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Post New Requests Here / Re: Need ADH Advice

« Last post by skwire on May 07, 2010, 12:29 AM »

That's a disappointment.  So there is no solution consistent with my preferences?

-Kruskal (May 07, 2010, 12:13 AM)

I could make it display a small GUI window instead of using a tooltip.  This way, you could move it out of the way, leave it open as long as necessary, and close it when you're done.  Your thoughts?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Need ADH Advice

« Last post by skwire on May 06, 2010, 11:59 PM »

I'm not at my main computer right now, but I'm pretty sure that you are wrong. The little window showing the window owning program stays displayed after the program exits (as I recall).

-Kruskal (May 06, 2010, 11:43 PM)

It stayed showing because you had a second hotkey (#q::) defined in the script which made the script never exit/end.

I could live with the timeout, but I really don't prefer it. I frequently have to do a lot of stuff based on the information and I'd have to write it down.

-Kruskal (May 06, 2010, 11:43 PM)

How about displaying it while simultaneous copying the data to your clipboard?

What happened to the INI solution? I was looking forward to details.

-Kruskal (May 06, 2010, 11:43 PM)

The fact is, without some sort of delay, that type of script will start, run the code, and exit in the blink of an eye.  When it exits, it destroys any tooltip created.  

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Need ADH Advice

« Last post by skwire on May 06, 2010, 11:36 PM »

Actually...if you change it into an executable, the tooltip will disappear almost immediately after starting the script because the script exits immediately.  This app could be made to show the tooltip, say, for five seconds and then exit thus making the tooltip disappear on its own.  In other words:

1) Run you hotkey to start the app.
2) App displays tooltip for user-specified length of time.
3) App exits and tooltip disappears.  There would be no need to run the hotkey a second time to make the tooltip disappear.

Would that work for you?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Need ADH Advice

« Last post by skwire on May 06, 2010, 11:24 PM »

I expected that using PowerPro to support the hotkey to call the simple program would behave the same as it had with the AHK hotkey.

-Kruskal (May 06, 2010, 11:21 PM)

What you want can easily be done with a simple INI settings file to save the toggle setting between application runs.  Give me a minute.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: run programs first of the month

« Last post by skwire on May 06, 2010, 10:35 PM »

For something like this to work and, since you've already stated you don't want to use the built in Task Scheduler, it would have to stay running in the background.  Is that acceptable?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Need ADH Advice

« Last post by skwire on May 06, 2010, 10:26 PM »

I tried to modify it to be a simple program

-Kruskal (May 06, 2010, 08:09 PM)

What was your expectation after doing this?

How did the original work wrt making the little window disappear everyother use?

-Kruskal (May 06, 2010, 09:41 PM)

It uses the "ToolTipFlag" variable as a toggle to determine whether to display the display the tooltip or cause it to disappear.

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Finished Programs / Re: autohotkey makes cursor slide - i want mouse movement to halt the slide

« Last post by skwire on May 06, 2010, 05:54 AM »

Adjust the FudgeFactor variable to your liking:

Code: AutoIt [Select]

1. Hotkey, #k,     MoveUp
2. Hotkey, ^!+k,   MoveUp          ; * to work with programmable mouse buttons (if winkey not accepted)
3. Hotkey, ^!+j,   MoveDown
4. Hotkey, #j,     MoveDown        ; *
5. Hotkey, #+j,    MoveLeft
6. Hotkey, ^!+h,   MoveLeft        ; *
7. Hotkey, #+k,    MoveRight
8. Hotkey, ^!+l,   MoveRight       ; *    
9. horizontalspeed=0                       ; 0 = fastest, 100 = slowest
10. verticalspeed=0
11. speedmultiplier=30                      ; cursor movement needs speeding up a bit
12. rightscreenwidth=1920           ; width of monitor
13. screenheight=1200                       ; height of monitor
14. FudgeFactor=50
15. return
16.  
17. MoveUp:
18. MouseGetPos, xpos, ypos
19. loop
20. {
21.     MouseGetPos, xpos_,
22.     If ( xpos_ < ( xpos - FudgeFactor ) OR ( xpos_ > ( xpos + FudgeFactor ) ) )
23.                 Break
24.         ypos -= speedmultiplier
25.         MouseMove, xpos, ypos, verticalspeed
26.     if ypos = 0
27.                 Break
28. }
29. return
30.  
31. MoveDown:
32. MouseGetPos, xpos, ypos
33. loop
34. {
35.     MouseGetPos, xpos_,
36.     If ( xpos_ < ( xpos - FudgeFactor ) OR ( xpos_ > ( xpos + FudgeFactor ) ) )
37.                 Break
38.         ypos += speedmultiplier
39.         MouseMove, xpos, ypos, verticalspeed
40.     if ypos = %screenheight%
41.                 Break
42. }
43. return
44.  
45. MoveLeft:
46. MouseGetPos, xpos, ypos
47. loop
48. {
49.     MouseGetPos, , ypos_
50.     If ( ypos_ < ( ypos - FudgeFactor ) OR ( ypos_ > ( ypos + FudgeFactor ) ) )
51.                 Break
52.         xpos -= speedmultiplier
53.         MouseMove, xpos, ypos, horizontalspeed
54.     if xpos = 0
55.                 Break
56. }
57. return
58.  
59. MoveRight:
60. MouseGetPos, xpos, ypos
61. loop
62. {
63.     MouseGetPos, , ypos_
64.     If ( ypos_ < ( ypos - FudgeFactor ) OR ( ypos_ > ( ypos + FudgeFactor ) ) )
65.                 Break
66.         xpos += speedmultiplier
67.         MouseMove, xpos, ypos, horizontalspeed
68.     if xpos = %rightscreenwidth%
69.                 Break
70. }
71. return

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General Software Discussion / Re: Clipboard Managing-Which one?

« Last post by skwire on May 06, 2010, 04:53 AM »

I've used ArsClip for years.  http://www.joejoesoft.com/cms/showpage.php?cid=97

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Living Room / Re: could two numeric keypads work at the same time

« Last post by skwire on May 06, 2010, 04:45 AM »

It has a switchable keypad: http://www.microsoft...b=systemRequirements

Click the Details tab if the link doesn't bring you there directly.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to use pskill with farr

« Last post by skwire on May 05, 2010, 01:46 AM »

I realise this might be a little late to add, but there is a ProcessKill plugin for FARR that works well:

http://taichi.dcmembers.com/Plugins/
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=9111.0

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Living Room / Re: could two numeric keypads work at the same time

« Last post by skwire on May 04, 2010, 11:41 PM »

i've seen a company (that i can't find now) that make a large flat board with button like keys you position anywhere on the board. i think they must be magnetic.

-nudone (May 04, 2010, 11:11 PM)

I think you're talking about this one: http://accessories.u...=19&sku=a0643515

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a "last accessed - with date" application

« Last post by skwire on May 04, 2010, 07:09 AM »

If you find that Karen's Directory Printer doesn't suit your needs, this wouldn't take more than a couple minutes to write up in AHK.

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Living Room / Re: could two numeric keypads work at the same time

« Last post by skwire on May 04, 2010, 05:29 AM »

I'm thinking we need to see some pictures of your various setups so we know what we're dealing with here.  =]

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

« Last post by skwire on May 04, 2010, 02:33 AM »

Could you enable drag&drop support in the playlist itself?

-panzer (May 04, 2010, 02:21 AM)

Not easily within AHK (the language this player is written in), no.

I sometimes want to move some track up or down ...

-panzer (May 04, 2010, 02:21 AM)

Ctrl-up/Ctrl-down will move a contiguous selection.

Could you make option to lock columns?

-panzer (May 04, 2010, 02:21 AM)

Again, not easily within AHK.  What I do is set a local hotkey to the "Justify columns" action to quickly resize columns.

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Living Room / Re: could two numeric keypads work at the same time

« Last post by skwire on May 02, 2010, 08:04 PM »

You would almost certainly have to use the HID stuff to make something like this work:  http://www.autohotke...orum/topic41397.html

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Toggle mouse acceleration with a simple program

« Last post by skwire on May 02, 2010, 09:13 AM »

Website | Download
v1.0.3 - 2010-05-02
   + Added ability to specify a custom cursor.  (Thanks, nudone)

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Toggle mouse acceleration with a simple program

« Last post by skwire on May 02, 2010, 09:06 AM »

Great to hear.  I'll promote that test build to a full release.  Thanks for the feedback.

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Coding Snacks / MOVED: ALT key down visual indicator (for when alt key is stuck)

« Last post by skwire on May 02, 2010, 08:55 AM »

This topic has been moved to Finished Programs.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=22603.0

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: automated mp3 rip from video clip

« Last post by skwire on May 02, 2010, 02:08 AM »

That's something I would like.

-app103 (May 01, 2010, 10:11 AM)

Done.  Dropped files only, no folders. 

Website | Download
v1.0.1 - 2010-05-01
    + Added ability to handle multiple dropped files.  (Thanks, app103)

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Right Click any file and create New Folder by its Name

« Last post by skwire on May 01, 2010, 10:48 PM »

I couldn't get it to go until I uninstalled Folder Guide,  MMM and another context menu program MooO  so there must be a correlation between having Context menu programs and Files2Folders

-nogojoe (May 01, 2010, 10:19 PM)

I honestly have no idea why it won't work with those other apps installed.

Thanks skwire another good program..

-nogojoe (May 01, 2010, 10:19 PM)

You're welcome.  I'm glad folks find it useful.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Toggle mouse acceleration with a simple program

« Last post by skwire on May 01, 2010, 09:26 PM »

Yeah...but I don't see how this will help you since you can't do much with the LMB held down, right?  In other words, you may want to change the LMB to a key or something.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Toggle mouse acceleration with a simple program

« Last post by skwire on May 01, 2010, 07:23 PM »

You can't do it directly with MAT, but you can easily with a couple of AHK hotkeys set up like this:

Code: AutoIt [Select]

1. ~^!+LButton:: Run, C:\path\to\MouseAccelToggler.exe accel=on speed=20 cursor="C:\path\to\cursor.cur"
2. ~^!+LButton Up:: Run, C:\path\to\MouseAccelToggler.exe accel=off speed=10 cursor="Default"

This will let you use ctrl-alt-shift-left mouse button down to do one thing and another when releasing it.

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

« Last post by skwire on May 01, 2010, 01:13 PM »

... I've also been meaning to add an option that will allow the user to specify a "no cover" image of their own.

-skwire (April 27, 2010, 11:11 PM)

Yes, please! 

-Lesmo16 (May 01, 2010, 01:09 PM)

In the meantime, you can simply replace res/no_cover.jpg with a JPEG of your own.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Toggle mouse acceleration with a simple program

« Last post by skwire on May 01, 2010, 08:13 AM »

Here's a test version with your custom cursor request: http://skwire.dcmemb...useAccelToggler_.zip

Simply pass cursor="c:\path\to\some\cursor.cur"

You can also pass cursor="Default" to restore the normal cursor.  One caveat that I haven't been able to figure out yet is that, when using a custom cursor, it is used for all cursor functions i.e. no resizing cursors, no I-beam, etc.    At any rate, let me know if it works for you.  I've tested it under Win2k and WinXP.  I don't have Vista or Win7.

not sure what's wrong but all Mouse Acceleration Toggler functions have stopped working here. i've not rebooted yet so will have to see what happens after that.

-nudone (April 30, 2010, 02:33 PM)

I haven't a clue.  

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Skrommel's Software / Re: all links for software are broken

« Last post by skwire on May 01, 2010, 07:41 AM »

Agreed, great idea.