[Jade] Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 (edited) Nja Hi. This is a boss key program I made over the past couple of weeks. I've tested it, and found no problems with it, and it does everything it is supposed to do AFAIK, but if you do find problems please tell me. Thanks to TimRogers for hosting Download: http://www.tim-rogers.co.uk/mirror/Nja.zip Here is the readme: Nja (pronounced En-Jah) allows you to, on the press of a key, hide (including from the taskbar and ctrl-alt-del applications list) any windows you specify. It would be commonly called a "Boss Key" program. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESIGN: FAST, SMALL, LIGHT - Memory usage is under 5mb (usually 2-3mb), and Download size is only 500kb. CONFIGURABLE - Nearly everything about Nja is configurable. From how it displays it's status, to what keys to use, all can be configured. SIMPLE - Nja is designed so there are no useless parts of the program. Nja is certainly not bloatware. The only files are Nja.exe (the program), Configurator.exe (self-explanitory), config.cfg (config file, changable in notepad), and windows.cfg (configuration of which windows to hide), and of course readme.txt (what you are reading now). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- FEATURES: HIDE KEY - When you press the hide key (whatever you chose in the Configurator, by default the tilde key), Nja will instantly hide the windows you have chosen. See below on how to choose these windows. LOCK MODE - When you press the lock key (by default Alt and the tilde key), Nja will hide all specified open windows, and also stop any such windows from opening. For example, if you had MSN messenger configured to be hidden when you press the hide (by default tilde) key. Your boss comes in, you press the hide key. MSN dissappears. Then while he is watching, an MSN alert comes up "So-and-so says: Hi!", which you have to quickly tab down and hope your boss didn't see. Not so with the lock feature. Just press the lock key, and any windows which come up are automatically hidden. They are not exited though, so as soon as you press the lock key again (to unlock everything), the window is still there. Also, if you are leaving your PC for a long amount of time, you can lock it, so that no unwanted windows will be visible. STATUS ICON - If enabled, Nja will display a small icon in the lower right corner of your screen, showing the current status of Nja - that is open, hidden, or locked. PASSWORD - Nja can be configured to request a password either when unhiding windows, or unlocking (see above). SCREENSAVER - If you want, Nja can turn on your screensaver whenever you press the hide key or the lock key. This can be useful if you are using the lock feature and want to hide the fact that all programs except your spreadsheet program (or whatever you specified) will be automatically hidden. In this case, if configured, Nja will run your screensaver as soon as you press the lock key, so nobody will notice. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- BASIC USAGE First, move Nja to a folder where you will permenantly store it. This can be anywhere on your PC. Next, run the configurator (configurator.exe). See below for more information. Once this is done, you will want to run Nja to try it out. Double click Nja.exe, and play around with the features. If you want to exit Nja, this must be done from the Ctrl-Alt-Del processes list. In the future, I plan to add a small program which, when you run it, terminates Nja. You will probably want to add a shortcut to Nja to your startup list. To do this, just right-click on Nja.exe, then click Create Shortcut. Right click on the new shortcut and press cut. Then right click on the start button, and press explore. Navigate to the startup folder, then press paste. That's it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE CONFIGURATOR: The configurator allows you to set up Nja as you want, and creates the configuration files. Most of the pages are self explanitory, however the programs page can be slightly confusing. Here's how it works: Exclusive Mode - this checkbox allows you to choose which basic mode Nja runs in. In Exclusive Mode, all the windows you add to the "windows list", will be *excluded* when you press the hide key. That means all windows will be hidden, except those in this list. If you're not in Exclusive Mode, Nja will leave all windows open, and only hide the windows which are in the list. The Window list - this is the listbox on the lower right, captioned "Applications". Any windows whose titles contain any of the items in this list will be hidden/not hidden depending on whether Exclusive Mode is enabled (see above). For example if you added "Firefox" to the list, and had Exclusive Mode disabled. When you press the hide key, Nja will hide any programs whose title contains the text "Firefox". This would include the Firefox web browser (title "Firefox - Google.com"), (if you had it open) Firefox's help window ("Firefox Documentation"), and even windows explorer if you were browsing the firefox folder ("Windows Explorer - C:\Programs\Firefox"). On the other hand, if you had Exclusive Mode enabled, Nja will hide all windows except those with "Firefox" in the title. The list on the left simply shows which programs you have running and allows you to add them to the list. Note, when you press add, Nja only adds the first word of the program's title to the list. This is not a bug. This is to stop you from accidently adding a window such as "Paint - xxx.jpg" (which would mean Nja would only hide paint when the file xxx.jpg is open), instead of "Paint" (which would hide paint no matter what file is open). If you need more than one word, just type it in the edit box. Window titles are not case sensitive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I hope this has covered all the features of Nja, and how to use them, and I hope there isn't any bugs in the program. If you have any problems or questions, feel free to E-mail me at jadesp@gmail.com, or better, make a post in the Neowin thread for the program. You should get a reply to your email within a few days (or hours), and to a post on the program's Neowin thread even faster. Thanks to TimRogers for hosting [Download: http://www.tim-rogers.co.uk/mirror/Nja.zip I hope you will find it useful. Edited July 2, 2005 by [Jade] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Jade] Posted June 30, 2005 Author Share Posted June 30, 2005 this forum is crazy - 40 views in like 30 seconds :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGeMo Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 This is pretty hot! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee G. Veteran Posted June 30, 2005 Veteran Share Posted June 30, 2005 Nice app! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin-uk Veteran Posted June 30, 2005 Veteran Share Posted June 30, 2005 thats pretty cool :happy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayamaniac Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 Your boss comes in, you press the hide key. MSN dissappears. Then while he is watching, an MSN alert comes up "So-and-so says: Hi!", which you have to quickly tab down and hope your boss didn't see. Not so with the lock feature. Just press the lock key, and any windows which come up are automatically hidden. Does the Hide command suppresses alert sounds that MSN makes or even Mute the system volume will do. If not, I request this feature. :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Jade] Posted June 30, 2005 Author Share Posted June 30, 2005 Not yet, but it should be quite easy to add. Should be added by tommorow :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code.Red Posted June 30, 2005 Share Posted June 30, 2005 Nice job on this, no bugs so far! :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Suraci Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 Perfect for porn. :shifty: I'm joking, but really it is.. Nice job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Jade] Posted July 1, 2005 Author Share Posted July 1, 2005 Perfect for porn. :shifty:I'm joking, but really it is.. Nice job. 586146493[/snapback] Indeed. Tabbing down multiple pop-up ads, and stopping them from coming up, was one one of the reasons I made it in the first place :shfity: Oh, and I don't look at pr0n at all :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jus1haz2 Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 (edited) This sounds really cool. Do you have to install it though becuase the computer I am on i cant install anything on it. :crazy: edit it wont let me download the file and sorry if the discription says that you dont need to install it or you do but i cant read all that w/o being cuaght. lol Edited July 1, 2005 by jus1haz2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Jade] Posted July 1, 2005 Author Share Posted July 1, 2005 This sounds really cool. Do you have to install it though becuase the computer I am on i cant install anything on it. :crazy: 586149102[/snapback] No, just unzip, run config, then run nja.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tktino Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 good work, good use thou Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Jade] Posted July 1, 2005 Author Share Posted July 1, 2005 Oh I didn't realize the donwload link doesn't work properly. Anyone know a better place to upload it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimRogers Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 I'll host it :) In a sec there will be http://www.tim-rogers.co.uk/mirror/nja.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimRogers Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 Yep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Jade] Posted July 1, 2005 Author Share Posted July 1, 2005 Wow great, thanks. Shall I switch all the links to your link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Jade] Posted July 1, 2005 Author Share Posted July 1, 2005 done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Jade] Posted July 2, 2005 Author Share Posted July 2, 2005 OK, I've got the mute feature working. I won't upload it today though, since there is still a few bugs to iron out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotwire Posted July 2, 2005 Share Posted July 2, 2005 Perfect for porn. :shifty:I'm joking, but really it is.. Nice job. 586146493[/snapback] lol geez btw that link is down getting 404 right now u might want to fix that so we can actually test it out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotwire Posted July 2, 2005 Share Posted July 2, 2005 LOL i just figured out what's wrong with the link the hosting server is probably running Linux or some os that's case sensitive if u go to http://www.tim-rogers.co.uk/mirror/ u will see a file named Nja.zip and u can download it from there so ya need to fix those cap typos... or the sever is not going to let u dl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harsesis Posted July 2, 2005 Share Posted July 2, 2005 lol geezbtw that link is down getting 404 right now u might want to fix that so we can actually test it out 586150867[/snapback] Yah neeed teh link! sounds extremely useful :ninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Jade] Posted July 2, 2005 Author Share Posted July 2, 2005 Fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Jade] Posted July 3, 2005 Author Share Posted July 3, 2005 OK, I done the mute feature. There's some minor and generally unnoticeable bugs, but it does it's job. I'll PM TimRogers with the new download for him to upload. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Jade] Posted July 3, 2005 Author Share Posted July 3, 2005 for now here's the freewebs link: http://www.freewebs.com/jadesp/Nja.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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