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General Software Discussion / Re: Multi open folder

« Last post by skwire on July 24, 2011, 01:21 PM »

You could easily use a batch file or an AutoHotkey script.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: File replacer

« Last post by skwire on July 24, 2011, 12:02 PM »

The only issue I can see is that it requires both files on the same drive.

-magician62 (July 24, 2011, 11:48 AM)

Yes, I added this as well.  I do not want to have to handle potentially large file/folder transfers across drives.  To begin with, I really don't like writing apps that mess with users files.  Furthermore, the native Windows API file operation methods are primitive and I've no desire to write my own handlers.

Ideally a multi drive environment should be supported

-magician62 (July 24, 2011, 11:48 AM)

I wholly disagree when it comes to this.  Switcheroo was intially designed to switch two filenames that existed in the same folder.  This was to save the user having to manually use a temporary filename.  All this extra tacked-on stuff just makes me cringe insofar as accidentally screwing up users' files goes.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: File replacer

« Last post by skwire on July 24, 2011, 11:23 AM »

I've added your request to Switcheroo.  Please give this build a try with some test files/folders.  Do not use it on your production files until you're sure it does what you want.  Let me know how it works out for you.  Thanks.

http://skwire.dcmembers.com/apps/switcheroo/Switcheroo_.zip

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Post New Requests Here / MOVED: Open with Script

« Last post by skwire on July 24, 2011, 10:40 AM »

This topic has been moved to Finished Programs.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=27402.0

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Check folder and tell me which PDFs are images (non-searchable)

« Last post by skwire on July 23, 2011, 07:05 PM »

BTW, @skwire I donated some $$ to you. It's not a lot, just a symbolic gesture. I encourage others to donate to coders as well! Thanks!

-vevola (July 23, 2011, 03:27 PM)

Thank you very much, I appreciate it.   

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Check folder and tell me which PDFs are images (non-searchable)

« Last post by skwire on July 23, 2011, 01:47 PM »

Nice find, IainB.  Thanks for sharing.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Check folder and tell me which PDFs are images (non-searchable)

« Last post by skwire on July 21, 2011, 05:20 PM »

Would it be possible to choose where to save the final txt files? Even better, would it be possible to open Explorer with those files highlighted? tia!

-vevola (July 21, 2011, 09:39 AM)

Sure, it's possible.

would it help make the app better if i sent you some examples of false negatives?

-vevola (July 21, 2011, 09:39 AM)

No, because a false positive still contains text.  What I mean is...where does one draw the line as to what constitutes good text versus bad text?  You can get into all sorts of algorithms that attempt to do this but I think it's overkill for this utility. 

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Check folder and tell me which PDFs are images (non-searchable)

« Last post by skwire on July 21, 2011, 08:56 AM »

No, I don't have plans to post this on my website as it's not really polished or, in some cases, all that accurate.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Check folder and tell me which PDFs are images (non-searchable)

« Last post by skwire on July 21, 2011, 08:48 AM »

:Thmbsup:I do have a similar problem. The app works fine for me!
Thanks a lot (Win XP Pro, old Toshiba Laptop).
Suntsu

-suntsu (July 21, 2011, 04:31 AM)

You're welcome, Suntsu, and welcome to the site.   

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Post New Requests Here / MOVED: [IDEA] Check folder and tell me which PDFs are images (non-searchable)

« Last post by skwire on July 20, 2011, 05:22 PM »

This topic has been moved to Finished Programs.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=27311.0

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Post New Requests Here / MOVED: Alternative to RoboForm to store web site IDs and passwords

« Last post by skwire on July 20, 2011, 05:20 PM »

This topic has been moved to Finished Programs.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=27394.0

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Finished Programs / Re: Alternative to RoboForm to store web site IDs and passwords

« Last post by skwire on July 20, 2011, 03:28 PM »

LastPass, perhaps?  If not, KeePass, maybe?

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Developer's Corner / Re: md5 / sha1 hashes What's the point?

« Last post by skwire on July 20, 2011, 10:14 AM »

I use hash files (mainly SFV files) to verify that my media collections do not get corrupted over time.  They also are great for verifying files after moving them from one computer/drive to another.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Controlling Windows w/ gamepad like a PS3 or XBOX

« Last post by skwire on July 19, 2011, 06:27 PM »

No, it's not that so much as what you're requesting, within the default Windows interface, is not trivial to program.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Controlling Windows w/ gamepad like a PS3 or XBOX

« Last post by skwire on July 19, 2011, 05:28 PM »

The problem you're going to find is that the regular Windows interface is simply not designed to be controlled with a gamepad.  Good luck.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Controlling Windows w/ gamepad like a PS3 or XBOX

« Last post by skwire on July 19, 2011, 03:36 PM »

Have you looked into any media center software?  If not, here are a few to get you started.

XBMC
Boxee
TVersity
Media Portal

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Finished Programs / Re: when I download files.

« Last post by skwire on July 19, 2011, 12:20 AM »

I just want a choice of favorite directories added to my "save as" dialog.

-dbarton (July 18, 2011, 10:42 PM)

I use FlashFolder for this functionality.

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for July 18th, 2011 - "DonationCoder Plus"

« Last post by skwire on July 18, 2011, 06:27 PM »

Thanks, as always.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Feature Request] TAB key working as DOWN key

« Last post by skwire on July 18, 2011, 01:51 PM »

This is quite easily accomplished with a bit of AHK script:

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. #IfWinActive, Find and Run Robot 2
2. {
3.     TAB:: SendInput, {Down}
4. }
5. #IfWinActive

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)

« Last post by skwire on July 18, 2011, 12:16 PM »

Actually URL addresses are displayed as Path.
I use ONLY the Filename column of Trout's list.
That results in empty lines for added URLs.
So I would like to have URLs shown as FileName.

-Lesmo16 (July 13, 2011, 03:35 AM)

Once you actually play the URL, the filename column should populate with the station's name.  Isn't this better than some random URL in that field?

Website | Installer | Portable
v1.0.6 build 9 - 2011-07-17
    ! Level meters weren't being coloured properly.  They should have been
      taking the same colour settings as the seekbar.  (Thanks, Lesmo16)

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Finished Programs / Re: [IDEA] Check folder and tell me which PDFs are images (non-searchable)

« Last post by skwire on July 17, 2011, 02:48 PM »

I think that unless you have any other tweaks, this may do! Thanks!

-vevola (July 17, 2011, 08:12 AM)

You're welcome; apologies that it couldn't be more accurate.

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Finished Programs / Re: [IDEA] Check folder and tell me which PDFs are images (non-searchable)

« Last post by skwire on July 16, 2011, 12:27 PM »

Let's give this a shot:  PDF Text Checker

Extract all the contents to a folder and run PDFTextChecker.exe.  This version uses the pdftotext.exe to extract any text from the PDF and then checks the resulting text file for any alphanumeric characters.  If any are found, it considers that searchable.  It's still not perfect but it seems to be better than the previous version.  If this version doesn't do it for you, you may be better off using something like File Hound to search through your PDFs.

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Finished Programs / Re: [IDEA] Check folder and tell me which PDFs are images (non-searchable)

« Last post by skwire on July 15, 2011, 04:46 PM »

However, the lists produced don't seem reliable: non-searchable 817; searchable 616.

-vevola (July 15, 2011, 04:13 PM)

Yep, that's what I was afraid of.  I'll work on a different method.

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Finished Programs / Re: [IDEA] Check folder and tell me which PDFs are images (non-searchable)

« Last post by skwire on July 15, 2011, 04:00 PM »

Maybe exclude all PDFs over 100MB?

-vevola (July 15, 2011, 03:37 PM)

Done, please re-grab it.  Thanks.

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Finished Programs / Re: [IDEA] Check folder and tell me which PDFs are images (non-searchable)

« Last post by skwire on July 15, 2011, 02:20 PM »

I'm going to assume that you have some large PDFs?  Clear your cache, re-download and see if this latest build gets through that.  Thanks.