Hi .o/

I'm surprised that noone has answered to this yet. Anyway, here are a few suggestions for the program's name :

- Send Wallpaper To
- Wallpaper Action
- Wallpaper Toolkit
- With Wallpaper Do

What changes would have to be made to this batch file to run from the root directory and include all sub-directories?

-berkland (October 25, 2018, 11:21 AM)

That one is pretty simple, assuming that by "the root directory" you mean c:\, just replace:
with

What changes would have to be made to this batch file to selectively find and replace text in the Start in: and Comment: fields?  (Maybe some kind of user screen input?)

-berkland (October 25, 2018, 11:21 AM)

Here's the syntax from shortcut.exe, which you can get by running it with no parameter:


and what it's output looks like when querying an existing shortcut:


To explain, the current version of the batch :

• lists all of the .lnk files (from where it is being called, including sub-directories due to the /s in the dir command)
• for each element in that list, it :
• uses shortcut.exe to query the file's properties
• uses findstr to filter the output, looking for the characteristic we want to find in the files that we want to act on (here it was "RunStyle=1")
• if the file does match that characteristic, it uses shortcut.exe again to perform the change that has been requested (here it was to set RunStyle to 3)

Could this batch file be incorporated into an .exe file to allow a slick User Interface for the user to search, sort, and select .lnk files and then process/edit them?  (I’m thinking this .exe file would probably have to include the code from the shortcut.exe file.)

-berkland (October 25, 2018, 11:21 AM)

Not in its current state as doesn't take any input: both the selection criteria and the action to be performed are "hardcoded" in the script.
It would need to be reworked to accept parameters (or ask the user to input them) for which characteristics the files to be modified need to exhibit, and what has to be changed in them, and then pass the adequate parameters to shortcut.exe
I'm not sure I'm up to the task, probably better to wait for one of the real programmers here to do their own thing

Finally, what about URL files?  Can they be included in the same software or would that be a separate program?

-berkland (October 25, 2018, 11:21 AM)

Shortcut.exe doesn't handle them, they don't work the same as .LNK files and don't have the same set of capabilities (as far as I know they don't allow, for example, to choose if the browser's window will be a normal one, maximized or minimized).

By the way there seems to be a bug with shortcut.exe itself, as the TargetPath and TargetPathExpanded values that I showed in my example are incorrect: I have the 64 bits version of Firefox and it sits in "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox", I don't know where those "(x86)" came from…

Yes: do you think you'll need to use that several times with different options, or is it for a one time job?

If the latter, can you tell specifically what you want to change ? For example "change all shortcuts which are set to run minimized so they run in a normal window", or "replace « some_string » with « other_string » for all the shortcut that contain it in the target field" ?

Thanks, I'll give it a try

Hi again.

I suppose learning to use some image manipulation program would probably be the easiest solution to that problem.

Hello there .o/

Intro (to skip, go to the next bold text)
One of my colleagues has been working lately on making and documenting a procedure to automatically install an OS on a specific model of computer using SCCM.

While his process works fine, his documentation looks awful, mostly due to the quality of his pictures, which he made by taking photos of the screen with a phone while performing the procedure

I can easily take better quality pictures of most of the process by performing it in a virtual machine, however as far as I know, I can't have the VM's BIOS be identical to that of our real hardware (?)

I've already tried to decrease the color depth of his photos to 16 or 256 with IrfanView, with or without dithering, but the results always look pretty bad :/

Another option would be for me to re-type *everything* that appears on the screen and maybe add ANSI escape codes for color, but that would be very time consuming and could cause adding typos...

And this is why I would like … End of Intro
… a program that would take a picture, and decrease the color depth of each pixel to the nearest one that specifically exists in the palette that text mode DOS/Windows console can use (see color /? from the command line if needed).

I've seen that there is a program here: https://www.codeproj...520306/ASCII-Imaging which does something kind of similar, however from what I understand, there would be a few issues with trying to use that one for my needs:
- it would most likely try to replace every colored area with characters of its own choice
- it "works best" with 80 pixels wide pictures, which would obviously would make the pictures I want to "convert" unreadable, at 1 only pixel per character

Does someone know of such a program? Or does one of you want to give a try to making it?

Nice! I've been using the command line version of SetACL in a script, SetACL Studio looks very cool.
Thanks for letting us know :]

So my question is: How does FireFox render a Font while Delphi cant (or Browsers Opera/IE)

-KodeZwerg (June 20, 2018, 05:57 AM)

That would be because webpages can provide the font by hosting it somewhere and giving the path to download it from via .css : see https://www.w3school...r_font-face_rule.asp

Now there probably is a way to embed the font in your application too, as I remember there was a way to do it for graphic modes with Turbo Pascal back then.

I just "instinctively" thought PNG was very likely to be better for webpages because from my own (admittedly subjective) experience, I found that most web pages produce both lighter and better quality pictures being saved as PNG, unless the contents of the page includes a significant portion made of pictures (especially if those are already in JPEG), and thus it seemed only natural to question the choice of JPG.

For now we only know that OP encounters some kind of issue when posting PNG pictures to forums working with vBulletin, which seems to be the only reason —although I guess it may be a fair enough one, if the issue is too bothersome and can't be fixed— why he favors JPG.

Huh which program, exactly?

Hmm I'm not sure I understand (the paper looks way too complex for me to even try reading it) so I'll probably say something stupid, but… if the "single parameter" can be as precise/long as we want it to be then,  yeah, of course, you can describe any bitmap picture with a single parameter (which would happen to be the whole file's binary contents written as a single number) ?_?

Thank you! :]

Thank you :]