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Post New Requests Here / Re: coded needed launch url's

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 07, 2014, 09:39 AM »

@4wd what you posted is what BrowserBunch does with a few additional options.  I haven't tried IE in awhile, but I don't support it because the last time I tested it, I could not get it to open URLs in a new tab. I set the setting that's supposed to get it to open URLs in a new tab.  But I found many complaints the setting did not work on the web.  In any case for IE based browsers they can use the ActiveX approach.

There may be a way to automate other browsers from the inside, using an AddOn or JavaScript or something.  But I think it would require customization for each.  That's exactly what I tried to avoid in BrowserBunch.  Just a simple launcher that would work with any browser that accepted multiple URLs on the command line, and could be set to open new pages in a new tab.

Why BrowserBunch will not be updated

Unfortunately I lost all my include files.  Most of the utilities I've written in AutoIt3 used multiple includes.  Since AHK is much more powerful for hotkeys, I'm just going to let the AU3 stuff whither on the vine.  It's just too much work to try to regenerate the sources.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Browser Bunch 1.4.2.0 - with BBSS

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 06, 2014, 08:04 AM »

Btw I don't think you need to run virtual machines to run two instances of BrowserBunch..  Just copy everything to another folder.  Change the .ini to have up to 6 different browsers. Just make shortcuts that point to each BrowserBunch.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Browser Bunch 1.4.2.0 - with BBSS

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 05, 2014, 01:56 PM »

Sorry.  But I can't make commitments as I have PERT tests to prepare for.  It's been a long time since school.  I'm just starting to get an idea how much I've forgotten.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Browser Bunch 1.4.2.0 - with BBSS

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 05, 2014, 01:28 PM »

There's both compilers and scripting languages there.  Not as much free as for Linux.  But still a good selection.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Browser Bunch 1.4.2.0 - with BBSS

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 05, 2014, 12:37 PM »

Any Windows scripting that does Gui Windows and controls.  You might look here to start:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/

A Drop Down Box has the advantage you would not have to change the Gui it is in once you got it working.  Adding more items just lengthens the list.  You could have the default or most used at the top.  To use a different browser select from the drop down list.  Reading from a text file a line at a time should be pretty easy in most scripting languages.  Therefore I'd look for something that makes it very easy to make the Gui Window or Dialog.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Browser Bunch 1.4.2.0 - with BBSS

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 05, 2014, 09:23 AM »

You might try something that makes it easy to do a drop down list.  Then you could always add more.  What's the limit with Browser Chooser?

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General Software Discussion / Re: 0catch .. that's a laugh

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 05, 2014, 07:00 AM »

OpenDNS blocked that domain due to "Adware"

This site was categorized in: Adware, Business Services

-Deozaan (February 04, 2014, 07:48 PM)

It has ads.  The only reason I posted the link was because the page content is FTP Broken Here.  Juvenile perhaps but those jerks wasted my time with premeditation.  

Edit: I dunno' if that's against the rules here so I'll delete it.  No one will see it anyway. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Browser Bunch 1.4.2.0 - with BBSS

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 05, 2014, 06:50 AM »

BrowserBunch is implemented in AutoIt3.  I have stopped doing au3 development.  I intend to do virtually all Hotkey type programs in AHK_L or some AHK variant.  As current au3 programs lose relevance they will be retired.

I like the structure of AutoIt3 but the hotkey functionality is just too limiting for my purposes.

In any case when I was forced to move Au3 source code was lost.  For small utilities such as these it's just not worth the effort to reconstruct the missing pieces.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: coded needed launch url's

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 05, 2014, 06:43 AM »

Miles the difficult point seems to be the same script for Firefox and other browsers. Exists or is a pending task ?


Best Regards

-Contro (February 04, 2014, 09:15 PM)

IE based browsers have an ActiveX engine hat can be programed.  That's why BrowserBunch ignores it.  It's a different animal than Firefox/Opera/chrome.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: coded needed launch url's

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 04, 2014, 01:28 PM »

In the navigate calls delete the "URL . " from the font and just use  A_LoopReadLine

The file should have a URL per line instead of a search string

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Developer's Corner / Re: Koding.com and the great 100TB giveaway

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 04, 2014, 06:55 AM »

Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs.  One of my favorite programming books. I should give Lazarus another go.  I did Delphi for a long time.  Something about Pascal, I could just type in procedure or function names as I went along and figure out the implementation later.  It seemed to flow more than C based languages.

Although there does seem to be a "guilty pleasure" aspect to scooping up all the block variables and jamming them into a Lamda Expression in C++. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: need freeware .vob to MP4 converter

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 04, 2014, 06:46 AM »

For .vob conversion, I hate to sound sloppy, but I just click on one file in the folder [an entire folder full of sub-files for one single vid], and it converts the entire folder bundle into a neat single mp4 file.
And cuts the size from 4GB to 1GB.

That's quite a difference for mpg.  Have you looked at the results upconverted to HD? I'm just curious about the quality loss.  I know .mp4 can squeeze HD mkv into a lot fewer bits.  I'm just wondering about standard DVD though.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Koding.com and the great 100TB giveaway

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 03, 2014, 07:18 AM »

No support for my new favorite language anyways 

Sounds like a cool idea though.

-Edvard (February 02, 2014, 11:56 PM)

What's the latest?  I'm just curious.
An aside, I happened to go on Bjarne Stroustrup's site(to get the spelling) and he has this long-suffering look like "20 years of standardization committees and still I'm not done!" 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Simple Application to set all tray icons to always hide

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 02, 2014, 04:19 PM »

This is a registry hack to hide the tray.  I don't know if it applies:

http://samanathon.co...on-area-system-tray/


Edit: using Regedit as described isn't simple.  But if that setting actually does what you want it could be set programmatically.  ( If you do edit the registry it's a good idea to back it up first using ERUNT and/or Restore Points. )

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Post New Requests Here / Re: idea - open certian files in folder

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 02, 2014, 03:32 PM »

yes, now we are getting there.

so........lol

-chris051873 (February 02, 2014, 02:45 PM)

Do you have something to use as remote?  A wireless mouse might be good enough.  I'm supposed to be studying for PERT tests.  That's why I'm a bit reluctant to make a commitment.  The timing is uncertain until the school gets my transcripts.  Kind of like the Army only it's "wait and hurry up." 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: idea - open certian files in folder

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 02, 2014, 07:14 AM »

If we assume the PC is doing nothing much else then avoid the multiple tab issue by first getting the exe for each file using FindExecutable() API.  Then some prep work would need to be run to get the window class names for each.  Not all programs put the current file in the titlebar.  The prep would be something like:
read input filename
call FindExecutable()
run exe returned
Wait for non-fesktop window to become active
get the window class name
prompt for delay time showing input filename
store all the info

the second stage would be to run the saved exe programs in order with input file path as param using custom delay saved, once window has focus. They could be loaded minimized with no delay as alternative to avoid machine latency issues. If the same program comes up more than once in the list then a kill before the load would come into play.

Or some kind of wireless remote could be used like a clicker.  Like if you mispronounce some term you can say it correctly, then click etc..  More wiggle room.  (Assuming this is a live presentation scenario.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tips for Windows 8 (got any?)

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 01, 2014, 03:32 PM »

Nice list.  Windows key + E brings up Explorer showing Computer.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Change default browser script

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 01, 2014, 03:25 PM »

You can get some files pointed to a portable browser by using a dummy html file.  I have one in BrowserBunch just to call FindExecutable() to see which browser opens .html web pages. (Right click, open with, then select the exe file using file open dialog.)

I think PortableApps may have a "hack" for making a portable browser the default.  But it's not smooth. Once it is in the Registry then it's not totally "portable" anymore.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 0catch .. that's a laugh

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 01, 2014, 01:31 PM »

Heh heh.

(  Site link removed due to joke not being funny - plus it has ads so nix it  )   

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General Software Discussion / 0catch .. that's a laugh

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 01, 2014, 07:52 AM »

0catch .. that's a laugh.  If you are looking for free FTP fergettaboutit!!  After site creation you get "server not found" until you create a blank index.html.  Ok fine.  But then the fun starts.  FTP access such as with FileZilla does not connect.  No matter the variant of ftp server name you get the same IP.  Nothing works there(in their support forum I found the same complaint dated 2010.)  Ok so I try their own web based online ftp applet.  No dice.  How about the html file uploader?  You get a stack of buttons, but the total upload has a max of 1 MB.  That's One Megabyte, not a typo.  So I have to conclude the free account is designed to be broken.

I want to thank 0catch.com for wasting 2 hours of my time as I hadn't decided how I was going to waste it up to that point.  They made the decision for me.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: idea - open certian files in folder

« Last post by MilesAhead on February 01, 2014, 07:10 AM »

You may be able to cobble something together from existing software.  For running a folder full of shortcuts you could use my DelayedCuts from this page:
http://milesaheadsoftware.tk/

It pops up a gui to drop shortcuts on.  It insists on shortcuts.  But to get a shortcut for an ordinary file such as .txt .doc .zip etc.  just right click Copy on the file and Paste Shortcut in the folder(or right mouse drag drop copy shortcut.)

Start DelayedCuts and drop all the shortcuts from the folder onto it.  It will offer delays 10 seconds apart.  You can just hit Enter to accept the default.  Once the ListView is full you can move the entries around and manually set the delay time(from launch of DelayedLoad program) or use the Buttons to space them 5 or 10 seconds apart.

When you hit Save Button it creates a shortcut for DelayedLoad in the user's StartUp Folder.  The idea was to space out the loading of programs at logon.  But you can just drag the shortcut from StartUp Folder to the Desktop and run it manually.

After everything is running then you may want to use AutoTab itself to cycle through them.

It's just an idea.  But it may give you something close enough to what you want to try out different delay times and/or refine your concept.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Koding.com and the great 100TB giveaway

« Last post by MilesAhead on January 31, 2014, 10:41 AM »

I can't seem to get out of the SyncPlaces rut.  I have ftp set up.  FileZilla works flawlessly. But I cannot use SyncPlaces to put syncplaces.json file in a folder.  I get "path not found" no matter what.  Seems like this only wants to work to a file on the local HD.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Koding.com and the great 100TB giveaway

« Last post by MilesAhead on January 31, 2014, 09:51 AM »

If anyone is running a FF derivative with no statusbar, use a browser that has one if you need labels for the toolbar icons.  No mouse-over... at least not with Pale Moon.

-MilesAhead (January 31, 2014, 06:26 AM)

MilesAhead, I may have misunderstood you, but I'm using Pale Moon and it does have a status bar and mouseovers for the tooltips (the status bar is one of the toolbar options, just as it is in Firefox, where it's now apparently called the Add-on bar).  

-cyberdiva (January 31, 2014, 08:39 AM)

I had it disabled.  Probably because I didn't expect it to be there.  I still think a mouse over would be helpful.  For one thing the statusbar font is kind of small for those of us over 40. 

Thanks for the tip.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Koding.com and the great 100TB giveaway

« Last post by MilesAhead on January 31, 2014, 06:26 AM »

If anyone is running a FF derivative with no statusbar, use a browser that has one if you need labels for the toolbar icons.  No mouse-over... at least not with Pale Moon.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Group two windows so they get focus together. Possible?

« Last post by MilesAhead on January 31, 2014, 06:23 AM »

It kind of reminds me of those virtual desktop programs that used to be popular. It will be interesting to see how stable it becomes.  Not a bad idea.