MountainDragon

MountainDragon

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Reply to Does Copying Music = Stealing? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

The idea for a piece of music is NOT music. A whole lot more goes into it than an idea. Ideas are a dime a dozen. What makes ideas into property (works) is called implementation, or production, or composition. Jefferson is talking about patents, not copyright, and while he brings up interesting points, there has obviously been much more said and done on that issue since he said what he said. I'm not really sure what your point is about t

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Reply to Desktop X Shortcut object help needed in Objects & Widgets JoeUser Forums

Okay, yeah, sorry. I knew there was a way, but had forgotten. Actually, to get the object to use the shortcut, append .lnk to the name of the shortcut. For example, if you make a shortcut of cmd.exe, the name will be "cmd.exe". Use "cmd.exe.lnk" in your object target field, and then it will use the shortcut.

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Reply to Desktop X Shortcut object help needed in Objects & Widgets JoeUser Forums

You can use a windows shortcut. Create the shortcut as you would normally, making sure it runs in the location you want. Then set the target for your DX object to be your shortcut file. I tried it with cmd.exe and it seemed to work fine.

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Reply to Does Copying Music = Stealing? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

The difference being, of course, that by 'stealing' bit patterns one does not deprive the singer/music industry of that bit pattern. How about this analogy: I don't know what kind of work you may do, but suppose your job entails something which does not result in an object (like a computer,

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Reply to Does Copying Music = Stealing? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

This is why 'stealing' music doesn't feel wrong, and isn't considered immoral by most of the transgressors. The point of the laptop analogy was to address the "principle of ownership" issue. Of course you do not feel wrong stealing from the person who has the music. They are NOT the owner/creator,

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Reply to Does Copying Music = Stealing? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

After reading this thread and having a lively discussion with my 26 year old daughter on the subject, I have some thoughts: First, I think the "widget" analogy is deceptive, because it places the problem in a fantasy realm, and obscures it somewhat. A better analogy would be books, since they are (like music and software) governed by copyright law, and they can, if the effort is made, be copied. I could borrow my friends book a

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Reply to Desktop X - Object Problems in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

I create new shortcut objects, after which I change them to show the icon associated with the shortcut. Exactly how are you doing this? I've had DX crash on me upon applying a change to an object, using an image with an apparently incompatible format. It was a png file which I had saved from Corel

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Reply to What Nationality are you? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Second generation American on my mother's side. My mother's mother was French, from a small, all-French Italian village. My mother's father was northern Italian. On my father's side it's not so clear - his family was here for several generations, but I suspect there is some Scottish blood in there. California mutt.

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Reply to A Message Most Simple in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Great post, RR. I don't think a day goes by without something making me wish that we (humanity) would just grow up. It is a pain that won't go away. John Lennon was one of many beacons to us all. His words and spirit live on in spite of the apparent forces that would deny and degrade them. Thanks for sharing.

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Reply to Widget Width in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

I'm not totally sure what you're looking to do, but if you create an object, set its Appearance Type to Text, set the format as you like it (left,centered, right) you can then use the script to set the content of the text, and set the width. It will word wrap if the width is set to less than the length of your text, and if you want a line break, code it like this: Object.Text = "This is line one"&chr(13)&"this is line two" To set

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Reply to Hoover Dam.... in Home & Family WinCustomize Forums

So, apparently, the author is unaware that this is not just on her blog, but also on a WinCustomize forum, in the Internet section. Posts from JoeUser, including her responses to posts here, will not be seen here. Not sure why this is happening, but it doesn't seem to encourage clear comminucation, to say the least.

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Reply to DesktopX 3.1 Reviewed in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Thanks for addressing that more comprehensively, Brad. I definitely see your point. It is much faster with DesktopX to come up with a customized look/feel for the windows environment than with any other dev tool I'm familiar with. I guess I'll have to look into XAML and Sparkle now.

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Reply to DesktopX 3.1 Reviewed in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Now that we have a site (DesktopGadgets.com) for people to sell cool stuff, we don't want someone to simply pay $70 and be competing with us on products that generate alot of revenue. But isn't that kind of like Microsoft saying that they don't want to sell a development environment for $400 or $500

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Reply to DX SUCKS!!!! in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Anyone know if there is a way to take a Gadget and import it? If you look in your \Documents and Settings\[User]\Local Settings\Temp there should be some folders with names like "{16F068D1-E05F-4644-8DDC-648D2B7C9DDB}". If you ran the gadget version, I believe you will find in one of them a copy of y

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