What do you think?

[HonorGamer]

Alright everyone,

I am getting tired of not knowing what programs to make. Does anyone here have any ideas what type of programs i can make? It don't matter what it is. Just an idea will work.

Thanks,
Gamer

 

[Darryl Licht]

Alright everyone,

I am getting tired of not knowing what programs to make. Does anyone here have any ideas what type of programs i can make? It don't matter what it is. Just an idea will work.

Thanks,
Gamer

WHAT???? Are you a programmer??? What do you mean by make programs?

 

[whs]

How about some smart game. You could even make money with it.

 

[gurvirj95]

Alright everyone,

I am getting tired of not knowing what programs to make. Does anyone here have any ideas what type of programs i can make? It don't matter what it is. Just an idea will work.

Thanks,
Gamer

WHAT???? Are you a programmer??? What do you mean by make programs?

He means he could make programs. Look at his sig, it says C# programmer

 

[HonorGamer]

lmao, yes i am a programmer. I am still learning, but i am. Just not into game programing.

 

[rap33042]

HonorGamer:
Here's a challenge- I've looked high and low for a program that will compare pictures in a directory for duplicates.
The only one I've ever found that comes close is DupDetector. It's free and does it's job with limitations and a lot of false positives.
There are many commercial programs (I can't afford) that claim to do this, but it seems they compare only two(2) pictures at a time.
I want it to compare maybe thousands of pictures to check for duplicates (or close).
Free would be a nice touch, too

 

[HonorGamer]

I mainly only code free programs. But that would be a long and hard program.

Give me more of an idea what you mean though. Do you mean like, you enter a picture and it compares to other pictures in a directory?

 

[rap33042]

HonorGamer:

The way DupDetector works is this:

• You point it to a directory containing x number of pictures
• It builds an internal list of those files with their specific color content (I guess; I don't know how he does it)
• Then it compares all the pictures in that list for duplicates based on some intriguing algorithm
• Then you can display all the pictures the program thinks are duplicates (percentages can be adjusted within the program settings)
• The user then cycles through the duplicates and decides whether to keep it

I like this program but it doesn't play nicely with Windows 7- the program's display is corrupted.

Here's a snapshot plus the About page so you can check it out if you like:

 

[HonorGamer]

That is out of my league. I am a programmer, but i am not that good.

Maybe give me something else, and i can try.

 

[Ciara]

Hi HonorGamer , Can you make a picture resizer that would keep the picture quality in jpeg ?

 

[esha]

Now what I would like to have is something special, probably not of much use to the general public but certainly to the several hundred people who create content for the programs Poser and DAZ Studio.

If you have a long piece of code, plain text, could you filter out sections that start with certain words?

For example:

deformerPropChan Sit2_LHip_Dfmr:1
{
name Sit2_LHip_Dfmr
initValue 1
hidden 0
forceLimits 0
min -100000
max 100000
trackingScale 0.005
keys
{
static 0
k 0 0
}
interpStyleLocked 0
addZone 1 Sit2_LHip_DfmrZ:1
deformerProp Sit2_LHip_Dfmr:1
}

The names in that vary, but these blocks of code always start with "deformerPropChan". This first line and everything between the following { and } have to be deleted. These blocks of code, with varying names and values, are repeated many many times throughout the file.

Could you write a routine that deletes this, leaving the rest of the file unchanged?

If you're interested, I can give you more background info what all this is for. If not, I don't have to do all that typing

 

[rap33042]

HonorGamer:

OK- no problem. but did ask...

 

[HonorGamer]

i understand that basic stuff, but what language is that code? looks like C++ or something

 

[esha]

i understand that basic stuff, but what language is that code? looks like C++ or something

Do you mean that bit I posted?
I have no idea. It's just a text file in which we rummage about with a text editor, deleting and adding things manually.

Here's some background:
There are programs for 3D rendering which use pre-made content. The users load a figure, give it a pose, add some clothing and hair (by double-clicking a preset in a library) and a nice background and then they let the program calculate lighting, reflection etc. so the end result is a nice 3D render. It's a bit like "dressing up Barbie" for adults

To create clothing for that, I model a piece of clothing in 3D, import it to the software and give it the same bone skeleton the figure has so the clothing will move with the figure.
The figure uses special deformer settings, so the muscles bulge in the right places when e.g. the forearm bends. These deformers get automatically added to the clothing as soon as the clothing is loaded - otherwise the muscle would poke through the clothing.

So, when I've finished setting up the clothing and I save it to the program's library for other people to use, I get all those deformers in the file. (The code is created by the program, I've no idea what language it uses.)
That wouldn't matter if it was just for private use, but I sell the clothing add-ons and the files I pass on shouldn't contain anything unnecessary.

So it would be great if I had a little tool through which I could run the files afterwards to get rid of those deformers. The files are plain text with the extension .cr2

I would use search-replace in my text editor but since each deformer has a different name this doesn't work.

I added such a file for you to look at. It's a small one because it doesn't contain yet all the data the final version will have. The final file will have about 22MB, that is a lot of text so you can imagine how funny it is to go over all those lines manually. And this isn't even a complicated file, there are much longer ones.

If you don't want to touch it I can understand, but if you wanted to give it a try I'd be quite happy, and also happy to provide more files to work on.

 

[rerice]

Hello, HonorGamer

I have a challenge for you. It will give you some experience and help
a lot of folks.

MouseImp Pro, Is a rather old program which originated in Russia and was kept
updated by some good souls, but they gave up after Vista.

It is open source and deserves to be revived .

It is a mouse scrolling tool which allows one to just hold down the right mouse key
and scroll in both directions without the need to reach for the scroll bar.

I have been using MouseImp for years and am now using W7 32 bit because it will
not run on W7 64 bit.

Start here. DOWNLOAD « MouseImp Pro Live!.

The source code is available and their is more detail available.

The good folks which have been keeping it alive have abandoned it. Its competition
Scroll Mouse and Mouse Star are poor substitutes.

Please give this good old program a new life.

Thanks for listening,
Richard

 

[HonorGamer]

Alright i will have to download it when i get home. its blocked here at tech school.

I will try my best

 

[rap33042]

rerice:
Does this work in any program, once it is installed?
I ask because there are solutions for browsers, and, of course, PDF readers already come equipped with this 'grab and drag' feature.
Or is it not 'grab and drag'?

 

[Darryl Licht]

OK... how about a program that will generate rainbow tables or dictionaries to be used with brute force hacks? White hat (pen testing) stuff only...

There are a few out there but nothing that really excels! Output should be txt or lst format. User should be able to select # of characters, uppercase, lowercase, symbols, numbers, spaces, etc...???

 

[johnwillyums]

Hi. I think a picture resizer for this forum would be great. I often read a post and think "I've got a photograph that's just right for this, would be funny or appropriate" etc.
I'm a keen photographer and most of my images are huge, whether tif. or jpg. The more editing you do in Photoshop the bigger the files get, so I have 45mb+ files sometimes.
I usually forget about the size limit for attached photos, spend ages trying to upload and attach it to a post and then get an error.
By that time the moment has passed and I've missed the boat on my post.
I know I could resize all my pics in Photoshop but I have thousands and thousands.
An automated converter/resizer for attachments would be great.

Sounds a bit complicated I suppose, what do you think?

 

[HonorGamer]

OK... how about a program that will generate rainbow tables or dictionaries to be used with brute force hacks? White hat (pen testing) stuff only...

There are a few out there but nothing that really excels! Output should be txt or lst format. User should be able to select # of characters, uppercase, lowercase, symbols, numbers, spaces, etc...???

You mean to be used against hacks?

Hi. I think a picture resizer for this forum would be great. I often read a post and think "I've got a photograph that's just right for this, would be funny or appropriate" etc.
I'm a keen photographer and most of my images are huge, whether tif. or jpg. The more editing you do in Photoshop the bigger the files get, so I have 45mb+ files sometimes.
I usually forget about the size limit for attached photos, spend ages trying to upload and attach it to a post and then get an error.
By that time the moment has passed and I've missed the boat on my post.
I know I could resize all my pics in Photoshop but I have thousands and thousands.
An automated converter/resizer for attachments would be great.

Sounds a bit complicated I suppose, what do you think?

That will require some research, but i will give it a shot.