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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Cusor Wormhole for multi-monitor setup

« on: January 19, 2009, 01:05 AM »

So again I'd like to say thanks to both kwacky1 and skrommel for their effort. I'm extremely happy

-majorspacecase (January 18, 2009, 07:56 PM)

Glad to be of service, thanks for the feedback.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Windows Control

« on: January 18, 2009, 05:25 AM »

Here you go, try RestMax

Edit: Uploaded correct AHK

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Press

« on: January 15, 2009, 09:38 PM »

Here's some of the Crazy places CrazyLittleFingers is getting hits from.

http://shiftdelete.net/pcnizi-cocuklardan-koruyun-7663.html
http://www.haber7.com/haber/20081229/Calismalarinizi-cocugunuzdan-kurtarin.php
http://blog.turkbaron.com/download/bilgisayarinizi-cocuklardan-koruyun/
http://portableturk.com/index.php

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Press

« on: January 15, 2009, 09:33 PM »

ShellCity features NANY2009 apps today: http://shellcity.net/

-TucknDar (January 13, 2009, 12:47 AM)

That's pretty awesome!

-Perry Mowbray (January 13, 2009, 01:15 AM)

heheh... i can't get there via work 

Access to shellcity.net/ has been denied by SurfControl

shellcity.net/ is categorized as: Hacking

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Post New Requests Here / Re: time delay power down

« on: January 15, 2009, 09:26 PM »

Use a scheduled task with the command line

shutdown -s -t 00 -c "sweet dreams"

 

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: CrazyLittleFingers

« on: January 15, 2009, 04:09 AM »

Hi - I'm a new member and this is the first program I have tried.  When I unzip it I get an error when trying to open the application file.  Could I download this file only again?  The media pack unzips OK and I don't think it is necessary to repeat that download.
lindy

-lindy (January 14, 2009, 11:22 PM)

Hi Lindy, welcome to DC, thanks for trying my program, you can download just the exe here.

I've definitely got to get thiis corrupt upload sorted out pronto!

kwacky1

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: CrazyLittleFingers

« on: January 14, 2009, 06:44 AM »

no change here -- still only shows on primary monitor.

-mouser (January 14, 2009, 05:27 AM)

And your remaining monitors are still active?

PhilB66, there's nothing I can do about StickyKeys, it's a lower level keyboard hook than mine and I couldn't find a way to disable the stickykeys hotkey on the fly (ie. without a reboot)

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: CrazyLittleFingers

« on: January 14, 2009, 05:05 AM »

Here you go Mouser and PhilB66, just for you v1.1.2 (attached)

In this version,

• Fixed Dual Screen bug when secondary monitor had higher resolution than primary.
• Now supports up to infinite* monitors ^(*untested)

This was compiled after a glass (or maybe 3 glasses  ) of wine, so let me know if it works for you and then I'll update the website.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: File labeling tool

« on: January 13, 2009, 10:32 PM »

Do I understand correctly that column 1 contains the current filename and column 2 contains the desired file name?

Can you export the file to csv?
ie. oldfilename,newfilename

Does your spreadsheet contain full path names or would the program need to search for the files?

I have attached a basic script that assumes the following

• the files to be renamed have the full path specified or are in the current directory
• the list of files is in csv format with only 2 columns

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: CrazyLittleFingers

« on: January 13, 2009, 07:14 PM »

i have 4 monitors by the way -- and the full screen images and sounds are very nice.  might be nice to blank all the screens though.

-mouser (January 13, 2009, 06:16 AM)

v1.1.2 will be able to do that

I was considering for the next major release to actually utilise all available monitors, do you think that'd be a worthwhile feature?

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: CrazyLittleFingers

« on: January 13, 2009, 07:03 PM »

I love your program very much, but unfortunately she loves it more and is apparently more passionate about it ... To the point where she has somehow figured out how to get the computer to shutdown, go into sleep/hibernate mode, or something ... I'm still not sure what she manages to do, but she just goes crazy on the keyboard watching the pictures change, and then suddenly the monitor throws up a No Signal and turns off, yet the computer is still running, and nothing short of a cold reboot seems to bring it back... Any ideas what she's doing and how to turn it off/prevent it/fix it?? I love letting her go crazy with it, but my computer also streams to my TV, and it's not possible to watch TV when she keeps resetting it... She also gets very upset when it turns off lol, she absolutely loves it!

-DizZa (January 13, 2009, 01:51 PM)

Awesome, great to hear it.  There's one button that I couldn't capture and if you have a keyboard similar to mine, you'll have Power or Sleep button that allows you to shutdown the computer.

Easy Fix, go to Control Panel - Power Options (assuming XP)
And make sure the appropriate option is set to "Do Nothing"

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: CrazyLittleFingers

« on: January 11, 2009, 11:56 PM »

Pushing the SHIFT key 5 times turns on the Sticky Keys Feature Dialog Box. Also, right clicking on the secondary monitor activates the taskbar on the primary one. Other than that, it seems to work great  .

-PhilB66 (January 11, 2009, 06:42 AM)

I haven't looked into disabled the accessiblity keys while the program is running, there's probably a reg key I can hit or something.

You shouldn't be able to right click on the secondary monitor, but I found a bug in my code (who would've thought)
The GUI is meant to be The width of Desktop 1 + Desktop 2 (eg 1280+1280 = 2560, or 1280+800 = 2080), however there was a typo and the current version is adding up the width of Desktop 2 + Desktop 2, so that's ok if you've got the same res on both monitors, but in my second example the GUI would only be 1600 wide and not cover the entire second monitor.

Thanks for your thorough testing PhilB66, v1.1.2 should be available in a couple of days.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: CrazyLittleFingers

« on: January 11, 2009, 05:57 AM »

(ps only shows on my main monitor, others are left alone).

-mouser (January 11, 2009, 05:43 AM)

Hi Mouser, that's by design, btw, how many monitors do you have 

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: CrazyLittleFingers

« on: January 11, 2009, 04:25 AM »

Still unable to extract.

-PhilB66 (January 10, 2009, 11:53 PM)

Just for your PhilB66, CrazyLittleFingers.7z

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: CrazyLittleFingers

« on: January 10, 2009, 10:42 PM »

When I try to unzip crazylittlefingers.zip, it asks me for a password, which I don't see referenced anywhere here. Am I missing something?

-dhc02 (January 10, 2009, 11:01 AM)

Hi dhc02, there's a good chance you were downloading while I was uploading the 1.1 release (my internet was very slooooow last night), please try again and let me know how you go.

in fact i have been getting bad zip for a while now.. come on kwacky!  maybe back a small zip version, and then an addon pack for those who have magic powers and can download it without corruptio.

-mouser (January 10, 2009, 11:08 AM)

how about I archive it to floppies and mail it to you 

Downloaded and extracted CrazyLittleFingers.zip with UniversalExtractor. Here's the error that I get for CrazyLittleFingers.exe:

-PhilB66 (January 10, 2009, 11:27 AM)

I think you might need to download it again too.

From now on I'll upload into a sub-directory instead of overwriting the live file 

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: CrazyLittleFingers

« on: January 10, 2009, 08:53 AM »

  CrazyLittleFingers v1.1.1 - Minor Update 

Cross your fingers, I may have resolved the squashed image problem.

If you're still getting squashed images, please have a look at %temp%\CrazyLittleFingers.log and tell me a story.

Also in this release:

• Fixed the system beeps
• Added some new sounds (thanks App)
• enabled the Space bar!

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: CrazyLittleFingers

« on: January 10, 2009, 04:49 AM »

Still squished in Vista... looking forward to a version that works with Vista (so's my 18 month old)

hmm, I won't have access to a vista machine for a few days, might have to turn on some logging.

Hi.
I have the same problem with the squished images, but I have XP! (pro, sp3).
The only Vista-like thing I have is QTTabbar and QTAddressbar - windows explorer addons.
Other things I have speculated about causing this is Picasa 3 and XnView Shell Extension.
And other things running on my system is flashnote, launchy, avg, comodo, mediadetect, rbtray and stickies.
I hope it is resolved - have at two-year old who is crazy about this keyboard. 

-SvartaUdden (January 09, 2009, 10:52 AM)

Now that is strange, because I'm using xp sp3, i also have picasa3, but none of the rest.

thanks for the feedback, I'll see what I can do.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: CrazyLittleFingers

« on: January 09, 2009, 08:15 AM »

Well a promise is a promise, here's CrazyLittleFingers v1.1 

Added Features

Support For Dual Screen Displays

• Images displayed on Primary monitor
• Secondary monitor darkened and inaccessible via mouse

Can someone with Vista please test to see if the 'squashed' image problem is resolved.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: CrazyLittleFingers

« on: January 08, 2009, 07:47 AM »

Ok, I've tested on Vista and I can see what you're talking about.

I'm currently on the road, so I won't get a chance to do any coding until the weekend, so I'll try to get an updated version out on Monday that will include Multiple Display Support and (hopefully) Vista support.

App, Thanks for the link, I used http://www.freesound.org/ for all the sounds in CLF.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: CrazyLittleFingers

« on: January 08, 2009, 07:24 AM »

unbelievable, i did not expect this in the slightest.. I entered NANY 2009 because I thought it would motivate me to finish (well start actually) a project that I'd been contemplating for 6 months or more!

My website is serving 15gb per day!

Check out these stats!

Date	Page Requests
Jan 1	275
Jan 2	39
Jan 3	85
Jan 4	47
Jan 5	90
Jan 6 (Lifehacker)	3428
Jan 7	1834

Boy, I've sure got my work cut out for me now!

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: CrazyLittleFingers

« on: January 06, 2009, 07:21 AM »

Unless I miss something, dual monitor are not really supported.
At least for me (win XP Pro x64), the second monitor is usabled with the mouse .. and thus it is possible to do bad things with the mouse.
Except this, this is really a useful tool.

-jocelyn (January 05, 2009, 03:52 AM)

Hi Jocelyn,

Thanks for the feedback, Multi Monitor support definitely in the pipeline.
Glad to hear it works on x64

kwacky1

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: I Don't Want To Be Homeless

« on: January 03, 2009, 04:42 AM »

Can you fix this bug too  .. i chose sign up, entered my username and desired password, clicked the magic button and kaboom.. sorry

-kwacky1 (January 02, 2009, 04:58 AM)

scrod! I'll take a look at this today.

Thanks,

theo

-theo geer (January 02, 2009, 08:29 AM)

This is fixed. You should be able to log in with the username and password you set up. The registration was successful, the error happened after redirecting back to the home page.

-theo geer (January 02, 2009, 04:41 PM)

ta!

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Wrap Up

« on: January 02, 2009, 07:59 AM »

Thanks from me too Perry


(mouser, theses smilies scare me)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« on: January 02, 2009, 07:55 AM »

kwacky1: I think that constantly setting windows to be ontop would potentially take too much processor time, and only help a few programs.

-jgpaiva (January 02, 2009, 07:41 AM)

jgpaiva, my thoughts exactly, not worth it.  I think mojo-chan has taken the right angle, poorly written software should be punished.   

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« on: January 02, 2009, 07:20 AM »

I found a bug

When you make a window "on top", it does stay on top at first. However, when certain things happen to it, it looses the "on top" attribute.

-mojo-chan (January 01, 2009, 07:05 PM)

It's not really a bug, it's just the window you're interacting with contains it's own code to reset the ontop flag when the gui gets redrawn for whatever reason.

I can replicate this quite easily with remote desktop (mstsc) session window

• log into a remote computer with mstsc
• position window, set ontop attribute
• click on remote desktop window, click on other window, watch remote desktop window sink to the bottom

the only solution, i feel, would be to continuously check 'ontop' windows and reset if required.