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

« Last post by Ath on June 17, 2011, 01:29 AM »

if I choose both closebutton and movable, I won't be able to move the window via the border

-ewemoa (June 16, 2011, 07:55 PM)

Almost correct.
If movable is set, then the window can be dragged around by clicking on the window-background and dragging it.
If border + closebutton are set, then you can drag it around by grabbing the window by it's caption.
On XP you can't combine border + closebutton + movable, as then the Close button stops working, for reasons yet unclear to me. Not sure this is solvable, though.
Hope this clears my previous description.

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Finished Programs / Release: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands: WinButtons 3.2.1

« Last post by Ath on June 16, 2011, 06:05 PM »

So, a usable solution for the non-functional Close button on Windows XP was found: It shouldn't be combined with the movable option.
In this particular case (XP, and options: border, closebutton and movable) the movable option is ignored. 'movable' was originally implemented to be able to move a border-less WinButtons window, but the caption bar is available so the window can still be moved around the screen (the movable option could easily be mis-interpreted )

Also fixed was the defective :dropItem1: feature as reported by ewemoa, it was to do with borders checking and 1-off, a common pitfall when itterating (irritating?) over an array in a 0-based setting. If there where 2 or more items dropped it would have worked for item1

I've updated the download and release message so now we have WinButtons 3.2.1

I'll be searching for a final solution for this Closebutton/movable/Windows XP combination-issue...

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

« Last post by Ath on June 16, 2011, 04:31 PM »

Ath, FWIW close button doesn't work for me (XP SP3). Escape always works.

-cranioscopical (June 16, 2011, 02:44 PM)

Similar results to cranioscopical -- pressing the escape key works while clicking on the close button doesn't seem to.

-ewemoa (June 16, 2011, 04:22 PM)

I've already found out it is to do with the Extended Style parameters of the window. Guess Vista/Win7 enforce the minimum required to have a working Close button, while XP doesn't Been fighting this before to get rid of a border when having a background color set
I'll hold the update until I find something workable or it gets too late here and keep this as a todo

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

« Last post by Ath on June 16, 2011, 02:18 PM »

FWIW, using :dropList: (example below), I see the behavior I expected for :dropItem: / :dropItem1:

-ewemoa (June 16, 2011, 04:44 AM)

I'll have a look later today (at work ATM), but that looks like a buglet of some sort

-Ath (June 16, 2011, 05:31 AM)

And it was a small borders issue , would have worked for 1 file if you had dropped 2 or more files on the button.

Clicking on the close button does not appear to have any visible effect.

-ewemoa (June 16, 2011, 04:14 AM)

I can find no issues with either the Close button or pressing <Esc> with WinButtons having focus. Is there perhaps an extra (older) instance of WinButtons running that's waiting for a condition/hanging/cycling perpetually? (You could check that using Process Explorer or Task manager)

Update will be posted later this evening.

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

« Last post by Ath on June 16, 2011, 05:31 AM »

FWIW, using :dropList: (example below), I see the behavior I expected for :dropItem: / :dropItem1:

-ewemoa (June 16, 2011, 04:44 AM)

I'll have a look later today (at work ATM), but that looks like a buglet of some sort

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: idea: make scroll lock <say> remap arrow key functions to page,home, end etc.

« Last post by Ath on June 16, 2011, 02:05 AM »

Really, I wish there were some comprehensive and consistent guidelines for this sort of thing

-ewemoa (June 16, 2011, 01:33 AM)

There are a lot of guidelines, it's just quite hard to get hold of all of them. If you only follow guidelines you most likely will get stuck in good intentions , so if you need a particular feature (or hotkey) then use it unless you can't or it breaks something else

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Review of VistaDB

« Last post by Ath on June 16, 2011, 01:32 AM »

Final Rating 9/10 - a buy rating.

-wraith808 (May 23, 2011, 11:12 PM)

You wrote up a fine review wraith, thanks for that.

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: idea: make scroll lock <say> remap arrow key functions to page,home, end etc.

« Last post by Ath on June 16, 2011, 01:24 AM »

Even the official Microsoft Visual Studio uses F12 (by default) for another purpose: "Go To Definition", so I wouldn't worry too much about using it for your special hotkey, unless ofcourse it's used by an application you use a lot

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

« Last post by Ath on June 15, 2011, 05:43 AM »

Attached, please find an attempt at an alternate view of the file in question.

-ewemoa (June 15, 2011, 05:38 AM)

Thank you , I'll see if I can maintain this more readable than the txt version...

But I do have the web version already

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: idea: make scroll lock <say> remap arrow key functions to page,home, end etc.

« Last post by Ath on June 15, 2011, 03:16 AM »

Another rigorous option could be to pull out the keyboard, grab a soldering iron and some wire, and re-wire the Scroll-Lock key to be connected parallel to the Fn key (and no longer be the Scroll-lock key). Then pop the keyboard back in. Voila .

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: idea: make scroll lock <say> remap arrow key functions to page,home, end etc.

« Last post by Ath on June 15, 2011, 03:02 AM »

I think the essence is in what Sony told you already. The Fn key isn't handled by Windows but by the BIOS, not modifiable by any software intervention.
Would connecting a more you-friendly keyboard be a solution? One that has all the normal keys in a configuration that you can use it with one hand only? I assume you had something usable before you got the laptop.

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

« Last post by Ath on June 14, 2011, 02:49 PM »

I fixed a few errors in my code (I'm always the first to admit I can make errors )

WinButtonEdit 0.8.4.1 (RC5) is available with the download of WinButtons 3.2.0

The changelog:
2011-06-14, v0.8.4.1 (RC5)

• ! Fixed issues with saving an empty file /variables (cranioscopical)
• ! Disabled 'Move button to Group', not working yet

2011-06-13, v0.8.4.0 (RC5) (not released)

• + Added 'Move button to Group' context menu and initial functions (ewemoa), not OK yet
• ! Fixed issues with 'Insert Button'

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Developer's Corner / Re: Can someone recommend a good and i18n screen keyboard?

« Last post by Ath on June 14, 2011, 09:15 AM »

Isn't the On Screen Keyboard of Windows Vista/Windows 7 enough? Don't know about the customizations though. (Not mentioned in the OP as unwanted)

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

« Last post by Ath on June 14, 2011, 04:22 AM »

Hm, I'm pretty sure I uploaded the new version last night, but I'm not at home ATM, so can't re-upload.

I'll attach WinButtonEdit 0.8.3.1 here, temporarily.

Edit: Removed as the official download has been fixed.

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

« Last post by Ath on June 14, 2011, 01:57 AM »

I'm willing to go away and leave you alone.

-cranioscopical (June 13, 2011, 04:14 PM)

I can handle the pressure

Would you be so kind to try the updated WBE 0.8.3.1, please? It has some fixes for the issues you're seeing. And there's more coming but not releasable (!= working) yet.

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Living Room / Re: Force USB Drives to use Drive Letter X

« Last post by Ath on June 14, 2011, 01:35 AM »

Uhm, would mounting the USB drive into a subdirectory, as you can do using Disk management, be feasible? I use it to have all my USB sticks (several brands in several capacities) in 1 subdirectory (0-USBdrives) of my harddisk, and it never connects wrong. The 0 is in the name to have it on top of the directorylist for easy discovery when using Explorer.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Search a folder of text files for an expression, copy the line of text

« Last post by Ath on June 14, 2011, 01:25 AM »

You could search google for 'logfile analyzer' (as I did), most top 10 results are free/open source tools with lots of features and options. I'd give one of them a go.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Repeat Region Capture and Numbering Files for Animation/Sequencing

« Last post by Ath on June 13, 2011, 11:03 AM »

yup yup, thats the one,

-Stephen66515 (June 13, 2011, 09:06 AM)

Ok thanks, I was just being curious

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Finished Programs / Release: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands: WinButtons 3.2.0

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

On a feature request of ewemoa I implemented (Drag &) Drop support for files (haven't researched other types yet), so there's a new release:

WinButtons 3.2.0 and WinButtonEdit 0.8.3.1 (RC4), available from the original release post.

This is the changelog for WBE: (WinButtons changelog is in the source)
2011-06-13, v0.8.3.1 (RC4)

• + Added Fields and updated layout to add On Drop command to button parameters
• - Removed a left-over Debug messagebox in the File/Save routine...

2011-06-12, v0.8.3.0 (RC4) (not released)

• + Added Drop Files support to WinButtons and Preview

The other items I'll have a look at later.

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

« Last post by Ath on June 13, 2011, 10:12 AM »

As I was deleting nodes from the treeview, I tried the Delete key first, then discovered Control+D via the context menu.  I got to thinking that I've got these unconscious expectations of shortcut keys

-ewemoa (June 12, 2011, 05:03 PM)

AutoIt allows for application wide shortcuts only, for as far as I can see, so I choose Ctrl-D instead of Del, as that's quite indispensable during normal editing.

I didn't figure out a way to get buttons to move among groups.  Is this intentional?

-ewemoa (June 12, 2011, 05:03 PM)

That's been a TODO item for a small while, I'll get to that later this week.

I chose File -> New to eventually end up with an empty group.  I noticed a Test button in the preview but no listing in the treeview.  When I chose "Insert button" from the context menu of the treeview, I expected to see a new node in the treeview, but I didn't see one show up.

-ewemoa (June 12, 2011, 05:03 PM)

I'll do some more testing, thought I had all issues here covered, but I may have missed a few situations.

But first...

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Repeat Region Capture and Numbering Files for Animation/Sequencing

« Last post by Ath on June 13, 2011, 04:28 AM »

using the Arrow Keys, and # is close enough to them to make life very very easy!

-Stephen66515 (June 12, 2011, 07:07 PM)

What kind of keyboard-layout do you use that has # near the arrow keys? (not an expert on keyboard layouts but on my 'standard' US layout, # is more than 3/4 keyboard size away from the arrow keys )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need beta testers for a Hangman game

« Last post by Ath on June 12, 2011, 04:22 AM »

Could someone with experience in Inno Setup scripting check out the following setup script and see if you can spot what I've done (or failed to do) that's causing the installer not to exit after the user checks the "Launch Hangman" checkbox and then clicks the installer's Finish button?

Code: PHP [Select]

1. [Run]
2. Filename: "{app}\README.TXT"; Description: "View the README file"; Flags: postinstall shellexec skipifsilent
3. Filename: "{app}\KyrHangman.exe"; Flags: postinstall

-kyrathaba (June 11, 2011, 06:34 PM)

It's as simple as adding nowait to the ]Run] line of your script:

Code: PHP [Select]

1. [Run]
2. Filename: "{app}\KyrHangman.exe"; Flags: postinstall nowait

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

« Last post by Ath on June 11, 2011, 03:19 PM »

And as usual, the devil is in the details:

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Finished Programs / Release: (Update) GUI Editor for WinButtons: WinButtonEdit 0.8.2 (RC3)

« Last post by Ath on June 11, 2011, 03:15 PM »

I've done a lot bugfixing, because ewemoa and cranioscopical did a lot of testing. Thanks guys

WinButtonEdit 0.8.2.0 is available for download from the original release-post (included with WinButtons)

What's new:
2011-06-11, v0.8.2.0 (RC3)

• ! Fixed Tree selection issues when clicking a button in the preview (ewemoa)
• ! Fixed File/Open, File/Save or File/Save as... then selecting WinButtonEdit.ini gives a warning and doesn't open/save that file (ewemoa)
• ! Fixed Initial treeview didn't display the expander image on the last Group tree-item when not expanded initially (ewemoa)
• ! Fixed File/New to create the Empty group in the tree (cranioscopical)
• ! Fixed Deleting all buttons crashed with array-index errors (cranioscopical)
• ! Fixed File/Save didn't write a new file because all parameters saved where default and so not saved. Now always stores Top and Left settings so the file is actually saved (cranioscopical)

from Vista and up Ctrl-A selects the content of the edit. Seems that's a feature since Vista was introduced

-Ath (June 11, 2011, 08:19 AM)

Not sure if I want to 'fix' that for Windows XP, as it's also not available in any standard Windows input control.

If there's more issues, please tell me about it, and thanks for the effort so far, guys, much appreciated

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Angry Birds free for Chrome

« Last post by Ath on June 11, 2011, 02:58 PM »

Great find


And for those that don't want to install Chrome first, and have a modern browser with javascript enabled and have flash installed (IE9/FF4/Safari5) there's http://chrome.angrybirds.com/
(IE8/FF3.6 are dead-slow when I last tried, Opera 11.11 choked on the site)