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General Software Discussion / Re: AppRocket: Quicksilver for Windows

« Last post by mouser on October 02, 2005, 05:02 AM »

also let's not forget, once we build a good default set of regular expression alias groups i think F&R is going to get a whole new life.

(see this thread for more info: https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=855.0)

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General Software Discussion / Re: AppRocket: Quicksilver for Windows

« Last post by mouser on October 02, 2005, 05:02 AM »

btw i hope you guys/gals will let me know which skins (from the big skin set) you think i should include with default installation, and which one we should make the default skin.

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General Software Discussion / Re: AppRocket: Quicksilver for Windows

« Last post by mouser on October 02, 2005, 05:01 AM »

thanks for the nice words elpresi.
i'm always looking to hear ways we can improve the software on this site - and there are lots more things planned for F&R (see the ToDo list in the F&R help file).

if you look around the forums youll find that i take bug reports and feature suggestions VERY SERIOUSLY.
in fact this forum has been the main source of ideas for programs like F&R robot and Screenshot Captor.

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General Software Discussion / Re: AppRocket: Quicksilver for Windows

« Last post by mouser on October 02, 2005, 04:43 AM »

btw if anyone wants to try to build a custom skin for F&R or Popup Wisdom, here is the tool for it:
https://www.donation...er/Skins/builder.zip

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General Software Discussion / Re: AppRocket: Quicksilver for Windows

« Last post by mouser on October 02, 2005, 04:37 AM »

you have to so we can find out what other approcket features that F&R needs.

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General Software Discussion / Re: AppRocket: Quicksilver for Windows

« Last post by mouser on October 02, 2005, 02:54 AM »

I've updated it to v 1.07.15:
https://www.donation.../FindAndRunRobot.exe

For 5mb worth of extra skins (about 61 skins):
https://www.donation.../downloads/Skins.zip
(same skin files used in PopUp Wisdom), unpack into Find&Run Skins directory,

CHANGE LOG:
Version 1.07.15 - Oct 02, 2005
 · Full skin selection plus ability to disable skinning 
 · Setting transparency to 0 now changes window mode to non-transparent (better for capturing screenshots of it) 
 · Reorganized some preference dialog pages.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: AppRocket: Quicksilver for Windows

« Last post by mouser on October 02, 2005, 12:48 AM »

Find&Run Robot 1.07.14 BETA

https://www.donation.../FindAndRunRobot.exe

Note you cannot disable skinning in this version yet, so don't install if you hate skins (though you can always reinstall older version over this one if you don't like it).  If we decide to keep skinning, you will be able to 1) disable it 2) choose from TONS of skins.


CHANGE LIST
Version 1.07.14 - Oct 02, 2005
 · when remove-duplicates option is enabled, shortcuts which differ only in arguments are now treated as non-duplicates.
 · added auto-sizing window option (see config panel2 and disable "Blank search shows files from launch history" if you want smallest bar window on launch). 
 · preliminary test of skinning.


NOTE: to make the autosize work, see picture below for options to set:

pics:

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General Software Discussion / Re: I want to browse thru my documents (pdfs, pics, word, rtf, and so on...) ...

« Last post by mouser on October 01, 2005, 09:56 PM »

yeah, i would 2nd that recommendation to check out powerdesk; not exactly what you asked for (no files in tree), BUT with 3 panels you get mostly the same effect plus a great file manager.

http://www.v-com.com...erDesk_Pro_Home.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: I want to browse thru my documents (pdfs, pics, word, rtf, and so on...) ...

« Last post by mouser on October 01, 2005, 09:20 PM »

no i think he wants a FILE EXPLORER to broswe the file system, which shows FILES and FOLDERS in the left hand tree, and then in the right hand panel a view of the files contents.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I want to browse thru my documents (pdfs, pics, word, rtf, and so on...) ...

« Last post by mouser on October 01, 2005, 07:58 PM »

i don't know any but i'm quite curious to hear about what other people suggest - sounds like a useful tool to have.

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General Software Discussion / Re: AppRocket: Quicksilver for Windows

« Last post by mouser on October 01, 2005, 07:56 PM »

thanks elpresi, i had not heard of KbStart before, i'll add it to the list of related programs in the Find&Run Robot help file.

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General Software Discussion / tinyproject - open source mini program like MS Project

« Last post by mouser on October 01, 2005, 07:21 PM »

http://tinyproject.org/

looks really neat (free open source);  found from freeware world team (https://www.donation...com/Links/index.html)

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Living Room / Re: Making websites, for complete beginners

« Last post by mouser on October 01, 2005, 07:04 PM »

another nice page for comparing content management systems: http://www.cmsmatrix.org/

there are some people who visit this forum that use various content management systems (mambo and drupal users here i know), maybe they can share with us their views.

i thought long and hard about using a content management system for DonationCoder.com and played with several.

utlimately i decided against it because i liked the idea of having a complete mirror of the site on my local machine and because i thought that having complete control over the pages was important to me and group editing was not (at least at the moment).  but it was a hard decision.

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General Software Discussion / Re: AppRocket: Quicksilver for Windows

« Last post by mouser on October 01, 2005, 03:20 PM »

i consider skinning for F&R of the lowest priorities and i won't add it if i can't add it in a way that it has absolutely no impact on speed when disabled, and very minimal impact on exe size (maybe 100k-200k or so).

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Living Room / Re: Making websites, for complete beginners

« Last post by mouser on October 01, 2005, 03:01 PM »

easygen looks quite interesting..

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Living Room / Re: Making websites, for complete beginners

« Last post by mouser on October 01, 2005, 03:00 PM »

i should have thought to mention this before.

what you are talking about is referred to as Content Management Systems.

they aren't just blog systems they are more general site-building software (many open source), designed to provide a different way to build more dynamic sites rather than simply editing html manually and uploading it.

my favorite site for info on these (lets you try them all out online):
http://www.opensourcecms.com/

these things take a bit of effort to set up but once set up you and anyone else you want, can edit content online.

most of these software are made for group editing, but some are used simply by one person.

cliff is using a wiki system for one of his freeware sites, maybe he can tell us a little about that, that's another kind of content management system you might consider..

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General Software Discussion / Re: AppRocket: Quicksilver for Windows

« Last post by mouser on October 01, 2005, 02:55 PM »

i got my hands dirty with skinning on the last program added to the site (PopUp Wisdom), and so i could probably add OPTIONAL skinning to F&R with very little effort. and starting out as a minimal height bar and expanding is probably pretty easy to do as well..

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General Software Discussion / Re: AppRocket: Quicksilver for Windows

« Last post by mouser on October 01, 2005, 02:07 PM »

it's definitely interesting to hear about impressions like this because it gives me ideas (like maybe having option to have F&R window just a tiny thin bar until you start typing.. but then of course you give up one of the useful features which is to have it start showing a list of recently launched apps).

keep in mind one thing about F&R speed -

1) F&R searches the directories you specify (start menu directory in particular) when you start typing, and it keeps a list of the last 50 or 100 files/programs you have launched in the past for superfast finding.  so the FIRST time you find and launch a program it has to find it by searching directories, and after that it will find it right away.  So basically for files you find more than once F&R should be super super fast, but the first time you search for it it might take a little longer.

2) i think you are, but make sure you are setting F&R tray to start using the "main application (runs faster)" mode; the other tray mode is being made obsolete (its slower to startup but uses less memory - and as features are getting added it's no longer practical to support this mode).

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Skrommel's Software / Re: Single Skrommel with all apps

« Last post by mouser on October 01, 2005, 08:29 AM »

ah i see what you mean..
but maybe all you need is a tutorial from comone on how to load multiple scripts into auto hot key.. i think this will almost do what you want..
but maybe there is something like what you are asking to make it easier to enable/disable scripts in auto hot key.

hopefully skrommel will reply with some guidelines.

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Skrommel's Software / Re: Single Skrommel with all apps

« Last post by mouser on October 01, 2005, 08:03 AM »

you probably wouldnt want all of his ahk scripts running at same time because many do some processor intensive things in the background,
BUT
you should be able to download a bunch of the .ahk scripts (not the precompiled exes) and compile them into one single exe, or better yet
just run the autohotkey scripts you want inside ahk (instead of running the individual exes).

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Screenshot Captor / v2.00.12 brotherS bugfix edition - beta available now (10/01/05)

« Last post by mouser on October 01, 2005, 07:43 AM »

Beta Download
https://www.donation...ScreenshotCaptor.exe

CHANGELOG
v2.00.12 - 10/01/05 (brotherS bugfix edition)
Displays warning when trying to perform operations that require selection (e.g. Crop) and no selection has been made.
Addded options for forcing background transparency merging (always or onsave); this lets you decide whether to use the image file format transparency feature (for png and gif images), which can look ugly sometimes, or whether to simulate it in the image using the current background color.
Changed highlighting tool text and icon to make it more clear that it was for drawing highlighting rectangles+circles.
Moved highlight shape button to top of hightlight shape panel.
On minimization the application always asks to save if the file is dirty.
If you do a SaveAs into main Currently viewing directory, the Saved file is loaded as current file.
Start and End arrow checkbox meaning were reversed.
No longer restores from minimization on exit.
After renaming files with F2 in shell window, they are now selected.
No longer grabs PrtScr and other hotkeys if they are set to do nothing in Options dialog [thanks CarolHaynes].
Added color depth change and DPI change dialog.
Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y for undo/redo now works even if you are in shell browser panel.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: v2.00.09 bug - strange problem, I can't fix it

« Last post by mouser on October 01, 2005, 06:31 AM »

i'm almost done fixing all the outstanding problems reported on the forum up to version 2.00.12
i can't seem to reproduce any MoveTo bugs - if anyone can figure out how to recreate this moveto issue please let me know.

As far as alt selecting main menu, i probably can't make that happen because alt+keys do select main menu items but also items from object toolbar and it won't work if we select main menu,

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for finance app

« Last post by mouser on September 30, 2005, 11:02 PM »

although they may be a bit bloated, id give quicken and ms money a good hard look;
these are serious programs with lots of room for you to grow into using the full features over time.

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Best Archive Tool / Re: More Archive Reviews?

« Last post by mouser on September 30, 2005, 10:28 PM »

good to see you zaine - we know you are busy moving but don't forget about us, we miss you!

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Living Room / An Idea - DonationWare award type thing

« Last post by mouser on September 30, 2005, 08:22 PM »

I was thinking maybe we might discuss and form a set of things that if a donationware author achieved we would give a kind of award as a symbol that they are doing something good, and maybe try to form a kind of allegience between such sites.

Here is an idea of what i was thinking about:
1) All of their software should be donationware (+freeware); meaning that they should be usable without limits and without regular nag screens, for an unlimited amount of time, for non-commercial use.
2) It would be ok if they had a dual license and charged for commercial use, and if they required anything like postcard, or email opt-out, etc., as long as all of the software could be used fully by people without money.
3) There must be no adware or spyware in the programs.
4) They must have a forum where users can post problems and get help (this might be controversial requirement).

So you see the idea is to set a kind of high bar for ethical donationware and then form a kind of web ring or logo that such donationware coders could display in order to indicate to people that their site meets these standards.

Any site/author meeting these guidelines should be supported by us, by offering help, hosting or overflow hosting if its needed, etc.

Anyway, just an idea to encourage good donationware coding and reward those authors.