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Finished Programs / DONE: Photo Downloader Kiosk

« on: October 04, 2008, 12:36 PM »

EDIT: Link to the PhotoKiosk made by Skrommel and modded by me:
http://aldwin.us/PhotoKiosk/PhotoKiosk.exe
To the AHK file and other files (the exe extracts the images etc but if you want to play with the AHK here are the files)
http://aldwin.us/PhotoKiosk/

EDIT: I just realized that this post is really long.  I have bolded the idea itself if you want to skip to just that.

Hello,

My robotics team runs a tournament every year for younger kids.  An idea of mine for this year's tournament is to have a continually running slideshow of pictures on one of the projectors.  It would be great if I could have a computer set up with a media reader where people (coaches, spectators, etc) could insert a card and download their pictures to the computer to be immediately added to the slideshow.  So, here's my idea:

a kiosk-like program that allows a user to download all or some photos from a memory card (I've got one of those read-all-card-types readers that maps to four drives) to a folder that I specify in a config file (probably on a networked computer e.g. \\mycomp\slideshow\) in a datetime-stamped folder (to avoid name conflicts) with a minimum of user effort.  Kind of like one of those photo kiosks that can be found at Walgreens, etc, but much simpler.  Just a spash screen, a photo-select screen for once the user has inserted a memory card, a copying screen, and a done screen.  Or something.

I am a programmer, and if nobody is interested I will code this myself, so don't spend a lot of time on it.  But, the members of this forum are much more talented than I am and so I'm sure you could whip something up easier than I could.

Thanks,
Nick

EDIT: I would also be happy if there is already a program which can do this.  I had found xkiosk, but it is too complicated, since it is built for photo processing labs.
EDIT: I just realized that this post is really long.  I have bolded the idea itself if you want to skip to just that.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Group windows for easy minimizing/maximizing

« on: June 15, 2008, 07:41 PM »

Hey,

So here's my idea.  Basically, I like to chat with a lot of people.  I hate using the chat window with tabs, so I have each conversation in its own little window.  Behind these I keep my browser.  But, whenever I bring my browser into focus, then want to go back to chatting, I would like to bring back all the little windows at once, rather than having to bring each one up one at a time.  It would be really cool if there was a tool that let me select windows that I wanted to be grouped together and that would maximize/minimize at the same time.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Nick

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA : Right-Click Menu gives an [ENTER] choice and when LEFT-Clicked [ENTER]s

« on: April 02, 2008, 10:05 PM »

So you want to be able to hit the [ENTER] key with the mouse?
And if possible, through the right-click menu, right?

Hmm

I know I would have my hand on the keyboard anyways for copying and pasting (ctrl+c ctrl+v).

But I'm sure something can be whipped up.