Request a tiny custom app again

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ToxicFrog: Apr 26, 2008

madeupfred posted:

This is a really tiny and kind of stupid, but I would be willing to pay for an app that takes the County Results by state at http://www.politico.com/2012-election/results/president/(Insert State Here)/ and saves them in an Excel workbook.

Arranged how? Same way as on the site, with county - candidate - party - %votes - nvotes, and multiple rows per county?

# ? Dec 14, 2012 00:56

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 10:35

madeupfred: Oct 10, 2011; by FactsAreUseless

ToxicFrog posted:

Arranged how? Same way as on the site, with county - candidate - party - %votes - nvotes, and multiple rows per county?

Preferably something that looks like this:

where values would be the popular vote or nvotes as you called them.

# ? Dec 14, 2012 03:33

Bodhi Tea: Oct 2, 2006; seconds are secular, moments are mine, self is illusion, music's divine.

I didn't see your post above about the formatting, but I scraped all the data and put it into an excel file:
http://www.filedropper.com/electionresults

I'll look into getting it into the format you want, or someone else can go ahead and do it.

# ? Dec 14, 2012 03:47

madeupfred: Oct 10, 2011; by FactsAreUseless

Bodhi Tea posted:

I didn't see your post above about the formatting, but I scraped all the data and put it into an excel file:
http://www.filedropper.com/electionresults

I'll look into getting it into the format you want, or someone else can go ahead and do it.

Haha, that's great. How did you do it, just out of curiosity?

# ? Dec 14, 2012 03:49

Bodhi Tea: Oct 2, 2006; seconds are secular, moments are mine, self is illusion, music's divine.

madeupfred posted:

Haha, that's great. How did you do it, just out of curiosity?

Here's my disgusting python code:
http://hastebin.com/bukoxuvawa.py

it creates a CSV file, which I then imported into Excel.

# ? Dec 14, 2012 03:55

Bodhi Tea: Oct 2, 2006; seconds are secular, moments are mine, self is illusion, music's divine.

madeupfred posted:

Preferably something that looks like this:

where values would be the popular vote or nvotes as you called them.

Created a pivot table to get the data into the format you wanted:
http://sharesend.com/fi6smhib

# ? Dec 14, 2012 14:05

madeupfred: Oct 10, 2011; by FactsAreUseless

Bodhi Tea posted:

Created a pivot table to get the data into the format you wanted:
http://sharesend.com/fi6smhib

Holy poo poo dude, above and beyond. :stare:

Do you have a PayPal or something like it?

# ? Dec 14, 2012 17:42

Bodhi Tea: Oct 2, 2006; seconds are secular, moments are mine, self is illusion, music's divine.

madeupfred posted:

Holy poo poo dude, above and beyond.
Do you have a PayPal or something like it?

Don't worry about it dude, glad to help.

# ? Dec 14, 2012 18:55

smitz: Nov 5, 2003

I don't actually need anything built, just an answer on how something like this would be built.

I'm stuck with a legacy windows app that displays various information, including a product ID number. I want to create a utility (in any programming language) that finds the app's window, finds the column of product IDs, read them, and overlay the ID with a corresponding product name. None of this should actually interact with the legacy app, I just want to see and overlay of product names.

Any ideas what kind of tools exist to make something like this happen?

# ? Dec 20, 2012 19:56

Thermopyle: Jul 1, 2003; ...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. �Bertrand Russell

smitz posted:

I don't actually need anything built, just an answer on how something like this would be built.

I'm stuck with a legacy windows app that displays various information, including a product ID number. I want to create a utility (in any programming language) that finds the app's window, finds the column of product IDs, read them, and overlay the ID with a corresponding product name. None of this should actually interact with the legacy app, I just want to see and overlay of product names.

Any ideas what kind of tools exist to make something like this happen?

AutoIT should do all of that for you.

# ? Dec 20, 2012 21:37

dirby: Sep 21, 2004; Helping goons with math

Sylink posted:

Python can do this easily�

Thank you for your help, but this wasn't quite what I was looking for. I PMed you for clarification.

MrPablo posted:

This Ruby script should do what you want: replacer.rb.

Usage:
code:
  ruby replacer.rb subs.csv input.txt output.txt
Where subs.csv is a CSV file containing the value to search for in the first column and the associated replacement value in the second column.

Thanks for making that for me. It sounds like it should do what I wanted, but when I ran it, I got the following error:

code:

replacer.rb:35:in `block in <main>': undefined method `gsub!' for nil:NilClass (
NoMethodError)
        from replacer.rb:32:in `each'
        from replacer.rb:32:in `inject'
        from replacer.rb:32:in `<main>'

Edit: Thanks anyway, but this seems to work for me in python:

Python code:

import csv
with open('replacements.csv') as csvfile:
    replist = csv.reader(csvfile)
    with open('input.txt') as inputfile:
        text=inputfile.read()
        for row in replist:
            text=text.replace(row[0],row[1])
        with open('output.txt','w') as outputfile:
            outputfile.write(text)

dirby fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Dec 23, 2012

# ? Dec 23, 2012 02:20

Womens Jeans: Sep 13, 2007; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Done.

Womens Jeans fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Dec 25, 2012

# ? Dec 25, 2012 16:09

Happiness Commando: Feb 1, 2002; $$ joy at gunpoint $$

I want something that will hang out in my taskbar and every time it detects N minutes of activity - mouse, typing, whatever - it pops up with a "shouldnt you be doing something else right now?"

This app must exist somewhere, has anyone heard of something similar?

# ? Dec 27, 2012 20:36

Otis Reddit: Nov 14, 2006

Does anybody have an app which can calculate the amount I pee each day? I'm looking for maybe just an applet where I can plug in amount of time spent peeing, and maybe choose one of a few options for 'stream intensity' (I guess on the backend this would probably correspond to an x value for cfm. I'm trying to watch my weight/health and I've determined monitoring my urine uptake to be the next step, but I'm utterly loving useless as a coder. I would gladly Paypal $5, or even more if my expectations on the scope/time spent on this project are out of whack. Any questions and you can PM me. Thanks.

# ? Dec 27, 2012 21:26

epswing: Nov 4, 2003; Soiled Meat

juche mane posted:

Does anybody have an app which can calculate the amount I pee each day? I'm looking for maybe just an applet where I can plug in amount of time spent peeing, and maybe choose one of a few options for 'stream intensity' (I guess on the backend this would probably correspond to an x value for cfm. I'm trying to watch my weight/health and I've determined monitoring my urine uptake to be the next step, but I'm utterly loving useless as a coder. I would gladly Paypal $5, or even more if my expectations on the scope/time spent on this project are out of whack. Any questions and you can PM me. Thanks.

Does the "amount of time spent peeing" mean you pee with a stopwatch in hand?

# ? Dec 27, 2012 21:29

Otis Reddit: Nov 14, 2006

Ha! No, not exactly, at least not yet. Up until now I've been doing it the old fashioned way, until my mother caught me Christmas morning, when I forgot to rinse out the measuring cup. So I'm looking to optimize the process, so to speak.

# ? Dec 27, 2012 21:33

Sylink: Apr 17, 2004

Try this:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/

or the old fashioned way:

http://www.amazon.com/Moleskine-Ruled-Notebook-Large/dp/8883701127/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1356641767&sr=8-1&keywords=notebook

# ? Dec 27, 2012 21:55

Doctor w-rw-rw-: Jun 24, 2008

I'm interested in playing around with OpenCV and feeding screenshots from League of Legends into it, but I have no clue how to start with C++ and the Windows API. Is anyone with experience willing to make a simple app (in C++) that does nothing other than detect a LoL game window (not the pre-game PvP.net client, but the game client), then save screenshots of it to a folder?

# ? Dec 27, 2012 22:35

the littlest prince: Sep 23, 2006

juche mane posted:

I'm trying to watch my weight/health and I've determined monitoring my urine uptake to be the next step

Do you have some strange disease? I have never heard of the amount of excreted urine as an indicator of health, only its color.

# ? Dec 28, 2012 14:26

crumpuppet: Mar 22, 2007; ROBORT > EVERYTHING

IfIWereARichMan posted:

I want something that will hang out in my taskbar and every time it detects N minutes of activity - mouse, typing, whatever - it pops up with a "shouldnt you be doing something else right now?"

This app must exist somewhere, has anyone heard of something similar?

Check out EyeLeo, here's a good write-up: http://lifehacker.com/5896358/eyeleo-reminds-you-to-take-breaks-dims-your-screen-so-you-actually-take-them

# ? Dec 28, 2012 20:30

Otis Reddit: Nov 14, 2006

the littlest prince posted:

Do you have some strange disease? I have never heard of the amount of excreted urine as an indicator of health, only its color.

I've altered my diet to a healthier one and I haven't seen any gains. What I have seen is that for every pound of liquid that I consume, I release probably half of, later in the day. I want to put this into data so that I can figure out what to do next.

This isn't getting any traction at $5, so would $15-20 be more in line? Give me an idea people.

# ? Dec 28, 2012 23:41

corgski: Feb 6, 2007; Silly goose, you're here forever.

Do you have any medical basis for doing this or are you just flailing in the dark? You might do better talking to a nutritionist.

# ? Dec 29, 2012 01:04

dirby: Sep 21, 2004; Helping goons with math

crumpuppet posted:

Check out EyeLeo, here's a good write-up: http://lifehacker.com/5896358/eyeleo-reminds-you-to-take-breaks-dims-your-screen-so-you-actually-take-them

This looks amazing, and has the potential to be even more useful for me than f.lux (program to adjust color temperature so you don't have bluish sun colors at night).

# ? Dec 29, 2012 04:03

the littlest prince: Sep 23, 2006

juche mane posted:

I've altered my diet to a healthier one and I haven't seen any gains. What I have seen is that for every pound of liquid that I consume, I release probably half of, later in the day. I want to put this into data so that I can figure out what to do next.

This isn't getting any traction at $5, so would $15-20 be more in line? Give me an idea people.

What you're trying to do isn't going to tell you anything. Go lurk YLLS for a bit (if you aren't already) and you should pick up on what might be wrong (e.g. not enough sleep, not enough protein, not pushing yourself hard enough in your workouts, expecting too much progress too quickly, etc.).

# ? Dec 29, 2012 16:41

Otis Reddit: Nov 14, 2006

I'm nearly positive that this is a moisture retention issue. About four months ago I switched from Soda to Diet, and even though this substantially cut the amount of sugars in my blood stream (Diet soda is basically just water) I haven't lost much weight since then. Some cursory internet look-ups have yielded talk of 'water retention' from Diet sodas, from the aspartame, etc. and I think this is my issue. However I need a quick shorthand way to collect the raw data necessary to figure out just how much of the extra urine my body is keeping, and I will cross-reference this with my weight in the AM, PM, the weight (metric system for all figures) of the amount of food and drink I consume. I'm not about to weigh my BMs, but fresh urine is sterile and it's a start.

# ? Dec 29, 2012 18:06

epswing: Nov 4, 2003; Soiled Meat

juche mane posted:

Anyways...why can't you just use a spreadsheet? This is exactly what spreadsheets are for.

# ? Dec 29, 2012 18:21

Otis Reddit: Nov 14, 2006

Excel is an expensive program, that I don't know how to use to it's full capabilities, and I want something with a front end (GUI?) I guess. Are there any other places that I could go to online to order/request small programs?

# ? Dec 29, 2012 18:25

Thermopyle: Jul 1, 2003; ...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. �Bertrand Russell

juche mane posted:

Excel is an expensive program, that I don't know how to use to it's full capabilities, and I want something with a front end (GUI?) I guess. Are there any other places that I could go to online to order/request small programs?

Google Spreadsheet is free and so is LibreOffice. This is so simple.

# ? Dec 29, 2012 18:26

Otis Reddit: Nov 14, 2006

OK. I will look into them. Thanks, I guess.

# ? Dec 29, 2012 18:27

gary oldmans diary: Sep 26, 2005

thelightguy posted:

Do you have any medical basis for doing this or are you just flailing in the dark? You might do better talking to a nutritionist.

A dietician would be preferable.

# ? Dec 30, 2012 22:14

Otis Reddit: Nov 14, 2006

After reading about what they did to Oracle, I don't think I'll be giving these Libre Office people a lick of my support. I think I might just wing it, this thing is the size of a hand-ball so I think the weight/volume be damned, I'll just drain it tonight and see how it goes.

# ? Dec 31, 2012 17:36

Dicky B: Mar 23, 2004

juche mane posted:

After reading about what they did to Oracle, I don't think I'll be giving these Libre Office people a lick of my support.

What did they do?

# ? Dec 31, 2012 17:57

ToxicFrog: Apr 26, 2008

juche mane posted:

After reading about what they did to Oracle, I don't think I'll be giving these Libre Office people a lick of my support. I think I might just wing it, this thing is the size of a hand-ball so I think the weight/volume be damned, I'll just drain it tonight and see how it goes.

Ok, I know I'm probably going to regret this, but I'll take the bait: what, in your mind, did the LibreOffice devs do to Oracle, and how is using LibreOffice "supporting" them (given that it's free software that they don't even get ad revenue from)?

# ? Dec 31, 2012 19:20

Happiness Commando: Feb 1, 2002; $$ joy at gunpoint $$

crumpuppet posted:

Check out EyeLeo, here's a good write-up: http://lifehacker.com/5896358/eyeleo-reminds-you-to-take-breaks-dims-your-screen-so-you-actually-take-them

gently caress yeah. Thank you

# ? Jan 1, 2013 00:17

hayden.: Sep 11, 2007; here's a goat on a pig or something

IfIWereARichMan posted:

gently caress yeah. Thank you

Pretty late to this, but I made a simple version in Java. I'm terrible at programming so I can't be held responsible if this blows up your computer or is otherwise terrible. I didn't bother adding checking as to whether the computer is idle, since I assume if you're not at the computer it doesn't really matter if it's still running or not. It uses a tray notification so it won't clutter your screen with a million dialogue boxes if you walk away. Requires Java 7 to be installed.

http://www.goonreviews.com/SubtleReminder.jar

Timer defaults to 5 minutes at run time. Duration and message can be changed but isn't saved between launches.

# ? Jan 1, 2013 20:40

River: Apr 22, 2012; Nothin' but the rain

Does anyone know of a program/script that would work on CentOS 6 that could log the average download speeds and IP addresses + timestamp of people that downloaded files from a particular web directory, then outputs the logs to shell or file?

# ? Jan 1, 2013 23:57

afen: Sep 23, 2003; nemo saltat sobrius

Hello! I'm looking for an app that shows the current time (24H, with seconds) as the title of the program. So that I can use it as a clock in my UltraMon taskbar on my secondary monitor.

# ? Jan 4, 2013 01:51

hayden.: Sep 11, 2007; here's a goat on a pig or something

afen posted:

Hello! I'm looking for an app that shows the current time (24H, with seconds) as the title of the program. So that I can use it as a clock in my UltraMon taskbar on my secondary monitor.

Someone will probably post something better with amazing magic powers, but here's mine. Requires Java 7.

http://www.goonreviews.com/GoonClock.jar

code:

import javax.swing.*;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;

public class Clock {

	public static void main(String[] args) {

		JFrame f = new JFrame("GoonClock 9000");
		f.setSize(200, 0);
		f.addWindowListener(new ExitListener());
		f.setVisible(true);

		while (true) {
			SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("h:mm a");
			String str = sdf.format(new Date());
			f.setTitle(str);

			try {
				Thread.sleep(1000);
			} catch (InterruptedException e) {
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		}
	}

	static class ExitListener extends WindowAdapter {
		public void windowClosing(WindowEvent event) {
			System.exit(0);
		}
	}

}

hayden. fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Jan 4, 2013

# ? Jan 4, 2013 02:27

nuvan: Mar 29, 2008; And the gentle call of the feral 3am "Everything is going so well you can't help but panic."

Actually, given that he wanted a 24 hour clock, with seconds, the SimpleDateFormat should be "HH:mm:ss"

# ? Jan 4, 2013 12:03

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 10:35

crumpuppet: Mar 22, 2007; ROBORT > EVERYTHING

afen posted:

Hello! I'm looking for an app that shows the current time (24H, with seconds) as the title of the program. So that I can use it as a clock in my UltraMon taskbar on my secondary monitor.

I think this will do what you asked for. It starts minimized.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vpbjvn42rivcnoj/wjlBjHuFil/TimeTitle.exe

AutoIT code:

code:

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>

$gui = GUICreate ("TimeTitle", 200, 100)

$btn_exit = GUICtrlCreateButton ("Exit", 110, 60, 60, 25)

GUISetState (@SW_SHOWMINIMIZED)

While 1 = 1
   $curtime = "" & @HOUR & ":" & @MIN & ":" & @SEC
   
   WinSetTitle ($gui, "", $curtime)
   
   For $i = 1 to 10 step 1
   
	  $msg = GUIGetMsg ()
  
	  Switch $msg
		 Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
			Exit
		 Case $btn_exit
			Exit
	  EndSwitch
      
	  Sleep (100)
   Next
   
WEnd

Do you want anything inside the window, or is it purely for UltraMon to grab the window title? It seems a bit strange to only want the time in the title bar. Unfortunately you have to have the emtpy window somewhere (can be minimized), otherwise the process loses its Window Title.

Keep in mind AutoIT also has the ability to change the title of any other window, given its current title or class name.

# ? Jan 4, 2013 14:12

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