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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on January 21, 2012, 07:06 AM »

I verified the hotkey configurabilty under XP -- worked fine here 


Good point about difficulty with maintaining content of panes if tabbing cycles...I hope something good can be worked out though.


Looking forward to context functionality!  Current/last active HWND and clipboard sound good.  I suppose with HWND, one may be able to obtain relevant "selections" -- e.g. text or filepath(s).


By the way, I noticed that Home and End keys don't seem to work in text input mode.  Do you think it would be worth having (most?) editing-related key sequences work under those circumstances?  For example, for path-related editing, control+arrowkeys, control+shift+arrowkeys, control+delete, control+backspace seem quite handy.

I like how the escape key can be used to exit text input mode -- is there an advantage perhaps to not having the period key exit text input mode and instead behave so that a period may be typed?  I guess it doesn't seem confusing to me, but may be it would be for other folks...


I wanted to get at "text" from the first pane to operate on -- I see I can use %d, %p, and %f for path-related things, but is there something else for raw text?


He he.  Sorry if this is too much

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Developer's Corner / Re: Excellent Javascript Reference (w/ a bit of CoffeeScript)

« Last post by ewemoa on January 21, 2012, 01:32 AM »

I resumed reading recently and managed to make it through chapters 3 and 4.  The extended cats example in chapter 4 is fun

Still haven't found a single resource I would recommend for learning JavaScript.  I like this book, but perhaps it could use some supplemental material regarding the idea of avoiding certain parts of the language.

On a tangential note, came across Smooth CoffeeScript which appears to have "mixed in" content from Eloquent JavaScript.  Anyone given this a read?

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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on January 20, 2012, 04:40 PM »

Attached is a quick hack to demonstrate the idea of getting Qatapult to guess some context and fill in its first pane with something relevant.


To install, unzip the zip file.

To use, make sure Qatapult and the included .exe file are running, and type control+shift+space while a Windows Explorer window is active or Notepad++ is active and displaying some file.

To modify, just edit the included .ahk file and reload the script via the tray icon menu.


Only tested on Windows 7 x64.

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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on January 20, 2012, 04:25 PM »

When there are exactly two panes displayed and I press tab a second time, I would like for the first pane to be selected...and analogously for 3 panes.  What do you think?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Math-O-Mir: Equation Editing (and a new approach to GUI input)

« Last post by ewemoa on January 20, 2012, 03:18 PM »

Nice find!

I found that the videos linked to on the page helped to give a quick feel for the app.

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: better keyboard language switching

« Last post by ewemoa on January 20, 2012, 04:35 AM »

Found this solution (last message on that page), but it requires a bit of manual labor. IMHO it's quite brilliant!

-Ath (January 19, 2012, 05:09 PM)

Mmm, sounds great!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread

« Last post by ewemoa on January 19, 2012, 10:15 PM »

The tip about tweaking margins between the guess margins and guess overlaps steps seems to work well here for FF and Chrome  

To get better results for IE 8.z, I used "Capture Now" from the gear menu and switched "Method" for vertical scrolling to "Simulate Keypresses".

Tested with Firefox 9.x, Chrome 14.y, and IE 8.z.

praise for...

Splicing functionality from SSC is great

On a related note, I get confused about which mode of splicing would work well -- horizontal or vertical...when I get the answer wrong, undoing seems to get rid of the selected region...

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread

« Last post by ewemoa on January 19, 2012, 07:08 PM »

One suggested modification to your workflow:

Hit guess margins, THEN manually tweak them, THEN hit "guess overlaps"

Overlap guessing is based on margins, so tweaking them manually before guessing overlaps is advantageous.

-mouser (January 19, 2012, 03:11 PM)

Thanks for the tip -- hope to try that soon

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread

« Last post by ewemoa on January 19, 2012, 03:43 AM »

I had some success with a vertical-scrolling-only situation in Firefox.  After making it through successfully, I feel much less in the dark about how to use the functionality and appreciate being able to tweak

Below are screenshots to give a taste of the experience.

1. Initial Dialog


2. Select Region


3. Scrolling Instructions Dialog


4. Disable Horizontal Scrolling


5. Proceed to Next Dialog


6. Stitch Dialog


7. Guess Margins


8. Guess Overlaps


9. Zoom to Examine Results


10. Resize Dialog to Improve Visibility


11. Examine Results


12. Wonder About Space on Left


13. Adjust Left Space


14. Admire Results


15. Resize Dialog and Notice Scrollbar in Image


16. Eliminate Scrollbar


17.

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Living Room / Re: DC Apps alternatives for LInux

« Last post by ewemoa on January 19, 2012, 03:38 AM »

Find and Run Robot

-mahesh2k (January 19, 2012, 02:57 AM)

FWIW, I almost got FARR working under wine.  It does start up and various parts seem to work -- may be it's possible to get it fully working.  If you would rather go native, I recommend kupfer.

URL Snooper

A bit low-level, but I have used wireshark with some success.

AHK? (not ironahk)

I have found much less need for AHK under *nix -- though have happily used some of Skwire's software (e.g. sWeather) via wine.  Out of curiosity what kind of AHK functionality are you looking for?

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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on January 17, 2012, 05:34 PM »

Commands only appears when you have a file selected. Sounds stupid but I didn't mention it... Are you trying to see them on the first pane ?

-ecaradec (January 17, 2012, 04:17 AM)

Doh!  Indeed, that was it!  The problem was definitely on this end.

Thank you

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request - FARR Alias install commandline switch

« Last post by ewemoa on January 17, 2012, 03:42 PM »

The general idea of getting FARR's help to install aliases sounds good to me -- as in, I'd like that!


I understand it may be helpful for 3rd party applications to be able to locate FARR's executable, but I'd prefer to be able to opt-out of registry changes so I hope the PORTABLE=TRUE setting for FARR will allow for that possibility.  


On a related note, as a not-as-bullet-proof option for locating FARR's executable, I wonder if for many FARR users, FARR tends to be running most of the time.  In such a case, is it not possible to locate that FARR exe path programmatically?  I think this can be with the likes of GetModuleFileNameEx.  See for example, the following:

  http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic44752.html

However, this wouldn't work as well for the case where someone is using more than one FARR at a time (I used to ).


Is this a good place to ask for the ability to be able to drag-and-drop alias / plugin zip files on to FARR's windows in order to install them?

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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on January 17, 2012, 03:01 AM »

Hum, I put the "cmd here" and "explore here" in the settings.default.ini, you need to copy these lines inside your settings.ini. The default is just here to be used if there is no local settings.ini file.

-ecaradec (January 16, 2012, 06:52 AM)

settings.ini is where I saw them.  Any other ideas what I might be doing wrong?

That's a nice idea, but I'm not sure that it brings a lot of value over just editing an ini file. I'll probably do a fully featured settings UI, I just need to polish a bit things to make things easier to setup. That's should be ok anyway.

Not trying to convince you which way to go with the following -- just sharing some thoughts.

As I see it, the FF about:config UI provides a number of benefits:

• Users can discover what settings are possible more uniformly -- a user searches a single linear list as compared with possibly switching among multiple screens / tabs / dialogs -- it is clearer whether all items have been scanned and also clear how much there is to search
• Users can search for particular settings more easily than many traditional GUI config screens -- settings can be named and thus referred to (and possibly searched for / filtered for) more easily, e.g. app.update.auto VS the checkbox labeled auto on the update tab in the app dialog
• It is much easier for developers to expose (certain?) new settings to users -- I presume this one is obvious
• With an ini file there is no validation of values entered, whereas with a GUI there can be

I find settings-related GUI programming to often be a hassle -- though it's certainly nice from a user perspective to have a nice GUI for learning what can be configured and nice to be guided to "correct" values.  I think though that making it possible for a 3rd party app to provide a GUI for displaying / writing settings is attractive -- a minimal config UI like what FF provides seems like the main dev(s) can channel / focus their effort / time / resources on other functionality of the app.

Well, there's my two local currency units

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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on January 17, 2012, 02:43 AM »

...it's fixed.

-ecaradec (January 15, 2012, 11:02 AM)

Thanks!  Hope to try it out on an XP machine soon.

-ewemoa (January 15, 2012, 06:02 PM)

Worked here under XP

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread

« Last post by ewemoa on January 15, 2012, 07:24 PM »

1. Much too much work involved manually changing options to get the final result.
2. Requires skill and a non-trivial understanding of the process to tweak the assembly settings.

-mouser link=topic=29550.msg274812#msg274812

Possibility of profiles / templates being created / restored / shared among users?

If SSC shipped with some that corresponded to concrete use-cases, may be people could tweak for their own use -- simplifying the procedure for some cases and learning about the functionality at the same time.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread

« Last post by ewemoa on January 15, 2012, 07:12 PM »

I'm happy to report that so far auto-guessing of margins and overlaps is working pretty well.

This is *extremely* good news -- it means that it should be able to handle the easy/common cases mostly automatically, while still letting advanced users handle really tricky cases manually.

-mouser (January 15, 2012, 05:25 PM)

Woohoo!

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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on January 15, 2012, 06:02 PM »

...it's fixed.

-ecaradec (January 15, 2012, 11:02 AM)

Thanks!  Hope to try it out on an XP machine soon.

To add folders to your search path, you can left click on the first item. Try clicking slightly at the beginning of the row, otherwise the component doesn't understand that as an edition. You should be able to add X:\apps there.

Thanks for the tip -- seems to work here (at least under W7).

I'll allow to change the invocation shortcut soon, I agree with your remark, I tend to invoke it without really willing it.

Looking forward to it!

I also added new changes :
- Text edition mode : you can now switch to edit mode by typing . and then use the arrows and delete keys.

Interesting -- I see a single large pane when I enter that mode.

- You can also paste text into the UI with ctrl+v

Worked here -- definitely nice to have this functionality.

- There is now support for extra user commands for files : there is no UI, but you can check them in the ini file. I added two examples. You can use %p (path), %d (directory ) and %f (filename ) as inputs

I see:

[FileVerbs]
count=2
0_name=Cmd here
0_workdir=%d
0_command=cmd
0_args=

If there are more than two commands, does the value of count need to be updated?

Also, I have not succeeded in getting "Cmd here" and "Explore here" to appear in my UI.  Typing either cmd or explore and looking through the results doesn't appear to show the associated custom commands.  Any hints?

I really need to find a way to simplify the UI of the settings, as it is taking me more time to code that the actual functions...

What do you think of Firefox's "about:config" UI?  Would it be easy to implement?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: [Feature Request] Grab Region to Capture Mouse Cursor

« Last post by ewemoa on January 15, 2012, 03:15 AM »

Sounds promising -- I hope it's easy to implement

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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on January 15, 2012, 02:02 AM »

But is Quicksilver not already for Unix?  

-Tuxman (January 14, 2012, 08:54 PM)

Although MacOS X is somewhat of a Unix I suppose, I dont' remember QS running on any other *nix.  Did/Does it?


But back to the main topic...I just tried the latest version on XP and noticed the following sort of thing after invoking "Options":



...that is, the window that came up seemed positioned a bit too high so the upper portion was cut off.

To work-around this, the following seemed to work:

• Display the Options window
• Change screen resolution to lowest
• Accept new resolution
• Change screen resolution to highest
• Accept new resolution

May be there's a better way


My apps are located under X:\apps -- I didn't figure out how to add paths to the Options dialog.  When I right-click on the right area of the Options window a popup menu with a 'Delete' item shows up...Any hints?


Regarding the invocation shortcut -- is it possible to customize it already?  Shift+Space is one of those that I encounter difficulties with -- my ordinary text typing seems to often end up accidentally leading to that sequence being entered...

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Ecaradec's Software / Re: Qatapult

« Last post by ewemoa on January 14, 2012, 08:46 PM »

It seems so if Gnome Do is Quicksilver for *nix

plug for...

kupfer ftw!

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Developer's Corner / Re: Node.js Learning Resources?

« Last post by ewemoa on January 13, 2012, 05:38 AM »

Thanks!

I hadn't yet seen (or gone through):

• Node.js Beginner Links
• NODE TUTS

The list at StackOverflow looks good too

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Developer's Corner / Re: Node.js Learning Resources?

« Last post by ewemoa on January 12, 2012, 05:43 PM »

node.js seems like it's still pretty young and growing.

-Rover (January 12, 2012, 09:39 AM)

Indeed.  Perhaps it's not too uncommon for there to be a fair bit of change in the early days of young and growing things.  I've found it easier to learn certain things in their earlier stages -- perhaps sometimes there is less complexity in the way

Apart from the main site you mentioned, the following are some additional things that looked promising to me:

• Felix's Node.js Guide
• Bullet-Proof Node.js Coding

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General Software Discussion / Re: rcopy 1.0.0.4

« Last post by ewemoa on January 12, 2012, 03:41 AM »

Thanks for the elaboration

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General Software Discussion / Re: rcopy 1.0.0.4

« Last post by ewemoa on January 11, 2012, 11:57 PM »

  Why multiple exe files? The slave programs are written in
  AutoHotKey.  AHK provides no way to compile a console app.
  It cannot output to the command line in a way a user would
  expect from a command line program.

-MilesAhead (January 11, 2012, 07:25 PM)

I presume you looked at Lexikos' ConsoleSend and the tidbits in the associated thread.  Out of curiosity, what functionality is missing or is off?  I tried out some of the code from the associated thread and thought it was possible to get output displayed within the console the code was launched from so I'm guessing the bold-faced portion of the quote above is relevant.

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Developer's Corner / Node.js Learning Resources?

« Last post by ewemoa on January 11, 2012, 09:16 PM »

Any favorite Node.js learning resources?

Currently reading The Node Beginner Book, though the version covered is 0.4.9 while what appears available currently is 0.6.7.

Started looking through O'Reilly's Up and Running with Node.js, but found the former preferable at this stage.