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General Software Discussion / Re: MD5Hash 1.3

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 23, 2010, 01:21 PM »

MD5Hash 1.3 Now folders are filtered from a file drop, instead of quitting with an error. If folders are found in the drop a count is displayed in a message box after processing completes.  Trying to process a single folder using OK Button displays an error dialog.

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General Software Discussion / Re: MD5Hash 1.2

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 23, 2010, 12:02 PM »

MD5Hash 1.2 I removed the About Button since F1 now handles that chore, and added a Clear Button.  If there are any results in the edit box, it will prompt you to erase them. I updated the screen shot in the first post.

edit: I updated without changing the version number just so that if the results edit box is empty, the Clear Button is disabled.  The update is on the page for download.

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General Software Discussion / Re: My Windows Desktop is a shambles...

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 23, 2010, 11:29 AM »

@app, that's wild! Do you have some way to force categories per line or do you just have everything memorized?

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General Software Discussion / Re: ErrMsg 1.3

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 22, 2010, 10:35 PM »

ErrMsg 1.3 Pressing F1 now displays About Box.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SRWare Iron 5.0.380 beta browser

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 22, 2010, 10:31 PM »

It's great as long as nothing breaks.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: MD5Hash 1.1

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 22, 2010, 10:21 PM »

MD5Hash 1.1 Now pressing F1 key shows About Box.

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General Software Discussion / Re: My Windows Desktop is a shambles...

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 22, 2010, 08:11 PM »

In addition to launchers I like to use StandAlone Stack:
http://www.chrisnsof...com/standalonestack/

It's a freebie.  It's similar to 7Stacks but uses the Stacks library of RocketDock.  The utilities I use the most I have in stacks in the quick launch. Also works in 7 Superbar.  The nice thing compared to 7Stacks is it's easy to edit the stack to change settings.  Just Control-Left Click the mouse on the stack to pop up the program instead of the stack.

edit: As mouser implied, it's a relief to be desktop icon free.  I don't have to worry about a screen mode change hosing my icon set up.  If there was one thing that drove me nuts it was looking to see if AutoArrange was checked.  Now I don't care.

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General Software Discussion / MD5Hash 2.9

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 22, 2010, 07:00 PM »

MD5Hash 1.0 is an x64 only Dialog app to create MD5Sum for files.

I developed it on Vista Home Premium SP1 64 bit.

You may download from this page:
http://www.favessoft.com/downloads.html


Drag & drop one or more files on the dialog.
Or, to process an individual file, type in the
filename or use the Browse Button, then press
OK.

Cancel closes the app, or if it is busy processing, will
prompt to abort the operations.

See the included Readme for particulars.  But, basically,
it's stand-alone. You may just copy to a directory in your
path as it makes no registry settings or .ini files.

It's not the fastest checksum app out there. On my quad core
Core Temp shows about 50% to 60% core usage out of a possible
400%.  But it's faster than my old FileCRC32 without bogging down
your machine.

(thanks to Elmue on Code Project for the md5 c++ algorithm
http://www.codeproje...curity/cryptest.aspx)

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General Software Discussion / Re: SRWare Iron 5.0.380 beta browser

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 22, 2010, 06:05 PM »

Already 6.0.475.1?  You gotta be kidding me? Those Iron guys are making it hard to stay current.

-sajman99 (September 21, 2010, 04:07 PM)

maybe self-updaters won't be far off. hopefully it will be non-intrusive internal updates..

-lanux128 (September 21, 2010, 10:37 PM)

It's almost kinda' creepy. I'm running Chrome dev. channel.  The updates are so silent, the only way I can tell what version I have is to look in the about box.  Although now and then an extension stops working.  Still, it's way less intrusive than FF updates.

Currently I'm running:
7.0.517.8

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General Software Discussion / Re: Control Click for Chrome

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 19, 2010, 06:37 PM »

I combined Control-Click with Transpose, since I always use both functions in Chrome.  Transpose lets you hit Control-t to swap the 2 characters to the left of the caret.  I like that method of fixing typos on the fly. Add class names to the script to add editors/browsers to "EditorGroup" to get Control-t in more apps.

The Control-Click functionality is limited to Chrome. 

[Select]

#SingleInstance force
#NoEnv
SendMode Input
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%
GroupAdd,EditorGroup, ahk_class TFormEditPadLite  ;EditPadLite
GroupAdd,EditorGroup, ahk_class wxWindowClassNR   ;FBIde
GroupAdd,EditorGroup, ahk_class SciTEWindow       ;Scite
GroupAdd,EditorGroup, ahk_class MAINFBEDIT        ;FBEdit
GroupAdd,EditorGroup, ahk_class Notepad           ;Notepad
GroupAdd,EditorGroup, ahk_class TFormMain         ;TreePad
GroupAdd,EditorGroup, ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_0   ;Chrome Browser
GroupAdd,EditorGroup, ahk_class MozillaUIWindowClass ;Firefox Browser

#IfWinActive, ahk_Group EditorGroup
^t::
  ClipSaved := ClipboardAll ; save entire clipboard
  Clipboard= ; clear clipboard
  Send {Shift Down}{Left}{Shift Up} ; select char left of caret
  Send ^c ; copy char
  ClipWait,0 ;give copy time to complete
  ; the caret is positioned to insert
  ; the char from the clipboard. Editor
  ; must be in Insert Mode for it to work.
  ; The char is inserted, and caret positon restored.
  ;
  Send {Right}
  Send {BackSpace}
  Send {Left}
  Send {Raw}%Clipboard% ; avoid puntuaction being interpreted
  Send {Right}
  Clipboard := ClipSaved
  ClipSaved = ; free memory
Return

#IfWinActive, ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_0
^LButton::
  Send, ^+{LButton}
Return

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General Software Discussion / Re: BD Rebuilder Beta

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 19, 2010, 06:29 PM »

0.34.11 released - I'm trying out the CRF one pass mode.  I'm going to compare the save video one pass ABR with output from one pass CRF.  The one pass CRF takes about 10 minutes longer since it takes some sample readings before doing the one pass encode.  The encoding pass seems to be the same speed for both methods, at least if one trial is any indicator.

edit: so far it looks like, for my setup, I get the most bang per buck using one pass ABR. The CRF pass I did looked exactly the same but took 10 minutes longer due to the sample gathering step.

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General Software Discussion / Re: GlassPrompt 1.1

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 19, 2010, 03:04 PM »

Oh, you mean the "upper-left-corner" icon rather than what's shown in explorer? Yeah, that requires code.

-f0dder (September 19, 2010, 02:50 PM)

The way he did it was pretty neat though.  I can recall using LoadImage in Delphi similar to how MS suggests.  Delphi let you assign icons to custom controls, but if you made an ActiveX control out of them, you had to kludge it yourself to get the custom icon to display a design time icon when dropped on a form. But I'll say one thing for the Delphi 5 wizard created ActiveX. If it installed in the IDE it worked as expected.  Usually the biggest headache was getting the thing to stay in the toolbox.

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General Software Discussion / Re: GlassPrompt 1.1

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 19, 2010, 02:55 PM »

In Windows Seven it shows up easily.  They must have improved the scrollbar draw when it's glass.

-MilesAhead (September 15, 2010, 04:37 PM)

Indeed they did! This was why it didn't work pre Win7.

-Eóin (September 19, 2010, 10:59 AM)

Interesting link. I'm not a habitual console drag dropper(I saw an article saying how great VistaSwitcher was so I hit Alt-Tab only to find I already had it installed... guess I don't Atl-Tab much) but I did notice a lot of griping about it when Vista first came on the scene.

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General Software Discussion / Re: GlassPrompt 1.1

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 19, 2010, 02:46 PM »

Adding your application as the application icon? Simple - define it as the first icon in the resource file (or rather, the icon with the lowest identifier number; usually you use 100, but afaik anything goes, as long as it's the lowest). I think it's actually the shell (explorer.exe) that chooses to show the lowest icon number, rather than having anything to do with the resource editor or compiler.

-f0dder (September 19, 2010, 02:32 PM)

That works fine with standard win32 apps.  No joy in this probably because the win32 template where all the icon handles are set is not used.

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General Software Discussion / Re: GlassPrompt 1.1

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 19, 2010, 02:36 PM »

Although it would have been a tad more useful if he showed adding your own icon as the application icon as that's the more common case then sticking it in a picture box.

-MilesAhead (September 19, 2010, 01:32 PM)

Perhaps he followed the MSVS resource editors behavior a bit too closely, as I've always found it to be a bit of a PITA for much the same reason.

-Stoic Joker (September 19, 2010, 02:25 PM)

Heh. As soon as I wrote that it prompted me to look at his one liner for setting the dialog icon again.  I got it to work by using the same trick MS programmers do in the win32 template.  Copy hInstance given in WinMain to the global hInst.  Then just use MAKEINTRESOURCE macro for my custom icon id.  More elegant than the use of LoadImage as shown in the MSDN example.

Instead of his init dialog line
SetClassLongPtr(hDlg, GCLP_HICON, (long)LoadIcon(0, IDI_APPLICATION));

I just used
SetClassLongPtr(hDlg, GCLP_HICON, (long)LoadIcon(hInst, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_ICON)));


bah... I hate making all the newb mistakes all over again though.  Not linking with MT switch and getting dll dependency booby trapped all over again!!

But at least it's a way of doing stand-alone exe with a gui editor that emits pretty small code for small utils.

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General Software Discussion / Re: GlassPrompt 1.1

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 19, 2010, 01:32 PM »

I definitely prefer to use .rc files when doing simple-ish GUIs for ligthweight C++ apps. Once you need anything fancy (like auto-resizing), you're better off using some framework...

Thanks for the ResEdit link

-f0dder (September 19, 2010, 08:55 AM)

In this Code Project article he provides skeleton code for a dialog app using the editor:

http://www.codeproje...dit.aspx?msg=3102372

Although it would have been a tad more useful if he showed adding your own icon as the application icon as that's the more common case then sticking it in a picture box.

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General Software Discussion / ErrMsg 1.3

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 18, 2010, 03:46 PM »

ErrMsg 1.2  ErrMsg has been reworked to use an EditBox.  Now the error text may be copied/pasted using the clipboard.  Also it has been recompiled to remove the MSVCR100.DLL dependency.

It's only been tested on English systems and only returns Windows system error messages. It is free for you to use at your own risk.  You may download here:

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

Also Softpedia should update the listing to 1.2 soon.

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General Software Discussion / Re: HCenc beta

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 18, 2010, 01:46 PM »

New HCenc beta

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/HC

-MilesAhead (April 07, 2010, 09:01 PM)

HCenc 0.24 is no longer beta. Works great without any problems here. I'm sure I'll be moving to BD Rebuilder at some point, but this amazing encoder has been great for good 'ole standard DVD.

-sajman99 (September 18, 2010, 12:43 PM)

I just did a run with it last night.  I was a bit paranoid when it started to encode and changed my max of 9000 kbit to 9400 .. but I guess he knows what he's doing.  The output looked great. It's a shame FAVC has some quirks. I would like to find a reliable way to run HC Enc concurrently an instance per core.. even if it was just to do the video encode section of the job.  I'll have to investigate the params and see if it's easy to have each instance work on a different video section and piece it together.  The multi-threading uses only about 1/2 my CPU power so I'm thinking there's got to be room to run at least 2 instances.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: New MakeMKV beta 1.6.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 18, 2010, 01:41 PM »

v. 1.6.0 out today.  I've done a run with it.  Seems normal.

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General Software Discussion / Re: BD Rebuilder Beta

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 18, 2010, 01:35 PM »

Thanks for the ongoing reports of BD Rebuilder's progress. 'tis much appreciated.

-sajman99 (September 18, 2010, 12:47 PM)

btw I did try LAVF setting on my 64 bit Vista.  I got staccato video whereas the 32 bit ordinary methods worked fine.  Seems it varies wildly from machine to machine and video to video. From what I read on the BDRB thread, the speed improvement expected should be in the 5% range at least with Phenom II.  I got over 11% speed increase on the bad run with my Phenom I.. so a bit suspicious.  The output looked like frames were missing.

But the standard way of doing it with 32 bit tools seems to incrementally improve.  The GUI keeps settings now between runs as expected.

Just for grins I did an HCEnc with the latest out of beta 0.24 and the 4 hour video encode looked pretty much the same as BDRB encoding using "good" abr one pass taking less than the run time of the film.  Also with the HCEnc I used a DVD9 to give it some bits to work with, whereas BDRB now I just use BD5 target size.  Seems to fit 9 Lbs of video into a 5 Lb bag.

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General Software Discussion / Re: GlassPrompt 1.1

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 17, 2010, 06:54 PM »

If you want small C++ exes, check out http://ibsensoftware.com/download.html - Jibz recently upgraded WCRT to have VS2010 support

-f0dder (September 05, 2010, 04:07 AM)

btw, I tried => operator once in c# and was hooked. So I had to install vc++ 2010 Express. Works with the ResEdit freebie:

http://www.resedit.net/

I reimplemented an old error display utility to use an edit box for cut & paste of the error msg.
vc++ release using the produced .rc file and low res custom icon was less than 20 KB.

edit: looks like it's actually 58 KB if you compile without the msvcr100.dll dependency.  Still, that's not bad for a stand-alone exe.



I know you can do the same thing just in code but I enjoy lining stuff up with the editor.

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General Software Discussion / Re: BD Rebuilder Beta

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 16, 2010, 01:55 PM »

v. 0.34.10 released today.

http://forum.doom9.o...=143716&page=478

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tray 2.5.0.3

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 15, 2010, 08:39 PM »

I ran across a nice open source CD emulator software WinCDEmu:

http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/

For simple image mounting this software has several traits that make it convenient.
1) You don't have to allocate a drive letter until you mount an image.

2) The reason for my post.. if you use Tray Open Button on the drive letter, the image is unmounted just as if you selected Eject from the drive letter context menu.

3) At least on Vista, it went on, mounted and unmounted an image without rebooting the PC after install. PC World gave it a glowing review. In this case simple is good.  The emulator I was using had about 20 tray commands I never used.

The only reason I brought it up was AutoIt3 said the Open command I use in Tray should work with virtual drives.  This is the first one I tried that actually unmounted in response. Just makes it a bit more convenient than going into a tray sub menu. Of course the emulator software itself is set up to be convenient.  Double click of a supported image file mounts the image.  No messing around in tray icon sub menu to get to mount/unmount.  Also it supports mounting more than one image according to the site.

here's the PC World review:

http://www.pcworld.c...250/description.html

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General Software Discussion / Re: GlassPrompt 1.1

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 15, 2010, 04:37 PM »

btw it looks a lot better in Windows Seven than in Vista.  Evidently there are some things in the composition engine 7 has that Vista doesn't. If you look carefully in Vista it's difficult to see the vertical scroll thumb.  In Windows Seven it shows up easily.  They must have improved the scrollbar draw when it's glass.

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General Software Discussion / Re: GlassPrompt 1.1

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 15, 2010, 04:35 PM »

You could try it.  I run with UAC off. I have no desire to change my settings for an experiment. Just running ShellExecute cmd.exe gest an admin prompt on my system. I haven't had any other feedback about people not being able to do what they want to do so... if it ain't broke..