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[niemiro]

Nice little program that!

 

[MilesAhead]

Nice little program that!

Thanks. I had an old Delphi5 checksum program that I modeled it after. I just installed VC++ 2010 and the 7.1 platform sdk. To my surprise it wasn't difficult, at least for plain API programs, to set up for 64 bit. I've been waiting for a free compiler that would let me do native 64 bit apps.

Now I just have to think of something easy I haven't done already.

edit: btw I just updated. Got rid of the About Button since F1 handles that now and added a Clear Button, to prompt to erase results from the edit box.



edit: updated to 1.3. Folders are filtered from drag & drop rather than quitting with an error.

 

[niemiro]

I was just so lucky that I managed to get Visual Studio 2010 Professional Edition for free (completely legally) I have used so many of the extra features. Shame about not have the new FXCOP substitute in Professional though. However, thorough code checking and FXCOP has dealt with it all so far. Just would have been nice...

 

[niemiro]

BTW, have you tried out XNA? I tried it out for a very simple, two day 2D game several months back, and I really loved it. I only had one problem. Although it is the replacement for Managed DirectX, you still need another run time, and this has the feel of a drag and drop game. It is my impression (I may be wrong) that if I created an XNA game to show to friends, it would feel like a drag and drop creation to less knowledgeable power users. I guess this puts me off, and puts me back to Direct3D, as it seems less professional, even though the coding is just as good, just C# (they decided not to implement VB. Best decision ever. If I had my way I would scrap VB!)

I think I should try out Direct2D, just to see what it is all about soon.

 

[MilesAhead]

I was just so lucky that I managed to get Visual Studio 2010 Professional Edition for free (completely legally) I have used so many of the extra features. Shame about not have the new FXCOP substitute in Professional though. However, thorough code checking and FXCOP has dealt with it all so far. Just would have been nice...

The last vc++ pro I had was 6. I thought it was big then. I had a 20 GB drive with 4 operating systems on it. Drove me nuts because I tried to use one install for both Win98 and Win2K. Every time I changed a feature I had to reboot and try to duplicate it on the other OS. What a pita!! The visual studio itself worked fairly well with the duplicate settings pita. It was MSDN Library docs that just wouldn't play well with others. I didn't have broadband back then.

 

[MilesAhead]

BTW, have you tried out XNA? I tried it out for a very simple, two day 2D game several months back, and I really loved it. I only had one problem. Although it is the replacement for Managed DirectX, you still need another run time, and this has the feel of a drag and drop game. It is my impression (I may be wrong) that if I created an XNA game to show to friends, it would feel like a drag and drop creation to less knowledgeable power users. I guess this puts me off, and puts me back to Direct3D, as it seems less professional, even though the coding is just as good, just C# (they decided not to implement VB. Best decision ever. If I had my way I would scrap VB!)

I think I should try out Direct2D, just to see what it is all about soon.

I never got much into the computer gaming thing. I liked Pinball. I enjoyed giving it the body English without tilting. More of an overall feeling than pressing buttons.

 

[niemiro]

I can't really say that I am a computer game programmer, with one tiny 2D game under my belt. It was alright, but nothing special. I have done lots of little Windows Forms applications since then though, and have enjoyed them much more, just I think that my next project will be a tiny 3D game, just to do something different. Hopefully I can pull it off! Got a couple on months on my current project first, though!

 

[MilesAhead]

I can't really say that I am a computer game programmer, with one tiny 2D game under my belt. It was alright, but nothing special. I have done lots of little Windows Forms applications since then though, and have enjoyed them much more, just I think that my next project will be a tiny 3D game, just to do something different. Hopefully I can pull it off! Got a couple on months on my current project first, though!

I'm sorry. When I read your post I was kind of lost. I didn't realize you coded it. It just seemed like you mentioned this game out of the blue. Not knowing much about computer games I assumed my confusion was due to not knowing anything about computer games.

I know what you mean though. Back around the turn of the century I was obsessed with shell extensions. Mainly because it seemed to be this secret the paid apps had that you couldn't code. Then I found a Shell Extension Wizard that worked in VC++ 6. After busting it for ages I got a shell extension property page based app to work. Needless to say, nobody really cared since Windows didn't make it all that snappy to use. My most popular program so far is a little doodad to open or close the optical drive door. Coded it in AutoIt3 in a couple of hours. I learned my lesson. Keep it simple unless you are getting paid big bucks.

 

[niemiro]

I think that we were both as confused as each other then! 'tis a nice little app that, and it looks pretty!

 

[MilesAhead]

I think that we were both as confused as each other then! 'tis a nice little app that, and it looks pretty!

Thanks. I think that was the first AutoIt3 I did with a GUI.

 

[MilesAhead]

SrtStrip

Here's a small utility for the Windows command line that removes one character angle bracket tags(such as italic <i> and </i>) from .srt subtitle files.

It's just a small AutoHotKey program. Here's the source

#NoEnv
#NoTrayIcon
SendMode Input

If 0 < 1
{
	MsgBox, 64, SrtStrip Usage, SrtStrip Copyright (c) 2010 www.FavesSoft.com`n`nUsage: SrtStrip filename.srt`n`nOutput is subtitle filename.srt.strip stripped of <> tags
	ExitApp
}

InFile := %0%
OutFile := InFile . ".strip"
 IfExist,%OutFile%
    FileDelete,%OutFile%
	
Loop, read, %InFile%,%OutFile%
{
    result := RegExReplace(A_LoopReadLine,"</?.>")
	FileAppend,%result%`n
}

or you can download the compiled exe from my page here:

Faves Downloads

Just search for SrtStrip

To process an entire folder full of .srt file, make sure SrtStrip.exe is in a folder that's in your PATH. Open a command prompt in the folder with the .srt files. Run this command:

for %s in (*.srt) do SrtStrip %s

for every filename.srt you had now you will also have a filename.srt.strip

The original is not changed. Just move the .strip files to another folder and use a renamer to chop the .strip extension off. Someone on another forum asked me for this and I hate seeing those <i> tags in the dialog anyway.

That's all it does. No bells, no whistles.

edit: I've updated SrtStrip to 1.2. I've added removal of tags that use an opening and closing curly brace on a line such as {a6}. Download from my page to get v. 1.2.

 

[niemiro]

Very slick!

 

[MilesAhead]

Transpose 1.3.0.0

I made a small hotkey program using AutoHotKey to change a few mouse and keyboard hotkeys in programs I use frequently.

The main reason I wrote it was to make Control-t transpose the 2 characters left of the caret. The most common typo I make is reversed characters. By hitting Control-t I can fix it on the fly("thsi" after Control-t becomes "this" as I originally intened.) Since I run that in the Task Tray all the time now, I added a few other changes.

As it is when you download, the Control-t works in
EditPad Lite, Notepad, Treepad, a few other editors, and Firefox and Chrome based Browsers.

Also it changes how links are opened in tabs in Chrome based browsers.

Here's the other thing, I was trying One Click to Open in Windows, but it messed up multiple selection in Explorer. So I went back to double click, but via Transpose, Middle Mouse Click is treated as double click only in Explorer Windows. Kind of best of both worlds.

Your preferences will be different. So I included the AHK source code. You can install AutoHotKey on your system if you don't already have it. It's a free download and free program:

AutoHotkey - Free Mouse and Keyboard Macro Program with Hotkeys and AutoText

By following how I did it in the source you can change it to suit yourself, then compile it or just run the script through ahk.

It's pretty neat because you can add editors by adding a line in the AHK script to GroupAdd the editor. The hotkey is only changed when one of those in the group is the active window. Avoids conflict with programs that use Control-t or the other hotkeys.

The download includes the source. You can get it from my site here:

Hotkeys

Just click the Transpose link.

Note that if you are running one of the recent Chromium nightly builds, clicking to open a Tab in Foreground may be broken. I submitted a bug report to Chromium. I'm running Chromium build 63747 and new Tab in Foreground works with this build(and I assume most earlier builds.)

See the Readme for instructions to add programs to the EditGroup.

 

[MilesAhead]

TimeStampCalc

Here's another one done by skwire of donationcoder by request.

I wanted an easy way to total up the track times of albums listed on AllMusic. If there's 6 or more tracks it's a pain to key them in a time calculator.

skwire cooked up this paste pad called TimeStampCalc:

Idea : Time Calculator that accepts a column paste of mm:ss - DonationCoder.com

Just select the track info on AllMusic or another site that uses MM:SS format to show the track times. Paste it in. The program scans the text and adds the times showing the total at the bottom. Very neat.

 

[pacinitaly]

Re: TimeStampCalc

Here's another one done by skwire of donationcoder by request.

I wanted an easy way to total up the track times of albums listed on AllMusic. If there's 6 or more tracks it's a pain to key them in a time calculator.

skwire cooked up this paste pad called TimeStampCalc:

Idea : Time Calculator that accepts a column paste of mm:ss - DonationCoder.com

Just select the track info on AllMusic or another site that uses MM:SS format to show the track times. Paste it in. The program scans the text and adds the times showing the total at the bottom. Very neat.

I can't find the post, but a member is looking for just said app

 

[MilesAhead]

Re: TimeStampCalc

Here's another one done by skwire of donationcoder by request.

I wanted an easy way to total up the track times of albums listed on AllMusic. If there's 6 or more tracks it's a pain to key them in a time calculator.

skwire cooked up this paste pad called TimeStampCalc:

Idea : Time Calculator that accepts a column paste of mm:ss - DonationCoder.com

Just select the track info on AllMusic or another site that uses MM:SS format to show the track times. Paste it in. The program scans the text and adds the times showing the total at the bottom. Very neat.

I can't find the post, but a member is looking for just said app

Um, I'm the member. It was written for me.
Just search on TimeStampCalc and you'll see a link to the zip file.

 

[pacinitaly]

Re: TimeStampCalc

Here's another one done by skwire of donationcoder by request.

I wanted an easy way to total up the track times of albums listed on AllMusic. If there's 6 or more tracks it's a pain to key them in a time calculator.

skwire cooked up this paste pad called TimeStampCalc:

Idea : Time Calculator that accepts a column paste of mm:ss - DonationCoder.com

Just select the track info on AllMusic or another site that uses MM:SS format to show the track times. Paste it in. The program scans the text and adds the times showing the total at the bottom. Very neat.

I can't find the post, but a member is looking for just said app

Um, I'm the member. It was written for me.
Just search on TimeStampCalc and you'll see a link to the zip file.

 

[MilesAhead]

Re: TimeStampCalc

I can't find the post, but a member is looking for just said app

Um, I'm the member. It was written for me.
Just search on TimeStampCalc and you'll see a link to the zip file.

I should have posted a link to the exact message in the thread containing the download link. Didn't think of it. Here it is:

Idea : Time Calculator that accepts a column paste of mm:ss - DonationCoder.com

 

[aher]

thanks buddy

 

[ilikefree]

Show/Hide desktop icons This little script will let you add a short cut to the quick launch to show or hide your desktop icons.
Put it in a tools folder and leave it there,right click on the exe and pin it to quick launch.Once there you can right click and go to properties and change the icon from the standard to any you have.

Attached Files

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