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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by jgpaiva on August 31, 2006, 03:06 PM »

Just a small update with a bug fix. Now, when using the keyboard, if you move the window to a "Maximize Vertically" / "Maximize Horizontally" grid element, the window is stretched relative to it's current position, ignoring the mouse position. (the same grid element's behaviour when used with the mouse wasn't altered).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by jgpaiva on August 31, 2006, 02:09 PM »

It's done!!!!
GridMove 1.19 is here.
It features a complete help file (now that i remember, it misses 2 things, i'll add those tomorrow) and win+# hotkeys! (which by the way are fantastic and i want to thank you for having me implementing them).
Also, the win+g # is improved, and doesn't wait anymore unless it makes sense. This means that if you have less than 10 elements, it'll move the window immediatelly after you press #, if you have more than 10 and less than 20, it'll move the window to areas 2-9 immediatelly and will wait a bit for the 1. (yep, sounds weird, i can't explain it, please try it and you'll understand).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: tab completion in any text field

« Last post by jgpaiva on August 31, 2006, 07:55 AM »

hotstringScript script by skrommel jgpaiva

-urlwolf (August 31, 2006, 07:01 AM)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by jgpaiva on August 31, 2006, 03:25 AM »

Hi there!

I'm currently working on a complete help file, since the help tab on the about box is missing many many key points of gridmove.
But by using WinSplit.NET, i had a good idea. I'm thinking about implementing the function that was talked before about having GridMove keeping a list of the active windows and moving them in order (when you move a window to someplace where a window was, that other window is moved to where the moved window's origin).
Also, hotkeys make much sense, and probably win+# is the best option. It'll be in the next release (which should take a couple of days).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« Last post by jgpaiva on August 30, 2006, 05:32 AM »

i agree - as that is really the point of dialogmove.

i only thought about the animated move idea as i have one or two windows that appear in the center of the screen AND then jump to the cursor position. most of the time the dialog window appears directly under the cursor without first appearing in the center of the screen.

it's the very few times that the dialog window appears in the center first and then jumps that looks a bit odd - i just thought it might be a bit more pleasing on the eye if in these cases the dialog travelled across the screen instead of jumped.

-nudone (August 27, 2006, 12:57 AM)

Unfortunatelly, there's no way to solve that
Dialogmove moves all windows as fast as it can, which means that somethimes the user doesn't see it coming up and other times it does. (but it comes up always in the center, only then it's moved). The script itself doesn't have any idea if the window appeared to the user or not, so i cannot make it behave differently in those cases.. Sorry

As for your other request, i'm right now working on it!

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Living Room / Re: Storm the House

« Last post by jgpaiva on August 29, 2006, 09:48 AM »

ahah... crazy game!
The beggining is really cool, but after you get all the upgrades, it gets too repetitive.
I got all the upgrades, 250 gunmen, 70 craftsmen and 50 silo workers on level 47, then i just gave up, because it still needed my intervention. That's because nothing's really efective against taks 
I definitelly support the cannon or nuclear blast

Also, it should have a sniper machine gun, so that we wouldn't have to always be clicking around, and could just keep the left mouse button pressed.
For the later levels, the following ahk script should be used:

[Select]

loop
{
  send,{lbutton}
  sleep,100
}

 

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Living Room / Re: Here's a brilliant example of thinking outside the box in flash games

« Last post by jgpaiva on August 29, 2006, 08:10 AM »

Briiiiliant! 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by jgpaiva on August 18, 2006, 09:04 AM »

Long time, no see!!
GridMove 1.18 is here!!


Ok, i did a small update. I think the problem with the highlight not appearing on top should be fixed now. I also added the "run" grid. It works in a similar way to the restore, maximize and ontop grids. Here's the syntax:

[Select]

  GridTop      = Run
  GridLeft     = filename
  GridBottom = name to be displayed
  GridRight    = working directory

"GridTop" must be Run. GridLeft is the name of the file to be ran, GridBottom is the name to be displayed on the grid (like "restore", "maximize" and "ontop" currently do) and GridRight is the working directory (which can be ommited).

As for your doubt, here's the explanation.
When running an ahk script, a bunch of stuff is loaded. If it has hotkeys (like dialogmove and gridmove do), it loads one keyboard hook for each one. A mouse hook is also loaded. All this takes around 3-4mb per each script. So, joining them would spare you 3-4mb of ram. Now, if you don't have a 486 with 12mb of ram, this shouln't be a problem, and believe me: it'd be an almost impossible task, as ahk mostly uses global variables (actually, this is not ahk's fault, it's mine) and it isn't purelly multi-threaded.
Believe me, it surely isn't worth the trouble, and if you don't have loads of ahk scripts you woudn't notice the difference.
On the other hand, if it makes you feel better, you could join the small script you made with dialogmove, which is way simpler than gridmove. But don't think too much about it

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Living Room / Re: DC's "EVIL DEAD" Get Together

« Last post by jgpaiva on August 17, 2006, 01:36 PM »

Who wants to do the counter-strike server? 
I also like the webcam idea

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: What is the Great DonationCoder.com GTD Experiment of 2006?

« Last post by jgpaiva on August 17, 2006, 01:26 PM »

I'm curious, which i guess means i'm in!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why would anyone write free software?

« Last post by jgpaiva on August 12, 2006, 04:50 PM »

For me, another important issue is cooperation. Comercial software is usually a bit too unpersonal. Usually, freeware is a bit more interactive.

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Living Room / Re: New WEP attack found - cracks in seconds

« Last post by jgpaiva on August 12, 2006, 04:07 PM »

G.... Bad news. I'm sorry to know that, my hardware doesn't support anything better than wep. I guess i'll have to use some mac filtering

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Living Room / Re: Superman is now a college student!

« Last post by jgpaiva on August 12, 2006, 03:54 PM »

  Cool!
I'd love to see that live.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Rescue orphans

« Last post by jgpaiva on August 05, 2006, 05:06 AM »

   forgot this. thanks!
I'm now on vacations, i'll look into it asap.   

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Capture windows of various programs into one window with tabs

« Last post by jgpaiva on August 04, 2006, 04:52 AM »

I think this is similar to the virtual desktops concept. You also should look at one of microsoft's projects in taskbars, already mentioned here on DC, called groupbar, i think. The latter is quite similar to the group similar tasks in xp, with the difference that it can group whatever apps you want, can group and ungroup, etc. It's quite a brilliant idea, and it even can save "snapshots" although i didn't manage to work out how that works.
The only problem is that it makes some render problems in some apps. (namelly msnmessenger, when you use windows without title bar).
Definitelly worth a look.

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General Software Discussion / Re: IDEA: Visual FileSystem

« Last post by jgpaiva on August 02, 2006, 08:32 AM »

I see what you mean. Visual filesystems already exist. Not much time ago, i saw a 3d filesystem in which you navigated and used in a similar way to a video game.
I played with it for a while, and my current opinion about it is: DON'T GO 3D!!
It's awful. Slow, hard to use, confusing, etc, etc.

Improving in that kind of well-stabilished ideas isn't that easy, i think.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 30, 2006, 04:37 AM »

ha ha, i've only just discovered that you don't have to click on the titlebar when using the middle mouse button. brilliant.

-nudone (July 30, 2006, 01:21 AM)

Yep, that's why it's my favourite method

when the grid appears, the window you have open looks like it is under the grid lines that define the grid layout but it is also on top of the semi transparent area that represents the selected grid area. whereas before the open window was underneath all of this.

-nudone (July 30, 2006, 01:21 AM)

EhEh... I see you use a lot windows on top. That only happens when a window is set as on top, it is on top of the highlight, as it was with the whole grid before. As i don't use it that much, i didn't find the bug. Shouldn't be a big trouble to fix.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Ability to select multiple windows and send keyboard input to all of them

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 29, 2006, 02:27 PM »

Ok, now it works like this:

If the 2 first characters in the phrase are '\\', it'll send the text using ahk's map. This means that the following phrase:
\\!{f4}
Will close the active window. And the next one:
\\hi there{enter}
Will send "hi there" followed by a {enter} key press.

Notice that with this method, to send a literal '!' or a  literal '%' or a literal '^' or any other characters used by ahk, you'll have to escape them ( `! , `% and `^ ).

As long as the two first characters aren't \\, it'll behave exactly as expected.
For more info about what can be used in the \\ method, check the table on This page.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 29, 2006, 02:21 PM »

  GridMove 1.16:

Focus bug fixed (that was the one creating the problem mentioned in the last 2 posts)
GridOrder bug fixed. (mentioned a few posts above).

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Living Room / Re: filedestructor - a purposeful file corruption tool..

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 29, 2006, 02:06 PM »

My daughter says the damaged floppy trick always worked for her.

Then she could blame it on the school's computer eating her floppy on Friday, with the teacher as a witness, and buy herself till Monday to actually do the report and bring it in on a good floppy. (only works once per teacher)

-app103 (July 29, 2006, 01:38 PM)

Actually, i did that on a test!
It wasn't intended, i removed the floppy while it was still writing. Truth is that the test didn't go that well, i was expecting something like a 12 out of 20. I redid the test on the next day (a different test, of course), and i got 19 out of 20
(this happened on high school, not on university, of course)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Ability to select multiple windows and send keyboard input to all of them

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 29, 2006, 12:14 PM »

There is a slight delay between sending and having control back, which makes sense.

-Rover (July 29, 2006, 11:06 AM)

Yes, that's the time it takes to send to all controls, i think i can't make that not happen.

There are two minor things I offer for improvement:
1) Add a "Continue" button on your splash screen.  It took me a while to figure out that I needed to close it to continue.

-Rover (July 29, 2006, 11:06 AM)

Oops.. Right, i'll do that!

2) It might be cool to have a checkbox on the text sumission box to allow sending CRLF or not.

-Rover (July 29, 2006, 11:06 AM)

Yes, i have to find a way to do that. I think the normal way to do it would be to have it not send the raw text. This would allow you to write `n and it'd work as a CRLF.

I'm glad it works well!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 29, 2006, 12:10 PM »

Right, i also noticed that but thought it was related to allsnap and not gridmove. I'll look into it!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Ability to select multiple windows and send keyboard input to all of them

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 29, 2006, 10:47 AM »

After all i did get some time to do this. Lets hope it's what you expected.

MultipleSend v1.0 created 29-07-2006:

Send the same text to several windows at the same time

[Forum Topic][.ahk Version][.exe Version]

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 29, 2006, 10:43 AM »

Ok, a new update!

The ontop bug should be fixed now, it looks like it's working.
The program is now more responsive, due to changing the inner workings a bit. The titledrag method now works on windows other than the active one too. (on prior versions, you had to first select the window and then drag the title).

Also added a tooltip helper which comes up on the first run of gridmove.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Using FARR with custom Opera (9b2) searches

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 29, 2006, 07:56 AM »

gaikokujinkyofusho notice that i have something written in the "optional regular expression" field. You need that.
If you write something like:
^opera (.*)
It'll work just as you mentioned. Writing opera g foobar in farr will make a google search for foobar.