Announce: New Frree Web Gallery software for MS-Windows

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MLC said:
Hi _Moonlit_,


I've read the MeAndMyGall Introduction and Advanced pages: your software
looks really interesting. I'm downloading it.

For others interested, the download size is 2.8 MB.

Thank you, Ron! :-)
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Thankss for your nice comments :-)

Regards, Ron.
 
MeAndMyGall, new Free web gallery creation software has been added to
http://moonlit.xs4all.nl
you can download it here http://moonlit.xs4all.nl/MeAndMyGall.exe
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Regards, Ron AF Greve.
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Thanks Ron,

Seeing as you are helping others....maybe you can be helped yourself ?
You seem to have your email address displayed on your web page. Not
a good idea. Spam robots might harvest it. Consider a trip to :

http://mypage.direct.ca/s/schinke/encode/#

Also, your art is pretty interesting. If you haven't done so already
you might like a trip to ;

alt.binaries.pictures.fantasy-sci-fi

Regards, John.

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You seem to have your email address displayed on your web page.
Not a good idea. Spam robots might harvest it. Consider a trip to
:

http://mypage.direct.ca/s/schinke/encode/#
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unfortunately, I've recently read several reports indicating that
that kind of encoding is no longer useful, as the harvesterbots now
unencode it. I'm sorry I didn't save the links. If it's true, I
guess JavaScript is the only way to do it, with a clear way for people
using browsers without js support to get the addy. For the js part,
there are lots of scripts available out there. Here's one that uses
10-bit RSA encryption, of all things.

<http://www.jracademy.com/~jtucek/email/download.php>
 
Hi John,

John Fitzsimons said:
Thanks Ron,

Seeing as you are helping others....maybe you can be helped yourself ?
You seem to have your email address displayed on your web page. Not
a good idea. Spam robots might harvest it. Consider a trip to :

http://mypage.direct.ca/s/schinke/encode/#
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Actullay I thought I printed all my email from javascript (and removed them
from the online help pages). So it would be more difficult for spammers to
harvest (might have forgotten one somewhere :-( though )..
Also, your art is pretty interesting. If you haven't done so already
you might like a trip to ;

alt.binaries.pictures.fantasy-sci-fi
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thanks for the tip. Looks like a nice newsgroup indeed.
 
Hi Ron,

Unfortunately there is an issue with MeAndMyGall.
Installed on my WinXP Home, the main window rises the CPU usage to 100%.
This 100% decreases only when the dialog boxes to choose the directories are
open. Coming back to the main window, the CPU is 100% again.

Maybe isn't it fully compatible with XP?

Cheers,
 
Hi Maria,

MLC said:
Hi Ron,

Unfortunately there is an issue with MeAndMyGall.
Installed on my WinXP Home, the main window rises the CPU usage to 100%.
This 100% decreases only when the dialog boxes to choose the directories
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are
Oops, your right. Forgot to disable the idle processing. However it only
does that when there is nothing else to do, so it shouldn't slow down other
things.

However I fixed it. It now goes back to zero when there is nothing to do.
(If installing a new version first deinstall the old one).
open. Coming back to the main window, the CPU is 100% again.

Maybe isn't it fully compatible with XP?

Cheers,
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Thanks for the bug report.

Regards, Ron AF Greve.
 
Hi _Moonlit_,
However I fixed it. It now goes back to zero when there is nothing to do.
(If installing a new version first deinstall the old one).
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The new version is already downloadable? If so, you're fast!

Two other questions:

+ I saw that during the install something was added/changed to
windows\system32, something correlated with "runonce" and a file ending in
-o (I'm sorry I can't be more precise). What is it?

+ The install file was a resource hog (CPU 100% always) and IIRC didn't
close well: the progress bar was still halfway when the installation was
finished. Could you fix also it?

Thanks,
 
Hi,

MLC said:
Hi _Moonlit_,


The new version is already downloadable? If so, you're fast!
Yes, it shows 1.01.
Two other questions:

+ I saw that during the install something was added/changed to
windows\system32, something correlated with "runonce" and a file ending in
-o (I'm sorry I can't be more precise). What is it?
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I don't think it uses the runonce registry entry. Although I am not 100%
sure. Partially it uses the windows setup api. I checked my registry and
didn't find any entries in it. However I am still curious why you thought
that.

It does however add registry entries. First for the windows dll's it
installs like the Visual C++ library and the MFC library. It hands those to
the setup api which should increase the reference count for those DLL's
(though microsoft's recommend never to deinstall the msvcrt.dll Normally
when the reference count decreases to zero, during deinstall, windows would
say something like 'windows detected this dll is no longer in use by any
program would you like to deinstall?").

Secondly for all the fields in the interface, so you don't have to setup
everything again when you exit the program.

Third, it adds an entry so you can type MeAndMyGall in de "run..." combobox
and windows will find it.

Fourth, it will add an entry for the Add/Remove programs applet. So clicking
on the entry will start my setup program again which will remove everything
it installed.

BTW you can look in the programs directory, there should be a file
MeAndMyGall.inf. Used during installation/deinstallation. It shows you most
of the things happening during install.


+ The install file was a resource hog (CPU 100% always)
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You're right it has the same problem. I didn't yet fix that though, but
since it only runs once. I will fix it in a future version though (see
below).

and IIRC didn't
close well: the progress bar was still halfway when the installation was
finished. Could you fix also it?
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I will fix it, but not in this version, the problem is I use the same
installer for all my programs. Currently in a way that the installer itself
doesn't really know how far installation is. But I could at the end of
course set the slider to max. However it also would make me compile and
repackage and then test all the programs. But I certainly add it my todo
list.
Thanks,
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Thank you for taking the time to report the bugs, so I can improve the
program.
 
unfortunately, I've recently read several reports indicating that
that kind of encoding is no longer useful, as the harvesterbots now
unencode it. I'm sorry I didn't save the links. If it's true, I
guess JavaScript is the only way to do it, with a clear way for people
using browsers without js support to get the addy. For the js part,
there are lots of scripts available out there. Here's one that uses
10-bit RSA encryption, of all things.

<http://www.jracademy.com/~jtucek/email/download.php>
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Fiddling araound, I did come up with one visible text solution that is
likely to confound the email harvesters.

SPAN STYLE="float:right" - you can break the address up into several
spans, and enter them in reverse order - each part then slides up to
the LEFT of the one before it (drawback, places at the right of the
containing element) - you could also take a leaf out of the spammers
(un-sub-scribe) book, and fragment it (forward, this time) with
multiple HTML tags and invisible 0px text.

Alernatively, the old method is a fragmented javascript, with text as
image - tough luck if you have neither script nor images enabled!
 
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