Ration posted:

Super Dude posted:

Maybe I'm having a brain fart, but I don't understand what you're trying to do. When you refer to 'A', is that a person, a district, or something else entirely? Is there a reason why setting up a database would be such a problem for IT? It's a very simple process, especially for something being used internally by your company.

Arrath posted:

I'd like to rip some models from a mod of an old game (Star Trek: Armada) and I've found a plugin that will let me import the models into modeling software. It would work fine, except that the modding community was (The site of the guys that made this plugin isn't even up anymore) a bunch of spergs, the importer only works on stock models, not any added by mods. Gotta protect their 10 year old models from assholes like me.

Luckily, the download includes the plugin source code. Would any of you fine chaps mind cutting out the check that prevents me from importing non-stock models, and compiling a new .dll?

I've uploaded the soure: http://www.mediafire.com/?ho4nco3vrof5j1h

The check is defined at line 152 and called at 233. Unfortunately reading the code is about as far as my amateur skill goes, I've been mucking with it in visual studio for a while now and haven't made any progress.

Sri.Theo posted:

Is is possible to write a programme that detects whether video is playing and automatically uses the media keys?

nuvan posted:

Try this: http://www.mediafire.com/?7vnn7ld5o9wloml

Basically, you pretty much had it done. The validate function you found is function that returns a bool (true or false). All the function does internally is create a string containing what looks like the names of all the stock models in the game, searches through them, and then returns whether (true) or not (false) it found that model name. Fixing it was simply a matter of commenting out the entire function body, and replacing it with

code:

return true;

Hopefully the zip I uploaded works for you. Built on Win7-x64/VC++ 2010, but I don't think the fact that my system is 64-bit will cause a problem.

I just zipped up the entire output folder, but I think all you'll need is the msSODImporter.dll file.

Flipperwaldt posted:

This seems doable in AutoIt with my level of experience, so I'll take a look at it. What I'll need, however, is a list of the media keys you want supported and the regular key they correspond to on your laptop.

Like:
PgUp=Play/Pause
End=Stop
etc

EDIT
Here's a thing I made that works for me. You can edit which media key corresponds with which keyboard key in the ini file. You can also set the name of the process that triggers the translation there. Keep .exe and .ini file in the same folder. There's not a trace of error checking, so you can make the thing not work by messing up the .ini-file, so maybe keep a copy of that until you've got it figured out.

The .au3-file is the source, if you want a good laugh, not needed for execution.

Ration posted:

OS: Windows XP
Email client: Outlook 2003

Long shot request, as I don't know how "tiny" that my request is.

In my job, I call people to go fix stuff. The system that we use now is a book of people with their corresponding areas, a sheet of paper to write what happened and who went to fix it, and a fax to send it to one person. I'd love to be able to get all of this streamlined into one "tiny" app.

I'd like to be able to input 2 fields, all alphanumeric, that pull data from 2 predefined columns in an excel spreadsheet. (Example:

code:

Input: Z 59382.43 
Returns: Z 59382.43 Somewhere St. Somewhere Town, State, Person, Home Tel, Cell)

If a field is null, I'd like "N/A" to be represented.
I can put all of these fields in an SQL database if it is required, but getting IT to allow me is going to be a bitch. Plain text is best.

The way that it works is person A is assigned A 1 through A 9999.99. Person C is assigned C 1 through C 9999.99.

For each range (A 1 - A 9999.99) there is a list of people who will go fix poo poo. Each list is unique in order, partially unique in name. Person A will go to Person C's area, but not person Z's. Person A is second to be called on person B's area, and 5th to be called on person E's. ect ect.

lovely MS Paint mockup:

Link for those safari users

"District A" is one of a few choices. This field corresponds with Field A and Field Name.
Field "A" is a letter, always will be.
Field "Somewhere St" corresponds with Field A and 1234.43.
Field "Somewhere Town" same as above.
Field "Tel" corresponds with Field "name" AND all of the above.
Field "Name" same as above, less name.
Field "Home/Cell" I would like to be radio boxes.
Blank field to the left of Field "Name" should be a second time field.

I don't care where/how any of the fields are displayed. I'd prefer if the Tel field was to the right, as pictured, for ease of use.

Two other things that I would like:
"Vacation" setting. A method to input a time in which calling a field (Entering an input that corresponds with a name) can be skipped as a result of that person being on vacation/rest time.
Email setting. Once the form has been completed, I'd like all data collected (Less the Field "Tel") to stored and automatically emailed. This is not necessary. If you just put a button on there and allow the data to be put into some soft of form (Maybe coordinates on a jpg image), that'd be awesome.

After typing up all of this, I realize that it is not "tiny", at least to me. Perhaps someone who does this poo poo daily can whip it together in no time. If not, perhaps I'll have to pay someone.

Sri.Theo posted:

It works fantastic thanks! Exactly what I wanted, hope it didn't take you too much work.

It's also nice that the home/end keys still work as long as no media is playing.

So er, can I chance my luck with another request? I'd like the volume slider to go up in larger increments when I use the volume keys. Rather then the tiny increments it uses now is it possible to write a script that makes it go up and down in around 6 large ones?

Thinking about it, it would be really nice if these were standard options in Windows.

Flipperwaldt posted:

Updated MediaKeyTranslate!

Same caveats as before. Now there's a section in the .ini file that allows you to set the number of times the {VOLUME_UP}/{VOLUME_DOWN} key is sent when the corresponding keyboard key is pressed.

LittleBob posted:

I need a program to automatically compose and send an email in Thunderbird, including an attachment. I know this part is possible through VBS or just a .bat, but I need it to go one step further and ask the user for a number before doing so. After sending the email, it should then overwrite the file it attached with a standard template, so they can repeat the process without deleting the last set of text etc.

(Basically, this company has switched to VoIP, and in the process has lost their fax machines. Whilst I could get them an analogue adaptor so they could still fax, I'd like to avoid that. They can fax by sending attachments to <faxnumber>@nul.com or whatever, so I'd like to automate the process.)

I know nothing of Windows and it's strange wizardry, so can someone tell me if this is possible?

LittleBob posted:

(Basically, this company has switched to VoIP, and in the process has lost their fax machines. Whilst I could get them an analogue adaptor so they could still fax, I'd like to avoid that. They can fax by sending attachments to <faxnumber>@nul.com or whatever, so I'd like to automate the process.)

ToxicFrog posted:

Wouldn't it be easier to just send the email directly using an SMTP library rather than invoking Thunderbird to do it?

The Pell posted:

I'm looking for an OS X app (or applescript) where I can choose multiple disk images and the app can partition a disk and deploy all images.

I wrote a simple bash script that basically does what I want, except that I need to modify the script every time an image changes. It would be great if I can click and drag images (or select through a prompt) to a list, and then have the program create the appropriate partitions and restore the images.

Something like this:


Disk [disk1]
APM [X] GUID [ ]
HFS [ ] HFS+ [X] FAT [ ]
Image---------Partition Name---Size
image1.dmg----Stuff------------10G
image2.dmg----Things-----------15G
...
image16.dmg---What Nots--------5G

Metroid48 posted:

If you have adblock installed it'd be the best solution - just block divs with id "hdrBoard". Then it wouldn't even load.

If not, here's the javascript that will do it:

code:

document.getElementById('hdrBoard').style.display = 'none';

I haven't used Opera but looks like there's a User Javascript feature that will let it work.

feld posted:

haven't tested it quite yet but i do want to see everything i just want the actual scores blacked out or something.

Metroid48 posted:

Oh. Again, not an Opera user, but a User CSS of something like this will work:

code:

div.score {
display: none !important;
}

Factory Factory posted:

Odd request: a program which generates random strings of the characters of the English alphabet + space + comma + period, and when a substring matches a known dictionary word (say, of at least three characters), the program pauses and displays the generated sentence. String length can be fixed (preferably not too long) or perhaps configurable by a text input.

Basically an infinite monkeys program that isn't limited to Shakespeare nor bothers to keep the detritus output around.

I'd love the source code, too, to play around with, but that's optional.

Inspired by Library of Babel.

Factory Factory posted:

Every time it finds a word. I realize this will produce a lot of junk, and it would be interesting (but also more complex to program) to have more rigid standards, but this would do for a start. In my mind, the interface is just three elements:

* String length input
* Text output
* "generate next" button

Maybe to aid analysis, a "time to output" counter, too, showing time elapsed from clicking the button to getting an output.

tarepanda posted:

Could I request a tiny custom Android app here, or is that asking too much?

Doctor w-rw-rw- posted:

Whatcha need?

OnceIWasAnOstrich posted:

OnceIWasAnOstrich posted:

A silly program

peepsalot posted:

Lists are bad for lookups, you are doing O(n) for every is_word check, where n is number of words in dictionary. Use a set instead, it's like 100x faster.

peepsalot posted:

Lists are bad for lookups, you are doing O(n) for every is_word check, where n is number of words in dictionary. Use a set instead, it's like 100x faster.

mobby_6kl posted:

I was planning to use a hashing function that would be more efficient for such lookups. How are actually the sets in Python (?) implemented?

peepsalot posted:

This is less of a request for an app, and more request for suggestions on what languages/libraries/etc you might use to build a specific kind of app. I wasn't sure where else to ask general programming thing like this.

quote:

I would like to make a simple GUI based application that does some web scraping. basically load up a couple pages that are on servers which I do not control, and grep the source for some particular textual data that the user can specify. My first thought about this sort of thing is to just go with HTML/javascript, as that is the one sort of GUI thing that makes most sense to me, and Javascript is already geared towards handling HTML docs, but then I cringe once I start thinking about jumping through all these hoops to get around javascript cross domain protection crap. So what would you guys use for something like this?