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General Software Discussion / Re: Locate32 Live Search - a web GUI for Locate32

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 05, 2011, 09:56 AM »

Thanks for the carefully prepared briefing. Explanations are seldom as clear as this!

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Living Room / Re: Hoping for a Patent Bloodbath XD

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 04, 2011, 08:28 PM »

Connecting through the forehead, but only for the supercilious — the soon-to-be-revealed iBrow.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling capture is not working

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 04, 2011, 01:29 PM »

Doesn't work with notepad.
Just captures what appears in the window, minus the last line

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling capture is not working

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 04, 2011, 01:09 PM »

Firefox 7

I'll try with notepad...

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Living Room / Re: Hoping for a Patent Bloodbath XD

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 04, 2011, 01:08 PM »

We can dream, can't we? They haven't taken that away from us yet.

-f0dder (October 04, 2011, 12:57 PM)

The forthcoming Apple dream tax is a core strategy!

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Living Room / Re: Death and the net: How to log off gracefully for the very last time

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 04, 2011, 01:04 PM »

boom boom...

-Target (October 03, 2011, 10:00 PM)

Over and under out!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling capture is not working

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 04, 2011, 11:58 AM »

One thing people could do to help me is see if scrolling capture works AFTER you go into your windows display settings and turn off Aero Glass theme (select something like Windows Basic theme).

On W7-64 it's even more disturbing under Classic. The window just sits there flashing. Great if you want to induce an epileptic episode but otherwise...

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Living Room / Re: Death and the net: How to log off gracefully for the very last time

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 03, 2011, 09:40 PM »

I'm all for people having a blast at my funeral

-mwb1100 (October 03, 2011, 08:48 PM)

Should be a barrel of laughs!

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Living Room / Re: Death and the net: How to log off gracefully for the very last time

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 03, 2011, 07:45 PM »

Holy Smoke? I don't think I'd want to shell out for that!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: GOG giving away Broken Sword-Shadow of the Templars thru 10/1/11

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 03, 2011, 10:40 AM »

especially when you have to ask everyone you meet the same questions!

-Carol Haynes (October 03, 2011, 09:34 AM)

That faithfully mimics real life in my case ... the first question being "Who am I?"
Drives my wife nuts, especially as the second question is "Who are you?"

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: WinSendkeys: Latest version thread. Version 3.2.1, released 2011-10-01

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 01, 2011, 02:39 PM »

I could change that, but I'm not sure it would make you any happier

-Ath (October 01, 2011, 01:53 PM)

No, it's fine for me. It's rather like my car, I can travel further once I remember where I last saw it.   

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: WinSendkeys: Latest version thread. Version 3.2.1, released 2011-10-01

« Last post by cranioscopical on October 01, 2011, 12:46 PM »

I've added some small changes to WinSendKeys, so the -v commandline parameter can be set from the (optional) ini file, and updated the documentation with all settings that can be configured in the ini file.

-Ath (October 01, 2011, 08:42 AM)

More good stuff!

It works very nicely for me now that I realize that my .stro file needs to be in the folder with WinButtons and not in the sub-folder with WinSendKeys.
I'm calling the .stro file from a button with
command1 = -send -f PSnewLayer.stro -v [CLASS:Photoshop]
which finds WinSendKeys in the sub-folder but not the .stro

Clearly, I have as good a grasp on this as usual. I wonder, how ever did I manage to earn a living?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: WinSendkeys: Latest version thread. Version 3.2.0, released 2011-09-30

« Last post by cranioscopical on September 30, 2011, 11:30 PM »

Holy Moses, you don't waste any time do you?
That's amazing.

Thank you very much indeed!

Off to download now, all you have to do is sit back and wait for the dumb questions to roll in 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Improving Region Select Capture Mode

« Last post by cranioscopical on September 29, 2011, 02:31 PM »

And here. Region from 2 main screens and a MIMO

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.101.01 - Sep 20, 2011

« Last post by cranioscopical on September 29, 2011, 02:25 PM »

have you seen [url=https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=26648.0]Scrolling capture is not working

-tomos (September 29, 2011, 02:10 PM)

Yeah, thanks Tomos. My intention was only to report what's happening with this beta. (It's the same phenomenon in IE9)

Other tools that I have for scrolling captures also munge the result at screen/page splits in FF.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.101.01 - Sep 20, 2011

« Last post by cranioscopical on September 29, 2011, 01:58 PM »

The extended crosshairs solve a long-standing problem for me where, because of the background grey that I use, I couldn't even see where I was. 

Scrolling capture in FF7 creates a series of 'cuts to black' and results in a single image; it does nothing that I can see in IE7. I say this in the full expectation that I'm missing something, I'll have to go back and look at the videos, but in case it's happening to anyone else.

I wonder if the DisplayLink driver is playing a role here.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: WinSendkeys: Latest version thread. Version 3.1.0, released 2011-06-21

« Last post by cranioscopical on September 28, 2011, 12:51 PM »

Ath,

I have a friend whom I'd like to set up with a MIMO and the fruits of your labour.

I'm thinking that will need either a couple of days of setup, while we figure out habits and needs, or some kind of Procrustean utility that can auto-generate a fixed screenful of buttons then loop through each one, requesting:

application context		filepath
a caption	forced format	text
an image	forced format	filepath
executable		filepath	params
keystrokes		keys

the problem with the latter being subsequent editing for omissions, errors etc.

Does that approach make sense to you?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: WinSendkeys: Latest version thread. Version 3.1.0, released 2011-06-21

« Last post by cranioscopical on September 28, 2011, 12:49 PM »

@Ath Has this one been covered?

Is there now a way, or what is the best way to send a series of key strokes, then a delay, then another series? Or a series, then wait for an event, then another series?

I tried a couple of ways but obviously haven't understood the correct method.
I want to: -send [CLASS:win] key key… <delay here> key…
in this case would <delay here> be -xd 1000, or can't it be inline like that?

With -f, is it possible to have more than one .stro file by simply using a different name for each?

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands

« Last post by cranioscopical on September 28, 2011, 06:36 AM »

@Ath Has this one been covered?

Is there now a way, or what is the best way to send a series of key strokes, then a delay, then another series? Or a series, then wait for an event, then another series?

I have a friend whom I'd like to set up with a MIMO and the fruits of your labour.

I'm thinking that will need either a couple of days of setup, while we figure out habits and needs, or some kind of Procrustean utility that can auto-generate a fixed screenful of buttons then loop through each one, requesting:

application context		filepath
a caption	forced format	text
an image	forced format	filepath
executable		filepath	params
keystrokes		keys

the problem with the latter being subsequent editing for omissions, errors etc.

[ this post copied to the WinSendKeys thread ]

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by cranioscopical on September 27, 2011, 05:55 PM »

As promised:

-skwire (September 27, 2011, 05:23 PM)

Thanks, it's  rather hot here so I just programmed us for some Is'd t-storms.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands

« Last post by cranioscopical on September 27, 2011, 05:45 PM »

(Don't forget to post a photo of your 10" screen when you've set some buttons up.)

-nudone (September 27, 2011, 02:24 PM)

I mentioned that I looked at the 10" screens but I decided against one — for the time being at least. Now I'm glad that I did: the 7" screen seems just right for the job.
I've yet to decide whether or not I want more than very basic graphics on the buttons. Colour groupings, probably, but icons/images — not so sure.

I was up most of the night working on this, trying to see what I could stitch together but I think I finally found the ideal button layout.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands

« Last post by cranioscopical on September 27, 2011, 02:20 PM »

Simplest would be to *only* configure the path to WinSendKeys in WinButtons.wbuc

-Ath (September 27, 2011, 02:47 AM)

Great! I had no trouble with WinSendKeys but that saves explicit pathing in each wbuc. I used to know about this but I've forgotten everything, did I mention that I used to know about this?

So, a semi-colon marks a comment. Is there a block-comment syntax? (Doesn't matter if not).

Everything's rolling along just fine. Now I have a simple-to-program, context-aware touch-screen controller with as many (or few) buttons as I need in order to drive just about any mainstream application.

                

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands

« Last post by cranioscopical on September 27, 2011, 02:18 AM »

Have you configured WinSendKeys? The path is probably different.

-nudone (September 27, 2011, 02:04 AM)

Yes, I managed to get the right path. That's one out of ten so far, I believe.
Nice job on those templates 

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands

« Last post by cranioscopical on September 27, 2011, 02:15 AM »

@Cranioscopical: You'd better update your WinSendKeys, it's an outdated version that had this 'additional info' feature

-Ath (September 27, 2011, 01:44 AM)

Thanks! I ran the updater and didn't pay much attention    To make matters worse, I see this was discussed near to the very beginning of the topic. For a modest fee I'm prepared to go away and leave you in peace.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands

« Last post by cranioscopical on September 27, 2011, 12:25 AM »

@nudone

I was trying the template you posted.

Whether to Photoshop or to Illustrator, any key action causes a debug dialogue like this



to appear. Clicking OK dismisses that and then performs the action.
This is with CS5 on W7-64.

Any ideas?