best way to create a basic app?

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garbanzo · #1 Post by **garbanzo** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:07 am

i'm no programmer. i learned BASIC in high school, but that was a very long time ago.

i want to try to try to write an app, because i have searched and searched and cannot find what i am looking for. i just want one window filled with a dozen or so buttons. each one is assigned to a single unicode character (maybe via an INI file). clicking on a button pastes that character where the cursor is.

what is the best way to do this? autoit? autohotkey? something else? how difficult would such an app be to create? do i stand a chance at this?

thanks!

I am Baas · #2 Post by **I am Baas** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:29 am

http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/ ... #msg101263

You could customize this script to your liking.

garbanzo · #3 Post by **garbanzo** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:25 am

well that looks handy, thanks Baas. should do the trick

Cornflower · #4 Post by **Cornflower** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:16 am

I use Skrommel's Accents program, also on DonationCoder

http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/#Accents

With this one I simply put the special characters into the accents.ini file. I then use my little used reverse accent key (`) to generate the character I need

[7]
key=`
1=¤
2=other odd character here
3=·´¯`·.¸¸. ><((((º>

3 presses of the ` key give the first item, four the second, and five the fish in this example.

garbanzo · #5 Post by **garbanzo** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:01 am

thanks cornflower. i tried that one ages ago, but i remember it didn't work well for my purposes... i think it didn't have unicode support?

Cornflower · #6 Post by **Cornflower** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:49 pm

It appears you are right--it may be because it is in an.ini file, so that even if I save as unicode, it does not want to respond correctly.

m^(2) · #7 Post by **m^(2)** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:35 pm

You can try PowerPro. I'm not sure how are it's GUI creation capabilities, but I use a simpler form what you're looking for - got some unicode characters in my snipplets menu, which I created w/out even touching the code.

I am Baas · #8 Post by **I am Baas** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:22 am

Jónapot kívánok!

Check out International Keyboard, UniKey and WGL4Key @ http://home.datacomm.ch/t.bigler/utils.html

I am Baas · #9 Post by **I am Baas** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:58 am

@ garbanzo

I see you have got Easy Unicode Paster crafted for you. Are you a .net converted?

The guys over at DC are nice and very helpful.

garbanzo · #10 Post by **garbanzo** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:43 am

hey baas,

your hungarian is excellent!

i installed .NET to try out the shiny new app that Eric made. i might keep it installed. i have a handfull of other apps that i'd like to use as well, but i've been holding out. i need to get over this fear of installing things

and you're right, they were incredibly helpful over there! those guys must really like coding. it was just a matter of hours after i made a request that the app showed up, exactly how i wanted it. amazing

I am Baas · #11 Post by **I am Baas** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:46 am

My old man is from Budapest but my Hungarian sucks big time... except for swear words