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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart
« Last post by skwire on February 01, 2010, 04:14 PM »
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v1.0.1 - 2010-02-01
    * Boot Snooze now uses the RunOnce registry key.  (Thanks, wr975 & f0dder)

2010-02-01_155225.png  2010-02-01_162117.png
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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)
« Last post by skwire on February 01, 2010, 01:00 PM »
A friend of mine proposed a new layout for Trout that would allow for a slightly larger album art as well as a multiline title display.  Here's a mockup:

trout02.PNG

I really like it.  What do you all think?
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart
« Last post by skwire on February 01, 2010, 03:21 AM »
Boot Snooze?  We could shorten it to, wait for it, Booze.   :P :P
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart
« Last post by skwire on January 31, 2010, 12:59 PM »
Cool.  Let's come up with a name for this and I'll package it up as a regular Skwire Empire application.
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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: Close = minimize, on some windows
« Last post by skwire on January 31, 2010, 12:56 PM »
Opera has a "Confirm exit" option.  Go to Tools, Preferences, Advanced tab and check the box.
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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Anuran
« Last post by skwire on January 30, 2010, 11:27 PM »
Glad to see CSV export is going to work out. I can see how this will add significant value to the app for some people.
-doctorfrog (January 30, 2010, 09:54 PM)

Were you able to test it out and see if it exported properly?
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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Anuran
« Last post by skwire on January 30, 2010, 09:41 PM »
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v1.0.28 - 2010-01-30
    * AnuVu v1.0.12
        + Added capability to export current view as CSV format.  Choose "File, Export current view to CSV format" from the menu.  (Thanks, AEngineer)


Jim, see if this is what you were after.  Double-quotes and commas within a note should be handled properly.  If you want a header line, it's no trouble to add.  Thanks.
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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Anuran
« Last post by skwire on January 30, 2010, 09:13 PM »
No line breaks please, one line per record
I think a header line would be nice although my memory is that most csv and tab outputs don't have one.
-AEngineer (January 30, 2010, 09:07 PM)

Cool...no line breaks makes things easier.

You're amazing - it's Saturday night and you should be out carousing.
-AEngineer (January 30, 2010, 09:07 PM)

Hehehe...I'm married with two daughters.  No carousing here.  =]
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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Anuran
« Last post by skwire on January 30, 2010, 09:00 PM »
The next couple questions are regarding the CSV format itself. 

1) The CSV RFC says that linebreaks must be preserved.  However, a LOT of so-called CSV readers will choke on this (thinking it's a new record).  Your thoughts?
2) Did you want a header line?

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Anuran
« Last post by skwire on January 30, 2010, 06:39 PM »
The date stamp algorithim in Excel is the days since January 1st, 1900 + Military Hours/24
-AEngineer (January 30, 2010, 04:25 PM)

Ugh...the lovely "1900 date" format.  Honestly, what might be better would be for the user to choose a timestamp format, in Anuran, that Excel can recognise and convert itself.  Your thoughts?
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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Anuran
« Last post by skwire on January 30, 2010, 03:34 PM »
Like most here I was most impressed by what I saw, but won't be using it till I have the ability to export readily in either CSV or Tab format, ready for analysis in a spreadsheet or DB.  My quick review didn't show those capabilities - apologies if I missed them.  My suggestions specifically:
- Export option in CSV and/or Tab format - single line to allow importing each record
- Timestamp output option compatible with spreadsheet (Excel) import
-AEngineer (January 30, 2010, 08:40 AM)

1) CSV export shouldn't be difficult, I'll add it to the ToDo.
2) I'll try to finagle this in as well.  Which format did you have in mind?

The reason that number two is not as simple as it may seem is that Anuran has no concept of dates.  From the beginning, it was decided to keep the timestamp options as free-form as possible in staying with Anuran, in general, being as free-form as possible.  In other words, a user could configure Anuran with no timestamps if they wished.

Enhancements I'd love, but not as important
- A project field - with pull-down and ready editing - with default persistence of last project
-AEngineer (January 30, 2010, 08:40 AM)

This may be outside the scope of Anuran but I'll add it to my ToDo as well.  Thanks for the feedback.
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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Anuran
« Last post by skwire on January 30, 2010, 03:21 PM »
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v1.0.27 - 2010-01-30
    * AnuVu v1.0.11
        + Added option to keep "current.anu" at the top of the list during sorting.  (Thanks, doctorfrog & M. Gumm)
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart
« Last post by skwire on January 30, 2010, 02:30 PM »
Tomos, does the same thing happen with both the .ahk and the .exe?
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart
« Last post by skwire on January 30, 2010, 01:55 PM »
It should pop up a countdown window after restarting.  Do you run any programs that would block the ability to place a shortcut in your startup folder?  I have code in place to check for a problem when creating the shortcut but if something deletes it afterward, I can't know.
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart
« Last post by skwire on January 30, 2010, 01:40 PM »
cranioscopical (and anybody else)...what the hell should we call this?
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart
« Last post by skwire on January 30, 2010, 11:43 AM »
Latest version...includes ability to hibernate or standby on next restart.  Countdown timer should work more reliably than previous version.

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v1.0.1 - 2010-02-01
    * Boot Snooze now uses the RunOnce registry key.  (Thanks, wr975 & f0dder)

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart
« Last post by skwire on January 30, 2010, 10:59 AM »
possible ways to handle it:
1) options.  i don't mind an options file.
2) two exes, hiber-restart, sleep-restart
3) when you launch it with no commandline parameters it would show buttons for: "Restart then Hibernate","Restart then Sleep","Cancel"; you could also pass -rh or -rs as commandline option to specify a choice to take automatically.
-mouser (January 30, 2010, 10:52 AM)

Hahaha...I'd actually thought of #2 and #3 as well and had already written code to handle it like #3.  Let me finish it up...
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart
« Last post by skwire on January 30, 2010, 10:46 AM »
I could easily do options like this but saving any options would necessitate saving them to a file.  Is anybody averse to this?  The reason I ask is that I was trying to keep snack completely self-contained.
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart
« Last post by skwire on January 29, 2010, 06:27 PM »
New version has a hibernate countdown timer on it.  Please re-download.

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v1.0.1 - 2010-02-01
    * Boot Snooze now uses the RunOnce registry key.  (Thanks, wr975 & f0dder)
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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Anuran
« Last post by skwire on January 29, 2010, 03:49 PM »
I've been meaning to reply to migounanounet's post.  Migounanounet, I really appreciate the feedback and feature suggestion but I have no plans to implement any sort of scheduler in Anuran.  Apologies.
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart
« Last post by skwire on January 29, 2010, 03:35 PM »
i think that the timer should show on screen the moment the reboot script begins, even if that means a 10 minute countdown.  the aim is to show the user what is going to happen, and let them cancel.  if they are walking away they wont care what is on screen.
-mouser (January 29, 2010, 03:31 PM)

Yes, I plan to add this once I get some more testing in.
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart
« Last post by skwire on January 29, 2010, 03:23 PM »
Here's an AHK prototype:
I wouldn't launch the "10 mins wait then hibernate" command via Autostart but the "runonce" registry setting (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137367)
The "10 mins wait" command should also check if the system is idle and/or do a "10 seconds to hibernate" countdown.
-wr975 (January 29, 2010, 03:12 PM)

I'd prefer not to muck about in a user's registry if at all possible.  However, if the startup folder method proves to be a problem, I'll go that route.  The countdown timer can come later since I envisioned this as an app that the user will launch knowing he/she is walking away from their computer for an extended length of time.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart
« Last post by skwire on January 29, 2010, 02:03 PM »
i think the danger here is of something going wrong with the post-restart process, and getting into a cycle of never ending reboots.
one way to solve this is when the startup shortcut is run, it should give a countdown to hibernate, with button to cancel+remove shortcut; and if the program ever can't remove the shortcut for some reason it needs to report this and tell user what to do.
-mouser (January 29, 2010, 01:55 PM)

Well, it would only ever reboot one time....no loop.  However, your concern about not being able to delete the shortcut is valid and can be handled.

remember that you will want to give the pc some amount of time after the reboot to finish the startup process, otherwise it may not hibernate nicely.
-mouser (January 29, 2010, 01:55 PM)

That's why I mentioned a ten-minute delay in my previous post.  I think that ought to be enough, eh?
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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart
« Last post by skwire on January 29, 2010, 01:47 PM »
This would be, I think, a piece of cake to write.  I'm thinking the following logic:

1) Instead of using the normal Windows shutdown, you would run my executable.
2) My executable would insert a shortcut into the computer's startup folder and reboot the computer.
3) After rebooting and waiting, say, ten minutes to allow for a full bootup, the startup shortcut would be removed and the computer would be put into hibernation.

Thoughts?
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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)
« Last post by skwire on January 29, 2010, 12:23 PM »
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v1.0.3 build 275 - 2010-01-29
    + Added "Remove dead entries on startup" option to the General tab.  (Thanks, Target)
    * The "Remove dead entries" function no longer removes URLs.
    ! Fixed some GUI glitches when viewing the Options dialog on a system running 120 DPI.  (Thanks, Guest3456)
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