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Add Image Mouseover effect in AutoHotkey GUI

: Category: AutoHotkey; 25 January 2010; 25 January 2010; Hits: 252931; Rating:

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Couldn't find this anywhere on the net and kinda needed it so am making a note of how to do it here.

The issue is that I wanted to make my autohotkey program change the image that the mouse hovers over (within it's own GUI). No third-party component or dll needed, just a slight modification to the mousemove tooltip in the autohotkey manual.

: Category: AutoHotkey; 10 November 2009; 10 November 2009; Hits: 19031; Rating:

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Well there's a lot of autohotkey sites saying that you can apply a transparency and then capture special mouse events to emulate the mouseover and mouseout effects of a button with an image as a background. I couldn't get any of these working and they looked more confusing then anything else.

My solution is to set up the default button and the image to respond to the ENTER key after you typed something (this is for a search feature) in addition to having a button if the user would rather click then press the ENTER key. Then create the mouseover and mouseout effects afterwards.

: Category: AutoHotkey; 09 November 2009; 09 November 2009; Hits: 17173; Rating:

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Thought I'd put this down as it took me ages to search the Internet for this solution. In the end, I found it hidden away in the Autohotkey help file and not under the gui events...

The issue here is if you want to do something when a user resizes your program.

If you search and search, you'll find that GuiClose responds to when you close the app, and GuiSize will run when you resize the app.

: Category: MS-DOS; 09 August 2014; 09 August 2014; Hits: 52268; Rating:

( 962 Ratings )

Applies to:

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Ms-DOS Command Prompt (6.1.7601)

What?
A quick article on how to rename multiple files using the command prompt and a bit of string manipulation. This example will rename files which contain the string " (Copy)" and replace it with nothing (so removes it). The challenge here is the space character and delimiting by a string.

The Gist

-- What I have
Image00001 (Copy).jpg
Image00002 (Copy).jpg

-- What I want
Image00001.jpg
Image00002.jpg

How?
Before I continue, the undo may work in MS Windows (Control key + Z) but don't count on it. I'm going to use a short batch process but to save time on the different ways of doing this, the example below uses a command prompt to a) create a batch file b) use it to rename the files c) delete the batch file.

: Category: MS-DOS; 23 February 2014; 23 February 2014; Hits: 69128; Rating:

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What?
A quick note on how to copy files and folders over without overwriting existing files. It's easy to say "Yes" and replace all files. What I need is something that synchronizes files on an internal hard drive to an external one. I wanted it to copy only the files that were new in the original folder and only copy those over (reason being, the archive is 4 terabytes and backing up only the changed files would speed things up).

Applies to:

Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows 8
for Vista and Windows 2008 without XCOPY, try ROBOCOPY.

How?
We're going to use MS-DOS because I'm that old.

: Category: MS-DOS; 03 October 2013; 03 October 2013; Hits: 19836; Rating:

( 378 Ratings )

What?
A quick note for myself as I'd forgotten how to do this (we're talking technology belonging to the 90s - MS-DOS v6.22). The example wants to loop through a directory and then loop through the line it finds.

Why?
I use another technology for automation but sometimes the simpler solution is the one I make for other people to use. Explaining MS-DOS batch programs is a lot easier and colleagues trust these more than my all-in-one GUI applications.

How?
Note: we're using the code in a DOS Batch program so our variables have to be prefixed with a double-percent rather than just the one:

: Category: MS-DOS; 18 July 2012; 18 July 2012; Hits: 41216; Rating:

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Intro
Prefixing lines with their respective line number in a text file using a Microsoft Windows Operating System... I've just googled this as I couldn't remember how I did this last time and a number of people showing off their MS-DOS batch skills have proposed stupid extensive solutions when all you need is one command-line.

Why?
Working with programming languages, I often need to write the accompanying documentation. Within the documentation, I may want to refer to a line of code within a text file. I also find myself copying amounts of code into the same document and then needing lines prefixed so that I can explain the code.

What?
Change contents of "original_file.txt"

The first line of my code
The second line of my code
The third line of my code

To "results_file.txt"

  1:  The first line of my code
  2:  The second line of my code
  3:  The third line of my code

How?

: Category: API Miscellaneous; 04 October 2018; 29 March 2016; Hits: 31091; Rating:

( 709 Ratings )

Applies to:

Apimo Webservice 2.0 (apimo.com)
PHP v5.5

What?
This is an article on how I connected to the Apimo WebService. The Apimo Webservice is an API provided by apimo.com and requires a server request over HTTPS using the GET method.

Why?
This was quite difficult to connect to and to determine what was wrong with each step of the development as the error messages were somewhat vague. I thought I'd quickly write this article so I don't have to spend so much time on it again.

Note that the below examples, demonstrate a script on a Non-SSL-Enabled host.

How?

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