Recent Posts

2901

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

« Last post by Ath on July 03, 2011, 04:31 AM »

In the image1= line, tried changing -1 to 1 and subsequently did see an icon, btw.

Using WBE's .exe as a source of icons, icons show up in the preview when specifying -4, -3, 0, 1 but not for -1.  The icons that shows up for 0 and 1 look similar, FWIW.

-ewemoa (July 02, 2011, 06:56 PM)

It was indeed quite some black magic to me. That's one of the reasons it took a few days, had a lot of issues with the positive and negative indexes. AFAICS, that's some sort of 'feature' of the linker that puts the icons into the exe, I don't know how it can be influenced. (don't have much experience in this field). Probably creating a .rc file with the correct indexes, and resource-compiling that is the way to go for compilers supporting that... AutoIt doesn't, AFAICS.

During the selection of the Icon, there's a button to the right/top of the dialog to switch 'by Name'/'by Ordinal'. Does switching that help?
Most of the time, index 0 displays the default icon of an exe, so if you omit the index WB applies 0 by default.

The bad news is that it didn't seem to work for Video2MP3.exe.

-ewemoa (July 02, 2011, 06:56 PM)

Can you point me where to get that, or PM me the file zipped so I can test/check that exe myself? TIA

Oh, and the -2 icon in WBE.exe is a blanc image, FWIW, it shows up in the icon browser, and using WinButtonEdit.ico (not supplied with the download) reveals a much larger view with index -7 (icon attached here, index needs to be typed manually), I couldn't get the larger icons of WinButtons.ico in view though.

2902

Finished Programs / Release: WinButtons 3.3.1 and WinButtonEdit 0.9.2.3 (RC9)

« Last post by Ath on July 02, 2011, 02:11 PM »

I tried to solve a few issues reported by ewemoa, and also implemented his feature request:

• Showing an icon in WBE preview but not when running WB: Undetermined, the same code is 'included' for both exe's. Was the .wbuc/.ini file saved?
• Would be nice if scaling worked: Scaling is not directly supported for button-images, investigation continues
• any chance of supporting specification of icon from .exe?: Implemented in this release

So today I bring to you WinButtons 3.3.1 and WinButtonEdit 0.9.2.3 (RC9)

The What's new for WinButtons can be found on the original release post

WinButtonEdit
Change history since the previous release (RC8):

Code: Text [Select]

1. 2011-07-02, v0.9.2.3 (RC9)
2.   + Added support for Environment and macro expansion when using images, so @SystemDir@\shell32.dll,-121
3.   + Added automatic translation between directories available through @ macros when selecting an image file, examples: @WindowsDir@, @SystemDir@, etc.
4. 2011-07-01, v0.9.2.2 (RC9) (not released)
5.   * Improved Image selection dialog for .exe/.dll/.ocx/.icl support and updated relevant routines
6.   + Added Icon selection dialog during Image selection, if .exe/.dll/.ocx/.icl file is opened
7.   ! Changed all File selection dialogs to return to the original directory after use
8.   ! Changed when selecting a button in the sample display, return focus to WBE
9. 2011-06-30, v0.9.2.1 (RC9) (not released)
10.   * Improved adding icons from exe and dll support, searching for larger display of icons
11. 2011-06-27, v0.9.2.0 (RC9) (not released)
12.   + Added support for icons from exe and dll files, and also support for an icon index into the file (requested by ewemoa)
13.   * Changed Added *.exe and *.dll to image selection dialog

The download is as usual available from the original release post, WinButtonEdit.exe and readme is included in the zipfile with WinButtons.exe, that also has it's sourcecode and updated readme.

Feedback is, as always, welcome

2903

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

« Last post by Ath on July 02, 2011, 05:42 AM »

For those that like nice numbers, we got a palindrome^w new user id:

2904

Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Baby Cody needs a place to visit!

« Last post by Ath on July 02, 2011, 05:29 AM »

What's Baby Cody's current hideout?

2905

N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Kyrathaba's Hangman

« Last post by Ath on July 02, 2011, 05:25 AM »

Do you guys prefer PDF as the help file format, or would CHM be preferable?

-kyrathaba (July 01, 2011, 04:56 PM)

I was quite surprised you use pdf for help contents, as that's rather non-standard, AFAICS. The biggest pest being the non-availability of a pdf viewer on Windows by default. The chm format is supported at least from XP and up, and I hope nobody is using an older Windows version any longer
The biggest advantage of chm is that you can jump to the correct information in the file to show really context sensitive information , to do that with pdf would require a specific reader that does support that even from external applications, and I'm quite sure that isn't standardized in any way.

2906

Developer's Corner / Re: Software Revenue/Licensing Thoughts

« Last post by Ath on July 01, 2011, 04:40 PM »

He's just in the time consuming process of doing an in-depth review of Nola Pro for another website and wound up being very impressed by it.

-40hz (July 01, 2011, 03:50 PM)

Would be nice to supply a link to that review once it's publicly available, please

2907

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

« Last post by Ath on June 29, 2011, 01:41 AM »

And ewemoa scored a lot of 1's on Monday:

2908

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

« Last post by Ath on June 29, 2011, 01:38 AM »

I've caught another milestone for skwire: (last Friday)

2909

General Software Discussion / Re: Google's WDYL (What Do You Love?) -- I think I like it

« Last post by Ath on June 28, 2011, 04:11 AM »

 

2910

Developer's Corner / Re: Software Revenue/Licensing Thoughts

« Last post by Ath on June 28, 2011, 02:09 AM »

I've not seen this done before other than the typical lite, standard, and pro type of licensing systems.

-Renegade (June 27, 2011, 09:47 PM)

This is the licensing system our company has been enforcing for years. Including a yearly renewal fee that's invoiced at the end of the year. Each product has several standardized modules/features, on top of the base product, that can be bought separately, with some combinations requiring some other modules because of technical reasons. It's mostly the pricing that's a 'bit' different And there's no free trial either, we usually go to the (potential) customer and demo the product(s).

I've built the license generator that, based on the administrative database, generates the new or changed licenses for our customers, and makes them available on our support website.

What you present here is IMHO a very viable licensing system, and with the pricing you suggest, indeed suitable for a worldwide market, ofcourse depending on the module-prices and grouping/discounts you select.

2911

General Software Discussion / Re: Install Win2000 in SATA Drive for a Dual Boot

« Last post by Ath on June 27, 2011, 01:12 PM »

I build several WinXP discs like that

-Shades (June 27, 2011, 10:56 AM)

Yeah, XP would be no problem, but the OP is talking about Windows 2000, and I guess he'd better stay away from that misery
AFAICS, nLite doesn't support Win 2000. Should have checked better, it does support Win 2000.
But my opinion doesn't change:
Thy should not use Windows 2000 for general purpose computing in these days of internet threats that require a secure OS and proper security measures.

2912

General Software Discussion / Re: Install Win2000 in SATA Drive for a Dual Boot

« Last post by Ath on June 27, 2011, 03:10 AM »

You need a driver for the SATA controller (probably on the mainboard), not for the diskdrive. I wouldn't know where to start, other that the manufacturer of your mainboard. And you can't put it on an USB drive, AFAIK.

I give up, as it's not worth pulling a dead horse.

2913

General Software Discussion / Re: Install Win2000 in SATA Drive for a Dual Boot

« Last post by Ath on June 27, 2011, 02:41 AM »

You should obtain a Win2000 driver for your SATA controller, or you won't be able to clear this. It should be placed on a floppy drive, as that's the only way to add a disk-IO driver to Win2000, AFAICS.

Any particular compelling reason for using Win 2000? It's no longer updated by Microsoft (even the successor WinXP is declared 'end of life') and lots of modern software (even virusscanners...) won't work on it, so I'd avoid it like the plague. For (software)testing purposes you could install it in a virtual PC like VMWare or VirtualBox.

On modern hardware XP is as fast as W2000, or at least not noticeable slower, if you set it to Classic Windows look instead of showing all graphics bells and whistles, and XP does have decent hardware-driver support in contrary to Win2000.

2914

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

« Last post by Ath on June 27, 2011, 01:22 AM »

Using image specified in .wbuc file with .ico file in same directory as WB and WBE exes, the image of the .ico is displayed in preview of WBE, but not when using .wbuc file from WB.

-ewemoa (June 26, 2011, 06:59 PM)

Did you place the .ico file to the same directory as where the .wbuc file is?

128x128 button size shows whole image, but smaller sizes tried (e.g. 48x48) show a portion of the image.  Would be nice if scaling worked

-ewemoa (June 26, 2011, 06:59 PM)

I'll check that out

Also, any chance of supporting specification of icon from .exe?

-ewemoa (June 26, 2011, 06:59 PM)

Ah, a feature request , I'll investigate.

2915

Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Open images without program window showing.

« Last post by Ath on June 24, 2011, 09:59 AM »

I think this is what you meant, right?

-skwire (June 24, 2011, 09:49 AM)

@skwire
I never saw that requested, was that a PM to you? I was a bit surprised you added it without 'us' seeing a request, but that doesn't mean it wasn't asked

2916

Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Open images without program window showing.

« Last post by Ath on June 24, 2011, 09:30 AM »

The only problem I have is working out how to set it?

-pilgrim-online (June 24, 2011, 04:31 AM)

The transparency is part/attribute of the image, if it's not there (yet), use an image editor to put it in. Paint.NET, Gimp or any decent image editor could be used to do that.

2917

Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Bvckup 2

« Last post by Ath on June 24, 2011, 01:51 AM »

I think I clicked on Info, thus revealing the 2nd page, but didn't think I had to scroll down to see the rest. So it's the mix of click and scroll that confused me, I guess.

-MerleOne (June 24, 2011, 01:29 AM)

You're not alone...

2918

General Software Discussion / Re: Finally started really using Template.ahk

« Last post by Ath on June 24, 2011, 01:50 AM »

If you are as productive as you've been the last couple of weeks (months) it's these 'tricks' that keeps your productivity on par

2919

General Software Discussion / Re: What is Mozilla trying to do?

« Last post by Ath on June 23, 2011, 09:35 AM »

I moved to FF5, despite not-yet-ported plugins, because there's a config setting to ignore the version 5 check:

• type "about:config" in the address bar
• Right-Click/New/Boolean
• Enter name: "extensions.checkCompatibility.5.0"
• Select "False"
• Restart Firefox

(All values to be typed without the quotes shown)
Now the Addons page in FF gives a warning that this 'compatibility setting is enabled, and would you like to disable that' (ignore ofcourse ) but all FF4 plugins that didn't work at first now work, except for the Skype plugin I got (but forgot to disable) when installing Skype.

The equivalent setting seems to exist for FF4, and is still usable in FF5

2920

Living Room / Re: Firefox 5 to be released only 5 months after firefox 4 goes gold

« Last post by Ath on June 22, 2011, 02:48 AM »

Oh, my first impressions after just a few hours of use:
- More stable page construction (less moving of controls and page-expanding for a few pixels once the page is rendered)
- Finer quality of graphics display
- A tad quicker on most things, and much quicker on page-refresh (F5) for most sites
- Some plugins are getting a quick update because they are in fact already compatible

just my 

2921

Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: WinSendkeys: Latest version thread. Version 3.1.0, released 2011-06-21

« Last post by Ath on June 21, 2011, 04:38 PM »

How to send keystrokes first to original program (to call the popup) and then to the newly popup-ed window.

-jOc (June 21, 2011, 08:24 AM)

I took this as a feature request, and added this to WinSendKeys.
It is now possible to specify a few commands in a strokesfile, --window, --exec and --delay, to switch Window/Exe (-w and -x/-xp parameter equivalents) or introduce a delay of some milliseconds. The details are in the readme file, that's just like the source and a compiled exe, included with the download.
I also introduced the -v parameter to enable %environment.var% and @macro@ expansion on keystrokes (default off to avoid compatibility issues). This variable-expansion is now always applied to the -x and -xp commandline-parameters.

So, without much fanfare, but still proud, I announce: WinSendKeys 3.1.0

If you might find any strange issues, or have a feature request or two, please don't hesitate to respond in this thread.

2922

Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: WinSendkeys: Latest version thread. Version 3.0.5, released 2011-06-21

« Last post by Ath on June 21, 2011, 12:17 PM »

The original download zip-file has been updated, so now I can officially announce:

WinSendKeys 3.0.5 Download from the first message in this thread

What's new:

• Disabled left-over debug-messagebox (thanks jOc for reporting that)

2923

Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: WinSendkeys: Latest version thread. Version 3.0.4, released 2011-04-22

« Last post by Ath on June 21, 2011, 09:02 AM »

How to send keystrokes first to original program (to call the popup) and then to the newly popup-ed window. Does it have to be command line batch?

-jOc (June 21, 2011, 08:24 AM)

That specific use-case wasn't asked for before, but WSK (WinSendKeys) supports only 1 target at the moment. You could run two WSK command-lines using a batch though, like you suggested.

2924

Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: WinSendkeys: Latest version thread. Version 3.0.4, released 2011-04-22

« Last post by Ath on June 21, 2011, 07:05 AM »

I tried the example WinSendKeys.stro as per the example in that file (with the Scite editor already loaded) and it worked as expected:

[Select]

WinSendKeys -f WinSendKeys.stro scite

A space (or more) between -f and the filename is mandatory!

2925

Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: WinSendkeys: Latest version thread. Version 3.0.4, released 2011-04-22

« Last post by Ath on June 21, 2011, 05:40 AM »

How do I make file mode (-f) work. Is this text file? What should be in it?

-jOc (June 21, 2011, 04:53 AM)

Like you say, it's a textfile that contains the same keystrokes you can use on the commandline. For each new-line there's the same delay as there is between separated keystrokes. You can even use the ## and #% 'MouseStrokes' and #$ 'ClipboardStrokes' if you like.