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General Software Discussion / Re: Shortcut Creator

« Last post by skwire on June 03, 2010, 09:22 AM »

Skwire created an AutoHotkey script that I run in FARR when I want to create a desktop shortcut to avoid right click.

-jdd (June 02, 2010, 06:43 PM)

Doh, I forgot I wrote that.   Apologies for not mentioning it sooner.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Per application keyboard remapper?

« Last post by skwire on June 03, 2010, 05:06 AM »

Did you try SendPlay, by chance?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Per application keyboard remapper?

« Last post by skwire on June 03, 2010, 04:43 AM »

Try this:

è::[
+::]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Per application keyboard remapper?

« Last post by skwire on June 03, 2010, 03:40 AM »

If you can't find a dedicated application to do this, it is extremely easy to do using AutoHotkey and the #IfWinActive directive.

http://www.autohotke...nds/_IfWinActive.htm

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. SetTitleModeMatch, 2
2. #IfWinActive, Notepad
3. {
4.     ; Define Notepad-specifc hotkeys here.
5. }
6. #IfWinActive
7.  
8. #IfWinActive, FireFox
9. {
10.     ; Define Firefox-specifc hotkeys here.
11. }
12. #IfWinActive
13. ; etc, etc...

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Autohotkey added to geshi syntax highlighting feature on forum

« Last post by skwire on June 03, 2010, 12:15 AM »

Agreed, that's a helluva lot better.  Thanks, ewemoa & mouser.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)

« Last post by skwire on June 02, 2010, 10:27 AM »

whenever i mute a track to do something (e.g. answer a phone call) the next track will not stay muted. it will revert to normal volume, is this normal? btw, i'm using version 1.0.4 build 28.

-lanux128 (June 02, 2010, 09:32 AM)

Uhhh...that'd be a bug.  =]  I'll fix it in the next push.  Thanks for finding and reporting it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Clipboard Manager with this feature

« Last post by skwire on June 02, 2010, 07:03 AM »

I downloaded and installed it to check for you.  If you choose 'Tools, Quick Options, Import: Automatically import clipboard changes' does that give you the functionality that you want?  If not, my own ClipTrap program might be of use to you.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Clipboard Manager with this feature

« Last post by skwire on June 02, 2010, 06:54 AM »

Doesn't UltraRecall have some sort of "automatic clipboard capture" mode that you can turn on?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Autohotkey added to geshi syntax highlighting feature on forum

« Last post by skwire on June 01, 2010, 09:48 PM »

Is there any way we can adjust the colours used for that AHK highlighter?  I much prefer the colours used for the AutoIt highlighter.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Autohotkey added to geshi syntax highlighting feature on forum

« Last post by skwire on June 01, 2010, 07:30 PM »

Nice.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Libre.fm support request

« Last post by skwire on June 01, 2010, 07:42 AM »

Do you want this in addition to, or instead of last.fm scrobbling?

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)

« Last post by skwire on May 31, 2010, 02:45 PM »

Simply highlight the tracks in question (or all of them) and choose Edit, Selection, Rescan tags.   

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Simple MD5 comparison utility

« Last post by skwire on May 30, 2010, 08:12 AM »

Nicely done.   

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)

« Last post by skwire on May 29, 2010, 06:58 AM »

Can I change the size of play, stop, etc. buttons?

-panzer (May 13, 2010, 03:21 AM)

No...

in 'Random' play mode, is it possible to go back to the previous track via the "previous" button? it doesn't do that on my PC..

-lanux128 (May 29, 2010, 02:49 AM)

...and no.  Pessimistic start to the day, huh?

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Scan music collection for missing covers/artwork

« Last post by skwire on May 28, 2010, 11:12 AM »

Website | Download
v1.1.1 - 2010-05-28
    + Added coloured icons to the listview that correspond to the image's resolution.
      (Thanks, worstje)
        Green       - 500x500 or greater and square
        Green/Blue  - 500x500 or greater and NOT square
        Yellow      - 400x400 or greater, but less than 500x500, and square
        Yellow/Blue - 400x400 or greater, but less than 500x500, and NOT square
        Orange      - 300x300 or greater, but less than 400x400, and square
        Orange/Blue - 300x300 or greater, but less than 400x400, and NOT square
        Red         - 299x299 or less and square
        Red/Blue    - 299x299 or less and NOT square   
    + Added a "fudge factor" setting that allows for non-perfectly square images to be
      considered square e.g. 500x496.

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Finished Programs / Re: Space + click on file reveals "Open With" list of programs

« Last post by skwire on May 25, 2010, 05:11 AM »

yes, that's it - Button1 works fine.
what a nice script. credits on their way...

-nudone (May 25, 2010, 04:48 AM)

Ah, great.  Nice to know that Microsoft didn't change up things completely.  Thanks for the credits.

well, I wasnt sure how that was meant to be used but I set it up as a button in Dopus
"F:\Portable\ ...\OpenWiff.exe" {filepath}

-tomos (May 25, 2010, 04:52 AM)

That's exactly how it's supposed to be used.  =]

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Finished Programs / Re: Space + click on file reveals "Open With" list of programs

« Last post by skwire on May 25, 2010, 04:24 AM »

Thanks, daddydave.  nudone, try changing the instances of 'Button2' in my example to 'Button' or 'Button1'.  Man, I really need to get some type of Windows 7 to test with in a VM.

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Finished Programs / Re: Space + click on file reveals "Open With" list of programs

« Last post by skwire on May 25, 2010, 04:15 AM »

I had thought of mentioning FARR but didnt as the focus here (mine included) was on File managers.
In FARR you would have to search for the file presumably?
or could it recognise what file is selected in File Manager and work from there - that's asking a lot though I suspect

-tomos (May 25, 2010, 03:55 AM)

I was thinking about using FARR's built-in copy-to-clipboard hotkey function.  Then again, I've never written a FARR plugin so it would definitely take some doing.

Love the name btw  ;-)

-tomos (May 25, 2010, 03:55 AM)

Hahaha...thanks.  I'm absolute crap at actually naming programs so I took a cue from an old friend whose name is Keith Smith.  He usually does his email/username as keef.smiff.   

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Finished Programs / Re: Space + click on file reveals "Open With" list of programs

« Last post by skwire on May 25, 2010, 04:10 AM »

thanks for that, skwire. unfortunately it doesn't appear to work.

-nudone (May 25, 2010, 04:02 AM)

Could be a Windows 7 thing since it appears to work here.  It could also be that the checkbox under Windows 7 is a different ClassNN than under Windows XP.  It's "Button2" under XP.  Are you able to tell me what it is under Windows 7?  You can use the WindowSpy utility included with a standard AHK install.

would it be simpler to just send alt+a to the dialog?

-nudone (May 25, 2010, 04:02 AM)

No, because that would toggle it instead of explicitly setting it to an unchecked state.

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Finished Programs / Re: Space + click on file reveals "Open With" list of programs

« Last post by skwire on May 25, 2010, 03:35 AM »

if you could add the feature so that "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" is automatically deselected when the dialog appears - then i'd say that will be near perfection.

-nudone (May 25, 2010, 03:12 AM)

I don't know of any way to do that programatically.  That being said, you could write in some more code into your hotkey that waits for the window, checks the state of that box, and sets it accordingly.  Something like this:

Code: AutoIt [Select]

1. F1::
2. {
3.     ClipSave := ClipboardAll ; Save the entire clipboard.
4.     Clipboard := ""          ; Null out clipboard.
5.     SendInput, ^c            ; Copy to clipboard (assumed to be a filepath).
6.  
7.     ; Small amount of error-handling.
8.     ClipWait, 2            
9.     If ( Errorlevel != 0 )
10.     {
11.         MsgBox, Clipboard timed out.
12.         Return
13.     }
14.  
15.     ; Call the 'Open With' dialog and pass in copied path from above.
16.     Run, C:\tmp\OpenWiff.exe "%Clipboard%"
17.    
18.     ; Determine the state of the "Always use the selected program to open
19.     ; this kind of file" checkbox and uncheck it if it's checked.
20.     WinWaitActive, Open With
21.     ControlGet, myState, Checked, , Button2, Open With
22.     If ( myState = 1 )
23.     {
24.         Control, Uncheck, , Button2, Open With
25.     }
26.    
27.     ; Restore the original clipboard and free memory.
28.     Clipboard := ClipSave
29.     ClipSave  := ""
30. }
31. Return

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Developer's Corner / Re: Double quoted command line arguments

« Last post by skwire on May 25, 2010, 02:05 AM »

Agreed.  I've only ever seen straight-up ".

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Finished Programs / Re: Space + click on file reveals "Open With" list of programs

« Last post by skwire on May 25, 2010, 02:02 AM »

Here you go, OpenWiff (source/binary included): http://skwire.dcmemb.../snacks/OpenWiff.zip

For a sample hotkey in AHK, you could use something like this:

Code: AutoIt [Select]

1. F1::
2. {
3.     ClipSave := ClipboardAll ; Save the entire clipboard.
4.     Clipboard := ""          ; Null out clipboard.
5.     SendInput, ^c            ; Copy to clipboard (assumed to be a filepath).
6.  
7.     ; Small amount of error-handling.
8.     ClipWait, 2            
9.     If ( Errorlevel != 0 )
10.     {
11.         MsgBox, Clipboard timed out.
12.     }
13.  
14.     ; Call the 'Open With' dialog and pass in copied path from above.
15.     Run, C:\tmp\OpenWiff.exe "%Clipboard%"
16.  
17.     Clipboard := ClipSave ; Restore the original clipboard.
18.     ClipSave  := ""       ; Free memory.
19. }
20. Return

Regarding anything custom, I'm wondering if it might be well-suited as a FARR plugin.  Do you use FARR?

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Finished Programs / Re: Space + click on file reveals "Open With" list of programs

« Last post by skwire on May 24, 2010, 10:49 PM »

Making the default 'Open With' dialog callable as an executable is a piece of cake.  Honestly, it's one line of code.  I can't modify that 'Open With' dialog so all the custom stuff you want would entail writing something completely from scratch.

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Finished Programs / Re: Space + click on file reveals "Open With" list of programs

« Last post by skwire on May 24, 2010, 04:44 PM »

I'm a bit lost there - I suppose it could probably be done fairly easily with dopus - but if someone is using Explorer?

I dont see having it running all the time a problem.
- When you say "there is no one good way to get a filename/path so that's why I like to leave it up to the user (and their computer)" do you suspect it wont work for a lot of people; and / or that it would mean it very awkward to code ?

-tomos (May 24, 2010, 03:30 PM)

Well, that's the thing.  People use all sorts of file managers so about the only way to make this universal would be to use the clipboard.  However, some people don't like applications that screw with the clipboard so that's why I wanted to leave this open-ended and let the user handle getting the filepath to the executable.  The actual code to bring up the Open With dialog is easy:

rundll32.exe shell32.dll, OpenAs_RunDLL <filepath>

If I leave it up to the user, they can use the application is any number of applications or scripts.  If I tie it down to one specific way of getting the filepath, its usability is lessened.  Make sense?

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Finished Programs / Re: Space + click on file reveals "Open With" list of programs

« Last post by skwire on May 24, 2010, 03:08 PM »

This is easily done.  However, some thoughts as to how to implement it:

1) As an executable that you can pass a filename to.  The user will have to determine how to get and pass the filename.
2) As a slightly more complete application that includes a hotkey and path-getting capabilities.  For this, though, the utility will need to stay running.  Also, there is no one good way to get a filename/path so that's why I like to leave it up to the user (and their computer).

Your thoughts?