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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 All In one Shortcut bar

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 07:08 PM »

A collection of shortcut files to these would be wonderful to put in a Find and Run Robot alias, or a Launchbar Commander menu... Anyone?

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

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 04:41 PM »

yes, that helps quite a bit here

-tomos (September 08, 2015, 04:33 PM)

yeah, i guess it looks better to me too. 

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

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 04:38 PM »

what is the font btw?

-tomos (September 08, 2015, 04:33 PM)

Original forum css was:

• font-size: small;
• font-family: verdana, sans-serif;

New forum as of yesterday was:

• font: 78%/130% "Verdana", "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif;

New forum as of now is:

• font: 90%/130% "Verdana", "Arial", "Helvetica", sans-serif;

Essentially ignore everything except the font size.

I think the old "small" was translated to something around 85% or so? (i tried it here, it landed somewhere between the 78% and 90%).

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

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 04:23 PM »

I've bumped the forum font size up a small but non-trivial amount.  Better?

Note 1: As always, make sure to F5 reload pages to have new css applied.
Note 2: On a browser less than 800 pixels wide, it will revert to smaller text size.

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

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 04:10 PM »

The font size on original forum was the tiniest bit larger -- take your screenshots now, im going to enlarge the font in a few minutes...

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Help! loooong delay!

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 03:36 PM »

Glad you got it working well enough to suit you 
The most surprising thing is hearing that the old method with the flashing black and long delay actually was able to capture the image but the no-delay, disable aero transparency wasn't.. I've never heard of that before and it's darn curious...

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Help! loooong delay!

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 01:21 PM »

How strange.. I may have to install electric sheep to try it.

Can you answer a few more questions:
1. When you perform an active window capture (alt+prtscr) now, is the capture size the correct size that you intended it to capture?
2. When you were using it before with the old setting and the long delay, was it capturing the image properly in that scenario?

I wonder if you might try disabling the two main options on the "Window Capturing 2" tab and see what happens..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Help! loooong delay!

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 01:04 PM »

the entire window is black or just black around borders?
if you do a full screen capture (prtscr hotkey), does it look ok?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: windows startscreen/menu screen saveer

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 01:02 PM »

this is kind of a neat idea.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Help! loooong delay!

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 12:52 PM »

mail artist

-Ficus strangulensis (September 08, 2015, 12:29 PM)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Help! loooong delay!

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 12:48 PM »

When performing an Active Window capture, SC tries to use an advanced method to capture partial-transparency that can be seen in some Windows themes.  This slows down capture, and for some apps could result in strange behavior (for example when the active window is a child window on top of a parent form).

Try this, disable the option "Try to capture Aero Glass transparency effect" on the "Window Capturing 1 tab:


Let me know how that works for you.

ps.
Welcome to the forum and thank you so much for your financial support -- the donations from people like you make it possible for me to keep improving and supporting my software!  I hope you'll make yourself at home here and join us in our discussions of all things.

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

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 10:50 AM »

the links there used to be bold, now they are normal.

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General Software Discussion / Re: urgent free AVG expired request!

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 10:39 AM »

"Satisficer", maybe?

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

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 10:32 AM »

I think logically there is something to be said for not having links bolded by default -- just because it enables SOME links to be bolded for emphasis; other than that I am ambivalent.
Let's try it this way for a week and make a decision at that point.
Screenshots above show the difference in look -- or you can always use a local css file to override the site css.

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

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 08:53 AM »

FIXED -- thanks for finding that.  I had a syntax error in the css file and it was breaking a bunch of things.  Should be ok now. 

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

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 08:49 AM »

is when I quote, it was green yesterday! Now the theme colors are all blue! (I have an old tab open so I can see the changes.)

yikes! i didn't do that on purpose! let me figure out wtf caused that.

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

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 06:08 AM »

Ok I have switched to a default of non-bolded hyperlinks; i still bold them in a few places (like inside posts) to make them more readable, but elsewhere back to non-bolded.
Remember to hit F5 to force a re-load of the css file to see the changes.

Let me know if you folks like this look better or worse.

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

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 05:58 AM »

I find that there isn't enough contrast between pinned threads and everything else (eg the living room) particularly when viewed on a small device (like my 10" netbook).  Did the old format have a dedicated icon (I can't remember, but it was quite plain)

-Target (September 07, 2015, 07:15 PM)

Check again now please (make sure to F5 to reload css).

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

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 05:56 AM »

I'd love to see what the unread:all page looks like without the bold. Was it set this way (all links are bold) in the previous forum? Because if not that might explain a sense of something being "off" here that I hadn't put my finger on yet, in which case I'd prefer non-bold links by default. I think changing the color of visited links to better differentiate them is a better solution than bolding them all.

-JavaJones (September 07, 2015, 02:12 PM)

Perhaps we should try unbolded links for a bit and see if they are preferred;  I think perhaps the old forum did not use bolded links.   I intended to keep a working backup of the old forum for comparison purposes but due to unforseen circumstances i was not able to keep it online (though obviously i still have all the files to inspect manually).

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General Software Discussion / Re: urgent free AVG expired request!

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2015, 05:46 AM »

Back at home when I put the pen-drive in my machine, AVG stops and reports virus and I format it. This is a routine.

ha! I suppose if the pen-drive ever came back WITHOUT a virus you'd get suspicious, huh? 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: AppSumo presents SitePoint Premium deal of a lifetime

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2015, 01:16 PM »

Off topic: Innuendo please set a custom avatar for yourself in your profile -- someone who has been around as long as you have on this forum deserves a recognizable avatar!

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

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2015, 12:49 PM »

In your profile you can create a list of buddies (doesn't have to be reciprocal).
Buddy list is just an easier way to see when someone on your buddy list is online currently.

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

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2015, 06:53 AM »

All I know is that this orange-apple image, enlarging underneath the YouTube screen, is the first time it has happened (to me).

-crabby3 (September 07, 2015, 05:51 AM)

I understood your image, but couldn't reproduce the problem, and decided it was probably something we could ignore or at least file as low-priority problem for now.

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

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2015, 06:52 AM »

Regardless of whether I change the hyperlinks to be bold or not, i have used a different color for buddies on memberlist so they should show up differently -- so that should solve that problem.

We still need to decide whether to keep hyperlinks bolded (see screenshots to compare).

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

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2015, 06:49 AM »

Was making all hyperlinks bold chosen to get larger message-titles?, as those are also hyperlinks. I expect those would have their own css style.

-Ath (September 07, 2015, 06:21 AM)

it was one to make it easier to identify clickable links.