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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)
« Last post by skwire on March 03, 2019, 09:57 PM »
Thanks so much for your response - maybe had I read more of the Forum, I could have saved both of us some time!  Thanks again for sWeather.
-sacruser (March 03, 2019, 08:08 PM)

You're very welcome and no worries.  I'm glad you find sWeather useful.
177
Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)
« Last post by skwire on March 02, 2019, 10:49 PM »
I've enjoyed sWeather for several years...and, rely on it faithfully every day.  Thanks for creating it.  I seem to recall that previous versions (several back) listed update information (date/time, etc.) in the tooltip.  That seems to have disappeared in recent versions.  I was wondering whether it was omitted intentionally and whether it could be added again to the tooltip? Thanks again for your software.
-sacruser (March 02, 2019, 01:09 PM)

It's a drawback to the new tray icon changes I made recently.  Please read the following posts for some more insight:

https://www.donation....msg427355#msg427355
https://www.donation....msg427619#msg427619
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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)
« Last post by skwire on March 01, 2019, 01:52 PM »
Hello everybody and greetings from Germany. I'm using sWeather since several years and followed the recent trouble with the yahoo api closely in this forum.
-mhh (February 25, 2019, 05:23 AM)

Hello, mhh, and welcome to the DonationCoder site.

Right now I just want to point out a minor bug:
If the "feels like" temperature is 0°C it is diaplayed as "N/A".
-mhh (February 25, 2019, 05:23 AM)

Thank you for the report.  It should be fixed in the latest version below:

Website & Download
v1.8.2 - 2019-03-01
    ! "Feels like" temps of zero degrees would display as N/A.  (Thanks, mhh)
179
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Batch Editor for URL and LNK Properties
« Last post by skwire on February 25, 2019, 10:31 AM »
Would it be possible to mass edit the URL/INI files so that they contain ONLY the absolutely necessary lines, such as [DEFAULT],  [InternetShortcut], and IconFile, and then delete everything else, such as [DOC_iframe436], [{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}], etc.?  I have noticed that I have URL files between 1 and 3 kb.  Maybe the larger URL files have a lot of junk in them which could be deleted?
-berkland (February 25, 2019, 09:40 AM)

Sure, I could delete all the other sections but what if they're necessary to the operation of that particular URL and the website it references?  As a test, you could try deleting those sections and their contents yourself to see if that makes the icon show properly and still allows the URL file to open the website as you'd expect.

So, URL files are notoriously finicky.
-berkland (February 25, 2019, 09:40 AM)

Yes, they are.  Hell, I've already developed software that converts Steam URL files into regular Windows shortcuts to get around the icons not showing properly.

https://www.donation...forum/?topic=26167.0
http://www.dcmembers...steam-url-converter/

Is that maybe why no programmers have ever been able to develop software that can mass edit URL files......
-berkland (February 25, 2019, 09:40 AM)

I, and others, have developed software to mass edit URL files.  The problem is that the operating system doesn't want to play nice.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Batch Editor for URL and LNK Properties
« Last post by skwire on February 24, 2019, 08:48 PM »
skwire, what do I need to do now?
-berkland (February 23, 2019, 08:51 PM)

I'm not really sure what to tell you.  URL files are notoriously finicky, as you are finding out.  By default, your computer has a default icon that shows for URL files.  Typically, this is going to be your default browser — Firefox, it appears to be in your case (based on your previous screenshots).  That's why your first example, even without the IconFile/IconIndex lines, shows the icon you expect.  As you can see in your other example, SCURLed has put in the appropriate IconFile/IconIndex lines in there and your system still doesn't want to show the proper icon.  In a URL/INI file, each section header is contained with square brackets, e.g., [DEFAULT], [DOC_iframe436], [{000214A0-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}], etc.  Of course, the [InternetShortcut] is one of those sections, too.  The fact that the icon won't show for you could have something to do with all the other sections in that particular URL file.  I simply don't know.  Have you tried rebooting since modifying those test files?
181
N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: sTray
« Last post by skwire on February 22, 2019, 09:15 AM »
Just updated to 1.0.0.3
-joiwind (February 19, 2019, 11:30 AM)

This error should have been fixed in v1.0.2.  Have you tried that version?

http://www.dcmembers...wire/download/stray/
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Batch Editor for URL and LNK Properties
« Last post by skwire on February 17, 2019, 07:22 PM »
@berkland: Both of those text files you attached are HTML files, not URL files.  A URL file is just a renamed INI file and the contents of one looks something like this:

[Select]
[InternetShortcut]
IconFile=C:\Users\skwire\AppData\Local\Xmarks\favicons\2h5x8-m8tUI.ico
IconIndex=0
URL=http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/about/

To view a URL file, you should be able to just drag and drop the URL file onto a text editor like Notepad.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)
« Last post by skwire on February 14, 2019, 02:23 PM »
Everything looks good and working fine now on W7 W8.1 and W10. Thanks for the fixes and thanks for adding the icon selection option. I appreciate that.
-click-click (February 13, 2019, 05:48 PM)

@click-click: Good to hear and thanks for the report.

Forgot to post this notice a few days ago:

Website & Download
v1.8.1 - 2019-02-11
    * Tray icon options have changed.  You can now display either or both icons.
    ! On a delayed startup, tray icon was showing blank instead of the N/A icon. (Thanks, T. Elliot)
    * Added a small delay when updating location time.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Batch Editor for URL and LNK Properties
« Last post by skwire on February 12, 2019, 01:41 PM »
Nothing changed.  What now?
-berkland (February 12, 2019, 09:29 AM)

Open up one of those URL files with a text editor and see if an "IconFile=<some path here>" line is there.  If so, this might be a refresh issue with Windows Explorer.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Batch Editor for URL and LNK Properties
« Last post by skwire on February 10, 2019, 09:54 PM »
@berkland: I think I fixed the issue you were experiencing.  Please try the version at  http://www.dcmembers.../scurled/SCURLed.zip and let me know if it works now.
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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019 Release: SCURLed
« Last post by skwire on February 10, 2019, 09:48 PM »
1.) SCURLed should have a function to open the base directory of InternetExplorer Favorites resp. Firefox/Chrome Bookmarks and read them all automatically (full dir tree).
-pstein (January 07, 2019, 04:10 AM)

I'll think about this for Internet Explorer favourites.  Firefox and Chrome, however, do not use URL files for their bookmarks.

2.) SCURLed should have function to find all .LNK files starting from a base directory (e.g. partition D:\) and load them automatically.
-pstein (January 07, 2019, 04:10 AM)

I will add this in a future release.

Is it by design that the filename of .url files cannot be edited (that editbox is grayed out when I run the program)?
-Nod5 (January 10, 2019, 07:04 AM)

I left this out for now until I get some feedback on the LNK/URL data handling.  I will add the ability to change the name in a future release.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Batch Editor for URL and LNK Properties
« Last post by skwire on February 10, 2019, 04:14 PM »
I selected 68 URL files in my TEST folder using File | Open URL Files, but the SCURLed.exe window would not re-open with the selcted files.
-berkland (February 10, 2019, 02:37 PM)

Do they load if you select them in Windows Explorer and then drag-n-drop them onto the URL list in SCURLed?
188
Post New Requests Here / Re: NetTraffic xml export to Excel
« Last post by skwire on February 09, 2019, 04:36 PM »
I'm pretty positive that "ts" value is a Unix timestamp.  Here's an AutoHotkey example showing how to convert it:

Code: Autohotkey [Select]
  1. myTimestamp := "636850944"
  2. sFormatString := "dddd, MMMM d, yyyy @ H:mm"
  3. FormatTime, myFormattedTime, % timeUnix2Human( myTimestamp ), % sFormatString
  4.  
  5. MsgBox, % myFormattedTime
  6.  
  7. timeUnix2Human( unixTimestamp )
  8. {
  9.     returnDate = 19700101000000
  10.     returnDate += unixTimestamp, s
  11.     Return returnDate
  12. }

This snippet returns a value of: Wednesday, March 7, 1990 @ 23:02

The year seems a bit off, but does that sound about right, @itge13?
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Post New Requests Here / Re: NetTraffix xml export to Excel
« Last post by skwire on February 08, 2019, 05:30 AM »
What is NetTraffix?
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Batch Editor for URL and LNK Properties
« Last post by skwire on February 07, 2019, 04:54 PM »
Why is this not working with URL files?
-berkland (January 29, 2019, 09:39 PM)

Are you certain you're on the URL tab?  LNK files get loaded to the LNK tab; URL files get loaded to the URL tab.

2019-02-07_165335.png
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Post New Requests Here / MOVED: Taskbar Button Grouping/ Group Similar Icons on Taskbar Win 10 x64
« Last post by skwire on February 07, 2019, 03:52 PM »
DONE: This topic has been moved to Finished Programs.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=47150.0
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Finished Programs / Re: Taskbar Button Grouping/ Group Similar Icons on Taskbar Win 10 x64
« Last post by skwire on February 07, 2019, 03:06 PM »
Great to hear.  I'll mark this as done.   :Thmbsup:
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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)
« Last post by skwire on February 06, 2019, 12:44 PM »
Here's an interim build of sWeather which gives the user control over which of the tray icons are shown.  You can choose either or both.  However, I had to use the older Tray() library I talked about previously, so I'm limited in how much I can display in the tray icon tooltip.  In other words, I have to use the shorter format of the two tooltips you would see in the older version.  C'est la vie.  If you'd like to try it out, download this:

http://www.dcmembers...Weather_v1.8.0.2.zip

If you do try it out, please let me know if it works properly for you.
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Finished Programs / Re: Taskbar Button Grouping/ Group Similar Icons on Taskbar Win 10 x64
« Last post by skwire on February 06, 2019, 12:23 PM »
Hello, itge13, and welcome to the DonationCoder site.   :)

Is there a way to switch Taskbar Button Grouping with a hotkey between "combine" and "not combine" w/o restarting explorer? Preferebaly as AHK
-itge13 (February 06, 2019, 11:51 AM)

Here's some AHK code to do what you want.  I've successfully tested this on Windows 7 so please let us know if it works on your Windows 10 machine.

Code: Autohotkey [Select]
  1. #k:: ; Win+K -- change as necessary
  2. {
  3.     ; 0 = Always combine, hide labels
  4.     ; 1 = Combine when taskbar is full
  5.     ; 2 = Never combine
  6.     RegWrite, REG_DWORD, HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced, TaskbarGlomLevel, % ( ( Toggle ) ? ( "0" ) : ( "2" ) )  
  7.     SendMessage, 0x1A, , , ,  % "ahk_class Shell_TrayWnd" ; WM_SETTINGCHANGE := 0x1A
  8.     WinSet, Redraw, , % "ahk_class Shell_TrayWnd"
  9.     Toggle := !Toggle
  10. }
  11. Return
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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)
« Last post by skwire on February 01, 2019, 12:55 PM »
Seems to only happen on W10. I don't see this happening on Win7. Will check W8.1 in a minute.
Win8.1 also shows this symptom.
-click-click (February 01, 2019, 10:21 AM)

I use and develop on a Windows 7 box, so it worked for me.  I'll see if I can get access to a Windows 10 machine to test.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Wish: NumberComparer tool to compare two list of words and export differences
« Last post by skwire on February 01, 2019, 08:43 AM »
I will try to upload that "tool" somewhere once I am finished.
-AbteriX (February 01, 2019, 08:18 AM)

Nice job -- looking forward to it.   :Thmbsup:
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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)
« Last post by skwire on January 31, 2019, 06:02 PM »
This should fix it.  The TimezoneDB API should only get queried when the main window is activated/focused.  Thank you for reporting this bug.

Website & Download
v1.8.0 - 2019-01-31
    ! Reduced the number of times the TimezoneDB API was queried.  (Thanks, click-click)
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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)
« Last post by skwire on January 31, 2019, 05:04 PM »
Never mind...I can see the same behaviour here.  I'll work on a fix.
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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)
« Last post by skwire on January 31, 2019, 04:54 PM »
Why is Sweather now connecting out so often?
-click-click (January 31, 2019, 04:28 PM)

Those aren't weather data requests; they're requests to timezonedb.com which is used for the "location time in time in the titlebar" option.  I added a fix in v1.7.8 because that text wasn't always showing properly in the titlebar.  To fix it, I now request the location time any time the sWeather window is activated.  That is, sWeather does not keep an internal clock of its own.  I didn't think this would be much of an issue since the amount of data is only around 250 bytes per request.  In your screenshot above, were you focusing the sWeather window repeatedly?  If not, there's a problem, and I can look into fixing it.  Here's an example of data that's returned:

[Select]
<result>
<status>OK</status>
<message/>
<countryCode>US</countryCode>
<zoneName>America/Chicago</zoneName>
<abbreviation>CST</abbreviation>
<gmtOffset>-21600</gmtOffset>
<dst>0</dst>
<timestamp>1548952639</timestamp>
</result>

That's it.  I suppose I could add a check that makes it not requery for time data unless a certain amount of time has passed but the drawback would be that the time would not be accurate.  Is 250 bytes of data per hit too much?  Are you constantly focusing the sWeather window during the day?
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Wish: NumberComparer tool to compare two list of words and export differences
« Last post by skwire on January 31, 2019, 01:56 PM »
Is there a need to actually display both A and B lists in a listview?  The reason I ask is that loading 100000+ lines, without some tricks, can take a while.
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