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s.newave: forget about my bug, must have been a strange mommentaneous configuration, I reinstalled the plugin and it's all good now.-jgpaiva (July 22, 2008, 04:04 PM)
I think you can already do this with the "dosearch" command and additional aliases.Not clear what you are referring to?-herojoker (July 22, 2008, 01:03 PM)
Amazing plugin! A few credits on their way ASAP!-TucknDar (July 22, 2008, 03:38 AM)
I've got a request: I'd like to be able to launch the Google Images search in FARRs internal browser, while the regular Google searches in my default browser. The way I see it, it would be fine to have a modifier for a search (gp +images +internal), while still the same plugin configuration option. I suppose there should also be a +external modifier, if internal launch is the default.
. I will probably end up creating options where you can specify if you want to launch the result in FARR or not for each search type. This will avoid you having to type the modifiers every time. Will also add a search modifier as you suggested for one off situations.s.newave: this looks like a great plugin!
But I can't understand why, but everytime I type "gp", the options dialog comes up-jgpaiva (July 22, 2008, 04:29 AM)
i just noticed that the past search history can be deleted, this is a cool feature! anyway s.newave, as with all plugins that interact with the web, is it possible to include a trigger key that will search after we have finished typing? this will be very helpful for those with slower connection speed.-lanux128 (July 22, 2008, 07:13 AM)
I had another idea for this that i think would make it even more useful.
A lot of people are concerned about plugins using up memory and resources.
One thing i could do with a bit of work is make farr able to load a special kind of plugin that is a dll or even an exe program that basically is launched ONLY WHEN IT IS INVOKED, and then is closed as soon as the farr display is switched away.
So in other words this would be like an on-demand loaded plugins, loaded only when invoked, and then unloaded right after.
. By no means am i advocating that FARR turn into bloatware and i think currently it is FARR from it however i dont think mem use specifically should be a primary concern in future development. I would rather development time go towards alias histories or ui improvement 
this one entry, FARR displays 'Alias hibernate'. Only the second invokation triggers the command.-mouser (July 07, 2008, 12:56 PM)
this behavior happens if at the first time you hit enter, the alias is not fully spelled out. so the first time you hit enter it is autocompleting the alias. so: hibern -> [ENTER] -> hibernate -> [ENTER] -> launch
personally i like this behavior BUT i can definitely see how people would prefer farr just launch it straight away and that that would make more sense perhaps. i will either make an option to do it that way, OR make it work like that period.
. So for your example above hitting enter once would launch the alias which i though was great. However im all for making it an option.
I vote that the alias/plugin should have the ability to set the size of the window although just as the with all other plugins the user should be able to overide this setting. As you suggested earlier the ability to set the sizing for a specific url would be even better.
If going down this path i would suggest some type of html options page where the user could save a specific regex url mask with the following options:
-window size & position
-keyboard focus
-pre-processing file (file/script to send html to which would in turn return html that would be displayed. greasemonkey style)
-post processing file (file/script to run after launching url)
More options could be added/removed as needed along with a set of default standards.
is be bypassed somehow so the output can be dynamically changed as the user types in something?-mouser (July 02, 2008, 04:05 PM)
is being fixed as we speak.
Also it no longer automatically launches the alias if there is only one result.
are you sure? if you hit enter it should launch.-mouser (June 30, 2008, 01:01 PM)
Would it be possible to add another set of "Report Columns" options in the display tab for the large icon slide display style. This way you would have a "Report Columns" for each display style and could specify different columns to use for each style. To be more accurate it would probably be a "Report Columns" for the small icon report and "Report Rows" for the large icon slide style. I think this would work well especially with the functionality to automatically switch display styles. I find myself using the large icons for regular app launching etc where i wouldnt normally need to view a lot of the other columns however when it automatically switches to the small icon report for dir results as well as a lot of the plugin results i would like to see the other columns.
Likewise it would be great if in the Fonts tab you could have the option to set the font/size for the other rows besides the "Name" row when using the large icon style. Being able to change the fonts would imo be very helpful in making the "Name" row more prominent and distinguishable from any other rows the user has specified.-s.newave (May 17, 2008, 12:26 PM)
then we can return to the issue of a more interactive completer for aliases with arguments, i had a few more ideas about it i will talk about later.-mouser (June 29, 2008, 12:13 PM)
I think maybe i see.. the old version would autocomplete an alias match (whether name or regular expression) with the name of the alias, is that what you guys want back?
simple example
goo (tab)->google (tab)->"search item(from this point only space should be used for seperating words)" (enter) ->search starts
example with argument passing (passing 2 arguments to an exe file for example sendemail.exe)
sende (tab)->sendemail (tab) ->"first argument(whichs is $$1)" (tab) ->"second argument(which is $$2)" (enter) -> arguments are passed to sendemail.exe
It would be great to be able to display which alias/plugin is currently being used or active in a more intuitive/attractive manner. For example lets say you are using the delicious plugin. Once you enter dlc the search results show tags and posts. When you select tags and hit tab the search box changes to dlc +tags and displays all the given tags it finds. Lets say you choose the software tag and type in "farr" now the search box shows dlc +posts :software farr. I think one idea could be to show some type of breadcrumb structure either on the status bar or preferably in a new area right above the search box and subsequently clearing the search box after a new crumb is added. A standard key such as esc could be used to go back a step and tab could be used to move forward. So for the delicious plugin instead of having "dlc +posts :software farr" you would display something like dlc > posts > software above the search box and only the current search term "farr" in the search box. Another visual cue to inform you of which plugin/alias you were using would be to keep the same icon to he left of the search box-s.newave (May 15, 2008, 05:27 PM)
<a href='farr://htmlviewurl exacttimenow.com'><img src='%FARRDIR%\AliasGroups\Installed\Core_Aliases\icons\farr\core-internet_www.ico'></a><br>click the image to Internal Surf to exacttimenow.com<br><br><a href='farr://restartsearch gowebpage'>use internal command to launch FARR webpage in external browser</a>When running it via igo, it displays (except for the image) but the links give this error popup:
"current contents are not safe for local launching."-Nod5 (June 17, 2008, 05:30 PM)
Also having this problem.Once we have some way to force focus back to the inputbox and get farr:// links working then I can implement the mp3 album cover displayer idea. Yay!
Also found that focus is stolen from the search box as soon as the htmlview mode is executed. Would be great if the focus would remain in the search box and perhaps pressing tab key would move focus to the html window.
A nice addition would be to be able to use the arrow and pgup/pgdn keys from the search box to control the html window similar to how the memo mode works.-s.newave (June 20, 2008, 01:23 PM)
<a href='farr://htmlviewurl exacttimenow.com'><img src='%FARRDIR%\AliasGroups\Installed\Core_Aliases\icons\farr\core-internet_www.ico'></a><br>click the image to Internal Surf to exacttimenow.com<br><br><a href='farr://restartsearch gowebpage'>use internal command to launch FARR webpage in external browser</a>When running it via igo, it displays (except for the image) but the links give this error popup:
"current contents are not safe for local launching."-Nod5 (June 17, 2008, 05:30 PM)
Once we have some way to force focus back to the inputbox and get farr:// links working then I can implement the mp3 album cover displayer idea. Yay!