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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: NANY 2017: CheckList DC (Android checklist)

« Last post by mouser on September 25, 2016, 01:34 AM »

Updated:
9/25/16
[improvement] You can now specify custom titlebar text for a widget, or eliminate titlebar.
[improvement] Color picker available for custom widget background.
[bugfix] On selected ALL catagory for widget, it could display as empty if there was only one category with items.
[improvement] You can now enable a "quick-viewall-toggle" button in preferences; this button lets you quickly toggle options that show hidden items, empty sections, and revision buttons.  Useful for switching between a minimal-view/use mode and a view-everything/edit mode.


9/24/16
[improvement] If device screen rotated while editing (or creating a new) item, dialog will return after rotation with previous values.
[improvement] New sections (tabs/pages) are not created for entry tags that are covered by existing sections.  In other words if you have a section called Animals which covers tags "mammal, reptile" and create an entry with the tag "mammal", the mammal tag will not be auto-created.
[improvement] The delete section dialog now warns you about how many exclusive items will be deleted in the section?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Idea: Random activity program for windows

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2016, 07:23 AM »

This sounds like it might be an excellent candidate for a coder to take on for our NANY 2017 event..

I really like the idea of a generic tool that lets you design a create an arbitrary "flowchart", where each item has an image and text, and then walks you through the process of choosing a path through it.

If no one else codes it, I might.

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: NANY 2017: ScoreTracker DC (Android Score/Event Counter/Tracker)

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2016, 05:31 AM »

Thx. Update with widget support.

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: NANY 2017: CheckList DC (Android checklist)

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2016, 04:53 AM »

Updated with widget support.

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: Mouser Android Code idea - pomodoro time

« Last post by mouser on September 24, 2016, 01:42 AM »

Ewemoa and I talked about this idea in the past, and the idea of making an android app using my listview-centric code skeleton that would let you create lots of different timers and easily select between them.

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: NANY 2017: ScoreTracker DC (Android Score/Event Counter/Tracker)

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2016, 10:24 PM »

New build uploaded:

v1.02 - Sep 23, 2016

• New Menu item for reseting all scores in current section.
• New menu item for deleting all items in current section.
• A bunch of minor tweaks.

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: NANY 2017: CheckList DC (Android checklist)

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2016, 09:50 PM »

Download link and screenshot added.

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: Mouser Android Code idea - pomodoro time

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2016, 09:47 PM »

if dc member ewemoa, who loves such things, comes back, i promise i will consider it seriously.

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / NANY 2017: CheckList DC (Android checklist)

« Last post by mouser on September 23, 2016, 01:58 AM »

This will be a simple checklist managing app, with the ability to organize your checklists into sections.
Built using my CodyBones skeleton code that I've used in some other apps.

• Google Play Store page: https://play.google....ationcoder.checklist
• Get the beta from Google Play Store: https://play.google....ationcoder.checklist
• Direct APK download from DonationCoder server: https://www.donation...cklistdc-release.apk

Widget:

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Review of Ethervane Echo

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2016, 06:44 PM »

Thank you for writing and posting this!

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Living Room / Re: Trying to remember quote about design and beauty

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2016, 06:01 PM »

Nice.

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Living Room / Re: ReviewMeta.com - Analyzing reviews from Amazon...

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2016, 03:26 PM »

Interesting!

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Living Room / Cats and plants

« Last post by mouser on September 22, 2016, 12:35 PM »

sigh..

and this is why we can't have nice things.

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Living Room / Re: External 5.25 floppy usb drive or another way?

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2016, 11:28 PM »

Here's the draft of the 1-page "highlights" sheet i guess i planned to send out with the demo disk:


What great features, including:
"breathtaking graphics for dazzling screen displays" including support for "cga, mca ega, and even VGA!"
"written entirely in C for easy conversion to Amgia and Atari ST computers!" and "Intelligent multi-disk interface for maximum efficiency with larger adventures" and "Sophisticated memory management routines leave no space wasted."

Different times..

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Living Room / Re: External 5.25 floppy usb drive or another way?

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2016, 11:17 PM »

RetroFloppy did an excellent job.  They were super fast, they read the contents of the two floppies and made them available to download.  Could not have asked for better.  Highly recommended.
(thanks for the recommendation Mark0).

For those who are curious, the two floppies contained my "Adventure Development System (c) 1988" written in Borland's Turbo C for the original IBM PC.

This was a hybrid adventure game creation system that i worked on for a couple of years in high school, ending in 1988.  It was an attempt to build an all-in-one adventure creation system that would compete with infocom's text and brand new semi-graphic adventure games (these included static images and sometimes maps i think), and also add some real time rogue/dungeon exploring and combat elements.  I actually sent this out to sierra online and a couple of other companies in an attempt to get hired out of high school but then quickly gave up on it. You could run my system in any number of modes from pure plain text adventure to pure real-time dungeon crawler with cursor key movement, etc., or any combination.

I think i did spend another year adding some 3d graphic elements which were pretty darn cool, but this was right before wolfenstein 3d and the point-and-click animated adventure games came out and marked the beginning of the end for text adventures and put my 3d stuff to shame.

I was pretty proud of this and it was a huge undertaking with a 100 page manual.  But just as I was finishing it I was burning out on it and wanted to go to college and forget it.  It also came right at the end of the heyday of text adventures, so bad timing. If I had been able to finish it a few years earlier, who knows..

Screenshot of a *sample* game made with it:

What you are seeing is the text adventure window on the bottom where you can type full text commands (a la infocom, zork, etc.); then in upper left is an image window showing a picture of current room; at top right is text room description (similar to i think some later infocom graphic adventure games; center is a real-time rogue-like ascii-based map that you can move around with and interact with npcs in real time, where areas are dark until you open doors and walk through hallways to reveal them; on the far right is one version of an auto-generated overview map; i think later infocom games had this too).


Photo of 107 page manual:




Screenshot take from running DosBox dos emulator on the extracted floppy files.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Source & Procedure to download more Clipart Objects?

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2016, 04:54 AM »

I somehow missed this thread until now

It's very easy to add new clipart images to Screenshot Captor, just copy any clipart images you want to make available to Screenshot Captor's clipart feature into a subdirectory of "C:\Program Files (x86)\ScreenshotCaptor\Clipart\" or "C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\DonationCoder\ScreenshotCaptor\MyClipart\".

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Find And Run Robot / Re: alias paste

« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2016, 03:44 AM »

let me see if i cant add a custom date feature.

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Living Room / Re: Slow motion trained birds

« Last post by mouser on September 20, 2016, 11:09 AM »

At about 1:54 that one owl was like "oh your cell phone is more interesting than me, huh?" and taps the kid on the head with his wings 

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Developer's Corner / Re: You can now publish traditional Win32 apps on Windows App Store

« Last post by mouser on September 20, 2016, 05:29 AM »

Yeah that's what I'm not looking forward to exploring.

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: Super-sized Newsletter for Sep 18, 2016 - Codename: Catching Up with Cody

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2016, 07:31 PM »

Yes it's fun to see a burst of activity on the forum whenever a newsletter comes out 

Is anyone finding that the newsletter is being marked as spam by your email provider?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Upload selected images

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2016, 05:17 PM »

This is a reasonable request.  Just a quick note, since you say you are using Screenshot Captor.  You can actually open the SC uploader window and then drag any image files into the window to upload them, with the urls shown for all images in the window (click a url to copy it to clipboard).  The files you drag to the window can be from SC's thumbnail browser OR any file explorer.

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Mouser's Zone / How to remove the license key from mouser apps

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2016, 02:08 PM »

Someone recently emailed me about removing the license key from one of my apps in preparation for giving the computer to someone else.  It's no big deal if you give them your license key, but here is the procedure if you want to wipe it:

Assuming you have windows vista/7/10, just delete the files in "C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\DonationCoder\Keys"

If you have windows xp, it will be in a similar location but the path is slightly different.

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Living Room / Slow motion trained birds

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2016, 01:58 PM »

There must be a ton of these videos on youtube; this one posted on laughingsquid and neatorama just caught my eye:

Trained birds in slow motion (owls and hawks i think).

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Living Room / Re: In-Car Emergency Kit - Your Recommendations

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2016, 12:03 PM »

A few disposable latex (or non latex) gloves can keep your hands clean and dry if you need to fill oil, or other fluids.

i'm a huge fan of the 100 pack disposable latex gloves.  use them all the time around the house, etc.

likewise, your suggestion about the kneeling pads is also a good tip in general when you have to work on your knees (though carrying one in the car has too much of a size-to-benefit ratio to be worth it for me).

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Screenshot Captor / Re: how to go back to default settings?

« Last post by mouser on September 19, 2016, 07:15 AM »

perhaps the easiest way is if you run the installer again, there is a checkbox at some stage that lets you indicate you want to revert to default settings.