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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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| | what makes a train set a set?
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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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| | Re: more scan questions
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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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| | Re: scans?
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(...) D'oops...! OK, it should work now. --Todd (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) ok, but, um.... when I try to cd to incoming I get no such directory? I'm logged in as anonymous... what am I doing wrong? I tried it from netscape too, same thing. (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Simplest thing is to FTP a tarball of JPEGs to: ftp://ftp.lugnet.com/incoming/ If the filenames are organized by set number, that helps immensely. --Todd (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Dan and I have a tons of scans (not catalog scans) of sets to replace some of the pause pictures. should we post a url of where they can be found, or should i attach them to notes? or should I ftp them somewhere? Please let me know... thanks! (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Pause clarification (?) -7171 Mos Espa Podrace
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:Fp9zEM.8uo@lugnet.com... (...) set? (...) and (...) Hide them under a hinged panel for a "power source" (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Oops, my bad. Must've confused the single instruction booklet that came in the separate Anakin's Podracer set. Text there now says: "Contains three boxed sub-sets each numbered 7171, sharing a single building instruction booklet, also numbered (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Euro M&M promo set(s) - One sighted on ebay
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I got two complete sets of these (all I could carry) when I was in Sydney (Oz) with work last year. I got them at 40% of the RRP as the sweets were out of date. A few months later I took the sweets out of one set of the packs to mail the Lego to a (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | new set confirmed - 9754
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I found a small german catalog with picture and set number of a new Star Wars Mindstorms Set released September 2000 in Germany. Set number and picture are officially confirmed now. I do have scans, but I actually have no idea what to do to complete (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Belville 5875 has alternate set with book in french?
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(...) Unfortunately, I don't have 5875 to compare it to but I will certainly do my best to describe the set once I get it... -- Larry Pieniazek - larryp@novera.com - (URL) Mercator, the e-business transformation company fund Lugnet(tm): (URL) ref: (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.belville)
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| | Re: Belville 5875 has alternate set with book in french?
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Larry P wrote, in lugnet.admin.database: (...) I asked about this in lugnet.belville but got no responses. There is a picture of the set at the Entertainer, (URL) you can see the book peeking through a window in the box. Please let us know whether (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.belville)
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