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Post New Requests Here / Ping with latency alarm?

« on: May 14, 2021, 08:49 PM »

I am looking for a program that can ping an address every 2 seconds and play a sound when the return time exceeds a certain value. It needs to display a timestamp and return time for every ping so I can capture this output to a text file, which I'll then import into Excel.

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Post New Requests Here / Looking for a scrolling rich-text displayer to show an AUP

« on: November 14, 2018, 09:15 PM »

I want to display an Acceptable Use Policy (rich text) in a scrollable window with OK and Cancel buttons (return different error codes). Has anyone seen such a program here?

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Post New Requests Here / Need Desktop icon to run Brother Control Center 4 (CC4 system tray program)

« on: July 25, 2018, 07:39 AM »

Brother printers equipped with scanning ability come with a program called Control Center for using the scanner. It used to be that this was a standalone program one could run from the Desktop. But as of version 4 (ControlCenter4) it is only accessible from the System Tray/Notification Area.  Moreover, left- or right-clicking on it there reveals a popup menu that includes an Open command, which will then open the program. It is possible to open the program by double-clicking on this icon if you configure the Taskbar to always make it visible. Even then, some users forget that it's available, thus my desire to add a Desktop icon. See this old Experts-Exchange post (not by me) as an example.

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Post New Requests Here / Program to send Windows + Right (or Left) Arrow ?

« on: September 06, 2016, 05:27 PM »

When I'm remoted into a distant PC I am unable to maximize windows left or right on the remote PC by by holding down the Windows key and pressing the left or right arrow key. The key combination is always intercepted by my own PC.  Does a program exist that I can place on the remote PC and simply double-click on it to generate the needed keystroke (one for left arrow, another for right arrow)?

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Post New Requests Here / I need to monitor a tiny portion of a video playing and trigger an EXE on cue

« on: April 24, 2013, 02:39 PM »

I'm looking for a program that will help me achieve the following.

I would like to have executables (or macros) triggered by and during video playback.

I imagine that this program would be watching a tiny portion of the screen and when it senses a change there trigger an exe file (or control a macro program). It would be acceptable to me if the monitored portion of the screen needed to be a solid color, even black, and the "change" would have to be white or some other color highly in contrast to what's normally in that area.

What would be even more wonderful is for this program to monitor several tiny areas of the screen and depending on which area changes the appropriate exe would run. Branching!

Sort of ultra-simplistic bar-code recognition?

Obviously it would be nice if the screen area being monitored can be as small and discrete as possible so as not to be real obvious in the video playback. It seems like with video editing software it would be possible to insert a white square of only a few pixels, which my dream program could detect.

I realize that we would have to avoid using overlay mode for video playback but that should be doable.

Any idea if this capability already exists?

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Finished Programs / rendering of shadows in animated gif images has a problem

« on: November 02, 2012, 09:59 AM »

When I use Frameless to display an animated gif that I created in Photoshop CS6 it renders shadows in white and turns the white background grey.  See the attached images for a comparison between how it's supposed to look and how Frameless renders it. I tried merging the layers in Photoshop but that killed the animation.

(as displayed in Irfanview)





(as displayed in Frameless)

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Post New Requests Here / seeking coder to convert batch file to autoit or autohotkey script

« on: November 01, 2012, 12:49 PM »

I wrote a batch file that opens a couple programs, asks a "choice" question and runs the appropriate shortcut based on that, and then displays a series of png and animated gif images at a specific window position that provide instructions to the user. I'd prefer a nicer looking Windows GUI for the "choice" question and better control over displaying the images (having trouble with irfanview in this regard). There are some other small refinements that I think could easily be handled by autoit or autohotkey.

Please PM me.

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Coding Snacks / Auto-convert PNG to JPG in clipboard

« on: January 25, 2008, 09:35 AM »

Is there a small Windows app that will enable me to copy a PNG image to the clipboard and automatically convert it into a JPG ready for pasting into another app?

I'm thinking of an app like Puretext, which converts any HTML or other formatted text on the clipboard to "plain" text, and you can paste the converted text by using the key combination Windows-V instead of CTRL-V. In other words, copy using CTRL-C as always, Puretext does its magic, then Windows-V pastes the converted text... like that, except I need an app to convert a PNG to JPG in a similar, automatic fashion.

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Coding Snacks / Context-menu bmp-to-jpg converter

« on: January 23, 2008, 09:45 PM »

I'd like to be able to copy an image (album cover art) to the clipboard and then open a folder in Windows Explorer, right-click, select this function, and have it save the clipboard image as a jpg named folder.jpg.