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General Software Discussion / Re: Pixarra Pixel Studio and Icon Editing

« on: October 03, 2020, 04:03 PM »

Regarding icon creation, I've used Greenfish Icon Editor Pro (FOSS) for many many years.

http://greenfishsoftware.org/gfie.php

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Context Menu Buttons (shellex)

« on: October 02, 2020, 10:00 AM »

Cool idea and mockup.    Unfortunately, with standard Windows menus like Explorer uses, I do not think this is possible.  Microsoft Office does not use standard Windows menus, hence its ability to do what you see in that screenshot above.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Internet wifi utility

« on: September 17, 2020, 02:36 PM »

I am obtaining frequent warning windows , but the connection seems not lost.

-Contro (September 17, 2020, 11:56 AM)

Try using a different IP like Google's DNS servers.  8.8.8.8 or 4.4.4.4
Also, make sure the "Fire alert only once per consecutive host down events" option is checked as well.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Internet wifi utility

« on: September 16, 2020, 10:27 PM »

You could try my Tray Host Checker utility.

https://www.dcmember...d/tray-host-checker/

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Post New Requests Here / MOVED: I would love a hotkey or desktop icon to disable/enable my default audio device

« on: June 18, 2020, 11:15 AM »

This topic has been moved to Finished Programs.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=50025.0

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: I would love a hotkey or desktop icon to disable/enable my default audio device

« on: June 18, 2020, 11:15 AM »

Thanks, Nod5.  I'll mark this thread as solved and move it.

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Post New Requests Here / MOVED: Coding Snack Request SOLVED: Quick toggle some monitors

« on: June 17, 2020, 03:42 PM »

This topic has been moved to Finished Programs.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=50027.0

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: Quick toggle some monitors

« on: June 17, 2020, 03:41 PM »

Got it working.   
Problem solved.

The GUI was useful as the monitor #s were not what one would expect.
The SwitchOnOff commandline option worked imperfectly to toggle the monitors (one monitor was not toggling back on properly), so I used 2 hotkeys in AHK, one to turn the monitors off, and another to turn them back on.

-mouser (June 17, 2020, 03:29 PM)

Right on.  I'll move this thread.

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: Quick toggle some monitors

« on: June 17, 2020, 02:36 PM »

Thanks skwire, looks like MuliMonitorTool will do exactly what I want 
I will report.

-mouser (June 17, 2020, 01:01 PM)

Right on.  I'm sure you'll find out soon enough but, to work properly, the monitors would have to be DDC/CI capable.

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: Quick toggle some monitors

« on: June 17, 2020, 09:54 AM »

This is actually pretty tricky programmatically.  I'd recommend using Nir Sofer's MultiMonitorTool program.  It's a GUI program, but fully commandline controllable.  You could easily create a toggle shortcut like this:

[Select]

c:\path\to\MultiMonitorTool.exe /SwitchOffOn 2 3 4

Of course, run the tool first to get the proper monitor numbers.

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« on: June 08, 2020, 01:10 AM »

Picked up a portable car jump starter

-4wd (June 08, 2020, 12:09 AM)

I have similar in each vehicle and used them successfully on mine and other motorist's vehicles.  The others motorists always amazed when I bust that out instead of jumper cables.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Good Freeware Audio Editor?

« on: May 29, 2020, 06:13 AM »

What is a good program for editing .wav sound only files?

-holt (May 29, 2020, 05:10 AM)

Audacity is usually mentioned for this purpose.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Create Patterned Subdirectories, (Move Folders)

« on: May 28, 2020, 12:02 PM »

Here's an AutoHotkey solution for the first part:

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. myDestFolder := "c:\tmp" ; Change this to suit.
2.  
3. myTuples := GetTuples( "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", 3 )
4.  
5. Loop, Parse, myTuples, `n, `r
6. {
7.     If ( A_LoopField )
8.     {
9.         FileCreateDir, % myDestFolder . "\" . A_LoopField
10.     }
11. }
12.  
13. /*
14.     GetTuples.ahk
15.     Copyright (C) 2010,2012,2013 Antonio Fran?a
16.  
17.     This script is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
18.     it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
19.     published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
20.     License, or (at your option) any later version.
21.  
22.     This script is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
23.     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
24.     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
25.     GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
26.  
27.     You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
28.     along with this script.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
29. */
30.  
31. ;========================================================================
32. ;
33. ; Function:     GetTuples (aka Arrange)
34. ; Description:  Arranges a given input into all possible N-tuples
35. ; URL (+info):  https://bit.ly/Sip44M
36. ;
37. ; Last Update:  02/February/2013 04:50 BRT
38. ;
39. ; Created by MasterFocus
40. ; - https://github.com/MasterFocus
41. ; - http://masterfocus.ahk4.net
42. ; - http://autohotkey.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=88198
43. ;
44. ;========================================================================
45.  
46. GetTuples(p_List,p_Pick,p_InputD="",p_InputO=" `t",p_OutputDin=""
47. ,p_OutputDout="`n",p_Reverse=0,p_Offset=0,p_Count=0,p_Func="",p_Valid=0) {
48.     If ( p_List = "" ) OR ( p_Pick < 1 )
49.         Return
50.     StringSplit, l_Arr, p_List, %p_InputD%, %p_InputO%
51.     Loop, %p_Pick%
52.         l_CharIndex%A_Index% := p_Reverse ? l_Arr0 : 1
53.     l_IsFunc := IsFunc(p_Func), p_Offset := Abs(p_Offset)
54.     If ( p_Count > (l_TotalTuples := l_Arr0 ** p_Pick) ) OR ( p_Count = 0 )
55.         p_Count := l_TotalTuples - p_Offset
56.     If ( p_Valid > l_TotalTuples ) OR ( p_Valid = 0 )
57.         p_Valid := p_Count
58.     Loop, %l_TotalTuples% {
59.         l_Result := ""
60.         Loop, %p_Pick%
61.             l_CharIndex := l_CharIndex%A_Index%, l_Result .= p_OutputDin l_Arr%l_CharIndex%
62.         Loop, %p_Pick% {
63.             l_Idx := p_Pick-(A_Index-1)
64.             If p_Reverse {
65.                 If ( ( l_CharIndex%l_Idx% -= 1 ) >= 1 )
66.                     Break
67.                 l_CharIndex%l_Idx% := l_Arr0
68.             }
69.             Else {
70.                 If ( ( l_CharIndex%l_Idx% += 1 ) <= l_Arr0 )
71.                     Break
72.                 l_CharIndex%l_Idx% := 1
73.             }
74.         }
75.         If ( A_Index-1 < p_Offset )
76.             Continue
77.         l_Result := SubStr(l_Result,1+StrLen(p_OutputDin)), l_Output .= l_IsFunc
78.             ? (((l_Dummy := %p_Func%(l_Result))<>"") ? (p_OutputDout l_Dummy, p_Valid--)
79.             : "") : (p_OutputDout l_Result, p_Valid--)
80.         If !( (--p_Count) AND p_Valid )
81.             Break
82.     }
83.     Return SubStr(l_Output,1+StrLen(p_OutputDout))
84. }

Some notes:

• You cannot create three letter folders or files with the following names: aux, con, nul, & prn
• The DOS move command _does_ work for folders.

What's the use case for the second part?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Sort/organize mp3 files by bitrate, into folders

« on: May 16, 2020, 03:16 PM »

Skwire, your Tags2Folders is about as close as they come.  Just need the additional token bitrate....

-nkormanik (May 14, 2020, 11:26 PM)

Added in v1.1.2.  See here: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=19543.msg438418#msg438418

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Tag2Folder-New Feature added 1.0.3 'Close Tag2Folders after Conversion'

« on: May 16, 2020, 03:15 PM »

Website | Download
v1.1.2 - 2020-05-16
    + Added $bitrate token.  (Thanks, nkormanik)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Sort/organize mp3 files by bitrate, into folders

« on: May 13, 2020, 09:28 AM »

Looking for a way to sort/organize mp3 files in a folder into a set of folders by bitrate:

320 kbps mp3s --> appropriate folder named "320"
192 kbps mp3s --> appropriate folder named "192"

-nkormanik (May 13, 2020, 07:55 AM)

What happens if the files are VBR (Variable Bit Rate)?  If you have VBR files, you will end up with a mess.

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General Software Discussion / Re: WikiWord Linking in MS Word

« on: May 08, 2020, 02:25 PM »

Even though I use Markdown, there are certain things that I prefer the AsciiDoc (or other markup formats) way of doing it.  You already mentioned one of them -- the use of underscores.  It's non-intuitive that Markdown formats _this_ as this.  WTH?    I mean, they're underscores...they look like underlines, for goodness sake.   I would have preferred italics use forward slashes and be formatted so that /this/ turns into this.  However, some folks have trouble knowing which slash is a forward slash and which is a backward slash, so I can understand that there might have been some confusion because backslashes are used to escape characters.  Using backslashes, you can write: \_this\_ which would appear as: _this_.  As it stands now, to underline text in Markdown, you have to use <u></u> or <ins></ins> tags.  Ugly.
 
I agree that neither format is the be all, end all.   However, at some point, one needs to pick a format and just use it.  If one worries what they're missing from other formats, nothing gets done.   

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: NANY 2020 Mug-shots

« on: May 07, 2020, 02:56 PM »

Time to build a new shelf in preparation for NANY 2021!

-Deozaan (May 01, 2020, 12:21 PM)

Got plenty of shelves...

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Living Room / Re: Pandemic Quarantine DonationCoder Zoom Meet and Greet May 2nd

« on: May 06, 2020, 04:14 PM »

I'm game for whenever.

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General Software Discussion / Re: WikiWord Linking in MS Word

« on: May 03, 2020, 10:20 PM »

Thanks for this!  I've tried a few, but this one has syncing which the others haven't so perhaps this will be my endgame

-wraith808 (May 03, 2020, 02:20 PM)

You're welcome.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

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General Software Discussion / Re: WikiWord Linking in MS Word

« on: May 03, 2020, 07:19 AM »

a better way to manage my texts and research

-m9833 (May 03, 2020, 12:08 AM)

I am a HUGE fan of Markdown and use Joplin extensively for this purpose.  Think "Markdown Evernote" and you have it.

https://joplinapp.org/

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: NANY 2020 Mug-shots

« on: May 01, 2020, 10:40 AM »

Where is a mug from 2007?

-panzer (May 01, 2020, 08:37 AM)

As tomos said, the 2006 mug is actually the 2007 mug.  I wrote a funny little story about it.  Read mouser's post and then mine afterwards:

https://www.donation....msg145108#msg145108

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: NANY 2020 Mug-shots

« on: May 01, 2020, 06:33 AM »

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Living Room / Re: Pandemic Quarantine DonationCoder Zoom Meet and Greet May 2nd

« on: April 26, 2020, 09:35 PM »

I'm down for any meeting, any time.   

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Living Room / Re: Pandemic Quarantine DonationCoder Zoom Meet and Greet May 2nd

« on: April 23, 2020, 06:26 PM »

I'm in.  I use Zoom/GoToMeeting/WebEx/Jitsi every day for work.  What's another conference call?  Hahahaha.