mDesktop - Multiple Virtual Desktops

[octalmage]

Hey Guys!

For a while now I've been maintaining mDesktop and I realized I've never shared it on the forums, so here it is!

https://github.com/octalmage/mdesktop

Check it out and let me know what you think. I recently moved the project to GitHub to help encourage collaboration (over 300 stars on Google Code!). I'm using mostly Mac these days and It's been difficult to work on it. I'd probably cry if we ever got AutoHotkey on OS X!

[joedf]

Cool! Starred!

[Coco]

+Cool! Clean source code. Thanks!

[jNizM]

Here is a faster dec2hex() function:

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dec2hex(n)
{
    static u := A_IsUnicode ? "_wcstoui64" : "_strtoui64", v := A_IsUnicode ? "_i64tow" : "_i64toa"
    VarSetCapacity(s, 66, 0)
    value := DllCall("msvcrt.dll\" u, "Str", n, "UInt", 0, "UInt", 10, "CDECL Int64")
    DllCall("msvcrt.dll\" v, "Int64", value, "Str", s, "UInt", 16, "CDECL")
    return "0x" s
}

MsgBox % dec2hex(10)

For more functions see: Convert Base

[Skrell]

This looks VERY impressive so far! My only suggestion would be to add a way to send windows to other desktops just using the mouse. If you could that i think it'd be perfect!

[empardopo]

Impossible to use in W7 64. I get the next error

[joedf]

What .NET frameworks do you have installed?

[empardopo]

You can see in the picture.
Thanks!

[joedf]

Hmm try installing v4.5 ?

[empardopo]

I've just installed framework 4.5 and I think I get the same error

Firma con problemas:
Nombre del evento de problema: APPCRASH
Nombre de la aplicación: mDesktop.exe
Versión de la aplicación: 1.1.15.4
Marca de tiempo de la aplicación: 53e971a8
Nombre del módulo con errores: StackHash_e1bf
Versión del módulo con errores: 6.1.7601.17514
Marca de tiempo del módulo con errores: 4ce7ba58
Código de excepción: c0000374
Desplazamiento de excepción: 000ce653
Versión del sistema operativo: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.4
Id. de configuración regional: 3082
Información adicional 1: e1bf
Información adicional 2: e1bfb61ca51097e83404bfbe6f560655
Información adicional 3: 54bc
Información adicional 4: 54bc05298f3a90dd8b456412cc084ee4

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[joedf]

hmm.... I have no idea then ...

[empardopo]

No problem, thanks!
I only wanted to check the program.
Greetings!

[joedf]

Whew alright, that's a relief
Regards,

[submeg]

@joedf, do you know if there's the ahk script anywhere? I've been using this one, but the transferring of applications between desktops doesn't work. Would be keen to see if this one has the functionality.

[gregster]

@submeg :
The original poster provided a github link in the first post, and also has a dedicated releases page there. I would go for that: https://github.com/octalmage/mDesktop/releases/tag/v1.7.2
The one you linked to is probably unrelated to this topic.

[submeg]

thanks @gregster, it's there.

Yes the one I use is different (and by other authors), I wanted to check out the ahk to see if it will have the shifting of apps between different desktops working.

[hoppfrosch]

@submeg: Have you seen https://github.com/sdias/win-10-virtual-desktop-enhancer?

[submeg]

@hoppfrosch, I've not come across that one before, will give it a go, thanks!

[pmobin]

Hello AHK wizards,

I am trying to get win-10-virtual-desktop-enhancer to work but no luck. I have the 2015 Visual Studio Framework 4.5 installed and running the ahk. All seems good however absolutely nothing happens. I msgboxed the return values from the various dll calls to the accessor dll and they are all 0's. Any ideas? Thanks.

[chris_s]

I had pretty much the same result. I think that the scroll wheel worked but it didn't seem to take the back and forward or the num keys to go to a specific window. I dug into the code a bit and made some changes so now all of those functions work and it now changes the background when the desktop changes. It's the first time that I've done anything with AutoHotKey (I have used Autoit but that is a bit different). All the basic parts seemed to be there (and it seems to be pretty good work) but the actual event code didn't seem to do everything that it was supposed to do.

I need to spend some time looking at the other things that it is supposed to be able to do. Once I get a bit further, I may post it here. My working version is now quite an adequate replacement for Dexpot that I used to use but no longer works under Win 10.

Note: I tried MDesktop as well but that didn't seem to work either.