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Screenshot Captor / Re: screenshotcaptor and delay option

« Last post by mouser on March 22, 2014, 01:33 AM »

1.  there is still the first point -- that the grab active window doesn't include the menu.  Is that expected?

Because of the way grab active window works on windows vista and above, its impossible to grab menus that are showing.
That's because of the way SC has to flash the background behind the active window in order to grab it's transparency.

If you don't care about transparency at the corners of your windows, you can change this (which will also speed up active window capture), by disabling this option in the Window Capturing Options 1 tab.

You may also have to change the hotkey used for grabbing active window to a hotkey other than Alt+PrtScr, since the alt key there tends to close menuds.

2. Regards the grab selected region, I see 2 behaviors depending on whether how I trigger the capture.  If using hotkey or quick-capture-bar, the app loses focus somehow and then the menu of course goes away.  If I use the main window menu to trigger, it works OK.

hmm, are you sure this happens with hotkey use?  my hotkey use for selected-region capture seems to preserve focus and doesn't close menu.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Removing background and selecting scanner background color

« Last post by mouser on March 22, 2014, 01:27 AM »

Hi connie, i'm so sorry about the delay in responding -- I thought I had replied to this but it must have been another similar question.
If you're still there, maybe you could take a screenshot of the scanner options page? Have you tried the option to automatically grab the scanner background color from the image?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: [SC] Minor Requests

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2014, 04:22 PM »

Thanks for the bug report about pixelation, will fix.
What would be a better default hotkey for deleting image?

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The Form Letter Machine / Re: Custom date

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2014, 04:11 PM »

This is a good idea.. The only hesitation I have is that The Form Letter Machine would really benefit from a rewrite to a more flexible tool.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Relative paths in arguments

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2014, 04:10 PM »

Good ideas poyan, i will try to add your suggestions.  And it should be fairly easy to add support for those things like %APPDRIVE% in the arguments.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Allow only one instance without warning popup?

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2014, 03:32 PM »

Fair enough, let me try to fix the bug and maybe add an option to silently just restore the first instance.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: REQ: HTPC Util - Hide Desktop for x seconds while program is being executed.

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2014, 03:18 PM »

I would just let it take a delay value, and exit itself after X seconds.

If you wanted to get fancy, let it take on the commandline the secondary application to execute, and then exit after that program has launched and opened a window (and then switch to that window on exit).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: REQ: HTPC Util - Hide Desktop for x seconds while program is being executed.

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2014, 02:50 PM »

I don't know, i think his original idea still seems simpler and more useful in general: A utility you can invoke, which puts a black window on top covering the screen for a specified amount of time and then exits.
Ideally with a nice commandline customizable text message and/or a "please wait" animation.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: REQ: HTPC Util - Hide Desktop for x seconds while program is being executed.

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2014, 01:54 PM »

I'm looking for a utility that will either blank the screen for x seconds or display a fake progress bar while blanking the screen until mce is fully loaded and running.

kind of a cute idea for a little app..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Flash video capture

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2014, 12:44 PM »

ESR (and most normal desktop-recording / screencasting tools) record audio through one of your audio recording devices.  That is, it normally will want to be recording your voice from a microphone.

The only way to record the audio playing through a browser is if you have a virtual audio recording device that is names something like "what you hear" or "stereo mix".  If you have such a device, you should select it as your audio input source in ESR and then it should work.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: *NIX - List of 100 Open Source Replacements for Popular Security Tools

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2014, 12:40 PM »

Nice find 

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

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2014, 12:39 PM »

funny cats 

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Living Room / Re: Against TED talks

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2014, 01:30 AM »

It's not the conspiracy nut stuff per se that gets things moved to the basement -- but when entire threads start to become filled with these posts that it gets exhausting.  If you have an opinion by all means post it, but then take a break and give the rest of the population a chance to express their thoughts (and digest what you've written).

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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2014, 01:01 AM »

Just watched Lunopolis -- didn't really do it for me -- too silly -- I couldn't suspend disbelief sufficiently (though it did hold my interest throughout).

But for those who enjoy the genre, I'd like to recommend: Primer and Safety Not Guaranteed and Time Crimes, all of which are truly excellent.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2014, 03:57 PM »

a dc-only server would also mean we can do what i really want, which is play with 0 bots and no other humans besides a few dc folks.  can someone set that up?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Unreal Engine now $20/mo + 5% royalties

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2014, 01:08 PM »

The low cost engine options available to indie developers currently is incredible -- when i was just learning to code this was unthinkable.

From my standpoint, the subscription cost thing is a non-issue -- $20/month means it's affordable to someone who doens't have much money and wants to use it to make a serious game.

What seems notable about this news is not the subscription model, but the 5% royalties.  My memory is the royalties they used to have were like 20-30% which I thought was unacceptable. But 5% seems manageable and would make Unreal Engine a viable candidate for an indie team looking for commercial success.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Flash video capture

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2014, 01:13 AM »

Works here.

When you say capture embedded flash videos -- i assume we are talking about capturing a Screenshot of an embedded flash video.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sStockQuote

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2014, 04:27 PM »

colors look great 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Editing Annotations (Line Arrow)

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2014, 03:16 AM »

Thanks for the kind words, Nightfish!

The problem you are describing is one that has been raised before -- I wish I had a better answer for you other than it's a known problem, and it's on my todo list of things to fix.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Raymond.cc compares 20 Drive Imaging Tools

« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2014, 08:22 PM »

I've been using Macrium free very happily for a couple of years now, but I'm a big fan of Easus partition management tools, so I may have to switch to Easus.

Though I will note that speed is of secondary concern to me -- reliability of restoration is at the top -- and that's something reviews have a hard time addressing.

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General Software Discussion / Raymond.cc compares 20 Drive Imaging Tools

« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2014, 07:45 PM »

Nice comparison of Drive Imaging backup tools -- both free and commercial.  Focused mainly on speed differences.

Overall Summary:

AOMEI Backupper excelled in all tests bar one. When you consider its features compared to other free backup software, and the fact it’s free for personal and commercial use, Backupper is really worth looking at. Although it never won any of the main tests, we have to commend Acronis True Image for producing consistently strong results in all tests while showing no real weaknesses.

Both Macrium Reflect and ShadowProtect were also strong but each had a weakness in at least one area. EaseUs Todo Backup was good at backup speed but slow at restoration while AX64 was generally fast with its no frills ease of use philosophy. The higher compression and portability of Drive Snapshot makes it useful as a backup and restore from anywhere type of tool.

Obviously these tests are only one part of how well a particular backup software works, testing for other factors such as reliability and stability are simply not possible unless a program is tested in multiple scenarios over a period of weeks or months. But one thing you wouldn’t want from your backup software is for it to work inefficiently, because don’t forget, these results will be magnified the more data you are backing up or restoring.

http://www.raymond.c...re-speed-comparison/

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

« Last post by mouser on March 15, 2014, 12:25 AM »

check pm.

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DC Gamer Club / Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

« Last post by mouser on March 14, 2014, 03:11 PM »

The game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is on sale on steam today for 75% off, making it less than $4.

It's a multiplayer team-based first person shooter.

I'm not sure we will ever play it, but there has been some talk in the #donationcoder chat channel (see link at top of forum) of playing it all together, so I just bought it.

If anyone else wants to join in playing, pick it up!

If you're on steam, want to play it, but for some reason can't buy it, and have made more than 5 posts on the forum, send me a message today and i'll try to buy you a copy.

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: Licencia para Snooper

« Last post by mouser on March 14, 2014, 01:11 PM »

That license key does not look quite right.  I have sent you a new one by email.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by mouser on March 13, 2014, 04:37 PM »

Just finished "The Code Book" by Simon Singh:


Good stuff. Gives a nice history of cryptography up to the present.