What are Coding Snacks?

Coding Snacks represent the best of DonationCoder.

On a special section of our forum, anyone can post an idea for a small custom utility/program.

Coders who hang out on our forum keep an eye out for interesting requests and when they see one that catches their interest, they code it and release it to the public for free.

People who find the tools useful are encouraged to donate directly to the coders to show their appreciation.

Forum Links:

  • Browse completed coding snacks: here.
  • Browse and submit new requests: here.
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What are Coding Snacks?

Coding snacks are small custom utilities written by coders who hang out on DonationCoder in response to requests posted on our forum.

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DetachVideo - Give embedded videos their own window!

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Detach embedded videos from your tabbed browser and show them in a window of their own.

Usage: Hold your mouse over a video and press F12.

Skrommel

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Re: H E L P !!!  I lost a spreadsheet!

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Do you ever click NO by accident on the dialog asking if you want to save your changes?

I once made an AHK script for a friend as he kept running into situations like this. Assuming you use Microsoft Excel, maybe you'll find it useful too.. this script monitors and disables the "No" button in the dialog box that prompts up when trying to close an unsaved file. (see pic).

P.S. in case you really need to close a file without saving, there is a hotkey (Win+p) that will turn off the monitoring for 10 seconds.

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Coding Snack: IconAnyFolder - Autopick custom icons for folders based on resources in folder

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IconAnyFolder v0.1 - First Release (written in C#)

Features
- a user prompt for specifying directory
- an option loop recursively into subdirectories
- a cleanup option that runs through and deletes all desktop.ini files, or removes the icon entries in them
- If the first icon resource (exe) the script encounters does not have an icon present, move to the next resource.

This program was written in response to a request on the forum: "Basically, I want a function similar to the way Windows will sometimes change folder icons based on what's inside them, except I want the .ico or .exe icons present inside the folder to be used instead of icons of stock images of music notes or flowers. This is one of those things that sounds simple to a non-programmer, lucky me if it actually ends up being simple to execute."

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Coding Snack: MiniMe (aka MaxiMe)

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I needed this quickly so whipped up this AHK script to quickly minimize or maximize windows using right shift and control. I got really frustrated with the fact there is no windows shortcut to minimize the active window. If you're like me and have many window open then consider using minimIZE to minimize windows to a small desktop thumbnail (and out of your taskbar). In combination with that, this script can make windows management a lot less painless.

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File note

Back in 1999, Moonsoftware released a little app called FileNote. I used it so much it became second nature but when I moved up to a 64 bit OS it no longer worked. I emailed Moonsoftware about when it might be upgraded to 64 bit but received no response. It really is a neat little utility and when I ran across your site I thought it might be well to check since you guys seem to have talent bubbling out of your ears!
From the Moonsoftware page:

"FileNote is a little shell extension that allows you to add textual descriptions to your files. It adds one command to the shell context menu of a file object. This command lets you easily edit or create a text file that has the same name as the initial file, but with the extension TXT. For example, if you have a file, MyImage.jpg, you right-click on that file and choose the FileNote command from the context menu. A new text file called MyImage.txt is created and Notepad is opened to edit that text file. If a text file with that name already exists, it will be opened for viewing/editing.

Does anyone have any ideas what could be done to make it work on a 54 bit OS?

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Coding Snack: Drive to open on Dated folder

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Hi Coders

I have a partioned drive which I download programs, web pages, etc.to .  almost on a daily basis. This is done mostly through a program downloader (called DOWNLOADER) it automatically archives the programs etc into a dated folder ie 20/01/ 2008.
I leave these in the folders there in which they are archived in until they are needed.

What I want to be able to is to open the today’s dated archived folder when I access the drive which there are on.

This hopefully would be be done from a shortcut from the desktop.
The coded program would have to locate the (today’s)dated folder if it exists and if a today's dated folder doesn’t exist open the drive as normal .
The date format is dd/mm/yyyy



Continue reading and download the utility written to do this..


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