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General Software Discussion / Re: Toggle 1.5
« Last post by MilesAhead on February 18, 2010, 05:44 PM »
Cripes, do you ever take a break? ;D You talented coder guys never cease to amaze! :)

Hmmmmmmm, do you owe me some money I don't know about or something? :)

Shucks.



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General Software Discussion / Re: Toggle 1.5
« Last post by MilesAhead on February 18, 2010, 05:38 PM »
I wonder if your next project maybe could be to humanize the manual/readme?
- or is it supposed to be from one coder to another?
 :(

It turns to gibberish as I update apparently.  :)
The thing is stabilizing.  Once that happens then I try to go over the readme and make it concise.
This one is a bit more jumbled than usual because I changed the design in the middle.

If you run it out of the box, it will toggle the active window.
If you set a window title, it will toggle any window that contains the
substring.

For example if you want to toggle Opera browser, use Opera as the title.
I'll try to clean up the readme in the next few days.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Macrium Reflect Free version updated to 4.2
« Last post by MilesAhead on February 18, 2010, 01:46 PM »
Nope.  Mine are quiet.  I can barely hear the clicking even though mine is in a docking station on my desk and not enclosed.

I'd get the data off and try to find out if that's ok for that particular model(if it's not a Black) but generally drives + noise = heading south soon.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Toggle 1.5
« Last post by MilesAhead on February 18, 2010, 01:30 PM »
Toggle 1.5 updated on my page.  Now has menu command to set the Window Title to the [ACTIVE] keyword to avoid having to type it into the title change dialog.

If you check out AutoIt3 window title matching in the AutoIt3 help docs you can find other keywords for titles, such as matching by class.  For example, and I noted this in the Readme, using a title of [class:CabinetWClass] at least on my Vista64 PC, matches the last active Explorer window.  The other class keyword for explorer is supposed to be [class:ExploreWClass].  If you don't get a match with one you can try the other.

When playing around with class be careful you don't do stuff like match the taskbar or it might disappear on you. :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Macrium Reflect Free version updated to 4.2
« Last post by MilesAhead on February 18, 2010, 12:57 PM »
Apparently they have it for conventional file backup in the paid version.  Or at least file exclusion anyway.  But not in the image backup.  I used Paragon before and they had file exclusion in my version of the image backup.  The fly in the ointment was if you excluded a folder tree with a lot of files, the 30 minute backup would not start because it would spend I never found out how long telling you about each individual file it was going to exclude.  It was okay for excluding a few disc images or whatnot.

I tried to make that point on Macrium forum.  I'm hoping when they implement the folder tree exclusion they will dodge the "forever reporting" bullet.
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General Software Discussion / FF 3.6 portable is pretty cool
« Last post by MilesAhead on February 18, 2010, 01:10 AM »
I ran across an article on the web how to run Firefox from a ramdisk.  I messed around with it for awhile and decided I really didn't want the ramdisk.  But it got me to try Firefox 3.6 portable. I ended up running it from an external USB drive I always have on.  The reason I did it is sometimes I start some disk intensive job, like a video mux, then remember I want to get or read something from the web.  Well, forget about waiting for FF to load off the same HD that's doing a video mux.  But in those situations I can just launch the portable Firefox.

Using syncplaces it was easy to just download all my bookmarks. I installed a couple of essential AddOns.  Once I killed the splash screen it loaded up nice and spiffy from the USB.


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General Software Discussion / Re: Macrium Reflect Free version updated to 4.2
« Last post by MilesAhead on February 18, 2010, 01:04 AM »
just used Macrium to backup a netbook -- i think acronis has finally outlived it's usefulness for me, mainly because of how invasive and bloated it has become.  was quite pleased with Macrium.


What I've noticed too, is the updates are regular now.  I have paid on one PC and the free on the other.  After I get an update on the paid version, seems like about a week goes by and the free is updated.  Only thing I'm waiting for is a feature to exclude large files from the image backup... like disc images.  They say it's on the todo list for the next version. I assume they are talking about 5.0.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Toggle 1.46
« Last post by MilesAhead on February 16, 2010, 04:23 PM »
Updated to web site v. 1.46.  Now Toggle disables Tray Icon double-click if Window Title is keyword [ACTIVE] as it only makes sense to use the hotkey in that case.  I added Tray Menu commands to change the hotkey, Vista color if Glass enabled.  Also the About Dialog uses Glass if enabled.  The About Dialog shows the current hotkey and window title.

Settings are remembered to Toggle.ini created in the same folder as Toggle.exe.
Memory usage should still be economical since it calls an API to empty the memory working set after each function.  Task Manager seems to show an average range of around 700KB to 3 MB memory usage.

See first post in thread for download page.



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General Software Discussion / Re: Toggle 1.3
« Last post by MilesAhead on February 15, 2010, 09:46 PM »
Latest is v. 1.3 available on my site for download.  Modified it so that when the keyword [ACTIVE] is in use, the active window is checked for a blank title. In this case the toggle function returns taking no action.

As example, if you double-click the Tray Icon to toggle the active window, the icon window itself becomes active, confusing the issue.  When using [ACTIVE] it's best to use the Alt-F11 hotkey.

The test for blank caption should avoid disappearing windows from double clicking the tray icon or toggling while some control without a caption is active and those coordinates being used when you switch to a regular top level window. At least that's the theory.


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General Software Discussion / Re: Toggle 1.2
« Last post by MilesAhead on February 15, 2010, 07:49 PM »
Sorry I polluted your thread.

Not at all.  aamof you inspired me to try out the [ACTIVE] keyword for using it with the active window.  That way I can use it even if I'm not running Firefox. Makes it more general-purpose.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Toggle 1.2
« Last post by MilesAhead on February 15, 2010, 06:59 PM »
With a Explorer window open, behind PromptPal, command prompting C:\Users\Curt\Downloads\RunAndPlace\rw.exe 85 87 [classCabinetWClass] was "not found" by rw.

But thinking about it, I am not sure if an AHK solution is what I would want. I mean, it would always take me to first press a hotkey, before going into action, wouldn't it? I really want something to get&forget.

Sorry I polluted your thread.


In the [class:CabinetWClass] you need a colon ':' between the word 'class' and 'CabinetWClass'  then it should work.

I wasn't thinking about a hotkey.  What I had in mind was something that would sit in the tray, and periodically check for a window of that class and take action.  What I would try to do is have a variable for if the window has already been sized, set to False on startup.  It would look for the window, if it finds it, size and/or position it, then set that variable to True.  Periodically it would poll for that window.  If the window has gone away, it would reset the variable to False.(Thereby avoiding resizing the window every time it sees it. It should only resize once, unless it detects the window was not present since and has opened again.)

It might take a bit of playing around to tune the polling so that it's not making the CPU busy.  But it should be pretty easy to do.  Maybe have an .ini file setting for how long to sleep between checking for the window. That type of thing.

In fact if I get it working for you I may use it myself for Download dialogs. It seems like every so often when I download in Firefox, the window is collapsed instead of showing the folders in the sidebar.  Maybe I can use this to resize it somehow to avoid doing it manually.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Toggle 1.2
« Last post by MilesAhead on February 15, 2010, 03:53 PM »
Ok, can you do an experiment and try:
rw 85 87 [class:CabinetWClass]

in a command prompt and see if it sets the size?
If I know I can use that class name then it should be just
a few lines of AHK.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Toggle 1.2
« Last post by MilesAhead on February 15, 2010, 02:34 PM »
If you don't still have a copy of rw.exe you can get it in this download:

http://www.favessoft.com/RunAndPlace.zip

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Hmm, this whole discussion is going haywire (?)...

Resistance is futile.  :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Toggle 1.2
« Last post by MilesAhead on February 15, 2010, 02:14 PM »
Can such a thing "easily" be changed into making my Explorer window always open with the size 85% x 87.25%, or do I need something entirely different ? I think I probably have too many 'add-ons' and things; my Vista Explorer simply refuses to remember any other size than the wrong one!


Do you want something to change the window size when you press a hotkey or launch something at the size?

If you have the 1.0 version of Toggle, set the percentages, and use the WinTitle [ACTIVE] in brackets just as I've typed it.  Then the hotkey should toggle the active window no matter what it is. (Of course you should only use it with one window or windows will end up directly on top of each other eventually.)

If you want something to automatically resize explorer when it comes up let me know.  The [ACTIVE] gimmick would be the quickest thing to try though.

With the newer version of Toggle it doesn't accept percentages but you could still use [ACTIVE] and just drag the explorer window to the size you want and hit the hotkey to save it.

If neither approach does it, give a bit more detail what you want.  It should be an easy one since I have a couple of programs that watch explorer windows anyway.  It would just be adapting.

edit: you could also use this WinTitle  [class:CabinetWClass]
in the brackets as typed.  Then it would only Toggle the last active Explorer window.  Still, you're likely to end up with windows directly on top of each other.  You could also try it directly with rw.exe
as in:

rw 85 87 [class:CabinetWClass]

after explorer is open.
(assuming rw.exe is in your Path)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Toggle 1.11
« Last post by MilesAhead on February 14, 2010, 09:32 PM »
Updated to v. 1.11.  A few minor bug fixes. Mostly getting the icon color change to kick in when you double-click the Tray Icon to toggle.

v. 1.2 Fixed Tray Icon Tooltip to update when you change the associated window title.



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"Whilst in Hibernation it barely draws".  'Barely draws' what?
It was a rather sketchy remark!
-cranioscopical (February 13, 2010, 09:44 PM)

Hmmm, you sure it's talking about the current version?
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General Software Discussion / Toggle 1.5
« Last post by MilesAhead on February 13, 2010, 01:24 PM »
Toggle may be found on this page: http://www.favessoft.com/hotkeys.html

I have changed the design of Toggle to simply alternate between a "green" and "red" toggle state.  It no longer centers windows. It simply saves the current position and size of the associated window, and moves the window to the other saved position and size.  If the other state has not been initialized, a message dialog pops up to advise you to size and move the window as you like.

It's really for myself to have a hotkey to alternate 2 non-maximized Firefox window sizes.  But especially for browsers you may find it useful.

If you are using a window sizer utility then this is likely way too simple for your taste.

I coded it to just return from the hotkey or mouse double click on the tray icon and do nothing, if the window is in maximized state.  It doesn't try to intercept any windows sizing or movement messages.  It simply uses AutoIt3 functions to remember window size and position and move the window to a saved size/position.

Likely there are still some bugs but I think it's usable as it is at least for a single window browser or editor. If you notice the icon state gets confused or other inconsistency the likely fix is to close it down and delete the Toggle.ini file.  Toggle will create it again on the next run.

Now it enforces single instance and also saves state to an .ini file between runs.
See the included Readme.txt for more info.

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You crack me up man!
-MilesAhead
And I thought you were too hard-boiled for such matters.
-cranioscopical (February 11, 2010, 05:39 PM)

I don't know what to say after that benediction.


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General Software Discussion / Re: Nice write-up for my HalfShell
« Last post by MilesAhead on February 11, 2010, 12:41 PM »
From the reports I get, either it works perfectly on W7 retail 64 bit, or not at all. Must be build or update related.  There must be some update that changes SysWow64\explorer.exe to launch the 64 bit explorer passing along the arguments.

It's one of those "you have to try it on your machine to find out" deals.
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Ah, I wouldn't brew-d about it. :)
And I was about to raise my hops!
-cranioscopical (February 10, 2010, 04:32 PM)

better watch your eggs though... :p
Do I have to shell out for that?
-cranioscopical (February 11, 2010, 09:53 AM)

You crack me up man! :)
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: PuranDefrag V7 now free for home use
« Last post by MilesAhead on February 10, 2010, 09:56 PM »
@MerleOne I'm really starting to like this utility.  It's all I use now for defrag. I do the quickie defrags often.  Then when analyze shows quite a bit of fragmentation I clear out files I don't need, enable all the optimizations, and let it go.  Does a nice job without overkill.

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Heh.  With all the coffee references skwire should rewrite the utility in Java. ;)
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Living Room / Re: A simple "Start Page"
« Last post by MilesAhead on February 10, 2010, 02:04 PM »
No, what I was thinking, since they are using a database format anyway for Bookmarks, you should be able to search on the little descriptions or keywords in the bookmarks database(maybe not that great an idea since I don't have them all filled in, but if this worked then I probably would make a point of it when I saved the Bookmark.)

Say I had a bookmark to a site(fictional) named Histerocity but I can never remember what it's named because I only go there once a year.  If the keywords or descriptions had the word collectables and I type in the keyword with some AddOn, it could pop up all the Bookmarks with that description/keyword.  I have no clue how to do FF AddOn programming.  I don't know how difficult it would be.

I have folders with most of my Bookmarks categorized but there's really more categories than room on the Personal Toolbar(and I've never seen a multiple row wrap hack that worked in FF like Opera has.)  There tends to be some overlap.  Like something could be Documentation but it's strictly Programming Documentation so it might be in either folder.

I guess the alternative would be to periodically export bookmarks as HTML and just load the page to search it.  That might be easier.

edit: for now I exported the bookmarks.html and made a bookmark to the file on disk.  I have to fill in more of the descriptions and keywords for it to be useful though.
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