Luke Payne Software » My Projects http://www.lukepaynesoftware.com Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:00:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Regular Expression Tester v1.2 http://www.lukepaynesoftware.com/2010/12/08/regular-expression-tester-v1-2/ http://www.lukepaynesoftware.com/2010/12/08/regular-expression-tester-v1-2/#comments Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:10:12 +0000 Luke http://www.lukepaynesoftware.com/?p=446 The Regular Expression Tester has received a much needed upgrade. You are now able to run multiple tests, either loaded from a file or manually entered, and easily check the results.

Download here

]]> http://www.lukepaynesoftware.com/2010/12/08/regular-expression-tester-v1-2/feed/ 0 An early look at what’s coming up next http://www.lukepaynesoftware.com/2010/09/27/an-early-look-at-whats-coming-up-next/ http://www.lukepaynesoftware.com/2010/09/27/an-early-look-at-whats-coming-up-next/#comments Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:50:08 +0000 Luke http://www.lukepaynesoftware.com/?p=386 Start menu X will extend your start menu in limitless ways! I will be releasing an early version and looking for plugin developers soon, but for now you can check out the following videos (of this very early build):

Newest build:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meLXhjkmcaw

Older build:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHLxfwxnZZE

In the video are demonstrated 3 plugins, where you can look up dictionary definitions, launch searches and do some math calculations. There are a few others I am tweaking for the initial release, one that is pretty cool, allows you to type in (or paste) a registry key and it launches the registry editor at the specified path.

I will open the plugin framework so .NET developers will be able to create their own plugin /extensions.

Luke

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Logon Screen Rotator

  • Code changes to make it cleaner, lighter and potentially faster.
  • Bug Fix: An issue where settings were not being preserved when upgrading to a new version.
  • Bug Fix: Users on a domain may have trouble using the latest LSR version due to some code changes, this has now been rectified. (A big thank you to Peter van der Weiden who found this issue and through a load of testing helped get the issue rectified).
  • Bug Fix: The deep folder search setting would not work when changing the logon screen automatically.
  • Chinese version.

Peek Through

  • Will now have the ability to automatically make certain windows transparent.

As always if there is anything you would like to see included in one of my applications or you happen to come across a bug, I would love to hear about it!

Most of the new features I put in to the applications have been suggested by users, just like yourself.

Luke.

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Please note that I don’t plan to make this any bigger than what it is, I know there is so much more it could do. But just for the simple task to validating a regular expression and testing a string against it, this works fine. :)

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We are almost there, thanks for your patience!

Pictured above is the most current build I have compiled. At this stage the UI needs a bit more tweaking and I need to add in a few more things for full Windows XP support then it’s release time!

I have scraped the old code completely, which is good for you and VERY good for me. The old code base was whipped together while I was having a play around with VB .NET and then built upon as I got requests. The code was fairly shoddy, but it worked. I am now working on Logon Screen Rotator with C#.

A few new things (from what I can remember, so much as changed):

  • The Wallpaper can now be changed as well. To either the same as the logon screen, or selected randomly.
  • Loading and adding images now run in a separate thread so they don’t lock up the UI, if you load it frequently this will be great.
  • The application is faster and more snappy overall.
  • Various other issues about certain images not working have now been fixed.
  • An install wizard is now being used.
  • Windows x64 support.
  • Add multiple individual images at one time.
  • Windows Vista and XP support!

All going well, I should have this out within a week, I’ll keep you posted.

If you happen to have any last minute suggestions, feel free to either comment here or email me. (You can grab my email address for the about page)

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The issue I am having is that the system file that needs to be edited (imageres.dll) is constantly used by Windows Explorer and numerous other applications which means to override the file I need to stop these processes from using the file. I am looking for a clean and safe way to do this and then I will roll out this release.

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