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Post New Requests Here / Re: Need Code For Non-Profit Organization

« Last post by skwire on September 13, 2009, 11:49 AM »

There is also Pluck: http://www.pluck-cms.org

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Living Room / Re: The unspoken truth about managing geeks

« Last post by skwire on September 13, 2009, 11:46 AM »

You manage extremely well despite that handicap. Tell me, who has the other half?

-cranioscopical (September 13, 2009, 09:01 AM)

Unfortunately, for Ehtyar, that particular bit of info was contained in said other half.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Godin: the end of dumb software

« Last post by skwire on September 13, 2009, 09:42 AM »

What about folks, like me, that work nights and do, indeed, have meetings at 2am?  Food for thought, anyway.   

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Living Room / Re: The unspoken truth about managing geeks

« Last post by skwire on September 13, 2009, 08:20 AM »

Excuse me young man!! I'd like to issue a formal complaint!! You may direct me to your manager thank you.

-Ehtyar (September 12, 2009, 11:21 PM)

<changes voice to a deeper one> This is the manager.  How may I help you?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cyclic Redundancy Error on CD/DVD

« Last post by skwire on September 12, 2009, 11:18 PM »

Unstoppable Copier comes to mind.

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Living Room / Re: The unspoken truth about managing geeks

« Last post by skwire on September 12, 2009, 11:06 PM »

Sorry, no refunds, returns, or exchanges.  Policy is policy.  Thank you, drive through.  Next?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Toggle Switch with a Global Hotkey to change Power schemes?

« Last post by skwire on September 12, 2009, 10:11 PM »

Edit: Working Perfectly OK, Thank you for that

-paarkhi (September 12, 2009, 12:59 AM)

Great to hear.  Thanks for testing.  Website|Download

v1.0.4 - 2009-09-12
    + Added a tweak to make the balloon tip work more reliably under Vista
      and Win7.

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Living Room / Re: The unspoken truth about managing geeks

« Last post by skwire on September 12, 2009, 09:33 PM »

Ba dum, tish!  He's here 'til Thursday, folks!  Try the veal...and don't forget to tip your bartenders.   

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Use AHK GUI to make translucent overlay over apps that are not skinnab

« Last post by skwire on September 12, 2009, 09:31 PM »

I think it will!
Just have to paste in my scripts to each of the buttons and see what happens.
Thanks so far!

-dwilbank (September 12, 2009, 09:14 PM)

You're welcome.  I'm happy to help.  Let me know if you need anything further.

(if I use the little donate button by your name, does that give you $$$ that you can use however you want, or is it restricted to just this site?)

-dwilbank (September 12, 2009, 09:14 PM)

The credit system on DC is very cool.  We can cash out our credits for cash.  (Actually, it all funnels back to mouser so he can buy more whips and chains to keep our noses to the grindstone with.  Bahahaha.    )

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Use AHK GUI to make translucent overlay over apps that are not skinnab

« Last post by skwire on September 12, 2009, 09:07 PM »

You would do something like this:

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x := 0
y := 0
w := 1280
h := 200
Gui, 1: Show, % "x" . x . "y" . y . "w" . w . "h" . h, Overlay

Or, you could do it like this:

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Gui, 1: Show, x+0 y+0 w1280 h200, Overlay

Your second coloured box would be Gui, 2.  As for the buttons, you could do them all in Gui, 3.  You position them like this:

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Gui, 3: Add, Button, xm+100 ym+100 w100 h25 vmyButton1 gonClick, Click 1
Gui, 3: Add, Button, xm+400 ym+600 w100 h25 vmyButton2 gonClick, Click 2
[...]

Does that clear things up?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Use AHK GUI to make translucent overlay over apps that are not skinnab

« Last post by skwire on September 12, 2009, 08:05 PM »

I fooled with the color and font size and suspect I can change the font color too with a little research.
(What about the font itself? Or are we stuck with this Arial type font?)

-dwilbank (September 12, 2009, 03:07 PM)

Yes, most everything about the font can be change e.g. colour, style, weight, etc.

All our machines run at the same screen resolution (1280x768), and our encoding app always runs full screen, so I don't need the overlays to be dynamically positioned at all.
Strict X and Y and W and H values which I can change by hand would be perfect. (I'll be spacing multiple colored boxes and up to 12 buttons all over the interface where there is unused space)

-dwilbank (September 12, 2009, 03:07 PM)

I figured as much about the resolution.  As for multiple boxes, you will need to create a Gui instance for each.  If you want me to do it, I will need a screenshot with information showing what you want where.

Will I be able to place buttons within the same space as the color overlay?

-dwilbank (September 12, 2009, 03:07 PM)

Yes.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Use AHK GUI to make translucent overlay over apps that are not skinnab

« Last post by skwire on September 11, 2009, 10:40 PM »

Here, have a play with this.  Save this out to an AHK file and run it.  Bring up any window and press F1.  You should see the overlay and buttons for that window.  You can keep pressing F1 over whatever window is active and the script will re-create the overlay for that window.  It's more of a proof of concept for now than, say, final code.  When you're done playing, exit the script from its tray icon.  Bedtime for me but I'll check back in in the morning.

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F1::
{
    Gui, 1: Destroy
    Gui, 2: Destroy

    ; Get stats for the active window.
    WinGetPos, X, Y, W, H, A

    ; Build out first GUI for the overlay.
    Gui, 1: +Toolwindow -Caption +Lastfound +AlwaysOnTop
   
    Gui, 1: Font, s22 ; Change the s# value to adjust font size.
    Gui, 1: Add, Text, xm+70 ym+5 w100 h25 0x200 vmyText, CAP1 ; Change the xm/ym values to position the text.
    Gui, 1: Font

    Gui, 1: Color, Green ; Change overlay colour here.

    Gui, 1: Show, % "x" . x . "y" . y . "w" . w . "h" . h, Overlay

    GUI_ID := WinExist()
    ; Set it transparent and make it click-through.
    WinSet, Transparent, 50         , % "ahk_id " . GUI_ID ; Change the numerical value for opaqueness amount.
    WinSet, ExStyle    , ^0x00000020, % "ahk_id " . GUI_ID ; Leave this value alone.

    ; Build out second GUI for the buttons.
    Gui, 2: Margin, 0, 0
    Gui, 2: +Toolwindow -Caption +Lastfound +AlwaysOnTop
    Gui, 2: Add, Button, x y w100 h25 vmyButton1 gonClick, Click 1
    Gui, 2: Add, Button, x y w100 h25 vmyButton2 gonClick, Click 2
    Gui, 2: Show, % "x" . ( x + w ) . " y" .  y
}
Return

onClick:
{
    Gui, 2: Submit, NoHide
    If ( A_GuiControl = "myButton1" )
    {
        ; Do stuff here.
        MsgBox, You clicked Button 1.
    }
    Else If ( A_GuiControl = "myButton2" )
    {
        ; Do other stuff here.
        MsgBox, You clicked Button 2.
    }
}
Return

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Use AHK GUI to make translucent overlay over apps that are not skinnab

« Last post by skwire on September 11, 2009, 10:29 PM »

I currently have it set up with a hotkey so that it will do the following when fired:

1) Get the dimensions and position of the currently active window.
2) Create an overlay to match that window.  The "CAP" text position is modifiable in the code.
3) Create a second GUI for the buttons off to the upper right of the window.  The button position is, of course, modifiable.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Use AHK GUI to make translucent overlay over apps that are not skinnab

« Last post by skwire on September 11, 2009, 10:21 PM »

Here's something I came up with.  Caveat...the overlay does not move if you happen to move or resize the window it's overlaying.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Use AHK GUI to make translucent overlay over apps that are not skinnable

« Last post by skwire on September 11, 2009, 08:16 PM »

Would you mind providing a screenshot of your desktop so we have a better perspective?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Use AHK GUI to make translucent overlay over apps that are not skinnable

« Last post by skwire on September 11, 2009, 07:36 PM »

I meant renaming the VNC window itself, not the remote capture windows.  Or, did I misunderstand you?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Use AHK GUI to make translucent overlay over apps that are not skinnable

« Last post by skwire on September 11, 2009, 07:25 PM »

Is simply renaming a titlebar out of the question?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Toggle Switch with a Global Hotkey to change Power schemes?

« Last post by skwire on September 11, 2009, 02:25 PM »

One more re-download, please.  v1.0.3.6.  I added another tweak that I hope makes it work for you.  Also, you may have to disable/enable the balloon tips for your system as demonstrated here:  http://www.vistax64....-enable-disable.html

I was able to make the balloon tips work under my main XP system as well as a Vista VM.  Apologies for the trouble and thanks for your patience.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Toggle Switch with a Global Hotkey to change Power schemes?

« Last post by skwire on September 11, 2009, 07:31 AM »

Hmmm...works fine under XP.  Please re-download and try once more.  The version of the executable should be 1.0.3.2 this time.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Toggle Switch with a Global Hotkey to change Power schemes?

« Last post by skwire on September 11, 2009, 02:58 AM »

v1.0.3 - 2009-09-11
    + Added "Create shortcut" button.
    + Added tray tip on toggle option.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Compressing files into multiple .zip archives with each .zip being independe

« Last post by skwire on September 10, 2009, 07:54 AM »

I'm a hero?  Nice.  Thanks for your kind words.    As for the RAR option, the reason I didn't use RAR intially is the WinRAR license prohibits me from distributing it.  Here's the excerpt from the WinRAR license:

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   5. The RAR/WinRAR unlicensed trial version may be freely distributed,
      with exceptions noted below, provided the distribution package is not
      modified in any way.
     
      a.  No person or company may distribute separate parts of the package
          with the exception of the UnRAR components, without written
          permission of the copyright owner.
     
      b.  The RAR/WinRAR unlicensed trial version may not be distributed
          inside of any other software package without written permission
          of the copyright owner.

      c.  Hacks/cracks, keys or key generators may not be included on the
          same distribution.

I could write in the support, with the expectation that the user will provided the necessary files, but this is a kludge and inelegant at best. 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Toggle Switch with a Global Hotkey to change Power schemes?

« Last post by skwire on September 10, 2009, 03:14 AM »

Fantastic.  I was thinking of adding an option that would create a TrayTip on toggle just so you know it switched.  Would you like something like that?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Toggle Switch with a Global Hotkey to change Power schemes?

« Last post by skwire on September 10, 2009, 02:55 AM »

After you run the app and select the schemes, does it create the config.ini in the same folder?  If so, are the contents of it correct?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Toggle Switch with a Global Hotkey to change Power schemes?

« Last post by skwire on September 10, 2009, 02:24 AM »

I'm not sure what could be wrong.  I tested this in Vista and it's also been tested under Win7.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Toggle Switch with a Global Hotkey to change Power schemes?

« Last post by skwire on September 10, 2009, 12:46 AM »

Does your shortcut look like this?