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Developer's Corner / Re: Android Emulator Slow? Try Android x86 via VirtualBox (or similar)

« Last post by ewemoa on December 24, 2012, 03:46 AM »

The emulator snapshot capability seems like it can alleviate the situation with the slow start-up:

  http://tools.android...nt/emulatorsnapshots

1027

Developer's Corner / Learn C (and other things...) the Hard Way

« Last post by ewemoa on December 23, 2012, 07:56 PM »

Hearing praise from Josh about Learn Regex the Hard Way, went to take a look and found Learn C the Hard Way.

It doesn't appear to be completed yet, but the lessons I've gone through have been helpful in clarifying and improving my limited understanding of C    (As I often seem to retain things better actually performing actions, the author's approach seems to work pretty well for yours truly.)

Has any one else tried it out?


The current list of topics the author appears to be working on (whether updating old versions or completing first versions) includes:

• Python
• Ruby
• C
• Regex
• SQL
• CLI Crash Course

1028

FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: Akete

« Last post by ewemoa on December 23, 2012, 04:57 AM »

Got some experimental support for utilizing Q-Dir's file association information via its ini file.

1029

Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by ewemoa on December 22, 2012, 10:56 PM »

Déjà vu?

  https://www.donation....msg123398#msg123398

1030

Developer's Corner / Re: Android Emulator Slow? Try Android x86 via VirtualBox (or similar)

« Last post by ewemoa on December 22, 2012, 06:55 AM »

Thanks for the advice

1031

Developer's Corner / Android Emulator Slow? Try Android x86 via VirtualBox (or similar)

« Last post by ewemoa on December 22, 2012, 02:31 AM »

Below are some notes on getting Android x86 working on VirtualBox (thanks to Gothi[c] for the original suggestion and tips in getting it all working!).  (It's unlikely that the steps couldn't be adapted to work with VMWare or similar.)

0. Ensure VirtualBox, the Android SDK, Eclipse, and the ADT are installed appropriately.

1. Download Android x86 Live CD:

     http://www.android-x86.org/download

  There are many there, but for these instructions:

     http://android-x86.g...86-4.0-RC2-eeepc.iso

     sha1:1953717ac1d606d57fc7d7293b367f8025c51b65

2. In VirtualBox create a new virtual machine:

   Type: Linux
   Version: Linux 2.6
   Memory: 512 MB
   Hard disk size: 3 GB

   Network Adapter 1: NAT (eth0 - for ordinary network access from android)
     PCnet-FAST III <- other cards may not work
   Network Adapter 2: Host Only (eth1 - for adb connection -- e.g. for eclipse)
     PCnet-FAST III <- other cards may not work

   IDE Optical Drive: Point to downloaded Android x86 live CD iso

3. Start virtual machine

4. Choose "Installation - Install Android-x86 to harddisk"

5. Choose Create/Modify partitions

6. Choose New -> Primary -> Size (default size)

7. Select Bootable

8. Select Quit

9. Select sda1 Linux VBOX HARDDISK

10. Select ext3

11. Confirm format action

12. Confirm installation of boot loader GRUB

13. Select Yes for /system directory read-write

14. Choose to run Android x86 and wait for it to start up (consider unmounting iso image too)

15. Disable mouse pointer integration for the virtual machine

16. Alt+F1 to get to virtual console (for reference: Alt+F7 to get back to Android UI)

17. netcfg to check network interfaces (eth0 for general net, eth1 for adb)

18. If eth1 is not up: netcfg eth1 up dhcp

19. Note the IP address (e.g. 192.168.56.101)

20. On host machine: via <android-sdk>/platform-tools:

      adb connect 192.168.56.101

21. Start Eclipse

22. Start some Android app via Run in Eclipse UI

23. In resulting dialog, choose running Android (should list one connected
     via 192.168.56.101)

24. If web browsing fails, it may be a DNS problem.  Try the following via a
     virtual console (Alt+F1): setprop net.dns1 <ip-address-of-dns-server>

25. To shutdown via Android UI: Two rapid entries of Host + H

     If the screen locks instead:

      1. Try to unlock and try again

      2. If the lock icon is not draggable, type the menu key (between right win and right control) and try again

    Possibly less safe ways of shutting down or rebooting (preface w/ sync?) via virtual console:

    # reboot -p

   # poweroff

References:

  http://blog.gokifu.com/2011/05/android-x86-faster-emulator/

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: MPH (Media Player Hotkeys)

« Last post by ewemoa on December 21, 2012, 02:35 AM »

Thanks!  Working well here under Windows 7 Pro 64-Bit.

Appreciate the relative path support too 

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2013 Submission - CommandPromptHere for FARR

« Last post by ewemoa on December 21, 2012, 01:39 AM »

For fun, have implemented something like Firefox's about:config:

1. Enumerating variables:


2. Filtering candidates:


3. Editing a value:

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2013 Submission - JSHintHere for FARR

« Last post by ewemoa on December 20, 2012, 07:39 AM »

Added a statusbar menu.

The menu contains an item to re-run JSHint on the last file JSHint was run on.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: calculator

« Last post by ewemoa on December 20, 2012, 06:27 AM »

Hmm...

As an alternative, I tried the following:

• Add %windir%\system32 to Search Folders
• Enable it

Does that work for you?


With %COMMONSTARTMENU% enabled here as well, I need to type:

  calc.exe

for it to work.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: calculator

« Last post by ewemoa on December 20, 2012, 06:16 AM »

Hmm...I just tried via a VirtualBox installation of XP and it worked here.

Don't know if this will help, but in:

  FARR Options ->
    Lists ->
      Search Folders

If I don't have %COMMONSTARTMENU% in the list and enabled, it doesn't work for me either.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: calculator

« Last post by ewemoa on December 20, 2012, 06:10 AM »

For Windows 7, I typed:

  calc

The first results was:

  Calculator.lnk

Launching that brought up (what I think is) the built-in Windows calculator.

Don't know about other versions of Windows.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2013 Submission - Super Simple Photo Resizer

« Last post by ewemoa on December 19, 2012, 10:45 PM »

Thanks for the explanation 

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: MPH (Media Player Hotkeys)

« Last post by ewemoa on December 19, 2012, 10:41 PM »

Sometimes I have MPH running while no media players are running -- I got to thinking it might be convenient in such a situation for an appropriate player to get started up if one of the configured MPH hotkeys was entered.  In my brief testing and scanning of the documentation, I got the impression that this is not how things work currently.  Assuming that's correct, how does this idea sound?

Random implementation-related thoughts...

I guess that somehow MPH would need to know or become aware of paths of appropriate starting programs (e.g. if a player is launched via a batch file, the path of that batch file).  FWIW, I wouldn't mind specifying such information in an ini file

If MPH did have that info, may be upon receiving a hotkey, if it found no players running corresponding to the hotkey, it could start the top-most matching player.

P.S. The suggested global hotkey idea for rewinding has been working ok.  Thanks again for the pointer 

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2013 Submission - Super Simple Photo Resizer

« Last post by ewemoa on December 19, 2012, 06:40 PM »

How did you decide on what resizing (scaling?) algorithm to use?

...and what did you decide on?

1041

N.A.N.Y. 2013 / N.A.N.Y 2013 Submission - JSHintHere for FARR

« Last post by ewemoa on December 18, 2012, 07:32 PM »

A FARR plugin to execute JSHint on a FARR file result.


Screenshot








Description

Execution of JSHint on a FARR file result.

The motivating use case was the difficulty in finding errors when developing FScript-based plugins.  As FScript is Windows Scripting Host (WSH) oriented, this plugin uses the WSH support of JSHint.


Installation / Uninstallation / Requirements

It's a FARR plugin so installation and uninstallation are as usual.  Tested under Windows 7 64-bit with FARR 2.203.01.  May work for other versions of Windows.


Downloads

Plugin

md5:b2b26e3200670edf066ae0b7991142cc
sha1:6751a03cef80cda8b23f080cdb1c348e4502269e

README.txt

JSHintHere

Purpose:

  Convenient execution of JSHint on a file FARR result.

Usage:

  Running JSHint on a .js file:

  1. Find a Javascript (WSH) file using FARR.

  2. Bring up a context-sensitive menu for the file result.

  3. Choose "JSHint Here".

  4. Observe results in FARR's memo view.

  Re-running JSHint on the last file operated on:

  1. Via FARR's status bar, choose the JSHint menu icon.

  2. Choose the "Rerun Most Recent" menu item.

  3. Observe results in FARR's memo view.

  Re-running JSHint on files operated on earlier:

  1. Via FARR's status bar, choose the JSHint menu icon.

  2. Choose the "Rerun with..." menu item.

  3. Choose a file from the submenu.

  4. Observe results in FARR's memo view.

Notes:

  The motivating use case was the difficulty in finding errors when
  developing FScript-based plugins.  As FScript is Windows
  Scripting Host (WSH) oriented, this plugin uses the WSH support of
  JSHint.

Credits:

  Find And Run Robot

    mouser

  FScript

    ecaradec

  Icons

    http://jshint.com/
    https://www.fatcow.com/free-icons

  JSHint

    Anton Kovalyov
    Wolfgang Kluge
    Josh Perez
    Brent Lintner

  JSLint

    Douglas Crockford

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Developer's Corner / Carmack on Static Code Analysis Tools

« Last post by ewemoa on December 18, 2012, 07:29 AM »

I was using JSHint today and found:

  John Carmack on static code analysis tools - QuakeCon '11 keynote

via:

  The About page for JSHint


I'm not sure if the following is a transcript, but there appears to be much overlap:

  Static Code Analysis by John Carmack @ #AltDevBlogADay

1043

Backup Guide / Re: Linux: best way to backup Windows, etc partitions

« Last post by ewemoa on December 17, 2012, 05:38 PM »

ATM: not into partition imaging.  Prefer fresh install, with new registry, etc. All my data & archives are on different partitions to my op sys partitions, so it is very quick & easy to fresh install.

-gregzeng (November 29, 2012, 07:21 AM)

This is close to what I've been trying for a bit.  I try to stick with portable applications and things that don't modify the registry.  Compared to some years back, it seems easier these days.

1044

Living Room / Re: Why does Google keep changing the bar menu order/visibility??

« Last post by ewemoa on December 17, 2012, 12:31 AM »

When you look at more and even more, you see other things right?

If you do this across enough people, won't those other things being seen eventually be clicked on more than otherwise?

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Living Room / Re: Why does Google keep changing the bar menu order/visibility??

« Last post by ewemoa on December 16, 2012, 10:33 PM »

I'm not sure I'm following, but is it the case that they are causing you to look through options you'd otherwise not see?

If so, then may be that's the point...

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: MPH (Media Player Hotkeys)

« Last post by ewemoa on December 16, 2012, 04:59 PM »

Thanks for the response.

No, it's not.  I designed MPH with the intention that only the main or basic actions of players would be supported.  You could set up global hotkeys for these actions directly within VLC, no?

-skwire (December 16, 2012, 08:42 AM)

Aha.  I didn't remember the global hotkeys angle earlier.  I will give this a try.  Thanks for the idea 

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013: Please post requests!

« Last post by ewemoa on December 16, 2012, 08:01 AM »

I have been looking for something in this or somewhat similar area.

What I've found so far is EitherMouse, though I haven't tried that yet.

Another angle might be to be able to save a stack of locations for the pointing device cursor and be able to switch among them easily, say via some hotkeys.

One use case I have in mind is for switching between applications on different displays.  Say there's a video being displayed on one display and an editor open on another -- if one is taking notes and navigating the video, moving the pointer can quickly become tiresome (at least for yours truly ).

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: MPH (Media Player Hotkeys)

« Last post by ewemoa on December 16, 2012, 01:32 AM »

I'd like to be able to jump back a bit in the currently playing video but I have not succeeded in figuring out how to do this with MPH.

Is this currently possible?

I think in VLC there are a variety of actions:

  Shift+Left -> very short backwards jump
  Alt+Left -> short backwards jump
  Ctrl+Left -> medium backwards jump
  Ctrl+Alt+Left -> long backwards jump

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by ewemoa on December 15, 2012, 11:32 PM »

It looks like the stuff I used to line our cupboards. Never thought to use it elsewhere though. That might be because it's all used already.

-Renegade (December 15, 2012, 11:21 PM)

He he.  It turns out what the local supply was purchased for was to keep certain other things in place so it was all used up at the time -- but then came rearrangement time and suddenly there were multiple articles begging to be used elsewhere

IIRC, I bought it in a roll. Was that how yours came?

I don't remember cutting anything -- I think these were pre-sized individual pieces.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: MPH (Media Player Hotkeys)

« Last post by ewemoa on December 15, 2012, 10:58 PM »

Written up at ghacks today:
http://www.ghacks.ne...edia-player-hotkeys/

-mouser (December 22, 2011, 09:14 AM)

Media player hotkeys allow you to control the media player with the keyboard and even if the program window is not the active window on the system. That’s handy if you are working in fullscreen applications or do not want to switch regularly between the window you are working in and the media player window.

-ghack article

With multiple displays, it seems a matter of time before one wants to have a video playing on one display while working on another display -- e.g. watching a development-oriented video tutorial on one display while following tutorial steps on another.

In my environment, it turns out that the media keys are not very convenient to use so I chose to use the fourth mouse button for play / pause using VLC.  This seems to be working well so far with MPH  

Thanks skwire for MPH (and mouser for the article link)


P.S. I appreciate the "Start minimized", "Minimize to tray", and "Close to tray" options!