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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of an alternative to InfoSelect ...

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 21, 2011, 10:03 AM »

pulled down Compendium

-barney (June 21, 2011, 01:28 AM)

So did I (thanks IainB) looks interesting and it was fast and easy to set up superficial collections.

I thought that I couldn't function without InfoSelect, which I'd used ever since it grew out of Tornado Notes. That was until some circumstance that I no longer recall in detail (moving offices I think) divorced me from it. I lost track of my data and also the software itself. On coming across it a couple of years later I found that getting updated to a current version seemed to be quite a hassle and rather costly. I also found that it was starting to look and feel a bit dated — this was around 7, I think. Perhaps my needs are simple, but I haven't missed it as much as I had expected. In a perverse way I'm not sorry to have left the train at an earlier station now that I see remarks about the current offering.

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

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 20, 2011, 07:53 PM »

Thanks for the continual improvements.

Earlier, your tour de force had me trying to buy one of the iMo Monster 10-inch touch screens. At the time they were out of stock. Then I found a number of comments to the effect that they conflicted with the 'standard' video drivers that some users had. There seemed no way to tell except empirically, in one's own system. Given that there was a 15% (if I recall right) restocking fee, and that the thing had to be shipped from the U.S. to where I live, and the unspecified wait to fulfil orders, and slow response from the manufacturer to questions, that idea faded out. I'll take a look around next time I'm in the States. The last time I was there none of the computer/electronics stores had even heard of the thing.

I'll see if I can defer a final decision by breaking something else in WB

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General Software Discussion / Re: When your word processor begins openly mocking you, it's time to call it a day

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 20, 2011, 07:28 PM »

I can't abide Word. Didn't like its first-ever incarnation, haven't liked it since. Their sales force in the corporate world has a lot for which to answer!

And as for P*werP*int, the world's choice for turning meaningful information into comic books…

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Living Room / Re: SSD Drives - something to consider before taking the plunge

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 19, 2011, 05:00 PM »

I can remember a time when I was thinking about spending 1000$ for a 20 MB hard-drive

-phitsc (June 19, 2011, 04:26 PM)

Yes, and didn't it seem a staggering amount of storage?

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: LAN Speaker Control. :)

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 19, 2011, 10:40 AM »

Even better, install the server, crack on to their router and set it to port forward 8571.. connect (from any internet connection), and voila. speaker and music control

-Conquer (June 19, 2011, 10:35 AM)

Thanks. I wonder how the local chapter of Hell's Angels will respond to a little Brahms… 

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: LAN Speaker Control. :)

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 19, 2011, 10:31 AM »

Here are the source codes as promised.

-Conquer (June 18, 2011, 05:29 PM)

Nicely documented application!

Can I use this to turn OFF my neighbour's speakers?

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

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 19, 2011, 08:03 AM »

I'm not seeing them both...

-ewemoa (June 19, 2011, 05:55 AM)

Same here, FWIW

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Living Room / Re: Scented USB Drives?

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 17, 2011, 10:35 PM »

I suppose it makes plug-it-in sense.

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

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 17, 2011, 06:59 PM »

an additional option, available from the Options menu

-Ath (June 17, 2011, 04:47 PM)

 

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 17, 2011, 01:37 PM »

She's a field-bred English Springer Spaniel.
 (see attachment in previous post)

-Loonier (June 17, 2011, 01:31 PM)

Lots of energy in that breed 

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

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 17, 2011, 12:29 PM »

I'll repeat my earlier question

-cranioscopical (June 17, 2011, 08:39 AM)

I saw your original question, but I've been thinking about a) what you meant exactly, and b) what exactly you meant

-Ath (June 17, 2011, 12:10 PM)

It's always good to look at all sides of an issue! 

Oh you want to register the file extension…  .wb, .wbut, .wbe, .wbtc, but suggestions are welcome

I guess it depends on what, if anything is untaken — wbi?

Speaking for myself, I'm not concerned about context menu entries.

I'll combine that, as good as it goes, with this request:

BTW, any chance of being able to drop WinButtons config files on WinButtonEdit.exe to have the config file opened up in WBE?

-ewemoa (June 16, 2011, 04:22 PM)

Would you expect it to run 3 instances of WBE, if 3 files are dropped on a single instance, or just open the first and ignore the rest?

Again speaking personally, I'd expect it to anticipate correctly my intention and act accordingly. Surely that's within you programming power? No, you say? Fie!

Thanks for listening 

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

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 17, 2011, 08:39 AM »

If movable is set, then the window can be dragged around by clicking on the window-background and dragging it.
If border + closebutton are set, then you can drag it around by grabbing the window by it's caption.

-Ath (June 17, 2011, 01:29 AM)

 

And, being a lazy [insert your term here] I'll repeat my earlier question viz., Any chance of changing .ini to something different and making WBedit the application to handle that? I mean associate a different .something file extension with WBE.

The point being that, when testing, a double-click on a file name would be a quick(er) way to load a selected .ini into WBE. In my view  this would be especially useful since WBE can have multiple instances. Your view may be entirely different 

If not, presumably I can set WBE to handle .ini on a temporary basis and just toggle between that and my standard .ini association.

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Living Room / Re: Can anyone show me proper Donald Knuth TeX samples?

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 16, 2011, 10:52 PM »

Of course, finding examples is hard.  All anyone wants to do online is talk talk talk talk, describe...but nary a sample.  I don't care about any of that.  I literally just want to see samples of Donald Knuth approved spacing.  What I'd love to find is just a page full of images showing all sorts of math symbols, equations, matrices...just every example possible, and I can tweak my programs to mimic that typography.

Any help is appreciated.  40hz??  I'm betting you probably have something already in mind in your knowledge suppository.  

-superboyac (June 16, 2011, 04:31 PM)

Best source is "The TexBook" by Knuth himself.
Meanwhile, I suggest you download this .pdf and browse through it. Here it is.

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

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 16, 2011, 02:44 PM »

Clicking on the close button does not appear to have any visible effect.

-ewemoa (June 16, 2011, 04:14 AM)

Ath, FWIW close button doesn't work for me (XP SP3). Escape always works.

Any chance of changing .ini to something different and making WBedit the application to handle that?

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Search a folder of text files for an expression, copy the line of text

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 16, 2011, 12:45 PM »

connect_the_nots.ahk (0.65 KB - downloaded 1 times.)

-Target

Good name, quite a few good points and never a cross word.

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Living Room / Re: Which is more important: the gadget, or the software and apps that runs it?

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 16, 2011, 12:42 PM »

Guns are a good example, it is the gun? or the bullet? or what happens when you point it at your head and pull the trigger?

-elvisbrown (June 13, 2011, 06:56 AM)

a canon?

-Target (June 15, 2011, 06:59 PM)

Gives me the shutters!

-Edvard (June 15, 2011, 10:00 PM)

Don't be so negative!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Vipre Antivirus to offer lifetime licenses

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 16, 2011, 12:40 PM »

So the license is tied to the PC. According to a post on Wilders (http://www.wildersse...147&postcount=17), one transfer is permitted.

-mwb1100 (June 16, 2011, 02:27 AM)

If so, to my mind it's useless!

No doubt it's also tied to the length of time the vendor stays with Vipre and doesn't launch a 'new and wonderful' product.

Some lifetime licenses are remarkably good deals but they're in the minority, at least in my experience 

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Living Room / Re: Friends: Brace yourselves for another economic turn.

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 16, 2011, 12:33 PM »

Seems the silly ape was indeed made flesh, and dwells among us still

-40hz

That's not so ruddy 'ard to believe!

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Developer's Corner / Re: NetRexx is now free and open source courtesy of IBM

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 15, 2011, 12:11 PM »

Nostalgic thoughts from having briefly used REXX under MS-DOS/4DOS.

-IainB (June 15, 2011, 02:19 AM)

Mansfield/Quercus?

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Living Room / Re: Backup Strategy: "The Threes"

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 14, 2011, 08:07 PM »

Brut?!? ...I thought you were an Old Spice man!

Hay, you reckon the Cologne would to cover the fact that you shit your pants when the array crashes long enough for you to make it to an exit?

-Stoic Joker (June 14, 2011, 06:27 PM)

That would be the essence of defeat.

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Living Room / Re: Backup Strategy: "The Threes"

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 14, 2011, 06:00 PM »

What? ...You don't think it's funny how they do that??

Damn spell check caught me napping ...So I decided to leave it and see how it took me to get nailed.

-Stoic Joker (June 14, 2011, 05:38 PM)

Can't you make it more effective by applying brute farce?

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

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 14, 2011, 05:37 PM »

I'm always the first to admit I can make errors

-Ath (June 14, 2011, 02:49 PM)

Yeah, once I thought that I'd made one but then realized I was mistaken.

So, with WinButtonEdit 0.8.4.1 — and starting from scratch — I can create new buttons and also new groups that self activate on seeing given executables.

Also, now that WBE no longer crashes in the early stages of design, it dawned on me that I can have multiple instances of WBEdit running. That allows me to see the configuration that I'm creating and side-by-side at the same time any of the example configurations. That's a very handy, interactive and WYSIWYG way to pick up relevant values for the various fields.

Even without a touch screen this has the potential to simplify using programs — such as members of the Adobe Creative Suite — by popping up additional custom panels without recourse to internal scripting engines.

 

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 13, 2011, 05:14 PM »

Below are 2 of my 3 parrots, my cat, and my dog. Can't pet my fish…

-tjbray (June 13, 2011, 04:52 PM)

Quite a family!

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Developer's Corner / Re: NetRexx is now free and open source courtesy of IBM

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 13, 2011, 05:08 PM »

I use the-now-open-source ooRexx for all kinds of odds and ends.
In Amiga days ("Multi-tasking? Who needs multi-tasking? You can't do two things at once!" they said) I liked the way Bill Hawes's ARexx hung around and acted like a traffic cop.

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

« Last post by cranioscopical on June 13, 2011, 04:14 PM »

…and the bad news is that I became fed up with that, so went back to breaking yours.

Started from scratch.
Saved as soon as new file created.
Got as far as you see in the attached image.
(When I reloaded Cran Winbuttons.ini, the entry -subAIpanel.ini came with it even though I'd not entered it — had in a previous, differently named .ini).
I saved again at the point you see and thus incurred the wrath of the error gods yet again 

At this point, after the crash, Cran Winbuttons.ini consists of:
[Settings]
left=-1
top=-1
backcolor=0x408080
winsendkeys=WinSendKeys.exe.



For a modest fee I'm willing to go away and leave you alone.

Olé