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General Software Discussion / Re: ERROR after upgrading Windows

« Last post by anandcoral on September 07, 2017, 04:15 AM »

I agree with Deozaan and he has rightly caught the innocent looking spamming activity.

Our new moderator should take steps against it.

Regards,

Anand

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2018 Announcement

« Last post by anandcoral on September 01, 2017, 08:10 AM »

This change will mean that coders are no longer "punished" for releasing programs throughout the year and won't feel the need to "hold back" a program until the final days of the year, and makes NANY more a celebration of the new programs that were created in the past year.

-mouser (August 31, 2017, 02:54 PM)

This is very good and needed change. This will help many of us who have earlier abandoned their apps at the last time due to time constraint. We will also get lots more apps in the NANY 2018 list, which is waited anxiously by many bloggers and supporters of DC.

Regards,

Anand

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Coding Snacks / Re: Open a folder with autohotkey assigning a hotkey combnation

« Last post by anandcoral on August 29, 2017, 04:18 AM »

we are here to support one another and find constructive ways to offer criticism and learn from one another without insulting each other.

-mouser (August 28, 2017, 08:38 PM)

Agree fully.

Let us keep it this way.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone know a file searcher than can search for X near Y?

« Last post by anandcoral on August 01, 2017, 06:22 AM »

Mouser,

I have used below quick steps to get this "near" type searches. Obviously both the "words" are in same line.
1. List all lines containing "word1" from all required files.
2. Search for "word2" in the listed lines and list those lines.

Manually look at the lines finally generated to find the one looking for.

I have found these steps quicker to perform than make the regex for it. Try it.

Regards,

Anand

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: DC member wraith808 agrees to join spammer-killing squad

« Last post by anandcoral on July 19, 2017, 05:15 AM »

It was high time we needed one.

Thanks wraith808 for taking up the job.

Regards,

Anand

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Finished Programs / Re: FINISHED: Hourly chime software (like Cuckoo for Mac)

« Last post by anandcoral on July 19, 2017, 05:12 AM »

skrommel   

Age is just a number ! You proved it 

After so loooog years DC is again filled with useful codes. I am the one (but not the only) who has benefited the most from your codes and learn AutoHotkey.

Thank you.

Regards,

Anand

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Finished Programs / Re: FINISHED: Play a sound when a color appears on screen

« Last post by anandcoral on July 15, 2017, 12:07 PM »

 

Regards,

Anand

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Finished Programs / Re: FINISHED: Play a sound when a color appears on screen

« Last post by anandcoral on July 15, 2017, 04:50 AM »

I am not sure if I am handling this in the best way possible, I am basically taking a screenshot every X milliseconds, and running through the entire bitmap looking for a pixel with the color you want.

-p3lb0x (July 14, 2017, 06:54 PM)

You are doing good job. This is the only way, AFAIK. Only you may change X milliseconds, if it is affecting CPU load.

Regards,

Anand

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Icon in system tray to show when there in no internet connection

« Last post by anandcoral on July 03, 2017, 10:46 AM »

skwire 

I think we can accept it as advance NANY 2018 

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: want hear / extract clear voice from recording of lecture/discussion

« Last post by anandcoral on July 02, 2017, 12:36 PM »

Thanks all for the advise.

I will try them and revert my story

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / want hear / extract clear voice from recording of lecture/discussion

« Last post by anandcoral on June 30, 2017, 06:51 AM »

I have a recording of lecture/discussion. It has some noise of the hall room.
Now the voice are not clear. I want to hear / extract clear voice.

Googling gave me links of removing the voice, but I want the reverse.
Also gave me paid software links which claim to do it.

Need Advise ?

Regards,

Anand

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Icon in system tray to show when there in no internet connection

« Last post by anandcoral on June 30, 2017, 04:20 AM »

This may also be useful to you, as it gives off a sound on no internet.

https://www.ghacks.n...-is-ping-with-sound/

[Select]

play a sound if there is no response, simply add the -d parameter to the command

Regards,

Anand

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Living Room / Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs

« Last post by anandcoral on June 22, 2017, 06:28 AM »

It is personal choice.

I use tab with 4 character setting. The code looks wider on other text file viewer because of default 8 characters. One of our developer uses 2 character for tab and also some time space-bar. His/her code looks awful on my editor and I have run re-indent. Still he/she is happy with his/her style. So it is a personal choice.

Regards,

Anand

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Living Room / Re: [Breaking] - AI Simulant Discovered Online

« Last post by anandcoral on June 18, 2017, 05:32 AM »

Wait till September and this 'Mouser' will become very active, due to code "NANY" 

Regards,

Anand

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Discussion of ignore feature

« Last post by anandcoral on June 13, 2017, 12:33 PM »

Thanks for the tip @wraith808. I remember another on mouser gave for display of all mesgs in one long page, I forgot.

-anandcoral (June 13, 2017, 01:57 AM)

Well, one tip - I've noticed you using the @ syntax in several thread.  It doesn't do anything.

-wraith808 (June 13, 2017, 11:38 AM)

Ahh....actually I saw members addressing each other with @<nick_name> in another forum and thought that was way, so started doing it. May be it had some meaning / auto link etc. on that forum. Anyway will not use '@' now. Thanks for pointing the mistake.

Regards,

Anand

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Developer's Corner / Re: Your First Programming Language vs Now

« Last post by anandcoral on June 13, 2017, 02:11 AM »

I too started in Basic, i.e. Basic in MS Dos 2.0. Got BASICA in Dos 3.0 then GWBasic and so on. For job I had to learn dBase III but I used the logic of Basic to create my first program in dBase III.

Now working in Xbase++, upgraded from FoxPro, my mind still works in Basic and converts the codes in required language

Regards,

Anand

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Discussion of ignore feature

« Last post by anandcoral on June 13, 2017, 01:57 AM »

You can ignore users, and threads.

-wraith808 (June 12, 2017, 10:11 AM)

Thanks for the tip @wraith808. I remember another on mouser gave for display of all mesgs in one long page, I forgot.
Is there a thread/page which displays all these tips of DC  forum ? If not, I think it will be of great help if one is made and published.

I read "A Practical Guide to DonationCoder.com Forum Search" thread https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=9434.0 but it says it is very old and I did not find the required tips there.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alternatives popup Wisdom

« Last post by anandcoral on June 07, 2017, 04:39 AM »

@tomos,
PUW = PopUp Wisdom, from our DC stable
https://www.donation....msg394430#msg394430

@Contro, I think you want multi window of PUW showing different wisdom text and also want to configure them differently, say font, size etc.
I have not used PUW, but hope this what you require.

Regards,

Anand

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Icon in system tray to show when there in no internet connection

« Last post by anandcoral on May 30, 2017, 04:23 AM »

Thanks for sharing that, gmoises 

-mouser (May 29, 2017, 10:18 PM)

+1

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Security vulnerability found in movie subtitle files

« Last post by anandcoral on May 29, 2017, 02:04 PM »

This kind of thing is only risky if malicious 3rd parties are feeding you data files.

If you are using a PIM to store your own notes and data, these vulnerabilities are not issues.

-mouser (May 29, 2017, 10:04 AM)

Thanks Mouser for clarifying what I meant.

Regards,

Anand

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Icon in system tray to show when there in no internet connection

« Last post by anandcoral on May 29, 2017, 05:43 AM »

I use "PingInfoView" http://www.nirsoft.n...tiple_ping_tool.html, though not in tray, it shows red icon when no connection.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Security vulnerability found in movie subtitle files

« Last post by anandcoral on May 29, 2017, 05:41 AM »

It boils downs to any "app" which tries to display a "html" from the web is vulnerable to been hijacked. And the author has nothing to do with it.

Generally a program uses "object" in the code which uses some dll to show, say IE window in the program itself. Since the main browser Edge, Firefox extra is not called but a scale down version of an old library, so the vulnerability increases.

Only solution looks like not to use the "in window html display" but call the default browser.

Regards,

Anand

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General Software Discussion / Re: Delete &.or close any process without reinitiating

« Last post by anandcoral on May 29, 2017, 05:08 AM »

Hi Contro,

I use "SuperF4" https://stefansundin.github.io/superf4/ and "Kill.exe" (can not find the weblink) for such situation.

I use Kill.exe from batch file, as a quick way to exit a running process in my development environment.

Regards,

Anand

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2.4.3 build 471 Display Properties throws error

« Last post by anandcoral on May 25, 2017, 03:18 AM »

- then I would strongly suggest consideration be given to installing Classic Start Menu - refer Classic Shell (shell alternative for Windows 10, 8, 7) - Mini-Review
Classic Start Menu also provides an alternative XP, or Vista, or Win7 interface (take your pick). This could be useful for you with your users' needs (as you have described them).

-IainB (May 24, 2017, 07:58 PM)

I use FARR from my WinXp days and still happy with it. 
Yes I did suggested and installed "Classic Start Menu" but there are still many windows interface, not just selecting program, which are quite different in Win8/10 than in WinXp, also Win10 now already have "Start Menu". But the users like to stay where they are more comfortable. 

Regards,

Anand

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2.4.3 build 471 Display Properties throws error

« Last post by anandcoral on May 24, 2017, 04:03 AM »

@anandcoral: Sorry for the off-topic request, but could you please provide the hardware spec that you have running the Win10 32-bit OS?
And could you summarise your view of its overall performance when using that OS, please? Do you have a basis for comparison? - i.e., did you previously have Win7 32-bit, or something, on that hardware?
I'm just interested in your experience with that, as I am considering putting Win10 32-bit on a 32-bit laptop for someone, but am unsure whether it's advisable - i.e, whether maybe it'd be better to stick with the existing Win7 32-bit installation.

Thanks in advance for any input.

-IainB (May 22, 2017, 05:43 AM)

@IainB, I had WinXp on my machine which I upgraded to Win8 32 bit. The reason being my home laptop came with Win8 64 bit and I was finding it difficult in working between WinXp and Win8 OS. Now both are Win10 32 and 64 bit. The summary of 32 bit is as below,



The hardware remaining same, performance of OS is more or less similar. It is the interface which has some learning curve. You may have to give your user some time to guide them "how to find in Win10 which was in WinXp/7" This is the biggest problem/change of this upgrade. And more is coming ... as we finding after each OS update.

I agree with @bobofeta that sooner or later you have to move ahead and upgrade. It is easier to move up alone, but taking users with you is very difficult. I still have user who are using WinXp and are "happy" with it. Though I try to keep my application updated that they work from WinXp to Win10, I do not have courage to ask my user to upgrade. I can not give time to all my thousands users guidance on Win OS changes. I tried to gude some of my relatives when they got Win8 on their new laptop, but they finally switched back to WinXp and I am not interfering.

If you develop for a platform, you know that the platform's developers are under no obligation to support your software.  Or at least you should know that.  You have to roll with the platform's releases.  They didn't intentionally break t-clock.  They also didn't intentionally not break it these years.  It would be up to a developer to figure out what the problem is, and change/correct the software.

-wraith808 (May 23, 2017, 07:25 PM)

@wraith808, this is the very reason I try not to give OS integration in my applications. I have burned my fingers in Win95 days and given up the thought of it. Not only MS even other company who make compiler / developer system do change their system breaking backward compatibility in some case, reason being moving up, and we developers under them have to adapt accordingly.

Regards,

Anand