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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« Last post by hamradio on April 03, 2024, 10:34 PM »

Would be nice if the text fields could have a dark background (and probably some lighter shade of gray text for a good contrast) too
-ConstanceJill (April 02, 2024, 05:36 AM)

Another thought on this...I could always test a toolstrip textbox with different colors for the variable entry and if it doesn't have the flickering issue I could convert to it for the variable entry as well if you think it wouldn't be too much hassle being a separate dropdown that is not attached the launch entry control for the history.

N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« Last post by hamradio on April 03, 2024, 11:56 AM »

Should be fine I guess. I'd prefer the text contents (typically a hostname) to be visible before selecting the favourite, but I suppose I could always include it in the description myself.
-ConstanceJill (April 03, 2024, 06:13 AM)

The tooltip of each menu item would also show that data. Which is one thing that the combo box doesn't show currently for each item.

N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« Last post by hamradio on April 02, 2024, 09:10 PM »

OK, it does seem better especially since the taskbar is dark too
Would be nice if the text fields could have a dark background (and probably some lighter shade of gray text for a good contrast) too
-ConstanceJill (April 02, 2024, 05:36 AM)

So I have been thinking...I could probably move away from the combo box for selecting favorites as well which would take care of one of the white boxes on the main window. Would then need to write a edit favorite dialog perhaps with the list of favorites there or a shift + click / ctrl + click to do the edit/delete work which would be like I have in the layouts menu. I could also probably do a shortcut key that would call up the favorites menu then too. Plus allow for other ideas down the road like maybe even a "folder" system for them to where you could organize them. The dropdown would also take up less of the main window space and I would remove the ability to put the favorites bar on new line from the preferences...but might have a few drawbacks as well...therefore what are the thoughts on that ConstanceJill and oblivion?

What it could look like only with a few other tweaks to it obviously just a rough draft to show atm...

N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« Last post by hamradio on April 02, 2024, 12:57 PM »

Hmm to elaborate on the topic of the command line window, what I've been experiencing does not seem to me like an issue with the option to keep it open or not after a command ended, but rather, it's pretty much like the normal behavior of batch files: they just don't go to the next line until the current command has completed, which in the case of most executable means, until their process has ended.

And so if you use cmd.exe to run a GUI mode program such as the RDP client, Notepad, Firefox… then that CMD window just stays there until you close that GUI program — or manually close the cmd window itself.
The solution to that issue would be, IMHO, to have CRAP run the command which the button is set for "directly", instead of calling cmd.
-ConstanceJill (April 02, 2024, 12:17 PM)

I would tend to agree but for whatever reason on my windows 10 7+ year old computer (with original parts) before I upgraded on my terms would as far as I can remember appeared to close after launching executables with the right command line option. The new computer however it won’t. Should be fixed now tho hopefully with what you said for the solution as that is what the next version will do with the skip option just it will need the arguments moved down to work. I do change the label caption of the text boxes to account for that depending on if skip is selected or not to tell that.

N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« Last post by hamradio on April 02, 2024, 10:26 AM »

OK, it does seem better especially since the taskbar is dark too
Would be nice if the text fields could have a dark background (and probably some lighter shade of gray text for a good contrast) too
-ConstanceJill (April 02, 2024, 05:36 AM)

Yeah I have to see if there is a fix for those as they flicker pretty bad when I try to do color related things to those combo boxes on the main window.

There were, I think, some commands that took a lot of tinkering to make work properly -- and there are definitely some where the command window should be left open as well as some that don't.

I think I made most things work by either using start /b or not -- the remote desktop example I documented in the help is one where it was needed, but -- and I think it's down to Microsoft rather than anything else! -- expecting consistency is possibly a step too far!

I thought I'd left a note on here a few days ago to help with updating the help, if it's needed, for the new version, but I don't see the message so I expect I abandoned it accidentally

Anyhoo -- I'm still using CRAP only on a Windows 10 machine, but that doesn't mean I don't have Win11 available to test on if it's useful!
-oblivion (April 02, 2024, 08:30 AM)

Yeah definitely seems like weird behavior from command line on the toggle to keep it open. Thanks for the offer on help file too will keep it in mind as get closer to letting it out.

N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« Last post by hamradio on April 01, 2024, 07:43 PM »

Now that I am on the desktop...I made a comparison for you.

Your Current Black Theme

The New "Dark" Theme

That said if you still would like the current black one too I will leave it added back as a legacy style.

N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« Last post by hamradio on April 01, 2024, 10:12 AM »

Aww, that's the one I was using on my work computer lately
BTW is it possible for the user to make custom themes, or are we restricted to usng the ones that the program ships with?
-ConstanceJill (April 01, 2024, 03:23 AM)

The new “Dark” theme I did for another program when I was reviewing the themes looked extremely close to the old black. Only some of the colors didn’t look as rough around some parts so you might like that one.

It’s not in at this time for custom color/colors by the user but I have slowly been looking into how I think would be the best way to fit that in.

N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« Last post by hamradio on March 31, 2024, 09:17 PM »

In my early tests it works with my simple arguments I tested it with. Will work on polishing it up some. I know you didn’t request it but I have spent time on the themes to where they should look better and cover more of the application. It still won’t be 100% coverage area still but it is closer. Then I removed some themes (like black for one) but added a few like for example a light and a nicer dark theme. Next up is seeing about the shortcut files dropping to add the info in some capacity. That said if you want the changes so far to test in the next couple days or so I will upload a beta.

N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« Last post by hamradio on March 31, 2024, 08:47 AM »

Here’s my reasoning for the application launch mode. With the command line window the command is all arguments side. If I am going to skip it then I need a reliable way to tell what the executable is without dealing with the arguments side of things. It basically will have a checkbox which says skip the command window. Then all the arguments you type including the <var> placeholder into what is the command suffix for command window items.

Think I also left the suffix in for the earlier versions before <var> was added just so it didn’t break things.

N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« Last post by hamradio on March 30, 2024, 03:45 PM »

Going forward an option to skip the command window will be in. With it enabled only the app should be listed in the prefix then any other arguments for said application in the command suffix.

Does that sound like it would be okay?

N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« Last post by hamradio on March 30, 2024, 11:27 AM »

Yes I've mentioned this thing about the command line window staying open when launching a GUI driven program in message #34, it pretty much always happened for me (or at least since then), no matter which OS I used the program on.
As a workaround I've been using the "start" command to launch any GUI mode program from CRAP.

I think there must be some other way (maybe an API or something?) that you can use which doesn't rely on CMD at all. It still should be able to run batch scripts and other command line programs just like we do when using the "run" dialog.
-ConstanceJill (March 30, 2024, 02:23 AM)

Well now that I’m reproducing it on my end too I might be able to fix it.

Maybe time for an option to not use CMD.EXE at all in each entry since MS appears to have stopped the one method.

N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« Last post by hamradio on March 29, 2024, 05:45 PM »

A small update of development information...

So I went ahead and let it switch over to 4.8 and the bug is fixed on my copy atm I think along with the one feature added in. I did notice on my win11 machine though it appears the command line is staying open after launching an executable even with the parameter that is suppose to close it. I may have to look into that portion so the command prompt doesn't stay open for just launching programs normally (if you consider it a hassle to have to close it after it launches the executable only). Also I still need to look further into the other shortcut idea you had.

N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« Last post by hamradio on March 28, 2024, 09:31 PM »

Hi, I suppose it depends on how much you'd upgrade it

As long as it's 4.8.1 or lower then it wouldn't be an issue for my workplace, but if I need to install a more recent one, then I'm not completely sure.
-ConstanceJill (March 28, 2024, 08:28 PM)

I was thinking 4.8 since that is what suggested when I opened it for the first time on this Win11 computer.

N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« Last post by hamradio on March 28, 2024, 07:13 PM »

Also another question ConstanceJill...would it be okay if I upgrade the .net version it needs?

N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« Last post by hamradio on March 28, 2024, 06:06 PM »

Hey there,

A few months ago I've acquired a new computer, that runs Windows 11, where it does not seem possible to create custom toolbars any more.
And so lately I've been thinking, instead of putting the shortcuts to my games on the desktop, why not use CRAP as a launcher?

In the process of recreating my game shortcuts into CRAP, I got the following idea: it would be neat if I could just drag and drop an icon onto the current layout, or maybe to the layout editor window, and that would basically parse that shortcut and create an equivalent button (using the icon, command prefix and its name as a caption).
Would that be feasible?

Another possible improvement I've been thinking of: from the "Add new button" dialog, if there is no defined "Command Prefix" yet, and the user just loaded the icon from an .exe file, perhaps we could have the program populate the prefix with that same exe file's path?

Oh and, I suppose it's some kind of bug: when browsing to an executable to get its icon, CRAP fails to recognize that an .EXE file was selected unless its extension is entirely in lower case (so it will work only with ".exe", but not ".EXE" or a mix of upper and lower case).
-ConstanceJill (March 23, 2024, 03:19 PM)

I'm on windows 11 too as of early December anyways let me see what I can do as time permits on the ideas. As for the bug I will look into it as well.

Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by hamradio on August 09, 2023, 06:43 AM »

Pat Benatar as well?

General Software Discussion / Re: Need key to install psp 7

« Last post by hamradio on May 09, 2023, 08:55 AM »

ProduKey @ https://www.nirsoft....t_cd_key_viewer.html might be able to help you.

Disclaimer: I haven't used it so your mileage may vary.

N.A.N.Y. 2023 / Re: NANY 2023 Release: QR Code Warlock

« Last post by hamradio on February 07, 2023, 04:35 PM »

Perhaps the overlay size could be clamped at a maximum of 1/3 of the QR code size, and the user could adjust the overlay to be smaller than that maximum value.
-Deozaan (February 07, 2023, 02:37 PM)

I may implement something like that as I get time to develop it.

However till then...

Might not be a program option currently for resizing the overlay to less but technically you can do that already with a png that has transparency around the edges with the background you want. The program allows for no background color to be drawn before the overlay image gets drawn by selecting Use Transparency in overlay tools drop down. Also allows for more custom borders that the program doesn't offer.

N.A.N.Y. 2023 / Re: NANY 2023 Release: QR Code Warlock

« Last post by hamradio on February 06, 2023, 07:47 PM »

Perhaps you could add a setting or slider for the user to adjust the size of the overlay?

Again, this is just minor nitpicking for something that doesn't affect the functionality of the QR codes output by this app. So feel free to turn down this request.
-Deozaan (February 06, 2023, 03:14 PM)

I may eventually open the sizing up. One of those quirky things that I am still really not too sure on yet even though I researched it some is the primary concern of...basically the format (the best possible for most error correction) I am generating them in writes the extra data for error correction into the other squares which allows for it to have the placement of images on it to still work. So too much cover of the QR code can still prevent the QR code from reading successfully. I found that using a 3rd of the image size usually worked good so that is what it does currently. So the overlay on 660 pixels should be at 220 pixels width/height centered on to the QR code.

N.A.N.Y. 2023 / Re: NANY 2023 Release: QR Code Warlock

« Last post by hamradio on February 06, 2023, 08:09 AM »

I mean the overlay is not aligned to the "pixel grid" of the QR code. A QR code is made up of various squares, the size of each square depends on how much data is being embedded into the code. All of these squares have a uniform minimum size for any given QR code. I'm calling the smallest squares "pixels" because they are basically just a single pixel magnified enough to be properly identified by a camera. And the "pixel grid" I'm referring to is just a grid where each cell (or pixel) is the size of these squares.

In my opinion, QR codes would be more aesthetically pleasing if the overlay image snapped its dimensions to a multiple of the "pixel grid" size, so there are no partial squares showing.
-Deozaan (February 05, 2023, 06:00 PM)

Ahh that. I am not sure right off how easily I can read in the size of each square being output by the QR code library. For QR Code Warlock currently the overlay image is overlaid onto the QR code after the QR code image has been generated by the library since the library does not have a image setting that I could see.

N.A.N.Y. 2023 / Re: NANY 2023 Release: QR Code Warlock

« Last post by hamradio on February 03, 2023, 08:32 PM »

Thanks for the feedback!

Not that it much matter, but why does it show my used path with a drive letter of "?" ?
-KodeZwerg (February 02, 2023, 06:26 PM)

The Quick Tips in the OP says ?:/ is a kind of macro which represents the same drive the app is on.
-Deozaan (February 03, 2023, 01:09 AM)

Deozaan is right on why it shows ?:\ in the path.

One minor nitpick/feature request: Is there any way to align the size of the overlay (or its background) to the pixel grid so there's not partial pixels sticking out from behind it? IMO it would generate much more aesthetically pleasing QR codes that way.
-Deozaan (February 03, 2023, 01:09 AM)

If you are seeing where it looks a little strange in the preview it could be where it's stretching the preview image to display it within the space. (It will save full size even if the preview is stretched.) If it is something different show me a screenshot as I'm not following what you are saying right off tonight.

I didn't realize how old this thread is before I started working on a solution. In any case, it's already done, so here it is anyway.
I believe this should do what you wanted, but do note that I whipped it up in a couple of hours, so it's definitely not perfect.
PS: The "csv" file is saved right next to the executable.

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-GrumpyCoder (December 15, 2022, 11:28 AM)

I am pretty sure this could be classified as a NANY App this year I believe for you.

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« Last post by hamradio on December 25, 2022, 04:57 PM »

Hope everyone has had/is having a very Merry Christmas!

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