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Post New Requests Here / Re: Hot Key Promter

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 07, 2011, 06:24 PM »

I've updated my Home Folder utility with a Popup Note facility that can be used for this.  Try it out.  You can download from this page:

http://www.favessoft.com/hotkeys.html

Just search on Home Folder to get to the download link.
By default if you press Alt-NumberPadMinux it will pop up an input. Once there is some data it will show the current note when popped up.  The notes are saved to a file in Home Folder's home folder.

Usage: Make sure the application window is the active window.  Hit Alt-NumberPadMinus. The Popup should appear at the top left corner of the app. Type in short info such as app hotkey and hit OK Button.

Edit: Make sure you have at least v. 1.71 as important bug fixes were just completed.

Edit2: Make that v. 1.8 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Hot Key Promter

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 07, 2011, 03:13 PM »

Hi, I would like to know if it would be possible to create a program that would prompt you what Hot keys are available for a program that one is using. Not all Hot Keys would be possible as some programs have many Hot Keys, however, if the most important ones could be displayed in a small tool bar that would snap too the top, bottom or side of the screen would make using a program easier, I am hopeless in trying to recall what Hot Keys are available for a program I am using. Maybe the best way would be have the user enter the hot keys manually for each program and chose a program from a list one has made. This software would be used as an visual aid when using a program.

-John Barnett (May 07, 2011, 04:58 AM)

On second reading I think I see what you mean.  It's more or less a cheat sheet.  Maybe something that would read the active window to get the program, look it up to see what hotkeys you noted for it and display them in a little popup?

edit: are you running 32 bit or 64 bit Windows?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Hot Key Promter

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 07, 2011, 03:09 PM »

If I read the thread jgpaiva linked to correctly, there's no practical way to get the info through Windows.  My hotkey tray apps display the current hotkey(s) in the About dialog.  Even I forget sometimes which hotkey is which and I wrote the things!! But I have some apps I don't use that often. I look in the About box to remember.

When I do the About dialog I read from the hotkey variable in case the user has changed the hotkey. It should always be the current info.  But the programmer has to do something like that for his own app.

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General Software Discussion / Chromium 15.0.847.0 Build 95771

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 07, 2011, 02:01 AM »

I'm just trying Chromium nightly snapshop from the win32 zip file:
http://build.chromiu...omium/snapshots/Win/

edit: they changed the ftp link so I edited the url above.

So far I don't see any obvious bugs. But it feels a tad snappier than the 12.x snapshot I have been running.  So far so good.  The nice thing about the zip just save your Chromium folder from settings and your old Chromium zips.  You can go back very easily if you encounter a bug.

Main thing is when you overwrite the Chromium program folder, wherever you put it, don't erase the Dictionaries or extensions folders.  Then just copy all the stuff in from the new zip. I only have 3 tabs open and TaskManager shows a dozen copies of chrome.exe running!! That may account for it!!  But it sure feels fast!!




edit: so far AutoCopy extensions don't seem to work.  There's always a "gotcha'"

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReRun 1.7.0.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 07, 2011, 12:09 AM »

ReRun 1.7.0.0  The popup window opens with Topmost attribute set.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReRun 1.6.0.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 06, 2011, 02:51 AM »

ReRun 1.6.0.0  Added LeftHanded option to .ini file.  Anything other than 0 and the buttons will fill in left to right.  The default value is 0 for right handed orientation.

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Living Room / Re: Daily Autohotkey

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 05, 2011, 04:03 PM »

Here's 3 hotkeys I always have loaded:

Transpose : one of mine - Control-t to swap the 2 characters left of the caret to fix "reverse order typos" on the fly. It also has some other hotkeys such as for Chromium based browsers(control-click opens new tab in foreground etc..) By getting the class names with the spy tool you can add apps to the groups. The download has source, custom icon, readme and the compiled exe:
http://www.favessoft.com/hotkeys.html

edit: added a function to Transpose. I like to try Chromium nightly builds portables. The first thing that seems to drop out is the AutoCopy extension.  Everything else works the vast majority of the time.  I removed AutoCopy and use Shift-Right-Click the mouse in Transpose(only active in Chromium/Chrome based browsers) to copy selected text to clipboard.  After a pause to give you a chance to let off the Shift key, it deselects the text. You still have your normal right click menu in Chromium.


The 2nd is WinSize2 by Magra for automatically placing your windows.  Great script with a nice tabbed options dialog:
http://www.autohotke...p;highlight=winsize2


The 3rd is my latest app.  Not ahk, it's AutoIt3 but still a hotkey.  ReRun pops up a window with 14 buttons that fill with the icons from the most recent programs(watches the active window.)  The idea is if you close an app inadvertently, hit the hotkey or double-click the icon to pop up the window.  Enabled buttons have the icon of the program. Hovering the mouse shows the short name of the program. The icons fill in right to left as it's oriented for right-handed people.  Perhaps I'll make it adjustable in later versions.. but it's still pretty new. Just getting the main bugs out. ReRun does not include source as there are just too many nested include files of user defined functions. It's on the same Hotkey page as Transpose:

http://www.favessoft.com/hotkeys.html





edit: I just updated ReRun. If you would prefer the buttons to fill in left to right set the LeftHanded option in ReRun.ini to non zero.  Default setting is 0.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Compare dictionary (text) files and remove duplicate entries

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 04, 2011, 03:29 PM »

Where many of the entries are variations on the same base, user01 user02 user1979 user1980 etc..  my last suggestion would be only store the "base" of the dictionary entry and generate the variations.  That way you'd only have to store "user" on disk and have the algorithm generate all the offshoots.

I'm no DB expert. Haven't read any Codd in over 20 years. I think I'm at the limit of what I can contribute.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Compare dictionary (text) files and remove duplicate entries

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 03, 2011, 07:24 PM »

Nothing of new, just a real implementation, because we don't know how fast is a DB with a keyword as a key. And I can say that is very fast and do not need so much ram, but need hard disk space. Maybe enterprise DB (like Oracle/MySQL/etc.) can handle GB of data better than SQLite, but the system is the same.
Of course, you must find the right program to handle, because some GUI App (like SQLite DB Browser) load the file into ram and need over 1GB for that file of 100MB. The command line version, need only about 3MB instead.

I added a reply to the "ask the expert" thread I started saying there has to be a "worst case scenario" with keys-only db likely to be it.  That was yesterday. I see it hasn't cleared the moderator. I think they don't really want to bring up the Achilles Heel.  I doubt I'll see my reply.

To really test this out you should have some method that directly accesses the flat file.  Compare it for speed vs. overhead.  A dummy run of a few MB doesn't mean anything.  Just about any manipulation all in ram is going to be fast.  We need a comparison of db and non-db access say for an 8 GB flat file of words.  Then see what happens.

I would tend to guess the db overhead would not be worth the effort compared to direct flat file access and manipulation for simple search. Also I suspect if you made a 34 GB table of keys, the db would crash on the OP's machine.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Compare dictionary (text) files and remove duplicate entries

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 02, 2011, 06:13 PM »

Just for grins I started a thread on a db forum:

http://forums.databa...?p=129101#post129101

If anyone uses the terms "password cracking" or "dictionary attack" you're on your own!!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Compare dictionary (text) files and remove duplicate entries

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 02, 2011, 05:41 PM »

How would I use/apply this?

-bhuiraj (May 02, 2011, 05:33 PM)

I would hazard a guess that most apps that use a "one word per line" flat text file dictionary just suck the whole file into ram and split on the end of line marker.  For example AutoIt3 has the user defined function _FileReadToArray().  If the file fits in ram it's trivial. Each array element is a line of the file.  Most dictionaries I've used are less than 2 MB in size.

You haven't specified if you're using any particular software most often to access this data.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Compare dictionary (text) files and remove duplicate entries

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 02, 2011, 05:36 PM »

I don't see what you suggested that I didn't already in this post:

https://www.donation....msg245865#msg245865

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Compare dictionary (text) files and remove duplicate entries

« Last post by MilesAhead on May 01, 2011, 03:58 PM »

Ok since you have the solution please provide it to the OP.
I'd be interested in the performance of a DB that's both keys only and many times larger than physical ram.

edit: in any case it seems a chore to try to massage the data in one go.  Probably a better approach is to grab a chunk and sort it, then add entries as a background task. How to go about it may depend on the tools the OP is currently using.  Perhaps the big word list can be built while still being usable by the front end tools.

I haven't been able to get any hits searching on this type of problem. Maybe it's not one RDBMS companies like to mention as I imagine it's a worst case scenario.  All keys, nothing else to look up.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Compare dictionary (text) files and remove duplicate entries

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 30, 2011, 05:58 PM »

The trouble with using a relational database in this case is the key is the only data.  You're not saving anything or creating any efficiency.  If I have 3 paragraphs of text with key "ProfIrwinCoreySpeach" then I can use the key to get the data.  With the dictionary, there is no other data.  There's nothing to optimize.

You could split the files according to first character as you say.  But the only good way would be to build as you go along.  Having 33 GB of spaghetti data to unravel at the start makes it unwieldy.  You need an engine that builds the files from scratch and feed it words.  Even then when the letter files get too big to hold in ram it's going to be slow because you'll have to either create space for insertions according to binary search, or try to use some fixed size average word length which will waste space.

I think it's the case with no easy solution.

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General Software Discussion / Re: right click to print a file?

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 30, 2011, 02:43 AM »

This may be worth a try:

http://www.softpedia...WinPrint-Piero.shtml

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General Software Discussion / Re: right click to print a file?

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 29, 2011, 05:59 PM »

On W7 if I right click a text file and hit Print, notepad prints it.  Don't know about remembering fonts etc.. as my printer is not hooked up at the moment.

But I could see it was notepad putting the job in the print queue.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReRun 1.5.1.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 29, 2011, 05:15 PM »

ReRun 1.5.1.0 Fixed a bug where leftmost 4 buttons did not launch apps.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReRun 1.5.0.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 29, 2011, 04:20 PM »

ReRun 1.5.0.0 Expanded buttons to 14 to catch more apps.  Revised Tray Icon handling.  Added "Check for Update" command to Tray Menu.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReOpen 4.9.0.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 29, 2011, 03:10 PM »

Softpedia has retested and cleared v. 4.9.0.0 submission.

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General Software Discussion / Re: FolderCache 4.9.0.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 28, 2011, 09:28 PM »

I've never had any reports from them of a bad scan.

Sorry, actually now that I think of it I'm wrong about this. Now and then I have had reports from Softpedia on apps that are either AHK or AutoIt3 scripts compiled as exe.  False positives are common with them. I stopped using UPX and that cut it down quite a bit.

When I get a notice from them I just ask them to try another scanner.  That usually resolves the issue.  There's too many av programs to install yet another one just to run a scan on an app.  I don't need my system messed up like that.

In the interim I've posted MD5 on the main AutoIt3 apps that seem to have an issue at the moment.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Selector 2.8.0.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 28, 2011, 08:36 PM »

MD5 sum has been posted next to download link on my web page.

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General Software Discussion / Re: FolderCache 4.9.0.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 28, 2011, 08:35 PM »

MD5 sum has been posted next to download link on my web page.

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReOpen 4.9.0.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 28, 2011, 07:15 PM »

Note that currently Softpedia is getting a false positive scan using NOD32 av program.  I've submitted the false positive to Wilder's Security Forum.

In any case if you already have ReOpen just use Check For Updates command to download directly.

I've checked the MD5 of a new download with my backup and they are identical.  The MD5 for ReOpen is posted next to the download link.

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General Software Discussion / Re: FolderCache 4.9.0.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 28, 2011, 06:46 PM »

Miles

EAV = Eset Antivirus - commonly called NOD32.  I reported them as false positives to Eset already.  Its not that  i dont trust these files, as their author  i just brought it to your notice, that's all. Sorry if you feel offended<grin>

Ska

-SKA (April 28, 2011, 12:44 AM)

btw can you also submit false positive for ReOpen?  Seems Softpedia doesn't like that one now.

edit: Nevermind.  Turns out I'm already on Wilders Security Forum. Haven't been there in so long I forgot about it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: FolderCache 4.9.0.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on April 28, 2011, 05:01 PM »

Miles

EAV = Eset Antivirus - commonly called NOD32.  I reported them as false positives to Eset already.  Its not that  i dont trust these files, as their author  i just brought it to your notice, that's all. Sorry if you feel offended<grin>

Ska

-SKA (April 28, 2011, 12:44 AM)

Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I guess I'll have to start posting MD5 under my download links.