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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Tray icon stacking

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 18, 2012, 03:47 PM »

And if you want to have Windows 7 style taskbar with buttons as icons, use this free program: http://lee-soft.com/viglance/

-sri (October 03, 2009, 03:54 AM)

I know it's an old topic. But I just saw a video of this. Looks cool. Has it been pretty stable for you? I'm tempted to try it.

edit: looking on the forum it seems like most of the features don't work in Vista 64. Guess I won't fix it since it ain't broken.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Readyboost for me ?

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 18, 2012, 11:32 AM »

(never mind - please delete)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why I switched from Thunderbird to The Bat!

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 18, 2012, 11:11 AM »

So why the tense of "I resisted"?

-Tuxman (October 18, 2012, 11:04 AM)

Is there going to be a Rorschach test next? I hope not. I'm a coffee short of tackling one of those. I'd rather have a shaman toss chicken bones. At least there's a possibility I'd get to eat the chicken first.  Like KFC or something.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why I switched from Thunderbird to The Bat!

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 18, 2012, 11:03 AM »

Shoveling against the tide is important. I, for one, prefer "view as plain text" settings, so annoying spam does not look annoying at least.

Seriously, what is the advantage of using HTML Mails? Many people can't read them properly and HTML formatting adds no real value to mails.

-Tuxman (October 18, 2012, 10:45 AM)

You're preaching to the choir. Why not find some proponent of html to argue with? Two people agreeing the argument never ends.

I've just accepted that it's part of the landscape. It's not going to reverse course because I don't like it. If that happened I'd be against paying for stuff.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why I switched from Thunderbird to The Bat!

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 18, 2012, 10:40 AM »

Why don't you anymore?
There should be death penalty on HTML mails IMO. Annoying.

-Tuxman (October 18, 2012, 10:23 AM)

Because shoveling against the tide is futile.  Like using text based web crawlers. It's more fun with graphics. My first dial-up internet was terminal mode. I saved a few bucks. Plus back then ppp was a pita to set up.  They didn't have click a browser install and bingo it comes up working. You had to put in the IP numbers network mask and mumbo jumbo.  Anyway, I don't remember the name of the thing, but this dude came out with a ppp simulator. You had to get the Sysadmin of your ISP to let you run it on your account on his system. Then you ran a client on your PC.  Using a terminal based account you could then use graphical browsers like Mosaic, Netscape etc..

Once I browsed the web with graphics, forget that terminal account.  Went to another provider with ppp a bit cheaper.

I liked that Pegasus had the email server polling tray app thing built in. But it was just to quirky. I spent too much time reading the documentation instead of just using it.

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: In Windows Explorer, Select Files By File Extension

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 18, 2012, 10:29 AM »

Also FreeCommander has a Filter edit line under each pane.  Say you have a mixed bunch of files in the folder and only want to rename the srt subtitle files.  Type *.srt in the filter.  Press Control-a to select them all, then F2 to get the built in renamer tool.

edit: to copy them to the opposite pane, press F5 or you can drag with the mouse. When dragging you can copy/move to tab etc..

Latest stable 32 bit version may be downloaded here

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why I switched from Thunderbird to The Bat!

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 18, 2012, 10:21 AM »

Heh. I went the other way.  From Pegasus to Thunderbird. For a long time I resisted html in email. But then again I used a text mode web browser before switching to Mosaic. Guess I'm stodgy.  

I should have known that people will use graphics and don't care if that's "standard" behavior.

It took me a while to remember the name, but back in the early 90s Eudora was the easy to use Gui email client. Thing is I didn't want to pay for it. So after I got tired of using hobbled versions I found Pegasus.

After briefly flirting with TB 14 I reverted back to 2.0.0.24. Seems to work smoother to me. I don't really need multiple tabs in my email client.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Insta-switch file dialog to any Explorer window's path (code included)

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 17, 2012, 07:57 PM »

IMHO, Class #32770 is the only "real" one.

-Winkie (April 09, 2010, 05:54 PM)

Trouble is MS uses that for just about every dialog. For example, if my MD5Hash program is open, it's window class is #32770 since it's a dialog based utility.

-MilesAhead (October 17, 2012, 07:49 PM)

But MilesAhead i can't follow you. It's technical for me.
Can I use or not the above code ?

 

-Contro (October 17, 2012, 07:52 PM)

I haven't looked through the code. You can try it as well as I can.

What the #32770 means is that nearly any time you create a program that uses a dialog box as the main window, it has class name #32770.  That's just how Windows does it. That makes it difficult to distinguish one dialog from another. It could be a File Open dialog, or it could be just any program that's a dialog window.

It would probably be a better idea to make the user click on the dialog he wants to paste the folder path in. Even then it's likely to be funky. The Shell namespace crap makes it messy.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Insta-switch file dialog to any Explorer window's path (code included)

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 17, 2012, 07:49 PM »

IMHO, Class #32770 is the only "real" one.

-Winkie (April 09, 2010, 05:54 PM)

Trouble is MS uses that for just about every dialog. For example, if my MD5Hash program is open, it's window class is #32770 since it's a dialog based utility.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Insta-switch file dialog to any Explorer window's path (code included)

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 17, 2012, 07:45 PM »

Here's a small contribution. If the active window is an Explorer window, these functions will get the path without reading the edit control or requiring Show Full Path in Title Bar. However, I don't think they work with Shell namespaces like libraries. I got these from AHK forum. I use AHK_L 32 bit Unicode for compiling.

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; use #IfWinActive ahk_group ExplorerGroup
; to make sure the active window is an
; Explorer window before calling this function
;
ActiveFolderPath()
{
   return PathCreateFromURL( ExplorerPath(WinExist("A")) )
}

; slightly modified version of function by jethrow
; on AHK forums.
;
ExplorerPath(_hwnd)
{
   for Item in ComObjCreate("Shell.Application").Windows
      if (Item.hwnd = _hwnd)
         return, Item.LocationURL
}

; function by SKAN on AHK forums
;
PathCreateFromURL( URL )
{
 VarSetCapacity( fPath, Sz := 2084, 0 )
 DllCall( "shlwapi\PathCreateFromUrl" ( A_IsUnicode ? "W" : "A" )
         , Str,URL, Str,fPath, UIntP,Sz, UInt,0 )
 return fPath
}

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General Software Discussion / Re: Shift Kicker 1.1.1.7

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 17, 2012, 12:13 PM »

Shift Kicker 1.1.1.7 Added code to avoid writing a "BOM only" ini file when running under Wow64 on a 64 bit OS.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: MakeMKV beta 1.7.8

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 17, 2012, 11:47 AM »

It seems FFMpeg is used for audio conversion such as flac pcm or wav output. Looks like this release of MakeMKV doesn't get into video compression.  Also 1.7.8 includes 32 and 64 bit versions of FFMpeg. Sorry I gave the wrong info.  I just surmised by looking at the settings dialog(always dangerous.)  

For video compression it looks like BDRB or some other is still required.

It does have profiles for controlling things such as audio output, stuff to do with subtitles like forced,default etc..  setting an audio track as default yadda yadda.

There's a subforum on the MakeMKV forum for advanced usage.  What profile settings are available and how to use etc..

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: MakeMKV beta 1.7.8

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 16, 2012, 11:11 PM »

Thank you for your sharing

-fj207917 (October 16, 2012, 10:02 PM)

You're welcome. I bought MakeMKV Feb. 2010. Glad I'm getting my money's worth.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: MakeMKV beta 1.7.8

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 16, 2012, 11:09 PM »

Looks like it needs a Corel dll for DTS processing. Oh well. I'm not so enhused for long encoding jobs anymore anyway. I usually take the easy way out with an app that processes the audio and just remuxes.

Let me know how it seems if you try the compression.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReRun 2.4.2.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 16, 2012, 03:34 PM »

ReRun 2.4.2.0 Added code to prevent blank button display in PopUp Window. Any blank space should be at the "end" (which depends on left handed setting) rather than blank button outlines. Say you run a program, then delete the exe file after killing ReRun. When the data file was saved the exe file existed. But on next start the file is not there. When opening the PopUp Window a separate index is now used for the button to decouple it from the array of programs.  The blank space should fill in eventually. This way the empty part of the window, if it exists, is on one end rather than blank buttons sprinkled around the Gui.

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Found Deals and Discounts / MakeMKV beta 1.7.8

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 15, 2012, 10:13 PM »

MakeMKV beta 1.7.8 What makes this release different is that it has a means to encode the .mkv using ffmpeg.  In Preferences General Tab if you enable Expert Mode, then an Advanced Tab appears. You may select WDTV profile.  Seems it requires you to set the path to ffmpeg on your system.

Change log

I haven't tried the WDTV profile mechanism yet.

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General Software Discussion / Re: use google bookmark sync in firefox?

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 15, 2012, 03:31 PM »

Never mind. After farting around with sync in chromium I've determined the only sane way is just to copy the user data folder from one machine to the other. Otherwise every time you sign out, then sign in, it changes syncing only bookmarks to syncing everything. Any bookmarks you delete reappear.  Whoever wrote this must have brain damage.

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General Software Discussion / use google bookmark sync in firefox?

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 15, 2012, 12:50 PM »

I'm using Sign in to chrome to sync my bookmarks across my 2 chromium browsers. I'm using SyncPlaces to do the same across my 2 Firefox browsers.  In the past I migrated bookmarks from Chromium to Firefox using Xmarks. But that always involved a half hour of fixing the scrambles, lost favicons and dupes.

In an effort to get away from Xmarks I'm looking for an alternative to manually adding a FF bookmark every time I add something to chromium.  Chromium is primary. I use FF about 1/4 as much. Since I'm only using the chrome sync to sync bookmarks I was hoping there was a way to tap into it with FF.

I tried GMarks addon.  Maybe there was something I missed. But I set it up and hit Refresh. I got an empty Dialog with a splitter.  It's not clear if it goes to google account or what.  Man this is a real time waster!! There's got to be a solution.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReRun 2.4.1.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 15, 2012, 10:32 AM »

ReRun 2.4.1.0 Excluded RocketDock.exe and FindAndRunRobot.exe as they are launchers and not likely to be closed and reopened by the user.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReRun 2.4.0.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 14, 2012, 02:11 PM »

Very good.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReRun 2.4.0.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 14, 2012, 11:44 AM »

ReRun 2.4.0.0 Added code to get the program path and icon of a 64 bit process when running on a Windows 64 bit OS.  I haven't looked into getting the command line args yet. It may not be worth the performance hit as most of the time the target app will be launched without args.

But at least now it works reasonably well under Wow64.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Path too long utilities supere barrier

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 13, 2012, 09:01 AM »

Looks like programs that call CreateFileW and use the prefix can create paths up to 32767. That's probably where things get sticky. Nice long temp file name in a deep folder, and Explorer chokes right away.

CreateFile API

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Living Room / Re: Do Not Track

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 12, 2012, 06:33 PM »

  When they first started this DNT BS I knew it wasn't going to work.  How did I know you ask?  Well let me tell you, you can't have the fox guard the henhouse, and that's exactly what was going on.  They "expected" the marketers/trackers to see your DNT request and abide by it.  Yeah, like that's going to happen......

-Tinman57 (October 12, 2012, 06:22 PM)

Just like the Do Not Call phone list.  Ah, here's my phone number. But whatever you do, don't call it! There's some logical fallacy there.

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Living Room / Re: Do Not Track

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 12, 2012, 03:18 PM »

Hmmm, this reminds me. I need to get one of those badge shaped signs to stick on my front lawn.  It says "I don't really have an alarm system. Don't rob me! It will make me mad!!"

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General Software Discussion / Re: Path too long utilities supere barrier

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 12, 2012, 03:10 PM »

MilesAhead, you really ought to polish up your TPLD mod and get mouser to set up a dedicated page to it and fight those spambags

-f0dder (October 12, 2012, 02:07 PM)

Heh heh. Now I feel guilty taking the credit.  The original author on sourceforge did all the work. I just added "\?\" prefix onto the FindFirstFile call.  Windows does have its quirks. I just realized many of my 32 bit unicode programs will write an ini file consisting of only a BOM when run under Wow64 due to quirks in WritePrivateProfileString. Now I'm engaging in the silly exercise of creating a dummy text file, then moving it to the ini file since .txt files seem to be created in ANSI mode.  Win 3.1 is still not dead!