windows stuff resolved

[Brian K. White]

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From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
To: "filePro Mailing List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 12:29 AM
Subject: OT: windows stuff resolved


> Wow.  :)  In the space of 30min, I manged to learn how to utilise the
> Windows systray programatically, keep applications from appearing (ever!)
> in the ALT-Tab task list, and re-focus the last window that had focus
> before the window you opened was created.
>
> That last bit may lead to that image viewer that needs no refocus.
>
> Or it all may lead to one big application.  Wall4Win with the ability to
> pop up an image fed via remote, as well as text messages and some other
> network monitoring tools?  Mrmmmmm...
>
> Anyway, all those mysteries that were plaguing me have been quite quickly
> dispatched.  Now it's just a matter of, "Are either of them worth 
> writing?"

Now it's developing into a sort of general purpose agent, which I could use 
after adding several more features.
* work over the internet,
* to clients behind nat routers,
* from a servers behind a nat routers,
* run programs on the users pc.

They don't have to be _arbitrary_ programs like what I can do now with 
terminal emulator run-program escape sequences. There could be a config file 
on the pc that has a list of commands that the agent will run when asked. 
All you have to do then is not put "start %1 %2 %3..." as one of those 
commands.

The putty author has made something like that but the way it works isn't 
useful to me. Or, maybe I just need to figure more things out. Maybe putty's 
ssh tunneling can make it work to clients behind nat routers over the 
internet.

Another feature would be a directory-watching file transfer daemon. Both 
ways. There are apps out there that do this but the few I've tried have 
sucked for various reasons. I haven't tried anything approaching all, or 
even very many, and none in the last couple years, but aside from that I 
also just don't trust them to be well written such that I _know_ they will 
never conflict with the program writing files into the watched directory, 
nor bog the pc down with unecessary cpu and network usage. I would take 
something written by you from scratch this weekend over most things written 
by nameless others even if they are 5 years into their development when it 
comes to coding that needs to be both careful and efficient, with careful 
taking precedence. But you have *plonked* me so you'll never see that. 
Except you moderate the list, you can't filter someone and still monitor 
them. Bzzt! :)

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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