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Coding Snacks / MOVED: Generate sequential serial numbers

« Last post by skwire on August 05, 2012, 11:57 AM »

This topic has been moved to Finished Programs.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=31281.0

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Coding Snacks / MOVED: Request - Insert text string to front / end of each line in a text file

« Last post by skwire on August 05, 2012, 11:55 AM »

This topic has been moved to Finished Programs.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=31713.0

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Coding Snacks / MOVED: IDEA (completed): Paste a screenshot in windows explorer

« Last post by skwire on August 05, 2012, 11:53 AM »

This topic has been moved to Finished Programs.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=31798.0

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Paste a screenshot in windows explorer

« Last post by skwire on August 04, 2012, 09:09 PM »

If we knew what configuration in Windows was required to enable this default, then we wouldn't need a workaround script - would we?

-IainB (August 04, 2012, 08:23 PM)

Well, my script offers additional functionality; you can specfiy a name and it also supports pasting as JPG, PNG, GIF, or BMP.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Paste a screenshot in windows explorer

« Last post by skwire on August 04, 2012, 06:59 PM »

patku, I can write you a small script that should work for you.  However, you would need to have a certain option turned on in your Windows Explorer options.  Namely, this one:



Also, this script will not use the standard Ctrl+V hotkey.  You're just asking for trouble trying to override standard hotkeys like that.  I currently have it using Win+V but can change that to whatever you want.  Would this be acceptable?

2306

General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a (dc?) app that generates words/ names

« Last post by skwire on August 04, 2012, 12:45 PM »

Perhaps my Simple Word Gen will suffice?

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General Software Discussion / Re: A software for compress file and able to find them first

« Last post by skwire on August 01, 2012, 10:07 AM »

Do you already have a text listing of the files you want compressed?  As in, something like this:

c:\path\abc.txt
c:\another\path\def.txt
c:\more\stuff\ghi.txt

2308

Post New Requests Here / Re: Request. Add feature to the free program

« Last post by skwire on July 30, 2012, 03:13 PM »

Here's an alternative to AltDrag that allows you to set the middle mouse button to resize windows:

http://www.deskex.com/AltMove/index.asp

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: turn IE proxy server on/off

« Last post by skwire on July 29, 2012, 05:45 PM »

Website | Download
v1.0.1 - 2012-07-29
    + Added commandline mode.  Examples:
        1) c:\path\to\ieproxytoggle.exe -on
        2) c:\path\to\ieproxytoggle.exe -off
        3) c:\path\to\ieproxytoggle.exe -toggle

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Find And Run Robot / Re: alias for toggle internet proxy

« Last post by skwire on July 29, 2012, 05:42 PM »

I just added a commandline mode to my IE Proxy Toggle application so that your alias can work more reliably across all languages.  Download the application, unpack it to a folder and you can call it in your alias like these examples:

c:\path\to\ieproxytoggle.exe -on
c:\path\to\ieproxytoggle.exe -off
c:\path\to\ieproxytoggle.exe -toggle

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ripping My DVD Collection

« Last post by skwire on July 28, 2012, 09:01 AM »

As 4wd and tslim have mentioned, if space is not a concern, just rip straight to ISO format.  FWIW, my Boxee boxes will play an ISO file just like the actual DVD, i.e., menus and all.  No extra mounting required, either.

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General Software Discussion / Re: WinDim 1.1.4.0

« Last post by skwire on July 25, 2012, 06:30 PM »

I wonder when WinDim may be useful.

-Giampy (July 25, 2012, 03:15 PM)

Here's one: If you're a (web) developer that needs to check out how an interface looks at varying resolutions, this tool would make it easy to resize windows to the standard sizes, e.g., 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, etc..  Just a thought.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: Comic Book Archive Creator

« Last post by skwire on July 24, 2012, 11:17 AM »

Thanks for the response and changes. (and the shout-out to me in the change-log!)

-fdwojo (July 24, 2012, 02:51 AM)

You're very welcome.  This application turned out very well, IMHO, and I find myself using it, too.   

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Post New Requests Here / MOVED: Are any of the files missing???

« Last post by skwire on July 23, 2012, 11:48 PM »

This topic has been moved to Finished Programs.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=31432.0

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Are any of the files missing???

« Last post by skwire on July 23, 2012, 11:28 PM »

I'm going to go ahead and mark this request as DONE, if that's cool with you guys.   

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Shell extension to show total play time of media clips

« Last post by skwire on July 23, 2012, 07:35 PM »

Thanks, MilesAhead.  I appreciate your kind words.   

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: Comic Book Archive Creator

« Last post by skwire on July 23, 2012, 04:35 PM »

Website | Download
v1.0.5 - 2012-07-23
    * Improved the accuracy of the progress bars.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Launch all programs or documents included in alias

« Last post by skwire on July 22, 2012, 10:20 PM »

I believe that Ctrl+Alt+Enter is what you want.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Drive Extender replacement due out in 2012. It's called Storage Spaces.

« Last post by skwire on July 18, 2012, 04:28 PM »

how does the math work out there?

-superboyac (July 18, 2012, 03:42 PM)

Here's a simple explanation:

Let's say you have four, 2 TB drives.  You would designate one of them as the parity drive, e.g.,:

D1 (2 TB)
D2 (2 TB)
D3 (2 TB)
P1 (2 TB)

This would give you 6 TB of data space with 2 TB of parity.  The simplest way to envision this is with math, i.e., 1+2+3=6 (D1 = 1, D2 = 2, D3 = 3, thus, P1 = 6).  If you lose any one of the "D" drives, you can easily calculate what you're missing.  Let's say you lost D2 and have replaced it.  The system starts to rebuild based data off the P1 parity drive information like this:

1+?+3=6

Obviously, ? = 2.  Yes, this is a 50,000 foot view, but does that help to explain things?  Also, if you were to lose two drives at one time, you wouldn't get all your data back (unless you had two parity drives).  In other words, you can simultaneously lose as many data drives as you have parity drives.  So goes the theory, anyway.  YMMV.  

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: Comic Book Archive Creator

« Last post by skwire on July 18, 2012, 09:27 AM »

Hi, FDWojo, and welcome to the site.

In the process of creating the comic, you make each page from a PDF into a JPG.  I know that when creating a JPG, it is possible to indicate the 'compression quality' of the image, and I believe it can be set between 1 and 100 (1 is least compression and 100 is most compression).  What do you use for a setting? Can it be added on the Options page so that we can squeeze (or not) the size of our comic book files?

-fdwojo (July 17, 2012, 02:32 PM)

In the latest build, I added the ability to specify the output type (JPG or PNG) when converting PDFs.  I also included your request to specify the quality of a jpg and the compression of a png.  Some things to keep in mind:

• The JPG quality value is 0-100 where 0 is the worst quality and 100 is the best quality.  The default is 85.
• The PNG compression value is 1-10 where 1 is the least compression and 10 is the most compression.  The default is 6.

Website | Download
v1.0.4 - 2012-07-17
    + When converting PDFs, added ability to specify image output type and
      quality/compression settings.  (Thanks, fdwojo)

v1.0.3 - 2012-07-15
    + Last used folders are now saved when adding files.

v1.0.2 - 2012-07-13
    + Added ability to cancel during the creation process.
    * Changed the "Clear list" toolbar icon.

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Post New Requests Here / MOVED: IDEA: Progress Bars re-visited.

« Last post by skwire on July 18, 2012, 08:21 AM »

This topic has been moved to Finished Programs.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=31614.0

2322

Post New Requests Here / Re: Request. Add feature to the free program

« Last post by skwire on July 17, 2012, 01:05 PM »

or in irc guys give me some script, but he can't drag only by middle mouse button to, may be u can edit this script or add feature to the program?

-plander (July 17, 2012, 12:35 PM)

Hi, plander, and welcome to DonationCoder.  Here is a modified version of the AHK script that should do what you requested:

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. ~MButton::
2. CoordMode, Mouse  ; Switch to screen/absolute coordinates.
3. MouseGetPos, EWD_MouseStartX, EWD_MouseStartY, EWD_MouseWin
4. WinGetPos, EWD_OriginalPosX, EWD_OriginalPosY,,, ahk_id %EWD_MouseWin%
5. WinGet, EWD_WinState, MinMax, ahk_id %EWD_MouseWin%
6. if EWD_WinState = 0  ; Only if the window isn't maximized
7.     SetTimer, EWD_WatchMouse, 10 ; Track the mouse as the user drags it.
8. return
9.  
10. EWD_WatchMouse:
11. GetKeyState, EWD_LButtonState, MButton, P
12. if EWD_LButtonState = U  ; Button has been released, so drag is complete.
13. {
14.     SetTimer, EWD_WatchMouse, off
15.     return
16. }
17. GetKeyState, EWD_EscapeState, Escape, P
18. if EWD_EscapeState = D  ; Escape has been pressed, so drag is cancelled.
19. {
20.     SetTimer, EWD_WatchMouse, off
21.     WinMove, ahk_id %EWD_MouseWin%,, %EWD_OriginalPosX%, %EWD_OriginalPosY%
22.     return
23. }
24. ; Otherwise, reposition the window to match the change in mouse coordinates
25. ; caused by the user having dragged the mouse:
26. CoordMode, Mouse
27. MouseGetPos, EWD_MouseX, EWD_MouseY
28. WinGetPos, EWD_WinX, EWD_WinY,,, ahk_id %EWD_MouseWin%
29. SetWinDelay, -1   ; Makes the below move faster/smoother.
30. WinMove, ahk_id %EWD_MouseWin%,, EWD_WinX + EWD_MouseX - EWD_MouseStartX, EWD_WinY + EWD_MouseY - EWD_MouseStartY
31. EWD_MouseStartX := EWD_MouseX  ; Update for the next timer-call to this subroutine.
32. EWD_MouseStartY := EWD_MouseY
33. return

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: Comic Book Archive Creator

« Last post by skwire on July 16, 2012, 09:37 AM »

I think that's the detail that is missing in this whole conversation: .cbr is just a renamed .rar file, and no program other than winrar can create that kind of archives (see explanation above).

-jgpaiva (July 16, 2012, 09:34 AM)

Correct.  All that said, CBZ, CB7, and CBT support should be enough for anybody.  I included CBR support for the zealots, you know?  

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: Comic Book Archive Creator

« Last post by skwire on July 16, 2012, 09:32 AM »

Or do you mean that the USER must have a license for WinRar so that you can call their licensed version from your program?

-Renegade (July 16, 2012, 09:21 AM)

Yes, I meant the user must have a licensed copy of WinRAR in order to be able to create CBR files.  The Rar.exe file, that CBAC can use, comes with the WinRAR package.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: Comic Book Archive Creator

« Last post by skwire on July 16, 2012, 08:23 AM »

Just to clarify something which I hadn't understod and I believe PhotoComiX also hasn't:
The program already includes 7zip to do some stuff, however, 7zip can't create CBR files; that's what you need winrar.exe for (which, presumably is the only one which does support the creation of CBR files?)

-jgpaiva (July 16, 2012, 08:13 AM)

To clarify, it's the Rar.exe file that Comic Book Archive Creator will look for...not the WinRAR.exe file.  However, you're correct in that 7-zip cannot create RAR files.  In fact, without a license, no third-party can create RAR files.  They can all unpack RAR files because, as per the license, you can distribute and use the UnRAR components freely.  In other words:

1) Creating RAR files means you must have a license.
2) Unpacking RAR files is free.

So, to reiterate, Comic Book Archive Creator includes everything you need to create CBZ, CB7, and CBT files.  If you want to create CBR files, you will have to provide your own copy of the Rar.exe file.