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Screenshot Captor / Fantastic MiniCap but I need to save to clipboard

« on: May 08, 2008, 05:56 AM »

I love MiniCap as it serves 95% of my window capture needs.

However, I would love to be able to put the capture in the clipboard. How hard is it to add?

Cheers 

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Screenshot Captor / Trojan in Screenshot captor???

« on: March 12, 2008, 03:00 AM »

Bad surprise this morning, my MacAfee AV prog detected the following a generic.dx trojan in screenshotcaptor.exe:
3/12/2008   8:51:48 AM   Borttagen       C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\FindAndRunRobot.exe   C:\PROGRAM FILES\SCREENSHOTCAPTOR\SCREENSHOTCAPTOR.EXE   Generic.dx (Trojan)
3/12/2008   8:51:48 AM   Borttagen       C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\FindAndRunRobot.exe   C:\Program Files\ScreenshotCaptor\ScreenshotCaptor.exe\00558514.EXE   Generic.dx (Trojan)

Something to do with the hacking of the site? 

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Windows version of Screen Sieve text search tool

« on: July 14, 2007, 03:15 PM »

I found this cool app for Mac OS X and tried to code it in Autohotkey... Here is the link: http://home.online.n...cts/ScreenSieve.html
It highlights the text you want in any active window as shown in the screen capturebelow:
http://home.online.n...creenSieve-xcode.png
It is a bit too advanced for me so I post the idea.

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General Software Discussion / Expand my desktop size above my maximum screen resolution?

« on: June 17, 2007, 02:44 PM »

Expand my desktop size above my maximum screen resolution?

There are plenty of virtual desktop programs that will give me hundreds of virtual desktops if I want. The problem is that all of them will have a size that is less or equal that the physical size of my LCD screen.
What I need is a virtual desktop that is larger than my LCD screen max resolution (1280x1024). I have been using this feature in Linux/UNIX with Xdesktop, but is there any app for WindowsXP that does the same job?

Cheers, 

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Word Processor Roundup / Missing in Part 2...

« on: May 16, 2007, 08:46 AM »

The testing and review of word processors is a very tedious work. Such reviews are, unfortunately, too few on the web.

I regret not to see in the review of word processors - Part 2 - the excellent Adobe FrameMaker  . This is a rock-stable processor I used to write my research thesis that integrates perfectly with other Adobe tools and very friendly when sending even huge documents to a desktop printer or an industrial press factory 
May be a price tag of about 800USD puts it out of the league of the word processors we heard of?

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Finished Programs / Copy-paste with the right text format

« on: May 10, 2007, 01:16 PM »

Ever had this annoying problem when copy-pasting text? The text you write sometimes looks in the end like a mix of fonts, font size, etc...
Something like : "Show recent posts (full text display). Show recent topics."
You have then to select everything and select your font, font size, etc... 

I have coded an application that cleans your copied text of all format. The text you paste adopts the style of the text already written 
An option permits to remove line-breaks and glues the words that are cut at the end of a line (very useful when copying from a PDF)

This app is coded with Autohotkey and available for download at http://www.autohotke...pboard2PlainText.exe
Right click the tray icon for options.

Ask if you want the original script.

Enjoy! 

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Finished Programs / RobocopyScripter

« on: November 16, 2006, 04:12 AM »

I have the following problem:
I have large files located in different directories that I want to copy/move to other directory/directories.
Today, i have to copy/move the files in the following sequential manner:
1a) Goto Dir1
1b) copy/cut file1
1c) Goto Dir2
1d) Paste file1
1e) WAIT UNTIL THE TRANSFER IS FINISHED 

2a) Goto Dir3
2b) copy/cut file2
2c) Goto Dir4
2d) Paste file2
2e) WAIT UNTIL THE TRANSFER IS FINISHED   

etc...

I think you understand the frustration of waiting for each transfer to be finished to proceed to the next copy/move.

Now I have coded in AutoHotKey an application that takes care of the tedious task above.

This proggy requires robocopy.exe to be located in the script directory or your system common path. Robocopy.exe is part of the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools that can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=9D467A69-57FF-4AE7-96EE-B18C4790CFFD
Robocopy is a very robust replacement for copy.exe. It has retries, bandwidth allocation routines and much more... and is designed for internet server operations from a DOS shell.

Use:

Drag and drop your dir+files in the list window

The clipboard monitoring options are really useful if you use XYPlorer as file browser:
-use Ctrl+P to send to the clipboard your selected dir + file paths (source monitoring). The whole list will be imported in the file/dir list
-use Ctrl+P to send to the clipboard your actual directory (target folder)

The tray icon proposes several options:
-always on top on/off
-exit when finished
-silent mode

May be I should add shutdown when finished? 

The compiled script is located at http://www.autohotkey.net/~noutters/RoboCopyScripter.exe

Cheers, 

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Finished Programs / Advanced GUI for UPX

« on: November 16, 2006, 03:22 AM »

I decided it was time to code a GUI for UPX (Ultimate Packer for eXecutables, http://upx.sourceforge.net/) when I wanted to compress all possible resources on my USB thumbdrive. I am lazy and did not want to recursively compress by hand the files in the directories of the drive 

1. Drop files and directories in the list window. Directories and their sub-directories are searched recursively for files that match the filter.
-> Cool feature: each file is tested for compression when the list is built and uncompressed resources only are checked. This gives the user a good overview of the state of the resources.

2. Compression/Decompression. All options of UPX 2.01 are available. Checking the radio control of decompress checks the compressed resources in the list and uncheck (of course) the non-compressed resources

3. Processing:
-> Cool feature: The status bar shows the progression of the gain of storage space on your drive as the list is processed. Same with decompression, when the gain turns into a loss.
-> Since the UPX process is completely hidden, the status bar indicates if UPX is active or not.

The source is posted at http://autohotkey.net/~noutters/UPX_GUI.ahk

Cheers!   

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Best File/Folder Compare Tool / Araxis Merge is still my favorite

« on: June 05, 2006, 02:49 PM »

One of the best file and folder compare tools that I've found is Araxis Merge.
I've been using it for more than 5 years but still check regularly for competitors. I can not find one, both for file compare or folder compare/synchro.
Everything is visually very intuitive and well thought. 

Give it a shot at http://www.araxis.com/merge/index.html

File compare:


Folder compare:

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Skrommel's Software / DelEmpty: request of 2 new features

« on: May 03, 2006, 12:56 AM »

DelEmpty is a nice program that I primarily use to clean the remaining paths of my Start menu after uninstalling applications.

That's why I would like to see in DelEmpty

1) A history of the directory roots I have been selecting

2) When multiple lines in the search result window are selecetd, clicking on one of the check-box acts on all the check-boxes of the selected lines.

Well done Skrommel!

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Find And Run Robot / Mouser's codes are so good that I donated!!!

« on: March 18, 2006, 07:19 AM »

FARR and Process Tamer are so useful to me that I just donated to DonationCoder.com 

Do the same and support the developers 
It is a small amount of money compared to the value you get with these codes.

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Find And Run Robot / Feature request: automatic shortcut generator

« on: March 18, 2006, 03:07 AM »

My FARR searches in the folders that contains .lnk files. Searching for .exe in the /Program Files structure is too slow.
That's why I came to this idea: a program that scans a partition and creates .lnk files in a given directory for all .exe (or else) found in the partition.

The workflow would be:
1) define a target directory for the .lnk files (for example /all_shotcuts)
2) define a type of file (*.exe for example)
3) select yes/no if you want to create a directory sub-structure like the one existing on the partition (like /all_shortcut/windows/system32 etc...)(this is usefule to filter out irrelevent .lnk files)
4) scan the partition (C. for example). The program should be able to detect duplicates.
5) go through the .lnk files and delete what is not relevant
6 )In FARR, use the dir /all_shotcuts and its sub-dirs in the search folders

Mouser, this could be useful for your new Launcher program too. 

Cheers,

Nils

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Find And Run Robot / Feature request: text background color by frequency of launch

« on: March 17, 2006, 08:48 AM »

Thanks for developing FAR. I can't use a PC without it anymore.

I have an idea to improve the GUI and help to eye focus on the right row of the search results.

Why not color the text backgroud in the main window by the frequency of launch of the programs?

Example:
A program that I launch frequently will have a background of solid red.
Less frequent programs will have different shades of red (from 255,0,0 (red) to 255,255,255 (white)) according to their frequency.

I have produced a picture of it but could not figure out how to display it here 

The user should be able to define in the Preferences the ends of the frequency color scale.

Cheers