News Page
On this page I'll report on changes to my web site or related news items.
Don't expect a full-blown weblog, more like a list of highlights in shorthand.
For a file based list of changes look at the What's New list.
2021-08-10
• Up till now,
Mause.exe (
Mouse enabled p
AUSE) would read keys froms the keyboard buffer, unlike the real
PAUSE command.
This behaviour has now been corrected, the updated version of
Mause.exe flushes the keyboard buffer when it is started, and then waits for keyboard or mouse input.
To make it accept keys from the keyboard buffer again, use the optional
/N switch.
The code to flush the keyboard buffer was provided by
gandjustas on StackOverflow.com.
Thanks gandjustas
2021-08-05
• A bug in
CaptureDate.exe has been fixed: it should now handle relative paths correctly.
2021-07-08
•
ScrollLockIcon.exe has been released.
It was derived from
CapsLockIcon.exe but uses a slightly different approach to read the ScrolLock status:
System.Windows.Forms'
Control.IsKeyLocked( Keys.Scroll ) vs
System's
Console.CapsLock.
2021-07-03
• A new optional timeout feature has been added to
Mause.exe.
2021-07-02
•
Mause.exe is a
Mouse enabled p
AUSE command: use it like the ordinary
PAUSE command, allowing the user to either press any key
or click with the mouse or move the mouse wheel.
This program relies heavily on the
ConsoleListener class by SWdV.
Thanks SWdV
2021-06-29
• Like
CapsLockIcon.exe,
NumLockIcon.exe also has a new feature: hide when OFF.
It will optionally show the NumLock icon in the Notification Area
only when NumLock is ON.
2021-06-28
•
CapsLockIcon.exe has a new feature: hide when OFF.
It will optionally show the CapsLock icon in the Notification Area
only when CapsLock is ON.
2021-05-23
• A bug in
InputBox.exe has been fixed: the input field now gets focus when the dialog is loaded.
Previos attempts to accomplish this had failed, setting the input field's
TabIndex property to 0 did the trick.
2021-05-18
•
BatCodeCheck has been updated:
- The color DarkYellow, chosen for comments in highlighted text, does not exist in CSS and hence would be ignored in HTML output; this has been reported and fixed by Alfons van Zwol
- Calls to external commands would generate false positives if
%~dpn0 like constructions were used; this was also reported by Alfons van Zwol; the current version handles these constructions correctly, but "ordinary" variables (e.g. %ProgramFiles%) still lead to false positives, which is next on the ToDo list
Thanks Alfons
2021-05-10
• A bugfix for
Hardware.hta: it should now properly restore its window a couple of seconds after startup.
2021-05-07
• Often, these days, computer related support has to be done remotely.
Due to travel restrictions and overcrowded parks in Amsterdam, a friend of mine who is not quite computer-savvy, to put it mildly, spends most of her weekends photographing and filming birds on the balcony of her appartment.
Some of her bird videos turned out to be rotated, however, and we spent many hours before we found out how to use
VLC Media Player to
rotate and save the video... certainly not for the faint-of-heart!
Being convinced there must be an easier way, preferably command line, I went on searching until I stumbled upon a solution using
FFMPEG instead of VLC to
rotate (and save) videos.
Rather than trying to make my computer-illiterate friend type the correct commands, I wrote a simple HTA wrapper:
RotateVideo.hta.
Thanks Alexy and Akshay
page last uploaded: 2021-08-10, 13:46
