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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: April 17, 2024, 06:33 AM »

Cool, I'll download and test it a bit later.

From your animated demo though it looks like it doesn't have "Ignore variable text" checked by default when drag-and-dropping a shortcut, which it probably should.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: April 10, 2024, 02:45 AM »

I guess it would be logical to do so indeed.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: April 08, 2024, 02:29 AM »

Your current proposal for the message seems self explanatory enough to me

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: April 07, 2024, 02:29 AM »

I think having the contents of  "Application Arguments (optional)" defaulting to <var> (with the text being visible in the field), and adding the validation/warning at the time of saving the button in case the user removed <var> from there without checking "Ignore Variable Text" would make more sense.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: April 06, 2024, 02:23 AM »

Thanks I will fix to where if arguments is left blank in the button properties that the variable provided that ignore variable text is not checked will work for the arguments. If you specify arguments then obviously use <var> to where you want the variable to be. Does that sound like the proper way you would expect?

-hamradio (April 05, 2024, 11:41 AM)

If I understand it right, provided that both the following conditions are met :
1 - "Ignore Variable Text" checkbox is not checked
2 - nothing is specified in the "Application Arguments (optional)" field
then CRAP would run the command with the contents of <var> as its only argument

Sounds fair enough.

Perhaps we may even add a validation such that, before a button can be saved, if the following conditions are all met :
- "Skip Command Window" is checked
- "Ignore Variable Text" is not checked
- <var> is not found anywhere within the arguments
then the program shall issue a warning?

Or maybe have the contents of "Application Arguments (optional)" default to "<var>" as long as "Ignore Variable Text" is not checked?

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: April 05, 2024, 04:21 AM »

Hey there,

I've imported my work layout, settings and icons into a folder where I unzipped the beta version, which seemed to work fine as far as the import goes.
Favorites menu is fine too

Then I tested removing the start command on a few of my GUI driven apps and enabling the "Skip Command Window" option instead, moving all the parameters (when applicable) from the prefix towards the "Application Arguments" field, and indeed it launches the program with no unnecessary CMD window, which is nice

I did notice however that, for such buttons where the "Skip Command Window" option is enabled, if the following conditions are all met :
1 - I don't include the <var> parameter anywhere in the "Application Arguments (optional)" field
2 - the "Ignore Variable Text" checkbox is not checked
3 - there is some text in the "Variable" field of the main window

then, when the mouse cursor is over such a button, both the command preview in the status bar and the "Application Arguments:" line within the tooltip look as if the contents of Variable would be included, between the Application and its other arguments (if any are specified), yet the contents of the Variable is actually not included when clicking the button to run the command.

Now obviously I shouldn't forget to include the <var> in the arguments at the position where it's needed, but there still is an inconsistency between what the preview says and what the program does.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: April 04, 2024, 03:13 PM »

Download worked, thanks, I'll give it a try a bit later

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: April 04, 2024, 01:17 PM »

I'm getting a 404 when trying the link.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: April 04, 2024, 06:13 AM »

Sorry, I'm not quite sure what that means / what it looks like, and the search results I get seem to be more about the code to implement one…
I don't really mind the current text input fields by the way, so if it's too much work to just have their background color changed by the theme, please don't feel pressured to change that.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: April 03, 2024, 06:13 AM »

Should be fine I guess. I'd prefer the text contents (typically a hostname) to be visible before selecting the favourite, but I suppose I could always include it in the description myself.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: April 02, 2024, 12:17 PM »

Hmm to elaborate on the topic of the command line window, what I've been experiencing does not seem to me like an issue with the option to keep it open or not after a command ended, but rather, it's pretty much like the normal behavior of batch files: they just don't go to the next line until the current command has completed, which in the case of most executable means, until their process has ended.

And so if you use cmd.exe to run a GUI mode program such as the RDP client, Notepad, Firefox… then that CMD window just stays there until you close that GUI program — or manually close the cmd window itself.
The solution to that issue would be, IMHO, to have CRAP run the command which the button is set for "directly", instead of calling cmd.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: April 02, 2024, 05:36 AM »

OK, it does seem better especially since the taskbar is dark too
Would be nice if the text fields could have a dark background (and probably some lighter shade of gray text for a good contrast) too

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: April 01, 2024, 03:23 AM »

Then I removed some themes (like black for one)

-hamradio (March 31, 2024, 09:17 PM)

Aww, that's the one I was using on my work computer lately
BTW is it possible for the user to make custom themes, or are we restricted to usng the ones that the program ships with?

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: March 31, 2024, 09:59 AM »

I guess it should be fine, and if even if for whatever reason I couldn't make it work, well as long as it's an option I suppose I could just not enable it

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: March 31, 2024, 07:40 AM »

I'm not completely sure what that entails when it comes to running such commands as:

explorer.exe \\target_name_here\C$

since the target's name is usually between the prefix and suffix.

Does that mean the prefix would stop, in this example, at "explorer.exe" and we'd have to insert the target name within the suffix, between "\\" and "\C$", while also making sure that the target's name doesn't get added between "explorer.exe" and " \\" somehow?
If so, then I'm not even sure that the whole prefix and suffix thing makes that much sense any more.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: March 30, 2024, 02:23 AM »

Yes I've mentioned this thing about the command line window staying open when launching a GUI driven program in message #34, it pretty much always happened for me (or at least since then), no matter which OS I used the program on.
As a workaround I've been using the "start" command to launch any GUI mode program from CRAP.

I think there must be some other way (maybe an API or something?) that you can use which doesn't rely on CMD at all. It still should be able to run batch scripts and other command line programs just like we do when using the "run" dialog.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: March 28, 2024, 08:28 PM »

Hi, I suppose it depends on how much you'd upgrade it

As long as it's 4.8.1 or lower then it wouldn't be an issue for my workplace, but if I need to install a more recent one, then I'm not completely sure.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: March 24, 2024, 06:12 AM »

I've had a night's sleep since my previous post and it seems like most of what I've been suggesting in there would probably be an overcomplicated solution when I can just regroup my game shortcuts into a single folder… feel free to disregard that then.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: March 23, 2024, 03:19 PM »

Hey there,

A few months ago I've acquired a new computer, that runs Windows 11, where it does not seem possible to create custom toolbars any more.
And so lately I've been thinking, instead of putting the shortcuts to my games on the desktop, why not use CRAP as a launcher?

In the process of recreating my game shortcuts into CRAP, I got the following idea: it would be neat if I could just drag and drop an icon onto the current layout, or maybe to the layout editor window, and that would basically parse that shortcut and create an equivalent button (using the icon, command prefix and its name as a caption).
Would that be feasible?

Another possible improvement I've been thinking of: from the "Add new button" dialog, if there is no defined "Command Prefix" yet, and the user just loaded the icon from an .exe file, perhaps we could have the program populate the prefix with that same exe file's path?

Oh and, I suppose it's some kind of bug: when browsing to an executable to get its icon, CRAP fails to recognize that an .EXE file was selected unless its extension is entirely in lower case (so it will work only with ".exe", but not ".EXE" or a mix of upper and lower case).

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release - Spews

« on: January 31, 2024, 05:42 AM »

Hello there, it has been a while

Lately I've been doing some work from home using my personal monitors as they're both higher definition than anything my workplace can provide, and so when working, I still keep my home computer running so that I can do unrelated stuff on the side when it's a quiet day, switching my main monitor to get its display input from the work laptop, and the second (a bit lower resolution) monitor to take its input from my "home" laptop.

When I do so, since the monitors have different resolutions, I can't see the entire wallpaper. And thus here is my request : would it be possible to have Spews automatically refresh the current wallpaper when the desktop's resolution changes (provided of course that none of the excluded processes is running)?

And while I'm at it, if several monitors with different resolutions are connected and in extended desktop mode, could it also handle that by scaling the same picture appropriately to both?

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Creating a shortcut for Windows native app

« on: July 12, 2023, 02:16 PM »

Hello there.
After you started the app you want to make a shortcut to, it should be fairly easy to find the executable in the "Details" tab of your task manager, then right-click it and choose "Open file location" — it may not be the exact wording as my Windows is in french language, but should be something to that effect.

On the virtual machine I just tested it from, after installing WhatsApp from the store today, doing that on the "WhatsApp.exe" line opened the following folder: "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\5319275A.WhatsAppDesktop_2.2327.6.0_x64__cv1g1gvanyjgm", but I suppose the path may vary from a machine to another, or maybe depending on which version of the app it is.

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N.A.N.Y. 2023 / Re: Check for empty folders

« on: January 13, 2023, 04:35 PM »

Hi there.

Why is the program itself so large?
RED seems to have a similar feature set, but doesn't weigh nearly as much.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Batch Editor for URL and LNK Properties

« on: January 23, 2022, 06:08 AM »

Seems like the site is down, hopefully it'll come back up later. In the meantime or if it doesn't, one can access a copy of the page and the download from the Web Archive https://web.archive....nloads.html#Shortcut

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« on: January 13, 2022, 05:20 AM »

Hey there, here's a nice instrumental one:

Ayasa - "the reason why"

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which Windows 10 Updates should be avoided?

« on: June 09, 2021, 04:37 PM »

Hi.

For example, version 20H2 from last October completely removes the old Win7 style control panel.

-BGM (June 09, 2021, 09:20 AM)

Actually it doesn't. It's still present in 21H1 even (just run control.exe), though some options certainly have disappeared from it compared with Windows 7.

Anyway you don't have much of a choice but to "upgrade" to newer versions after a while if you want your Windows 10 computer to stay secure, because Microsoft stops providing security updates for each Windows 10 version after either 18 or 30 months, unless you somehow get your hands on a Long Term Servicing license. See https://docs.microso...ifecycle/faq/windows