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General Software Discussion / SPlayer write-up

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 16, 2012, 04:36 PM »

http://www.addictive...th-gpu-acceleration/

I've been using the portable version of this player for the last few months. I like it quite a bit. In the past the installed version did have an issue where removing the app left file association "holes" in the Registry. I don't know if the issue persists. But I continue to use the portable version just in case.

About the only thing missing from this player is PGS and XSub subtitle support. But it handles external idx/sub pairs fine. That's what I use. I use it on a Windows Seven 32 bit system with only 2 GB ram and video that's not usually supported for "gpu acceleration."  I don't know if I can see a difference with it checked or not checked. It plays HD res. .mp4 .m4v .mkv .avi fine for me.

It doesn't have direct .iso image support like VLC but I have a virtual optical drive mounter program anyway. I just double click the .iso file to mount it as a virtual DVD drive. Then I can "open" the dvd in SPlayer.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Url Pack 1.3.3.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 15, 2012, 07:40 PM »

For Firefox this AddOn may be helpful:

https://addons.mozil...on/launch-clipboard/

You can copy a bunch of links to the clipboard and launch at once by right clicking in the address bar.  FF already has Open All In Tabs but this would be good for a group not in a bookmark folder. Just copied to clipboard on the fly.

Edit: Now Selector has a Loop Launch check box where  you can accomplish the same thing if it's handy to have a text file full of urls.  Just select a bunch of page addresses, one per line, check Loop Launch button after hitting the Selector hotkey, then select a browser from your list of apps and press the Go Button(or double click the browser in the list.) It's just more "general purpose" than UrlPack.

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Living Room / Re: Relics from a Different Time - as opposed to the new Big Brother Lockdown

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 15, 2012, 02:40 PM »

It was good until the end when it totally chokes and the good guy loses.

-Renegade (April 14, 2012, 07:31 PM)

Seems like this trend started with the original Night of the Living Dead.

I hated that flick. I saw it at the drive-in. Just as the cute chick and her boyfriend are about to escape, Whammo!!  Same scenario repeated throughout the flick.

It didn't help that I just bought a giant container of French Fries with tons of ketchup. Wasted a few bucks there!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Url Pack 1.3.3.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 15, 2012, 02:35 PM »

Heh hiya! sometimes it's a brilliant hack that makes an app really sing!

-TaoPhoenix (April 14, 2012, 07:44 PM)

Unfortunately they are usually contained in $500 tool kits.  Can't afford 'em.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Selector 3.3.3.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 14, 2012, 10:37 PM »

Selector 3.3.3.0 Added Multiple Launch checkbox. An example of usage would be to quickly select several files in Explorer, then loop through the launch of an editor with each filename as param.

There's a new .ini file setting MultiDelay.  Valid range is 0 to 5. 0 disables, otherwise if the program to be launched is not already running, MultiDelay seconds delay will be inserted between the 1st and 2nd launch. This gives "single instance" programs such as multi-tabbed editors, a chance to establish the first instance, then open each new file in a new tab.

Here's a new screen shot.

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Living Room / Re: Relics from a Different Time - as opposed to the new Big Brother Lockdown

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 14, 2012, 05:32 PM »

In the case of The Warriors I suspect the original premise sounded exciting. Got producers interested.  They started filming. Then somebody got a look at the rushes for the Rally Scene. Slam the breaks on that scenario!!

( I don't know why they are so paranoid. Just have the gangsters get the upper hand in the beginning, then the National Guard wipes 'em out. )

But that's just my conjecture. I haven't read it in any Hollywood histories or anything.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Url Pack 1.3.3.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 14, 2012, 05:00 PM »

Funny how people using code have a totally different view of what's in the scope of the program. It's a simple hotkey launcher, basically. It's just specialized to browser windows. Injecting windows into virtual spaces is way too complex.

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Living Room / Re: Relics from a Different Time - as opposed to the new Big Brother Lockdown

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 14, 2012, 03:30 PM »

This flick had an interesting premise before it was gutted:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080120/

The orator goes into statistics about how many cops the NYPD could keep on the streets in the gang's territories and how the gangsters had them outnumbered 20 to 1, or whatever the stat was.

Then he detailed a plan where the gangs cooperate to take over the whole city.  But naturally, the guy is shot and the movie immediately transmogrifies into a chase flick.  Interesting premise totally flushed.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Url Pack 1.3.3.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 14, 2012, 03:22 PM »

I wouldn't have a clue. I haven't used virtual desktops in quite awhile. I haven't used tab managers to any extent. I don't know if they will open tabs the way you want it you saved a set, then launched the browser and put it in the background. If that works maybe you can set up a profile just for a tab set.

Trying to do it from the outside the way I am is generally discouraged by the system. Evidently it tries to give keyboard focus to the top window to discourage focus stealing.  I think TopMost is all you get.  There's no "modal" bit you can set for an ordinary popup window as far as I know. Maybe if you programmed that window. I see articles creating modal forms. But to use something like SetWindowLong() to set some existing window as Modal won't work. I tried setting the background window to No Activate but as soon as the new browser instance pops up it calls SetForegroundWindow() to set the previous instance to the foreground and the game is over.

In any case it's really beyond the scope of this utility. I put the question on AHK forum and didn't even get a reply. They probably think I'm trying to lock the keyboard onto one window for some malicious reason or just think the question is not likely solvable.

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General Software Discussion / Re: TopmostToggle 1.8.0.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 13, 2012, 08:57 PM »

TopmostToggle 1.8.0.0 I changed the code so that Control Right Click hotkey is not active when the window with the focus is desktop, explorer, tray, or start menu. This should eliminate the hotkey conflict with Quotidian Folders.

Not really a good idea to try to set Topmost attribute of desktop or task tray anyway.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Quotidian Folders 1.3.1.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 13, 2012, 08:44 PM »

Quotidian Folders 1.3.1.0 Now the Delete Button is only enabled when one or more item(s) in the ListView are selected.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SourceSnap v. 1.55

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 13, 2012, 06:04 PM »

SourceSnap v. 1.55 Added time stamp when appending to Snap File.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Url Pack 1.3.3.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 13, 2012, 05:27 PM »

I tried a few other things but I don't see any way to keep the keyboard focus from shifting. I suspect there's no smooth way of doing it. In any case at least I found the bug where the short delay wasn't being invoked.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Url Pack 1.3.3.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 13, 2012, 02:56 PM »

Url Pack 1.3.3.0 Fixed a bug where the short delay was ignored when invoking the hotkey on an active browser window.  Expanded valid delay ranges.


( @TaoPhoenix please download latest from my page as that has the short delay bug fix. )

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General Software Discussion / Re: Url Pack 1.3.2.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 13, 2012, 02:39 PM »

Hmm, I did find a bug where the Short Delay was ignored if you hit the hotkey on an active browser window.  So that's one thing anyway.

I'm still experimenting, but it doesn't look so good so far.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Url Pack 1.3.2.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 13, 2012, 02:07 PM »

I tried opening with ShowNoActivate but that didn't work so well.  What I'm trying now is open then put the window on the bottom. But on my system it loads the pages so fast I can't tell. It seems like it may avoid stealing the keyboard focus except for a short flicker.  I've attached a zip with just UrlPack.exe. If the experiment works maybe I'll have another hotkey to set the browser to the bottom on each loop, and keep the default behavior for the default hotkey.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Url Pack 1.3.2.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 13, 2012, 01:07 PM »

I don't think I understood what was bothering you at first. I'm thinking if you are typing in an editor applet in the browser, then you run UrlPack on another browser, even though the first browser is on top, the keyboard focus shifts to the other one. I can see the annoyance factor while trying to type.

If I still have it wrong please let me know. But in the meantime I'm going to play around with some code and see if there's a way I can launch the program(the second browser) with a No Activate flag.

If I find anything promising I'll post.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Url Pack 1.3.2.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 13, 2012, 02:13 AM »

I was just testing this out, and it's close!

-TaoPhoenix (April 12, 2012, 10:09 PM)

Another wrinkle might be to have Selector running in the tray. One of the main reasons I wrote it was displaying the current browser page in a different browser without having to install Launchy type plugins in each browser. It has a ListBox where you can add shortcuts or paths of exe files. In this case for the browser transfer assume there's another browser already in the ListBox. You click in the current browser address bar to highlight the url, hit the hotkey for Selector, then double click the browser in the ListBox. The new browser opens to that page. In this scenario, then you could just hit the UrlPack hotkey on the new browser to add a bunch of tabs. It may seem less lame than just clicking the browser icon to open the secondary browser.

I like to combine general purpose small hotkey programs to accomplish various things rather than design a vertical utility with a ton of features. Just seems easier to debug and maintain. Plus small things are easier to think of and knock off. I'm doing this for fun after all.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Url Pack 1.3.2.0

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

I do have an idea that may work in the scenario you outlined. I just tried it. I have a tray hotkey called TopmostToggle.  Basically you make a window active, then hit the hotkey. It toggles the topmost or "stay on top" attribute of the window.

Just now I brought up chromium to this forum. I set chromium to stay on top with TopmostToggle.  Then I brought up Firefox. I clicked FF to make it active(it stayed behind chromium even though it had the keyboard focus) and hit the UrlPack hotkey. It opened the urls in tabs while staying behind chromium.  Just hit the TopmostToggle hotkey again on chromium, in this example, to turn off the stay on top behavior.  When you click the TopmostToggle hotkey on a window, a tooltip shows the new status of the Topmost attribute.

There's a small write-up of TopmostToggle on Gizmo's site:
http://www.techsuppo...ting-top-windows.htm

It's the first entry in the "Others" section. I think it was mentioned on a few other sites. The verdict seemed to be "worked on more kinds of windows than any other" along with "has the fewest features."  They kind of go hand in hand. It works on nearly everything because it's simple.

Search Topmost Toggle on the page below to download:

http://www.favessoft.com/hotkeys.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: Url Pack 1.3.2.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 12, 2012, 05:47 PM »

I don't think I could do it since every time the browser launches from the command line it's going to see if it already has a copy open. If so, it restores the window. Stuff would be jumping up and down. Sounds like you would be better served by a tab control addon. I don't really use them. So I don't know if there's a way to keep the browser minimized until everything loads. All my hotkey does is find out which exe file owns the active window, and launches it with a url in a loop, processing all the url shortcuts in the folder.  AddOns can do more since they have hooks running inside the browser and are written for particular browsers.

The other thing that might work would be browser dependent. If it has command line switches to open multiple urls, open them in new tabs, with app minimized etc..

The real purpose of this utility is not to be a tab manager. But to open a browser to a blank page, speeding up the load, then opening a group of urls so that you don't totally sacrifice starting with a working set of pages. More sophisticated than that and it would have to be an AddOn or Plugin.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: middle click on desktop to get quick launch or 'start menu'

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 12, 2012, 05:01 PM »

Not to pimp my own software, but one way you can try to load this utility before items in the tray, is use RunIt to run via the Registry setting. Also you can delay loading apps that use icons in the Tray by adding them with DelayedCuts.  Both may be downloaded from this page:

http://www.favessoft.com/downloads.html

I use DelayedCuts to load most of my Tray Apps that sit waiting for a hotkey press.
The DelayedLoad program that actually launches the apps on logon shows a slide-up dialog as it loads each delayed program. The dialog may be disabled via the .ini file setting. Just set UseToast to 0 or False. In that case it will show a tooltip with countdown to the next program load when you hover the mouse on its tray icon.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: middle click on desktop to get quick launch or 'start menu'

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 12, 2012, 04:03 PM »

On this subject I'm wondering if anyone tried Vista Start Menu freeware. I know it can be set to open on the right hand side. I used it for awhile. But I never tried to move it dynamically using code. Might be possible.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: middle click on desktop to get quick launch or 'start menu'

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 12, 2012, 04:01 PM »

Tray and Taskbar are touchy. On one of the AutoIt or AHK forums a person running games in full screen mode wanted to be able to tell if the Taskbar was showing. The solution ended up being this involuted deal where the function got the position of all windows and checked the z order to see if Taskbar was on top and inside the screen res. MS seems to change how you deal with Taskbar on every release. Sometimes it hides it by moving it off screen. The only sane way I've found is just stipulate AutoHide must be disabled. I tried hooking into system settings change. Works for screen res change but it seems useless for Taskbar settings change. It's pretty difficult.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Url Pack 1.3.2.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 12, 2012, 03:50 PM »

I'm not quite sure what you mean by working in the background.  But the way I intended it was, to use a browser other than default, open the browser. Click it with the mouse to make it the active window.  Then when you hit the hotkey, the pack is loaded using that browser. In fact the list of "Supported Browsers" is only to limit when the hotkey fires. It should work with any browser that opens a url from the command line in a new tab.  You would just need to comment out the BrowserGroup stuff and recompile.

As far the the initial and following delays, use the Long Delay and Short Delay Buttons in the Gui. The settings you request are within the valid range already.

To change the hotkey just make a shortcut that specifies a different hotkey on the command line. For example if you want WinKey-b as the hotkey, specify #b after the exe name on the target line of the shortcut.  Another example, to use hotkey control-k specify ^k on the command line. If the hotkey does not register correctly it should spit out an error message. Esp. with AHK apps though, many hotkeys are not "global." They are only in effect when certain windows are active. Therefore setting the hotkey may seem to work ok, then you open some other app and it steals the hotkey. Trial and error seems the only real way to go.

If you make is something unusual then you may be able to dispense with the BrowserGroup and use with nearly any browser.

If you do compile it yourself make sure to use AutoHotkey_L Unicode version of AHK_L.  Here's a list of hotkey codes:

http://l.autohotkey.net/docs/Hotkeys.htm

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General Software Discussion / Re: Url Pack 1.3.2.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 12, 2012, 02:23 PM »

Url Pack 1.3.2.0 Fixed bug where F1 would open About Box if Gui was open, even if the Gui did not have the keyboard focus.