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Skwire Empire / Re: SFV Ninja (Simple File Verification application)

« Last post by skwire on May 25, 2012, 01:42 AM »

Thanks for the bug report.  Here you go:

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v1.1.2 - 2012-05-25
    ! Double-quotes around a filepath in a checksum file are now ignored.
      (Thanks, sfv4me)

If I may ask, has SFV Ninja been working well for you?

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Skwire Empire / Re: SFV Ninja (Simple File Verification application)

« Last post by skwire on May 24, 2012, 06:58 PM »

Did you mean double-quotes instead of parentheses?

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: ClipTrap

« Last post by skwire on May 23, 2012, 08:08 PM »

Another possible enhancement request:  Auto-save every so often, perhaps 15 minutes.

-nkormanik (May 23, 2012, 04:52 PM)

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v1.1.1 - 2012-05-23
    + The clip list is now saved between sessions.  (Thanks, nkormanik)

Why do you use AHK as opposed to one of the other common programming languages?

-nkormanik (May 23, 2012, 04:55 PM)

First and foremost, it gets the job done.  In the end, that's what matters most to me.  Second, it's easy to pick up and can do a ton of stuff.  Third, it doesn't require a huge IDE setup; any text editor will do.

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General Software Discussion / Re: outliner

« Last post by skwire on May 23, 2012, 06:09 PM »

I want to create an outline like this:

-kalos (May 23, 2012, 04:05 PM)

For these types of things, I like to use Blumind.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shape Shift 1.0.9.0 and SectionAte 1.0.1.0

« Last post by skwire on May 22, 2012, 10:19 AM »

Shape Shift 1.0.7.0[/b] is a Tray Hotkey to change the shape and size of the active window. You may also use it to move the active window in one dimension without it going out of the work area.

-MilesAhead (May 20, 2012, 04:39 PM)

Neat utility, MilesAhead.   

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by skwire on May 22, 2012, 10:14 AM »

My ISP is broadcasting now the season 2 of the HBO TV show made after the series, but I doubt I'll be able to catch up...  I am still in the part where Jon is staring is "job" at the wall....

-MerleOne (May 21, 2012, 02:36 PM)

For the record, the HBO series is really well done and my wife and I both enjoy it (she hasn't read the books).  As an aside, I'm hoping Martin lasts long enough to finish out the written series.  It's somewhat frustrating when you invest several thousand pages worth of time into a series that doesn't get finished.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)

« Last post by skwire on May 22, 2012, 08:21 AM »

Could you add an option to show the toaster tooltip on the upper left top of the screen?

-boogle (May 21, 2012, 05:54 PM)

I'll see what I can do about this.

Could you add an option to show the lyrics inside the player's window instead of in a floating window?

-boogle (May 21, 2012, 05:54 PM)

No, I don't want mess with the main interface.  The lyrics window is separate so that it can stay open and visible while the main interface is hidden.

Thank you for this application. 

-boogle (May 21, 2012, 05:54 PM)

You're welcome.  I'm glad you're finding it useful.  =]

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by skwire on May 20, 2012, 03:11 PM »

Just started Games of Thrones from Georges RR Martin

-MerleOne (May 20, 2012, 03:00 PM)

Settle in; you're in for a long ride.  =]

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General Software Discussion / Re: powerful undo

« Last post by skwire on May 19, 2012, 01:45 PM »

@skwire: I think you're coming at this from the wrong end... no need to monitor and record all those things! Simply with the invention of a time machine it would be easy to step back to an earlier moment in the 4th dimension, with no need to 'undo' anything - physics would take care of it all!

-Ampa (May 19, 2012, 10:55 AM)

Ha.     If it were that easy...

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Living Room / Re: Donation gamer: Games to give

« Last post by skwire on May 19, 2012, 01:41 PM »

Skwire, I wouldn't mind picking up up those Zombie shooters!

-Attronarch (May 19, 2012, 01:28 PM)

I sent you the keys in a PM.  Enjoy.  =]

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General Software Discussion / Re: powerful undo

« Last post by skwire on May 18, 2012, 02:24 PM »

any??

-kalos (May 18, 2012, 11:56 AM)

Kalos, in regards to your file system requests, I don't think you realise the insane complexity of what you're asking for.  How do you expect a program to automatically keep track of all sorts of changes, deletes, copies, moves and such and then, poof, just let you restore stuff at the drop of a hat?  File systems simply don't work that way...

to be honest, I didnt undestand a thing of what vlastimil said 

-kalos (May 18, 2012, 12:38 PM)

What vlastimil is talking about is probably your only hope of approximating what you want in regards to file system changes and this is what as known as a version control system (VCS).  Here's a quick read describing what such a thing can do for you:

http://abdullin.com/...trol-system-vcs.html

However, this is not an automatic, everything-on-your-system type of thing.  That is, you would have to commit snapshots of the files and such you want to be able to revert to.  All this, of course, would require a decent amount of setup on your part.  In addition, you would need a good amount of disk space if you plan to try and version control large numbers of (large) files.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Color My Folder

« Last post by skwire on May 18, 2012, 11:21 AM »

Aye, that it does.  =]

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Color My Folder

« Last post by skwire on May 18, 2012, 11:05 AM »

Duh! It was late last night when I created the setup file. I missed a file. Sorry.    Fixed, please download again from the above post.

-c.gingerich (May 18, 2012, 06:37 AM)

I don't know how many times mouser and I have discussed releasing an app/update, going to sleep directly afterward, and waking up to an, "Oh, sh!t, what have I done?" moment after reading the ensuing emails and/or forum posts.   

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Drag any text or right click and save as a file

« Last post by skwire on May 18, 2012, 11:02 AM »

Welcome to the site, nampara17.   

I realise there should be 100's of these apps out there but cannot find anything.

-nampara17 (May 18, 2012, 03:01 AM)

Unfortunately, your requirements are what make this not trivial at all and is the reason why there are no apps out there that try to do this.  Let me explain.  First of all, right-clicking in an application is handled directly by said application.  Without some sort of API or plugin system for a given app, you simply can't hook into all the right-click menus of each and every app.  The problem is that the vast majority of apps do not offer APIs or plugin mechanisms and, even if they did, you'd have to write a separate handler for each application you want to support.  This is one of those coding problems that seems easy enough to humans but is terribly difficult to code for.  Follow me?

I don't need clipboard controllers and utils, just plain right click, save as... functionality.

-nampara17 (May 18, 2012, 03:01 AM)

It's ironic, but you're almost certainly going to have to use the clipboard for such functionality since it's the only common facility between different applications (when attempting to copy text).  You could still accomplish much of what you want by using, say, Ctrl+RightClick to popup a custom menu with a "Save as..." entry.  The app would then copy the selected text to clipboard and save it out as a your specified filename.  Something like this would actually be trivial to write with a bit of AutoHotkey script.  Are you open to this type of workflow?

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Skwire Empire / Re: SFV Ninja (Simple File Verification application)

« Last post by skwire on May 16, 2012, 01:31 PM »

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v1.1.1 - 2012-05-12
    + Added "Open file location", "Open folder location" and "Launch file" options to the context/edit menu.  (Thanks, sfv4me)
    + Added optional row colouring.  Enable it from the options menu.  (Thanks, sfv4me)
    + Added "Clear list" button to the toolbar.
    * Some listview adjustments to hopefully speed things up when checking large lists of files.
    * Improved the file loading performance when checking for dupes.
    * Changed individual mode buttons to one dropdown list.
    * Removed the ANSI build.  If you still need it, let me know.
    ! Missing files weren't counted properly if their row was unchecked.  (Thanks, sfv4me)

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Skwire Empire / Re: SFV Ninja (Simple File Verification application)

« Last post by skwire on May 16, 2012, 07:37 AM »

could you change it to color the row as a problem is found?

-sfv4me (May 16, 2012, 07:21 AM)

This is the way I had initially tried to make it work but, for some reason, it wouldn't.  I tried various tweaks to get the listview to repaint while it was scanning files but nothing worked so colouring it at the end of a scan was the next best thing.

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DcUpdater / Re: DcuHelper.exe v1.10 (7/12/11) - Update checking for your apps (dcupdater compat)

« Last post by skwire on May 15, 2012, 10:35 PM »

@peterlonz:  Maybe DcUpdater was more of what you were expecting to find?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend bulk editor for EXIF/IPTC metadata?

« Last post by skwire on May 15, 2012, 04:40 PM »

Time to save your money and get chummy with ExifTool GUI.

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Skwire Empire / Re: SFV Ninja (Simple File Verification application)

« Last post by skwire on May 15, 2012, 11:15 AM »

Build 34: http://skwire.dcmemb...VNinja_v1.1.0.34.zip

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Skwire Empire / Re: SFV Ninja (Simple File Verification application)

« Last post by skwire on May 15, 2012, 07:55 AM »

i have noticed the slowdown when trying to scroll down or up.

-sfv4me (May 15, 2012, 01:37 AM)

Agreed, and I'm not sure I like it.  I'll probably switch it back to the original way.

so the total is just confirming the rows?

-sfv4me (May 15, 2012, 01:37 AM)

Yes, and it also acts as a counter while it's verifying files.  BTW, if you double-click the statusbar, it will take you to the currently verifying row.

one other minor thing which might be a little hard to explain. i use the scroll wheel on the mouse quite a lot and when i open the program, the cursor default is on the mode menu. so if i add the files then start scrolling, the mode changes because i haven't clicked elsewhere in the program.  

-sfv4me (May 15, 2012, 01:37 AM)

Hehehe, I got burned by this very thing last night and already have fixed it in the next build.

also, maybe have the counters reset after clearing the list. at the moment, they are reset only once a new verify begins.

-sfv4me (May 15, 2012, 01:37 AM)

Can do.

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Skwire Empire / Re: SFV Ninja (Simple File Verification application)

« Last post by skwire on May 14, 2012, 03:25 PM »

Give this build a try:  http://skwire.dcmemb...VNinja_v1.1.0.32.zip

I made some internal changes and sacrificed a bit of GUI responsiveness for speed when verifying a list.  Let me know how it goes.  Thanks.

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General Software Discussion / Re: replace the clock in WinXP

« Last post by skwire on May 14, 2012, 09:44 AM »

http://www.stoicjoker.com/TClock/
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=21944.0

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Skwire Empire / Re: Birthdays (simple birthday tracking app)

« Last post by skwire on May 13, 2012, 03:34 PM »

Nice nickname and avatar; I loved the Dune series.  =]  As to your post, I wrote Birthdays with the intention that it didn't stay running in the tray or anything like that since, I feel, there are many birthday reminder apps already out there.  That being said, what you're requesting isn't all that difficult to add so I'll try to find some time to add it in.  Thanks for the feedback.

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Skwire Empire / Re: SFV Ninja (Simple File Verification application)

« Last post by skwire on May 12, 2012, 07:50 AM »

if it can't be done, then it's ok.  

-sfv4me (May 12, 2012, 05:32 AM)

Well, it can be done but I'm struggling to find an elegant way to handle it.  I know that sounds lame and I apologise.  

At any rate, here's the latest build with some further changes and the bug fix you reported.  Please let me know how this build checks out.  Thank you.

http://skwire.dcmemb...FVNinja_v1.1.0.4.zip

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by skwire on May 11, 2012, 11:16 PM »

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v1.2.1 - 2012-05-11
    + Added "Reset tray icon positions" option to the tray menu.