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General Software Discussion / Re: When your word processor begins openly mocking you, it's time to call it a day

« Last post by skwire on June 20, 2011, 12:58 AM »

Turing on Windows' built in Text-to-Speech

-cthorpe (June 20, 2011, 12:49 AM)

There's your problem; where Turing's involved, the app may as well be sentient.  

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Right click shortcut or executable and pick the priority it will run with

« Last post by skwire on June 19, 2011, 08:00 PM »

Here you go:  Priority Run

Some notes/caveats:

• DO NOT, DO NOT, DO NOT run it from the zip file.  Extract it to its permanent install folder first and then run it from there.
• For anybody testing this under Vista or Windows 7, you will almost certainly have to run it as Administrator.

Obviously, it's had minimal testing here but seems to work smoothly.  Let me know how it works for you.  Thanks.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by skwire on June 19, 2011, 12:36 AM »

still loving sWeather 

minor request: option to start up minimized to tray.

-mouser (June 19, 2011, 12:27 AM)

Thanks, mouser.  As to your request, it's already in there. Check out the options dialog.   

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

« Last post by skwire on June 17, 2011, 07:13 PM »

Here you go; apologies for the delay.  To specify a timeout, simply add a "duration=hh:mm:ss" parameter to your calls.  So, for a ten-second timeout, you would use duration=00:00:10.  IMO, using the timestamp format should provide for decent flexibility.  Let me know how it works out for you.  Thanks.

Website | Download
v1.0.2 - 2011-06-17
    + Added "duration" parameter.  Use standard timestamp format e.g. hh:mm:ss.
      (Thanks, pilgrim-online)

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: port to Windows of a MACOSX-like column view for Windows Explorer

« Last post by skwire on June 17, 2011, 10:23 AM »

I like both apps.  UltraExplorer, IMHO, can be a little bit flakey at times but it sure packs a lot of options within its interface.

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Post New Requests Here / MOVED: IDEA: port to Windows of a MACOSX-like column view for Windows Explorer

« Last post by skwire on June 16, 2011, 12:37 PM »

This topic has been moved to Finished Programs.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=27072.0

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: port to Windows of a MACOSX-like column view for Windows Explorer

« Last post by skwire on June 16, 2011, 12:36 PM »

You're welcome.  FWIW, WinBrowser has been around for a long, long time but has kept a somewhat low profile over the years.  I'm a fan of this type of column view as well.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: port to Windows of a MACOSX-like column view for Windows Explorer

« Last post by skwire on June 16, 2011, 11:58 AM »

You have a couple of options:

• WinBrowser
• UltraExplorer (website appears to be non-working but you can download it from CNet)

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

« Last post by skwire on June 16, 2011, 08:01 AM »

the only addition that I can think of would be to set the images to close after a given period

-pilgrim-online (June 16, 2011, 04:24 AM)

This functionality would be very easy to add.

skwire, what did you use to write frameless?

-vixay (June 16, 2011, 07:35 AM)

It's written in AHK and it's really not much more than simply reading in the command-line parameters and creating a very simple GUI using a standard picture control.

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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 skwire on June 15, 2011, 08:09 PM »

I use it all the time for various things across several apps.  To me, it's just another function key. *shrug*

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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 skwire on June 15, 2011, 03:44 PM »

as soon as I can figure out what is required on this very nice but peculiar laptop's keyboard to get Scroll lock activated

-brotman (June 15, 2011, 01:36 PM)

If that proves to be an unusable option, we can easily dedicate another key to act as the toggle.  Say, F12, for instance or possibly one of the custom keys on your laptop (if it has any).

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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 skwire on June 15, 2011, 12:31 PM »

If you're able to write some AHK yourself, here's the basic idea.  The following code will turn the Up arrow into an Insert key if the ScrollLock key is toggled on:

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. Up::
2. {
3.     If GetKeyState( "ScrollLock", "T" )
4.     {
5.         SendInput, {Insert}
6.     }
7.     Else
8.     {
9.         SendInput, {Up}
10.     }
11. }
12. Return

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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 skwire on June 15, 2011, 11:23 AM »

I can do this.  Please provide me a list of which new keystroke you would like to assign to each arrow key when the ScrollLock is engaged.  Thanks.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Send mailto: links to another computer on network

« Last post by skwire on June 14, 2011, 12:57 AM »

kamahl, if you haven't started yet, I have a working, proof-of-concept application done.  It's written using the client/server approach.  Let me know if you still want dibs on this Snack because, c'mon, you can't deny a man his dibs.      

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Execute a command line rather than just a program

« Last post by skwire on June 13, 2011, 07:17 PM »

But I just noticed you Hong Kong Phooey avatar. I used to love that show!

-Stoic Joker (June 13, 2011, 06:40 PM)

Likewise.  =] 

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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 skwire on June 13, 2011, 02:53 PM »

Can you provide some samples of your log files and the resulting spreadsheets you create?

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: Newsletter for May 5th, 2011 - "Calming Breeze"

« Last post by skwire on June 12, 2011, 11:18 PM »

I think mouser is going to wake up and have an, "Oh, f#$%," moment.   

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: Newsletter for May 5th, 2011 - "Calming Breeze"

« Last post by skwire on June 12, 2011, 09:45 PM »

Nope.   

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Sort images into folders based on resolution

« Last post by skwire on June 11, 2011, 09:30 AM »

what do you think about making SymLinks as an Option?

-Lebewesen (June 11, 2011, 05:07 AM)

Apologies, but there are so many limits, gotchas and caveats when working with these that I think it's just asking for trouble.  Also, I don't run Vista or Windows 7, except in VMs for testing purposes, so trying to develop this would be even more difficult.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Trout playlist contextmenu bugs?

« Last post by skwire on June 08, 2011, 12:02 PM »

Works fine here on XP SP3.  Anybody else having this issue?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Naming one's product

« Last post by skwire on June 06, 2011, 07:58 AM »

A quarter million posts and almost as many users in something like 6 years? Far too late to change the name now. Especially after the Google search ranking has been established.

-40hz (June 05, 2011, 06:49 PM)

Shouldn't that be, "Farr too late to change the name now."   

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: automated mp3 rip from video clip

« Last post by skwire on June 01, 2011, 04:42 PM »

Oh! Ive been using this for a few years now, thank you!

-apogee22 (June 01, 2011, 04:12 PM)

You're welcome.   

I have version 1.0.0.1 on the box now. Now do I understand that this is a repackaged mencoder.exe? Also I have always been surprised that the output bitrate is not adjustable and is not discussed or mentioned, not here in the thread or in the package. Does it copy the bitrate from the source? Maybe this could appear in config.ini. Sorry if I've missed something.

-apogee22 (June 01, 2011, 04:12 PM)

Yes, this packages mencoder.exe within the video2mp3.exe file.  The output bitrate is currently non-adjustable (defaulted at 160 kbp/s) because that is what the OP (original poster) wanted for his sister.  Until ewemoa's request for a specifiable output directory, this app didn't even have an INI file.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Plants Vs Zombies - Android Version - Free Today, 31MAY2011, on Amazon App Store

« Last post by skwire on May 31, 2011, 06:10 PM »

Fun game...I've been waiting for it on Android.  Definitely worth $0.00.   

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N.A.N.Y. 2008 / Re: KeyCounter

« Last post by skwire on May 30, 2011, 10:00 AM »

Great job, KeyCounter now starts up with my favourite list of keys! 
Thanks a lot!

-knutnukem (May 30, 2011, 01:30 AM)

You're welcome and thanks for the bug report.

Website | Download
v1.1.0 - 2011-06-30
    ! Key list wasn't being saved properly.  (Thanks, TripleJ & knutnukem)

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N.A.N.Y. 2008 / Re: KeyCounter

« Last post by skwire on May 29, 2011, 05:42 PM »

@knutnukem:  Please re-download and try v1.0.9 build 5, please.  Let me know if it saves properly now.  Thanks and sorry for the trouble.