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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility
« Last post by ConstanceJill on August 04, 2015, 11:12 AM »
I second that :)
I use it at work to do pretty much always the same manipulation, being able to have a shortcut so it always opens on that one with pre-filled fields would save me loads of time :]
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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release - Spews
« Last post by ConstanceJill on March 24, 2015, 04:21 PM »
:bump:

I've been wondering, is there a way to completely "unset" a hotkey from the GUI (so, not by manually editing or removing the config.ini file) ?
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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release - Spews
« Last post by ConstanceJill on January 26, 2015, 02:24 AM »
OK, it's pretty clear and a good solution, I guess :}
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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release - Spews
« Last post by ConstanceJill on January 25, 2015, 02:39 AM »
Nice addition.
So it seems that now it keeps a history of wallpapers. Is that history's length limited, and if so, how (a certain amount of memory, a maximum number of images paths and names, some other method)?

Edit : looks like you also enhanced the dialog to set a keyboard shortcut, nice :]
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General Software Discussion / Re: is there a forum for technology, devices, physics, electronics, sensors, etc?
« Last post by ConstanceJill on September 12, 2014, 10:40 AM »
Hi there .o/

Perhaps at Tech Support Forums ? They have their "automotive center" and "home support" group of categories in the lower part of the main page...
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: force Common File Dialog instead of Common Item Dialog?
« Last post by ConstanceJill on September 12, 2014, 05:08 AM »
Thanks, I'll probably ask on CodeProject then.
Also saw there was a similar thread on the ClassicShell forums a few months ago...
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: force Common File Dialog instead of Common Item Dialog?
« Last post by ConstanceJill on September 11, 2014, 02:51 PM »
So if I understand right, it's not possible to have an app that monitors when other programs call that huh... I'll call it "function"... from the system and somehow "redirect" their call to the other function ? :/
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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: force Common File Dialog instead of Common Item Dialog?
« Last post by ConstanceJill on September 11, 2014, 08:39 AM »
Hello there .o/

I've been looking for a while but didn't find any way to force programs under Windows 7 to use the "Common File Dialog" (as shown here: http://msdn.microsof...60%28v=vs.85%29.aspx ) instead of the newer "Common item Dialog" ( illlustrated there: http://msdn.microsof...13%28v=vs.85%29.aspx ).

Would anyone here know of some way, or perhaps be able to create some sort of "hack"/utility which would do that?
I really hate the newer dialog that shows that whole tree filled with folders I don't usually need to access, while the older dialog and its customizable "Places bar" was just fine.

Thanks for your replies :}
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General Software Discussion / Re: TellMe
« Last post by ConstanceJill on September 03, 2014, 04:49 PM »
Hi there ^^

I don't really get it, is that a coding snack request?
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Living Room / Re: CMD-commands
« Last post by ConstanceJill on August 29, 2014, 05:47 AM »
Rob van der Woude - his webpage discusses batch commands extensively...including in which version of Windows a command works.
-Shades (August 27, 2014, 07:31 PM)
Great, thanks!
Already had bookmarked his site after looking for stuff about WMI but never took the time to really explore it.
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Living Room / Re: CMD-commands
« Last post by ConstanceJill on August 27, 2014, 01:54 PM »
Nice, there are a few of them I didn't know.
Would be nice however if the article said from which version of Windows each appeared, so we know whether or not we can use them¹ on various versions. Though there probably are not many people still running Windows 9x or 2000...


¹: as in "give someone a script to help him without being replied that it doesn't work"
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General Software Discussion / Re: screenshots when not logged into computer
« Last post by ConstanceJill on August 21, 2014, 05:45 AM »
Hi there .o/

You may also be able to take screenshots (or record) from another computer if you have some remote assistance software installed on the target computer.
For example at my workplace they have Microsoft's configuration manager client. Unlike version 2007, version 2012 allows to interact with a remote computer which is at the login screen.
I suppose it would also work with free software such as VNC, TeamViewer and the like, as long as they can run as a service (and as such don't terminate when the session is closed).
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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility
« Last post by ConstanceJill on July 31, 2014, 04:44 AM »
Hello there and thanks for the nice utility :}

I noticed however that it doesn't seem to handle the "^" and "$" meta-characters under "Replace Regexp" =(
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Split file when some binary patterns are found ?
« Last post by ConstanceJill on April 13, 2014, 02:25 AM »
I don't see how you draw the conclusion concerning the heterogeneous case from the homogenous benchmark.
-MilesAhead (April 12, 2014, 06:17 PM)
Who said I had only tested it with that one particular file?
Either way I don't get where you're trying to go from there. Are you implying that the program would be "cheating" and stopping to search for the other binary patterns once it has found one or something like this?
You seem to be really convinced that such operation just cannot be done fast for some reason… I don't really understand why. And even if it has to be take a bit of time to be done thoroughly, who cares, as long as it stays within a reasonable time frame?
In addition, if the user can choose to disable the search for some patterns, it should then make it operate faster, right?
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Split file when some binary patterns are found ?
« Last post by ConstanceJill on April 12, 2014, 05:47 PM »
That particular file is homegenous indeed, but it may not always be the case.
And well, I don't exactly know why it's so fast (took a quick look at the source code, but I don't really know much about C), but since it is, I guess that means that no, looking for several patterns isn't such a big deal after all.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Split file when some binary patterns are found ?
« Last post by ConstanceJill on April 12, 2014, 03:29 PM »
If I understand the desired requirements the splitter would have to handle files gretaer than 4 GB, scan for multiple binary signatures, then on finding one it has to write out the binary stream until it finds another of the multiple signatures.
-MilesAhead (April 12, 2014, 01:56 PM)
That's right. And the possibility to quickly enable/disable searching for some patterns without deleting them from the config file would be a nice feature :p

[…]
It seems like it would take a very long time to scan even without writing out the slices.
-MilesAhead (April 12, 2014, 01:56 PM)
It does indeed if you do that without optimisation, by reading and writing the files byte after byte (I had myself made such a program in Turbo Pascal back in the days, and it was *very* slow... still is if I try to run it in DOSbox).
It's not much of a problem however if you use a buffer. deconcat 0.3-r1 itself does a pretty good job at this: on my current machine, it scans a 195 MB file from the "Thief: Deadly Shadows" game and splits it into 6713 ogg files in only 19 seconds with the default deconcat.conf which you can download on its website.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Split file when some binary patterns are found ?
« Last post by ConstanceJill on April 12, 2014, 08:07 AM »
Having to use ripper5 from DOSbox isn't exactly what I'd call more user friendly than just using deconcat itself from the command line ^^'
Also, from the small documentation and few examples in its config file, I don't know if/how one could define a header where the first few bytes can be anything and then you'd have those few ones with values which help you can recognize the file format. In fact it seems I even failed to make it recognize a header made only of static bytes starting from the first.
Further, you can't start it at unlocked speed or you get a runtime error, though it seems safe to run it first and then increase the cycles as it progresses through the file being scanned: that's kind of a hassle, so I can't really recommend it to just anyone.

I'm not making this request only to have something easier to use for myself, but so that pretty much anyone can play around with resource filled files and easily "extract" them: you'd just have to tell them what they need in the config file for a specific source. But if you first need them to install DOSbox and learn its basic commands, I guess many people would just run away xD
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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Split file when some binary patterns are found?
« Last post by ConstanceJill on April 12, 2014, 05:29 AM »
Hello there .o/

I'm looking for a program which does the following :
- can run on both 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows
- lets the user specify several binary patterns and associated file extensions (either within the program's interface or via a simple editable text configuration file), a source file to "scan", and a destination folder
- looks for the binary patterns in the source file to "cut" it into new files: each output file being a slice of the "source" file, starting where a matching pattern was found. The extension for each slice should be the one the user associated to the corresponding binary pattern.

The main point of the thing is to easily "extract" some files which are actually uncompressed concatenated binary resources such as pictures or sounds, which quite a few video games use, based on their file format headers.

The good news is it actually already exists as free and open source software — see http://trollz1.free.fr/?p=deconcat and http://trollz1.free....cat.c/0.3-r1/_README — however :
- I've had it fail to work unexpectedly several times, so I guess a more stable version would be a great improvement ^^'
- it would also be nice if it didn't have that 4 GB file limitation
- it could be much more user friendly as it's console driven (I guess a GUI would help)

I've also found a while ago a program named ripper5 which seems to do a similar job but it was made for DOS and, as such, can't run natively on 64 bit Windows.


Can someone please either have a look at deconcat to make it work better, or make a new similar program (the choice is yours ^^) ?
I would be very grateful :}
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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release - Spews
« Last post by ConstanceJill on February 20, 2014, 01:23 AM »
Hmm true, I just found where it was.
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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release - Spews
« Last post by ConstanceJill on February 19, 2014, 01:20 PM »
JBS was actually the one I used before SPEWS was made, but I didn't find any option for process or full screen exclusion there (maybe I overlooked it, though I don't think so) and found its resizing quality of small images rather unsatisfactory.
It does have lots of options indeed though, maybe too many for my tastes.
It's no problem if you need a few weeks or even months before working on SPEWS again, I'll just wait :}
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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release - Spews
« Last post by ConstanceJill on February 09, 2014, 04:07 PM »
I must admit there certainly is still room for a few improvements¹, but… background image transitions, for wallpapers, seriously?

¹ I've been thinking about perhaps automatically refreshing the current wallpaper when the monitor's resolution changes, or disabling wallpaper switching while *any* program is running in full screen mode…
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Black screen captured
« Last post by ConstanceJill on January 06, 2014, 02:59 PM »
Hey there .o/

Which game(s) are you having problems with?
I know of some where you can't take a screenshot using Windows' clipboard or most third party tools (or if you do they look just weird at best), yet they usually have their own screenshot saving feature.
For example Diablo 1 automatically saves them as screenxy.pcx in the game's folder, while Thief: the Dark Project (without unofficial patches such as DDfix or NewDark) required you to use F10 (or perhaps another configurable key) for it to automatically save pictures as dumpxyz.pcx (again, in the game's folder).

BTW, you may want to give a try to Fraps. Even though it's not free, it is pretty good, to capture both screenshots and videos.
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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release - Spews
« Last post by ConstanceJill on December 27, 2013, 01:34 AM »
Yay, the official release already \o/
Thanks again :}
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Post New Requests Here / Re: So, about wallpaper changers...
« Last post by ConstanceJill on December 26, 2013, 01:15 PM »
Hello people :]

1) is it possible to add the option "Fit"? This reduces larger images to screen size - but doesnt enlarge anything.
(The Windows 7 options are Fill / Fit / Stretch / Tile / Center.)
-tomos (December 26, 2013, 09:45 AM)
Windows 7's Fit option does enlarge pictures which are smaller than the desktop, and that's exactly what the Scale option does in this program.

2) would it be possible to change the browse dialogue, to an open file type one. More info here:[…]
-tomos (December 26, 2013, 09:45 AM)
Even with the additional info I don't quite get the point, but I shall let skwire decide about it.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: So, about wallpaper changers...
« Last post by ConstanceJill on December 25, 2013, 09:31 AM »
@Shades: Yes, I know that, but when you see that Windows 7 and some other programs add huge artifacts to pictures that didn't have any (such as small sized PNGs that never were compressed with a lossy algorithm) when upscaling them, while other programs don't, working with the very same picture set, it's pretty obvious that some of these programs are not working the best way.

@skwire: yup, looks like that was it, it started working once I maximised/moved a window and kept working after I set it back to its original size.
I'm also satisfied with the quality of resized pictures, and it does stop changing pictures when one of the specified processes is running. Good job, I am very pleased \o/

Now if I may ask for just a few more minor features:
- I'd like a way, from the program's interface (or system tray icon), to open or copy the path+filename of the original picture, so just in case I decide I don't like that one anymore, or I want to show it to some friends, it makes it easier for me to find it again
- would it be possible to force the picture change without waiting for the pre-defined delay from the system tray icon ?

That would make it perfect for me ♥_♥
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