Request a tiny custom app again

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Pollyzoid: Nov 2, 2010; GRUUAGH you say?

Ceros_X posted:

This works for me on this thread, but when I try it on some other forum threads I get an error "Specified thread was not found in the live forums. " and clicking the embedded link goes to http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=&userid=101247 (userID changed to my user ID).

I think perhaps I installed it wrong but it seems to work on this page sooo... Neat script, it really would come in handy quite often.

It didn't work because the script expects there to be a & in the URL after the threadid part. If it doesn't (when you're on the first page of a thread, for example) it results in the malformed URL you got.

So here's a corrected version. Also removed jQuery usage because Firefox didn't like that.

JavaScript code:

// ==UserScript==
// @name        sa_allposts
// @namespace   com.sa
// @include     *forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php*
// @version     1.1
// @grant       none
// ==/UserScript==

var userid = 169765;

var tid = window.location.toString().match(/threadid=(\d+)/)[1];

var link = '<a href="showthread.php?threadid=' + tid + '&userid=' + userid +'">Check Out All My lovely Posts</a>';

var topButtons = document.querySelector('div.top ul.postbuttons li:nth-child(2)');
topButtons.insertAdjacentHTML('beforebegin', link);

var bottomButtons = document.querySelector('div.bottom ul.postbuttons li:nth-child(1)');
bottomButtons.insertAdjacentHTML('beforebegin', link);

Pollyzoid fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Nov 25, 2014

# ? Nov 24, 2014 11:53

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# ? Apr 19, 2024 00:34

Ceros_X: Aug 6, 2006; U.S. Marine

Pollyzoid posted:

It didn't work because the script expects there to be a & in the URL after the threadid part. If it doesn't (when you're on the first page of a thread, for example) it results in the malformed URL you got.

So here's a corrected version. Also removed jQuery usage because Firefox didn't like that.
JavaScript code:
// ==UserScript==
// @name        sa_allposts
// @namespace   com.sa
// @include     *forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php*
// @version     1.1
// @grant       none
// ==/UserScript==

var userid = 169765;

var tid = window.location.toString().match(/threadid=(\d+)/)[1];

var link = '<a href="showthread.php?threadid=' + tid + '&userid=' + userid +'">Check Out All My lovely Posts</a>';

var topButtons = document.querySelector('div.top ul.postbuttons li:nth-child(2)');
topButtons.insertAdjacentHTML('beforebegin', link);

var bottomButtons = document.querySelector('div.bottom ul.postbuttons li:nth-child(1)');
bottomButtons.insertAdjacentHTML('beforebegin', link);

You da man, works like a champ. Thanks!

# ? Nov 27, 2014 10:06

gary oldmans diary: Sep 26, 2005

I was browsing a youtube-heavy thread on a slower machine the other day and it sucked bigtime. I switched the SA user option for video bb-code elements from embedded videos to just links and that was obviously faster, but ruined the point of the thread anyway.
I started on this to convert the plain links to thumbnails:

code:

// ==UserScript==
// @name        SA YT Links Thumbed
// @namespace   [url]http://*.somethingawful.com[/url]
// @description Uses YT links to show thumbnails
// @include     [url]http://forums.somethingawful.com/*[/url]
// @version     0.1
// @grant       none
// ==/UserScript==

var vidList = document.getElementsByClassName('bbtag_video');

for (var i = 0; i < vidList.length; i++) {
    var p = /^.*youtube\.com\/watch\?v=([a-zA-Z0-9_-]{11}).*$/;
    var vidId = (vidList[i].innerHTML.match(p));
    if (vidId[1] == false) continue;
    var image = document.createElement('img');
    image.setAttribute('src', 'http://img.youtube.com/vi/' + vidId[1] + '/hqdefault.jpg');
    vidList[i].innerHTML = '';
    vidList[i].appendChild(image);
}

and it seems to work fine, but opening the link in a new tab is unsatisfying, too, and the image doesn't have a caption from the video title.

I can live without the thumbnail having a caption, but for some reason my attempts at removing the href of the link and instead using an onclick to have the element replace itself with something like this (let alone having it autoplay) is failing:
<iframe class="youtube-player" type="text/html" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/X0mKpE6Z2So?fs=1&fs=1&theme=dark" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" width="640"></iframe>
Would someone else like to take a crack at this? I'm surprised I didn't find a ready-made solution for converting Youtube text links to thumbnails on page load and to an embedded player on click.

# ? Dec 19, 2014 00:59

m2pt5: May 18, 2005; THAT GOD DAMN MOSQUITO JUST KEEPS COMING BACK

It's not 100% what you're asking for but have you tried Youtube Link Title?

# ? Dec 19, 2014 01:37

gary oldmans diary: Sep 26, 2005

That works great, thanks! I'll probably tinker with it just to switch around it displaying text with the thumbnail on hover.

gary oldmans diary fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Dec 19, 2014

# ? Dec 19, 2014 02:05

Sebbe: Feb 29, 2004

In the same vein, there's also my extension Video Title Adder (if you use Chrome).

(Though, no automatic conversion to thumbnails; it displays thumbnails on hover, though.)

# ? Dec 21, 2014 01:13

politicorific: Sep 15, 2007

I'm not sure what keywords to use to find the program I need, but here's what I'm looking for:

I have about 30GB of pictures going back about 15 years. Since I got a smart phone, it's become an unsorted mess. Using a mouse/touchpad or finder is too much work to get everything sorted.

I want a program that displays a random photo, and be able to move it into a predefined folder. For example "Kenya Vacation", "Food", "Soccer Games", "Nature photos". Pressing the key 1, puts it in "Kenya Vacation". Pressing 3 puts it in "Food" and so on. One more key puts it in a "sort again with new categories" folder. A "too be deleted" folder would also be good.

Does this exist? How about for OS X?

# ? Dec 21, 2014 13:46

Nam Taf: Jun 25, 2005; I am Fat Man, hear me roar!

Can you not just view them in a folder, sorted by date taken/date modified/GPS coordinates if available, and use that to quickly group them? That seems to me like it would be far faster than what you're thinking of.

# ? Dec 21, 2014 14:52

the littlest prince: Sep 23, 2006

Plus, you're going to see a lot of random pictures without enough context in them to tell you where they came from. I guess you could show the date taken and maybe location, but still it probably wouldn't be enough.

Google plus can autosort pictures sometimes. You could try syncing them to that. Of course that's a lot of data to sync and it wouldn't end up on your own computer.

# ? Dec 21, 2014 15:41

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

PhotoSift seems to be exactly the sort of thing he's looking for, except that it's for Windows.

Would be a cool Android/iOS tablet app though, where it shows you the picture surrounded by a rectangular frame containing different target (network) folders. You could just swipe every picture in the right direction. Or buttons with customizable EXIF tags you could drag on top of the photo or something. Maybe that exists already, I don't know.

I mean, that's if it's all so disorganised that you need to go through every photo one by one. There's probably still a lot that can be deduced from date taken as was suggested.

e vvvv Yeah ok, that needs manual intervention.

Flipperwaldt fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Dec 21, 2014

# ? Dec 21, 2014 16:43

politicorific: Sep 15, 2007

Real categories would be:

"Selfies"
"Food I made"
"Electronics projects"
"Building Photos"
"Engrish"

And the big one:
"Pictures with ex girlfriends"

My "photo stream" on my iPhone/iPad is a giant mixture.

I tend to just dump photos off my phone into folders entitled "March 2014"; prior to getting a MacBook with iPhoto I would just periodically download my dropbox camera backup folder and then wipe out everything on my phone.

# ? Dec 21, 2014 16:49

politicorific: Sep 15, 2007

Flipperwaldt posted:

PhotoSift seems to be exactly the sort of thing he's looking for, except that it's for Windows.

Exactly what I'm looking for! Now the question is whether I install bootcamp just for this or borrow a friend's computer

I had me reply sitting for a while.

# ? Dec 21, 2014 16:57

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

I cannot even make a proper assessment whether I'm wasting your time with this or what, because I have no idea what I'm talking about when it comes to Macs, but there's a pre-alpha build of Wine for OSX here. The sifter program might just be simple enough that it works in that.

# ? Dec 21, 2014 17:17

PPills: Oct 5, 2004

I am looking for a chrome extension that can highlight multiple phrases, not just multiple words.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/multi-highlight/pfgfgjlejbbpfmcfjhdmikihihddeeji?hl=en-US

Multi-Highlight claims that it will support it in version 2.0 but it hasn't been updated since February 2014.

# ? Jan 8, 2015 05:17

Knifegrab: Jul 30, 2014; Gadzooks! I'm terrified of this little child who is going to stab me with a knife. I must wrest the knife away from his control and therefore gain the upperhand.

I was wondering if there were an app that could dim my monitors after I go idle for a set amount of time. Windows recently removed this functionality from 8.1.

# ? Jan 9, 2015 20:09

Chunjee: Oct 27, 2004

PowerDimmer http://www.whitsoftdev.com/powerdimmer/ might work. It has to be installed as a screensaver. According to google searches; put it in C:\Windows\SysWOW64 on a 64-bit system.

# ? Jan 9, 2015 22:01

Knifegrab: Jul 30, 2014; Gadzooks! I'm terrified of this little child who is going to stab me with a knife. I must wrest the knife away from his control and therefore gain the upperhand.

Chunjee posted:

PowerDimmer http://www.whitsoftdev.com/powerdimmer/ might work. It has to be installed as a screensaver. According to google searches; put it in C:\Windows\SysWOW64 on a 64-bit system.

Unfortunately I want the program to work so when my custom screensaver comes on it is dimmer, so it cannot replace my screensaver. Thank you though.

# ? Jan 9, 2015 22:45

Chunjee: Oct 27, 2004

If there isn't a good solution; tomorrow I will have time to try something. But are we talking about controlling the LCD backlight? Not sure how to do that but I do know how to overlay a transparent black box over the screen.

# ? Jan 10, 2015 00:26

Knifegrab: Jul 30, 2014; Gadzooks! I'm terrified of this little child who is going to stab me with a knife. I must wrest the knife away from his control and therefore gain the upperhand.

Chunjee posted:

If there isn't a good solution; tomorrow I will have time to try something. But are we talking about controlling the LCD backlight? Not sure how to do that but I do know how to overlay a transparent black box over the screen.

Not sure if that will apply the same type of effect but if you want to try I'd certainly appreciate it! Ideally lowering the backlight is what I am after.

# ? Jan 13, 2015 01:33

PleasureKevin: Jan 2, 2011

Request: a Brackets plugin (Node/Javascript) to change the Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab behaviour so that it navigates between tabs from left-to-right or vice versa, rather than in whatever hosed up order it goes now. Let me just write this like a bug report so it's super clear.

Reproduction

Open Brackets
Install a "file tabs" plugin (Brackets doesn't have native tabs rofl)
open several files
Press Ctrl+tab or Ctrl+shift+tab

Expected
The next tab to the right or left of the active tab should be selected.

Actual
The next tab selected when pressing Ctrl+tab will not be the tab to the right of the current active tab. It will be the next tab in the vertical list of files in the top right corner.

Basically the same way most web browsers and Atom do it.

I'm trying to suffer through Brackets because of the node-theseus debugging system for Node. You could also just recommend me something superior to that in another editor. Here's some current related projects if you want to just add to that:

https://github.com/dnbard/brackets-documents-toolbar
https://github.com/ohnnyj/brackets-numbertabs

# ? Feb 3, 2015 03:25

gary oldmans diary: Sep 26, 2005

This seems like a good start: https://github.com/peterflynn/brackets-editor-nav

# ? Feb 3, 2015 16:39

PleasureKevin: Jan 2, 2011

Well, that makes switching tabs a lot slower, and that's about it.

# ? Feb 4, 2015 22:07

gary oldmans diary: Sep 26, 2005

Could someone make a cli app that accomplishes essentially nothing, but simply completes successfully after being piped exactly 1 line of (any) text? It's small, but I can't find a utility that fills this role.

Say I have a great scripted program awesome.exe running days on end doing good work that sometimes let's you know it's about to waste time and screw up some data only by sending "Warning!!!" to stdout and it's own error handling is nonexistent otherwise. I noticed string filtering programs don't necessarily wait for the program to complete and work following along while the main program works, so what I would really like to have is a program I could fit in like this:
awesome.exe | findstr.exe /i "warning!" | pokedwithastick.exe && taskkill.exe /im awesome.exe /f && echo The day is saved
I tried:
awesome.exe | for /f "delims=" %%W in ('findstr.exe /I "warning"') do taskkill.exe /im awesome.exe /f
and it's ineffective and awkward. I thought this might work:
awesome.exe | findstr.exe /I "warning" 1>&2 | taskkill.exe /im awesome.exe /f
but there's no delay and redirecting ... nothing (?) to taskkill.exe just instantly runs it because it isn't that kind of program.

Actually, I really don't even know if what I want would work either, but it's compelling.

gary oldmans diary fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Feb 12, 2015

# ? Feb 12, 2015 03:40

Mario: Oct 29, 2006; It's-a-me!

I will counter with a PowerShell script instead of a separate program:

code:

$startInfo = New-Object System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
$startInfo.FileName = "awesome.exe"
$startInfo.Arguments = ""
$startInfo.UseShellExecute = $false
$startInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = $true

$process = [System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start($startInfo)
while ($process.HasExited -eq $false)
{
    $outputLine = $process.StandardOutput.ReadLine()
    if ($outputLine -ne $null)
    {
        $outputLine # Pass the output to the console
        if ($outputLine.Contains("warning!"))
        {
            $process.Kill()
            "The day is saved"
            break
        }
    }
    else
    {
        # Wait check for more output
        Start-Sleep -s 1
    }
}

Basically, this runs your program and captures the standard output from the process. It still echos the output to the console, but it examines each line and will kill the process if the line contains "Warning!".

e: You might also have to redirect standard error, depending on how the message is reported.

# ? Feb 12, 2015 04:17

Chunjee: Oct 27, 2004

Knifegrab posted:

Unfortunately I want the program to work so when my custom screensaver comes on it is dimmer, so it cannot replace my screensaver. Thank you though.

While searching for a laptop extended monitor I ran into these in Amazon comments:

Dimmer v1, v2 - http://www.nelsonpires.com/software/dimmer/
Monitor-Brightness-Reducer - http://www.tucows.com/preview/513016/Monitor-Brightness-Reducer

# ? Mar 27, 2015 02:16

Srebrenica Surprise: Aug 23, 2008; "L-O-V-E's just another word I never learned to pronounce."

I work as a volunteer scanning documents and I could really use a program that essentially just lists files in subdirectories so I could dump them in an Excel cell next to the information for each document. I've been using Directory List and Print or something and even the pro version doesn't do what I want, bizarrely, requiring me to use an online tool to remove line breaks, and reformat stuff, remove thumbs.db, etc by hand.

Essentially, it just needs to iterate through subdirectories and spit out a text file with a list of files (no paths, just files) separated by semicolons and with each subdirectory on a new line. Ideally it would skip thumbs.db.

So something like this directory structure:

C:\Blah\1995\Blah - January 1995.jpg
C:\Blah\1995\Blah - February 1995.jpg
C:\Blah\1995\Blah - March 1995.jpg
C:\Blah\1996\Blah - January 1996.jpg
C:\Blah\1996\Blah - February 1996.jpg
C:\Blah\1996\Blah - March 1996.jpg

would output as a text file like this:

Blah - January 1995.jpg;Blah - February 1995.jpg;Blah - March 1995.jpg
Blah - January 1996.jpg;Blah - February 1996.jpg;Blah - March 1996.jpg

Then I could copy all the lines into Excel starting at the appropriate row. Any help or suggestions?

# ? May 26, 2015 01:57

BlackMK4: Aug 23, 2006; wat.; Megamarm

Something like this?

code:

import os
import sys


def listfiles(start):
    for dirname, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(start):
        directory = ''
        for filename in filenames:
            if filename is 'thumbs.db':
                continue
            directory += filename + ';'
        directory = directory.rstrip(';')
        print directory


def main():
    try:
        listfiles(sys.argv[1])
    except IndexError:
        print 'usage: python listfile.py C:\path\\to\\folder'


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Install Python 2.7, create a file named listfile.py with the contents of the code block above, open a terminal, drag the python file to it (the path to the file will auto complete) and then drag the parent folder.

ex: C:\PythonFolder\listfiles.py C:\path\to\directory

# ? May 26, 2015 04:42

gary oldmans diary: Sep 26, 2005

Srebrenica Surprise posted:

Any help or suggestions?

A basic windows script.

Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion for /f "delims=" %%D IN ('dir /b /s /ad "C:\blah"') DO ( set "BUTT= " for /f "delims=" %%F IN ('dir /b /a-d /o-n "%%D"') DO SET "BUTT=%%F;%%BUTT%%" echo %%BUTT%% >> C:\DirectoryThatAlreadyExists\list.txt )

I don't have time to test this. Requesting review.

# ? May 26, 2015 04:43

Srebrenica Surprise: Aug 23, 2008; "L-O-V-E's just another word I never learned to pronounce."

I'll try them both out tomorrow at work, thanks!

# ? May 26, 2015 06:46

Ceros_X: Aug 6, 2006; U.S. Marine

Does anyone know of an app where you can get take a list of file or folder names from an excel doc (or notepad list or whatever) and feed it into a program that would then (when pointed at the right directory) copy those files/folders to another directory? This is probably pretty niche usage but it would be super useful for what I am trying to do, any leads would be great.

Ceros_X fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Jun 21, 2015

# ? Jun 21, 2015 21:27

Trapick: Apr 17, 2006

Ceros_X posted:

Does anyone know of an app where you can get take a list of file or folder names from an excel doc (or notepad list or whatever) and feed it into a program that would then (when pointed at the right directory) copy those files/folders to another directory? This is probably pretty niche usage but it would be super useful for what I am trying to do, any leads would be great.

If you're on Linux or Mac, this is pretty easy with a bash one-liner. On windows if you can install Cygwin this should work as well:

code:

for file in $(<list_of_files.txt); do cp -r "$file" destination_folder_path; done

# ? Jun 21, 2015 21:40

Ceros_X: Aug 6, 2006; U.S. Marine

Trapick posted:

If you're on Linux or Mac, this is pretty easy with a bash one-liner. On windows if you can install Cygwin this should work as well:
code:
for file in $(<list_of_files.txt); do cp -r "$file" destination_folder_path; done

So this would be limited to file names only? I guess I could use Find and Replace to rename all of the file contents from folder names and then use this. Would this try and copy, say, 200 files sequentially or simultaneously?

edit: looks like -r means recursive and will get files inside a directory, so I might be able to leave the file names as is..

Ceros_X fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Jun 21, 2015

# ? Jun 21, 2015 21:59

Mario: Oct 29, 2006; It's-a-me!

If you're on Windows, you don't have to bother with Cygwin unless you want it anyways -- use PowerShell instead:

code:

Get-Content files.txt | Foreach-Object { Copy-Item -Recurse $_ C:\Some\DestinationFolder }

# ? Jun 21, 2015 23:19

Trapick: Apr 17, 2006

Ceros_X posted:

So this would be limited to file names only? I guess I could use Find and Replace to rename all of the file contents from folder names and then use this. Would this try and copy, say, 200 files sequentially or simultaneously?

edit: looks like -r means recursive and will get files inside a directory, so I might be able to leave the file names as is..

Yeah, that would take a list of file or folder names. And as you found cp -r recursively copies, so that would copy the whole directory if you gave it a folder name. It would be sequential for each file/folder name (the for loop won't move to the next until the copy is done), I'm not sure of the internals of 'cp' but suspect it's sequential as well.

# ? Jun 21, 2015 23:26

Corla Plankun: May 8, 2007; improve the lives of everyone

How hard would it be to alter my laptop's sound card driver to lower the gain on the audio? The lowest notch on the volume is still way too loud for my headphones and there is apparently no way to fix this in the OS.

# ? Aug 15, 2015 18:13

gary oldmans diary: Sep 26, 2005

Before adjusting volume with Volume Mixer, did you set the highest volume you would like for the device in Control Panel > Sound > (Device) > Properties > Levels ?

# ? Aug 15, 2015 23:29

Corla Plankun: May 8, 2007; improve the lives of everyone

gary oldmans diary posted:

Before adjusting volume with Volume Mixer, did you set the highest volume you would like for the device in Control Panel > Sound > (Device) > Properties > Levels ?

Device properties are driver-dependent and on my laptop the only thing in that tab is a slider that maps 1-to-1 with the regular volume control slider.

# ? Aug 17, 2015 14:55

Ceros_X: Aug 6, 2006; U.S. Marine

Mario posted:

If you're on Windows, you don't have to bother with Cygwin unless you want it anyways -- use PowerShell instead:
code:
Get-Content files.txt | Foreach-Object { Copy-Item -Recurse $_ C:\Some\DestinationFolder }

This is a late reply but I wound up using this (I am lazy and powershell is indeed installed on Windows 7 lol) to copy about 100 movies from one hard drive to another. Having used it, I ran into several weird issues and bugs.

If there is a bracket in the folder name it does not coy the folder. If there is a bracket in a file name, it copes the file without issue. [And without reporting an error or a failure to copy] If a subdirectory of a folder has a bracket in the name it is parsed like normal.

code:

\AFTER EARTH [2013]\ -> Skipped, with all files inside
\ABOUT LAST NIGHT\About Last Night [2014].mp4 -> Copied without issue
\HANGOVER, THE 1-3\Hangover 3, The [2013] [Hardsubs] -> Copied without issue

The Directory lister program I used to make a list of folders capitalized the output - the folder names PowerShell created were all upper cased regardless of the case of the actual folder. The files inside retained their capitalization.

code:

About Last Night -> ABOUT LAST NIGHT

Not a huge issue, thought you might be interested in the trip report. I'll try the Cygwin method next time. Appreciate the advice!

Ceros_X fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Sep 8, 2015

# ? Sep 8, 2015 19:40

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

Corla Plankun posted:

Device properties are driver-dependent and on my laptop the only thing in that tab is a slider that maps 1-to-1 with the regular volume control slider.

This seems to be the behavior of the default windows drivers, it's the same on my thinkpad. Maybe try installing vendor-supplied drivers in case they have more options?

# ? Sep 9, 2015 07:54

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# ? Apr 19, 2024 00:34

IAmKale: Jun 7, 2007; やらないか; Fun Shoe

I'd like to request an app that would let me bind Ctrl+Space (or maybe any global hotkey combination) to perform a web search with whatever text I currently have copied to the clipboard. Work correspondence is all in Japanese and so I often look up words that I don't know using http://jisho.org/.

I want to replace this:

Highlight text, Ctrl+C, Alt+Tab over to Chrome, middle-click Jisho shortcut, Ctrl+V, Enter

With this:

Highlight text, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Space

For a while I was doing this with Launchy but twice already (about once every other month or so) I've restarted my computer only to find out that Launchy had completely reset itself. This forced me to go in, clear out a bunch of defaults, add my custom search, change the skin, and change the hotkey combination. It's way too much setup for something I hardly use outside of this one feature.

Basically I'm looking for something simple without a bunch of setup aside from specifying a website and a search string (ex. http://jisho.org/search/%s to specify where the copied text should be appended to the URL) and maybe the specific hotkey combination.

# ? Sep 10, 2015 00:17

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