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Post New Requests Here / Re: In some folder other than desktop, freeze icon placement

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 30, 2018, 04:18 AM »

I got on my own machine a slight problem. I can not do such things anymore.

To clarify: (i just copy pasted text in here since my english aint that good)
The desktop.ini file is a hidden file used to store information about the arrangement of a Windows folder. Essentially, if the layout or settings for a folder are changed, a desktop.ini file is automatically generated to save those changes.

So please try again and do it like i describe:
1. create any empty folder
2. throw in a few files
3. set up folder arrrangements like you want it and close folder (i dont know at wich point windows save that file, so close is for me = saved)
4. re-open folder to check if still all meets your arrangement, if so, continue next step if not i give up
5. (i hope you can do) add "Read-Only" attribute to Desktop.ini
6. close and open folder to check if still all is fine
7. rearrange Placements
8. press "F5" key, what happen? (theory: windows refresh and load your read-only layout)
9. close and open folder to check if still all is fine
10. if all steps succeed you now know what to do, backup that desktop.ini file anywhere and restore anytime
....do not forget to remove read-only attribute

I best hope that it work.

/edit
BTW if you have trouble setting attributes, here a small how-to
press WIN+R
type CMD +enter
type CD X:\This is\My Personal\Folder for\DonationCoderApps       <<-- replace name with yours 
type ATTRIB +R -S -H Desktop.ini
now that file is read-only
later to have original attributes back
ATTRIB -R +S +H Desktop.ini
type EXIT +enter

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Post New Requests Here / Re: In some folder other than desktop, freeze icon placement

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 30, 2018, 01:53 AM »

Sorry if its wrong what I write, after reading and re-reading I still dont know whats the goal is.
To understand that I gave up.

But, maby this could work:
If i aint wrong, Windows stores that Information into a "Desktop.ini" file.
Most Windows have for Desktop two of them.
One you will find here: c:\Users\Public\Desktop\
There you find settings for all shared Icons on Desktop
Second you find here: c:\Users\YourLoginName\Desktop\
This is your personal folder, non-shared.

The Desktop.ini files have usual "Hidden plus System" attributes, so they might be invisible to you if you dont allow explorer to see "Hidden/System"
In some cases the Foldername itself is "Hidden or System".

If i am guessing right, you want to backup both folder contents and restore ?
Same rule for Folders, inside any folder where you arrange icons Widows will create that Desktop.ini file.

Please try out if this is what you asked for by backup, change anything and restore.

You even can set target "Desktop.ini" Read-Only, Windows cannot save to it anymore = what you see is what you get, later additions arent saved then of course.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rename Open File in Windows

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 28, 2018, 05:30 PM »

From my side, FoxIt Pdf runs fast like hell and offer renaming features (optional "Save as..." copy).
Aslong you do not need to edit those Pdf's, FoxIt would be my #1 for free.
Just for fun i might come up with an easy Pdf-Viewer/Renamer Tools.... let's see :-)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 28, 2018, 04:09 PM »

For my own needs i was looking for an easy way to add Dark Theme to Websites.
My own tries kinda work, but only for pages where i inject Css Code.

Now i discovered a really neat plugin "Dark Reader"

Here is Mainlink
Supports native Chrome, Firefox and Safari Browsers and is also avail as OpenSource via GitHub.
Since i am using Opera, i can tell with "Chrome support" addon installed, it works just great for me.

A preview of my current view:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rename Open File in Windows

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 28, 2018, 03:11 AM »

so what is IrfanView doing when (on my command) it renames an open picture file?
 

-Curt (October 28, 2018, 02:56 AM)

Open picture with Windows Paint or similar, than try rename with any tool/Explorer = access denied. (copy works)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rename Open File in Windows

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 28, 2018, 01:40 AM »

Well, two problems and two solutions.
Two Problems:
1st: how should my Application know wich file you want to rename?
2nd: has mentioned wraith808, open files cannot be renamed.

Solution 1: if i know how to solve 1st problem: use a copy command instead of file move.
Collect names that you renamed into a list.
Set this list to be deleted on a buttonpress or on next OS reboot.

Solution 2: I could write a Pdf Viewer wich let me set Filename. (needs a bit longer to code)

Question: Interested in one of my Ideas?

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Living Room / Re: Working on a DCTCG and found this resource

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 26, 2018, 03:17 AM »

I am very interested in such a project and wonder how you handle cards and their statistics.
(I hope for some kind of randomize generator like used in many games for item attributes, can raise addiction factor if used well)
I cannot await to betatest such thing. (my own projects in that direction lacked of art, buried during develop^^)

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Game Giveaway

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 25, 2018, 05:58 PM »

I thought this i could offer:


And this i could download:

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Game Giveaway

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 25, 2018, 05:29 PM »

• Humble Indie Bundle 14

-app103 (October 24, 2018, 10:02 PM)

Thank you app103!
From that Bundle i can offer single Steam Keys as gift.

Pixel Piracy
UnEpic
Super Splatters

If anyone is interested in any of these Keys, let me know which one and I'll PM you the Details to redeem it after i found out how. :-)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Batch Editor for URL and LNK Properties

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 25, 2018, 03:22 PM »

By the way there seems to be a bug with shortcut.exe itself, as the TargetPath and TargetPathExpanded values that I showed in my example are incorrect: I have the 64 bits version of Firefox and it sits in "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox", I don't know where those "(x86)" came from…

-ConstanceJill (October 25, 2018, 03:03 PM)

I did not tried that shortcut.exe but the problem you might have, shortcut.exe is 32bit so %ProgramFiles% expand to its (x86) Name for \Program Files\.

Ps: Those "Expanded" fields in your sample are just to entertain you, they do not exist in .lnk files, this is a shortcut.exe feature.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: [N.A.N.Y. 2019] - Process Lister [status=done]

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 25, 2018, 04:44 AM »

"try to zoom in/out using Ctrl+mousewheel"

-IainB (October 24, 2018, 09:46 PM)

Understood, thank you for feedback on that specific topic (i've read them first as two seperated/splitted/single points that not connected)
I am glad to find out how to trap that combination and will include that in next release.

/edit
Question: Should I include a min/max limiter? Like not scaling lower than 50% (if you downscale) or 500% (for upscale)
(100% is always my default 96dpi 1:1 original interface)

had you considered contributing your extra column idea to the ProcessHacker project at https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/  ?

-IainB (October 24, 2018, 09:46 PM)

I have to say: No.
Since I liked to learn/find out the "how-to" part, I did not realised that this could also be an option to me 



Regards,

KodeZwerg

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Calculate string-similarity

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 25, 2018, 04:18 AM »

If aint open source, can you please release another copy with two bigger text boxes where i can enter/paste multiple lines of text in to check them.
(like two small notepad views that can be compared)
Plus maby able to add option to check two files?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Calculate string-similarity

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 24, 2018, 03:58 PM »

Feedback highly appreciated.

-Ath (October 24, 2018, 01:48 PM)

From programmers point of view: 
My own tries with hash values went all wrong.

If open source, i like to have a look 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Calculate string-similarity

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 24, 2018, 03:55 PM »

Your Tools lie :-)

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: [N.A.N.Y. 2019] - Process Lister [status=done]

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 24, 2018, 03:42 PM »

Tell me:

• Instead of stepped scaling (e.g., at doubled or quadrupled steps), are you able to make the scaling gradual and incrementally variable between lower and upper limits, through rolling the mousewheel? (Zoom in, zoom out.)

-IainB (October 24, 2018, 05:34 AM)

The first thing that i would come up with would be something like a slider, as maby seen on some mediaplayers, if you hover over slider (timeline in player) you jump back-/forward, or volume up/down.
Is that what you mean? I can set scaling to any percentage decimal value 0%-unlimited (idk maximum)

• If you can do that, can you apply it to work on any open window in other applications? (For an interesting example, try to zoom in/out using Ctrl+mousewheel on the Windows Desktop.)

-IainB (October 24, 2018, 05:34 AM)

I am sorry, that aint possible. I can just tweak my own code within its framework (Delphi/Vcl in my case)
If there exists an Api from Microsoft, what i dont know yet, than it is possible.
The code i use comes not from OS, it is part of my programming language.

On another subject, if you can display the "new" information re Process Creation time, could you also display columns which provide:

• (a) the current Running Time for currently running processes - i.e., the dynamic calculated result of current time minus Process Creation time?
• (b) the total running time of historical processes (in this session) which had earlier started and now have stopped?

That could be quite useful information.

-IainB (October 24, 2018, 05:34 AM)

From Api i can get Creation-, Exit-, Kernel- & User Time. Sure i can display them. Will be included in next release.
Special calculations i can add after them aswell.
And hopefully a configuration to turn them on/off :-)

Closed processes would be gone. No remember thing avail yet. I sure could collect Data and put it in a Database to Display like a logging feature.
But this would end as a monitoring tool, what in no case my intention is to do. Or at least until now. I will put on ToDo but make no promises.
By thinking about... it would end in a small mess i guess, since a process can be opened several times.
Like your Webbrowser does.... wich process to track? I think i do not support such function.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Batch Editor for URL and LNK Properties

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 24, 2018, 03:16 PM »

  @ConstanceJill

Batch means automatism, should all .URL .LNK files get same values ????
WHAT SHOULD BE AUTOMATED IN WICH WAY <- that would be interesting to know if someone want to automate things.
All targets get same values would end up in a mess.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: [N.A.N.Y. 2019] - Process Lister [status=done]

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 24, 2018, 12:39 AM »

Hello again, thank you for testing.
To me it was a test if scaling would be okay instead of letting user decide a font/size. (that would lead to text that dont fit into space)
Kind of a challenge to proof that scaling (playing with DPI/PPI) works since you mentioned that it aint good :-]

ProcessHacker is on by default on my system. (best monitoring tool in my humble opinion)
ProcessLister aint a monitoring tool yet, and might never be.

I did not want to be in competition to other monitoring/task manager like tools.

My tool does what I miss on all tools you named or I might have not found proper switch/setting.
It display Process Creation time, so I know when wich process has started ergo if a process fail I might be able to check if a process thats later loaded does harm another process. (conflict checking)
ProcessExplorer BTW does have that feature but on Windows 10 I somehow cannot terminate processes with that tool anymore.

200%/400% where just test values to check if it met requirement at all.

Thank you for your feedback!

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: One config for x86 and x64

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 23, 2018, 10:14 AM »

My guess is, that LBC is 32bit; thats why it uses 32bit environment. (resulting that %ProgramFiles% lead to the x86 variant.) I re-check.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: [N.A.N.Y. 2019] - Process Lister [status=done]

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 23, 2018, 05:48 AM »

Dear IanB,

I have read your thread and understood the problematic (me hopes),

since you are the first person that requested such from me, and this is a new situation for me,
I have tried to make your wish come true by adding a scaling option instead of a Font Dialog.

I would like to know if that would be acceptable to vision impaired people or if this is wrong direction that I go.

Here you will find latest build for testing purposes.
No configuration save is included yet, me needs info if that would be okay or wrong.

Thanks for reading and please give feedback!

/edit

Manual:
Open the .exe, now there is a menu inside that is a Configuration, into that is a Scaling wich contain:
Default = 100%, Double = 200%, Quattro = 400%

If my direction is good and you need other % values, let me know that.


Known Bugs that be fixed soon:
If running in scaled mode, statusbar panel show wrong dimension for the buttons.
Button Terminate does nothing right now, just a placeholder for next release.

Planned Things:
Font Dialog (only to switch font, not to modify font values like size) or plain Color changer... i dont know yet

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Batch Editor for URL and LNK Properties

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 23, 2018, 12:08 AM »

Requested software will search system for both .lnk & .url files and change/edit their specified properties in batch mode.

-berkland (October 22, 2018, 10:39 PM)

What you mean with batch mode?
A console application where you set parameter to do auto things?
A GUI with dropbox where you smash in all your .lnk .url files in?
A program that expose a given driveletter to search for all that files?

I could be able to do such, one thing i cant/missing experience -> edit hotkey
But idk in what kind of way a tool should convert those files.... i need more input.
My only thought would be, collect all files by searching drive/partition, when collect is completed present a edit window to manual modify files.
If needed with URL to LNK convert.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: ScreenShotCaptor at 4K resolution

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 22, 2018, 04:13 PM »

oh, than this would be the right place. i'm sorry aswell.
i was a bit confused "ScreenShotter and 4K?" 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: ScreenShotter at 4K resolution

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 22, 2018, 02:08 PM »

@admin, please move to https://www.donation...ndex.php?board=327.0
sorry my fault!

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: [N.A.N.Y. 2019] - Process Lister [status=done]

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 22, 2018, 03:57 AM »

Since I released for public, public must be satisfied. I do it with passion and be glad to do, no worry :-)
This time it might need a bit longer to implement everything whats flying in my head around plus read/understand/adopt your tips thread.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: [N.A.N.Y. 2019] - Process Lister [status=done]

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 22, 2018, 03:01 AM »

Thank you IanB for feedback.
I admit, I just tested if my app will grow if DPI on system changed (created @ 100% = 96dpi), on 150% Dpi set all is bigger.

I hoped not to do, but okay, will implement a configuration with chooseable Font.
I do not OwnerDraw that listview, so one font for all must be okay then. (not column X = font X)
Dark theme for better contrast will be also find a way into that app.

A button to terminate a process might also be included in next release.
(processhacker i also use but never needed that option to change fonts, neither for SC)

I respect your wish and will work on that.
For now, me will read your Tips&Tricks Thread and see what I can do to realize everything in a good manner.

To all other interested, now would be a good time to tell any wishes, will do my best to make them reality.



Regards,

KodeZwerg

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: [N.A.N.Y. 2019] - Process Lister [status=done]

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 21, 2018, 06:54 PM »

Looking good and working fine on my Windows 7 box.

-skwire (October 21, 2018, 06:38 PM)

No, you where right with that ugly button. That said here is a better one :-)