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Developer's Corner / Re: Best way to start learning C++?

« Last post by Deozaan on October 11, 2007, 07:15 PM »

as there is next to no free alternative

-Ehtyar (October 11, 2007, 07:09 PM)

What about Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Express? That's free. It's C++.

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Official Announcements / Re: Draw Cody competition - win incredible prizes!

« Last post by Deozaan on October 11, 2007, 12:24 PM »

Honestly, I did that drawing. It's like my best drawing ever. I spent three hours shading the upper lip.

-Deozaan (October 11, 2007, 09:46 AM)

Then you deserve a spanking. What's the point on the IMDB link?

-scancode (October 11, 2007, 11:58 AM)

I guess you'd need to see the movie to know.

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Videogame Development / Question about Assignments

« Last post by Deozaan on October 11, 2007, 11:01 AM »

Mouser,

In Assignment 1 you say that we should attach source code, etc.

What if someone were to use a program like Game Maker or TGB where doing so is not possible or against the EULA?

Or are these assignments meant only for the languages posted in the Programmer's School?

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Official Announcements / Re: Draw Cody competition - win incredible prizes!

« Last post by Deozaan on October 11, 2007, 09:46 AM »

Deozaan: Too cute!  She captured the likeness of Cody perfectly.

-Ralf Maximus (October 11, 2007, 07:55 AM)

Honestly, I did that drawing. It's like my best drawing ever. I spent three hours shading the upper lip.

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Official Announcements / Re: Draw Cody competition - win incredible prizes!

« Last post by Deozaan on October 11, 2007, 01:22 AM »

By the way, may i suggest people might want to try to use DrawSWF, a very cool free program that records a movie as you draw: http://drawswf.sourceforge.net/

-mouser (October 10, 2007, 11:57 PM)

You asked for it mouser!

This was done by my daughter. Who is -5 years old.

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Official Announcements / Re: Draw Cody competition - win incredible prizes!

« Last post by Deozaan on October 10, 2007, 10:19 PM »

No Cody decoder ring?
That's what I really want.

-Cpilot (October 10, 2007, 05:02 PM)

Be sure to drink your ovaltine?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Magix (Xara) rant...

« Last post by Deozaan on October 10, 2007, 09:48 PM »

I bought Xara X1 from an offer posted earlier on this site and I can't get them to stop sending me spam about the latest Xara versions.

I've clicked the unsubscribe link several times. Sadly my awesome spam-free e-mail account now gets spam from Xara and only Xara.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Have any web-based applications replaced desktop apps for you?

« Last post by Deozaan on October 10, 2007, 09:46 PM »

Only Gmail for me replacing desktop e-mail client.

Google Docs is kind of handy for sharing documents/having them available wherever I have internet.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Ponder This

« Last post by Deozaan on October 10, 2007, 09:44 PM »

Is this even a development problem? Looks more like a straight forward puzzle to me. The answer is B, by the way. When in doubt, always answer B...

-Darwin (October 09, 2007, 07:47 PM)

I always pick "A" cause I have some Canadian friends.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free Game: POTC Desktop Galleon

« Last post by Deozaan on October 08, 2007, 10:33 PM »

Nice little diversion. Too bad I can't go over to my second monitor.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to get rid of certain advertisements

« Last post by Deozaan on October 08, 2007, 08:48 PM »

I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about, but if it's loading in a frame, Adblock can let you block entire iframes instead of just images and scripts.

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Living Room / Re: DC get together in Western Europe?! July 2007?

« Last post by Deozaan on October 05, 2007, 03:05 PM »

i thought i noticed something strange about that picture so i took out my magnifying glass, and look what i found:

(see attachment in previous post)

-mouser (July 22, 2007, 02:47 AM)

That's hilarious!

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Living Room / Re: Versioning of files

« Last post by Deozaan on October 05, 2007, 02:40 PM »

When working on media files, and if you have the money to burn, perhaps take a look at http://www.softimage...products/alienbrain/ . Don't have any experience with it myself, but it sounds cool enough. And id software uses it

-f0dder (October 05, 2007, 05:08 AM)

mind you looking at it that "starter pack" is only 12$
will look closer

-tomos (October 05, 2007, 05:18 AM)

You sure that's only $12? Looks like $12,000 to me.

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Living Room / Re: Versioning of files

« Last post by Deozaan on October 05, 2007, 02:34 PM »

I use FileHamster and I just want to point out that you can set a delay so that it will not save new versions if they occur within n amount of hours:mins:seconds of each other. This way if you save a file 15 times a minute, but they're not really important changes, you can set it to 00:01:00 and it will only save if it's been a full minute since the last revision.

Sorry if this was mentioned before. I started skimming through the last few posts.

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Living Room / Re: DC Unofficial Meeting #5 Took Place - Veign and Mouser meet

« Last post by Deozaan on October 05, 2007, 01:34 PM »

i just grew mine to impress chris - i plan on shaving it off today now that he is gone 

ps. i heard allen lost an arm wrestling match with his wife and he had to shave off his beard -- just a rumour though.

-mouser (October 05, 2007, 10:16 AM)

I saw a picture of Allen taken a couple weeks ago. He's starting to look like ZZ Top!

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Compact AutoRunner v1.0 - Small, compact, customizable cd autorun menu!

« Last post by Deozaan on October 05, 2007, 03:41 AM »

Another suggestion:  A "Preview" button from the CompactAutoRunner_ConfigBuilder would be nice I think. 

-taichimaster (July 09, 2007, 04:06 PM)

I second this suggestion!

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Compact AutoRunner v1.0 - Small, compact, customizable cd autorun menu!

« Last post by Deozaan on October 04, 2007, 05:06 PM »

And another possible feature I'd like as an option per button:

When you click the button to launch whatever application, it closes CAR.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Compact AutoRunner v1.0 - Small, compact, customizable cd autorun menu!

« Last post by Deozaan on October 04, 2007, 05:04 PM »

Wierd.  Has anyone else had the paths show up like "<APP_PATH>\C:\Folder\image.jpg" to them?

-hamradio (October 04, 2007, 03:10 PM)

I just tried it again on another computer and it wouldn't do it. But I think I figured out why it did it the way it did.

I have the CAR Config Builder installed on my P:\ drive but the files I was working with were on my C:\ drive. It probably built the path in relation to the Config Builder instead of the ini file I was working on.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Compact AutoRunner v1.0 - Small, compact, customizable cd autorun menu!

« Last post by Deozaan on October 04, 2007, 02:57 PM »

For the first one what OS?

Tip: You can also manually edit the ini file also.  You don't have to use the program to create a config.

As for copying over the program and autorun.inf everytime it is an option of Compact AutoRunner Configuration Builder that you will find on Step 1.

-hamradio (October 04, 2007, 01:50 PM)

Win XP SP2.

I had to resort to manually editing the .ini to correct the path issue, but after that I could just reload the ini into the CAR Config Builder and it worked properly.

My suggestion for not having to update the Step 1 settings to keep it from copying over those files each time is to have a Save button that just rewrites the ini. Maybe it could copy the other files over if they're missing from the ini directory.

It's very nice, and I've finished what I was doing with it. Now I'm only wondering why you can't have more than 5 buttons (not counting the Exit button). And for some reason I'm left with the feeling that I'd like music playing, too. Or at least a startup sound effect. 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Compact AutoRunner v1.0 - Small, compact, customizable cd autorun menu!

« Last post by Deozaan on October 04, 2007, 01:08 PM »

It also seems like it would be a little more user friendly if you could toggle the buttons on and off from each button's config as well as the Icon/Form config area.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Compact AutoRunner v1.0 - Small, compact, customizable cd autorun menu!

« Last post by Deozaan on October 04, 2007, 12:46 PM »

Bug reports!

When I browse for the files for anything, photo, program, icon, etc. it uses <APP_PATH> but then uses the absolute/full path. So for instance, it looks like this:

[Select]

Photo.File=<APP_PATH>\C:\Folder\image.jpg

And then it still tells me the photo can't be found.

And it's not very helpful that I can't manually type/edit the path in those input fields. They're locked and the only way to edit them is through the Browse button, which populates incorrectly with the full path. 

Also, when browsing for a file to run, it defaults to htm or html files, even though the Type is set to Filename. And how come it won't let me save it so I can do incremental testing? There's only Save As, which gets a little annoying since it creates the autorun.inf and copies CAR.exe over every time, asking me if I want to replace them.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Compact AutoRunner v1.0 - Small, compact, customizable cd autorun menu!

« Last post by Deozaan on October 04, 2007, 11:23 AM »

Hi hamradio, I have a few suggestions:

• Make it so that a photo isn't required. If I want a pure and simple (perhaps ugly) box with the options, that should be my choice.
• Also support for png files would be nice.
• Let me grab icons from .exe files instead of only .ico. Not every app I want to launch/run has a separate .ico file. Most are built right into the .exe.
• Make it easier to find some documentation. I know it's important for the license information to be reviewed, but combining the license and readme files was a bad idea, in my opinion.
• Get an installer and make this some official DC software. Not to take away from your personal achievement of making this cool program, but it would be nice to see it run/install similarly to other great DC apps I find here. Then again, maybe you don't want people to have to deal with the DC Donationware license issues. Still, an installer would be nice so that start menu shortcuts can be made and so that the DCAppdater could automatically grab and install newer versions.

Congrats on this awesome application!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: a batch Zip program

« Last post by Deozaan on October 04, 2007, 01:34 AM »

Yay! I just downloaded the latest version of WinZip trying to get this feature and found out from this site it was in my old version of WinRar all this time!

What a timesaver!

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Living Room / Twinxoid: Game Giveaway of the Day

« Last post by Deozaan on October 02, 2007, 09:44 AM »

Twinxoid was featured before on GGotD or maybe on Game Du Jour. I decided to pick it up and try it out,and it was worth it! Many of these free/discounted games are breakout clones, and this one is too, but this one has a new element to it:

You and your opponent play on the same board! Any spaces that are empty for you are blocks for your opponent. So as you break blocks, you create them for your opponent. As your opponent breaks them, block show up in your space. It's worth a try!

http://game.giveaway...heday.com/twinksoid/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Screenshot Captor featured on lifehacker

« Last post by Deozaan on September 28, 2007, 12:50 AM »

I love ScreenShot Captor! Seriously! I don't have a use for many of the DC Apps, but SCC is constantly one of the first things installed on my system after an upgrade/format.