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

« Last post by Ath on September 20, 2011, 05:07 PM »

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?

-nudone (September 20, 2011, 04:53 PM)

That's one of the parts of the stuff that doesn't (and didn't before) work A limitation of the standard Button control, AFAIK.

I've been busy the last couple of days, rewriting the whole shebang in Delphi (7) (spare-time only), but that's hardly showing anything yet (doing it in OO but I didn't write/draw anything on paper before I started coding ).
It will probably be easier to solve all the graphics related stuff/issues with Delphi, but I'd like to have it working for 'most of the fancy stuff' in this AutoIt version also. The re-write is going to take some time, as my Delpians is a bit rusty , but google has been patient with me

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

« Last post by Ath on September 20, 2011, 04:41 PM »

Well, compared to my previous screenshot, I've come to this:



But it has no button-borders at all (unless I set a background color different from the buttoncolor), so that's what I'll be working on
The buttons do work, but I still have some issues with images

Colors do work:
    and when pressed:   

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

« Last post by Ath on September 20, 2011, 12:16 PM »

I couldn't check during my earlier messages, but now I see what you mean, it's the dark-blue borders that are the actual _borders_ of the button surroundings. Hm, I kinda like the thin hair-lines between the buttons, probably because of my fat fingers , makes it easier to aim at the right function.

I've been playing a bit with the colors, and by selecting blue text color (0x0000FF) it looks rather Ok to me:



Still, let me see what closer to your taste solution I can come up with

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

« Last post by Ath on September 20, 2011, 10:28 AM »

AFAIK that's the Windows selected/hovered-button-color, not sure how to change that I'll look into it.

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

« Last post by Ath on September 20, 2011, 08:01 AM »

Are you talking about an extra border around/behind each button with a specific color, different from the background color, or about a part of the current button?

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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 20, 2011, 04:04 AM »

I think that the driver added a significant delay in my boot process, but I'll have to un-install to confirm that. I'll probably do that sometime in the coming weeks, just to know for sure that this driver is causing the heavy HD grinding at boot, after boot-up the system works just as before. I can keep the screen connected during boot and it works just fine, as reported before.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by Ath on September 19, 2011, 02:08 AM »

The website says:  Download v2.99.01
But the program about says:  v2.99.02

-MarcR (June 12, 2011, 12:20 AM)

nothing to worry about, just me distinguishing between insignificant builds.

-mouser (June 12, 2011, 12:43 AM)

Hm, maybe it's time to teach the webpage to read the current versioninfo from version.xml? There have been more reports of this 'issue'.

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General Software Discussion / Re: schedule emails

« Last post by Ath on September 18, 2011, 12:22 PM »

I have done some stuff involving Outlook inbox content manipulation (from a .NET app), like moving messages to other folders etc., and I assume it should be as easy to create new messages.
But what happens (or: do you want to happen) if the message gets marked 'read'; do you manually mark it 'un-read', or do you wait for the next (new) message to appear?

I'm currently working on a different spare-time project, so this would probably end up on the todo list, if I take the challenge.
OTOH, I could turn this into a NANY2012 project, if that timespan is agreeable with you?

Oh, and the .NET/Outlook link would limit it to be an Outlook-only solution, so no Thunderbird or other compatibility.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA ~ Show List of Shortcuts overlaid on Desktop

« Last post by Ath on September 18, 2011, 10:45 AM »

what happens if you gene-splice skwire with skrommel

-rjbull (September 18, 2011, 10:43 AM)

I would assume AHK tools for solutions that haven't been requested yet

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA ~ Show List of Shortcuts overlaid on Desktop

« Last post by Ath on September 18, 2011, 10:17 AM »

We can have more than one...

-wraith808 (September 16, 2011, 07:19 PM)

Fully agree on that, especially if there's a stand-alone and a FARR integrated solution available.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help me ZIMBRA!

« Last post by Ath on September 18, 2011, 10:13 AM »

Ok, that's clear enough.

Afraid I don't have enough spare time to set it up, so I hope someone else can pick this one up for you.

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General Software Discussion / Re: schedule emails

« Last post by Ath on September 18, 2011, 08:59 AM »

I (that's me, indeed ) still fail to understand what an e-mail in your inbox offers over a (simple) repeated reminder of an appointment (Calender/Agenda-item with alarm enabled). If that scheme works for you with Google Calendar, why wouldn't it for your locally installed Outlook? (Unless you meant you have Outlook Express, that doesn't offer an Agenda, instead of the full-blown MS-Office Outlook...)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help me ZIMBRA!

« Last post by Ath on September 18, 2011, 08:32 AM »

Not sure how much you are into software installation and configuration, but would the single server installation manual be a starting point to get it going? It would give you the benefit of knowing what it's doing, and why, so you're not dependent of some external 'source' for maintenance and support, with probably limited availability.
If you're talking about running a VBox virtual, you already seem to know what you are talking about

(And I'm showing my ignorance/lack of knowledge about you  )

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Post New Requests Here / Re: G-Code to Carvewright File Converter

« Last post by Ath on September 18, 2011, 07:27 AM »

What software of CarveWright are you currently using, Project Designer or Pattern Editor?

And if you could attach (or PM) a few sample files of both types (preferably zipped together), that would make it a bit easier to investigate.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Firefox disables sound for each tab until you say so

« Last post by Ath on September 18, 2011, 07:12 AM »

Something a bit similar was discussed in this thread, maybe it is of help?

OTOH, I never have any video playing in my face without me knowing, as I'm using ABP (Ad Block Plus) and NoScript add-ins, and keep Youtube and similar sites blocked until I want to play a video, maybe that's good enough for you?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Windows 7 boot management more broken than ever?

« Last post by Ath on September 17, 2011, 05:32 AM »

Most BIOSes have an option to boot without a keyboard, for the poor souls that don't have or want a keyboard connected

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software Hall of Fame

« Last post by Ath on September 16, 2011, 03:43 PM »

I don't remember the name of the word processor that came with my Leading Edge XT Clone. But it made heavy use of the Function Keys.

-MilesAhead (September 16, 2011, 03:30 PM)

Wasn't that WordPerfect 5.1? It was controlled by functionkeys almost 100%

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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 16, 2011, 01:12 AM »

the logical place for the MIMO is in the middle of my keyboard

-cranioscopical (September 15, 2011, 06:13 PM)

Yeah that feels right, I've been thinking of using ducktape to firmly attach the mimo to my keyboard so if I move that around, the mimo moves with it, and I always have it within hands-reach. I expect it to get a bit clunky though.

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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 15, 2011, 03:49 PM »

Oh, but it's not Friday yet (about one hour to go to finish up Thursday)

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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 15, 2011, 03:48 PM »

And did you calibrate it too? Or did the driver just mess up that setting after the first connect?

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012: Promotional Videos (With Bonus Competition)

« Last post by Ath on September 15, 2011, 03:14 PM »

Third one is my favorite, by large margin 

-mouser (September 15, 2011, 03:03 PM)

+1

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General Software Discussion / Re: schedule emails

« Last post by Ath on September 15, 2011, 02:41 PM »

I only want to check Outlook for all my notifications, reminders, etc

-kalos (September 15, 2011, 02:31 PM)

That's exactly what the Calendar or Agenda (not sure what it's called in your language and version of Outlook) does: Remind you of the appointments you have. It does handle repeating appointments very easy, just remember to start up Outlook every time you login to your Windows

In the last NANY 2011 there was a project TaskDaddy, that can quickly and easily create Tasks in your Outlook, maybe that's already enough for you?

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General Software Discussion / Re: schedule emails

« Last post by Ath on September 15, 2011, 01:37 PM »

not sure what Calendar is, can you explain a bit? thanks

-kalos (September 15, 2011, 01:08 PM)

Either a calendar or an agenda, popping up your appointments in the correct time on the correct day?

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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 15, 2011, 01:35 PM »

an external video adapter that used the DisplayLink drivers

-Stoic Joker (September 15, 2011, 11:41 AM)

Seeing the advertisements on their site, it looks like they are used a lot with the Digital school-boards lots of school are already or starting to use, providing the combination of projector display and touch- or hand-pointer- input.

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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 15, 2011, 01:31 PM »

MIMO is monitor 3 and is somehow paired with monitor 1, thus any touch on the MIMO reults in 'tablet' input to monitor 1.

-cranioscopical (September 15, 2011, 10:53 AM)

Oh, yeah, the driver does have the quirk of setting the wrong default monitor as the touch-related monitor, you'll have to correct that like this:



The circled label-like control is actually a button that lets you select the monitor (3) that has the touch-capability.
Not sure if I also had to correct that with the original drivers, but seeing it misbehave in this version, I guess I did.

Is anyone using the mimo with win7 64 bit? Just wondering if that's going to be a problem when I move from 32 bit.

-nudone (September 15, 2011, 11:05 AM)

Yup, works just very fine over here