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Finished Programs / SOLVED: Run commands on computer remotely via email

« on: January 05, 2010, 12:04 PM »

Here's an idea someone might like to try.

Picture a small POP email checker (maybe IMAP), that will look for a specific sender (your mobile maybe) and will execute predefined commands depending on the subject of the email. You could even have it check the body of the mail for extra parameters.

The app would have a list of aliases that correspond to commands.

Play="C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe"

So an email with
Subject: Play
with a Body of "myplaylist.wpl"

would run "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" "myplaylist.wpl"

Just an example I'm sure some of you could come up with more useful or more geeky examples

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Theme Switcher for Rainmeter

« on: May 02, 2009, 10:56 AM »

Hello Everyone,
 Just a bit of warning but this post may be a little long. Hopefully, this won't take long to code though. I think AHK is perfect for this, so Skrommel could probably do it in a couple hours. He is one of the most talented and prolific AHK coders I've ever seen.

IDEA: The monitoring app Rainmeter stores information on which configs to display, and positioning and other settings for them in rainmeter.ini. What I propose is a program to manage multiple rainmeter.ini files. This would effectively allow you to have multiple setups that you can switch between.

GUI: Dialog that shows a list of available "themes", that you can select. A load button, that will load the selected theme. A save button that will save the current setup as either a new "theme" or overwrite an existing one.

OPERATIONS: Clicking the Save button would open a dialog asking for a name for the theme. Enter name hit OK. The program creates a new subfolder inside the previously created "Themes" folder using the name entered in Save As dialog. It then copies the rainmeter.ini into that folder

Select a theme in the list, (which displays the names of the subfolders inside the Themes folder) hit Load button. The program then copies the current rainmeter.ini into the appropriate folder. (I guess the program would need some flag set when a theme is loaded so that it would know which folder to copy the current ini to when a new theme is loaded.) The program then closes rainmeter.exe. Copies the ini from the selected theme folder to the root Rainmeter folder, overwriting the existing one. Then the program starts rainmeter.exe.

Command line loading of themes would be useful as well. Giving the theme name as an argument to the app, would have it save the current ini to the appropriate folder. Exit Rainmeter. Copy specified theme ini. Restart Rainmeter.


That took a while to describe, but the concept is fairly simple I think. Can anyone help us out with this?

Thanks,
dragonmage


EDIT June 14th 2009: A member of the Rainmeter community has taken on this project. He is writing it in Auto-It. http://rainmeter.net...c.php?f=18&t=374

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General Software Discussion / Help Out An Open Source Project And Show Off Your Skills

« on: April 30, 2009, 05:36 PM »

Hello DCoders!
I am posting this on behalf of the Rainmeter Community


After a long period of dormancy, Rainmeter is under development again. Rainmeter is a highly customizable monitoring app. I'd like to extend an invitation to any C++ coders interested in helping with the core development. The plugin system also allows for third party enhancement of Rainmeter if you aren't interested in becoming a project member, but would still like to help out. We will try to get some credits to anyone who wishes to improve our Rainmeter experience. I know myself and sgtevmckay will donate what we can, and will encourage others to do the same.

There are also ideas for apps that can be used by or with Rainmeter, that could be coded in other languages. Some of them should be easy for the talented folks here. I've already seen a couple of things around here that could be useful to Rainmeter.
Should I make separate posts for those requests or list them here?
   

Thanks for your time reading this, and I hope some of you are interested in participating.