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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: WinSendkeys: Latest version thread. Version 3.2.1, released 2011-10-01

« Last post by Ath on October 01, 2011, 08:42 AM »

I've added some small changes to WinSendKeys, so the -v commandline parameter can be set from the (optional) ini file, and updated the documentation with all settings that can be configured in the ini file.

Release is available at the first message in this thread, so, tada:

WinSendKeys 3.2.1

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: WinSendkeys: Latest version thread. Version 3.2.0, released 2011-09-30

« Last post by Ath on September 30, 2011, 04:37 PM »

@Chris and all interested,

I've added some scripting facilities to the [-f strokesfile] feature, so it's now technically possible  to implement your request.
Using such script (an example is included) you can:
- Wait for a window (or title, or exename) to open (--winwait <windowname> [timeout])
- Wait for a window (idem) to close, both with a timeout (--winclose <windowname> [timeout])
- On timeout of the above, either quit or goto a labeled line in the script (--error quit and --error goto <label>)
- Jump to a specific label in the script (--goto <label>)
- Call a subroutine with optional parameters (--gosub <label> [parameter text])
- Return from the subroutine (--return)
- Quit the script (--quit)
- Display a message with optional timeout and parameters support (--msg [timeout,]message text [$params$])

But the difficult part of your request is to interact with the user, Windows and it's applications to determine what to send when and where, and what to wait for, to get the desired 'workflow'.
At least the techy-geek baseline is here

Release is available at the first message in this thread, so, tada:

WinSendKeys 3.2.0

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Filenames with a leading dot?

« Last post by Ath on September 30, 2011, 01:25 PM »

It's a lot of Java based, multi-platform, software that uses these 'prefixes' for configuration files, that are hidden by default on *nix OS's. Maven is the one that comes to mind immediately; have a look in your C:\Users\<username> directory. Being a developer, you'll likely find a few .-prefixed files there. And others create even .-prefixed directories holding even more user-specific stuff, I found .netbeans, .eclipse, .virtualbox, .google, to name just a few.

General consensus is to not use them for common user-files. And Windows Explorer really hates them anyway.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 7 is out

« Last post by Ath on September 29, 2011, 03:07 PM »

OOOO - does that make me ultra evil?

-Carol Haynes (September 29, 2011, 02:53 PM)

Guess the extra 6 defeats the intention of the other 3
Dunno what posts 6660..6665 and 6667..6669 are going to mean

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.101.01 - Sep 20, 2011

« Last post by Ath on September 29, 2011, 02:02 PM »

This has been weird capturing a scrolled image from FireFox ever since FF 4 came out. And 5, 6 or 7 haven't improved on it. IMHO it's FF's fault

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Improving Region Select Capture Mode

« Last post by Ath on September 29, 2011, 01:59 PM »

+1

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by Ath on September 29, 2011, 01:54 PM »

That is a really beautiful song, but I hadn't yet seen this wonderful video. Just luv it

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: USB Safely Remove and Zentimo, 50% discount until September 30th, 2011

« Last post by Ath on September 29, 2011, 07:21 AM »

Received an e-mail today:

We have a special promo this month for you. Purchase any of our programs until
September 30th and save 50%!

Read more about this offer on our web-site:
  http://safelyremove..../limitedOffer.htm?em

Less than 48 hours left, hurry before it's too late!

--
Kind regards,
USB Safely Remove & Zentimo development team,
http://crystalrich.com

Like Tomos, tagged here because it's the same offer.

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

« Last post by Ath on September 28, 2011, 08:31 AM »

Chris,

This feels more like something to pick up in the WinSendKeys thread, I'm quite sure (most of) it can be taken care of.

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

« Last post by Ath on September 27, 2011, 05:34 PM »

"Change the weather!"

-skwire (September 27, 2011, 05:23 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone Know of a Multi-Monitor Simulator for Software Testing?

« Last post by Ath on September 27, 2011, 03:37 PM »

I just set up a VirtualBox (4.1.2 with extension pack) with Windows 7 x64 and configured 4 monitors. The Windows Update was crap, as usual on a pre-SP1 install, but I've got 4 screens that I can put stuff on.

Specialties:

• Choose ICH9 chipset where applicable
• Set video memory to 128 MB (max)
• Enabled all video hardware acceleration options available (2D Video and 3D)
• Installed the VBox Guest extensions stuff (not yet with the 3D drivers, needs safe mode apparently)
• Enabled the extra monitors, like skwire did

Maybe I'll try to break it by setting up the DisplayLink drivers for the MIMO touch-screen

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on September 27, 2011, 06:09 AM »

And another loyal poster detected:

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

« Last post by Ath on September 27, 2011, 02:47 AM »

Have you configured WinSendKeys? The path is probably different.

-nudone (September 27, 2011, 02:04 AM)

Yes, I managed to get the right path. That's one out of ten so far, I believe.
Nice job on those templates 

-cranioscopical (September 27, 2011, 02:18 AM)

Simplest would be to *only* configure the path to WinSendKeys in WinButtons.wbuc (or WinButtons.ini if you have only that), as all other templates fall back to the setting stored there. And yes, that's a feature

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

« Last post by Ath on September 27, 2011, 01:44 AM »

@Cranioscopical: You'd better update your WinSendKeys, it's an outdated version that had this 'additional info' feature

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

« Last post by Ath on September 27, 2011, 01:31 AM »

OMG, I left a debug message in won't be able to really fix that till tonite, after I get home

I'll hang an attachment here in a sec...

False positive...

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Living Room / Re: Android tablets to rival iPad

« Last post by Ath on September 26, 2011, 06:02 PM »

Anything you guys would like to know?

-superboyac (September 26, 2011, 04:58 PM)

Yeah, do the Samsung and/or Asus feel as 'fluent' as the iPad, in normal use?

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Finished Programs / Release: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands: WinButtons 3.5.1

« Last post by Ath on September 26, 2011, 05:59 PM »

Did some work on the Borderless button with split captions. They can be forcibly wrapped using a @LF@ macro at the desired position(s). That's another feature request of nudone fulfilled 

Next update will be for WBE getting a better configuration of all Image parameters (7 comma separated values is a bit cumbersome)

Here's an update release of:

WinButtons 3.5.1.0

and

WinButtonEdit 1.0.4.4

Download available from the release message, linking to my DCMembers pages.

Updates can be downloaded also from the WinButtonEdit File/Check for updates option, using DCUpdater when installed.

I'll also be doing more testing in the next couple of days.

Any feedback is still welcome, as usual

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

« Last post by Ath on September 26, 2011, 02:49 PM »

Our server seems to be online again:
http://www.keyboard-...nd-mouse-sharing.com

-BartelsMedia (September 26, 2011, 09:17 AM)

Well, not now, just getting socket errors here, while the main page was available yesterday

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... a universal password reset/retrieval system

« Last post by Ath on September 26, 2011, 02:39 PM »

Hm, any good system that stores a password, only stores a hash of it, that can't be reverted, just the calculation repeated with the correct password delivering the same hash.
So it would be nearly impossible to revert that, without a brute force attack, and even that could take from hours to more than a lifetime

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Living Room / Re: Why My Mom Bought an Android, Returned It, and Got an iPhone

« Last post by Ath on September 26, 2011, 01:26 PM »

Why is it that people say Android is for Geeks?

-Proximo (September 26, 2011, 11:11 AM)

IMHO, it's more that Android is also for geeks. The iPhone 4 my employer forced into my hands, feels is much more closed than the Android I've been carrying around for more than 1 year now. But that one I choose myself because of the opportunities the platform offers... And ofcourse I think of myself being a technical/geek user

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General Software Discussion / Re: PING archive not able to delete 10 GB

« Last post by Ath on September 26, 2011, 10:09 AM »

Sometimes this can also be achieved by opening a CMD prompt, and selecting the file/directory using the <tab> AutoComplete feature of the shell (using the 'del' or 'rd'/'rmdir' commands).

Using a Linux "live" CD has the advantage that there is surely no file-in-use issue. It requires such iso image to be downloaded and baked onto a CD though

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

« Last post by Ath on September 26, 2011, 08:59 AM »

The download failing has been reported in their issue tracker on 9/9, and I get the impression that nobody even looked at it

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

« Last post by Ath on September 25, 2011, 04:36 PM »

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

-nudone (September 25, 2011, 04:21 PM)

So we'll have to relocate to the US of A (or at least North America) to get it working properly; hey, cranioscopical, we might become neighbors

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

« Last post by Ath on September 25, 2011, 01:54 PM »

with the colours

-nudone (September 25, 2011, 01:39 PM)

I kinda love it how we keep mixing the use of the US and UK version of color and colour

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

« Last post by Ath on September 25, 2011, 01:53 PM »

as the shorter things I tried didn't work

-nudone (September 25, 2011, 01:44 PM)

That's because of the Command separation character being a '^' by default