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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands

« on: March 08, 2011, 04:36 PM »

It's actually that the colors for buttons no longer show (but background color still does... ), now that I've switched to GUIOnEventMode (that was a message-loop that only fires if a message for 'me' is available).
The detection of the currently active app, and switching the set of buttons, is already working quite fine

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands

« on: March 08, 2011, 03:59 PM »

Just an update,

• I'm a bit later then I promised with my next release, but I'll get to that in a minute...
• I'm still testing with the buttonarrangement settings and ironing out the last minor bugs. Placement has to be just right when combining several kinds of smaller buttons in place of 1 big button.

What I got so far for this: (smaller buttons)

• 2 buttons horizontal or vertical
• 3 buttons horizontal or vertical
• 4 buttons equally divided
• 6 buttons arranged 3x2 or 2x3
• 9 buttons equally divided
• And a big button spanning 2 standard buttons

And the smasher that is taking some more time:

• A set of buttons depending on the active application...

I'm fighting with the colors (disappearing) now, as it's obviously in beta, but I'll report back soon.

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Official Announcements / Re: What DonationCoder.com Would Do with a Two Million Dollar Donation

« on: March 08, 2011, 03:45 PM »

This is a post that all Billionaires should read carefully.  The rest of you can skip it.

-mouser (March 08, 2011, 03:31 PM)

And what happens if we don't

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Stoic Joker's (File & Folder) Fix When

« on: March 08, 2011, 05:19 AM »

Nice, Stoic Joker, kudo's

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve

« on: March 07, 2011, 04:16 PM »

So, Mouser, is the proposal that you send the Cody replacement around to deserving members?
No wonder the fundraising is going so well.

-Dormouse (March 07, 2011, 04:14 PM)

Hey, you where not supposed to guess that...

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« on: March 07, 2011, 09:10 AM »

And just shortly after reaching the 1000 milestone, timns made a more binary milestone:

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve

« on: March 07, 2011, 09:07 AM »

@nosh, @PhilB66, @Ath,
You've all been moved to the questionable conversation list  .

-barney (March 07, 2011, 08:53 AM)

Why, because we are (hetro) males that like the looks of these fine young-ladies?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve

« on: March 07, 2011, 03:40 AM »

Both would be just fine, IMHO

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ

« on: March 07, 2011, 01:39 AM »

Does Internet Explorer (most other browsers have other mechanisms for auth.proxies!) present you a proxy-login-page when you start browsing, or is it automagically providing the proper credentials to the proxy?

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Living Room / Re: Win 7 XP mode

« on: March 06, 2011, 01:11 PM »

Well, and then there is the issue of support...



I use an employer paid-for Workstation license, but I've never even once used the support options available, either it's found in the VMWare forums, or googling, or in a just released update.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands

« on: March 06, 2011, 11:50 AM »

There are screen-savers with pretty ladies that can do the inside of your screen. You could equip them with magnetic double-side window-cleaners

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Living Room / Re: Win 7 XP mode

« on: March 06, 2011, 11:48 AM »

Workstation has multiple snapshots (and gets earlier updates), which is quite usable when testing several phases of a software installation...

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Living Room / Re: Win 7 XP mode

« on: March 06, 2011, 10:16 AM »

VMware - difficult to use the free version (by comparison to the others) or expensive to buy the Workstation edition but with best hardware support. You can download VMWare Server for free and set up a VM and then use VMWare Player for simpler use by your father-in-law.

-Carol Haynes (March 06, 2011, 05:10 AM)

VMWare Player 3 and up allows you to easily create complete virtuals from the ground up, no need to get the (quite outdated) Server version first.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands

« on: March 06, 2011, 10:13 AM »

That looks perfect. One extra thing to ask though, could the background (behind the buttons) be a user defined colour - or just black - or even a user defined graphic? Just black would be the first option.

-nudone (March 06, 2011, 07:02 AM)

Never thought about that until now you bring it up
I can add an option for that, it'll be in the 1.1 update I'll publish probably around tomorrow night (CET) (won't be working on it much today any more), it'll get the same color options the buttons have.
And the 1/3 button size I got also finished.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: an app to stop installers from launching web browsers and opening pages

« on: March 06, 2011, 04:44 AM »

You can hardly block internet access, as a lot of installers often fetch parts to install from the internet, check for updates during install, or register your copy with the supplier based on account information entered during install.

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General Software Discussion / Re: which is the best free virtualization software?

« on: March 06, 2011, 04:40 AM »

My opinion:
VirtualPC 2007: Total crap. Superseded by XP-Mode, but still not very good.
VirtualBox: Good, but still has some minor issues on hardware-related (most USB connections) side, and sometimes performance issues.
VMWare: Good, some performance issues, but the best hardware support, and actually good working USB support.
For all virtualized machines: Don't expect any descent graphics performance, compared to the same oS directly on the hardware!

If you want to run a lot of different VM's, get your host on Windows 7 x64 (SP1 strongly advised!) (I see why you want to stay on XP for now, but just upgrade to W7x64 ASAP)  with enough memory (8GB or more), and virtualize all other OS variations.

is there anything that will allow you to run the Mac OS X on a Windows machine?

-techidave (March 05, 2011, 05:35 PM)

Apple is not allowing you to do that.

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Living Room / Re: Win 7 XP mode

« on: March 06, 2011, 04:29 AM »

Wouldn't getting VirtualBox or one of the free VMWare options be better than XP-Mode? The big downside is ofcourse you need a legitimate XP license to install as a virtual inside it, but there are 'manuals' for installing the XP-Mode session (legitimate if you own Win7 HomePro or better, AFAIK) into that on the interweb.

But if it's a graphical based game you're already hosed, as that will run with lousy performance in any of the virtualized systems

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General Software Discussion / Re: A way to use DC products on Android?

« on: March 06, 2011, 04:22 AM »

What got me thinking was Ath's WinButtons for the March Fundraiser:  looked to be handy on the Nook's touch screen when not reading books.

-barney (March 05, 2011, 09:15 PM)

That's what got me thinking also, but it could eventually (finally) work out into my first Android project, I've been planning for > 6 months now, ever since I got my Android phone

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands

« on: March 06, 2011, 04:08 AM »

could the buttons be made irregular sizes, so maybe you could have the standard button layout, and then some of those buttons were doubled up (connected to each other) and other buttons were split in half, or thirds, or quarters.

-nudone (March 05, 2011, 04:26 AM)

That's quite a challenging (but interesting) feature to implement, I'll certainly think about it, and report back later.

-Ath (March 05, 2011, 04:47 AM)

I'll show a teaser for this feature:


The same demo-items as with the previous screenshots, just added a 'buttonarrangement' option to some buttons.
Still got to implement 'third-size' option.

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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread

« on: March 05, 2011, 09:24 AM »

It made me think of the "AT-AT" machine from Star Wars:
(image in quoted post)

-mouser (March 05, 2011, 08:13 AM)

Hey, what's that grey-man robot playing with (hints at avatar)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Drag&Drop to move File/Folder, but leave a Shortcut

« on: March 05, 2011, 09:20 AM »

That 'task' is accomplished using a left-mouse drag, holding down the control key on your keyboard... (My Windows calls it 'copy', adding a small + to the icon during the drag action).

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: [First look] Scrivener Beta 017 - Mini-Review

« on: March 05, 2011, 06:40 AM »

Thank you tomos, for this fine [First look], very well done!

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands

« on: March 05, 2011, 04:47 AM »

Can Winbuttons be made to recognise the "main" program that has focus - and then change the buttons displayed?

-nudone (March 05, 2011, 04:15 AM)

ATM, it's only sort-of 'context-aware' to other WinButtons instances, that have passed their form-handle(s) (using :hndlist: variable) to all instances in the chain, to be hidden when the -hide command option is used. So using the supplied demo configuration, Click: 'Submenu 5 extra words', 'Run & Wait', 'Push 2nd', then the WinButtons -? help-message is shown, while all 3 instances of WinButtons showing the menu-chain are hidden.
It's now rather static, in that each configuration-file has 1 set of buttons that is displayed on the screen and then waiting for the user to interact with it. Making it this kind of application-aware is quite a different approach, but I'll investigate it. Sounds interesting, indeed.

could the buttons be made irregular sizes, so maybe you could have the standard button layout, and then some of those buttons were doubled up (connected to each other) and other buttons were split in half, or thirds, or quarters.

-nudone (March 05, 2011, 04:26 AM)

That's quite a challenging (but interesting) feature to implement, I'll certainly think about it, and report back later.

could Winbuttons be made to work on more than one touchscreen at a time

-nudone (March 05, 2011, 04:26 AM)

It can do that already, just pass it an ini file with button definitions (-f parameter can be used for clarity, but not required), using explicit top and left values (or on the commandline using -t and -l parameters), multiple instances should run happily side by side.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands

« on: March 05, 2011, 03:44 AM »

Just a case of waiting for nudone to see this post, isn't it? 

-cranioscopical (March 04, 2011, 02:09 PM)

Yoohoo!  nudone!

Looky what we got for you

-4wd (March 05, 2011, 01:35 AM)

Guess he hurried to the shop to get one (or two), so he can brag write about it here

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: an app to stop installers from launching web browsers and opening pages

« on: March 05, 2011, 03:34 AM »

There's only one real way to eventually get rid of that behavior: Complaints at the suppliers e-mail address, forum, guestbook, support-line, etc.

Being around the Inno Setup newgroups for years, this has been discussed often and long, and the general consensus over there is: If a web-page is to be shown, it should be optional (using a checkbox), and If it's opened, it should use the system default browser.
So there is hope that more and more Inno Setup installers give the user the option to open a web-page, instead of just doing that without asking (Skype and Oracle Java installers come to mind )