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Unfinished Requests / Re: PRIZE: Write a plugin for TheBat! and win a free copy of TheBat! Pro

« Last post by mouser on July 15, 2005, 01:50 PM »

jibz plugin is written and he gave his copy of thebat! as a gift to another member.
but we still have 1 more copy available to give out as a prize..

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Report the Number of Characters in Highlighted Text

« Last post by mouser on July 15, 2005, 01:35 PM »

this would be extremely easy to do with a hotkey and tray based tool..
definitely something doable this weekend.

any clipboard apps already have a hotkey to report this?
i'm sure you could make an autoit script to do this, just copy to clipboard and count clipboard characters and report.  any of our autoit experts want to do this, or should somene just whip up a little c++ util for it?

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: Schedule for Next Coding Snacks Weekend

« Last post by mouser on July 15, 2005, 01:32 PM »

Note that we regularly move older requests into the "Older Requests" section.
this doesn't mean they are not still good ideas to work on, it's just to help keep the place organized.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Open/Save Dialog Utilities - response to Nudone's Blog from May

« Last post by mouser on July 15, 2005, 12:46 PM »

ps hot folders is another really good one:

http://www.pssoftlab.com/index.phtml

and the author also make a nice tray tool, and another launch tool.
and he's a nice guy too.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request v2 - text replacement

« Last post by mouser on July 15, 2005, 11:40 AM »

i think it's something worth adding - i'd just like to hear what people want from it.  would be nice to hear from those who really use these tools to get an idea of what the real functionality that they use is.

and of course, let's not get into the rut of just looking at other programs and implementing what they have - we need to think outside the box and come up with new features not yet thought of by anyone else..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request v2 - time to get started

« Last post by mouser on July 15, 2005, 08:01 AM »

i think this is something probably worth adding - i don't have much experience with text replacement tools so i'll have to learn what they actually do first.

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General Software Discussion / Re: AppRocket: Quicksilver for Windows

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2005, 07:57 PM »

customized hotkey will be in next version, probably very very soon.

i really hope those of you who currently prefer other similar programs will help me by describing things that you like better in the other programs - it will help me make F&R as good as i can.

F&R forum discussion:
https://www.donation...index.php?board=12.0

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General Software Discussion / Re: AppRocket: Quicksilver for Windows

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2005, 07:38 PM »

i'll just note that Find&Run Robot, made by me and on this site, is a direct competitor to AppRocket

not to knock approcket, just to let you know that you might want to try the freeware Find and Run Robot on this site.

ps. the help file for F&R robot lists AppRocket and a ton of other similar tools.

ps2. we are currently discussing features to add to F&R in the forum dedicated to it, and i am keenly interested in hearing any features of AppRocket that you would like to see in F&R.

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Living Room / Re: This "keyboard" looks so cool for customization freaks

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2005, 01:05 PM »

this is vaporware, but surely we'll have stuff like this in the near future:

http://www.artlebede...m/portfolio/optimus/

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Site/Forum Features / Re: How to Change Privacy Options in your Forum Profile

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2005, 11:59 AM »

This would be also a good opportunity to remind people that by default when you sign up you are listed in the "Visitor" group.

Your group is listed after "Position: " on the main Profile page, and at the top of every forum page in the User Info box at top.

After you have made a donation to the site you should be listed as a "Charter Member" "Supporting Member".

If you have made a donation (or if you have contacted me and been told i was upgrading your account), but you are still listed as a "Visitor" then don't panic, it just means i missed you somehow.  send me a private message through the forum or email me and i'll take care of it right away.

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Site/Forum Features / How to Change Forum Privacy Options (and Block Our Newsletter Emails)

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2005, 11:46 AM »

i got an email from someone who didn't like that people could see their "online status" at the bottom of the main forum page, where it shows people currently browsing the board.

i thought this would be a good opportunity to let people know how they can turn this off and control other privacy issues.

When you are logged into the forum, click the "PROFILE" button on top, this will bring you to your forum profile where there are many settings you can adjust.

In the left sidebar you will see there are actually many different pages in your profile, including:

• Account Related Settings
• Forum Profile Information
• Look and Layout Preferences
• Notifications and Email
• Personal Message Options

If you dont want people to be able to see when you are online, go to the "Account Related Settings" page, and uncheck "Show others your online status?"


How to never receive an email from us ever:

On the "Notifications and Email" page you can turn off all messages from us - so you'll never get another weekly newsletter from donationcoder.com, if you don't want to receive them, though i request people leave this enabled unless they are really opposed to it, as its the way we would let members you know about imporant announcements.


You'll also see an option for "Hide email address from public?" which is set by default.


I should also remind you that if you haven't done so yet, go to the "Forum Profile Information" page and pick out an avatar (image) for your forum identity so people have a fun picture to associate with you.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: irc client filter

« Last post by mouser on July 14, 2005, 12:10 AM »

http://home.cc.umani...wa17/junk/mfilter.pl

google cache for preview:
http://72.14.207.104...r%22+xchat&hl=en

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Living Room / Re: Remote control for PC

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2005, 06:39 PM »

wow - beautiful stuff jpfx.

i found a review of imon vfd at tom's hardware:
http://www.tomshardw...3/soundgraph-03.html

summary: they loved it.

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Living Room / Re: 43folders - nice blog on software and stuff

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2005, 06:06 PM »

lifehacker looks really nice, i may add that to links page.

how's this for irony, i followed a post on lifehacker to Yahoo Desktop SEARCH.
looks nice, i went to the forum for it, 1500 posts.  cool.

http://messages.yaho...297&mid=10000000


wait...
what's missing from the yahoo desktop search forum...
i'll give you 10 points if you guess correct:   a search function

that's right.
you cannot search the yahoo desktop search forum.

now come one, even if you wanted to design a forum without search functionality you'd have to work damn hard at it.. how did they pull off such a think?

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General Review Discussion / Any volunteers for Next Review (7/25 - 8/1) ?

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2005, 03:13 PM »

the most requested categories so far in the poll are:

hierarchical notes programs - this is going to be a very difficult review, only those with the time to do this properly should volunteer.
file explorer replacement - same thing, very difficult review and likely to be very controversial
archive management tools - much easier i think, not too many big names (winrar,winzip) and some good freeware ones (7zip)

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Coding Snack Guidelines / GETTING REWARDED FOR AUTHORING CODING SNACKS !

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2005, 03:03 PM »

authors that write coding snacks will have a donation page made for them, where people who like their program can donate directly to the authors PayPal account (so if you intend to write a coding snacks freeware program please sign up at PayPal or another donation site).

we will also reward authors who write coding snacks with free copies of programs that are donated to us, that are particularly useful to programmers.  we still have a few copies of VmWare, BB FlashBack Pro, and Camtasia 3 (all very valuable programs) to give out.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Superior SU

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2005, 01:50 PM »

wow!

worth mentioning its free AND has a nice discussion on that page by the author about what was involved in writing the program and the challenges, etc.

excellent find.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE - IDEA: Report Folder Info Including Max Path Depth

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2005, 01:46 PM »

in a few weeks or a month we will be releasing a new donationcoder.com app that will make it super easy to design your own context menu stuff in a super easy and super flexible fashion - it's just the thing to do what you want

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Living Room / Re: Looking for some helpers with an easy fun project for DonationCoder.com

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2005, 01:45 PM »

excellent, thanks, i'll check it out.

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Living Room / Re: SUPER IMPORTANT NEW SITE FEATURE!!!

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2005, 08:18 AM »

welcome kitty

i've updated all of the donation pages to highlight the new idea of donating to individual authors, and the info page about it now contains direct links to all individual authors you can donate to.  This page will be updated as new people contribute to the site: http://donationcoder...e/Members/index.html

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request v2 - appearance and name?

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2005, 06:41 AM »

well i tend to agree..
rest assured no skin support will be added until all other features are implemented.. it's just an idea i wanted to throw open for discussion to get an idea of how many people would like such a thing, and it would only be implemented if it could be done without impacting performance, and as a completely optional feature, etc.

the reason i have become more open to the idea is that while working on the Cheat Sheeter app, i used this excellent free, well known toolbar component toolbar2k, and its has a completely native win feel, but does support optional skins, so i realize skins can be added in a way that will not compromise the ability to run the program in plain normal windows mode for those of us that prefer that.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request v2 - misc. bug fixes

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2005, 06:36 AM »

agreed, that interface could be made clearer and cleaner, with support for more keyboard interaction as well.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request v2 - file explorer/browser mode?

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2005, 06:35 AM »

yes, this is definitely an idea that i am considering..
it might work like this, an "expandable" (or configurable) 'preview' panel.
so that when you click on an item (whether folder or file), it would show in the preview panel.
in the case of clicking on a folder, it would show the contents of that folder (or locate the folder in a folder tree and show the contents?)
if you clicked on a file, it would preview the contents of the file (or locate the parent folder in a folder tree and select the file and show where it is?)

this is an intriguing possibility for sure.. and we should talk about it more because it's possible that if this request is desired, maybe all shell operations (dragging out of window, right clicking for full context menu), would be more easily handled as operations from this panel rather than from main results panel.

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Find And Run Robot / Feature Request v2 - Speeding up searches?

« Last post by mouser on July 13, 2005, 06:30 AM »

this may not make it into version 2, it's just something to consider and plan for and discuss.

the desktop search tools like google and msn, which search INSIDE of files, work by scanning and reading files in the background (or on demand), and creating a huge database of file contents.

it is this database that is searched then when you run a search.

now i considered having F&R create a database of files and search that..
however my initial feeling was that there would be little payoff from it..
because the operating system should be fairly efficient at cacheing directory listings
and because f&r doesnt search file contents, only file names (though we could debate this)
and because f&r needs to be able to search partial words and arbitrary patterns, which makes it hard to do efficient database lookups.

so, it may simply be that there is no real way to substantially speedup searching, and that implementing a database system and background scanning is more trouble than its worth.. but it's something to consider.

the one thing that f&r does do it is take pains to store any previously launched program in a list and search that first, so the first time you search for "microsoft word" it might take several seconds to locate, but the next time it should instantaneous.  that feature could probably be enhanced to be more clever about what it caches..

any other suggestions are welcome

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Find And Run Robot / Feature Request v2 - misc. bug fixes

« Last post by mouser on July 12, 2005, 10:29 PM »

there are lots of little things that could be considered bugs that need fixing; we can discuss them here.

one is the new focus capturing, which keeps F&R always the focused window.  this is good to prevent losing focus by accident, but as kfitting pointed out, it is not good if you purposefully want to switch windows while f&r is on screen.  this needs to be fixed.

another issues pointed out by someone (i forget who) is that when you select a group alias, it should show all items, and ignore normal limits.

config options need to be better organized, split into dif pages.

shortcut links sometimes not launching in proper 'working directory'.

more?