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General Software Discussion / Re: VistaGlance

« on: April 21, 2006, 01:49 PM »

i'd still like to see more keyboard integration so that it's easy to navigate through the float bar and search results. i'd like to be able to move between the results and the search bar with a single key press so that i can quickly amend my searches if they don't provide the results i want - this doesn't appear to happen at the moment, it's just a one way direction from search bar to results - or am i not doing it right?

This is added now. Now you can switch between search results and search input box and vise versa with TAB key.

call me mr.dumb because i've just been trying things out with 'find and run robot' with it set to search all my drives (4 drives, loads of gig in files) and i have to say that i'm getting results that make me question why i would use 'vistaglance'.

These are simply different kinds of applications.  'find and run robot' suits for instan execution of programs while VistaGlance has much more powerful search engine. Just the count of results that both programs give you for the equal queries. VistaGlance uses full-text search witihn file names and attribytes (keywords) while 'find and run robot' uses tree search, so it can't find queries that are contained for example in the middle of the file name.

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General Software Discussion / Re: VistaGlance

« on: April 10, 2006, 12:26 PM »

New version with keyboard bugfixes is now available. Please download it here:
http://www.vistaglan...download.php?dfile=0

Feel free to post comments on this new version here or in VistaGlance forums. Your oponion is very important for me!

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General Software Discussion / Re: VistaGlance

« on: April 09, 2006, 02:57 PM »

Hello! My name is Konstantin Artemev. I am the author of VistaGlance. One of VistaGlance users told me about this topic and I decided to join.

seems a bit retarded to type in a search term and then have to resort to the mouse to open up the file/folder within the results. if that is how it has to work then i may as well just click through windows explorer (or whatever file manager) with the mouse without resorting to using the keyboard.

This is a known bug, I will correct this tommorow. I will post a notice here when the new version is available.

i thought there would have been more interest in 'vistaglance' as it's similar to 'find and run robot' - but only for files... no?

The concept of the software I develop is really close to 'find and run robot', but a bit in other direction. Here is my explanation I recently posted to VistaGlance forum:

Indeed I am developing a system to replace file related functions of your OS.

Imagine such picture.

Perhaps you want OS to perform some action with your files or documents. You simply type what you need to be done with natural language. There are no strict forms of queires. you just type what you think. The systems tries to guess what you have in view and gives you a list of possible interpretations of your words - possible actions. It's like a text quest or interactive fiction where you describe your actions using the power of natural language. Of course, you will be able to use synonyms, words with fuzzy meaning, descriptions, aliases, and os on... For example, the command like

"copy all files from flash to desktop" can mean both "COPY *.* FROM F:\ (if F: is your flash drive) TO C:\Documents and Settings\[user name here]\Desktop"

and

"COPY *files* FROM *flash* TO *DESKTOP*"

where *something* just means any file or folder with contains "something" in its name. So computer gives you the list of possible meanings and you just agree with one of its items. This system should definitely have elements of artificial intelligence, should learn...

I'm developing such system now. VistaGlance is a just a first step to easy file and document access and manipulations.