paullab Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 (edited) An advent Calendar (Stays on top of all windows) The program displays an image behind a 7x5 grid. Each day a new portion of the image is made visible. Days for the first and last week that do no belong to the current month are NOT displayed This means that for december 2008 the last 4 days of the last week are not displayed. You can specifiy (via an ini file). The image to be displayed The Size and position of the image The image is scaled to fit and then centred vertically & horizontally in the viewport defined by the width and height There is also the ability to hide the image if it gets in the way, left clicking on an image hides it for you A Taskbar menu allows you to Toggle the Viewstate Edit & save the settings Exit the application The embedded files (advent.ini & advent.jpg) are only exctracted if they do not already exist. This means that you can fiddle with the image as well as the settings as much as you want. REMEMBER to edit the paths for the image & ini file FileInstall look for ** edit here ** and change as needed To email your nice new EXE without problems use the passthru program available from the link in my signature. or from Here the attached zip contains the au3 source code, a sample ini file as well as the iconAdvent.zip Edited November 19, 2008 by paullab Wallpaper Rotatorwith overlay, Loop through a folder of wallpaper & another of overlay, then create a combined image and set it as the wallpaperE-Mail passthru, Send any file, even executables via e-mail as plain text. The recipient can then later re-construct them.Slideshow widget, A slideshow widget similar to the Vista onePredictive typing using the Numpad, Predictive typing using the numpad of a keyboar similar to that on a mobile phone (the key is the .t16 file).PSTools Front End, For Remote Admin. Just makes life a lot easier (Demonstrates executing external programs and passing parameters, tabbed form Handling STDIN/STDERR)FTP Helper application Up and Download files from an FTP server demonstrates this and Tooltray TipsShow a Map of your Post-codes/Zip Codes, Uses the Clipboard, Hotkeys, the system tray (incl. menus)Disc/CD/DVD Catalogue, Ideal for all those Covermount Discs (Demonstrates Array handling, executing DOS programs, handling STDIN/STDOUT recursive directory reads, file searching.)YAST , Yet another Stopwatch/Timer (Uses a hotkey, Copies to clipboard, handles multiple events and stays on top)Keyboard Status Indicator , Indicates status of NumLock, Caps Lock and Scroll Lock Keys, demonstrates API calling & System tray Icon Toggling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youknowwho4eva Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 What's the fun without the little chocolate behind each flap? lol, just joshin. I want to see some Thanksgiving programs before all these Christmas idea's. I didn't try it but sounds like a novel idea. Maybe a 12 month agenda book in the works? At log-on or first activity of the day the calender pop's up with reminders for the following 7 days, and such? Just thoughts. Giggity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gseller Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 It doesn't do anything but put a tray menu with two choices for toggle view and settings, neither of which make anything happen. What is it supposed to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paullab Posted November 19, 2008 Author Share Posted November 19, 2008 (edited) What is it supposed to do?Put simply what it does is 1. Display the image it finds in the ini file (you will has to supply your own)2. it overlays the image with the days of the month (like a calendar)3. It hides those portions of the image that fall into next month or last month4. It hides those portions of the image that have dates greater than todaythis means that the image is slowly revealed as the month goes by sort of like the calendars where you get a piece of chocolate for each day in december!you did however point out a bug in the edit settings code (Thats what happens when you hack something together out of something else)You may want to increase the size of the image display in the ini file if it is on a childs PC Edited November 19, 2008 by paullab Wallpaper Rotatorwith overlay, Loop through a folder of wallpaper & another of overlay, then create a combined image and set it as the wallpaperE-Mail passthru, Send any file, even executables via e-mail as plain text. The recipient can then later re-construct them.Slideshow widget, A slideshow widget similar to the Vista onePredictive typing using the Numpad, Predictive typing using the numpad of a keyboar similar to that on a mobile phone (the key is the .t16 file).PSTools Front End, For Remote Admin. Just makes life a lot easier (Demonstrates executing external programs and passing parameters, tabbed form Handling STDIN/STDERR)FTP Helper application Up and Download files from an FTP server demonstrates this and Tooltray TipsShow a Map of your Post-codes/Zip Codes, Uses the Clipboard, Hotkeys, the system tray (incl. menus)Disc/CD/DVD Catalogue, Ideal for all those Covermount Discs (Demonstrates Array handling, executing DOS programs, handling STDIN/STDOUT recursive directory reads, file searching.)YAST , Yet another Stopwatch/Timer (Uses a hotkey, Copies to clipboard, handles multiple events and stays on top)Keyboard Status Indicator , Indicates status of NumLock, Caps Lock and Scroll Lock Keys, demonstrates API calling & System tray Icon Toggling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gseller Posted November 19, 2008 Share Posted November 19, 2008 Ahhh, I see now.. Ok, pretty cool! Thanks for sharing and the education.. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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