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Find And Run Robot / Re: Current development status on FARR? No stable version released this year

« Last post by mouser on November 11, 2014, 11:28 AM »

Hi mindstormer.
First, thanks for letting me know that the FARR webpage has the wrong date for the last release -- as you note it was Nov 29, 2013.  I've updated the web page now.

Development on FARR has definitely not stopped, and will continue.
I have been updating some of my other apps more recently, and FARR is just waiting its place in line.

There will be an update before the end of the year for sure and I welcome any feature requests!! Sometimes what I need most to release a new version is some inspiration or feature request that catches my fancy.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by mouser on November 11, 2014, 10:51 AM »

J-Mac,   

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Feature request: quickly switch between PNG und JPG

« Last post by mouser on November 10, 2014, 10:26 AM »

hmm, ill have to check into that -- it shouldn't do that.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Making screenshots with ratio?!

« Last post by mouser on November 10, 2014, 10:13 AM »

I will try to add the alt key to preserve resizing in red box soon.

I could possibly also add another kind of toggle to selection capture that might do what you want -- though I'd like to hear if others are interested in it..  It would work something like this:
Currently in selection mode you click for first corner and then drag or move and click again for end corner.
I could add a keypress that would let you toggle to a mode where you are MOVING the current selection box as a whole, instead of changing the size, and then add another hotkey to rotate through favorite sizes..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Making screenshots with ratio?!

« Last post by mouser on November 10, 2014, 08:26 AM »

yes -- unless you switch to "When to use Red box: Objects *AND* Regions" on the "Selection Capture Options" tab, which would switch you to a different way of capturing regions.  Most people find that red box mode more cumbersome but it does let you move around a preset-sized box more easily.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Feature request: quickly switch between PNG und JPG

« Last post by mouser on November 10, 2014, 08:20 AM »

only by restarting Screenshot Captor and not "silently" in the background?

no, it should work silently in the background on the currently running instance.

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2014, 11:55 PM »

CUTE!!

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Alises/Keywords/Groups support for environment variables.

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2014, 04:46 AM »

Sorry for the delayed reply -- i'm not sure why its not working in the first case, let me look into it and try to make it work.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Android: looking for good/working way to text from computer

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2014, 03:49 AM »

this is an interesting idea.. is there an android app that will monitor an email address and perform actions based on received emails?  if so you could set up something where you EMAILED a designated mail account of yours, and your phone would receive the email that would instruct it to send an sms with the specified contents..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Larger Toolbar buttons and OCR ?

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2014, 03:19 AM »

I wonder, is it possible to adjust the right hand vertical toolbar?
Say, big buttons and with text ?

Not currently possible, though it has been requested before and is on my todo list.

Will there also be a text-capture (OCR like) in future?
i.e. a screenshot with text - the text is OCR'ed and then copy pasted into something else

Again not currently possible, though it has come up before.  You can easily add tools to SC menu to launch external processes, which should make it possible to use a 3rd-party OCR tool, but im not sure anyone has done this yet..

If I drag capture1 onto capture2 (as object) I can rotate capture1. The angle is fixed, 90 degr.
Is it possible to rotate it manually ?  If not, is it on the todo-list?

It's not currently possible.  My memory though is that this limitation is only because of the user interface not the internals.. so i could try to enable it if there is some need.

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TapTap / Re: <Esc> as Key2?

« Last post by mouser on November 08, 2014, 02:51 AM »

test version is ready..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.9.1 - Oct 10, 2014

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2014, 11:42 AM »

The first thing to check is if you have the Delay option engaged.  You can find that in the tray menu under "Capture Options..".

The second thing to check is if the delay only happens on the first capture in a long time.  That is, is the second capture fast if performed soon after the first one completes?

If you don't have the delay engaged and the second capture is fast, then the delay is due to Screenshot Captor being unloaded from memory by the operating system after a long period of disuse.  To combat this, you can go to the Startup Options for SC and choose the "Inactive Memory Use" option of "Stay in Memory Longer".

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2014, 08:37 AM »

Too many cooks:

note: it gets a bit violent in the second half.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Has forum code changed?

« Last post by mouser on November 07, 2014, 08:35 AM »

it must be the firefox addon, no code has changed on the forum.

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Living Room / Re: Need a hand with a laptop issue.

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2014, 08:03 PM »

Shades guess is interesting.  Maybe a thing to do is keep it off mains, bring up Process List (ctrl+alt+del), sort by cpu use, and then when its running well, plug it into mains and see if any new processes start running or using cpu.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: customizable gui for cmd apps

« Last post by mouser on November 06, 2014, 10:08 AM »

Not at all -- in fact there are other free tools for doing what you are suggesting, which are more specifically focused on the task you are asking about -- I just can't remember them off-hand, so i hope others will chime in.

My Find and Run Robot program (FARR), which was suggested above, isn't quite meant for this purpose.  However my other program, Drag and Drop Robot, *was* made specifically to provide a simple GUI for executing commandline apps that you need to run in batch on a large number of target files.

Still, Drag and Drop Robot is not the ideal tool for creating custom GUIs for commandline tools as it doesn't have nice ways to set options, etc.

Again, I know there have been some attempts to make generic front ends for driving commandline tools -- I hope someone will post there experience with those here.

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Skwire Empire / Re: (Pre) Release: sChecklist

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2014, 06:59 PM »

Written up on ILoveFreeSoftware today:
http://www.ilovefree...dows-schecklist.html

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Living Room / Re: Spliddit

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2014, 06:49 PM »

The item that caught my attention was the algorithm for splitting a payment among multiple participants in a project, by trying to find a fair way to divide it based on participants assessment of others.  The website offers little explanation for the algorithm, but does link to a published paper on the algorithm (written by people other than those who made the website).

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Coding Snacks / Re: Disable right mouse button and enable only for specific program

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2014, 12:00 PM »

Always great to see threads like this -- except to the extent that skwire makes the rest of us coders look like slackers..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Can't Capture FTL Screenshot When Full Screen is On

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2014, 09:59 AM »

Is there no built-in screen capture function for FTL?
If you are doing something temporary that requires lots of screenshots from FTL, one thing you could try is to temporarily disable hardware acceleration for the monitor; that might enable you to capture screenshots from it using SC.  But you probably wouldn't want to leave that setting since it would negatively impact game performance.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Can't Capture FTL Screenshot When Full Screen is On

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2014, 09:57 AM »

I'm afraid that the DirectX addon for Screenshot Captor has been abandoned for now as being too unstable.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: View image without objects

« Last post by mouser on November 05, 2014, 07:06 AM »

Neat idea.  I could add a feature for this quite easily -- perhaps I will.

However, you can achieve what you want in the current version of Screenshot Captor quite easily by creating a tool in a certain way.
Just create a tool (see bottom of Tools menu) that launches an image viewer (like IrfanView) and use the parameter "%tmpfileplain%" instead of the normal "%file%":


This tells Screenshot Captor to send a copy of the current image without objects to the specified program.

ps.
Screenshot Captor also does this when you configure an external Graphic Editor, in the options and hit the Graphic Editor toolbar button.  It does this so that you can make changes to the background image while preserving your objects.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Can't Capture FTL Screenshot When Full Screen is On

« Last post by mouser on November 04, 2014, 08:29 PM »

Is it because of the popup dialog box? I can't seem to deselect that (do I have to switch to admin account to do so?).

i don't think the popup dialog can be causing the problem, but you could try turning it off by telling SC to stay minimized after capture; that option can be found in the tray, in the options dialog, or in the postcap dialog itself.
doing that is worth a try if only to get a proper answer to the question of whether the full screen FTL disapears briefly during capture.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Can't Capture FTL Screenshot When Full Screen is On

« Last post by mouser on November 04, 2014, 06:42 PM »

Does the FTL screen disapear briefly during the capture -- or does it remain onscreen at all times during the capture?

And to confirm -- you tried CHECKING the the "Do not try to use the PrintWindow" option (bottom of Window Capturing 2 tab) and then used alt+PrtScr to capture the active window?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Dimmer?

« Last post by mouser on November 04, 2014, 04:09 PM »

Do the dimmer tools get you the result you want aside from being sometimes buggy?