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

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 12, 2006, 11:16 AM »

just been testing the new version out and it seems pretty perfect. i think now it's just a case of using it for a few days to see if any other suggestions spring to mind.

-nudone (April 12, 2006, 10:27 AM)

Good to know that! 

i can see that there will possibly always be something that works contrary to what you thought would happen but as 'dialogmove' can't be telepathic

-nudone (April 12, 2006, 10:27 AM)

Yes, it can't guess, but maybe V10 will

i wonder what you think to this 'mode' of operation - specified detectable windows set to always move should be ignored in the buffer?

-nudone (April 12, 2006, 10:27 AM)

Makes very much sense to me, that's actually a bug, i forgot that. Will fix in the next version.

i guess if there was a configuration box that the user could select various options from instead of editing the ini file would be good - i'm thinking more for people that will be scared away by the thought of editing an ini file.

-nudone (April 12, 2006, 10:27 AM)

It's on the ToDo list, i'm also not a fan of editing .ini files.

on a more personal note: if i add extra commands to the script - things like shortcut keys for me to move/minimise/restore/maximise a window - do you think this will be better than running a separate script at the same time. i guess the cpu cycles involved are that minimal between the two options it's a daft question???

-nudone (April 12, 2006, 10:27 AM)

Running a new script only for that would take you about 4mb of memory. No need for that, you can add the new hotkeys to the end of DialogMove.ahk!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: A shortcut/hotkey to switch between audio devices?

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 12, 2006, 07:05 AM »

Good point, wr975!
Now, I only need Moerl's audio devices' names!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MLB/Mouseless Browsing FF extension - MUST-HAVE for every keyboard user!

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 12, 2006, 06:49 AM »

But isn't typing a 2- or 3-digit number ~218% faster? At least?

-brotherS (April 12, 2006, 06:46 AM)

Point taken, you win.
But still, that can't make me leave my beloved opera 
Still, great mini-review!!!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request - alternative matching algorithym

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 12, 2006, 06:46 AM »

Oh sorry, I searched the forum, but found nothing in that direction ...

-taiotoshi (April 12, 2006, 06:42 AM)

Don't worry, it's normal you can't find anything, there is too much to search through

No. it's not only for those two progs.
I like this feature because it's creates shortcuts which are 'easyer to remember' like

MNS for 'Mobile Net Switch'
PM for 'Password Manager'
...

I wouldn't like to create an alias for each one ...

-taiotoshi (April 12, 2006, 06:42 AM)

I sure can understand you. Don't worry, mouser has informed us that FARR v2 (aka mercury runner) is on it's way
Now, let's all hold hands and hope it won't take long.

BTW.. Welcome to the DC community!

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MLB/Mouseless Browsing FF extension - MUST-HAVE for every keyboard user!

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 12, 2006, 06:40 AM »

@BrotherS: actually, in opera, i also use a similar thing to that. When i press comma ',' i can write the name of the link, and it gets selected.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request - alternative matching algorithym

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 12, 2006, 06:35 AM »

Yes, that's an important feature, already asked for a few times.
It's on mouser's ToDo list.
But still, it's always good to have people remembering it!

If you only have those 2 programs that anoy you, you could create an alias for each of them.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: A shortcut/hotkey to switch between audio devices?

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 12, 2006, 06:32 AM »

Or you could just create one AHK script that's writing some kind of indicator to an .ini file and every time the script is executed it changes the device to the one not being selected the last time.

-brotherS (April 12, 2006, 06:18 AM)

Yes, but that would force Moerl to switch the options only though this script, or it wouldn't do things right.

@Moer: to make a decent script, i need to know the name of the options in that box, and how many there are.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MLB/Mouseless Browsing FF extension - MUST-HAVE for every keyboard user!

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 12, 2006, 06:28 AM »

That looks very nice, a good way of browsing. I do something similar myself, with opera, but i have to cycle through all the links.

I'm only sad for one thing:

MLB (http://www.rudolf-no...ouselessBrowsing.htm) is a Firefox extension, I chose to install version 0.4.1 Beta.

-brotherS (April 12, 2006, 06:06 AM)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: A shortcut/hotkey to switch between audio devices?

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 12, 2006, 05:04 AM »

Common development.. Nice.

my 0,02$:

[Select]

Run, RunDll32.exe shell32.dll`,Control_RunDLL mmsys.cpl`,`,2
WinWait,ahk_class #32770
send, {alt down}d{alt up}m{enter}

This code should work a little better, since it waits for the window to appear.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: abbreviations importer

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 12, 2006, 03:59 AM »

1. Spaces allowed after phrases
Just wondering if it's possible to have spaces following the phrases in the textfil

-patteo (April 12, 2006, 01:07 AM)

I can see your point, i'll try to see what can be done.

2. Repeat shortcuts
Most of us probably remember shortcuts based on a system of nemonics, so invariably, they would end up with many repeats somewhere along the way. Allowing repeat makes the process of creating shortcuts easy because you can then do it intuitively.

-patteo (April 12, 2006, 01:07 AM)

I'm sorry but that goes a bit beyond my ahk cappacities. (although it'd be great.. anybody cares to adapt my code? )

3. Tooltip location, font and color
An option to choose where the tooltip appears would be useful, ie either next to the cursor or next to the mouse pointer.

-patteo (April 12, 2006, 01:07 AM)

At the beggining it had that option, but ahk doesn't recognize very well the position of the point of insertion of text, and sometimes, the tooltip would appear at a strange place. I'll add it back as an option.

4. Cancelling a shortcut
Right now, if I key a shortcut such as "ap" and realised that I made a mistake and want to cancel it, intuitively I press ESC, but that suspends the HotstringsScript.

Is there a Hotkey to somehow renable the HotstringsScript without having to Right Click the Icon in the system tray ?

-patteo (April 12, 2006, 01:07 AM)

This script works like that, it's supposed to be always suspended. When you type some shortcut, the tooltip labels (which are not suspended) go active and enable the rest of the hotstrings.
I don't think I understand veinry well what you mean.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: A shortcut/hotkey to switch between audio devices?

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 12, 2006, 03:52 AM »

Great work lanux!
This can be easily done, if the window is opened as "hidden". But i don't know how to see which item is selected in that combobox, so, you'd always have to tell the script which device to activate, every time you ran it, and you'd have to pre-configure it to tell it how many items the combobx has. Nevertheless, it can be done.
But i think skrommel knows how to get the names in the combobox, and will come up with a great solution

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you use RSS feeds?

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 12, 2006, 03:45 AM »

Maybe the second one will be better

-moerl (April 11, 2006, 10:03 PM)

It's unbelievable the amount of times that smilie gets misused. 

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: abbreviations importer

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 11, 2006, 04:49 PM »

Ok.. The new version is uploaded.
It now features:

• Version naming
• Space trigger problem solved
• Capitalization of only the first letter in the hotstring

.ahk file: http://jgpaiva.dcmem...ingScriptCreator.ahk
.exe file: http://jgpaiva.dcmem...ingScriptCreator.exe

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

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 11, 2006, 04:15 PM »

I was a little bit behind schedule, but at last got it done. At least apparently, it looks like it's working great!
It now has:

• About Box
• Tray Menu
• Tray Icon
• Executable Icon
• WinBorder, the border around each dialog box, that if the mouse is inside it, it doesn't move the box
• Window Buffer, a buffer that stores the windows that are active, in order not to move already existant windows

Both the border and the buffer use are options in the .ini file, where you can ser "winborder" to the border you'd like the window not to be detected, and UseBuffer to false if you don't like the idea of not having every window being moved.

.exe file: http://jgpaiva.dcmem...gMove/DialogMove.exe
.ahk file: http://jgpaiva.dcmem...gMove/DialogMove.ahk

(I'm sory I still don't have a webpage to put all this links, but i hope to have one soon.)

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Re: Entering SMIRF 8x8 + 10x8 Chess Program

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 11, 2006, 06:46 AM »

Now an always actual SMIRF download (1.7 MB) could be found at my page: http://www.chessbox.de/Compu/schachsmirf_e.html

-Smirf (April 11, 2006, 06:21 AM)

Nice, Smirf. But please edit your post on the beggining of the tread, to include that link instead of the attachments (only to avoid you having people reporting solved bugs )
Good to see entries in the contest! thanks 

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

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 11, 2006, 02:17 AM »

Just thought of something else.

If I didn't have my botton margin preference set to 60, so all windows don't jump below my two-row high Taskbar, the shrunk Help window would have "disappeared" under the taskbar.

Instead, when it shrunk to a 1-2" wide title bar, it jumped to just above the taskbar button.

-AndyM (April 10, 2006, 09:54 PM)

Yes, that's the behaviour i get now, too, since i added that margin.

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

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 11, 2006, 02:17 AM »

v 1.0.42.03

-AndyM (April 10, 2006, 09:51 PM)

That's similar to mine, so that can't be the problem.

repeatedly clicked on the helpfile's taskbar button and after a dozen or so cycles of minimize and restore, the help window shrunk to about an 1 1/2" titlebar.

-AndyM (April 10, 2006, 09:51 PM)

That looks like you also have the problem, but the prior versions were making it not appear, since when you specified DetectableWindows, it wouldn't detect any window other than the ones in that list. Still, it looks like for you, it takes more cycles for it to break. I need to make a big thing out of this in the ahk forum, i believe it should be a bug in the way AHK gets the window sizes.

I should say that otherwise, I don't use the .ini file.  I was getting mixed up when modifying and reloading the script (and don't want to use F9 and F10), so I vanished the last part of the code reading and writing the .ini file, and all references to it.  I'd rather have everything in one place.

-AndyM (April 10, 2006, 09:51 PM)

For not having the hotkeys, you could have set the "hotkey" variable to false

But the short time I used the .ini file, I didn't have shrinking windows, other than the Help file thing.

-AndyM (April 10, 2006, 09:51 PM)

That's most probably because you don't have any apps where this happens. I also only have 2 or 3 of them.

Even if I've moved the dialog box, and then gone on to something else, I'll still want the dialog box to jump if I give it focus by clicking on it's taskbar button.  Viola, it jumps to just above the button, right above my cursor.

-AndyM (April 10, 2006, 09:51 PM)

Ok, i understand your point. But don't worry, you'll still be able to use it like that.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: abbreviations importer

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 10, 2006, 07:25 PM »

Got the caps just right for words, but if you have a phrase, like "tpw" for "the patient was," and you want "The patient was," you get this: The Patient Was. 

-Harrie (April 10, 2006, 07:21 PM)

That's true, i made it like that because i understood you thought it should work like that. No problem, i'll fix it and post again

Yes I am using the space trigger

-Carol Haynes (April 10, 2006, 03:36 AM)

Well.. Since i'll be updating this script, i guess i'll fix that problem too

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

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 10, 2006, 07:07 PM »

I sure hope this feature can be toggled off if it's implemented.

-AndyM (April 10, 2006, 06:58 PM)

Don't worry, it sure will be toggable.

Windows I position I never want to jump to the cursor.  Windows I want to jump I'll always want to jump (I like the window jumping to just above the taskbar when I give them focus by clicking on a taskbar button).

-AndyM (April 10, 2006, 06:58 PM)

Sorry, i don't quite understand what you mean.

Btw, howcum I've never had the shrinking problem?  (not that I'm complaining)

-AndyM (April 10, 2006, 06:58 PM)

You know what? you might have the solution for the our problem!
Let's try to find out why you don't have the problem. Please tell me:

• what's the AHK version you have? (if you double-click the tray icon, it's at the window title)
• if you open the AHK help file and try minimizing and restoring it through the taskbar button (by clicking it repeatedly), doesn't the window eventually disappear? (please try this with a "clean instalation" of the script, IE, without having any .ini file at the directory. please use the latest uploaded version, since it's the only that creates a .ini without any NotDetectableWindows.)

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

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 10, 2006, 06:07 PM »

oh dear, i thought it was working quite well.

-nudone (April 10, 2006, 06:01 PM)

To fix the windows moving too much, i made them not move at all. It is right now, i changed a few stuff, but i still get the damn shrink windows effect. (although i got a step closer to understanding it today)

can i just also ask if you implemented the 'not move the window if it's already close to the cursor' feature. the dialogs that do jump seem to jump even when the cursor is very close to them - even if the cursor is within a few pixels of the dialog's edge.

-nudone (April 10, 2006, 06:01 PM)

Oh, i had forgotten that one. Right now, it doesn't move the box if the cursor is already over the box. But that feature makes soo much sense. I'll try adding it tomorow, when i should be adding the buffer feature too.

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

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 10, 2006, 05:40 PM »

I take your point, i've been anoyed by that problem too.
The buffer idea might solve it, I'll try implementing it. Shouldn't be much of a problem doing it, i'm only afraid it'll take more time.
I'll try, and we'll see!

You're right, there was an error in the code, and every window was being moved. It's fixed now.
I also added the hotkey to add the window to the detectable windows. F10 is now associated with that function.

.exe file: http://jgpaiva.dcmem...gMove/DialogMove.exe
.ahk file: http://jgpaiva.dcmem...gMove/DialogMove.ahk

I just found a huge bug. I'm trying to fix it, but it might take some time. I'll post again when fixed.
[edit]ok, it looks like it's fixed. Please get the latest version. Be sure you don't have V1.3.x, since that one's VERY buggy[/edit]

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

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 10, 2006, 04:34 PM »

I still didn't add it the "good looks", but i already have a screenshot for it, and changed 3 things:

• It now always moves windows if they're in the "DetectableWindows" list,
• Even if there is something in the "DetectableWindows", it still moves windows smaller than the given size (i need your opinion on this)
• Added a version number at the beggining of the source code.

.exe file: http://jgpaiva.dcmem...gMove/DialogMove.exe
.ahk file: http://jgpaiva.dcmem...gMove/DialogMove.ahk

PS: please notice that the dowload link changed. (I'll edit all my posts on this thread now)

[edit] should i add a hotkey for adding a window to the DetectableWindows list? [/edit]

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Official Announcements / Re: Be Part of the First DonationCoder.com Team Podcast Radio Show Contest!

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 10, 2006, 03:06 PM »

is it okay if i talk about how good 'dialogmove' is that jgpaiva has finally managed to put together from my request. i could probably talk all day about it and how it will one day revolutionise the face of home computing. am i joking - we'll see...

-nudone (April 10, 2006, 02:56 PM)

Man.. You can't imagine how good i feel to know you like that script sooo much. Thanks! 

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Official Announcements / Re: Be Part of the First DonationCoder.com Team Podcast Radio Show Contest!

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 10, 2006, 02:27 PM »

do a fictional play about cody

-mouser (April 10, 2006, 12:51 PM)

AhAhAh! there's a fun idea! I'd love to see such play! (maybe cody's evil brother could be in it? )

Great idea, mouser, let's see how it goes

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

« Last post by jgpaiva on April 10, 2006, 12:00 PM »

That's true, Andy. I think what you required can be done and makes sense, I'll try to do it.

if you think of further improvements it would be great to hear of them. the only things i can think of are cosmetic so aren't really worth mentioning.

-nudone (April 10, 2006, 11:39 AM)

Yes, that's a good point, i need to add an about box and a version number, now that it's got to a fully working version. (almost )