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Post New Requests Here / Re: When holding control and using volume keys on keyboard, change wave

« on: March 28, 2009, 08:45 AM »

Be sure to have the cursor in the top box and press the key. If it's not recognized then something might interfere. Do you use any keyboard utility? I have a Genius keyboard and I uninstalled the supplied key-mapping utility immediately and replaced it with HotkeyP.

Here's what I use: (see attachment in previous post)

-yksyks (March 28, 2009, 06:25 AM)

I've a Logitech Media Keyboard, used with Setpoint

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Post New Requests Here / Re: When holding control and using volume keys on keyboard, change wave

« on: March 28, 2009, 08:37 AM »

@Coeluh

Why is Volumouse not working for you? It does exactly what you have asked for.

-PhilB66 (March 26, 2009, 07:01 PM)

Omg. I want to use my VOLUME BUTTONS ON MY KEYBOARD. not the scrollwheel on my mouse.

-Coeluh (March 28, 2009, 05:49 AM)

I guess you never really bothered to explore Volumouse, now did you? Again, you could USE HOTKEYS INSTEAD OF THE MOUSE WHEEL with it.
 (see attachment in previous post)
[Off - topic] I thought I would never have to ask but... is there an "ignore this person" forum feature and how do I activate it? [/Off - topic]

-PhilB66 (March 28, 2009, 06:53 AM)

I'm terribly sorry. I even did open that menu, but I just was looking too fast. I'm stupid, yeah.

But I can't put in the volume button.It does not recognise it.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: When holding control and using volume keys on keyboard, change wave

« on: March 28, 2009, 05:52 AM »

May I humbly suggest HotkeyP again? It works like a charm. Thanks for the idea, I just implemented it. I'm also using Shift-Volume buttons for attenuation when a phone call arrives, for example.

-yksyks (March 27, 2009, 03:49 AM)

How did you add the volume button as a input thingy? When I press it, it won't show up.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: When holding control and using volume keys on keyboard, change wave

« on: March 28, 2009, 05:49 AM »

@Coeluh

Why is Volumouse not working for you? It does exactly what you have asked for.

-PhilB66 (March 26, 2009, 07:01 PM)

Omg. I want to use my VOLUME BUTTONS ON MY KEYBOARD. not the scrollwheel on my mouse.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: When holding control and using volume keys on keyboard, change wave

« on: March 26, 2009, 03:27 PM »

If you've downloaded AutoHokey as often suggested, the help file has a section called 'Script showcase' and one of the scripts therein is the wonderful "Volume On-Screen-Display (OSD) -- by Rajat". Just adjust the keys to your preferences as follows...

[Select]

HotKey, Volume_Up, vol_MasterUp
HotKey, Volume_Down, vol_MasterDown
HotKey, Ctrl & Volume_Up, vol_WaveUp      
HotKey, Ctrl & Volume_Down, vol_WaveDown
HotKey, Volume_Mute, vol_Mute

-SleepingWolf (March 26, 2009, 03:07 PM)

It does not work How do hook the volume buttons?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: When holding control and using volume keys on keyboard, change wave

« on: March 26, 2009, 10:54 AM »

VoluMouse. Nothing more to be said, really. Enjoy!!  

-BigJim (March 25, 2009, 03:14 PM)

Nice app, but just not what I am looking for...

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Post New Requests Here / When holding control and using volume keys on keyboard, change wave

« on: March 25, 2009, 01:23 PM »

Is this possible? Almost every keyboard is equipped with a pair of fancy media keys: volume up, volume down and sometimes even mute. Sometimes I want to adjust the volume of the wave control. I thought: Maybe some nice little piece of software can do this. When I hold my control key and then adjust the volume, the wave gets affected instead of the normal volume control. And maybe some volume can be displayed on screen.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Dim inactive monitor after x seconds

« on: March 25, 2009, 01:20 PM »

Test this script for me, I'm single monitor at the moment.

It only shows the level of inactivity of the monitors.

Skrommel

[Select]

monitor1limit=60
monitor2limit=60

#SingleInstance,Force
#NoEnv
#Persistent,On
CoordMode,Mouse,Screen

SysGet,monitorcount,MonitorCount
Loop,% monitorcount
{
  SysGet,monitor%A_Index%,Monitor,%A_Index%
  monitor%A_Index%idle=0 
}

SetTimer,CHECK,1000
Return

CHECK:
times=
MouseGetPos,mx,my,mwin,mctrl
Loop,% monitorcount
{
  If A_TimeIdlePhysical>1000
    monitor%A_Index%idle+=1
  Else
  If (mx>=monitor%A_Index%Left And mx<=monitor%A_Index%Right And my>=monitor%A_Index%Top And my<=monitor%A_Index%Bottom)
    monitor%A_Index%idle=0
  times.=A_Index "=" monitor%A_Index%idle "`n"
  If (monitor%A_Index%idle>monitor%A_Index%limit And monitor%A_Index%limit>0)
    GoSub,DIM
}
ToolTip,% times
Return

DIM:
MsgBox,DIM!
Return

-skrommel (March 24, 2009, 06:21 PM)

It shows a tooltip and 1=(secs) 2=(secs)

When you do nothing they start adding up by one. Of you move the mouse on a monitor, the monitor (1 or 2) count resets. Good so far eh? But when you move the mouse, the number of the monitor that is not active also stops adding up. I changed the limit to 5 secs, because I did not wanted to wait. It said DIM! after 5 secs of 'inactivity' on a monitor.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: DimSaver, a better PowerDimmer screensaver alternative

« on: March 24, 2009, 11:12 AM »

Question here: Could there be some option to dim the screen after x minutes and then after another x minutes turn off the monitor?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Dim inactive monitor after x seconds

« on: March 24, 2009, 11:10 AM »

The time should be configurable 2 too and also the level of transparency and the time it fades...

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Post New Requests Here / Dim inactive monitor after x seconds

« on: March 24, 2009, 11:06 AM »

I've got a 2screen desktop setup here: One primary display and a secondary. Sometimes when I watch a movie on primary I want to not turn off my secondary monitor but I want to dim it. Sometimes something important happens on the secondary screen and then the primary can be dimmed. Could there be some inactivity delay, based on mouse movements on a dispay and the possibility to select which monitors it affects? Dim screen partially does this, but I'm no coding experd.

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Living Room / Re: Introduction to Google's ad auction

« on: March 22, 2009, 11:17 AM »

Interesting. I didn't even know there was an ad auction.

-Deozaan (March 21, 2009, 01:01 AM)

indeed!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: TV Show/Movie Library - Discussion

« on: March 13, 2009, 09:14 AM »

Ok, my comment: if you watch so many TV shows that you need/want such a program, you might want to think about cutting it down a bit. 

"Television is the creamy filling that distracts us from the substance of our lives."
-- Author unknown

-brotherS (March 10, 2009, 10:36 AM)

You are a parent yourself right?

-Coeluh (March 10, 2009, 05:10 PM)

I'm just someone who came to the conclusion that as much TV as I used to watch is not what will transform my (then) current life situation into my perfect life situation. So I acted and cut down TV hours massively. No regrets.

-brotherS (March 11, 2009, 04:17 AM)

True, but I do have a social life.

-Coeluh (March 11, 2009, 09:26 AM)

I know people with a strong social life who are still miserable quite often. 

Anyway, if TV shows contribute to your happiness, enjoy the show(s)!

-brotherS (March 12, 2009, 04:25 PM)

Well I'm getting back to Counterstrike now, I've to go to school this afternoon in Winnenden. After my Counterstrike game I'll go play lame-ass pingpong.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: TV Show/Movie Library - Discussion

« on: March 13, 2009, 09:04 AM »

Coeluh, due to other commitments, I may not be able to get to this Snack anytime soon.  If anybody else has the time, go for it.  I'll keep it on my list and hope that I can get to it in the future.

-skwire (March 12, 2009, 05:37 PM)

Oh ok thats cool. My request is more clear now, so that is positive thing.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Idea: File Association Snapshot

« on: March 12, 2009, 10:39 AM »

Very good idea, very good explained!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: TV Show/Movie Library - Discussion

« on: March 12, 2009, 10:38 AM »

1) A user enters a path to a folder where (mulitple) tv shows are around.
2) The multimedia files will be scanned and based on filenames
3) more information will be downoaded with the You could see the hierarchy as a tree: TV Show - Season - Episode
4) The app should not run in full screen by default (maybe an option for later on). The most important part is the UI. I want it to be simple but sleek and smooth.
5) The most important part is: When you clicked a file to start playing it, it does open in a custom external media player.

Some thoughts:
1) Easily doable.
2) Are your filenames done according to a personal scheme?  Or, do they follow the typical scene standard e.g. Some.TV.Show.s01e04.avi (the "s01e04" being the important part).
3) I haven't looked into the API much but the fact they even have one bodes well for something like this.
4) Hmmm...full-screen?  I was envisioning just a typical Windows application look.  Did you have something else in mind?
5) Easy.

-skwire (March 11, 2009, 11:50 AM)

2. Yes, all the filenames alread have the markup, but sometimes like: 304 episodename.avi (it's season 3 episode 4) but the total path says: E:/TV Shows/TV Show Name/Season/304 episodename.avi. But sometimes it is 1212 (12th season, 12th episode). Not that hard I guess?
4. If you start with the typical windows application look it will be good. Maybe you can use the graphics that thetvdb provide as a background or something (fanart, it's called).

Did you see the part where the app saves the library to a database?  Is that do-able?

*4: It would be sweet if you could scroll cover flow like trough the thumbs of the episodes! But some simple scroll thing is fine aswel.

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Finished Programs / Re: REQ - Random (real random) file from folder and subfolders

« on: March 12, 2009, 10:33 AM »

New version is out!

14:24 10/03/2009

• Bugfix: When using ALT+F4 to abort the current operation, Pick me! kept running on the background.
• Bugfix: More rounding issues.
• Code cleanup.
• XP Styles support (!)
• Now tracks moved/deleted files.
• Modified dragging code to use  right mouse button. Now you get a nice popup menu.

Download (VB6 runtimes required on Windows 9x/NT/2000)

-scancode (March 10, 2009, 11:31 AM)

Awesome!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: TV Show/Movie Library - Discussion

« on: March 11, 2009, 09:26 AM »

Ok, my comment: if you watch so many TV shows that you need/want such a program, you might want to think about cutting it down a bit. 

"Television is the creamy filling that distracts us from the substance of our lives."
-- Author unknown

-brotherS (March 10, 2009, 10:36 AM)

You are a parent yourself right?

-Coeluh (March 10, 2009, 05:10 PM)

I'm just someone who came to the conclusion that as much TV as I used to watch is not what will transform my (then) current life situation into my perfect life situation. So I acted and cut down TV hours massively. No regrets.

-brotherS (March 11, 2009, 04:17 AM)

True, but I do have a social life.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: TV Show/Movie Library - Discussion

« on: March 10, 2009, 05:10 PM »

Ok, my comment: if you watch so many TV shows that you need/want such a program, you might want to think about cutting it down a bit. 

"Television is the creamy filling that distracts us from the substance of our lives."
-- Author unknown

-brotherS (March 10, 2009, 10:36 AM)

You are a parent yourself right?

i've heard of Media Companion but haven't tried it.

Media Companion is a program created for people who keep large collections of media and wish to catalogue and organise it.

It has the ability to parse media files and download corresponding information from the internet, this includes movie plot, rating, actor details, backdrops, posters and much more.

While the above is largely automatic the program also allows the user to edit all information downloaded, and browse all available posters and backdrops for selection.

-website

• http://www.billyad2000.co.uk/

-lanux128 (March 10, 2009, 10:49 AM)

I've tried it. The UI is in one word terrible. It sucks big time.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: TV Show/Movie Library - Discussion

« on: March 10, 2009, 10:04 AM »

Hi There,

Please leave a message about what you think about this idea.

I've been looking for a perfect app for a year now, and I've still not been able to find anything that totally fits me. What am I looking for? Not a full screen media center like XBMC, nor MediaPortal. This is just a simple app which minimizes to tray. First priority is TV Shows management, but Movies would be nice though.

A user enters a path to a folder where (mulitple) tv shows are around. The multimedia files will be scanned and based on filenames more information will be downoaded with the thetvdb api. (e.g. thumbnail, official title, release date, plot etc) The downloaded information will be stored in a database file (xml maybe? per tv show 1?). You could see the hierarchy as a tree:
TV Show - Season - Episode

The app should not run in full screen by default (maybe an option for later on). The most important part is the UI. I want it to be simple but sleek and smooth.

The most important part is: When you clicked a file to start playing it, it does open in a custom external media player. This is because this app is just a library, not a media center.

Movies could be scraped and added the same way as tv shows, but with some different scraper like imdb.

This is just a way too difficult idea, but it would be sweet if it would work...

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Finished Programs / Re: REQ - Random (real random) file from folder and subfolders

« on: March 10, 2009, 08:57 AM »

I think it is better. Did you do something about the rnd function?

-Coeluh (March 10, 2009, 08:17 AM)

No! :-P
I made the file extension case insensitive.

-scancode (March 10, 2009, 08:52 AM)

Does that give more randomness? I thought it wouldn't.

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Finished Programs / Re: REQ - Random (real random) file from folder and subfolders

« on: March 10, 2009, 08:17 AM »

Ok but I still think it's not really random. I've click my shortcut to get a random file like 10 times, and i got the same one 4 times and some other one 2 times and another one 2 times. Total files: like 100.

-Coeluh (March 09, 2009, 04:23 PM)

Are you running the latest version? It doesn't do that to me!
Try this one.

-scancode (March 09, 2009, 04:26 PM)

I think it is better. Did you do something about the rnd function?

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Shell extension to show total play time of media clips

« on: March 10, 2009, 08:16 AM »

Lol, I've watched some tv show for more than 200 hours.

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Finished Programs / Re: REQ - Random (real random) file from folder and subfolders

« on: March 09, 2009, 04:23 PM »

Ok but I still think it's not really random. I've click my shortcut to get a random file like 10 times, and i got the same one 4 times and some other one 2 times and another one 2 times. Total files: like 100.

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Finished Programs / Re: REQ - Random (real random) file from folder and subfolders

« on: March 09, 2009, 02:51 PM »

I'm curious about the randomness of this script. Could you make a simple thing with the same random-engine as in Pick Me and then wait for user input of:
 - Number of choices
 - Number of times to do the experiment

And then a resultpage where it sums up the number of times each choice has been randomly chosen.

This all is because I sometimes think it's not that random.

-Coeluh (March 09, 2009, 11:45 AM)

It's Visual Basic 6's rnd() function.
 (see attachment in previous post)
What do you suggest? random.org? :-)

-scancode (March 09, 2009, 12:22 PM)

Well I see that the first and the last number are getting a significant lower rate... What's that doc?