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General Software Discussion / GIMPshop looking for coders and input

« Last post by tomos on September 12, 2011, 08:21 AM »

from email / newsletter

We are also assembling, for the first time, a group of coders willing to contribute to the first upgrade of Gimpshop in years.   This group will be the base for an ongoing team that will evaluate and monitor further submissions for Gimpshop upgrades.   If you feel like you might want to be part of that group please contact us.

http://www.gimpshop.com/

It would certainly be nice to see it being brought uptodate....

We are contacting you today to get your thoughts and opinions
on Gimpshop and to ask a favor.
 
We are about to revamp the website to make it more useful to
our users and we would like your opinions on how to do that.
 
What would you find useful? A good forum? A social network
to show off your designs? Tutorials? Which ones first?
[...]
What else can we provide for you?
 
Tell us what this great little piece of software can become and
how we can all help it get there.
 
Your thoughts and opinions will help us mold the next version
of Gimpshop.com and of the software moving forward.
 
Simply reply to this email ( headgimp {at} gimpshop.com )
[...]
PS: Just hit reply and give us your thoughts.
       We are open to anything that will make
       this program better for you.

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Find And Run Robot / FARR noshow when focused window is admin (UAC @ top level win7)

« Last post by tomos on September 12, 2011, 06:18 AM »

Windows 7 Pro, 64bit

Admin account with UAC at highest level

If I have an admin window focused (i.e. an app that requires confirmation from UAC) FARR will not show with the Pause shortcut - maybe it shows behind? but I couldnt find it anyways :-)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Space Invaders game to practice memorization

« Last post by tomos on September 12, 2011, 03:20 AM »

Contact me if there are questions

-raymm (September 11, 2011, 10:14 PM)

If you want to follow the thread, edit your post and select "Notify me of replies" under the text box.

Someone posted here (maybe a year ago?) about a game - almost exactly as you describe, but not customisable. Cant remember the name, hopefully someone else can.

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Living Room / Re: Apple and users' privacy

« Last post by tomos on September 12, 2011, 03:14 AM »

^ ??? (is blank a comment?)

OK, I'm missing the last two posts. Quotes but no post otherwise. Intended? Or something screwy w/the forum?

-J-Mac (September 11, 2011, 08:26 PM)

Renegade accidentally put his response within the quote - Stephen was pointing that out for him I guess.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by tomos on September 11, 2011, 04:54 PM »

Have fun with that Ath

it's great hearing about how you're getting on

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Ethervane Echo

« Last post by tomos on September 08, 2011, 12:26 PM »

if it's not too much hassle that would be great

-tomos link=topic=27849.msg261177#msg261177

One other thing: by default Echo minimizes when it loses focus. So instead of clicking the small button - whether minimize or close - you can just click anywhere on screen to get the same end result.

-tranglos (September 08, 2011, 12:06 PM)

true, I didnt realise that initially & was closing the window and expecting it to be in the tray. So, on second thoughts it's not worth adding!

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Ethervane Echo

« Last post by tomos on September 08, 2011, 11:34 AM »

Great, you've found the first bug!
...

Just to be sure I'm on the right track: select a clip but instead of pressing Enter, press Ctrl+C. This will only copy the clip (without pasting) and Echo will stay open. The clip you have copied should move to the top immediately.

-tranglos (September 08, 2011, 11:21 AM)

That works, clip goes to top.

PS thanks for all the shortcuts, will have to read help file closer next time

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Ethervane Echo

« Last post by tomos on September 08, 2011, 11:33 AM »

I think it would be helpful if the close button minimised it to the tray. Or maybe it's just what I'm used to with apps that stay in the tray?

-tomos (September 08, 2011, 06:10 AM)

I never use that myself (I use the minimize button for that :-) but I can add this as an option, no problem.

-tranglos (September 08, 2011, 11:23 AM)

if it's not too much hassle that would be great

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Ethervane Echo

« Last post by tomos on September 08, 2011, 08:02 AM »

Still on the basics. It looks very nice btw :-)

I've made a couple of clips sticky, but how do I get to the sticky tab? (Without the mouse I mean). Tabkey toggles just list & search.

It says in the help file
"bring up Echo ... notice that the clip you have just pasted is now the first one on top."
This often takes a good while to actually happen. I noticed it not happening, then checked a few times after pasting - once it happened promptly, then it didnt seem to be happening at all, but did happen eventually i.e. it didnt happen within the first 10 to 15 seconds after pasting.

__________________________
Win7 64bit ~ Portable version

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Ethervane Echo

« Last post by tomos on September 08, 2011, 06:10 AM »

I think it would be helpful if the close button minimised it to the tray. Or maybe it's just what I'm used to with apps that stay in the tray?

I can see advantages to the way it is - maybe I just gotta get used to it

(just getting off the ground with it)

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Official Announcements / Re: 2011 Fundraiser Giveaway Extravaganza - WINNERS POSTED

« Last post by tomos on September 07, 2011, 03:36 PM »

^

are they ceramic mouser?
Problem with those is that you'd ideally want three of them** - like in the picture...

Oh yeah, link to the original drawing

** well I would anway ;-)

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Official Announcements / Re: 2011 Fundraiser Giveaway Extravaganza - WINNERS POSTED

« Last post by tomos on September 07, 2011, 02:59 PM »

Shotglasses made from Chisaku's drawing of Cody: (see attachment in previous post)
(We'll be giving some of these away in near future).

-mouser (September 07, 2011, 02:32 PM)

oh wow
those are beautiful

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Living Room / Re: Migrating Win7 installation to SSD

« Last post by tomos on September 07, 2011, 03:54 AM »

From my, (admittedly not extensive), experience, Windows 7 always seems to include the 100MB System Reserved partition when it does a new install to a blank HDD, ie. not a single partition formatted HDD.

-4wd (September 06, 2011, 10:38 PM)

I think that's correct -

Windows 7 installation wizard will not modify existing partition which already been defined and allocated. The 100 MB .. partiton will only be created when user creates new partition on a clean and empty HDD (no partitions) [with the windows install dvd], or delete all partitions and then create a new partition during setup. Thus, system with hard disk already partitioned, and users wish no change to existing partitioning but wish to clean install can just format the partition in Windows 7 setup wizard before installing.

http://www.mydigital...nstalling-windows-7/
i.e. Windows only creates that partition if starting on a 'clean' (partitionless) hd

-tomos (July 22, 2011, 03:51 AM)

Yeah, I just skimmed the article,
but I didnt see any mention of the 100MB System partition.

Do you have that in your current setup kyrathaba?

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Living Room / Re: It's alive, it's alive!!! mwahaha! - WinButtons and 7" touchscreen works

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2011, 02:52 PM »

still,
sounds like it's slowly getting there

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General Software Discussion / Re: Font managers reviews and opinions

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2011, 02:51 PM »

"it still only previews one font at a time." - this is untrue as it will preview one font, all fonts or the font a user selects.

-Veign (September 06, 2011, 02:32 PM)

true -they missed that- it was easy enough to find too. (just installed it on win7 - works fine)
the second paragraph is not so positive but the first

CFontPro from Veign will be the top choice for many. It has a wide range of views including a glyph viewer and character zoom to pixel level. It provides more font information than any of the font managers here.

sounds pretty good...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Font managers reviews and opinions

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2011, 01:35 PM »

I'm still a bit gun shy regarding the Themida anti-piracy software that gets installed with it.

-J-Mac (September 06, 2011, 11:41 AM)

are you talking about the Advanced Font Viewer there Jim?

You could always try mine:
http://www.cfontpro.com/

It's free.

-Veign (September 06, 2011, 11:47 AM)

also on Gizmo's page Best Free Font Manager

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General Software Discussion / Re: insightful post on gui design, and why it can be faster than the command line

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2011, 01:28 PM »

I dont know hardly anything about the command line; but using a piece of software intensively, I find the interface is extremely important.

So a very big +1 to the combination of a good GUI with good/flexible keyboard shortcuts 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Font managers reviews and opinions

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2011, 09:37 AM »

It did (2008) get a very good review at Smashing Magazine (link in first post above)

MainType is an universal font management tool for both novice users and advanced graphic designers and typographers. In order to find the right fonts for your needs, the software includes filter and sort functionality. The main information about the font, such as its properties, supported characters, font type etc. are displayed in a font information pane. A groups pane helps you quickly organize all your fonts.

my emphasis

If you're seriously considering it, have a look at this MainType forum thread - they're considering a rewrite because it cant cache the details of your fonts - this means it currently has to read all your fonts on startup and people are saying it's slow (doesnt seem to be included in the list of improvements above). For me this is not a problem - I have only 200 fonts installed.

-tomos (May 31, 2010, 07:14 AM)

MainType 4 is out - I never upgraded to 3 so am going for #4
They're not overly informative about the details

   New user interface
    Improved performance
    New user views
    Quick search
    Optimized support for large font collections
    Easy backup and restore of your font library
    New layout features improves usability
    Detailed side-by-side font information

I gotta admit - I tried the free Nexusfont recommended by Gizmo - looks nice, but the portable version was unable to uninstall a font [Win7 64bit] so that prompted me to upgrade.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling capture is not working

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2011, 09:05 AM »

The extra white space cannot be solved -- it has to do with the way notepad displays windows contents and never displays a partial line at the bottom.

-mouser (September 06, 2011, 08:04 AM)

now that I think of it, there was white space below the last visible number - I think I reduced this for the first shot but not for the second.
Good luck on your journey into the autoscroll 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling capture is not working

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2011, 07:35 AM »

Tomos, that is an important clue.

So can i confirm -- with "windows 7 basic" you get a good capture, but with other themes you don't?

-mouser (September 06, 2011, 07:01 AM)

Yes, with "windows 7 basic" theme, I got a good capture [1] earlier of those numbers, using your instructions, in notepad. I just did another -same theme- [2] which isn't quite as good (see the white spaces, but no doubling up of numbers).

[1]

[2]

only difference between the two was the time of day, and that I made the Notepad window narrower for [2]

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling capture is not working

« Last post by tomos on September 06, 2011, 02:57 AM »

i wonder if the problem is windows (7) themes..

-mouser (September 05, 2011, 03:58 PM)

yes, in this example anyways, it is - I get a perfect screenshot with the "Windows 7 Basic" theme.
Problem screenshot was with an Aero theme.


EDIT/ with that theme, or with Classic theme, I'm unable to capture this page (sorry!)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling capture is not working

« Last post by tomos on September 05, 2011, 03:50 PM »

I get doubling up of some numbers, presumably where it's joined?



also, I notice the last 2- 3- 4- 555 are repeated

Win7 pro 64 bit - if you need hardware details just ask (I'll have to check)

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Don't miss the excellent Metaproducts Inquiry today (Sept 1st) on GOTD

« Last post by tomos on September 05, 2011, 03:41 PM »

BTW, I tried to capture today this page
http://www.nokia.fr/...x7-00/specifications
with various tools, and it's the only one which was able to capture the page without the bold fonts to appear garbled.

-MerleOne (September 05, 2011, 11:23 AM)

FWIW, InfoQube copies that perfectly (with "copy URL content" & "save as mht" selected). Mind you, I've met a good few pages that it does have trouble with - but mainly formatting in fairness.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for beta-testers

« Last post by tomos on September 05, 2011, 10:19 AM »

Freeware sucks.

-vlastimil (September 05, 2011, 09:56 AM)

doesn't it just
will try have a look if time permits

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

« Last post by tomos on September 05, 2011, 09:39 AM »

^ great!
loved the dancing