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

« Last post by Ath on April 23, 2011, 11:56 AM »

I guess this is a milestone-like post for this member:
Bartels Media 101:

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / WinSendkeys: Latest version thread. Version 3.2.2.0, released 2018-11-04

« Last post by Ath on April 23, 2011, 10:52 AM »

WinSendKeys Latest Version thread

Application Name	WinSendKeys
Version	3.2.2.0
Short Description	Send keystrokes and/or mousestrokes to other applications
Supported OSes	Windows
Web Page	WinSendKeys page
Download Link	From the WinSendKeys page
System Requirements	An application that needs to be controlled from the 'outside' Some perseverance to get it just right
Version History	3.2.2.0 November 4th, 2018: Added options -i, -s and -sd for setting some delays, see docs for details, fixed exe-version and icon 3.2.1.1 November 3rd, 2018: Now sets errorlevel if Window/-w argument not found (user request), recompiled with latest AutoIt3 3.2.1.0 October 1st, 2011: Added -v related setting to ini and updated the readme with some missing info 3.2.0.1 September 30th, 2011: Added 9 extra commands to multi-window mode when using -f strokesfile 3.1.0.0 June 21st, 2011: Added -v parameter and multi-window mode when using -f strokesfile 3.0.5.0 June 21st, 2011: Disabled left-over debug-messagebox 3.0.4.0 April 22nd, 2011: Minor fixes 3.0.3.0 March 13th, 2011: Support for HWND window handles 3.0.x.0 February 9th, 2011: Start an executable, with optional delay, and feed it the keystrokes 2.6.0.0 February 7th, 2011: Pass keystrokes from the clipboard 2.5.0.0 January 30th, 2011: Read settings from an ini file, read keystrokes from a file 2.0.0.0 January 28th, 2011: MouseClick support, no longer case-sensitive window names required 1.0.0.0 January 24th, 2011: Initial release, send keystrokes to a window
Author	Ath

Description
Requested as a codingsnack, on this thread, where mouser eventually suggested a central download to avoid people getting an older version by accident.

Features
Send KeyStrokes and MouseStrokes to another application, starting that application if needed.
Since 3.2.0, the -f strokesfile mode has some minor scripting features to:
- wait for a window to open or close, with timeout
- display a message
- goto a specific labeled scriptline
- gosub a subroutine and return from there

Planned Features
Based on (applicable) user requests.

Usage
Installation
Unzip all files to a subdirectory of your liking. Check out the readme to get acquainted with the command syntax.

Using the Application
Determine what keystrokes and/or mousestrokes to send to an application, and configure that either in a batchfile, 'run-link' or 'external command' from another software tool that supports running a command-line tool. Hint: one of my other tools: WinButtons, has support for sending keystrokes using -send command
Use as applicable...

Uninstallation
Remove all files from your computer. Nothing is written to the registry.

Known Issues
Any bugs to report?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Android development IDE w/ GUI

« Last post by Ath on April 23, 2011, 10:03 AM »

I'd go for Eclipse, and add the ADT (Android Development Tools), just like Google advises/suggests.

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Living Room / Re: Happy Birthday Renegade!

« Last post by Ath on April 23, 2011, 03:18 AM »

And another one from this timezone

Have a nice day.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple Commandline to send Keystrokes (WinSendKeys)

« Last post by Ath on April 23, 2011, 02:47 AM »

Might be better to not use the forum attachments for this -- otherwise old versions linger and people might download them by mistake?

-mouser (April 22, 2011, 04:08 PM)

I have been using this marker in the older posts to try to avoid that:

Updated to a newer version, see further below!

Later today I'll restructure a new message and link to the DcMembers page I already have for this
And remove the attachments from the other messages (done). The latest is the greatest, ofcourse

Just did that, rerouting all messages to latest release & download thread

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General Software Discussion / Re: Simple Commandline to send Keystrokes (WinSendKeys)

« Last post by Ath on April 22, 2011, 04:02 PM »

A few minor fixes to WinSendKeys so I've got to release today:

WinSendKeys 3.0.4

This is the small changelog:
; 2011-04-22, version 3.0.4.0
; ! Bugfix for if -? was given for parameter. It's now handled properly.
; * Added version & info resource to compiled exe
; * Changed by adding #regions to allow code-folding for a little easier maintainability

Download attached to this post, and also available from latest release & download thread and my DcMembers server page

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Finished Programs / Release: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands: WinButtons 3.0.0

« Last post by Ath on April 22, 2011, 03:43 PM »

I've taken some time (and a work project that could nicely use it ) and added the condition<n> feature per button, and a few other goodies like multiple commands and a longer tooltip. So:

A new release is available: WinButtons 3.0

Get the download and all info from the original release thread

Requests, complaints, errormessages and other question can be posted in this thread. It's all welcome!

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Living Room / Re: What's your experience with 3rd party color inkjet ink replacement?

« Last post by Ath on April 22, 2011, 03:20 PM »

I have bought refilled color and black cartridges for my Canon printer, but I've been so unsatisfied with them, that I never bought them again.
My complaints had to do with poor printing quality, shorter then expected lifespan and even non-working cartridges (though for someone other's HP printer, not mine), and on the subjective side with bad smells (I'm quite picky about 'chemical' smells ) of the fresh output pages and really brownish-grey 'black' printed areas. And this was from one of the major 3rd party suppliers in W-Europe!
I've now returned to the original (expensive) cartridges, as my low printing volume doesn't justify the purchase of a color laser printer (yet), and I really hate 'funny' smells in my home work-area.

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Living Room / Re: Switching to Linux; how do you not flop back to the world of Windows??

« Last post by Ath on April 22, 2011, 04:01 AM »

Or look for another kit. Sigh...

-Renegade (April 22, 2011, 02:21 AM)

After the second try, assuming I did everything wrong the first time, that would have been try/step 3

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Site/Forum Features / Re: I think we should close the Company Complaints and Compliments Section

« Last post by Ath on April 21, 2011, 01:11 PM »

^+1 (€ 0,02)

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Official Announcements / Re: Server - Apache problem running out of memory

« Last post by Ath on April 20, 2011, 07:54 AM »

As of about 16 hours the performance is a lot better now.

Refreshing the forum frontpage now is only severely slowed down while waiting for 'static.addtoany.com', but got that solved by adding

[Select]

127.0.0.1 static.addtoany.com

to my hosts file

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: IntelliJ IDEs up to 50% off until 30th April 2011

« Last post by Ath on April 20, 2011, 07:28 AM »

I've heard from some Java developers that they like IntelliJ best out of all the Java IDEs.

-Renegade (April 20, 2011, 06:21 AM)

IDE's are as religious a subject as 'the proper programming language' to a lot of developers, so I won't (re)start that discussion here

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: IntelliJ IDEs up to 50% off until 30th April 2011

« Last post by Ath on April 20, 2011, 05:57 AM »

The Google officially endorsed Android Java development platform is Eclipse with the Google Android (ADT) plug-in.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Announcing freeware/donationware "KyrCrypt 0.16"

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

Decrypting a KPT file with an incorrect password still produces a "password-accepted" message box and a resulting file (though it's unusable).

-skwire (April 19, 2011, 02:36 PM)

If it gave  a messagebox that the password is not accepted, that could be a means to hack your way into the vault...

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Living Room / Re: The Official DonationCoder.com card game: CodyCards

« Last post by Ath on April 19, 2011, 01:37 PM »

Hey, that looks great

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Problem with itlaics

« Last post by Ath on April 18, 2011, 02:42 PM »

Where do you grab these texts from?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Java code help

« Last post by Ath on April 18, 2011, 01:59 AM »

Or the more generic String.Format() (that uses different format strings) could be used instead of DecimalFormat(), but that's a minor detail.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Java code help

« Last post by Ath on April 17, 2011, 02:36 PM »

Something like:

[Select]

public static void main(String[] args) {
    char initial = 'T';
    int age = 25;
    double income = 50000.00;
    display(age, income, initial);
}

Plain and quite simple, IMHO.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Editor for PDFs: recommendations, please?

« Last post by Ath on April 16, 2011, 05:26 PM »

Depends on the Pdf creator you're using, I guess, but here's the wiki page on the subject: http://en.wikipedia....able_Document_Format

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General Software Discussion / Re: Editor for PDFs: recommendations, please?

« Last post by Ath on April 16, 2011, 02:03 PM »

A relative advanced PDF file (that my genuine pdf editors had no problem with) made PagePlus X5 give these messages:

-Curt (April 16, 2011, 11:22 AM)

Isn't the first message the most informative? There it says that it doesn't support all those advanced new pdf features after Pdf1.3

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

« Last post by Ath on April 15, 2011, 02:04 PM »

With the kind help of cranioscopical I finally found what was giving the transparency issues with WinButtons. After a test-release earlier today, I can now present the official WinButtons 2.6.2.3 release.

Get the updated download from the original release-post

Post any bugreports, feature requests, questions (or praise ) in this thread

Sneak peek for the next version...: Conditional display for all buttons and after that I'll eventually have to start the WB-Editor-GUI

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

« Last post by Ath on April 15, 2011, 01:21 PM »

Bingo!

-cranioscopical (April 15, 2011, 11:08 AM)

Pfew! Glad we got that sorted. On both my daily-use Win7 x64 boxes it all ran fine, so I was caught a bit by surprise. I'll release formally in a bit, and I have a hopefully useful improvement in the works after that... (but that'll probably take until next week)

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

« Last post by Ath on April 15, 2011, 04:09 AM »

Ok, I finally got a hold of some testing environments (XP, Server 2003, Win7 on 125%, all on VMWare) and lo and behold: I can reproduce the same 'bleed through' issues you have!

So I re-researched the transparency style-settings of the window, and expect to have it fixed (works OK for me now on all my available environments).

The test-version of WinButtons 2.6.2.2-pre is attached to this message, later today (when I return home) I'll upload to the dcmembers server, and update the release-message.

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Developer's Corner / Re: A very good (and free) captcha class in PHP (Recommendation)

« Last post by Ath on April 15, 2011, 03:59 AM »

Finally i just recommend this class highly to all who search a free, easy to use, customizable captcha class with a kind and responsive author for their PHP projects.

-JoTo (April 15, 2011, 02:56 AM)

Reading this very fine mini-review (IMHO), though I do nothing in php at the moment, it's surely one I'm going to remember!

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

« Last post by Ath on April 14, 2011, 04:56 PM »

You did try the althide=1 option I presume? If yes, then it's 99.9% chance of a videocard driver issue, IMHO.

Oh, and Always on Top is enabled by default, maybe it helps to turn that off (ontop=0)

Btw, I'm also interested to hear what video card you have in your system (don't recall if you mentioned that before) (maybe I should avoid that brand/model )