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Living Room / Re: Product names — how do you come up with one?

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 12:47 AM »

i also want to point out that naming an app can be very fun and motivating - it breathes some life into a project idea and can really motivate you.

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Living Room / Re: Product names — how do you come up with one?

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 12:46 AM »

great question!

i have come up with some real losers and some i hope winners

i try to have 2 rules:
1) do a google search and it shouldnt return more than 1 or 2 hits
2) name should reflect function of the app.

mistakes i have made in the past:
1) don't use a name that could be spelled different ways and with punctuation:
e.g. "find and run robot" vs "find+run robot" vs. "find&run robot" = bad bad bad

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Window sizing bug (scrollbars)

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 12:19 AM »

new version uploaded - lanux can you tell me if this one still fixes sizing bug? it's a different technique this time i'm trying.

https://www.donation.../FindAndRunRobot.zip

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Window sizing bug (scrollbars)

« Last post by mouser on October 05, 2005, 12:03 AM »

i havent fully fixed the sizing bug it was just a test to see if i understand the problem..
but at least i know what the cause is.. its a damn bug with automatic sizing of columns.
the fix will make the window shimmer a bit so its not a good final solution.

can you try this version and see if the sizing problem is still fixed in this version:
https://www.donation.../FindAndRunRobot.zip

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Find And Run Robot / Re: RichEdit line insertion error...

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2005, 11:58 PM »

ok so i guess its just a bug with the richedit control, i used a different way of setting the text this time.
good to know the richedit error bug is killed!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Window sizing bug (scrollbars)

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2005, 11:34 PM »

do you know if by any chance you have your windows operating system set to use large fonts?

Display Properties > Settings > Advanced > Display dpi

what dpi setting do you have?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Window sizing bug (scrollbars)

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2005, 11:30 PM »

just send to [email protected] please

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Find And Run Robot / Re: RichEdit line insertion error...

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2005, 11:17 PM »

ps. your versions are more recent than mine, so i don't think its a dll problem..
must be something that i'm doing that is reacting strangely in your case..

does the same problem occur in other donationcoder.com program about boxes?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: RichEdit line insertion error...

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2005, 11:15 PM »

can you try this version:
https://www.donation.../FindAndRunRobot.zip
and test window sizing and about box again?

probably both will still be there.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
this is not a setup program! it is a replacement .exe in a zip file, so you need to copy this over on top of your existing Find and Run Robot directory and restart F&R.

If you would prefer i make setup programs as usual let me know.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: RichEdit line insertion error...

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2005, 10:56 PM »

well if that test works then its a different issue for sure.
let me try something else then.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Window sizing bug (scrollbars)

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2005, 10:45 PM »

this thread was split off from the one on richedit problem, so it may seem a bit confusing.

one clue i need to help me figure out problem - when the window popup up showing scroll bars, can you try this:
put your cursor on right hand window edge and drag it just a tiny bit to the LEFT.

that is, you are going to make the window SMALLER a little bit.
see if it doesnt readjust itself and get rid of scrollbars.

if so, then the problem is one thing that i will be able to address, if it doesn't then its a different issue.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: RichEdit line insertion error...

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2005, 10:40 PM »

im going to split off the window sizing stuff into a separate thread - let's use this one just for the richedit issue.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: RichEdit line insertion error...

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2005, 10:17 PM »

i'd like to fix the richedt line problem first.

see this interesting entry from clipmate faq:
http://www.thornsoft...hEditlineinserterror

can you try their test app here:
http://www.thornsoft...rt/richedittest1.zip

and see if it also causes an error for you?

actually you know i use a richedit control just because i thought i might allow some formatting text (bold,etc.) but since i don't, i could just change to a control that doesnt use richedit at all and that would solve the problem.  maybe i'll just do that...

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General Software Discussion / top 10 freeware apps from "snakeoillabs"

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2005, 09:45 PM »

as found from lifehacker.

personally this lists seems pretty bad to me, and i don't think a single one of these would come close to my top 10 list, but here it is, i guess different people have different views..

http://www.snakeoill...ware-tools-for-2005/

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General Software Discussion / PDF Explorer

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2005, 09:25 PM »

this was updated recently (as seen on fileforum).
PDF Explorer - very nice tool for keeping track of your large collection of PDF files:

http://fileforum.bet...xplorer/1023146751/1

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Compare File Properties

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2005, 09:23 PM »

i personally hate that control panel, file properties dialogs, etc. don't show up in taskbar so this is a great thing.
it's too bad there isn't an official operating system registry tweak to do this... or if there is i don't know it.  if anyone finds one let us know.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Some Performance Questions and Suggestions

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2005, 09:16 PM »

one thing that user fodder reported and i've confirmed is that if you have UNC shortcuts in your Recent Documents list (links to files on a remote computer via your lan), it can cause a stall in F&R as it tries to resolve the links; that will be fixed soon.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: RichEdit line insertion error...

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2005, 09:12 PM »

we don't live with such problems - we fix them!
don't worry we will get it fixed, as long as you are still willing to test fix attempts.

one of things i've learned is that for every 1 person who reports a bug, probably 100 others experience it and just get mad and uninstall, so i treat all bug reports as things that need to be fixed.

let me prepare another test version to try.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.18 beta

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2005, 08:12 PM »

thanks nontroppo,

itunes2 has a really nice slim titlebar (statusbar is still too tall here on my machine at least - any chance of getting that fixed? and can we rename it "compactitunes"?).

now what's this about the graphics bug - i don't see it here..  does it happen with every skin? only when transparency is enabled? only when autoshrink is enabled?

anyone else have that bug?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Compare File Properties

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2005, 08:03 PM »

now that is a damn clever idea!!!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.18 beta

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2005, 06:35 AM »

i'm using 31 currently.

anyone care to try to learn how to use the skinning tool to shorten the titlebar and statusbar skin elements for that metal skin in m_s's screenshot? (what skin filename is it m_s)?

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General Software Discussion / Re: How i organize my email

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2005, 06:29 AM »

its a good idea to keep archives by year, i might start doing that.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.18 beta

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2005, 06:28 AM »

btw i like that metal skin a alot too but i hate how tall the top and bottom stuff is (titlebar and status bar).. i wish someone would edit that skin and make them very thin.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.18 beta

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2005, 06:27 AM »

ah i understand - with the autosize thing always going down, this is a problem for you.. makes sense.

its easy enough for me to make it expand up, EXCEPT..
would you then want the edit field to stay on the bottom, with the list of results above it.. what ould be a little harder.. but without that feature, it might be disconcerting to have the edit field always changing location...

actually i think i should be able to do it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: importing+exporting alias groups (nontroppo read in)

« Last post by mouser on October 04, 2005, 06:06 AM »

yep, was thinking that myself.. will add.

i've collected what i think are the best from your opera page and will be uploading a default alias set tomorrow, then i would appreciate help in adding or removing from that so we can come to an agreement on the best overall default set of alias groups to include in version 2.