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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 07, 2011, 01:19 PM »

A point of attention:
If WinButtons or WinButtonEdit have a current file that is not named WinButtons.wbuc or WinButtons.ini, they try to read any missing Settings values from WinButtons.wbuc or .ini (dependent on/same as the extension of the current file).
So if you have said file in the current directory while editing, but not in the actual directory where WinButtons is reading the current file, behavior will be different. (there is a corresponding remark in the WinButtons.readme.txt file about this)

And a small tip: WBE offers to run the current file with WinButtons from the 'File/Run WinButtons with current file  Ctrl-R' menuitem, for a quick 'Real World' test

The cause for losing all Captions is not clear to me, I've never seen that happen before , I'll investigate.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor: Improved Arrows

« Last post by Ath on September 07, 2011, 12:19 PM »

Ooohh, I love them

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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 07, 2011, 10:15 AM »

The new cursor memory feature doesn't seem to make any difference regardless of the setting it's on

-nudone (September 07, 2011, 08:03 AM)

Setting the CursorRestore buffer to Small should give the same buffersize as the previous version, but I also tweaked the buffer-fill-code to try to be a bit more efficient. Might be I messed up something

There is also a strange layout problem.

-nudone (September 07, 2011, 08:03 AM)

Could you PM or e-mail me that layout file, so I can have a look at it?

I have noticed that, even though I firmly press the keys to compile the AutoIt3 source, it sometimes produces a bad/partly corrupted .exe, so I should probably do some more quality assurance before packing stuff into the zip-file.
I'll re-compile later today, and upload again (can't ftp from work).

One, thought and question: are the old .wbuc button templates compatible with the updates of WinButtonsEdit?

It's going to be a long process of having to recreate all the templates everytime if so.

-nudone (September 07, 2011, 08:10 AM)

The file-format has been backward compatible from day one, I only added settings (and sections) that are not interpreted by older versions of WinButtons but they do no harm. And ofcourse the default extension changed from .ini to .wbuc, some time ago, but it does work with .ini files equally well.
When unpacking my zip-file, just get the *.exe and *.readme.txt files. Unzip *.au3 if you want the source, all other files are hardly ever changed and meant as examples for new users.

For the keyboard shortcut keys I'm working on built-in support for WB, to avoid the load-time of WinSendKeys, and the AutoIt3 'rules' can be found here. Anything you can Send(), you can use with WB (though WinSendKeys can do a bit more, like mouse-clicks).
The WB built-in Send function will get a new command (not '-send'), so that would require a 1-time change to your .wbuc file(s).

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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 06, 2011, 05:39 PM »

I published an update for WinButtons and WBE in this thread, adding a configurable buffersize for the CursorRestore feature.

@nudone, I expect that setting CursorRestore to 'Regular', using WBE, should eliminate most of the 'missed mouse-cursor restores' you saw until now.

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Finished Programs / Release: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands: WinButtons 3.4.1

« Last post by Ath on September 06, 2011, 05:33 PM »

I updated the CursorRestore feature of WinButtons, giving it a configurable buffersize so the "can't restore the mouse cursor because I don't remember any more positions" situation should happen a little less often.
The setting is renamed from 'Restore cursor after button' to 'CursorRestore buffer' on the Global parameters page in WinButtonEdit.
Selectable values are Off, Small, Regular, Medium and Large. The old default was a buffersize of Small.

Here's an update release of:

WinButtons 3.4.1

and

WinButtonEdit 1.0.2.0

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

nudone is already doing a lot of real-world testing , but more feedback is welcome, as usual

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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 06, 2011, 09:55 AM »

Oh, and @Ath, I shan't be sending one to you  

-cranioscopical (September 06, 2011, 08:50 AM)

That's kind of a disappointment, but I'll survive

I'm sure ath will get it working great once he starts playing with a setup similar to yours

-jgpaiva (September 06, 2011, 08:50 AM)

I'm working on making the currently fixed buffer a bit more flexible, I'll probably release the update later this week.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling capture is not working

« Last post by Ath on September 05, 2011, 04:44 PM »

Another confirmation, Win7 x64 with default Aero theme.

It duplicates just below the last thing that is visible, I had 333 as the last line visible from the first page (red arrow), and that got duplicated, and it shifted 666 and 777 out of view at the blue arrow. Case of +/-1 perhaps?

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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 05, 2011, 10:19 AM »

but does it support "menus"? Drawer-line collections of buttons, for example.

-jgpaiva (September 05, 2011, 10:11 AM)

Please have a look at the first screenshot in the WinButtons release-thread, it's showing a 3-level menu, and the 2nd screenshot shows a 2-level menu. It's simply a secondary instance of WB, positioned relative to the button that started it. It needs either <Esc> pressed or a dedicated button that closes that single instance (or the border displayed, with the default Windows close button), so that might need some improvement in implementation. Feature requests are welcome, ofcourse 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for 'self email' sender

« Last post by Ath on September 05, 2011, 04:59 AM »

Ehm, do you want the e-mail, or is an Outlook Task also an option? In that case, NANY 2011 entry TaskDaddy should be on your list

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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 05, 2011, 04:54 AM »

This makes me a happy person with a warm feeling inside today (and some more days this week) and that's just because you are so happy with the result

It's looking great, though touch-screen placement does indeed need some tweaking

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General Software Discussion / Re: GUI automation

« Last post by Ath on September 04, 2011, 05:45 AM »

I need to record macros to programs that have GUI elements/controls, that do not have classnn, or other distinguishable characteristics.

-kalos (September 04, 2011, 05:05 AM)

Eventually, most applications have them, but they can hide it in certain situations. When building WinSendKeys I had a bit similar issues, and reverted to doing other-control-relative mouse-clicks, usually it's toolbarbuttons that don't have these classnames/classnn, but the toolbar or it's surrounding windows has, and the toolbar is often in a fixed location.

Can you give examples of applications that hide (most) controls like this? I know Firefox 4.0 and later has issues in this arena, and some apps created using C++Builder 6 have the issues with the toolbars, mentioned above, but I haven't found much other applications with this behavior.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Ethervane Echo

« Last post by Ath on September 04, 2011, 05:35 AM »

Very impressive indeed

I'll be testing this soon.

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

« Last post by Ath on September 04, 2011, 05:03 AM »

@nudone, I'm glad you are getting the hang of it already
I was out for a party, yesterday, so I didn't get to see your messages until now.

The Ctrl-N keystroke could also have been specified using {ctrl}n (without spaces), but that's just a minor detail, and some applications can need the keystrokes to be sent a bit slower, as will happen if you send {ctrldown} n {ctrlup} using WinSendKeys.

One thing I've just noticed is that it takes a while to redraw the buttons as they flick between the Groups. I've got 40 buttons on display in each group; is this pushing WinButtons to its limits?

-nudone (September 03, 2011, 11:39 AM)

I haven't tried WinButtons with that number of buttons yet, I usually work with 10 to 12 buttons, but as I have quite fast PC's atm, I don't notice any slowness. I'll have to try on a less capable system, but I'm not sure I have much tuning options there, while using plain AutoIt3 code.

The main event-loop is triggered every 100 msec, maybe it would help if you tune that to say 50 or 60 msec, so the response on changing application focus is somewhat more snappy. Setting it lower than 20 msec is going to get you into performance trouble, I guess, as the processing during each loop does need some time.
This value needs to be changed in the source directly (WinButtons.au3, find the line with 'Sleep(100)' and change it accordingly, then run the au3 file or recompile using AutoIt3), I'll probably add a setting for that to a next release of WinButtons/WBE.

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Living Room / Re: Should I Get A Divorce?

« Last post by Ath on September 03, 2011, 04:44 AM »

It is a very nice looking device.

-Renegade (September 03, 2011, 12:55 AM)

I think that sums it up for both the iPad and the iPhone.

I've been carrying an Android for over a year now, and my employer gave me an iPhone 4 about 2 months ago, and being the technocrat I am, the Android is and will be my best friend smartphone for some time to come

doing all that stuff she usually gets me to do

-app103 (September 03, 2011, 02:53 AM)

Lovely story app

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Living Room / Re: Ultimate touchscreen control via iPad remote software - I'm excited

« Last post by Ath on September 02, 2011, 03:23 PM »

I just released WinButtons 3.4.0 and WinButtonEdit 1.0.1.1 from the WinButtons release message.

A new feature CursorRestore is introduced.

Any feedback is welcome

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Finished Programs / Release: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands: WinButtons 3.4.0

« Last post by Ath on September 02, 2011, 03:20 PM »

I added a new feature to WinButtons: CursorRestore, on a request from nudone in this thread.
When enabled, the cursor is restored to it's last know position, outside of the WinButtons window. To be used if WinButtons is positioned on a (external) touch-screen.

WinButtons 3.4.0

Next to supporting the new CursorRestore option, WinButtonsEdit also displays the current (Top, Left) position of the preview window (if enabled), and has a menu-option to copy those coordinates to the Global Top and Left fields, so the preview can be dragged to the desired position, and used as startup coordinates for WinButtons.

WinButtonEdit 1.0.1.1

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

It really needs real-world testing, but any feedback is welcome

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Living Room / Re: Ultimate touchscreen control via iPad remote software - I'm excited

« Last post by Ath on September 01, 2011, 05:05 AM »

Hmmm, not good.

-nudone (September 01, 2011, 03:32 AM)

I'll try to fix that ASAP, as said before, I've been thinking of a possible solution, just have to implement it

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Living Room / Re: Ultimate touchscreen control via iPad remote software - I'm excited

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

I have some (minor) changes planned for WinButtons, regarding mouse movement/placement, but haven't started that yet. Planned for later this week or the weekend.

The screen is looking really nice, IMHO

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Follow-up on Auto-Capture thread begun by someone else

« Last post by Ath on August 30, 2011, 05:30 PM »

Problem with the %Y part.

Resulting file name is:  %Y-08-30 15_46_42.png

-nkormanik (August 30, 2011, 04:51 PM)

Just tried that, and can confirm it. But leaving out (only) the % before the Y (...$dt:Y-%m...) gives the current year in 4 digits. It's probably a parsing or parser-state error

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Follow-up on Auto-Capture thread begun by someone else

« Last post by Ath on August 30, 2011, 05:18 PM »

Good grief.  An extra e.  My bad.

-nkormanik (August 30, 2011, 04:51 PM)

Looking at the MiniCap page, I also see the triple e version of -capturescreeen

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Finished Programs / Re: (Request) Simulate keystrokes to scalable BPM

« Last post by Ath on August 30, 2011, 01:51 AM »

Would it be something to add to WinSendKeys ? That comes with AutoIt source, so you could take a stab at it yourself

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Living Room / Re: Centurylink is on CracK

« Last post by Ath on August 29, 2011, 05:28 AM »

It's called 'un-skilled servicedesk' for a reason

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Living Room / Re: Centurylink is on CracK

« Last post by Ath on August 28, 2011, 02:39 PM »

You frightened me with this story, Stoic

Glad it got solved, but isn't this one of those reasons to switch to another ISP, with real technicians in the office, who actually know what they are doing? If even the field techs are acting like this to their 'colleagues', there's not much hope for the rest of that company

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Im going to be mostly away from the internet this week (Aug 29 - Sep 2, 2011)

« Last post by Ath on August 28, 2011, 02:31 PM »

Have a nice trip. You'll be missed here at DC, so hopefully we'll survive the week without you

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of alternative wifi management software

« Last post by Ath on August 27, 2011, 11:41 AM »

Would this help:
http://virtualrouter.codeplex.com/

-brahman (August 27, 2011, 10:49 AM)

It's 'limited' to WPA2 protection, so not usable in the scenario for nite_monkey, as he requires WEP protected WiFi at most. Unless he can build his private version of it, downgrading the protection to WEP.