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Archive for August 17th, 2013

shorter version of batch file: getting directory and parent directory

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/17

Two years ago, I posted a batch file that gets the parent directory of the batch file that runs.

It was convoluted, using substrings and intermediate environment variables so you needed setlocal.

This one does not any more: for both the directory of the batch file, and the parent directory of that directory, one-liners suffice:


echo batchfile=%0
echo full=%~f0
setlocal
for %%d in (%~dp0.) do set Directory=%%~fd
echo Directory=%Directory%
for %%d in (%~dp0..) do set ParentDirectory=%%~fd
echo ParentDirectory=%ParentDirectory%
endlocal

view raw

ShowParentDirectory.bat

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–jeroen

via: batch files: getting directory and parent directory « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.

Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Scripting, Software Development | Tagged: , , , | 1 Comment »

Paint.NET v3.5.11 is now available (via: Paint.NET Blog)

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/17

Programmers scale: time versus project completeness

Programmers scale: time versus project completeness

I totally agree that Paint.NET is the best free image and photo editor on Windows.

Writing quality software takes time, not only when writing it in spare time like Rick Brewster does. Getting things “right” is a tedious process and often will set you back: just watch the graph on the right.

So I’m not surprised that it took a very long time after the first Paint.NET 4.0 idea in 2008 to get “close” to a release.

And indeed, it looks like Rick has become much closer which will please many people waiting for Paint .NET 4.

I’m really glad with the announcement that Paint.NET v3.5.11 BETA is now available – Paint.NET Discussion & Questions – Paint.NET Forum.

Edit: while writing this, the final Paint.NET v3.5.11 came out.

It paves the way for Paint .NET 4.0 update in the future, and fixes/improves quite a few things.

A few quotes from it:

This is probably not the update you were expecting I need to push out an update to v3.5 in preparation for the eventual release of v4.0 […] releasing a “beta” today […] I’ll be pushing out the Final/RTM in a few days.

The primary goal of this update is preparing for the v4.0 release: v3.5.10 will not be able to offer the v4.0 update, but v3.5.11 will. […]

Here are the changes for this release:

  • Fixed: The Gaussian Blur effect was incorrectly calculating alpha values for non-opaque pixels. (http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/18483-gaussian-blur-mistreats-alpha/)
  • Improved performance of the Sharpen effect by about 25%
  • Improved performance of the Median effect by about 30%
  • Improved performance of the Fragment effect by about 40%
  • Improved performance of the Unfocus effect by about 100%
  • Reduced memory usage when many selection manipulation operations are in the history/undo stack (the undo data is now saved to disk)
  • The built-in updater now supports upgrading to paint.net 4.0 (once it’s available)

There have been rumors floating around that Paint.NET is “dead.” This is not true!

–jeroen

via: Paint.NET Blog | The best free image and photo editor. By Rick Brewster..

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