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351
Good point, MilesAhead.  In this particular case let's assume no problem terminating.  Nothing to save.  No disk writes to complete.

Just kill it.  After xx:xx time.

Researching out there, others have asked for such a program, and apparently none exists.

352
Here is the idea:

Defaults held in an .ini file.  All set and ready to go.  Desktop shortcut.

New Program will start any program, PGM, user wants (program executable location held in .ini file).

After a certain amount of time (xx:xx, held in .ini file) the New Program will terminate PGM, and exit completely leaving zero memory footprint.

The chief purpose of this New Program is at the termination end -- stopping PGM after a certain amount of time.  If there is already an existing way to accomplish this, please let me know.

Anyone interested??

Thanks much.

Nicholas Kormanik


353
Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sStockQuote
« Last post by nkormanik on May 28, 2013, 11:41 PM »
Thanks Skwire for this handy little program.

Will be interesting to follow what sort of "enhancement requests" it generates.

-- Probably the first would be "auto-update" -- one minute, five minute, etc.

-- Add in some additional available fields.  Open, high, low, close, volume.

-- Another really useful one -- and may not presently exist out there; for sure not free -- would be creation of a log file for some particular security.  With ability to bring the log file into Excel, etc.  One could easily then see the daily trend, or two days, or however much data the log file holds.

The above item would be particularly good for specific options prices, as that data tends to disappear and is not retrievable anywhere.

Nicholas Kormanik

354
SnapTimer is PERFECT, particularly knowing about the set-zero suggestion.  Couldn't ask for a better choice.

And Tranglos' Ethervane Stopwatch is a super good one, too.

Thanks to both of you!

Skwire... DONE!
355
Finished Programs / SOLVED: Absolutely Basic Count-up Timer (ABC Timer)
« Last post by nkormanik on May 06, 2013, 11:23 PM »
Maybe this already exists, or can be done with some batch file.  If so, let me know.

Shortcut on desktop.  Double-click.  Timer window comes up and starts counting up automatically.  In HH:MM:SS format.

No need even for a stop button.  Can simply be able to close the window/program.

Count-up window and digits should be large enough to be able to easily see.  Preferably allow user to select colors of digits and background, to suit their mood.

A zillion advanced timers out there in cyberland.  But not what I'd like as described above.

All help greatly appreciated.

Nicholas Kormanik

356
Skwire, magic indeed.  Works like a charm.

And guess what, ALL my Excel xls column headers/labels lined up perfectly in the output text file your program created, exactly the same in each line, all the way down to the last.  So I can now be certain that a vertical concatenation of all the files should be doable.

I thought of asking for the additional way of knowing which file might be in error, should one be, but didn't want to add to the request.  Very glad you anticipated the need and built it in.

Only change I'd make is to rename it.  YOU deserve all the credit, Skwire.

Thanks a million!

You can mark this really tasty snack as DONE.

357
Max number of columns would be 250.

That large number means it'll be lots of work without some magic.

358
Found basically the same question here:

http://stackoverflow...-a-single-excel-file

With the following vba (?) code solution:

Sub FirstRow()
    Application.DisplayAlerts = False
    Dim strFilename As String
    Dim strPath As String
    Dim wbMaster As Workbook
    Dim wsMaster As Worksheet
    Dim wbFiles As Workbook
    Dim i As Integer

    i = 1
    Set wbMaster = ThisWorkbook
    Set wsMaster = wbMaster.Sheets(2)
    strPath = "C:\path\to\your\files\"
    strFilename = Dir(strPath & "*.xls")

    Do While strFilename <> ""
        Set wbFiles = Workbooks.Open(strPath & strFilename, False)
        wbFiles.Sheets(1).Rows(RowIndex:=1).Copy
        wsMaster.Cells(RowIndex:=i, ColumnIndex:=1).PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteAll
        wbFiles.Close (False)
        strFilename = Dir
        i = i + 1
    Loop
    Application.DisplayAlerts = True
End Sub

"A couple of things to note:
- You'll want to change the Sheet(x) references to the appropriate values for your needs
- Ensure there is a "\" at the end of strPath when you put in your own path
- I've turned DisplayAlerts to false during the execution to avoid a pop-up on every file asking if you want to clear the clipboard or not."


Unfortunately I don't understand how to use his solution.  Wish he had have given an example, or explained it more extensively.

359
I need to vertically concatenate around 100 Excel files (xls) -- using a program called "Merge Excel Files."

That program assumes all files are structured the same, same column headers extending across in each file.

I must double-check that, though.

Assume 100 xls files in a single folder.  I'd like to find a way to copy the first row -- the column headers -- of every xls file over into, say, a text file.  Then in a text editor (with word wrap off) I can easily peruse down making sure all column headers are as they should be -- each column in the text file will have only one particular label.

One possible solution would be to use Skwire's ClipTrap.  Load each of the 100 xls files one at a time, highlight the first row, copy.  But this would take some time.

Hoping someone can come up with an easier way.

Thanks.

Nicholas Kormanik

360
I've used c.gingerich's created program -- SubCopy -- a couple of times now, and it makes the task a piece of cake.

The great thing about these threads is that anyone searching the Internet trying to find a similar solution will probably be directed here.  Makes life a lot easier.
361
You folks are amazing.  Another one DONE!

Thanks so much.
362
Sure I'm open to an AutoHotkey solution.  Anything to easily get the job done.  And that might be useful to others.  Who knows.

If, though, the best bet would be to simply write a long batch file, I'll stick with that.

Thanks.
363
Say we have a subdirectory -- c:\1 -- that contains 100 folders.  We have a file on our desktop -- file.txt -- that we want to go into every single one of those folders.

We could write a 100-line batch file to do this.

Is there an easier way?  A one-liner?

Thanks!



364
Let's mark it DONE.  Thanks guys.
365
Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: SendURL
« Last post by nkormanik on March 27, 2013, 02:55 AM »
So far it looks fantastic.  Really looking forward to seeing what you have in mind.

Thanks much!

366
Looks like a really useful thrust.  Extremely glad to have you, Skwire, and everyone else here available.  Thank you all.

367
Nice attempt Stephen66515.  Your program does offer something that's hard to do -- open multiple URLs at once, across multiple tabs.

However, the present task is to just use ONE tab, and open URLs one at a time into the single tab, as needed, and moving on to the next URL in line (perhaps a hundred URLs in all) with a key press or mouse click.

While not a GUI, Skwire does this in his script.

368
Skwire, adding the extra sleep step did the magic.  I can attest we have a working solution here now.

Maybe someone can make a stand-alone tool.  But at least we have a way that works.  Thanks much, Skwire.


369
Ath, are you asking ME?  I wouldn't change ANYTHING except what is suggested.

I'm kinda clueless regarding AutoHotkey.
370
Increased sleep to 5000, and still the same problem.

What generally happens is that the h gets chopped off at the beginning of URLs.

So only:  ttps://plus.google.com/104410043740081757281

And that, of course, doesn't go to the intended site.

371
Skwire's solution worked fine with the example URLs he provided.

Unfortunately not so with my case:

myURLs =
(
https://plus.google....04262594301276893821
https://plus.google....04283716002131797428
https://plus.google....04309222535259801633
https://plus.google....04392019611590500945
https://plus.google....04410043740081757281
https://plus.google....04429427297929885544
https://plus.google....04479772621336105362
https://plus.google....04541959256591361052
https://plus.google....04575325257916010047
https://plus.google....04608435688900811644
https://plus.google....04612126840644619266
)
etc...

The URL box entry gets broken up.  Could be do to a number of things, like the additional search box on the webpage, or possibly a conflicting add-in loaded?

So, mission not quite accomplished.  Thanks mouser for keeping the thread active.

Possible enhancement requests, though, Squire, in case there's an easy solution to the above:

-- Allow a reference to a separate file that holds the URLs.  Such as, "c:\look at sites\url list.txt"  Instead of forcing user to edit the .ahk script file.

-- Allow for a longer list of URLs.  I got error messages that I had too many (when attempting a much longer list than that shown above).

-- Perhaps allow user to choose which key to use to go forward, for instance the insert key (though a nice addition, I don't care so much about being able to go backward).

Thanks.

372
Unless anyone has anything else to add, mark as done.

Thanks again, Skwire.  You sure come through.

373
Many people have asked that Flem be ported to Chrome.  For some reason the authors of Flem decided not to.

Thanks, Skwire, for the AHK script!

374
There is an add-in that does roughly the same in Firefox, called Flem.  But at present I prefer using Chrome.

375
Say we have a list of 100 URLs, and want to load these one at a time in Chrome.  Not in different tabs, but in the same tab.  Suppose that only one tab is needed, and only one tab will then be open.

I'd like to manually move through these URLs, spending as much time as I want on the opened page, then clicking or pressing a button and moving on to the next page.

Preferably the pages already visited can be deleted from the list, at some point.

Preferably the list can be saved, and brought up again, so that progress can be continued with the remaining URLs.

Preferably one can have more than one such list.

Thanks for suggestions, or possibly a program.

Nicholas Kormanik

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