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General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?
« Last post by Ath on April 14, 2011, 04:42 PM »
That's a nice list you compiled for us!

I'd like to try most of the calendar and contact ones, but I've already installed so many apps I don't want to lose, that the memory is almost filled :D

Instead of Tasker you mentioned, I'm using the free Timerific, and that's just fine for me as I'm on nearly the same weekly schedule most of the time, and that doesn't support location-based switching (gps/wifi), like Locale does but that is even more expensive then Tasker :o (but has a lot of extensions/plug-ins).

AFAIK, GPS in enabled state hardly uses any power, and is turned on automatically by apps that want to use it, so you probably don't need a scheduler/tasker for that.
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands
« Last post by Ath on April 14, 2011, 03:56 PM »
After adding a possible compatibility fix, adding Tooltips to all buttons and some minor fixes, WinButtons 2.6.2.1 is released!

Download and read more at the release thread
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Coding Snacks / Re: Changing a folder's name text colour
« Last post by Ath on April 14, 2011, 02:06 PM »
The trouble is not getting the settings into the registry, the trouble is that there are no (known) registry settings that can be tweaked to change the colors of the filenames displayed, based on some selection criteria.

Some alternatives for Windows Explorer can do that for you. The shareware Xplorer2 can do it using the Customize/Color coding menu, and it supports all kinds of filters to select the files to be shown in a specific color.
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Living Room / Re: What's your approach to this help desk procedure issue?
« Last post by Ath on April 14, 2011, 11:01 AM »
Have a look at Auspex, it has a ticket system (RedMine), but only about half of the issues are logged, and the other half is reported in a forumthread or discovered by the developer, and often never put into RedMine :-[

Isn't that just what mouser and stoic are trying to say?

Small team: Small tools
Big team: Big tools
(There probably are a few more flavors :))
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Post New Requests Here / Re: PlayDead
« Last post by Ath on April 14, 2011, 10:55 AM »
Could an electronic KVM switch be of any use?
The computer keeps running, unless someone presses the power button (which is unavoidable :'(), the screen stays empty, even when the mouse/keyboard are activated (moved/pressed), until you switch to the correct 'port' (A/B would be enough, AFAICS), and with a little luck that can be protected by a key-operated switch (did no research on that).

Turning off all leds could be impossible without tinkering with the BIOS, unless you have connections with mainboard manufacturers :P
The sound of the harddrives & fans, probably depending on the load of the system, would still reveal it's not off, though...
And then someone pulls the power-plug from the back of the powersupply :-\
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands
« Last post by Ath on April 13, 2011, 09:15 AM »
Any chance this is related to a video driver, perhaps?, as this is rather basic AutoIt3 script, nothing fancy on the UI side. Lets first wait and see if the althide option makes a difference.

Hitting 'Submenu 4' launches another instance and I have to resort to killing off both of them.
-cranioscopical (April 13, 2011, 09:03 AM)
Usually (sub-)instances of WinButtons can be closed by pressing <Esc>... (unless that's disabled by setting exitonesc=0) or <Alt-F4> (that can't be disabled)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a linkification tool
« Last post by Ath on April 13, 2011, 08:15 AM »
Are you the greatest or what?
-eleman (April 13, 2011, 08:12 AM)
Yep, he is :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Last post by Ath on April 13, 2011, 08:14 AM »
(But why?  Why IE of all browsers?)
-gpetrant (April 13, 2011, 07:52 AM)
Because that's the only browser the developer of that site checked it with >:(
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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a linkification tool
« Last post by Ath on April 13, 2011, 08:13 AM »
Here you go:
-skwire (April 13, 2011, 08:09 AM)
Oh, it's him again :D :D

Or maybe Excel2HTML could help here (but it could need a small functional change)?
3135
Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by Ath on April 13, 2011, 05:50 AM »
I've reached a sort-of milestone today: :-[

ath-500-post.png
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Developer's Corner / Re: Partial (corrupted) downloads from a server (Not a valid win32 application etc)
« Last post by Ath on April 13, 2011, 05:42 AM »
And it isn't related to the datacenter, or it's connection to the backbone, where the servers are hosted?
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands
« Last post by Ath on April 13, 2011, 03:10 AM »
@cranioscopical, please test the attached pre-release of WinButtons 2.6.2, that has the new althide setting (add althide=1 to the [Settings] section of WinButtons.ini) and -ah/-ah- command-line parameters to use an alternative Window Hide method (WinSetState instead of SetWindowPos), to see if the background coloring issues go away.

TIA

Edit: Now that WinButtons 2.6.2.1 is officially released, with althide option available as a feature, this interim release has been removed.
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General Software Discussion / Re: You didn't get this from me, but Win8 Build 1 is out!
« Last post by Ath on April 13, 2011, 02:12 AM »
Guess the most impressive part is the compilers they have to build, that don't choke on all the complex code constructs and still spit out proper ARM code, so they can run it on ARM-powered tablets.
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Living Room / Re: Downloadsquad shutting down - Another one bites the dust
« Last post by Ath on April 13, 2011, 02:07 AM »
(Wrong thread, re-posted correctly :-[)
3140
Living Room / Re: Thoughts on switching to IPv6
« Last post by Ath on April 13, 2011, 01:56 AM »
And other ISP's offer no direct IPv6 access but instead hide that from the consumer by putting up a NAT between their networks and the real world, supplying a local IPv4 only... :down:
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands
« Last post by Ath on April 13, 2011, 01:46 AM »
Hm, tried to have that also happening over here, but I couldn't. There are some issues with hiding and re-showing the chain of windows, though, that I have to work on, but that's not cosmetically, but functionally.
What Windows version and Theme and Shell (Explorer or an alternative?) are you running? as I've only tested with Glass on standard Win7 x64 with Explorer.

[tech mode]
I'm using a call of SetWindowPos with (AutoIt3) flags BitOR($SWP_HIDEWINDOW, $SWP_NOACTIVATE, $SWP_NOMOVE, $SWP_NOZORDER, $SWP_NOSIZE) to hide, and $SWP_SHOWWINDOW in the appropriate place to restore the window. That shouldn't touch the background color though.
The standard function WinSetState() was pretty slow, so I searched and found an alternative. I can supply a test-release if you like, using the 'trusted' WinSetState calls?
[/tech mode]

Oh, and the "Push 1ce" and "shme 2" buttons are shown when you press the red "nger ca" button...

The implicit feature request of shadowing the caption as a tooltip is already scheduled for the next release ;)
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Living Room / Re: For a good cause, please take a moment to donate some goodwill only.
« Last post by Ath on April 12, 2011, 05:59 PM »
I voted for my 2 favorites, Quinn and Genice.
-mouser (April 12, 2011, 01:59 PM)
I can see why you chose that card :D
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands
« Last post by Ath on April 12, 2011, 05:56 PM »
Again a few minor updates (I should include DcUpdater/DcuHelper as a feature soon, I guess) and now WinButtons 2.6.1.2 is available.

What's new:
  • Environment variable support added for messages and questions (-msg and -ask/-asc)
  • :var<VarName>?<x>: parameter count may now be > 9, should that be needed
  • Download re-pointed to DcMembers server (server seems fine, and I have ftp access from home, ofcourse :D)
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Living Room / Re: For a good cause, please take a moment to donate some goodwill only.
« Last post by Ath on April 12, 2011, 05:28 PM »
It's kind of a pity we can't see the current vote count :-[ but that would give away too much I guess :P
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Living Room / Re: Thoughts on switching to IPv6
« Last post by Ath on April 12, 2011, 05:26 PM »
If your current router is 'good enough', I'd just wait until you really have to upgrade to IPv6, before you buy a new one. By that time there will be quite a choice of good products available, and they will all include IPv6 support ;)
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Developer's Corner / Re: Partial (corrupted) downloads from a server (Not a valid win32 application etc)
« Last post by Ath on April 12, 2011, 05:16 PM »
I tried it again and it downloaded completely in all 3 browsers, as well as wget.
-jaden (April 12, 2011, 05:00 PM)
I could get it to load completely in FF3 just now for the first time too

[wishful thinking mode]
Usually that happens after mouser and Gothi[c] do some config changes to the/a server, they wait for a little time to see if 'that helped', and if it did they happily report it fixed here :tellme:
Let's just wait for that then :-[ (I hope so, keeping my fingers crossed)
[/wishful thinking mode]
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General Software Discussion / Re: Chrome / Firefox tabs in title bar
« Last post by Ath on April 12, 2011, 05:17 AM »
To display pages in the max. no. of pixels available :P
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: On Screen Button That Sends Keyboard Commands
« Last post by Ath on April 12, 2011, 02:21 AM »
Had to do some bugfixes so now we have WinButtons 2.6.1

What's new:
  • Supports expansion of environment variables (%varname% syntax) on Captions and Commands
  • Bugfixes for if no Variables section was defined

Because I have no ftp access from my current location I couldn't update the dcmembers download, so I attached it to the original release-post. Will fix asap.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Running FARR as Administrator launches applications as Administrator - Conflicts
« Last post by Ath on April 12, 2011, 01:57 AM »
...But similar to other users in this thread, I couldn't get the TinyEv plugin to work without...
-sfb (April 11, 2011, 11:48 PM)

Reading that thread I can only conclude that TinyEv needs another way to interface to Everything, then it does currently. It may be sort-of XP compatible, but it's being caught by the new security measures of Vista and 7, so something has to be done to resolve that.
It's not FARR's fault, and probably also not Everything's fault either, just the current 'interface' between them (TinyEv) is done in an incorrect way.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Partial (corrupted) downloads from a server (Not a valid win32 application etc)
« Last post by Ath on April 11, 2011, 04:36 PM »
Are you losing any network packets between the server and the nearest measurable connection, like a switch that went goofy or something like that (aka: [partial] hardware failure)?
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