Hahahaha! You did it! I wanna see that sucker in action! Maybe even get one with your 1337 hax0rz.
napoleon
· 1 year ago
Was this posted after my panic button comment??
oh the Irony...
Im guessing not... or is this the joke i had to check out?
Oh the IRONY...
My gosh!
BETAOMEGA
· 1 year ago
Greetings earthling! I love that red bomb of yours. Yes Indeed sir. Please do take precaution!
alacarte
· 1 year ago
You forgot to mention that you've made it to make sounds.
Like, screamy sounds, for instance.
alphaomega
· 1 year ago
or the zum zum :D i'll add a video of usage later along with the openly available installer
napoleon
· 1 year ago
zoom zoom zoom
Sylverin
· 1 year ago
It is being silly and not letting me claim my comments! It's almost like they don't want my awesome input attached to my name...
alphaomega
· 1 year ago
Just log into your account hover over your name and where it says "Is this you? Claim this profile." press "Claim this profile"!!
devtmonil_chan
· 1 year ago
How do you claim an account that has already been claimed???
Fabrizio Mezzatesta
· 1 year ago
Hi. I'm interested in using the panic button to launch a custom program when pressed. Did you intercept a standard HID event? Thank you for your help..
alphaomega
· 1 year ago
Custom programs? Yes you can run custom applications. Intercept HID? No, the hack is simply an extension of the existing bundled software, meaning it requires it to work. It is simply a means of automation rather than a separate program but works quite well. I am currently working on the features set and a new interface, which I don't expect to take longer than a few days. Hopefully it shall meet your needs! I expect, as with any evolutionary prototype, for it to grow with feedback and suggestions.
Thanks
Fabrizio Mezzatesta
· 1 year ago
Thank you very much! If you want or need help, I'm quite a good beta tester.. I'm a VB programmer.....
jay
· 1 year ago
I am also an owner of this useless button, any chance you could assist in providing a test program for me? any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Webmonkie
· 1 year ago
Can you please send me the application as you have it working now then I can have a look myself and I will send my results back to you.
How did you do it? Did you subclass the launcher app? Then, did you intercept some kind of message? I would really like to know. Please keep me posted! I would like to be notified if you finish this thing. :)
kirgy
· 1 year ago
Im a programmer myself working in Visual Basic, but have drawn some simular code in C# - but i dont actualy own the panic button. The code i have written detects to see if a program is running and launches another if it is. It was used for another purpose (instalation). I was just wondering before i buy one - does this button actualy launch a program when pressed then?
If so I could be having fun with my code straight away, if not I may have some more thinking to do. If someone could get back to me at some point it would be brilliant.
alphaomega
· 1 year ago
"Unfortunately the bundled software on CD (which comes with no installer, I might add) provides the user with the ability to choose any jpg file that will popup while gaming, YouTubing, or google images surfing if the boss or teacher were to enter the scene." - the original software does not open a program, just a JPG. Although my extension of the program does allow for a program to be opened, yes.
alacarte
· 1 year ago
Meaning that the original program that comes with the button is already and always running in the background - when the button is pressed, a JPG is spat out. No program running, and the button does nothing.
As for hooking the button straight to your own program - use a USB sniffer and you soon figure out that the original program's method of detecting button presses is plain weird, and possibly very inefficient.
pieman
· 1 year ago
pie
alphaomega
· 1 year ago
I agree
Jesse
· 1 year ago
I'm now convinced that this solution doesn't exist.
Trestle Table
· 1 year ago
OK.
Sylverin
· 1 year ago
Lol. Is this going to turn out like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny in that because you can't see them, they don't exist? Alphaomega and Alacarte are both working hard on this. I have seen some of their efforts on this, and I'm genuinely impressed.
Jesse
· 1 year ago
Wonderful, but I just completed a solution using Jan Axelson's Generic USB HID example. Now the question, do I post it or do I hold the code back?
Jesse
· 1 year ago
Also, mine doesn't require the original Panic Button application to be running. It uses Generic Hid Internals for Windows. No LibUSB stuff, either. Ms. Axelson provided a *wonderful* example!
Sylverin
· 1 year ago
Ah yes, but does it look as pretty as ours?
Jesse
· 1 year ago
Is that all? I just wanted the $#@! thing to work! I'm sure other people are thinking the same thing. Now, the solution exists, it doesn't involve hijacking windows forms or intercepting window messages with hooks. It just reads the device on a periodic basis, similar to the original program.
alphaomega
· 1 year ago
Thank you for your comments.
And good for you! You have the time to do it. Some people don't have that luxury with their full time jobs, family to attend to, and being rarely home. But what point are you trying to prove? We keep the source for ourselves because we're evil? We withhold the program to piss people off? Seriously, that's childish. Congratulations on your solution, seriously. I'm still building mine, regardless.
Jesse
· 1 year ago
<img src="http://www.orkey.net/pics/panic-2.png">
Jesse
· 1 year ago
pity that didn't work so well, but I think from there you can see that the png is found at http://www.orkey.net/pics/panic-2.png . Also, the application itself minimizes to system tray after you select an application to run and press "panic" . The main windows just shows what it's doing... again, Jan Axelson's code. I just made it detect the press by continuously reading feature reports and launching an app if it got one.
Code, anyone? Or would you like the binary. :)
alphaomega
· 1 year ago
Seriously. Don't you have your own blog or site to write in? Link that if you want instead of showing off and trying to prove something.
I hope you like it and do not make stupid promises anymore in the future...
Dude
· 11 months ago
Now that IS a nice hack... Where's the download, boy, where's the download? Or do you expect me to do your work all over again?
alphaomega
· 11 months ago
what?
Daniel
· 9 months ago
Ive been after a way to get it to shutdown my PC- great youve managed to do it! How do the rest of us do it now :-D
alphaomega
· 9 months ago
I use this on the server at home: "shutdown -s". Enter this from Start->Run or the command prompt. If you're program doesn't accept commands like this, you could paste this command into a file and name it with the extension ".bat", run and enjoy.
All Comments
oh the Irony...
Im guessing not... or is this the joke i had to check out?
Oh the IRONY...
My gosh!
I love that red bomb of yours. Yes Indeed sir.
Please do take precaution!
Like, screamy sounds, for instance.
i'll add a video of usage later along with the openly available installer
hover over your name
and where it says "Is this you? Claim this profile."
press "Claim this profile"!!
Did you intercept a standard HID event?
Thank you for your help..
Intercept HID? No, the hack is simply an extension of the existing bundled software, meaning it requires it to work. It is simply a means of automation rather than a separate program but works quite well. I am currently working on the features set and a new interface, which I don't expect to take longer than a few days. Hopefully it shall meet your needs! I expect, as with any evolutionary prototype, for it to grow with feedback and suggestions.
Thanks
jodycoombes@gmail.com
jodycoombes@gmail.com
Regards,
If so I could be having fun with my code straight away, if not I may have some more thinking to do. If someone could get back to me at some point it would be brilliant.
As for hooking the button straight to your own program - use a USB sniffer and you soon figure out that the original program's method of detecting button presses is plain weird, and possibly very inefficient.
And good for you! You have the time to do it. Some people don't have that luxury with their full time jobs, family to attend to, and being rarely home. But what point are you trying to prove? We keep the source for ourselves because we're evil? We withhold the program to piss people off? Seriously, that's childish. Congratulations on your solution, seriously. I'm still building mine, regardless.
Code, anyone? Or would you like the binary. :)
http://www.orkey.net/bin/PanicTray.zip
http://www.johnbruin.net/index.php/2008/11/30/n...
I hope you like it and do not make stupid promises anymore in the future...
If you're program doesn't accept commands like this, you could paste this command into a file and name it with the extension ".bat", run and enjoy.
http://www.computerhope.com/shutdown.htm for more on shutdown commands