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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: copy my wallpaper's full title

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 13, 2018, 04:46 PM »

What went wrong? These two latest models are opening the transcoded version, not the actual picture! Forgive me that I didn't notice at first.

-Curt (October 13, 2018, 04:03 PM)

ohhh, i hope i figured out what was wrong (your registry)
i did a case sensitive compare, now its unified.

choose your destiny: 32bit or 64bit

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: copy my wallpaper's full title

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 13, 2018, 03:14 PM »

i removed all older uploads, here v1.1 latest build.
i kept on fixing, should be final from my point of view.

64bit can be downloaded here.
32bit is attached.


have fun! :-)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: copy my wallpaper's full title

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 13, 2018, 01:13 PM »

in version 1.0 i used characters in a byte sequence. (works for most of us good, china russia india etc there should be a big problem)
in version 1.1 i am using a pointer of widechar. (this should implement much better multibyte characters compability)

cool to hear that all is like you wished, to me this thread is solved. i did not really knew that it already worked with your characters, you wrote some foreign words wich i do not know

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: copy my wallpaper's full title

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 13, 2018, 07:03 AM »

i tried to implement UNICODE, if you could test this it would be great.
for now 32bit build only, 64bit will follow if succeed.


regards,

KodeZwerg


ps:
quicker response/better results you might get if you join us on IRC (realtime chat)

edit
- re-modified source here and there
- using now a safer method to open files
- added feature to be windows 2000 compatible (in theory)

oh, and if you do like like the image in context menu, you can edit my .exe with any resource editor and replace MAINICON
if you do, it MUST be 12x12 pixels!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: copy my wallpaper's full title

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 13, 2018, 06:20 AM »

[attach=#,msg424167][/attach]

amazing   

You have absolutely nailed it, KodeZwerg! This is exactly what I was hoping for: A bare minimum doing minimum stuff the right way! Bravo!
KodeZwerg is no longer a zwerg, but a coder.

I have tested both 32 and 64, and they are both fine, but I am using the 64 version.

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You have been donated

One minor thing: You should never use 7zip when you are going to enter other people's computer. Only use normal zip. This is not a safety related question or something, but simply a question about what people have as default. 7zip is not a default.

Thank you also to wraith808 and 4wd and 4wd for helping out.

-Curt (October 13, 2018, 04:38 AM)

>>You have absolutely nailed it
>>I have tested both 32 and 64, and they are both fine
> That i love to hear 

>>KodeZwerg is no longer a zwerg, but a coder.
>Hahahaha wooot

>>donated
> Thanks alot, was fun to create/learn

>>You should never use 7zip
> Thanks for advice, you should have mentioned it earlier by "Demo App" it was 7z aswell, it saves bandwidth for me.

>>Thank you also to wraith808 and 4wd
> dito, cool 2nd family found here!

if you need further improvements, just ask, like a "override force IrvanView usage/skip associated application" feature.
i am ATM fixing a found minor bug in my code, if target filename is UNICODE my app wont work correct i think.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: copy my wallpaper's full title

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 12, 2018, 07:24 PM »

Welcome to Open Wallpaper v1.0
(c)reated by KodeZwerg for DC in 2018

-Curt Edition-

Installation/Usage:
Extract the OpenWallpaper.7z anywhere (NOT IN \Program Files\ !!! if, then in \Program Files (x86)\ !!!)
Run OpenWallpaper.exe as Administrator.
A Dialog will appear, click [OK], thats it.
From this point you can right click on desktop and choose "Open Wallpaper".
This would run any associated application according to fileextension found.

Uninstallation:
Run OpenWallpaper.exe as Administrator.
Choose [No], delete OpenWallpaper.exe, thats it.

Updating Registry:
(needed if you copy OpenWallpaper.exe elsewhere or rename it)
Run OpenWallpaper.exe as Administrator.
Choose [Yes], thats it.


ATTENTION:
THIS PROGRAM WAS CREATED FOR CURT AND MAY NOT WORK FOR YOU.


Requirements:
Windows 8 or higher.
Administrative Rights to install/modify setup.


further updates if at all can be found in this thread:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=46512.0
i might extend application, watch on forum for a thread by me KodeZwerg with name like Wallpaper Tool.


-------

i hope everything works as expected, on my machine it does.
you can pre-test application by run "OpenWallpaper.exe -open", if it succeed you can follow above guide.


regards,

KodeZwerg.


[edit]
if the 32bit version is buggy for you, i've also compiled a 64bit version here.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: copy my wallpaper's full title

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 12, 2018, 02:42 PM »

@Curt
some bad news, by reading microsoft developer network how to create sub menus within a context menu, i would need to create a contextmenuhandler .dll file to realize.
my option to have it faster done, i will add either several main menus or i place them inside "Send To", i think there i can create submenus as simple folders.

so it is up to you wich way to go.
aslong you dont have choosen, i read for educational purposes more about contextmenuhandlers to be prepared :-)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: copy my wallpaper's full title

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 12, 2018, 01:18 PM »

if you say so i will extend to a better/more to all compatible variant.
this build in here fully belong to "Re: IDEA: copy my wallpaper's full title" request 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: copy my wallpaper's full title

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 12, 2018, 12:57 PM »

if I focus on it now, it will be done very quickly.
of course, I respect your wishes.
after all, only you should be happy with it and no one else.
i still have a few problems how to create submenus, but otherwise the scaffolding already stands.
it is now a console application that performs a mini installation at the first start.
so you do not need to worry about it anymore.
if there are any wishes to consider, now would be the perfect moment to tell me this.

FYI / to clarify:
app will have no window/GUI
app will just driven by desktop context menu
menu will have "Copy Filename" "Open in Explorer" "Open Image" "Remove Menu" submenus that instant do its job without further clicks.
nothing more, nothing less.

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Finished Programs / Re: Zip set archive time to latest file

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 12, 2018, 12:36 PM »

great to hear that you succeeded!


best wishes,

KodeZwerg

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Finished Programs / Re: Zip set archive time to latest file

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 12, 2018, 08:14 AM »

please provide more information like how do you calculate checksum?
on a quick self test and using 7z as checksum checker, all is fine/same value = archive itself got same CRC.
when using external tools to calculate a CRC there might be troubles because they read whole file as something to calculate, and a different timestamp will always result in a different CRC since the stamp itself is part of file.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: copy my wallpaper's full title

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 12, 2018, 06:58 AM »

it gives you what back?

...\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\TranscodedWallpaper

-Demo App

Are your pictures from the default system pictures THEME, maybe?
 

-Curt (October 11, 2018, 11:22 AM)

on further investigation on that, it was also correct or it might be even the only correct solution.
the path is ...\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\ and there is a file called TranscodedWallpaper without extension.
it is a copy of original image that i found out. i think it has something to do with windows slideshow thing what i turned off.

anyway, i continue later with the script solution.

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Finished Programs / Re: Zip set archive time to latest file

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 12, 2018, 05:01 AM »

i just searched for "7zip commandline", landed in japan and clicked my way into.
you are welcome 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: copy my wallpaper's full title

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 12, 2018, 04:33 AM »

just to proof that i learned from it, last Demo App

-KodeZwerg (October 11, 2018, 06:18 PM)

^ Yes!
Really well done, KodeZwerg! In fact, so well done that I now have removed the winhelp version. 

Would you care to work even more on this application? Right now it is doing what I asked for, but not in a specially helpful way. I mean, now, I would first have to go search for the program, then answer if I want to copy, then go to actually find the picture.

Maybe it could be part of my desktop context menu (see screnshot)? and from there* simply offer to Copy Full Path or To Open the picture right away, as a new step one+two? 

*there = "Desktop Background File Location":
[attach=#,msg424122][/attach]

-Curt (October 12, 2018, 12:55 AM)

sorry for the bumpy start, now that i know that it works for you i can change it as i like.
an entry in the context menu should certainly be feasible.
yes the demo app is called Demo App because it's only a demonstration hehe
this should only rudimentarily show you the possibilities and serves to check if it works at all.
this weekend i'm going to refine all that, maybe i'll include the idea of 4wd as well, somehow i like it.
as an option in the menu would be something like "show name" and "hide name" plus "copy name" plus "open in explorer" plus "open image". (that enough?)
@4wd i would add text direct on monitor/desktop surface, not with save image stuff
stroken text = just remembered, that i could only do if its a systray application, so 4wd was right with save/replace wallpaper   
i need to think about implementation, other features i can easy perform as commandlines
or i do with "show/hide name" as systray app.... let me suprise you

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Finished Programs / Re: Zip set archive time to latest file

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 11, 2018, 07:01 PM »

i found during a quick search this.
no worry, it is written in english for sevenzip application.

is that okay for you?

if link goes down, heres carbon copy

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-stl (Set archive timestamp from the most recently modified file) switch
Syntax
-stl
If -stl switch is specified, 7-Zip sets timestamp for archive file as timestamp from the most recently modified file in that archive.

Examples
7z u a.7z -stl *.txt
Commands that can be used with this switch
a (Add), d (Delete), rn (Rename), u (Update)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: copy my wallpaper's full title

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 11, 2018, 06:18 PM »

just to proof that i learned from it, last Demo App

ps: i have no idea how my app react on non-Windows8orHigher. this is just a custom raw build suitable to windows from Curt. neither i have any idea what you get in return if multi monitor with different wallpapers are used or how to seperate them correct, script doesnt show.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: copy my wallpaper's full title

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 11, 2018, 05:17 PM »

as soon as he write that script is working for him, that would be also my solution just for educational purposes.
how i do then same thing with delphi is another story :-)
i have just a little time atm to figure out how i correctly copy filename from the binary key (that was used in script i tested)
(...atm it show alot of UNICODE garbage but a real path\filename is also stored in there/visible to me...)
or how i reproduce that my registry show me just a foldername.
when i tell windows that it now should use this or that image, whatsever major format (bmp jpg png), it'll accept and my sample .exe's resolved me filename.

i admit, i havent got any knowings about any special used folder since for me (with virgin win10, no prior installed OS), both of my example worked well.
first one was raw registry reading.
second was api from microsoft.
lets see wich third method is needed to succeed

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Post New Requests Here / Re: copy my wallpaper's full title

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 11, 2018, 11:51 AM »

it gives you what back?

-Curt (October 11, 2018, 11:22 AM)

on my Windows 10 x64 (1803) it gives me back the filename as result.

-KodeZwerg (October 11, 2018, 03:15 AM)

hey, i am just using what microsoft offers, if it dont fit i am sorry.
feel free to visit microsoft and search for SPI_GETDESKWALLPAPER.
Description says:

Retrieves the full path of the bitmap file for the desktop wallpaper. The pvParam parameter must point to a buffer to receive the null-terminated path string. Set the uiParam parameter to the size, in characters, of the pvParam buffer. The returned string will not exceed MAX_PATH characters. If there is no desktop wallpaper, the returned string is empty.

additional i have tested with Win8.1 and Win10 1809 (Build 17763.55) with correct result.

BTW does the scripts work? (that would be interesting for me to figure out how to translate that binary registry into a readable text.)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: copy my wallpaper's full title

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 11, 2018, 03:15 AM »

i watched the scripts, they are good.
if you can try this Demo App again, would be great.
on my Windows 10 x64 (1803) it gives me back the filename as result.

for the programmers, i do it like that:

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var
  wpFName: array [0..MAX_PATH] of Char;
begin
  if SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETDESKWALLPAPER, MAX_PATH, @wpFName, 0)
    then Result := String(wpFName)
    else Result := '';
end;

if this works for you, and you wish that to be a hotkey driven system-tray application, tell me.


regards,

KodeZwerg


Ps: if you like me to finalize, final app would have no window at all, just a trayicon with popup menu entry to copy to clipboard.
hotkey is also possible, i than need your combination, no configuration possible.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: copy my wallpaper's full title

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 10, 2018, 11:45 AM »

please beta test this Demo App

i cannot attach/upload here, connection interrupts.
tell me if it does what you want.
absolut alpha version, no extras, just application function test.

if the line has nothing to show, please try run app as administrator.


regards,

KodeZwerg

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Post New Requests Here / Re: copy my wallpaper's full title

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 10, 2018, 10:50 AM »

Do you mean a traybar icon thats able to show registry value of "Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\Wallpaper" ?

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Developer's Corner / Re: irccloud-desktop source code patching and compiling request if possible

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 09, 2018, 05:06 PM »

for myself bad news. i cannot do what i want to do. (the badges thing)
the irccloud client is a webbrowser, it gather its full display in realtime from server (just like running its service with regular browser)
for me this is too heavy to do on my own (get html, modify html, send html to final display its content)
on the other hand, i might try to realize that with delphi by using public avail API.
by doing this i will have the traybar icon fixed aswell, just need to get handy with that API.

That said, feel free to close/remove this thread.

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Living Room / Re: My first excel macro

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 09, 2018, 04:54 PM »

That was no sarcasm, that was meant kinda real, if i do not know something and have many questions to that subject, i go to library and rent a book or quick way, buy ebook.
If such possibilty is not available at your place, i am sorry.
But okay, i've taken your advice and keep my mouth better shut.

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Living Room / Re: My first excel macro

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 09, 2018, 10:26 AM »

i do not want to scare some one off, i am sorry,

Spoiler

You really should consider to put your nose in a book.
If this is too expensive for you to learn, how about a visit to the public library?

Those are my Hints.

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Developer's Corner / Re: irccloud-desktop source code patching and compiling request if possible

« Last post by KodeZwerg on October 09, 2018, 02:59 AM »

All okay, i try on my own with micro efforts
For my first request i found out that desktop version has this feature but dont use it in a good way.
Existing feature can show an icon in SysTray, but icon has no indicator, so pretty useless ATM, just present.