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« on: January 24, 2008, 06:16:38 AM » |
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I'm sure this came up before, but FARR is unable to launch Windows Live Messenger. It runs the shortcut in my start menu, but when I run it with farr (it does come up in the results), nothing happens. Whether I have "always launch shortcuts directly instead of resolving links" selected (current) or not does not have any effect. Ah I see by default WLM shortcut has a space as the last character: "Windows Live Messenger ". When I remove that, FARR launches it.
Find+Run Robot v2.00.145
latest windows live messenger (filehippo.com)
I'm sure it did come up, but it's not in the official bugslist, and windows live messenger is quite a popular program.
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« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2008, 06:33:25 AM » |
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why on god's earth is there a space at the end of that file name?
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justice
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« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2008, 07:35:45 AM » |
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it's not at the end of the filename but the name of the shortcut, i'll include a screenshot:  Google doesn't enlighten me to why this is, but donationcoder seems to crop up for often on my search results  |
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« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2008, 09:45:00 AM » |
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"I suppose it can be said that I'm an absent-minded driver. It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it."
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« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2008, 09:46:02 PM » |
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justice
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« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2008, 01:41:27 PM » |
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Armando discovered it first  |
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« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2008, 07:09:34 PM » |
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Armando discovered it first Oops! oh, thanks to you too, Armando..  |
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« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2008, 02:54:21 PM » |
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« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2008, 07:04:40 PM » |
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My bad  I should have read the whole post - thanks Armando! |
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« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2008, 08:27:40 PM » |
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My bad I should have read the whole post - thanks Armando! TrevorHart1, what was the discussion between you & Armando?  [lanux128 being nosey]. |
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justice
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« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2008, 03:32:10 AM » |
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OMG found another one: the shortcut for Artrage 2.5 Free edition starts with a space, which means it's another program FARR cannot launch. I think the stupid idea with this one is that it shows up as the first entry in its start menu group. Makes me wonder what kind of hacks are in the rest of the software, although it's a most excellent program. To reproduce: download artrage from http://www.ambientdesign.com/artragedown.htmlinstall it (without desktop icon if it asks, can't remember0 try and launch it from FARR If you know of any other software that this issue affects I'd recommend to post it in this thread. That way we get a better idea of the importance of this bug. |
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« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2008, 12:08:19 PM » |
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i think we had more or less established that Farr can't execute programs/shortcuts with a trailing space. maybe it's time this problem is listed here. |
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« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2008, 08:44:59 PM » |
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on my todo list.
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« Reply #13 on: February 25, 2008, 12:18:51 AM » |
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[slightly off-topic]Why not using something like mantis for mouser's software bug reports/suggestions (pplandry got me "hooked" to mantis -- used for his SQL-Notes project...) ?
mouser could just give members the special permission to add a suggestion or bug reports to Mantis after proper forum discussion, when necessary. [/slightly off-topic]
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"I suppose it can be said that I'm an absent-minded driver. It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it."
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« Reply #14 on: February 25, 2008, 03:02:33 AM » |
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Armando, this may serve as an answer to your query. |
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« Reply #15 on: February 25, 2008, 06:04:23 AM » |
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Ooooooops! Oh well... Thanks lanux. |
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"I suppose it can be said that I'm an absent-minded driver. It's true that I've driven through a number of red lights on occasion, but on the other hand, I've stopped at a lot of green ones but never gotten credit for it."
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« Reply #16 on: April 29, 2009, 09:04:46 AM » |
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Ahhh, so that was why I was never able to start Windows Live Messenger with FARR!
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Windows Live\Windows Live Messenger .lnk
Now why on earth did they put a space in there, just before the extension?
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« Reply #17 on: July 22, 2009, 08:31:07 AM » |
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hahaha finally, an answer to the absurd weirdness i've been wondering about!! farr rules |
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mouser
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« Reply #18 on: September 30, 2012, 10:13:04 AM » |
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I am testing a fix to this which should be in upcoming version 2.202 release. Sorry it's taken so long to fix  |
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mouser
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« Reply #19 on: September 30, 2012, 11:10:58 AM » |
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Alpha upload of just the new exe (not setup; replace existing exe with this one), for anyone who wants to test out the space fix and make sure i didn't break anything else in the process: http://www.donationcoder....a/FindAndRunRobot220a.zip |
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