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(...) IIRC, there are actually 2 layers of the always-on-top property for windows in Win32 -- one which is local to the application and one in which the application itself is entirely above other applications. (I think one of these is in the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) I know it's doable in NS because I've seen it done to me by certain obnoxious sites that I had the misfortune to visit. I don't know how, though. (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Oya, definitely. It's partly a prototype and experiment at simpler presentation. Here's a mock-up screenshot, for example, which Suzanne made earlier this year: (URL) she's away at ToyFair in NYC this week I'll be alternating between final (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) I don't know of any way, no, but in a former life I used to do lots of Win32 GUI programming, so I'm going to bet that it's possible that there's a tool out there somewhere (something akin to WinSpy++) that would let a user choose a window and (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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To me, and to many other Model Railroaders, a train set by definition has to have a locomotive and at least one car. Track and powerpack are optional. That's a canonical MR definition. Most sets DO come with track and or a power pack but don't have (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Great! Thanks for this! Questions: - Do you know how to make the window stay on top under MS Windows? This would be most useful so that whenever I want the window is there. - Do you know how to add a set number typein to the system tray under (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) a more full sized browser window open, and I like the larger pictures). I do like the arrangement of the data better than the Pause DB. Have you considered changing Pause to list the data across the top in a similar format (or at least have an (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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If you find that you are spending a lot of time looking up sets by name or number -- fiddling with URLs, bookmarks, search boxes, etc. -- then here's a little (and I mean little!) utility which might help save you time. It's tentatively called (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Yeah... (...) Well, I'd say try to stay under 200KB and under ~600x600 pixels, and avoid progressive JPEGs[1]. Other than than, not much to worry about. I'll be putting in some scaling stuff to make medium-sized images so that the huge ones (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Ok, thanks for fixing the incoming thing. Dan and I hope to start sending bunchs of "scans" (they're not really scans, their pictures, but i can't tell the difference, i hope you can't :) ) anyway... do you compare ones that we send to the existing (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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