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If you use a touch-enabled display on Windows, you might have noticed a certain quirk: when you tap on the touchscreen, Windows might move your cursor to touch location, but will not put it back afterwards, which is an inconvenience if it's a smaller secondary display that you use for macros/etc. or even if you are using mouse/touch interchangeably.
So I wrote an AutoHotKey macro that fixes this.
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With sufficiently poor luck you might have already noticed The New Thing in the latest Discord update: Home/End keys now navigate to the start/end of the current paragraph instead of a line.
This is a tiny post about fixing that.
Continue readingIf you try to run a game compiled in GameMaker≥2024.11 on Windows 7, you'll be met with the following error message:
![An error message reads [originally in Spanish]: The procedure entry point MFCreateDXGIDeviceManager could not be located in the dynamic link library MFPlat.dll](/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/mfplat_error.png)
Or, in English,
The procedure entry point MFCreateDXGIDeviceManager could not be located in the dynamic link library MFPlat.dll.And that is an inconvenience, but it is a fixable one. Continue reading
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Featuring more tricks that you probably haven't heard about, and not just for old GameMaker versions!
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This is a small post about how to use electron.desktopCapturer to capture a screenshot
in the new realities of main/renderer process separation.
I wrote a bunch of PRNGs for GameMaker!
This is a large-ish post about what these are, how they work, when you might want to use them, and performance comparisons.
Continue readingGood for placing objects around a grid cell! Like this:
(click to interact)Click/tap to select point
You give the function a grid XY and it tells you where the next point should be to have it go in a spiral.
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into this:
(click to interact)Click/drag to adjust %
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Default appearance and after tweaking
Lately I've been setting up some software in Steam Deck's desktop mode and I couldn't help but to notice that some applications (like Vivaldi or Obsidian) don't quite fit with the rest of the windows.
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