| > It never ceases to amaze me that Linux people | > will think it's impressive to say things like: "Hey, I | > can do that with 27 lines in a console window. You | > poor Windoze people have to click a button or | > something." | | That's why people doing any serious administration with Windows use | PowerShell. It only took M$ 10 years to come up with that, with a detour | through Windows Scripting Host. The lusers do love their buttons. |
What's wrong with a button, or drag/drop? Doesn't it make more sense to drag/drop a file into a folder than to open a consol window and type something like the following?
cp [path1] [path2]
We're not talking about doing corporate admin work. We're talking about a normal person trying to play music.
Actually, Microsoft came up with Power Shell to seduce Linux server admins into the Windows camp. They knew they have to provide a primitive DOS-esque command-line-compatible tool to do that.
Weather RADAR is a sport around here. In the summer there is always something to see. If we freaked out every time we heard thunder we would spend 6 months a year under the bed. You get to the point where you can see what is making all that noise and where it is going.
You think I'm misleading people? Seems to me like I'm making factual statements. As for being OT, well, I'm usually not. Running a computer is part of most households today.
I already explained how the input device becomes devoted to a window, I gave 2 solutions, the simplest one is to generate unique keysyms that are captured by the window manager and directed to an application.
Switching focus was part of the problem spec. The solution should not do it.
I regularly pipe music from my Linux desktop to the pool with wireless speakers. Up until this year, I had to go inside to get the track name or artist. Now I have a Kindle that can access my Linux desktop wirelessly. I'm looking forward to being able to answer the guests questions when they ask who is that?
I'm scanning slides right now. I want to file them in folders by year/month. I name them 197710_* for slides from October 1977. I've got a folder with 100 scanned slides.
Please don't tell me I have to click 100 times to get the folders to their destinations.
Not to me. I always have one or more consoles open and
copy foo.txt \\bar\baz
is a lot quicker than opening explorer, browsing to a network machine, right clicking on the source, saying 'copy', right clicking on the target, and saying 'paste'. A home user with one machine might be a different story but I mess with computers for a living and I'm lazy.
The playlist screen is no sweat. I have a TV out card in the PC as one of the 2 video adapters so I can send additional displays anywhere via coax. The remote display is a TV on coax. The local display is on the 15 pin. (another TV)
It wouldn't be all that hard to program - simple, actually - but I don't know of any that would do it as he wants.
I do it, sort of, all the time with my MP3 player (an old version of Winamp). Even though it is playing, it rarely has focus in the conventional sense; the GUI isn't even available - not minimized, not in the tray - unless I hit a couple of keys to display it. Nevertheless, I can go back/forward, increase/decrease volume. pause/start, display what is currently playing on thre monitor for a few seconds, etc.
I can do that for two reasons: 1. Winamp has built in keyboard shortcuts. They work because even though Winamp doesn't have focus when it is playing; it isn't playing continuously, though, it is playing in spurts. It plays it bit then the system is off to do something else, does it, Winamp plays some more and processes any KB shortcuts entered while it was out of the loop. The same is true of all programs...they merely SEEM to be continuous because of the brevity of the pauses.
For things for which Winamp has no built in KB shortcuts, I use a couple of plugins and a small app called HotKey Plus from
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I've used it for a decade or more, from Win98 to Win8. By using one or more of several control keys plus a key of the user's choice, one can do pretty much anything...start any program, open any document, Open Windows Explorer to any folder or file, go to any website, etc.
I don't think OP would be able to use it to differentiate KB input from a specific piece of hardware and direct it to a specific program but he might be able to use HotKey Plus to arrive at a similar result.
That looks like it might be a solution, though it could mean switching music players. According to this page....
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....Winamp 5+ uses global hotkeys, which would probably be the systemwide hook approach: The program inserts itself into the message loop for all keyboard messages and watches for anything relevant. Any player that can do that should have configuration options somewhere in its settings window.
Good that you accept that you have nothing to add to the newsgroup. I and I'm sure many other's have noticed it for some time now. Now you can just work on the anger management and jealousy for those that do.
At least I can recognize I have nothing to add to this conversation...where as, you go over your head to show your ignorance...and try to gain some credibility. What angers me...blowhard assholes.
My dog would keep you company. (-: I can only imagine what poor dumb animals think of the ground shaking from something. I had a friend who's dog would make a beeline for the bathtub every time she heard a thunderclap. It got so bad they had to put her on doggie valium.
You mentioned you used to use two computers for this task. Any chance of getting a used laptop to run the MP3 side of things? Even a lowly 400MHz Pentium machine makes a good music server and uses very little power. That way only one function can fail at a time.
I didn't see all the messages in this thread, but will this help?
How To Prevent Programs From Stealing Focus in Windows XP Using Tweak UI
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Here's How: 1.. Download Tweak UI. Scroll down the page and look for it on the right-hand side. Be sure to download the program to a location where you can easily find it, like your Desktop.
Note: Tweak UI is freely available software provided by Microsoft. Tweak UI is used to make a number of changes to your system that would otherwise require edits to the registry.
2.. Double-click the downloaded file to install it. Follow the instructions provided during installation.
3.. Navigate to Start, then All Programs (or Programs), then to the Powertoys for Windows XP folder.
4.. Click on the Tweak UI shortcut.
5.. In the Tweak UI program, click the + next to General on the left.
6.. Click on Focus.
7.. On the right, check the Prevent applications from stealing focus checkbox and then click the OK button.
8.. From this point forward, programs should no longer steal the focus from the window that you're currently working in.
I like how they say: "Focus stealing is annoying and serves no purpose, unless you have a program that you want a full-screen interruption from on a random basis."
Mr Ed (my yellow lab) gets pretty "huggy" when he hears thunder too but we have started using that to our favor. When he runs away, chasing him only makes him run faster (formally abused rescue) Our procedure now is to shoot a couple bottle rockets. A minute later he is standing next to us looking for a hug.
I am trying to reduce the number of machines running around here. I have about 10 and 4 are on all the time (down from 6), along with 2 satellite boxes and a ReplayTV.
I may even have TweekUI around here somewhere. I know I played with it a few times. I will take another look at it for this Thanks.
Since you admit you don't know anything about the topic then obviously you're in no position to comment on what I can add. I simply supported Mayayana's position that to attack Windows and claim that the solution is trivial in Linux, is BS. I said the same thing M did, that what was posted might be trivial to someone who customizes Linux, a system administrator, a developer, etc, but it's not trivial to a typical home PC user. M said the same thing, yet you choose to just attack me. You really do need some anger management help.
You're fair game because you have no credentials in what is being discussed and only think you might look good by rubbing elbows with someone that doe s know something about the subject. How can you agree with something withou t the research to back it up? And besides...you're a dick! (or is that a co mpliment?)
You obviously have no way of knowing what my credentials are.
and only think you might look good by rubbing elbows with someone that does know something about the subject. How can you agree with something without the research to back it up? And besides...you're a dick! (or is that a com pliment?)
OK, you want to talk about my credentials? You want to talk about referenc es? You want to talk about making comments in threads where you don't know anyt hing? Let's take a trip down memory lane, where all your hostility apparen tly started.
There was a thread about installing a whole house surge protector. The adults had it under control, whereupon you posted this gem:
"Whole house surge protection is pointless and costly...protect the individ ual items that need it at each point of use. .02 "
Since you want references, the above link is provided to document what you said.
Oren asked what that comment was based on, and you replied:
"Since runs of different surge loads possibly share the same conduit or are run side by side...surge will be induced after the protection. Leaving the expensive device impotent."
I politely explained to you how that is wrong, to which you replied:
"This sounds like a sales pitch...there is virtually nothing that will prev ent damage from a nearby lightning strike. Mainly because it will "jump" ov er, or burn-out any device. Again, this is my .02"
After that, Bud and I took you apart, limb by limb. I'm an electrical engi neer. Bud is too. We gave you references to surge protection guides written by committees of experts at NIST and the IEEE:
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They say you're wrong. And instead of learning, this was your reply:
"Okay, okay...this will be my last two-cents on this...you can show me all kinds of specs and recommendations, and say how "in theory" these work (and they will work in a very specific and narrow window of lightning surge). B ut the "real world" data is not there...it is anecdotal at best because eve ry situation is different. "
So, the situation here is clear. It's *you* who enters threads where you know nothing, even freely admitting it with the "just my two cents". Then when Bud and I point out the sound science based on physics and backed up by 75+ years of real world deployment, instead of reading and learning, you just dismiss it and call it anecdotal. Are you so stupid that you don't realize that surges and how to protect from them has been of vital importan ce for most of the last century? Phone companies, power companies, cable companies, communications facilities, factories, etc have been involved with surge protection, studying the best methods etc. That is reflected in the NIST and IEEE guides we cited for you. But, heh, let's just chuck all that out and go with your 2 cents.
And even worse, you've developed a need to follow me around and make snide comments. So, it's my duty to expose your true ignorance and how it's
*you* who enters threads that even you freely admit you know nothing about and start spouting BS. Even worse, it's clearly demonstrated that you refuse to read and learn.
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