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Living Room / Re: work bathroom story

« Last post by nudone on October 06, 2011, 04:26 PM »

I think this is blog worthy, call it The Engineers Log or something, I think you could develop it into quite a saga if you try - should be a most amusing read.

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

« Last post by nudone on September 27, 2011, 06:13 PM »

I didn't see that one coming. Well done.

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

« Last post by nudone on September 27, 2011, 02:24 PM »

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

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

« Last post by nudone on September 27, 2011, 02:04 AM »

Have you configured WinSendKeys? The path is probably different.

Edit:
Ath beat me to it.

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Living Room / Re: It's alive, it's alive!!! mwahaha! - WinButtons and 7" touchscreen works

« Last post by nudone on September 25, 2011, 04:21 PM »

Maybe the MIMO only works with color and I keep using colour. 

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Living Room / Re: It's alive, it's alive!!! mwahaha! - WinButtons and 7" touchscreen works

« Last post by nudone on September 25, 2011, 01:44 PM »

Forgot to say, thanks for the tip about the key commands. I've done it the long hand version as the shorter things I tried didn't work - but I'll try it again and let you know what happens.

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Living Room / Re: It's alive, it's alive!!! mwahaha! - WinButtons and 7" touchscreen works

« Last post by nudone on September 25, 2011, 01:39 PM »

It is a shame about the terrible colours on the MIMO, I too don't care too much about things like that - if they are slight - but not being able to produce anything close to red is enough to say MIMO screens are simply defective. It does restrict a lot of possibilities when trying to be clever and make colour coded buttons. But what can we do other than to return the screens to Amazon.

The more important question is whether other touchscreen models have the same limitation, and if not I'd like to know which they are - then this MIMO would be sent straight back and labelled unfit for purpose. That's not going to happen though is it.

As for WinButtons, it would be great to have an easier way to set the buttons up but I'm still amazed by how it's possible even now.

There's still lots of experimentation to regarding the "right" number of buttons to use. I think I'll be changing my mind on that one for a good while yet.

P.s.
I am creating the button layouts whilst the template is on the MIMO, I just haven't spent a lot of time with the colours.

This is probably impossible to do, Ath: could the editor be made so that the colours can be updated live with a slider control (or windows colour dialog panel); something that would let you see the colours change whilst the template is is on the MIMO. If not I think I will try creating a mock-up of the buttons in Photoshop first.

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Living Room / Re: It's alive, it's alive!!! mwahaha! - WinButtons and 7" touchscreen works

« Last post by nudone on September 25, 2011, 10:26 AM »

p.s.

Just thought I'd say that I'll start creating buttons with graphics inside when I've decided what buttons I'll always be using. I'll exchange a lot of the text labels for graphics so that the buttons are more "intuitive" to use.

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Living Room / Re: It's alive, it's alive!!! mwahaha! - WinButtons and 7" touchscreen works

« Last post by nudone on September 25, 2011, 10:18 AM »

Right. It does look orange. Looks like that just has to be accepted, what a pity (if I ever find time I'll see if there's some way to calibrate the touchscreen differently; I really can't see any good reason why it is so poor - "touch enabled" doesn't equate to "crap colours").


Anyway, it's a long process but I'm starting to put together proper WinButton layouts. I've just put a 30 button layout together, believing that 40 buttons was way too many, but now I realise I really do need 40 buttons (or even more).

Here's an example of the "metro" Photoshop layout - which I'll have to change to add more buttons to. Oh well. I've got Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Premiere layouts to do in a similar style (colours changed to match Adobe's icon colour scheme). After that I'll record and upload the video I said I'd do, demonstrating how things work.



edit:
may as well attach the actual WinButton template too if anyone want to try it. Some of the buttons won't work unless you create the very same keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop.

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Living Room / Re: It's alive, it's alive!!! mwahaha! - WinButtons and 7" touchscreen works

« Last post by nudone on September 25, 2011, 09:18 AM »

Well, your photo of the MIMO screen makes it look like you've got "red" showing on there. There's no way a photo of my touchscreen would look anything close to that.

BUT, that's when viewing your photos on my main screen, the HP with a very wide colour gamut - the screen makes reds look oversaturated when compared with "normal" screens. The two Dell 2007fp screens either side do make your photos seem more "orange" but still not as much as the MIMO does.

I'm now wondering if the MIMO is having it's colour adjusted when it shouldn't. I've set all my screens up using a Sypder3Elite calibration unit except for the MIMO. The touchscreen is too small to run the calibration software.

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Living Room / Re: Question to Everyone: Setting aside the technical meaning, does Donationware...

« Last post by nudone on September 25, 2011, 09:00 AM »

To me, "pay what you want" carries no stronger impact that "donationware".  I see "pay what you want" and think, Hmm, I think I want to pay nothing...

I think you either outright charge for your software, or accept that donations are going to be few and far between.

-kyrathaba (September 25, 2011, 08:36 AM)

Yep. No amount of effort is going to make "pay what you like" or "donationware" into the magical incantations that's still being strived for.

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

« Last post by nudone on September 25, 2011, 07:45 AM »

That is one of the features I was going to work on next

-Ath (September 25, 2011, 07:38 AM)

excellent.

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Living Room / Re: It's alive, it's alive!!! mwahaha! - WinButtons and 7" touchscreen works

« Last post by nudone on September 25, 2011, 07:44 AM »

Hmm, it doesn't appear that the MIMO responds to any kind of colour correction controls either (maybe I've just not found the right way to do it though).

The unforgivable thing is that these touchscreens are far too expensive for what they are. Even a crap smartphone screen has better colour reproduction, well, even my years old Pocket PC has infinitely better colour reproduction - simply because it can produce red quite easily.

There's just no excuse for how crap these touchscreens are. How hard is it to display red. PATHETIC.

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

« Last post by nudone on September 25, 2011, 07:11 AM »

Just another little cosmetic request, if possible...

...could the button labels be made to understand a "new line" kind of syntax? So, similar to how HTML works you could wrap long text labels onto new lines.

e.g. something like this command:

"this is the top line<br />and this is the 2nd line<br />and this the third"

would produce on the button:

this is the top line
and this is the 2nd line
and this the third

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Living Room / Re: It's alive, it's alive!!! mwahaha! - WinButtons and 7" touchscreen works

« Last post by nudone on September 25, 2011, 06:31 AM »

I'm still having trouble with the MIMO being recognised at startup - I'll just have to accept that and hope it changes when I upgrade the machine at some point.

One thing that I'm not sure is a general defect or just specific to my touchscreen is the colour accuracy.

I wasn't expecting it to be a brilliant monitor but it's not even close to being simply "good". All colours seem to be fine except for RED which never appears as anything better than ORANGE.

Honestly, there is no way anyone could describe the colour it produces for red as "red".

Anyone else with the MIMO noticed such terrible colour production on the touchscreen?

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

« Last post by nudone on September 24, 2011, 09:45 PM »

Fantastic work, Ath. This really opens up a lot of potential.

I can't test the new version until tomorrow so I have another question: is there no way of defining borders with the new button system.

Maybe just something like custom spacing between the buttons to reveal a different background colour would be good (like WinButtons has done previously).


edit:
I've managed to get back to my main pc so have downloaed the new WinButtons and now see that the border spacing feature is already implemented. 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Share your mouse and keyboard with multiple Mac or Windows computers

« Last post by nudone on September 23, 2011, 07:04 AM »

I really need the remote connection to the iPad rather than just the extension of main (PC) desktop onto iPad.

It's simply so I can control Safari on the iPad via VNC from the main PC. That way I don't have to keep taking my hands away from the mouse and keyboard to type URLs into iPad Safari - and hit the refresh,back buttons, etc. Instead, I'll be able to do it all from the main (PC) desktop as I'm testing the browsers on there.

(I'm using an iPad for testing rather than buying into Apple's developer tools as I don't have a Mac and don't wish to waste money on one. Well, I've a very old Mac but I'm still not paying Apple for the developer tools.)

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Share your mouse and keyboard with multiple Mac or Windows computers

« Last post by nudone on September 23, 2011, 04:20 AM »

Any chance ShareMouse could be made to work with an iPad.

-nudone (September 22, 2011, 02:25 PM)

There is no chance because Apple locked up the iPad and prevents us to run the required mouse & "keyboard" (touchpanel) hook on the iPad. If this changes, we will be first to make an iPad version. We use it, too.

By the way, there is MaxiVista for the iPad, that allows you to use your iPad as a monitor for your Windows PC. No remote control mode though.

Our apologies for the inconvenience.

I kindly ask for your understanding that we are not able to develop for Jailbreakers alone as this would not make sense business-wise.

-BartelsMedia (September 23, 2011, 03:39 AM)

Thanks. I expected it to be very difficult or impossible to do (because of the iPad being locked). Just thought I'd ask as there's an obvious need for many people - hence the jailbreak method that has to be resorted to.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Share your mouse and keyboard with multiple Mac or Windows computers

« Last post by nudone on September 22, 2011, 02:25 PM »

Any chance ShareMouse could be made to work with an iPad?

Over the weekend I'll be jailbreaking my iPad simply so I can use VNC to control it for browser testing. Would be nice if something like ShareMouse just worked enough to avoid all that messing about.

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

« Last post by nudone on September 21, 2011, 05:47 PM »

Good work. As you are making great progress I'll stick another request in, though I think this may be too much (because of what you've said before),:

As you've managed to get jpg to work, could you get png to work too - and if so, could that be png with alpha transparency so the harsh edges can be avoided (that gif produces).

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

« Last post by nudone on September 20, 2011, 05:11 PM »

Sounds good, something to look forward to.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tuesday's online debate: Windows Right vs. Windows Wrong

« Last post by nudone on September 20, 2011, 04:58 PM »

Good, I didn't think MS would be that crazy to force it upon everyone. Though that is the impression I'm getting so far.

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

« Last post by nudone on September 20, 2011, 04:53 PM »

That's starting to look like the Windows 8 desktop (which I like in aesthetic terms), that could be a good bandwagon to jump on.

If you are working on a new way for adding images to buttons, I'd like to add another request: is it possible to add a small image to a button so that it appears above the buttons text/name/label?

Just thinking it could help to identify buttons with image and text, though, I appreciate an image could be made that includes the text anyway. No problem for me, just thinking of others that might not be able to create perfect image based buttons.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tuesday's online debate: Windows Right vs. Windows Wrong

« Last post by nudone on September 20, 2011, 04:39 PM »

I think you have to use it, that's the whole issue. Hopefully I'm wrong.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mother****ing placeholder text mother****er (Warning: Image contains bad words)

« Last post by nudone on September 20, 2011, 04:37 PM »

Hahahah.