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General Software Discussion / Re: Everything is back -- with 1.3 beta

« Last post by Nod5 on January 05, 2013, 11:05 AM »

Ok. It is still possible to filter out folders from the matches using the ! command when match path is active. For example, the search "football !E:" excludes "E:\football.txt" and "E:\folder\football.txt" but includes "C:\football.txt" in the match list.

I use autohotkey to quickly toggle such "filters" on/off. Here it is if anyone has use for it. update: I improved the script.

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#IfWinActive, ahk_class EVERYTHING
F12::
string = !"E:\test folder\"
toggle()
return

F11::
string = "ext:mp3"
toggle()
return

toggle() {
global
ControlGetText, x, Edit1, A
if x contains %string%%A_space%
 StringReplace, x, x, %string%%A_space%,,
else if x contains %string%
 StringReplace, x, x, %string%,,
else
  x = %string% %x%
 ControlSetText, Edit1, %x%, A
ControlFocus, Edit1, A
send {end}
}
#IfWinActive

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General Software Discussion / Re: Everything is back -- with 1.3 beta

« Last post by Nod5 on January 05, 2013, 10:08 AM »

This is what the GUI looks like now.


The developer also writes that he/she wants to make Everything open source.

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General Software Discussion / Everything is back -- with 1.3 beta

« Last post by Nod5 on January 05, 2013, 09:06 AM »

The free and amazingly quick search tool Everything has a new beta out - the first new release in around 4 years I think.  
http://forum.voidtoo...c.php?f=9&t=1552

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2013 Submission - BookCrop

« Last post by Nod5 on January 03, 2013, 02:41 AM »

Yes, single image mode is only for quick pretuning of the threshold before dropping a folder with many images. BookCrop is made only to do batch cropping as quickly and simply as possible. Good and fast single image cropping tools already exist in most image viewers/editors.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2013 Submission - BookCrop

« Last post by Nod5 on December 23, 2012, 04:12 AM »

If the book tray of the scanner is constructed to automatically adjust sideways (drawer slides/ball bearings) then that won't be a big problem I think.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2013 Submission - BookCrop

« Last post by Nod5 on December 22, 2012, 11:45 AM »

I'm glad you have use for it! 

You can uncheck "show on startup" in side panel settings. Once the side panel is open you can close it by clicking the "?" again or pressing "esc" or "tab".

Readjusting as in drag and drop of a drawn rectangle doesn't work. But you can simply draw a new rectangle and the old one is replaced.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2013 Submission - BookCrop

« Last post by Nod5 on December 22, 2012, 05:43 AM »

Hi akinomento,

For BookCrop to work you also need to install GraphicsMagick (using the installer, install it to whatever folder you want) and to download and place Jpegtran.exe (no installation needed) in the same folder as BookCrop. See under "installation" in the original post above for links or click the "?" in the lower corner inside BookCrop and you'll find the links there too.

There is no quality loss. Jpegtran does lossless jpg cropping.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Video rant against Windows 8

« Last post by Nod5 on December 21, 2012, 02:37 PM »

Beneath the hood it's quite nice. I don't even have a problem with a flat look. (I actually prefer it. All my personal Nix boxes are set up with minimalist themes and flat icons.)

Just give us the option to permanently disable Metro - and ditch all the cloud nonsense they try to steer you into during the installation - and I'd recommend it without hesitation.

-40hz (December 21, 2012, 01:42 PM)

Yeah, the flat more minimal look is great, functional. If Metro was removed then it would basically be Win7 plus. I wish Microsoft would have taken the boatload of money likely spent on Metro and instead given it all to... Mouser! MS should have simply brought in FARR and used it as start menu replacement.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Video rant against Windows 8

« Last post by Nod5 on December 21, 2012, 01:15 PM »

I like the energy in that video

That said, I still feel that a well designed service pack could do wonders for Win 8. If they put options to effectively disable the Metro stuff I'd probably go for it.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2013 Submission - BookCrop

« Last post by Nod5 on December 09, 2012, 01:50 PM »

Phil, use the installer and install to any folder you want. BookCrop then reads the GraphicsMagick binary path from the registry. But jpegtran.exe on the other hand must be manually placed in the BookCrop folder. I will clarify that in the OP.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / N.A.N.Y 2013 Submission - BookCrop

« Last post by Nod5 on December 08, 2012, 12:51 PM »

NANY 2013 Entry Information

Application Name	BookCrop
Short Description	BookCrop quickly batch crops many jpeg photos of book pages
Supported OSes	tested in Win7
Web Page	http://nod5.dcmembers.com/bookcrop.html
Download Link	http://nod5.dcmember...wnloads/bookcrop.zip
Author	nod5
Description	1. Drag and drop a folder of jpeg or tif images. 2. BookCrop overlays them all into one preview. 3. Draw a rectangle and click "crop" to lossless crop all images. (4. or Ctrl+draw another rectangle to the right of the first to crop split each image to two files) Use BookCrop on folders with right and left pages before ScanTailor when book scanning. BookCrop is like Briss but for jpeg files. See the application web page for more details and usage tips.
Screenshots
Installation	Unzip BookCrop. Download and install the latest GraphicsMagick (Q8 version is faster) to any folder, BookCrop automatically finds it. Download libjpeg-turbo-1.3.0-gcc.exe (for 64bit get gcc64.exe) or newer and unzip the exe (with 7-zip) and browse to the \bin subfolder and copy jpegtran.exe and libjpeg-62.dll and place next to BookCrop.exe Run BookCrop.exe
Uninstallation	Delete the BookCrop application folder.

Help me out with this:
- test it in Win xp, Vista and Win7 32bit
- let me know if you find any bugs

added updates:
- preview height now adapts to screen height.
- new option: crop to subfolder (keep originals).

edit 2013-06-22: updated the instruction above to fit new files and features
edit 2014-11-14: updated version with split batch job (left right) and rotation

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General Software Discussion / Re: Strategies to stay with Windows 7 as long as possible

« Last post by Nod5 on November 09, 2012, 11:22 AM »

I just want to keep Win7 because I have some unsupported old software that already has trouble running on Win7, so I'd imagine it's unlikely those software would suddenly run better on Win8...

-dr_andus (November 09, 2012, 05:23 AM)

What software? Maybe someone here is familiar with it and can say if it works on Windows 8. I have so far only tried Windows 8 in virtualization but everything I've tried to installed has worked fine.

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Finished Programs / Re: [DONE] lightweight pdf viewer and editor

« Last post by Nod5 on November 08, 2012, 09:27 AM »

Extremely useful, since Sumatra doesn't lock in .pdf files, allowing editing and viewing at the same time.

-Attronarch (November 07, 2012, 04:48 PM)

Nice! I just tested it with a pdf in Sumatra and editor side by side. And indeed as soon as changes are saved in the editor they immediately appear in Sumatra. If some pdf editor can be set to autosave on any change then we could have real-time updates in Sumatra.

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Finished Programs / Re: [DONE] lightweight pdf viewer and editor

« Last post by Nod5 on November 07, 2012, 03:30 PM »

Try this tomos (I have tested it in Acrobat but not Acrobat Reader)

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#IfWinActive, ahk_class AcrobatSDIWindow
F12::
send ^d  ;open file properties
winwaitactive, Document Properties
ControlGetText, xname, Static2, Document Properties
ControlGetText, xpath, Static18, Document Properties
send {esc}
ifexist %xpath%%xname%
 run [full path to pdf-xchange here] "%xpath%%xname%"
return
#IfWinActive

If it doesn't work, open Document Properties in Acrobat Reader and also open AU3_Spy that comes with Autohotkey. Hold the mouse over the filename in the properties window and check the ClassNN value in AU3_Spy. Replace Static2 above with that value. Repeat for the file path part of the properties window.

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Finished Programs / Re: [DONE] lightweight pdf viewer and editor

« Last post by Nod5 on November 05, 2012, 04:00 PM »

Glad you like it. I updated the code with a small improvement.

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Finished Programs / Re: [DONE] lightweight pdf viewer and editor

« Last post by Nod5 on November 05, 2012, 01:16 PM »

I think this Autohotkey script will do what you want. Run it and then press F4 (or change it to some other hotkey) when Sumaptra is active to open the same document in nitro. You only need to change [path_to_nitro_folder] to whatever folder you have nitropdf installed in.

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#IfWinActive, ahk_class SUMATRA_PDF_FRAME
F4::
clipsave := ClipBoardAll
clipboard =
send ^d  ;open file properties
winwaitactive, Document Properties
send ^c  ;copy properties
clipwait
send {esc}
RegExMatch(clipboard, "U)File: (.*\.pdf)\R",xpath)  ;put pdf file path in variable
if xpath1 !=
 run [path_to_nitro_folder]\NitroPDF.exe "%xpath1%"
clipboard := clipsave
return
#IfWinActive

edit: fixed regex code and made run conditional on finding a matching pdf file (not epub or any other file type that Sumatra also supports)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Neowin reviews Windows 8 - Leave your pre-conceived notions at the door

« Last post by Nod5 on October 24, 2012, 12:32 PM »

That was the most informative Win8 review so far. Most of the new start screen stuff seems possible to skip so no problem there (why would anyone want such a thing where there is FARR? ).

 I'm more worried about the Ribbonization of the GUI. Has that been shown possible to disable?

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of ... RAMdisk opinions

« Last post by Nod5 on September 24, 2012, 01:53 PM »

For Windows 7 I recommend ImDisk. It is free and just works.
http://www.ltr-data....pencode.html/#ImDisk 

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Do copy acceleration utilities actually lower file transfer speeds?"

« Last post by Nod5 on August 18, 2012, 05:04 AM »

Ok, but doing a SHA1 check on a 150 MB file takes about 0,3 seconds on my system. So a bit over 0,6 seconds for a hash comparison. That is not so bad, especially compared to how Explorer works now, requestion user attention and delaying the file transfer with a popup window with a lot of text.

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Do copy acceleration utilities actually lower file transfer speeds?"

« Last post by Nod5 on August 13, 2012, 03:50 PM »

A smarter file manager would do a file hash comparison and skip copying that file if the hashes match, all in the background.

-Nod5 (August 12, 2012, 04:44 AM)

That would be pretty disastrous speed-wise - definitely not something you want for a general file-copying routine

-f0dder (August 12, 2012, 11:24 AM)

I think it could be designed to avoid speed-problems in many use cases. First, the hashing would only be done for identical file names in source and target folder. Second, the user could configure how large files to do the automatic hash check for, depending on system speed and user preference. For example if the operation only ran for same named files under 100 Megabytes in size then would there really be any problematic slowdown on computer with a newish CPU? If you are copying thousands of files with name conflicts then yes, delays will add up. But a smart file manager could also calculate the total number of such conflicts prior to operation and, if the number reaches some upper limit, skip auto hashing and display the regular interaction popups (including the checkbox labelled something like "do this action for all similar files"). So smartly designed it could avoid the possible slow-down cases and still save the user time and attention in all other cases.

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Do copy acceleration utilities actually lower file transfer speeds?"

« Last post by Nod5 on August 12, 2012, 04:44 AM »

file copying in Explorer in Windows 7 is sometimes slowed down by having to deal with dialogs like this

It is sometimes useful but I dislike that it pops up even for files that are exact copies. A smarter file manager would do a file hash comparison and skip copying that file if the hashes match, all in the background.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / ScanTailor_multi_core

« Last post by Nod5 on July 25, 2012, 02:09 PM »

ScanTailor_multi_core


Processes step 6 in ScanTailor  two or four times faster via multiple instances on a dual/quad core CPU system.

Made in Autohotkey by nod5 as free software (GPL3).

More details and download

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Find And Run Robot / Launch Everything from FARR as non-admin with UAC on but no prompt

« Last post by Nod5 on July 22, 2012, 12:07 PM »

I've long used the following alias to quickly transfer a search phrase in FARR to an Everything window.
Regular expression pattern box:

^(.*)\s\s$

Results box:

dolaunch C:\Program files\Everything\Everything.exe -search "$$1"

Very handy as you can first search with FARR and, if what you're looking for isn't found in a second or two, just tap space space.  It works when UAC is disabled in Win 7. But with UAC on you get into a dilemma:
If FARR runs as non-admin then UAC prompts you for admin privileges on every Everything launch.
If FARR runs as admin then there's no prompt but instead other problems. E.g. if FARR run as admin launches notepad++ then you can't drop a textfile from Explorer (non-admin) into the notepad++ window (admin).

Here is a workaround that lets you launch Everything with a search parameter from FARR as non-admin with UAC and still get no prompt from UAC. It requires Autohotkey and the Win 7 Task Scheduler.

1. make authotkey scripts
Save as ev.ahk

Run %A_ProgramFiles%\Everything\Everything.exe -search "%clipboard%"

Save as ev2.ahk

Run schtasks.exe /run /TN "ev",,hide

Right click each script and compile. You get ev.exe and ev2.exe .
Choose a folder to keep ev.exe and ev2.exe in. For example C:\test\

2. Create a Task
Task Scheduler > Create Task
Set Name: ev
Check this box: Run with highest privileges
Goto Actions tab > New > C:\test\ev.exe  
(Note: change path to where you put ev.exe and ev2.exe )
Click OK

3. make a new FARR alias
Alias text: whatever you want
Regular expression pattern:

^(.*)\s\s$

Results:

dolaunch copyclip $$1 ;;; C:\test\ev2.exe

(Note: change path to where you put ev.exe and ev2.exe )

Done!   When you now search FARR for "beatles" and add two spaces ("beatles  ") the Everything window will pop up and do a search for "beatles".

References:
- Various posts discuss related issues - search for UAC in the FARR subform
- http://www.techrepub...t-the-uac-prompt/730

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Coding Snacks / Re: Use AutoHotkey to add button to existing window?

« Last post by Nod5 on June 11, 2012, 02:11 PM »

You could create a gui with buttons and then use timer commands to make it always float over the same part of the underlying application. For example, the button could always float to the right of the text "calculator" in the calc.exe titlebar. The button might lag behind a little if you drag the window though.

Another alternative: If the application has controls that AHK can operate on then you can likely also relabel and reuse buttons from the GUI. Start calc.exe and then run this test code. It hides the "sinh" button, relabels "cosh" to ":-)" and takes control over what action to do when you click ":-)", for example show the text "hello world" in a tooltip. edit: though this disables click+drag within the calc window. A better alternative might be to use middle mouse button ( Mbutton ) since click + drag is less commonly used. Then you can keep the native left click functionality of the button.

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Control, Hide,,Button37, ahk_class CalcFrame
ControlSetText, Button38,:-), ahk_class CalcFrame

#IfWinActive, ahk_class CalcFrame
LButton::
WinGet, x, ID, ahk_class CalcFrame
MouseGetPos,,, xwin, xcontrol
if ( x == xwin AND xcontrol = "Button38")
ToolTip, hello world
else
 Click
return
#IfWinActive

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by Nod5 on April 18, 2012, 03:43 PM »

Thanks for control+enter to launch and stay open. Very useful.

When randomly testing it out I ran into a problem launching only one of the test files. Turned out the issue was caused by the file name ending with a space i.e. this bug https://www.donation....php?topic=24037.msg . Not sure if that issue has hung around or reappeared but it is here now.