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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: [NANY 2019] - AudioMarker: Language Learning

« Last post by tomos on October 30, 2018, 05:36 PM »

No success here -- but I havent looked closer at the NET issue (and wont tonight).

1) original version did load with default tab Notepad, google translate tab worked.
2) tried the most recent version (in a new folder) with same result -- immediately get the "AudioMarker has stopped working etc" message

Will get back to you after I've sorted the NET thing.
Thanks

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: [NANY 2019] - AudioMarker: Language Learning

« Last post by tomos on October 30, 2018, 04:52 PM »

OK, That's very vague and I can't reproduce it on my side - I hope I fixed it though (literally guessing) - New download link added to original post.  Just an FYI - you need .NET 4.6.1+ (In case that was the issue...who knows at this point).

-Stephen66515 (October 30, 2018, 04:09 PM)

could well be a NET issue:
windows update says 4.7.2 was successfully installed, but when I check via this:

[Select]

reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP"

it only lists up to version 4.0

Let's see if anyone else with Win.7 tests it (any takers?)

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: [NANY 2019] - AudioMarker: Language Learning

« Last post by tomos on October 30, 2018, 04:01 PM »

If it does it again, can you show me the "Problem Details" info please

-Stephen66515 (October 30, 2018, 03:57 PM)

doh..

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   CLR20r3
  Problem Signature 01:   AudioMarker.exe
  Problem Signature 02:   1.0.0.0
  Problem Signature 03:   5bd8bf65
  Problem Signature 04:   AudioMarker
  Problem Signature 05:   1.0.0.0
  Problem Signature 06:   5bd8bf65
  Problem Signature 07:   1b
  Problem Signature 08:   1
  Problem Signature 09:   System.IO.FileNotFoundException
  OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
  Locale ID:   6153
  Additional Information 1:   0a9e
  Additional Information 2:   0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
  Additional Information 3:   0a9e
  Additional Information 4:   0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Read our privacy statement online:
  http://go.microsoft....288&clcid=0x0409

If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our privacy statement offline:
  C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: [NANY 2019] - AudioMarker: Language Learning

« Last post by tomos on October 30, 2018, 03:54 PM »

eh, am I doing this right?
I get this message:



EDIT// I just copied over last version -- I'll try a fresh version. -- No, clean version doesnt work either

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - Android App - Streak Tracker

« Last post by tomos on October 30, 2018, 03:02 PM »

Pushed out a minor update on google play store.  You can now set a entry to have no time window and it will just track how many times you do it and never reset.

-mouser (October 29, 2018, 06:51 PM)

thanks

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: [NANY 2019] - AudioMarker: Language Learning

« Last post by tomos on October 30, 2018, 02:56 PM »

OK...That was utterly ridiculous to fix...but it's working now lol...who would have thought that the HTML exporter would be easier than doing simple shortcuts in a textBox control.....

-Stephen66515 (October 30, 2018, 01:54 PM)

is it up already? (same link?)

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: [NANY 2019] - AudioMarker: Language Learning

« Last post by tomos on October 30, 2018, 12:29 PM »

hi Stephen
just trying this on Windows 7

Looks good --
in the Insert .. phrase fields, I cannot:
# cut or paste using the usual shortcuts
# select all using Ctrl+A (I can use Shift+Hme from end of phrase, so not really bothered by this)

Any chance you could get #1 there working?

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - Android App - Streak Tracker

« Last post by tomos on October 29, 2018, 02:43 PM »

Okay. Now it's clear.
I had thought the streak was the goal, e.g 50 days @ once a day.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - Android App - Streak Tracker

« Last post by tomos on October 29, 2018, 08:11 AM »

What it's doing now is telling you how many time blocks you have done it without missing one.  There is no final "goal", no Z in "1 of Z".

-mouser (October 28, 2018, 01:46 PM)

Note all my entries are daily exercises/tasks. (I've set each to 100 days.)
I'm now on day two and see no change when I click the button, it still says [1 streak].
It's not clear to me if this a bug or intentional. If intentional: I thought it would tell me how many times I had done the entry -- this would be much more rewarding imo. It's disappointing to see no change. Is it possible your focus was on doing multiple (shorter) streaks?

btw, I'm confused by your saying there is 'no final goal' -- isn't the whole point of it to do something for a number of days or weeks or whatever? Saying that, I dont think the e.g. 8/20 is necessarily a great idea.
I am unable to get any items to show days or weeks as per your screenshot -- I think ideally I would like to see how many days I have successfully completed an action, e.g. currently it would be [2 days]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rename Open File in Windows

« Last post by tomos on October 29, 2018, 02:59 AM »

I just saved a Notepad file and a WinRAR zip while it was open without any issues. Apparently, this is app related more than anything else. Some of MS's Office suite products have this restriction as well.

-bardman (October 28, 2018, 10:39 PM)

Do you mean you did a "save as" ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rename Open File in Windows

« Last post by tomos on October 28, 2018, 08:51 AM »

Yeah. I can do a 'Save As' in Adobe Acrobat and the rename is no issue. Apparently, the 'Save As' obviously does not have a restriction for renaming an open file in contrast to just renaming the file via right-click.

-bardman (October 28, 2018, 06:43 AM)

yes, but note (as Skwire says above) it creates a copy -- if you have downloaded it directly to e.g. Adobe Acrobat, the original is in the Temp folder, your 'save as' will save a copy of that wherever you choose.
This (and/or the Sumatra solution in Skwire's post above) seems to make an app unnecessary (?)

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - Android App - Streak Tracker

« Last post by tomos on October 28, 2018, 08:46 AM »

Another display issue (minor)

Relevant Setting:
# Category list style >Auto [tabs go to sidebar in landscape]

The app treats a split screen as being landscape -- this puts the tabs in a sidebar and makes everything else very cramped. Add to that I made landscape font size larger (125%) which cramps everything even more. Could split screen mode be treated as portrait?

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - Android App - Streak Tracker

« Last post by tomos on October 28, 2018, 07:50 AM »

Wondering about the text on the buttons:
have to admit I dont understand what is meant by the '1 day' or '1 week' in your screenshot above mouser.

Suggestion:
instead of [1 streak] (which I also find unclear), how about something like [1 of 20] ? with 20 being the length of the streak.
(I guess [1/20] could be used but might also be unclear?)

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 - Android App - Streak Tracker

« Last post by tomos on October 28, 2018, 07:45 AM »

Good job

Display bug
with the dark theme:
New entry dialogue > Click on 'Day(s)' > I am shown a blank dialogue -- the entries are there, I can select an entry but cannot read them (black text on black?)

Above works correctly with the light theme.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rename Open File in Windows

« Last post by tomos on October 28, 2018, 06:33 AM »

Good question though -- what exactly is IrfanView doing (didnt even know it had that capablity).

If I'm downloading a PDF I will open it directly, rather than save, and then Crtl+Shift+S will allow me to save it with new and/or modified name.
Software tends to remember where you last saved and go directly there, which is mostly convenient. (I use Adobe Reader as PDF viewer.)
Depending on your browser, opening directly can be made the default behaviour (in Pale Moon here, clicking a PDF link will open the Open/Save dialogue with 'Open with' selected by default, I just have to press return).

As I say, a workaround, throwing it out there as it might meet OP requirements.

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Android Apps / Re: Other app ideas based on WhenLast code

« Last post by tomos on October 28, 2018, 01:45 AM »

On google play store:

• https://play.google....coder.pointmotivator

-mouser (October 27, 2018, 09:11 PM)

Yaaah!
I'm already happily adding daily 'tasks'.

Would be nice:
# if it showed number in spite of no streak limit being added i.e. if I don't define a streak length, and click the button, it remains at zero.
# if, when editing, I could delete last entry in history - currently can only delete all. Although is that just text that can be manually removed?

Planned?
Ability to define frequency of action. Ideally also more than once per day.

Thanks for this

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Android Apps / Re: Other app ideas based on WhenLast code

« Last post by tomos on October 28, 2018, 01:36 AM »

I'd say Point Motivator seems slightly more likely to be useful.

-mouser (October 27, 2018, 09:12 PM)

have now installed both and wondering why you think this?

Edit// have tried both.
For my needs PM has the disadvantage that I can do something ten times in one day, not at all for the next nine days, and still have the same score as if I did it each day.

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Android Apps / Re: Other app ideas based on WhenLast code

« Last post by tomos on October 27, 2018, 02:55 AM »

 

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by tomos on October 24, 2018, 04:29 PM »

This a bit of fun (an ad for deutsche Bahn using Iggy Pop's passenger).
Passenger searches for his seat:

at the end Iggy says: "Sorry, geänderte Wagenreihe" meaning I believe that Wagon 12 was not between 11 & 13 as one would expect. (He starts at Wagen 1)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: 2+ suggestions: use Last filename, Screenshot Panel opt. only recent captures.

« Last post by tomos on October 24, 2018, 03:01 AM »

1. As seen in other posts, slowdowns occur if there are too many pics in the screenshots folder (I don't want to move pics to subfolders etc. Besides if choosing 'thumbnail' option I don't want the generation of too many thumbnails anyway), so it would be great to have the option: 'Screenshot Panel only for recent captures'

That's a really interesting idea.. Maybe with an entry at the bottom for "show all".. Very interesting..

-mouser (October 24, 2018, 12:14 AM)

would a date filter be too complex ?
[7] [days] [last modified date]
then as you say, at the bottom:
[show all]

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Android Apps / Re: Other app ideas based on WhenLast code

« Last post by tomos on October 24, 2018, 02:50 AM »

A "streak" tracker! That's a very good idea!
I think I could adapt my code to do that pretty easily..

So for each item you could specify how often it has to be done to keep the streak going (daily, weekly, or monthly).
The items would have a NOW button just like WhenLast, and would show you the last time you did an item, but would also tell you how long you have kept the streak going.

-mouser (October 23, 2018, 10:58 AM)

Glad you like the idea :-)
For me it would also be a mini to-do list for repeating tasks that I wouldn't want in my calendar.

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Android Apps / Re: Other app ideas based on WhenLast code

« Last post by tomos on October 23, 2018, 04:38 AM »

hi mouser
idea for (hopefully an android) app -- may or may not be able to use the work you've already done:

There's an idea in Tai Chi / Chi Gung that you do an exercise for 100 days -- really the idea is to get it ingrained as a habit.

Based on this:
an app that shows how many consecutive days I have done exercise 'x' (or task x).
A variation would be exercises (or tasks) that I want to do e.g. three days a week -- so long as that is fulfilled you could report how many consecutive weeks it has successfully been done.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: ScreenShotCaptor at 4K resolution

« Last post by tomos on October 22, 2018, 04:13 PM »

hi Helmut

Now shots from ScreenShotCaptor cover only about 1/4 of the screen.

-HelmutWe (October 22, 2018, 02:03 PM)

unclear (to me) here -- do you mean (a) new full-screen screenshots are not displaying full screen size, or (b) your screenshots from your previous monitor are not full-screen on your new monitor?

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Living Room / Re: I'm getting married, wish me luck!

« Last post by tomos on October 12, 2018, 01:30 AM »

ps. If you are wondering where Cody was.. Who do you think took the photos? 

-mouser (October 11, 2018, 07:09 PM)

Hah!
I *was* wondering who took the lovely photos

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: WizNote (a PIM from China) - Mini-Review + Provisional User Forum

« Last post by tomos on October 10, 2018, 04:01 PM »

I'm going to stay with wiznote with encrypted notes. Pity because I use a wacom tablet instead of a mouse, and onenote is very good at this kind of pen notes. But everything else is weaker in onenote.

-urlwolf (April 11, 2015, 02:35 PM)

[..]
What does wiznote do better now?

-superboyac (October 10, 2018, 02:59 PM)

I think you might have missed that your quoted post is from 2015 (?)