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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project

« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2016, 09:49 PM »

Considering beaglebone instead of raspberry pi..

Though i do like the easy availability of camera and touchscreen for the raspberry pi, so i think probably that's still the best way to go.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project

« Last post by mouser on February 05, 2016, 01:46 PM »

So, the $10 dice rolling machine ordered from amazon arrived today, made in china, shipped from germany (i will never understand the economics of this stuff).

At first glance it seems to work pretty well at creating a random die roll.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to copy command line output in an alias?

« Last post by mouser on February 03, 2016, 01:17 PM »

You'll find all these weird special commands in the help page under "Special/Virtual Launch Strings/Commands"

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to copy command line output in an alias?

« Last post by mouser on February 03, 2016, 01:17 PM »

ok good question..

heres what i THINK should work, an alias result that looked something like this:

appcap "path/to/script 20 ft to yards";;; copyclip %lastappcap%

i have not tested that, so i can't be entirely sure, and if you can't get that to work i will make sure it can be done somehow.

but here's how that's SUPPOSED to work:
The appcapp command should launch the specified program, and capture it's output in %lastappcap%.
Then the ;;; separates the next command to run, which tells farr to copy the contents of %lastappcap% to clipboard.

If that is all too messy, i might add a new appcap like appcclip to run an app and copy result to clipboard.

And, before you try making that work, you might try the simpler:
appcapappendmemo path/to/script 20 ft to yards

See here for an example: https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=28136

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to copy command line output in an alias?

« Last post by mouser on February 03, 2016, 12:22 PM »

I'm going to have to look into the escaping of pipe character -- i thought that putting it in double quotes should work, but it's definitely possible I'm wrong.

But getting back to what you are trying to do..

Can you elaborate a little more on exactly what you are trying to do .. FARR does have commands for copying things to the clipboard, etc.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to copy command line output in an alias?

« Last post by mouser on February 03, 2016, 11:48 AM »

try using double quotes to surround the commandline.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project

« Last post by mouser on February 03, 2016, 11:20 AM »

I've decided to write up a little paper on the project, if for no other reason than to get it out of my system and remember the important parts so i can come back to it when i find someone willing to do the hardware -- and i guess i'll open source the code while i'm at it.  I'll upload both when i get a first draft of the paper done.

I'm still interested in matching up with someone who might be interested in creating the hardware (maybe as an advanced school project?).

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by mouser on February 02, 2016, 10:32 AM »

1) will there be the ability to comment on/below articles?

absolutely.

2) will wiki-type pages be a possibility?

yes yes yes.

1) Sites with both a blog and a forum need to be careful about 'diluting' user content into blog comments and forum replies

definitely an issue we have to figure out.

one of the nice things about the new cms is that on cms pages we now have a sidebar showing recent posts on the FORUM that are related to that page. So software pages now show the most recent posts about the program from the forum section for that program.

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Living Room / Re: Micro-Fundraiser for the Official DonationCoder CodyMobile!

« Last post by mouser on February 02, 2016, 10:31 AM »

Chris 

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Living Room / Re: Micro Reviews of Board Games From a Non-Competetive Perspective

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2016, 09:19 PM »

Finally got a chance to try Alhambra -- I liked it!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Tray Contextmen appears offset

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2016, 07:39 PM »

I'm thinking I might try a complete uninstall and reinstall with completely fresh settings?  That sounds like work to me, though.

no point.

if you really want to test, you could download the PORTABLE version of sc, and just unzip that in a folder somewhere and run that version instead of your main installed one, and confirm the problem still happens with the portable version.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Tray Contextmen appears offset

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2016, 07:31 PM »

I can only tell you that resetting options within Screenshot Captor will not fix this.  Let me check to see if i did anything that might cause this.

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General Software Discussion / Re: looking for a way to simplify crediting stock providers when using DeviantART

« Last post by mouser on February 01, 2016, 06:53 AM »

This strikes me as a general request that could really be useful for people..

A sortable/filterable list of all downloads made through a web browser, with date, url, page title, downloaded file name, downloaded file thumbnail, (maybe web page thumbnail).

I'll bet a lot of us would have use for such a thing to help remind us where we found something.  Being able to sort/filter by website would help narrow the list down, as poster requests.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: What settings yield highest quality of screenshots?

« Last post by mouser on January 31, 2016, 09:52 PM »

Would probably be more intuitive to add that option to the right-click context menu for the left preview pane on the main window in my opinion.

you have a point, i may try to add it.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: What settings yield highest quality of screenshots?

« Last post by mouser on January 31, 2016, 09:52 PM »

I should have said.. the "Explore at screenshot directory" also in the GoTo main menu, as well as tray menu.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: What settings yield highest quality of screenshots?

« Last post by mouser on January 31, 2016, 11:06 AM »

All good questions.

As long as you are saving in PNG format (which is default), the screenshots are lossless and perfect quality.
The only reason your screenshots may (temporarily) look blurry from WITHIN screenshot captor is if they are zoomed smaller to fit in the winodw.  You can either set the zoom to 100% (see top right checkboxes), or you can also change the zoom algorithm to make shrunk images look a bit clearer.  If you double click an image in sidebar you should see that the actual image file is not blurry.

As to your second question, choose the "Explore at screenshot directory" to open file explorer at current screenshot directory.
EDIT: This is in both the tray menu and under the GOTO main menu.

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Living Room / Re: Micro-Fundraiser for the Official DonationCoder CodyMobile!

« Last post by mouser on January 30, 2016, 11:06 PM »

I *LOVE* my car!!!

Every time i drive in it i talk to it and pet it and tell it how much i appreciate it.
"Such a good little car.. Such a good little car.."

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TinyEV (Everything integration) - 0.9.5 - 12 June 2009 (updated)

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2016, 11:15 PM »

you weren't a dumbass at all -- i just asked you to post so others would know that the github download still worked.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TinyEV (Everything integration) - 0.9.5 - 12 June 2009 (updated)

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2016, 10:14 PM »

Original download is offline, but akx was nice enough to host the source code and precompiled version at github:

• https://github.com/a...farr_tinyev/releases
• https://github.com/akx/farr_tinyev

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Living Room / Re: Holy S***, I've been here for 6 Years!

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2016, 03:50 PM »

It is scary how fast time flies.. I've been here 10+ years and it feels like only a few months..

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project

« Last post by mouser on January 28, 2016, 12:14 PM »

I clearly need help with the hardware design and manufacturer.. any engineers here willing to give it a try?

Let me summarize the basic kinds of approaches we've discussed:

• Camera on bottom looking up, with a tumbling/rolling container above. Notes: We don't know how far away the cheap raspberry pi camera will have to be to focus. We don't know how hard it will be to ignore background when facing up and looking at the sky (as opposed to looking down on a single color base).  There needs to be an easy way to insert and remove dice.
• Camera above a container that spins to tumble (think a die bouncing on a roulette wheel).
• Camera above a container that is "tapped" in different places from below to bounce die around.

Any other options?

To summarize the technical goals:

• Good lighting so the camera doesn't see shadows, and has a predictable background behind dice.
• Simple to ensure reliability with tens of thousands of die rolls.
• Reasonably cheap/easy to build (i suppose this is least of our concerns).
• Easy to add/remove dice.

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by mouser on January 27, 2016, 06:39 PM »

should be fixed (for NEW topics).

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by mouser on January 27, 2016, 05:11 PM »

ah well, i've been meaning to KILL that paperclip icon -- it's used automatically now on a post with an attachment, and i think that may be a bit confusing.

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by mouser on January 27, 2016, 03:28 PM »

I am missing it on the "thread has an attachment" icon for example.

i know it seems like i should know this stuff back and forth, but i could do with a little more hand holding -- by telling me the complete list of icons i should add it to -- maybe a url & screenshot showing me where? my brain is just on dice lately

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project

« Last post by mouser on January 26, 2016, 07:32 PM »

What happens if you lie to it and tell it the wrong # of die faces?  Glad you asked.

Mistakenly telling it there are 5 unique die faces (2s and 3s look like they are similar enough):



Mistakenly telling it there are 7 unique die faces (hey those two 1s look like different faces):