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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: change wallpaper at specific time - not timed intervals.

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2005, 11:45 AM »

well, this  was supposed be a snack but 6 hours later and not done..
i tell you, MS Windows MFC programming is pure evilness. i truly loathe it and im going to start doing bcb more for these little tools, even if it means the difference between an 80k program and an 800k program, MFC is just too F*CKED UP.

this tool will be done in a day or two.  i would really appreciate people collecting some image "sets"

the way the program works is you can have and switch between "sets" of images, which can be set to arbitrary times/dates.

so you could have a wallpaper set with a dif pic for each day of the year (ie pics for holidays,etc),
OR
you could have a wallpaper set with pics synchronized to each hour of the day,etc.
or combinations.

so be nice to have some different sets.
if there are people who live in country with nice landscape, maybe they could take a series of 24 pics for us, at hi res! at each hour of the day?

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Program Linker (sort of)

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2005, 11:41 AM »

by the way, i dont close any of these threads, i just mark them with thumbs down when i think its clear that the program is not codeable as a "snack".  people should still discuss existing programs and possible developments.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Program Linker (sort of)

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2005, 11:40 AM »

well, this is actually a program i would like to write one day if i get some time.. so i do look forward to your report on powerpro, and also like i said i know there is another freeware that does something like this, so keep looking.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Program Lock / Protector

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2005, 09:23 AM »

this is an interesting idea, and could be done by spying on windows and setting components to "disabled"..
but writing a full program to do this and locking unlocking, specifying windows to apply to, etc.
def. not snack material.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: icon - always on top - online/offline

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2005, 09:11 AM »

this should work on win95 i thought.

well at least win98.

anyone on win98 who can test this?

i will add disconnect.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: giant start menu

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2005, 07:43 AM »

i think your best solution might be a replacement launcher too..
anyone know of any that duplicate start menu contents but display it in a bigger fuller fashion?

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: HTTP to FTP downloader

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2005, 07:41 AM »

this sounds a bit involved for a snack.
one could use some components to make pretty quickly a program that downloaded a specific single file from a web site and then ftp'd it to an ftp account, when launched..  but im not sure if that would be useful.  maybe you could tell us a bit more about how you would want to use it, and more details..

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Coding for volume setting application -or- launch app on Fast User Switch

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2005, 07:39 AM »

db (see coder post) has written a first version of a tool to do this, but its a little buggy, so it may take just a little bit to get it working smoothly.  but he's made a very nice implementation that lets you set up an ini file of apps to run for each user when they are switched to.

frogblasts post was useful as that author seemed to encounter some of the same issues.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Program Linker (sort of)

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2005, 07:36 AM »

i really love how this section has become both a place to suggest new apps to code, but a place where people can discover existing apps they never knew existed.  much thanks to those who are helping out by suggesting existing tools - it helps both the requesters and coders alike.

cheers!

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: submit google searches

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2005, 07:33 AM »

some of this request thread got lost when i moved it..
it was a very strange request, but scott's idea was that he didn't like the possibility of google collecting information on him through his searches.. so he wanted to submit random searches in order to make it hard for them to invade his privacy.  that was the idea at least, as i understand it.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: change wallpaper at specific time - not timed intervals.

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2005, 07:28 AM »

ps. im still writing the wallpaper scheduled changer, just because i think it will be easier to use.

i hope some other people will be will make some themes for it
(a theme is just a series of images and a schedule for them).

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: change wallpaper at specific time - not timed intervals.

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2005, 07:25 AM »

powerpro looks very nice.
i think we're going to have to give frogblast an award soon for Superior Knowledge of Cool Freeware Tools.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: change wallpaper at specific time - not timed intervals.

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2005, 06:32 AM »

well i was about to post a link to some freeware wallpaper changers that can change wallpaper at specific intervals, until i realized this is not sufficient.  you really need to be able to tell it to change to a specific image at a specific time, regardless of when started etc.

i think this is worth coding.. im not sure ill get to it this weekend, but i'll comit to doing this, at least in some form.

i was thinking to have it parse a file that could specify what images to show and when.  for example:

[Select]

// First the settings (position can be: center, tile, stretch, max)
position=center

// Then the files (file= DATEMASK|TIMEASK|FILENAME, where:
//  DATEMASK is of the form DD/MM/YY-DD/MM/YY
//  TIMEASK is of the form HH
//  and * is allowed
//  and FILENAME is relative path
// if multiple times match due to wildcards, the earliest match will be used.
// if multiple files are specified separated by ; then one will be chosen randomly
// For example
//  */*/2005 - */*/2006 | *-* (the entire year of 2005)
//  */*/* - */*/* | 01-02 (1am to 2 am every day)
//
*/*/* - */*/* | 01-04 | image1.jpg
*/*/* - */*/* | 04-08 | image2.jpg
*/*/* - */*/* | 08-12 | image3.jpg
*/*/* - */*/* | 12-16 | image4.jpg
*/*/* - */*/* | 16-20 | image5.jpg
*/*/* - */*/* | 20-24 | image6.jpg

or

[Select]

12/25/* - 12/26/* | 01-24 | christmas.jpg
*/01/* - */10/* | 01-04 | image1.jpg
*/10/* - */20/* | 04-08 | image2.jpg
*/20/* - */32/* | 08-12 | image3.jpg

as for dragging wallpaper position and size.. i'll leave that for another more visual wallpaper tool.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: submit google searches

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2005, 05:26 AM »

sorry, this was one of the earliest requests, but it got lost in the move to new section..

i think chr was working on this a bit.. i have an alternate way to do it and i will implement this snack if chr decides not to finish his version..

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: change wallpaper at specific time - not timed intervals.

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2005, 05:22 AM »

i think this must exist, but if not it's definitely doable as a snack, and i'd be willing to do it, or someone else can.
can someone else find a sample series of nice hires images?

maybe what would be nice is if people who live outside could take a series of 24 hires pics and we could make some "sets" of images.

might be nice to have a screensaver that did similar, ie showed an image based on time of day..  not too hard, probably already exists..

i think both of these two apps probably exist.. we need to find them if so.. if not, they will be implemented this weekend as snacks.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Program Linker (sort of)

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2005, 05:18 AM »

i think this is a great idea, let me try to paraphrase what you want.
basically you want to be able to add a menu of commands to existing applications.

so that, to Opera, you could add commands x,y,z.

im pretty sure that sucha utility already exists.  there are lots of programs that add buttons to each window, and my memory is that there are programs that can add arbitrary menus.  it's not a 5 hour job, but it's something worth looking into i think..

anyone can find that program that already does this?

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Force Maximize and Right Click Run Line

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2005, 12:35 AM »

scott told me about this tool that adds some cool buttons to your windows, which will do the maximize thing plus more:
http://www.actualtools.com/

there are other freeware things that are similar too, but i cant rememebr names.  search snapfiles freeware maybe..

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: make the taskbar shift through a range of colors gradually

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2005, 12:25 AM »

well, i did encourage you guys to post useless program requests didn't i...
but let's aim for programs that wont be used to turn humans into robotic killing machines, as i'm afraid some of turtleboy's requests might..

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Useful desktop icon for USB flash drive

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2005, 12:17 AM »

im gonna mark this as not doable as a snack..

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Click 'n Change

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2005, 12:10 AM »

i'll bet there are some fun screensavers like this..

i'd really like to heard some fun ideas for screensavers, and better yet find another coder who has some experience with graphics to do some, since i have almost no experience with them.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: mix CD ripper

« Last post by mouser on May 01, 2005, 12:09 AM »

if nothing else there are some good mp3 joiners..

i'm gonna mark this request with a down arrow now to indicate that its not something that could be coded as a snack, but if anyone can point out some good free ripping tools that can do this, please do.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: a white noise generator that burns the noise to cd

« Last post by mouser on April 30, 2005, 11:22 PM »

http://www.relaxings.../soundmaskerhome.htm

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Coding for volume setting application -or- launch app on Fast User Switch

« Last post by mouser on April 30, 2005, 10:52 PM »

thats a clever workaround..

however db is experimenting with a more general tool to let you execute commands triggered by a switch, so stay tuned.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Smile :)

« Last post by mouser on April 30, 2005, 10:47 PM »

you reminded me of an idea i had sort of related to this that i think would be realllllllllly fun and cool..
but i can't do it in one day.  i will try to get it done in the next month or so.. stay tuned.

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: Let's get some really tiny useless funny app requests plz

« Last post by mouser on April 30, 2005, 10:27 PM »

hey, and don't be discouraged if your idea doesn't get much attention,

it's good when there are a lot of requests because coders will then have more to choose from in looking for one that catches their eye.
there's no shame in posting an idea that doesn't get implemented, don't get discouraged and keep posting your ideas.