Skill Scanner

[BlackHawk]

Same error still there... Is there any way to make it connect to IP rather than to name? Or is any way for me to do that?

[jdegre]

Originally Posted by BlackHawk

Same error still there... Is there any way to make it connect to IP rather than to name? Or is any way for me to do that?

forgot to post here about this; apparently, it turned out to be a firewall issue; so, just a little reminder for those people having connectivity problems, the applications _needs_ to connect to the domain <jdegre.net>; it is designed to work like that. you must setup your firewall so it grants permission to the scanner application to do that; otherwise, it won't work.



oh, and a little hint for those people that want to run the application and are sitting behind an http proxy (for instance, if you want to use the application from your work pc, at the office , and you have no means to bypass the corporate proxy). it is possible to launch the java application and force it to go through the proxy, instead of connecting directly to the internet. all you have to do is the following:

- save the "Scanner.jar" file in a directory, as usual; let's assume that you saved it in the desktop, and the whole path is:

C:\Documents and Settings\jdegre\Desktop\Scanner.jar

- create a windows shortcut, and associate it with the following command:

javaw -Dhttp.proxyHost=myproxy.com -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080 -jar "C:\Documents and Settings\jdegre\Desktop\Scanner.jar"

where you must replace the parts in red with your actual values for the proxy host, the proxy port and the whole path of the Scanner.jar file.

- save the shortcut, and double click on it, as usual

note: it is assumed that javaw.exe is in your windows path, and it is like this by default as long as you have your java system properly installed.

cheers,
/jdegre.

[Tekkie]

Hi, this tool works perfectly - very smooth and professional

I was wondering if it was possible to include the esi and chip prices in the .csv file too? I like to export the information to excel so all information that the scanner produces would be great... dont ask why, its just the geek in me that wont stop nagging !!!

Cheers Jdegre, great job!

[Immortal]

Originally Posted by Immortal

I've been opening the scanner from the zip file. Hence the virtual.
I tested some things:
saving to root file \Desktop\Scanner_0_10 as csv and txt is ok

So the question now... how the holy hell do i access the saved invisible data locked in system32

Does anyone have a solution to this

[jdegre]

Originally Posted by Immortal

I've been opening the scanner from the zip file. Hence the virtual.
I tested some things:
saving to root file \Desktop\Scanner_0_10 as csv and txt is ok

So the question now... how the holy hell do i access the saved invisible data locked in system32

i've never used vista, so i cannot reproduce the error, but you said that you can edit the contents of the locked file, right?. in that case, have you tried copying the content of the file (not the file itself) and pasting it in a different file created elsewhere?.

sorry if i'm not helping much here, but i really don't understand the error you're having

[Immortal]

Originally Posted by jdegre

i've never used vista, so i cannot reproduce the error, but you said that you can edit the contents of the locked file, right?. in that case, have you tried copying the content of the file (not the file itself) and pasting it in a different file created elsewhere?.

sorry if i'm not helping much here, but i really don't understand the error you're having

THe file won't show up in search, but it's there. I can see the directory it is in with the optimizer (it saves it somewhere in system32). I can see and edit the file with command propmt (i call it DOS), I can move it only so far i.e. not out of system32. May hve something to do with labels, /access properties, but i've forgoten the correct command to mark the file as movable/nonrestricted :p

In DOS if I try
c:> copy *.* c:\temp

i get an error telling me i'm not allowed to do that even though i can open the file with DOS edit, i can't save it elsewhere

[jdegre]

Originally Posted by Immortal

In DOS if I try
c:> copy *.* c:\temp

it should be something like this, right?:
c:\windows\system32> copy *.csv c:\temp

Originally Posted by Immortal

i get an error telling me i'm not allowed to do that even though i can open the file with DOS edit, i can't save it elsewhere

if the above does not work, then open the file with DOS edit in a DOS window, and then select all the text with the mouse, and copy it to the windows clipboard (with the "mark/copy" command in the system menu of the DOS window, in the upper left corner of the window, NOT with the "copy/paste" commands of the edit program).
then, create another .txt file somewhere else with notepad, and "paste" the text into it.

you can only copy/paste the text visible on the DOS window, so you'll have to repeat the above steps 3-4 times, scrolling the text in the edit program, until you've copy-pasted all the text from the csv file.

finally, rename the .txt to .csv.

[Borr]

Did you try to open the csv file from the cmd prompt? Like this:

c:\windows\system32> Skills_20080404_234126.csv

This should open the default handler for the csv file type. From there i would expect you to be able to write it to another location. (but same as jdegre, i dont have vista, neither do i have experience with it)

[Immortal]

Originally Posted by jdegre

it should be something like this, right?:
c:\windows\system32> copy *.csv c:\temp

Yep I did the right* way (i had isolated that file in it's own directory) and got this:

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However

Originally Posted by Borr

Did you try to open the csv file from the cmd prompt? Like this:

c:\windows\system32> Skills_20080404_234126.csv

THis worked.

Thanks ^^
>_>
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[NightwolfAA2k5]

Great program! Was able to finally update my stats on Entropedia since the skills sheet update. I recommend this program to all my friends and soc mates

- Nightwolf