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hi all, Wow check out the new digs very nice. It's been a couple months since i've been back and i must say very nice..... Okay back to business. Alright, This one is for all the graphic artists out there. I have an idea for a new program to aide artists in there graphic design efforts. You may have used an amazing program called ArtRage.... Very nice, I especially like the rotate canvas feature, very useful. Now i was thinking why not do that with all my graphic programs out there. mspaint,illustrator,photoshop etc. Well I know no one at adobe or Microsoft. So i have taken it upon myself to start the ball rolling.... I contacted the makers of Artrage (Ambient Design) Very nice people, anyways they said it was a bit out of their league. But thought it was a great idea. And that was two days ago. So i've been sitting around thinking about it all day.... And i've been trying to think of where to go next. I've been googleing all sorts of things and then it hit me. Who do i know that thinks outside the box.... AUTOIT! The forums have been awesome and i've met people from all walks everyone of whom are techies and perhaps some are artists too. So here it is! I would like to start a discussion with everyone on the forum on how this could be done. First the goal: (If you have not used artrage you can download it from their site. www.artrage.com or google it.) Here is the outline of the program and it's features. a program that gives you the ability to rotate windows, while allowing the user to still interact with the targeted window and does not stop or slow down the targeted window or application. Other tools like Rulers, stencils, gesture macros etc. Here are my thoughts. This can totally be done. One way i can see it working is. You know those magnifier programs on the market. Zoomit or something? well they take the desktop and view it in a camera view so a targeted area of the desktop is magnified. So we do the same thing but for a targeted window only or area, and then instead of magnifying it we would have the rotate ability of the captured screen area, all in real time. The captured area could be in another window and or UI like full screen or something, Where we could apply the gestures, rotations etc. another thing is any mouse or tablet input would need to be remapped so when we start to draw while the screen is rotated the new gestures are applied to the target application and make sense. This approach would make it so we don't care what application we are trying to rotate. Well What do you guys think? Any technical jib jab is welcome.

ya, I know it's not something that is used. I just came up with a possible solution over lunch. concept: This would be a program with the following parts and funtions. 1. a Live playback of a normal window or the desktop. This would need to display everything except our application. This could be accomplished by adding a Ghost monitor to the system. This would be called the "Display Viewier" 2. some sort of input array adjuster. This is used to rotate the array or matrix that your input devices run off of. like mice or wacom tablet. Our software would rotate this array and the Display Viewer not the actual desktop or windows. This would give the illusion that the window or window content is being rotated but it's just the camera view of out display window. Our input map would then be adjusted the input would then be applied to the actial desktop or window as if it had been rotated. 3. Hot keys and Keyboard Input Pass-through. These would be options to pass commands through to the tageted window of application. like Zoom,Pan, etc. Any Idea on where to start? What do you think?

Hello, I have a idea to help with my work flow. I do illustrations on the computer. I would like to know if any one out there knows how i could rotate a single window in windows 7. I use illustrator and photoshop. I would like to be able to rotate a window or the whole desktop if i need to, this would allow me to draw better. and would put no straign on the programs them self. I hope. Anyways any ideas? Thanks

Hello all, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is my second post on the board on this topic. My first post was apparently in the wrong place. Sorry about that. So after some feedback from the board I have found out a little more about what i want to do. So here we go. I want to create a script that will go though a directory "..root\Reports\". in this directory there are a number of .txt files(shoes.txt,apples.txt etc) I want to go through each txt file one by one and copy everything after "//101//" and I would like to paste that into another file, "Catalog.xml" in the root directory after //101//. All the formatting of the text in the files is already done all need to do is add these parts to the one file. Any help or direction would be awesome!! =========================================================== Example of Directory Tree Viewer.exe (This is the application the used the catalog.xml file) catalog.xml (This is the file that has the locations of all the content for the viewer program) Reports (This is a Folder that hold all the content and their txt files with the manifests.) Update.exe (This is the Autoit application i'm working on) Thanks again folks for all your help on this

Thanks, I'll check that out. As for it being non XML your right i guess. The files i want to take data out of are incomplete XML files. the file i want to add them too is the rest of the xml file. The idea here is when new reports are added to the directory my autoit.exe would add those parts to the xml file, effectively adding new content to the gallery. This would allow me to create a sort of drag and drop process. So i guess i'm looking for a way to do this with txt files? Happy New Year!!!!!!

Hi, I'm interested in doing something simple. Your code is very complete but i must admit i don't know anything about this type of stuff. I'm trying to do the following. any help or direction would be awesome. so i have the following directory tree \Sales Reports\(This is the root directory for my application) And it contains the following -Viewer.exe (this is a flash projector. It's an xml gallery) -Update.exe (The autoit Script) -catolog.xml(This is the xml file the viewer.exe uses) -\Reports\ (This is a folder called "reports", in this folder are different folders and txt files that have the content for the gallery. The user will download new reports and save them to this folder. Each Report will have the following in the download. 1 txt file (this is the xml data for the report, this is used by the flash gallery) and 1 folder of images and files. So when a user downloads a new report and runs the Update.exe That's the Tree. This is how the Files should work. Each download, or report has at least two parts, a txt file with the xml content and a folder containing all the files.There can be any number of these txt files in the reports directory. they all have different names. for example shoes.txt,cars.txt etc. Here is an example of one of the txt files. This txt file is called Aug Shoe Report.txt // Shoe Report aug 2010 // www.myreports.com //101// <ReportPages> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> </ReportPages> I would like the contents of the txt file copied and inserted into the catolog.xml file after //101//. (//101//, is just a tag i will put in the xml file so the autoit script knows where to insert the data. So i hope this is making sense so far. The update.exe will go through all the txt files in the root\reports\ Directory, extract all the data after the //101// tag and paste them one by one in the catolog.xml file after the //101// tag. All of this should be done with no input by the user. So essentially it's just a copy and paste thing. Any help would be great, thanks. I'm doing all this because flash does not have the ability to write it's own xml files. or at least i don't know how to do this. Thanks again for your help.

Thanks. I checked it out. It's a bit out of my league. what i'm trying to do is actually very simple. I don't know how to do it but it's simple for some one out there. so i have the following directory tree \Sales Reports\(This is the root directory for my application) And it contains the following -Viewer.exe (this is a flash projector. It's an xml gallery) -Update.exe (The autoit Script) -catolog.xml(This is the xml file the viewer.exe uses) -\Reports\ (This is a folder called "reports", in this folder are different folders and txt files that have the content for the gallery. The user will download new reports and save them to this folder. Each Report will have the following in the download. 1 txt file (this is the xml data for the report, this is used by the flash gallery) and 1 folder of images and files. So when a user downloads a new report and runs the Update.exe That's the Tree. This is how the Files should work. Each download, or report has at least two parts, a txt file with the xml content and a folder containing all the files.There can be any number of these txt files in the reports directory. they all have different names. for example shoes.txt,cars.txt etc. Here is an example of one of the txt files. This txt file is called Aug Shoe Report.txt // Shoe Report aug 2010 // www.myreports.com //101// <ReportPages> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> <page src="pages/img01.swf"></page> </ReportPages> I would like the contents of the txt file copied and inserted into the catolog.xml file after //101//. (//101//, is just a tag i will put in the xml file so the autoit script knows where to insert the data. So i hope this is making sense so far. The update.exe will go through all the txt files in the root\reports\ Directory, extract all the data after the //101// tag and paste them one by one in the catolog.xml file after the //101// tag. All of this should be done with no input by the user. So essentially it's just a copy and paste thing. Any help would be great, thanks. I'm doing all this because flash does not have the ability to write it's own xml files. or at least i don't know how to do this. Thanks again for your help.

Hello all, Marry Christmas/Happy New Year!!!!! I have a couple questions for the board. I'm working on a little program and i need help with an update feature. I want to build a script that will extract data from a txt document and import the data to another txt document. And i would like some advice on where to start. Here is an example of what i would like to do. Here is a directory tree of my project \working Directory -Reports\ -Viewer.exe -autoit.exe -catolog.txt Okay in side the "working directory\report\" There are 10 txt files, these files are xml data files and have the location, description and formating for different images and files. I want the Autoit.exe to extract that information from those "data" files and insert them into the catolog.txt file. To make things simpler i could also change the file extentions from xml or txt to .dta just so the autoit does not scan the wrong files. They will need to be inserted after the last "//101//" entry in the catolog file. This will not be at the end of the file and it will always be changing. The viewer.exe will then use the catolog.txt to navigate through the users liabrary and such. In essence what I'm tring to make is an xml updater. I have a liabrary of books and reports that the user can download one at a time. They are all viewed with this Viewer software i made. This autoit.exe i'm working on will add any new files to the catolog and make it so the user can easily access all of his reports. Thanks, Any help would be awsome!!!!

Thanks!!!!!!

I know this is not an auto it topic, but i was wondering if anyone out there knows were i can find information about building a "Flash Carousel" Menu for the desktop. Thanks,

Hello, Thank for your script. I'm a newbie still and I can't seem to see how i can applu your code to another window. let's say I wanted to apply the no right click to the window "TPS REPORT" how would i do it. Thanks

Thanks, Everyone!

Hello, So thanks for all your help on this, now I have one more question If i wanted to apply the not right click to a specific window only how would l do this. the name of the window could be "Notepad - survey" Thanks

Thanks, missed that some how.

Thanks for your relpy, I tried to compile the script and I got an error #include <mousesetonevent_UDF.au3> Error opening the file. I do not know what that means, what should i do? Thanks again

Thanks for your relpy, I tried to compile the script and I got an error #include <mousesetonevent_UDF.au3> Error opening the file. I do not know what that means, what should i do? Thanks again

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS EVERY ONE FOR YOUR HELP!!!!!!!!!!! I APPRECIATE IT, I HOPE I CAN HELP TOO SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE!

So, does anyone know how to do this? or is this not posible? Thanks

Thanks, I'm sorry but i actualy left out one part I need the script to run off of this address too @ProgramFilesDir Thanks Again

What I'm trying to do is have the autoit program run another exe file in another location. the location is c:\program files\ezprint\window.exe

Unable to execute the external program.

Nope, same thing. are there any other macros besides @WorkingDir? Thanks

Thanks, But I'm still getting the error. any ideas

I have a script that is not working for some reason, Any Ideas #NoTrayIcon Run("window.exe",@WorkingDir & "\Applications\ENDLS\", @SW_MAXIMIZE) Run("Autoclose.exe", @WorkingDir & "\Applications\Settings\", @SW_MAXIMIZE) Thanks

nevermind I got it to work. Thanks Though. If @DesktopWidth<1280 AND @DesktopHeight<768 Then Run("1.exe", @WorkingDir, @SW_MAXIMIZE) Else Run("2.exe", @WorkingDir, @SW_MAXIMIZE) EndIf