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Find And Run Robot / Re: [tip] divider in alias' results list

« on: August 15, 2007, 03:36 AM »

nice work, nitrix-ud..  reminds me of my tip here for screenshot captor..

as we say in french : "Les grands esprits se rencontrent" 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: search in startup folders ?

« on: August 14, 2007, 07:09 PM »

WARNING

Never choose a keyword modifier name that is the same as an alias...

i could not launch any results when :

• my startup "dosearch command" was called "startup"
  
• the keyword modifier of my two folders was "startup"

i guess in

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Startup $$1 | dosearch +startup +. -alias $$1

the +startup is ambiguous, is it the alias ? the folders ? i guess this is what's going wrong

anyway, i changed the keyword modifier for the two folders to folder_startup
(i do remember i had the same pb, that's why i always use the prefix "folder_" for my folder keyword modifiers...)
and now it works...

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Startup $$1 | dosearch +folder_startup +. -alias $$1

I suggest that you encourage people to prefix the folder keyword modifiers when used in dosearch command (since the length of the variables are not big deal... only entered once...)
I'm afraid it is the same with action keywords (which i prefix with open_)

Cheers, Nitrix

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Find And Run Robot / Re: search in startup folders ?

« on: August 14, 2007, 05:31 PM »

thanks mouser, works like a charm 

final code :

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Startup $$1 | dosearch +startup +. -alias $$1

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Find And Run Robot / search in startup folders ?

« on: August 14, 2007, 05:12 PM »

Hi all,

is there a way to search in two (or more) startup folders (Me and All users...) using a dosearch command ?

i can search in mine like so :
dosearch C:\Documents and Settings\Nico\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\. $$1

and in all users :
dosearch C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\. $$1

but is there a way to combine those two dosearch into one ?

i'm sure there is a trick but i did not find anything ...

PS: the goal is to relaunch a startup app (a bit like Skrommel's ReRun but for only one app...)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: how to copy the selected file into the clipboard (like explorer do)

« on: August 14, 2007, 05:01 PM »

that would be pretty much like the copyclip command

copyclip STRING_TO_COPY - copies text into clipboard

feel free to copy and paste to the help file 

copyfile FILE_TO_COPY - copies file into clipboard

Cheers, Nitrix


[edit]
very handy to paste a word template in a folder for example... or any file you use a lot
1) invoke FARR
2) choose template (from an alias)
3) in explorer/directoryopus/... paste the template

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Find And Run Robot / Re: how to copy the selected file into the clipboard (like explorer do)

« on: August 14, 2007, 01:25 PM »

yes and in the context menu ? 

and as a command : \COPYFILE  ???

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Find And Run Robot / Re: how to copy the selected file into the clipboard (like explorer do)

« on: August 14, 2007, 12:40 PM »

the only lead i found is in visual basic

The code below allows you to copy file(s) to the clipboard. Simply call the ClipboardCopyFiles procedure with an array of file paths.

see the url for the code
http://www.developer...sion.co.uk/show/224/

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Find And Run Robot / Re: how to copy the selected file into the clipboard (like explorer do)

« on: August 14, 2007, 12:36 PM »

nope this is not what i'm asking

when you ctrl+c in explorer or in any explorer
if you ctrl+v, it will paste the files you selected

if in FARR i select and hit ctrl+c
i cannot paste the file anywhere

to be able to copy the file, i have to open the shell context menu...then select copy

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Find And Run Robot / how to copy the selected file into the clipboard (like explorer do)

« on: August 14, 2007, 12:18 PM »

Hi all,

i'd like to be able to copy the selected file in the result list to the clipboard the way explorer do...
that means that i could later copy the file in any explorer...

i found a utility called ezclip but it does not work all the time... (well for me it works 1 out of 10 )
http://blogs.msdn.co.../articles/86378.aspx

do you know any command line utility to do that ?
is it doable with autohotkey or vbs ?

@mouser, i think this also could be a feature request... could be a nice addition

Nitrix

[edit]
ps: the way i can do it now, it by selecting the shell context menu (by right clicking the item)
THAT is when mouser's too clever +action modifier does not come in the way  (please fix please fix)

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: GetIt - Install programs as easily as you can uninstall them

« on: August 11, 2007, 09:34 AM »

Thanks Code6226 !
that's great 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [tip] divider in alias' results list

« on: August 10, 2007, 06:54 PM »

It's unbelievable the stuff you come up on how to optimize farr's aliases!

so true 

that's what i love about FARR, you can customize so many things...
I think this is what makes FARR so unique, users change/transform/tweak FARR to make it do what they want...

and once again, we are very lucky to have mouser, who is very very open to new ideas 

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Find And Run Robot / [tip] divider in alias' results list

« on: August 10, 2007, 10:50 AM »

you can make a divider in an alias results list like so :

__________________ | C:\DoNothing.exe /STAYOPEN /ICON=icons\noicon.ico

i attached the DoNothing.exe file which does NOTHING 

this file + /STAYOPEN makes FARR stay open and do nothing in case you inadvertently choose this result
for the icon i specify a non-existent icon which produces nothing...

@mouser, maybe this could/should be improved, so that we could have nicer dividers ? (maybe moving result numbers, etc.)

Nitrix

[Edit] DoNothing.exe is the compiled version of the following .ahk script

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#NoTrayIcon

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [feature request] multiple run for one alias result...

« on: August 10, 2007, 10:16 AM »

glad you like it 

any idea when you will release a new version ? 

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Find And Run Robot / [feature request] multiple run for one alias result...

« on: August 10, 2007, 10:08 AM »

Hi Mouser,

I think it would be great to be able to Run multiple commands in one alias result, few possibilities come to my mind...
(i know you can Run all results of an alias ... but it's a totally different story... i never used it)

1) launching multiple websites (just 3-4 not an entire alias' result list...)
2) opening a webpage in all your different browsers (for webdesigners)
3) launching multiple programs (morning startup)

once again i know you can approach that using alias and the launch all command but not as conveniently....

and now the killer possibility 
4) Run a command + playing a sound + showing an OSD message... NOW that would be fun !
that would be great for many many things and would make FARR sexier

I don't know if it's hard to do but i'm sure it would be really handy ...
of course, one could encapsulate few commands into an autohotkeyscript or a batch file
but that would be so much easier right into FARR

you could ship FARR

• with a nice OSD message program like AbteriX's MessaBox
  
• a small wav/mp3 player...

That would rock !

Cheers, Nitrix

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: dynamic colored icon

« on: August 10, 2007, 09:02 AM »

Hi, i got this idea while using FARR...

i needed few colored icons (just colored squares...)
and i thought it would be cool to have an .exe just to do that (i already did something similar in PHP)

it would be very simple, parameter would be the color and maybe the style of the icon (rounded, square, star, etc.)

DynamicColoredIcon.exe "#ffcc00"

@mouser i wonder if it would work with the \ICON modifier of FARR ?

... my idea is maybe just plain stupid

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Find And Run Robot / [bug report] still a few bugs to go... before perfection !

« on: August 09, 2007, 12:35 PM »

Hi Mouser,
just to make sure, you are not forgetting some bugs/annoyances (before the release day, i hope...)

1) the +action trick TOO clever https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=9161.0

i think the +action trick is trying to be clever and detect that there is only one result, and so it should show you text about the action.  that's normally what you want, so that you can see what action will be applied to what file.

as i suggested the +action trick when used with dosearch command is way to clever it shoud just be fired when asked !

2) the clipboard problems : https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=9367.0

• $$c is empty if the clipboard content is too big
  
• "restartsearch $$c" command crashes FARR when the clipboard content is too big (above 1024  characters ?)

3)since the 2.00.130 release and the new result display updating, there is no more flickering but the search box is not responsive as before...
it really really should be an option

in anycase the search box should feel completely free

for example when i use one of my (dosearch) alias which searches music on my network drive, it takes literally 10 seconds before i see the search terms i typed after the alias trigger... let's say my alias is triggered by music, if a type "music madonna"
i see music, then FARR stops for 10 seconds (i know it's working but it feels like it just crashed) then madonna comes up then the search ends (an other 10 seconds later)

i really (only?) notice it when using dosearch aliases

I also wanted to say that i'm really getting anxious waiting for the next release of FARR, i got used to get one every few days...
Keep up the great work

Nitrix, in love with FARR 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Top 3 programs you use

« on: August 09, 2007, 02:45 AM »

without any doubt (and in no particular order) :

Directory Opus http://www.dopus.com
Autohotkey http://www.autohotkey.com
and of course FARR 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: 8start review

« on: August 07, 2007, 04:32 PM »

(just wanted to say that i was trying to suggest the idea to make a junior version of farr to exist alongside the fully featured proper version - not a replacement. just thought i better clarify that.)

that's what i understood

but since i doubt Mouser would make two versions of FARR
i wanted to state that i'd like to see FARR's features list grows (despite a junior version)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: 8start review

« on: August 07, 2007, 03:40 PM »

One thing that really bugs me about FARR is its inability to catch the limelight (thanks Rush) despite being more capable than other launchers. OK, this is not a problem of FARR or his programmer or the user community in general, but it really pisses me off seeing software like Launchy and hype-machines like Enso getting all the attention on major sites. And even when FARR make its appearance in a post (not in the comments, but in the main post) it's quickly forgotten by the author and get replaced by the 'template' that is Launchy, as if the guy has to talk about FARR because he get forced to do it. And the thing is getting worse as time passes, as it seems everyone and their dog is developing a launcher, last one I heard about, Executor, featured on the Software page of Neowin

this is all so true...

but using FARR makes me feel special 
with FARR, i can do things that are way out of lauchy's, executor's or enso's league !

Keep up the good work, mouser
FARR is the best

how about making a junior version of farr that is designed simply to please the reviewers and users that find farr a bit too much. just keep it really basic but trendy in appearance - give it a swanky web2.0 style website all to itself and let the acclaim flood in. perhaps.

not a bad idea, just make it look like launchy : one big search box, then a drop-down list of results...maybe through a plugin ?
BUT please please don't make the grown-up version simpler, i want FARR to get even more complex 

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Find And Run Robot / [bug report]

« on: July 27, 2007, 09:07 AM »

Hi mouser

i noticed that the clipboard is stripped when too big
this is bad 

i use it all the time in my aliases (as you know)
lastly to resize pictures thanks to imagemagick command-line utility
and when i pass the path of say 50 images it does not work anymore

PLEASE remove the limit, i know it has been 128 characters in the past, you increased it ...good
but please remove the limit (or make an option for us to configure...)

i also noticed a bug that crashes FARR
the "restartsearch $$c" command crashes FARR when the clipboard content is too big (above 1024  characters ?)

I really really believe increasing the $$c capacity is a MUST, since people will use it to save snippets, manipulate file paths, etc.

Keep up the good work
Nitrix

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: SendMessage Plug-in

« on: July 27, 2007, 07:19 AM »

sounds great !
congratulations Ehtyar

are there interesting "messages" we could post to FARR ?? i guess there are but maybe mouser could tell us ? 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: new launcher just released

« on: July 25, 2007, 12:46 PM »

i want to emphasize that FARR has a unique feature (correct me if i'm wrong....)

regular expressions !
with FARR i can type www.donationcoder.com and it brings a menu of actions to take (open the url in my default browser, in opera, firefox..., save it to delicious -thank you cURL....)


i can type a phone number (10 numbers in france the first one being 0) and launch a search to find out who called me


i can type an email and FARR will offer to open my default mail client...


that (regex aliases) + the fact that the result list displays sometimes files/folders, sometimes aliases results
make ergonomic decisions very difficult

if you removed these amazing features (now that would be a GIGANTIC ERROR  ), it would be much easier to go all the way down to the stack based approach of Dash or Quicksilver (which are amazing apps btw)
Some kind of stack based approach is a good way but there are maybe others... maybe different modes...
 
[thinking out loud]
file mode
one when you select files and folders through search or through the explorer (to perform zip, image resizing, emailing, ...)
files and folders would be displayed in the result list, then you would be able to select them one by one... (checkbox ? highlight ?)
then you would choose the action you want to perform... in the same list ? in a new one like QT ? in an action tooltip a bit like Candylabs' Skylight ?

alias mode
if i type "www.donationcoder.com"
the result list displays the action to perform on "www.donationcoder.com"
no need to have a stack...

browser mode
which would sort files alphabetically... (approcket is the best at that)
you could navigate with the arrows...
all of that display in the current result list...

maybe graphics/colors/etc. could help show what is the active mode
[/thinking out loud]

Cheers, Nitrix

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Find And Run Robot / [feature request] concerning the new virtual launch string "showmemo"

« on: July 25, 2007, 07:24 AM »

Hi mouser

congrats on this new feature...

some requests :
it would be great to be able to specify a text file :

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showmemo file=c:\sometextfile.txt

it would allow for quick and dirty note management...with a few scripts... (and would be easy to share, i know a plugin is coming)

even better :
it would be GREAT to be able to specify a URL !

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showmemo web=c:\somehtmlfile.htm

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showmemo web=http://www.somesite.com/somepage.php

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showmemo web=http://localhost/mystartpage.asp

and so on....

one could have a startpage with a nice presentation of his favorites
well it would allow for any presentations...
it would allow the use of widgets...

i'm sure it would be quite amazing !
keep up the good work

Nitrix

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Find And Run Robot / Re: new launcher just released

« on: July 25, 2007, 02:49 AM »

I personnaly love the fact that FARR searches without an index

so +1 for indexing BUT as an optional feature

what would be really great is the following :
specify in a "dosearch" command what kind of search you want to use

for a huge folder you want to use the index
for instance :

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Music album search $$1 | dosearch -alias +folder_music +open_winamp +\ +USEINDEX $$1

i would use it !!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.135 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - July 17, 2007

« on: July 24, 2007, 08:17 AM »

@Nod5

thanks anyway...

i hope mouser will add a way to manipulate/get FARR info...

Cheers