are talking.

2) now when you added your rule, how exactly did you add it?
did you add it manually from the configuration tab by right clicking and selecting "add rule", or did you add it by clicking on the Processes tab, finding the app and selecting "Ignore".

3) either way:
when you close the config tool and reopen it (always open config tool using tray tool), is your rule still there?

4) now before we get to the subtleties of disabling and enabling and obeying rule changes -
can you check if you exit the tray program completely, and restart it, is it now obeying the ignore rule?

once we know the answers to these we will know a lot more about the cause.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Still having problems ... ignorinmg rules with full shutdown/reload of PT

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 12:02 PM »

first question, to recap:
when you launch the configuration screen from within Process Tamer tray tool,
it launches and then quickly says that the tray tool is NOT RUNNING in the configuration dialog, is that right?

Once that happens it means the tray will never know that the configuration tool has changed any settings and so any changes will be ignored.

it's also the easiest thing for me to try to discover the cause of because i can have the config tool print out a list of what apps it does see running, and we can take it from there.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Supercharged Alt-tab replacement utility

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

he posted it in mini-review section:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=1163.0

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Living Room / Re: Regular Charter Honorary Deluxe Super Plus Ultimate Members

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 10:51 AM »

thats not a bad idea
the other thing i can do which might make more sense is
add a mod that lets me add a custom little icon (like the icq icons), or add a custom text
to signify some appreciation.  that would have the advantage of not requiring the maintenance of dif groups..

ps.
If you are a charter or honorary member, PLEASE PLEASE write a little quote in your supporter yearbook entry of your forum!
the yearbook page is here: https://www.donation....php?action=yearbook
and there are far too many people there without quotes!
to change/add your quote, click "Profile" at top of this page and scroll down to the very last entry.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Synaesthesia

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 09:59 AM »

i could not get this program to display anything remotely interesting.

kfitting that is fascinating to hear - i have somewhat of a background in brain research but have never met anyone who actually had synaesthesia.. it's a fascinating thing.

interesting web page on colors associated with letters -> http://otherthings.com/uw/syn/

q&a on synaesthesia: http://www.bbc.co.uk...rizon/derek_qa.shtml

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Living Room / Re: Regular Charter Honorary Deluxe Super Plus Ultimate Members

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 09:48 AM »

it's true though that it could set off bad feelings for people who don't get marked as Ultimate Members ..

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Living Room / Re: Regular Charter Honorary Deluxe Super Plus Ultimate Members

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 09:40 AM »

charter member will not be given out past year 1.  so thats 4 or 5 more months left for that.

here is why i was thinking we need another member group, which really is no trouble at all to set up.

anyone who donates becomes Charter Member.

those who contribute to helping out on the forum for a while, or freeware authors, or some other reasons, get Honorary Member.

but what about people who are nice enough to donate AND are so helpful on the forum that they would easily be given honorary status?
i was just thinking some recognition should be made to these people who are really the ultimate members, and deserve some recognition i thought.

"Ultimate Member" ?

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ProcessTamer / Re: Still having problems ... ignorinmg rules with full shutdown/reload of PT

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 09:20 AM »

i have a guess at what might be happening.. i'm going to make a test version of PT if you don't mind helping me test.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: I love the Bulk Rename Utility!

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 06:39 AM »

brotherS just told me about Rename Master on irc (freeware):
http://fileforum.bet..._Master/1050495974/1

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Make "Auto save" optional

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 06:18 AM »

i might be able to add an option to disable auto save..
do you know what causes the images to look like that first one?  you didn't take it as a tiff file originally did you? i noticed there may be some kind of incompatibility with tiff transparency used by the graphics library..

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

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 06:02 AM »

we migh look into trying google ads one day, but only if we could make it so members never saw them at all.

cafepress has some really great stuff, and a huge variety.
but the real problem is that the base price is so large.
if most of the donators to this site donate from $5 to $20 dollars and $10-15 from every tshirt goes to cafrepress, there is none left for us   so maybe we need to make our own iron on designs and make the tshirts ourselves

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Living Room / Regular Charter Honorary Deluxe Super Plus Ultimate Members

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 05:57 AM »

I think it would be nice to recognize those Charter (donating) members who are regulars here and who are always helping out with stuff.  There are no extra benefits to offer really, but it seems there should be a special label for you guys.

What would be a good membergroup label?  should still say "Charter" in it.
like Charter Member Plus
or something?

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Screenshot Captor / new feature coming: zoompanel

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 03:07 AM »

just a teaser screenshot:

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Wallpaper Master: Freeware Edition

« Last post by mouser on October 10, 2005, 12:17 AM »

surely the timestamp was due to overwriting the file, so if its not overwriting then it shouldnt be changing timestamp.

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Living Room / strange+fun software for mac

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

http://www.thedailygrind.net/software/

"Faith Converter 1.9
Found an admirable tome but it's in praise of the wrong god?"

"Final Excuse Pro 1.2
Perfectly plausable and believable excuses are a mouseclick away, for even the most defective user."

[found via http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/]

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Living Room / [link] optimizing software development for fun

« Last post by mouser on October 09, 2005, 11:33 PM »

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7996

long blog post on how to make it fun to develop a software product and why that helps development.
mostly focused on group projects but a good read.

[found from slashdot]