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General Software Discussion / Re: Can't remember the name of Caller ID software!!

« on: April 30, 2009, 07:39 PM »

What kind of punishment do we have for long time forum members who refuse to search the forum?
CallerId threads here: https://www.donation...rch2;search=callerid

-mouser (April 30, 2009, 06:44 PM)

None of those threads mention the website I'm thinking of.  This is going to drive me nuts!!

-superboyac (April 30, 2009, 06:58 PM)

I hate that.  By the time I remember some actor's name, the thread of the conversation has shifted to some other topic.  The only thing more annoying is when I forget the number for 911!! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Announcement: Way Simple Folder Cache for Windows

« on: April 30, 2009, 07:36 PM »

Uploaded v. 1.8    added an automatic horizontal scrollbar.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Help with autohotkey: Command line switches

« on: April 30, 2009, 04:20 PM »

Thanks for the reply.  What was really throwing me is the funky "left side" rule.
if 0 > 1     the 0 is on the "left side" so it's a variable name but

if (0 > 1  &&  1 = /q)

to me '1' should be on the "left side" but apparently it isn't.  Really a struggle
to do any compound if statement

so finally I just did

if 0 >1
  if 1 = /q   and it works.  I can't believe it

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Create folder structure or path

« on: April 30, 2009, 03:01 PM »

Note that I updated CreateDir  command line handling.
/q switch quiet mode for scripts and batch files
/? switch shows a Help Dialog

ex quiet mode usage creates folders without prompting

CreateDir /q  dir\sub1  dir\sub2 c:\somedir\subdir2

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Developer's Corner / Re: Help with autohotkey: Command line switches

« on: April 30, 2009, 01:08 PM »

seems like the only method that works at all is
Loop %0%

anything else, the value is blank.  really weird

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Developer's Corner / Re: Help with autohotkey: Command line switches

« on: April 30, 2009, 12:43 PM »

I have to say I never had such a struggle trying to get a switch off a command line.  Then to make it even more fun the Scite param passing tool in the editor is broken!!! Sheesh!!

All I'm trying to do is loop through the params and if the first is
/q do "quiet mode" but I can't even detect the /q.  It's really bizarre.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Best Of: text editors

« on: April 30, 2009, 10:38 AM »

Is it not possible to keep the text plain and still use macros, pattern substitutions and paragraph manipulations etc?

-MilesAhead (April 29, 2009, 04:18 PM)

Maybe.  I've been spoilt because the first DOS programs I used were PC-Write, and later VDE, both of which are dual-purpose and both of which do work like that.  Then Windows became popular, and that was the real beginning of a  divide between editors and word processors.  I've been focussed on editors because I use plain text almost all the time, and that's what editors do.  I'd hate to try using Word for plain text, short notes, batch files, AWK scripts, anything like that.  Microsoft Word?  Bah!  Ptui!

-rjbull (April 30, 2009, 03:55 AM)

I guess the only thing worse than a proprietary format is one that keeps changing with every version.  I don't do much with text appearance 'cept when I did my web page.  Even there I learned just enough css and used a nav button maker so that I could do the page without using a word processor.  That "front page of the newspaper" look is kind of old.  It may be useful if you need to cram lots of stuff on your page but I'd hate to look at the page source when made with one of those front end apps.  Like twenty br tags and fifty ampersands in a row.. that kind of crap.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Best Of: text editors

« on: April 29, 2009, 04:18 PM »

Is it not possible to keep the text plain and still use macros, pattern substitutions and paragraph manipulations etc?  I don't know. The only serious use I made of a word processor was on my first PC.  It came with Dos 3.1 and some Dos console based word processor program.  I can't even remember the name of it.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Create folder structure or path

« on: April 29, 2009, 03:13 PM »

ChainCopy Beta   

edit: by the way if anyone notices any bugs feel free to post or you can email to the address shown in the Readme.txt file included with the download.

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General Software Discussion / Tray 2.2 - just opens or closes an optical drive tray

« on: April 28, 2009, 03:51 PM »

Just a little doodad so you don't have to push the button on the DVD drive.



http://www.favessoft.com/downloads.html

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Official Announcements / Re: April 2009 Giveaway Results - Posted

« on: April 28, 2009, 03:02 PM »

Got my ship notice.   

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Coding Snacks / Re: IDEA: New folder containing a new txt file of same name made via context menu

« on: April 28, 2009, 01:43 PM »

Not the method you are looking for but I already have a utility that's pretty well debugged that may fit your scenario.  It's called TipOff

The idea is you download, then rename if you like, but whatever name the download has becomes the key when you add the comment.  Right click on the downloaded file and select Properties.  There's a Comment tab.  You can type or paste a short comment.  Then when you hover the mouse over a supported archive file, such as .rar, a Tooltip pops up showing the comment you entered.

The reason I wrote it is to comment downloads.  You can comment any file but only supported types show in the Tooltip.  But if you install TreePad there is built-in conversion to TreePad 3 file format of all the comments in a folder using a button on the same Comment Tab.  TreePad Lite works with it.  Both TreePad Lite and my app are free.

Since it works via 32 bit shell extensions it won't work in 64 bit OS unless you run a 32 bit explorer window while using it.  You can download
Half Shell from the Hotkeys page to make using it easier on Vista64.

When you comment files in a folder, a file is created in that folder named
CommentData.tof and since the data is local to the folder, you can copy entire folders, even to mapped networked drives and the TipOff will work as long as you have the shell extensions installed on the machine doing the reading.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Best Of: text editors

« on: April 28, 2009, 12:22 PM »

For the non-programmers someone should probably start a thread on good, word processors. I've tried some of the Open Office stuff afa free wp goes, but I don't use that type enough to even know how to record a macro.  Someone who really is into them should give a breakdown for non-programmers to get places to look for good finds.

btw while we're on the subject of processing text can somebody email those guys who make the editor applets for boards so that when you hit the Enter key the way the stuff looks doesn't change when you hit Post?
Seems like no matter how I word-wrap or hard line break, the stuff comes out jagged lookin' as hell on most boards.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Announcement: Way Simple Folder Cache for Windows

« on: April 28, 2009, 12:13 PM »

Uploaded v. 1.7 Has a visible vertical scrollbar when the number of items is too large to fit in window. Also adjusted it so that if you reduce the max folder setting below what's in the list, the list is trimmed before next window open.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Create folder structure or path

« on: April 28, 2009, 11:20 AM »

I changed the program so that it doesn't use the script path as the working directory and added a command line param. The "working directory" is now the current directory of the command prompt, or the Start In value if run from a shortcut.  For relative paths if you type
CreateDir test\test
and the command prompt is in c:\temp
the result should be
c:\temp\test\test

it still pops up an InputBox with the command line already entered so that you can confirm that's the folder you want to create, or cancel.

It's available for download now.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Best Of: text editors

« on: April 28, 2009, 12:22 AM »

@erikts I'm kind of sorry I don't have Turbo Pascal with TurboVision anymore. Nice light weight Menus and Dialog boxes in console mode good for making small Dos programs for rescue discs.  There was probably some editor code around somewhere for free that could be adapted. For emergencies I want the usage of the editor I never use otherwise to be really obvious.  Too stressed out to remember a bunch of shortcuts and commands. Just want a menu open the file, drag the mouse, cut pastes, save, my computer boots up now.

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Best Of: text editors

« on: April 27, 2009, 08:45 PM »

Also if you have more time than money you can get XEmacs, some Windows ports of vi, and edt.  There was a cool fast free Dos editor called BlackBeard. The thing that was unique about it at the time was it did column cut & paste.

Also very small for putting on a WinPE or other emergency disk with real Dos programs for editing small files.

The nice thing about XEmacs for Windows is it has the menus to click with the mouse until you learn the hotkey combinations and commands.

One thing that drives me crazy is editors that don't have a pattern match search & replace that lets you append to the found pattern. I believe the DEC EDT had this ability and I'm sure a lot of the unix/linux editors do too. Coming from Dos/Windows I get frustrated jumping in and out of edit mode like in vi.  When I was doing Linux a lot I used it just enough to see that if you kept up with it you could rock & roll.  Commands to rework whole regions of files and shuffle the paragraphs around etc... if you could keep from ripping your hair out while learning it.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Create folder structure or path

« on: April 27, 2009, 07:42 PM »

Overinflated?  I was just thinking my humility has been holding me back all these years!! heh heh

Thank you.  I'm glad the OP posted the question because I'm new to ahk too and I didn't know that function was there.  Now I also have another handy small util.

I compiled it and zipped it up with a readme:

http://www.favessoft.com/hotkeys.html

Just scroll to the bottom of the page to download.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Create folder structure or path

« on: April 27, 2009, 07:10 PM »

AHK has a function to make the folder chain, so that part is easy.

This script provides an input box.  If you type (or paste)an absolute path such as c:\temp\temp\mytemp it will create the folder if it doesn't exist. If you type a path say test\test\mytest   it will start the chain in the working directory(where the script is located.) At the end it opens the folder so you can at least drag & drop the file(s) into it.  Guess I'm a bit lazy

[Select]

;
; AutoHotkey Version: 1.x
; Language:       English
; Platform:       Win9x/NT
; Author:         MilesAhead
;
; Script Function:
; Creates new folder chain and opens terminal folder
;

#NoEnv  ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
#NoTrayIcon
SendMode Input  ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%  ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.
InputBox,DirName,CreateDir,Enter New Folder to Create
If ErrorLevel
Exit
IfNotExist,%DirName%
FileCreateDir,%DirName%
run explorer %DirName%

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Create folder structure or path

« on: April 27, 2009, 06:03 PM »

Does this look like what you mean?
http://www.codeproje.../Folder_Utility.aspx

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Developer's Corner / Re: Hotkey nostalgia

« on: April 27, 2009, 02:14 PM »

I had to type in 13 different files of assembler source and assemble 'em all together

-MilesAhead (April 27, 2009, 12:43 PM)

For the C=64, I think I typed in all four suits from a deck of cards... "The Transactor", if I recall aright? 

-cranioscopical (April 27, 2009, 02:00 PM)

The one I did is in the pic here
http://www.amazon.co...ref=nikolaibezroukov

The program was called diskpatch I guess since you could edit a sector at a time with a little hex editor interface.

As you can see they mixed up the title and the picture but that pic was the book I had.
How can you forget Mr. WhiteShirt(tm) sitting on the stool there with the little 14" monitor?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What are the options for restricting access to applications?

« on: April 27, 2009, 12:52 PM »

Doug Knox Windows® XP Security Console does that.
 (see attachment in previous post)

-PhilB66 (April 26, 2009, 08:41 PM)

Wish somebody made one for Vista.  The best freebie I think I've seen so far for Vista is a utility called Shadow Explorer

The mechanism for shadow copies is there in the lesser versions of Vista(at least it's in Home Premium anyway) and this little GUI is like an undelete program.  Browses through dates of shadow copy sets until you find the file you want to restore.  Comes in handy occasionally for those of use without the Property Page that gets old versions of files.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Hotkey nostalgia

« on: April 27, 2009, 12:43 PM »

I think I remember that OnCall.  Plus there were a lot of good ones in PC Magazine.  I can't remember specific ones though. I'd have to look in archives.

The biggest ordeal with those little assembler programs was some little disk sector editor in a Peter Norton book. They didn't give you a floppy with the code.  I had to type in 13 different files of assembler source and assemble 'em all together to get this little com program.  Good thing I took typing 101 or I wouldn't have gotten through it.  The thing actually worked when finished, which is always nice.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Announcement: Way Simple Folder Cache for Windows

« on: April 27, 2009, 12:27 PM »

I added a double-click "simulation" to allow launching one folder by double-clicking the mouse.  It's a bit flaky.  Maybe as some time goes by I'll figure out how to smooth it out a bit.  Seems like 1/10th of the time it just doesn't want to work.

Edit: try v. 1.62.  Smoothed the double-click out a bit, but not perfect. I did fix a memory leak though, so definitely update.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Hotkey nostalgia

« on: April 26, 2009, 11:14 PM »

I remember the name Software Carousel.  I thought there was a free one I got though. It's been so long I don't remember if it was a demo or a freebie. I definitely remember the names Topview and Carousel though. I seem to remember the Byte Magazine columnist that did Chaos Manor seemed to always talk about firing up DesqView.

The stuff I used was probably trial versions or demos.  I did too much programming on the machine to keep something like that working very long.