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Post New Requests Here / Re: ”run and hide” function for MS Office shortcut bar

« on: May 19, 2010, 01:49 PM »

OK, I'll bite. Which "nifty run-and-hide macro" ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: HowTo repair/replace tcpip.sys ?

« on: May 19, 2010, 11:52 AM »

Well, today I was changing the settings inside AnVir Task Manager Pro, and the following words that I never read or understood before  suddenly made new sense to me:
 (see attachment in previous post)
This will explain why Outpost was able to cause problems; it was checking all traffic and each and every homepage I was visiting. AnVir knew all along that such a feature can cause errors!

-Curt (May 19, 2010, 11:31 AM)

Wow. Thanks for the update.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: small prog to hide desktop icons

« on: May 18, 2010, 07:53 PM »

Don't know why, but in compiled version on my system, if I right click on the system tray icon and click settings, it looks like it tries to create HideDesktop.ini in C:\Windows\System32. (See screenshot attached.) The ahk version doesn't do this and brings up the .ini file correctly in Notepad, and in the same folder as the .exe. I have the .exe in a subfolder of C:\Tools and I am running Windows 7 64 bit.

Anyway it is very useful to hide desktop icons to make it easy to show off the Windows background (are we still allowed to call it wallpaper?)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR crashes after installing AltTab plugin

« on: May 18, 2010, 03:17 PM »

For me, and I am also using Windows 7 x64, FARR doesn't crash but it tries to access the A: drive for some reason. It was giving an error which I didn't write down, just now I tried it and I no longer seem to get the error, but I can hear the diskette drive grunting as soon as I hit that space after typing in "tab".

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Living Room / Re: Google Search

« on: May 18, 2010, 10:25 AM »

You can do a Case Sensitive Google Search here. It's kind of surprising to me as well that Google doesn't offer it, since Altavista used to have a case sensitive search back in the Netscape 2 / Windows 3.1 / Trumpet Winsock era. I think regular expression searches were common back then even. Of course the web was smaller then, but still--

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: LaserTask (until I can think of a better name)

« on: May 18, 2010, 09:20 AM »

For the name, I am now leaning strongly toward TaskDaddy. Any other suggestions are welcome.

I'm feeling much better about the command line parsing now, and I am rewriting it. There's a nice AutoIt include called _OptParse. The latest version of this is somewhat hard to find (if like me you search for these things in the AutoIt forums).  I happened to click "Some of my scripts in Google Code" in eltorro's signature in the AutoIt3 forums. This version is about 2 years newer than the version he posted in that thread. It keeps the non-option arguments as well. Not everyone will use the command line options, but I wanted to get them right. I'm well on my way, thanks to _OptParse.

The meat of the Outlook processing is in wooltown's Outlook functions. They saved me a lot of work. There seems to be a bug in the error checking. It seems to always return an error even though the task gets created in Outlook. I may try to fix it, but for now, I've disabled that error check.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 :: Entry Ideas

« on: May 17, 2010, 02:33 PM »

@mouser:
Off topic, but are you going to call it Card and Board Robot?  

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Skrommel's Software / Re: Skrommel Apps Re-uploaded!

« on: May 15, 2010, 07:22 PM »

 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Compare 2 files and list differences...

« on: May 15, 2010, 07:11 PM »

Take a look at CSDiff. I found it pretty unique among freeware in that you can compare folders, then drill down to compare files. Also instead of showing the files side by side, you can choose to show it as the old file marked up, in a style similar to Microsoft Word, to show the changes required to create the new file.

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Living Room / Re: The Psychology of the Sale

« on: May 15, 2010, 11:40 AM »

It has been said that Prostitution is the Oldest Profession.
In disagreement, I proport that Advertising is the Oldest.

My evidence is the fact that even Prostitutes had to Advertise!

-parkint (May 14, 2010, 11:35 PM)

i hope this doesn't turn into another chicken or egg debate.. but i disagree that advertising is older because logically a profession had to exist before being to able to advertise.

-lanux128 (May 15, 2010, 01:10 AM)

Stock analysis is the oldest profession, because the serpent convinced Adam and Eve to buy stock in apple.

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Circle Dock / Re: Greetings and a Tablet PC question. :)

« on: May 15, 2010, 08:46 AM »

So to use Circle Dock within applications, not just to launch them?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help me with MS Word styles

« on: May 14, 2010, 05:01 PM »

I found the following code, and it works for the table of contents.  I don't know if it works fro all fields of all type, but it works for the TOC, so I'm happy for now:

Code: Visual Basic [Select]

1. Sub UpdateAllTOCs()
2. For Each toc In ActiveDocument.TablesOfContents
3. toc.Update
4. Next toc
5. End Sub

-superboyac (May 14, 2010, 03:42 PM)

Good for you. I actually gave it a shot and I couldn't get anything to work including this code which is supposed to work according to the help file. I hate VBA.

Code: Visual Basic [Select]

1. ActiveDocument.Fields.Update

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General Software Discussion / Re: HowTo repair/replace tcpip.sys ?

« on: May 14, 2010, 07:02 AM »

I am using Outpost Security Suite.

-Curt (May 01, 2010, 04:46 PM)

Is this the common factor in all your problems?

Seriously, I'm wondering if there was something else you were going to say because this statement seems to stand alone and I'm too dense to understand how it relates to this issue. Did Outpost give you any additional information regarding tcpip.sys?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Universal Extractor

« on: May 14, 2010, 06:58 AM »

It really is quite difficult for me to install this Universal Extractor, because Outpost Security Suite will at once quarantine several parts of it, as being malware.

-Curt (May 14, 2010, 03:29 AM)

False positives are to be expected to some extent in any antivirus, but if it is flat out quarantining it, that seems crazy. It would bad enough if it were merely one of those so called antivirus programs that mindlessly flagged it as suspicious because of UPX compression.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: LaserTask (until I can think of a better name)

« on: May 14, 2010, 06:39 AM »

Thanks, Perry.

My first teaser screen shot (EDITED: moved to Post #1)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Universal Extractor

« on: May 14, 2010, 06:27 AM »

It integrates into Windows Explorer very nicely out of the box. In fact, that's usually the only way I run it. I guess I should feel lucky I use the built in file manager  . Or perhaps that I have simple needs.

Off topic, but do you recognize the background picture? (Personally I think the car entered the the building from the outside. Can you say, government coverup?   )

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« on: May 14, 2010, 05:02 AM »

And recently, messing around with an Autoit3 script in SCite, I was struck by how much easier the proportional fonts are to read than the monospaced ones are at similar sizes (trying both Consolas and Dina).

-daddydave (May 12, 2010, 04:07 PM)

One thing I noticed about the SciTEforAutoit3 defaults is that they use an awful lot of boldface and italic. Turned all that off, and Dina looks 100% better and I think I'll stick with it for a while.

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Living Room / Re: How to uninstall driver in Windows XP command line safe mode?

« on: May 13, 2010, 04:20 PM »

unless[/i] you have a friend in IT that can re-ghost a machine

-40hz (May 13, 2010, 04:05 PM)

Maybe that's what he was trying to avoid.

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Living Room / Re: How to uninstall driver in Windows XP command line safe mode?

« on: May 13, 2010, 11:33 AM »

Apparently, this fixes my problem 9and it did!):
http://www.dougknox....esc/fix_xp_logon.htm

I'm always amazed by all the stuff available on the internet for fixing problems like this.  I need to learn to stop fiddling around with my company's computers.  One day, I'm going to get myself in deep doo doo.

-superboyac (May 13, 2010, 11:13 AM)

And I'm amazed that worked. Fixes the GINA value? There must be no such thing, I would have heard of it, lol. Doug has a nice site there, I'll check it out.

Found some information about it. If you follow the URLs to Microsoft KB's on the issue, it says that some programs by Symantec and Cisco do something very virus-like (to me) and overwrite Windows files:

http://bfarber.com/I...in-Screen-t6923.html

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / NANY 2011 Release: TaskDaddy Release

« on: May 13, 2010, 09:53 AM »

NANY 2011 Entry Information

Application Name	TaskDaddy
Version	Release
Short Description	TaskDaddy takes a single line of input from you and turns it into an Outlook task without having to open the full interface of Outlook. It's intended to be a quick way to input tasks. It is inspired by Bob Menke's Add Task script, written in VBScript. TaskDaddy, however, is written in AutoIt3. It works as both a GUI and a command line tool.
Supported OSes	Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or 7 (32 or 64bit)
Web Page	https://github.com/daddydave/taskdaddy
Download Link	July 29, 2021 Release (yes, almost 10 years later. Not a typo!): TaskDaddy.2021.07.29.zip (617.3 kB - downloaded 129 times.)
System Requirements	Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, or 7 (32 or 64bit) Microsoft Outlook 2007 or 2010. Outlook Express doesn't use the Outlook object model and will not work.
Version History	July 21, 2021 TaskDaddy.2021.07.29.zip (617.3 kB - downloaded 129 times.) Removed dependencies on _OptParse.au3 or Outlook.au3, and as a result, it can be compiled again. Source code moved to https://github.com/daddydave/taskdaddy September 19, 2010 Pre Release: Fixed label wrapping bug. Fixed duplicate GUI window bug. "Skip" and "Cancel All" buttons added to the GUI window when confirming individual tasks in file input (using /f and /p). Blank lines now ignored when using file input. Help file completely reorganized and rewritten, some of the changes include (1) the command line interface de-emphasized; (2) removal of screenshots with old name LaserTask, including the examples of command line use within shortcuts; and (3) removal of version number from help file. June 26, 2010 Pre Pre Pre Alpha:  Changed UI font from "Segoe UI" to the OS default GUI font (Segoe UI or Tahoma, as needed). Segoe UI is included in Office 2007, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. This is the only difference between this and the June 24 release June 24, 2010 Pre Pre Pre Alpha:
Author	daddydave

Description
TaskDaddy takes a single line of input from you and turns it into an Outlook task without having to open the full interface of Outlook. It's intended to be a quick way to input tasks into Outlook. It can be used by anyone who wants to put tasks into Outlook, but power users may want to take advantage of the command line interface which allows input of tasks from the command line. Potential applications of the command line interface are Windows shortcuts, Task Scheduler, adding tasks from FARR or Launchy, etc.

Features
You can create Outlook tasks from a compact GUI, from the command line, or from an input file.

Planned Features
The interface for the combined use of the -p and -f options could use some work. For example, Skip and Cancel buttons and a progress indicator would be nice.
At some point I want to put in a merge option so that you can have a list of "things" instead of a list of tasks, and a user specified template is used to convert those things to tasks. I'm still thinking about the syntax.

Screenshots
See under the Using the Application section.

Usage
Installation
For now: Unzip the .exe and the .chm file to the same folder. Make sure that subfolder is not a subdirectory of %ProgramFiles% or %ProgramFiles(x86)% in case it needs an .ini file at some point in its evolution. Although by that time, hopefully I have an installer.

Using the Application

Please excuse for now the fact that the screenshots reflect the old name LaserTask.

TaskDaddy has both a graphical user interface (GUI) and a command line interface. If you launch TaskDaddy by double clicking on the executable file or a simple shortcut, you will get the GUI interface.



By pressing Enter, you instruct TaskDaddy to create an Outlook task called "Call cellphone company" in the @Calls category, with "call from landline" in the body of the task.

You can also use a similar syntax on the command line. It is recommended to put the task description in double quotation marks, unless the actual task contains double quotation marks:

taskdaddy "@@Calls Call cellphone company :call from land line #1/1/2010"

Here I have added a due date of 1/1/2010 using the # character. TaskDaddy should respect the shortdate syntax of your region.

Another way to use the command line interface is by adding the task syntax to a Windows shortcut target.



From the command line, you can also use a kind of file input interface. Suppose you have a file with a list of tasks in it:

@@Errand Pick up birthday cake
@@Errand Pick up balloon kit
@@Home Blow up balloons


If the list of tasks is saved in a file called tasklist.txt, the syntax

taskdaddy -f tasklist.txt


can be used to add all three tasks at once.

Of course, all the command line options can be used in Windows shortcuts as well, as shown below.



To pause or prompt before creating a task, use the -p command line option. This forces TaskDaddy to use the GUI interface. (Note GUI mode will happen automatically if you just double click the TaskDaddy.exe or a simple "drag and drop" shortcut, no -p switch is necessary.)This can also be used in combination with -f option which specifies an input file, so that you are prompted for each task in the file.

Any command line arguments which are not options are combined into a single task. In practice, this means you can usually either use double quote characters or not, so that for example:

taskdaddy "@@Home Recycle the bottles #6/2 :in the garage" /p

is the same as

taskdaddy @@Home Recycle the bottles #6/2 :in the garage /p


Options may begin with either the - character or the / character, so -p and /p are equivalent.

Uninstallation
Delete the .exe and .chm file from the folder created during installation. If nothing else is in the folder, you may delete the folder.

Known Issues

• TaskDaddy currently does not accept spaces in categories.
  

Original Pledge Post

I've been working on something like this and this but written in AutoIt3.

It will be a fairly trivial program to create Outlook tasks, with a few more features. Handy for launching from Farr, Launchy, and the like. Or even from shortcuts, lol.

Certainly by Jan 1, 2011, hopefully sooner.

I have a help file for it, and a semi working version, but I am completely rewriting the command line argument parsing part of it and I may have to change the syntax. If I do, it's better until I wait for that part of it to be done before posting it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Universal Extractor

« on: May 13, 2010, 05:02 AM »

I'm also a fan of Universal Extractor. The only way I could get .NET 3.5 Mobile installed on my Dell Axim was to extract the .CAB file from setup and install that. I've also used it to make custom installs for myself (another of my useless hobbies I had to abandon )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need help regarding DOS and BAT files.

« on: May 13, 2010, 04:39 AM »

By "crippled" I meant it had reduced/hobbled functionality. As I recall, the 2005 Express edition did not allow compiling a full fledged GUI app, only a command line console app. Can't say if the newer "Express" version has these sorts of limitations...

-widgewunner (May 12, 2010, 11:30 PM)

I've played around with both 2005 and 2008 versions of Visual C++ and both alllowed compiling GUI apps. My recollection is this. With 2005, you had to do some extra work to be able to complile non-dotnet apps, but once you did, you were set. In 2008, it was built in. Can't say for 2010. One limitation I did notice is that the Express 2008 version didn't let you compile Windows Mobile apps.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« on: May 12, 2010, 04:07 PM »

Eóin: how on earth can you live with a variable width font for coding? BLASPHEMER! Hell, for coding, anything else than Dina is blasphemy in my eyes.

-f0dder (September 05, 2009, 03:51 PM)

Funny you should say that. I always thought so, but now I wonder if that's just a habit learned from the days of 80 column screens. And recently, messing around with an Autoit3 script in SCite, I was struck by how much easier the proportional fonts are to read than the monospaced ones are at similar sizes (trying both Consolas and Dina). (I wear bifocals if that matters.) Although the spaces are too narrow for my preferred 4 space indent. I should probably continue this experiment with other text editors.

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for May 7th, 2010 - "Birds of a Feather Update Together"

« on: May 12, 2010, 03:48 PM »

So, you think that we're entering a plum age?

-cranioscopical (May 12, 2010, 12:20 PM)

??? 

-sgtevmckay (May 12, 2010, 12:36 PM)

plumage = plum age

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for May 7th, 2010 - "Birds of a Feather Update Together"

« on: May 12, 2010, 10:38 AM »

Skrommel, the legendary coding snacks coder finally gave in and has recompiled his huge collection of utilities hosted on DonationCoder, but we are still waiting for the new versions to be uploaded on his page -- I think this may be a case where we all need to nag him on the forum to show him how much we appreciate his work.  If you haven't visited it in a while, stop by his section and take a look, and send him a message telling him to update the files already!

-mouser (May 07, 2010, 07:43 PM)

Does he need to write a coding snack to compile and upload his coding snacks?