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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Paste entire stack - maximum?

« Last post by mouser on June 21, 2013, 12:54 PM »

is there a maximum number of items pasted when using "paste entire stack as one block"?
I got some larger lists of items in the hundreds and want to paste them, but I only get the
first 25 or so... I can't find an option to change this and I would like to avoid merging since this seems to
be very slow, takes several minutes with a lot of items in the list.

Let me look into both of these issues -- there shouldn't be a limit, but also merging shouldn't be causing a delay either.

EDIT:

1. Ok there is an imposed 25 limit to the stack in the current code, but no real reason for that, so i'm going to change it to something like 1000.
2. I can't duplicate the slow merging.. are you sure about that?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: How to Download Previous Version - Want old Post-capture dialog back

« Last post by mouser on June 21, 2013, 02:11 AM »

Can you try the new beta i've uploaded just now (download link on this thread).

And try these new options:

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Unfinished Requests / Re: Daydreaming of a Coding Snack

« Last post by mouser on June 21, 2013, 01:46 AM »

That's completely in the realm of normal coding snack request, and such requests are more than welcome.. Just be nice and note when you make such a request that it's not something you desperately need just an idea you came up with that you might not even actually use.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Disable creation of MyJunk and OLDER folders?

« Last post by mouser on June 20, 2013, 11:11 PM »

Indeed there is.  You'll find the settings on the bottom half of the "Saving and Loading Files" tab in the options.

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UrlSnooper / Re: No network adapters detected!?

« Last post by mouser on June 20, 2013, 10:46 PM »

tkirklen, can you try doing what the post above made by Furty says to do?

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UrlSnooper / Re: SW DOES NOT WORK

« Last post by mouser on June 20, 2013, 10:46 PM »

Hi tkirklen -- I feel your pain, but let's continue the discussion on the other thread you posted to here, as the issue with network adapters is the key to your problem.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Error when trying to start ScreenCaptor

« Last post by mouser on June 20, 2013, 06:24 PM »

Should I uninstall the software and reinstall it?

no, that will make no difference.

it sounds like maybe the running instance of screenshot captor is having a hard time saving anything -- like maybe it can't even write it's options to file.

try restarting the program, changing some options, exiting.
then restart, are any of your changes saved?

did you do anything unusual to install screenshot captor? are you using standard installer or portable version? did you copy your settings from another machine? etc.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Error when trying to start ScreenCaptor

« Last post by mouser on June 20, 2013, 06:06 PM »

Well the easiest immediate thing to do is go to the "Saving and Loading Files" tab in options, and UNCHECK the group box labeled "Auto Move Older Screenshots", which will prevent SC from trying to do that at startup.

But then you might want to figure out WHY the program is having a hard time creating that directory..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: How to Download Previous Version - Want old Post-capture dialog back

« Last post by mouser on June 20, 2013, 12:44 PM »

I'll post a link to earlier versions tonight, but as you are the second person who has longed for the previous post-capture dialog, perhaps i need to think about making it an option to revert to that.

By the way did you know that you can use Alt+key now to trigger those actions quickly?


I do think the new (now in beta) post-capture dialog offers something quite important -- the ability to quickly set filename and add comment.

The copy-to-clipboard button i can see is more iffy since it now requires 2 clicks (or keypresses) each time to select the same copy-to-clipboard action.

So maybe i'll do this:
1. revert the copy-to-clipboard dropdown back to a standard button (and have options choose which of the 3 copy-to-clipboard actions this should take).
2. have an option to either not show the new name/comment fields in the post-capture dialog, or probably just have an option to not start the focus on them which will have the same effect of letting you just hit a single key to trigger the other actions.

Am i correct in assuming that what you care about here is being able to simply press a single key to trigger those post-capture dialog items?

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Living Room / Re: The DonationCoder.com 30-Day Healthy Eating and Exercise Challenge!

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2013, 11:43 AM »

How's everyone doing so far?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 4.5 Beta - Request for testers

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2013, 08:12 PM »

I was just following the directions from the right-click tray menu.

dont use the tray menu to take screenshots -- consider the tray menu just a reminder of your hotkeys.
you can find hotkey configuration in the preferences dialog.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 4.5 Beta - Request for testers

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2013, 07:29 PM »

the list view is not working in 4.0.3. selecting list view changes to detail view

-lanux128 (June 18, 2013, 04:55 AM)

can you elaborate a little bit or take a screenshot (under Capture menu you can take a screenshot of SC itself)?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 4.5 Beta - Request for testers

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2013, 07:28 PM »

Somewhere in X versions, by now with the new V4.5 I am having trouble with the keyboard grabs starting with control-printscreen to grab an active window. 1. First of all, as of right now, that sequence doesn't seem to do anything at all. But even worse, in the spreadsheet programs, it seems to activate some command in there, meaning you have a hot-key "fight". Any ideas?

Check the SC hotkey configuration and make sure ctrl+prtscr is set to do what you think it is.  If so, it sounds like your other spreadsheet program is taking it over.

2. As more of a "next feature enhancement", I am unable to get screen grabs of things like drop down menus because to go over and left click on SC "steals focus" so then the drop down window goes away. Examples are in the office programs, but likely in other places such as Yahoo Mail.

why are you trying to "go over and left click on SC" instead of just hitting the PrtScr hotkey to capture the screen?

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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder Recipe Sharing Thread

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2013, 07:06 PM »

No one else wants to participate in this thread?  I hate when we don't have more people joining in these discussions..

Surely we have some long time lurkers on the forum who like cooking and feel like making their first post?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: print screenshot to a printer in a single step

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2013, 01:07 PM »

This is a good question.

The answer is: sort of.

Right now, you can't set up a custom hotkey in screenshot captor itself to tell it to take a screenshot and then print it.. Though allowing these kinds of custom hotkeys is something I do plan on adding.

However, what you can so is go to the "Post-Capture Options" tab and check the box labeled "Auto print" to have it automatically print every screenshot, and then on the "Interface Options" tab choose "After Capture Show: Stay Minimized".  With those settings, when you take a screenshot it will automatically be printed while the program will stay out of your way in the system tray.

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General Software Discussion / Roundup of Free OCR Software at FreewareGenius.com

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2013, 12:49 PM »

In conjunction with my Screenshot Captor screenshot taking tool, I frequently get asked for recommendations concerning OCR software to scan an image and recognize text.

Today, our friends over at FreewareGenius have a nice roundup of free OCR tools:

http://www.freewareg...n-of-free-ocr-tools/

See also: http://www.techsuppo...ree-ocr-software.htm

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 4.5 Beta - Request for testers

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2013, 10:43 PM »

You need .zip on the end of your portable URL.

thx, fixed link.

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Screenshot Captor / Screenshot Captor 4.5 Beta - Request for testers

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2013, 08:58 PM »

I'm uploading a beta here with just a few new options, but I'd appreciate any bug reports.

Screenshot Captor 4.5.0 beta:

• Setup version
• Portable zip

v4.5.0 - June 17, 2013

• [Feature] Post-capture dialog now has a field where you can specify an optional quick custom filename.
• [MinorFeature] New option to open windows explorer file browser to location of SaveAs image after a SaveAs.
• [MinorFeature] New option to not uniquify filenames when launching the SaveAs dialog.
• [MinorFeature] The file template field now has some suggestions in a drop down combo box.
• [BugFix] Minor UI fixes.
• [BugFix] Attempting to fix brief appearance of Screenshot Captor taskbar button at windows startup.

So the main thing to check is that the post-capture dialog now let's you overide the custom filename, and also (and I recognize this is more of a pain to test) I'm trying to fix a bug where on windows startup, Screenshot Captor would display a phantom taskbar button.

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Living Room / Re: On today's Internet, EVERYONE knows you're a dog!

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2013, 08:16 PM »

ha!!! nice find xtabber.  joke works best if you are familiar with how famous that original "nobody knows your a dog" cartoon was.

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: SelectoSurf v1.1.0 - Jan 25,2008 - AutoHotkey script to open plaintext URLs

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2013, 06:33 PM »

Btw as simple as this little script is -- it's something I still use every day.

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General Software Discussion / Re: fast map

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2013, 04:58 PM »

This would be easy to do using an autohotkey script to copy the area under the cursor to clipboard and then open a web page related to it.

I wrote a little AHK script a while ago called SelectoSurf which I use for similar purposes, you'd just have to modify it to open a web page that does a map search instead of a web search.

Or you could use Find and Run Robot to do the same thing -- trigger on a hotkey, copy highlighted text under cursor to clipboard, and then open a web page searching for that text.

The first step however is to find yourself a mapping website where you can search for locations on a uk map, and which returns the results you want.  Then post on this thread that url with the search part.

For example. you might say that the web page you want opened is:

[Select]

http://maps.google.co.uk/m?gbv=1&ie=UTF-8&oi=nojs&q=LOCATIONHERE

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Living Room / Re: Worth Reading: Trevor Pott's editorial on NSA PRISM and its real ramifications

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2013, 08:32 AM »

Thanks for sharing that article wraith, that's a great find.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.3 - April 22, 2013

« Last post by mouser on June 15, 2013, 05:41 PM »

I'm afraid the DirectX capture addon for SC is on hold while i try to work with original code author to improve it.

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General Software Discussion / This week's episode of the suicide of Microsoft: Helping gov't exploit your pc

« Last post by mouser on June 14, 2013, 01:41 PM »

From an article today:

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the world’s largest software company, provides intelligence agencies with information about bugs in its popular software before it publicly releases a fix, according to two people familiar with the process. That information can be used to protect government computers and to access the computers of terrorists or military foes.

Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft (MSFT) and other software or Internet security companies have been aware that this type of early alert allowed the U.S. to exploit vulnerabilities in software sold to foreign governments, according to two U.S. officials.

http://www.bloomberg...usands-of-firms.html

Maybe start with this summary on TechDirt: http://www.techdirt....t-patches-them.shtml

from TechDirt

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Living Room / Re: 16K word sample of my sci-fi ebook, due on Amazon and B&N in October

« Last post by mouser on June 14, 2013, 06:18 AM »

It's depressing to think that that far into the future some of humanity has doggedly held on to imperial measurements

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!