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The FARR v2 plugin sdk is out (it's in the non-public farr v2 download; email [email protected] if you don't have it yet).
So I thought it might be a good idea to start a thread where users could post ideas/requests for plugins, that coders might consider implementing. So have at it!
ps. Make sure you check this thread with the first plugin made by a dc member: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=7998
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I would like to be the first person to suggest a plugin.
My idea for a plugin is to create something similar to DirectAccess. Allow a user to be typing in any application, and type an alias (ex: ftp) and a tooltip style popup is displayed above said text offering a hotkey combo which can be pressed to launch said alias. This could even be expanded to allow for arguments to be passed as well by pressing some key combo to focus the tooltip box and type in an argument.
What are your thoughts?
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Until there is a database/index feature in FARR, how about a plugin that'll search the index made and maintained by Locate32?
Locate32 -> http://locate32.webhop.org/
Total Commander has a plugin that can search the Locate index, for ultra fast searches in the file manager. Take a look at this thread for details: http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=14087
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I was thinking this myself, but not as a plugin, as a core feature..
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plugin to search del.icio.us bookmarks, it would be fantastic !
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i like this idea a lot, not just for delicious but it would be nice to add to the bookmark searcher the ability to get your online bookmarks from various sites like delicious and include them in searching.
the source code for the farrfox plugin that i wrote to search firefox, opera, and IE bookmarks is included in the farr plugin sdk (it's written in borland c++ builder, sorry msvc'ers), so it could be extended to do this by anyone who wants to try..
or of course a new plugin could be written from scratch..
great idea. i'd certainly send one of the very rare DC Plugin Creator Mugs for this one.
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and for the one who asked for it ? :D
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Hello,
I posted this over on the version2 forum and mouser suggested that I post it here as a possible plugin idea.
...what is the possibility of adding support for UNC paths? It may be an impossibility, but it's something that would really be useful in my daily work. I guess what I'm meaning is if I type "\\server", it would list any computers on my network that match that and so on with the shares, etc. Make sense
So, just to be sure everyone understands, if I type in "\\", FARR should start listing computers on my network. Once I select a computer and hit TAB, the shares should come up in the window. Then when I select the share, it opens the folder.
Anyone think this would be possible?
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Hello,
I posted this in another thread :
What I'd really like a pluggin to be able to do is :
- Searching phone + emails, etc. in Outlook Contacts
- Searching Calendar items in Outlook
- Searching Tasks in Outlook
Many of these things are already embedded in X1 or Copernic. So, *maybe* FARR could be made to send terms and arguments to X1 and/or Copernic ?
Maybe FARR could be made to use any other popular desktop search (x1, Copernic, Google...) index ?
A.
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If I had some time this weekend or next week, I could give a try to the last idea. First, I have to find if desktop search programs have the necessary APIs (or command-line switches) to do that. Then, I've got to learn a bit about FARR inner workings, but it could be an interesting C++ exercise, providing that it won't be very difficult... but I'm not promising anything. Also, it seems mouser have some interest in developing this (and who don't)
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Plug in for searching with in files, full details of one i need is here: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=8131.msg57826#msg57826
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to jump on Earthcoder's bandwagon, i would also like to see a simple plugin which would load a set of text files (maybe in its "Notes" subdirectory or let you configure where), and then when you trigger it would search through the lines of text matching them. When you select it could copy the text from the line to the clipboard.
i think it would be a useful plugin for keeping and searching through simple text notes.
note that the farr plugin system is quite well suited for this, can can handle all filtering and matching of lines, and so will do most of the work. it also includes a feature to copy text to clipboard so it's easy.
my farrfox plugin in fact does almost exactly what this plugin would do, except it grabs url bookmarks from a text file, so perhaps i should just write this plugin myself.. if no one does it by the end of the week i will.
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Hi Mouser,
I have an alias group containing commands for an application (Totalcommander). As this application has a lot of commands (repspectivly menu entries), which I can't always remember, I want to use FARR to search in the commandlist and trigger the approriate command in Totalcommander. With the help of an external AHK-script I was able to do this like I wanted it to be.
But know I have the problem, that my alias group would contain 390! commands. While FARR is running I can paste all commands into the appropriate group and use them. But when FARR is restarted, only a small number of commands is left. I looked into the FindAndRunRobot.ini and found that a line, which represents the group, can only have around 2050 characters.
I like it very much to search a trigger commands via FARR instead of navigating thru endless menus. So I made 25! alias groups triggered by the same alias. While this is working well, maintaining the groups is obviously quite difficult.
It would be nice, if you could extend the character limit as a quick solution to this problem. But I think this is a perfect idea for a plugin, as all available commands are stored in a textfile. Sadly I'm not experienced enough in the available programming languages. :(
Do you think that this is possible?
And if yes. Is anybody out there, who can make or help me to make (in VB6 :-[ or VB.NET) such a plugin?
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I support this :Thmbsup:
@mouser, i already suggested that it would be a great idea to be able to use an external text file as a "results container"
for example, it could be implemented right in the results box, instead of having the different results, we could have the path of the text file:
remplace :
FARR - Help | restartsearch gohelp
FARR - Show All Known Aliases | restartsearch agroups
FARR - Open Options Dialog | restartsearch gooptions
FARR - Configure Toolbar | restartsearch gotoolbar
FARR - Show About Box / Enter LicenseKey | restartsearch goabout
FARR - Visit Find+Run Robot Web Page | restartsearch gowebpage
FARR - Show Launch History | restartsearch historyl
FARR - Show Search History | restartsearch historys
by :
resultstextfile = c:/FARRcommands.txt
it could also be a mix :
FARR - Show Search History | restartsearch historys
resultstextfile = c:/somecommands.txt
FARR - Visit Find+Run Robot Web Page | restartsearch gowebpage
resultstextfile = c:/someothercommands.txt
it would then be easy for many users to update/modify those text files without interfering much with FARR (i would for example create a button in dopus to add a shortcut to a folder in an favorite alias..., i would also create a small ahk script to add a url in a url favorite alias...)
Does it make sense ?
Keep up the good work, nitrix
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nitrix-ud, yes, i will be adding this actually, i think its a good idea.
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great you are my hero ! :D
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Yubnub (http://www.yubnub.org/) integration.
This should be great to access all the web using shortcuts.
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there is already a yubnub alias in farr 2
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since more & more of my programs is linked in LaunchBar Commander, a plugin to search into LC's *.mcf files would be cool.. 8)
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I don't know if this would apply to a program like FARR, but how about something to index PDF, CHM, LIT, and other kinds of eBook files?
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A code snippet manager would be great !
you specify a folder, let's say C:\Documents and Settings\Nico\My Documents\Snippets
this folder contains sub-folders with textual files (.css, .htm, .php, .js, etc.)
The plugin would index those files along with their content!
idealy the results window would show the file names + a text snippet of the file
then we you would select a result it would copy the file content into the clipboard (or you could open it, as an alternative... to modify it)
Hope someone is motivated :Thmbsup:
Cheers, Nitrix
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Until there is a database/index feature in FARR, how about a plugin that'll search the index made and maintained by Locate32?
Locate32 -> http://locate32.webhop.org/
Total Commander has a plugin that can search the Locate index, for ultra fast searches in the file manager. Take a look at this thread for details: http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=14087
-TucknDar
Use Locate32 with FARR (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=8281.msg59328#msg59328)
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[Plugin idea]
msn plugin = index all contacts
to start a chat, do the following : msn john + enter
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I just gave Keybreeze a try and came running back to FARR! Having said that though, it has a nice feature. Typing keyword "note" allows you to create a post-it style desktop note. I know FARR has addnote/viewnote, but this desktop sticky note is pretty cool.
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maybe someone can write a plugin to interface with the best free+pay sticky notes apps, so you can add stickies from farr.
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a plugin that search Clipboard Help+Spell databases would be great..
:)
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maybe someone can write a plugin to interface with the best free+pay sticky notes apps, so you can add stickies from farr.
-mouser
Great idea. I pointed an alias to a Powerpro script:
local nh
nh = note.open
note.setCategory(nh,"reminder")
note.ontop(nh,0)
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Hi Mouser,
First of all, forgive me if this is already available or it can be done using another software.
Secondly, I really appreciate FARR :Thmbsup: and I miss just one thing, that I don't know if it can be implemented as a plug-in or it should be a different software: last programs executed.
What I mean is something different from the default Windows space available inside the "Start" menu (Win XP), which I never know when will include a program there. I'm looking for something more similar to "My recent documents", but having programs instead. I know that there is a software (which I don't remember the name) that include that as an extra menu in the "Start", but I don't like going through too much sub-menus to find the software I used two minutes ago. It Could be faster to me if i could find it in a easier way (a pop-up maybe?) in the FARR.
Thank you for this very helpful software.
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this was recently suggested by someone else and i think it's a very good idea to add, perhaps as a plugin.
so in other words, FARR should know about recently launched programs and recently open documents and can either show them on request, or search for them when searching, with higher scores.
if any c++ coder wants to work with me to add this as a built-in function into farr, i'd be very happy to work with them on it -- if you write generic c++ code to grab me a list of recent docs and recently launched files i'd be honored to integrate it into core features of farr. email me at [email protected].
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I'd like to see a farr plugin that does what ServicesCtl by OGroeger (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=8637) does, lets you type "services *" and shows you matching background services in windows, and their running status (green or red light icons), and lets you toggle them on and off when you click.
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find the software I used two minutes ago. It Could be faster to me if i could find it in a easier way (a pop-up maybe?) in the FARR.
Thank you for this very helpful software.
-Muadib
I'm not sure if I understood properly... But here's what you could call a workaround : what I do to "find the software I used two minutes ago", is just make Farr display more results in the list (max. entries to display in normal results list: 50 ; max. entries to display in extended results list: 70), set the max. files to keep in launch history to a relatively high number (300), and tick the box beside Blank search shows files from launch history. That way, when I blank the search field, I get a list of my previous run programs and looked at documents. I actually often use Farr (Find and Run Robot) as a history list. But, for that to work, you must use Farr to start… almost everything… Which I do.. : )
In the mean time, there is a software that probably does exactly what you’re looking for : TaskTracker. I’ve tried in the past, used for a while, and found that Farr + X1 was enough to track anything related to my files or software use. TaskTracker just added one more level of organization I had to think about… I didn’t want that.
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I would *love* to see a way of easily switching to already open programs. I.e. type Firefox and if it's running - a switch_to command would pop up allowing us to super-quickly switch. This ought to be pretty easy - you could either get the list of processes (i.e. the same as the "Processes" tab in the task manager) or applications (i.e. the "Applications" tab in the task manager).
This would be just great.
Cheers - Jon.
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Hi jsturtridge I have created a helper program to achieve this, although it would be great if someone could make a plugin that would show you the list of apps in the results window as you type, that would certainly minmize any typing mistakes.
Until that time try SwitchToTask (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2907.msg62844#msg62844)
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Justice,
That's so funny - I just wrote something almost exactly the same (although I hadn't spotted that you can use RegEx as an argument to SetTitleMatchMode ... so mine was case sensitive.
I must admit - I think there could be a lot of mileage of Skrommel and Mouser teamed up and put the AHK script engine inside FARR - or alternatively ...
Mouser - are you listening? - had a way of getting any scripts/executable to contribute to the list of things that you can pick from. I'm a Mac user at home and power of QuickSilver is that there are so many plug-ins for it - and they're generally reasonably quite straightforward to make in AppleScript ... so I was thinking ...
It would be great to enhance the alias function a little bit - so that you could have two types of alias - one as per the existing alias - and a new type of alias - that can contribute to the result list. For example:
1. You set up this new type of alias and when FARR matches that alias (e.g. "+killpid") - it calls an executable that you define -
1000>>>Kill PID>->C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\Scripts\GenerateKillPID>+>killpid (.*)
That executable runs (and say for example gets the list of windows names) and passes back a string (delimited by ||) along the lines of the following:
Kill Notepad, 1000, c:\program files\scripts\killpid 1021 || Kill Outlook, 1000, c:\program files\scripts\killpid 998 || Kill Firefox, 1100, c:\program files\scripts\killpid 521
3. FARR then displays the "friendly name" in the list, i.e. "Kill Notepad" along with a weighting that can be put with the rest of the results, then the string that FARR executes if that option is chosen.
I think this would be relatively easy to implement (although I'm not volunteering to do it, Mouser), not be too unperformant (since FARR would only execute GenerateKillPID when it matches the alias and allow FARR to be really expandable without too much bloat.
What does everyone think?
Jon.
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Good idea to allow any application to act a plugin.. I'd very much find that helpful because AutoHotkey can't compile into DLLs! So I can't return any informatino to FARR like you said. I'm not sure if to use the +keyword for this would be the best implementation though.
An alternative way of doing this:
* Someone would make a simple EXE output/stdout wrapper as a plugin (dll).
We would then just be able to create quick scripts that would integrate with farr without any extra work, using the current alias system. I'd pay some credits for a solution to this idea.
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Hi Armando,
I'm terrible sorry for my rude delay answering your reply, but I forgot to keep an eye on that thread, and I only saw it now.
find the software I used two minutes ago. It Could be faster to me if i could find it in a easier way (a pop-up maybe?) in the FARR.
Thank you for this very helpful software.
-Muadib
I'm not sure if I understood properly... But here's what you could call a workaround : what I do to "find the software I used two minutes ago", is just make Farr display more results in the list (max. entries to display in normal results list: 50 ; max. entries to display in extended results list: 70), set the max. files to keep in launch history to a relatively high number (300), and tick the box beside Blank search shows files from launch history. That way, when I blank the search field, I get a list of my previous run programs and looked at documents. I actually often use Farr (Find and Run Robot) as a history list. But, for that to work, you must use Farr to start… almost everything… Which I do.. : )
In the mean time, there is a software that probably does exactly what you’re looking for : TaskTracker. I’ve tried in the past, used for a while, and found that Farr + X1 was enough to track anything related to my files or software use. TaskTracker just added one more level of organization I had to think about… I didn’t want that.
-Armando
I'll try your technic until we have our FARR v2 out.
Cheers.
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An official plugin writing contest for FARR 2 has now begun (deadline July 14). Read details here:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=8875
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How about an ability to run a program with elevated admin privileges in Vista? Similar to the "sudo" alias in this utility:
http://brandontools.com/content/StartPlusPlus.aspx
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An idea would be to write a tagging system for Farr, where you can add tags to applications and then reload a listing of apps by typing in a
:webdev
for example. (a shortkey for launching all items on the list would then be a productivity booster) typing a :
would list all tags, and use autocomplete to contruct tags.
tagging could go like this (command:tag,tag,tag,etc):
dreamweaver :webdev,html,web
I'm not sure if it would be quick/easy enough to really use it though, although I think other people might be interested? Perhaps if popular applications would come pretagged at a later stage it would make it even easier to use :D
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I haven't read the entire thread, so I apologize if this has been suggested. Also, I have not read up on the api so I don't know if this would be at all feasible. But I think it would be really cool--
Basically a very simple text editor that would allow you to use farr for quickly editing a non-binary file, even expanding it into a bit of note-taking functionality.
Ideally, it'd be able to edit/access any file you'd normally be able to find via farr, but preceeded with the appropriate alias--in which case, instead of opening the file in the default app it'd be opened in the place that tyipcally lists files -- the text body being there with the cursor focus shifting to that field where changes could be made and then saved.
It could also be possible to define some directories in the plugin config that would be scanned for text files only when the plugin is references, so one needn't clutter the rest of FARR with these special interest dir(s). They'd be prioritized for quicker access than tyipcal full scan.
In the spirit of quick note taking, typing alias filename blurb of text would automatically append "blurb of text" to the end or beginning of the file (the choice of which being defined in the plugin settings)
So if I simply needed to find a document to copy the contents to my clipboard for repasting elsewhere, I could just bring up FARR, open the document directly in it, snag the contents, exit out. Or open FARR, jot down a quick alias, filename, and the note -- presto, duly noted. The list could easily/rapidly be edited, cleared, etc. -- all without ever having to call up an external program.
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Good idea to allow any application to act a plugin.. I'd very much find that helpful because AutoHotkey can't compile into DLLs! So I can't return any informatino to FARR like you said. I'm not sure if to use the +keyword for this would be the best implementation though.
An alternative way of doing this:
* Someone would make a simple EXE output/stdout wrapper as a plugin (dll).
We would then just be able to create quick scripts that would integrate with farr without any extra work, using the current alias system. I'd pay some credits for a solution to this idea.
-justice
This has got me thinking about ways to make alias creation even easier. Regexes are overkill for all but the few where the expression has no unique prefix.for For the rest a simpler syntax should make it easier for a user to create an alias on the fly for any new command they encounter. I've been thinking for some time that an alias should be selected in the same way as a folder - you shouldn't need to type in the whole name to activate it. That would mean that you could not just paste an alias and its parameters directly into Farr's search window and have it run, but it does allow greater flexibility in other directions.
Here's a schema for an alternative .alias format (+ indicates an optional item, * an optional repeated item):
ALIASES
*ITEM
+NAME
RESULT
*PARAMETER
ACTION (none/enter/find/do)
+ARGUMENT
+HISTORY (open/closed, search/nosearch)
*ITEM
Recursive, yes - but so is a file system. Names are selected in the same way as folder names, recursively searching through searchable history. RESULT is a single command string, with placemarkers for any parameters needed. ACTION is the method to produce a particular parameter. If there is a history attached to the parameter, the list there is displayed first so that a previously entered string can be reused. If the history is open and a new string is chosen, then it is added to the list. Such a new parameter can be given a NAME by which it is found, and may take parameters of its own, whose ACTION and HISTORY behaviour can specified.
ACTION none restricts choice to the parameters in the exsisting history list
ACTION enter allows the user to type in a string. The optional argument is a prompt
ACTION find is a recursive call to Farr, returning the string that would have been launched (e.g. a filename) as a parameter. The argument is a search string.
ACTION do The argument launches an external program that returns a string (representing perhaps an open window, an active task, or a registry key)
Example:
NAME cmd
RESULT c:\windows\nircmd.exe ...
PARAMETER
ACTION enter ( complete the rest of the command string)
HISTORY closed search ( allow new items, and find them with out having to select cmd first)
ITEM
RESULT screensaver
ITEM
RESULT monitor ... ( this needs another parameter)
PARAMETER
ACTION none ( allow only the supplied parameters)
HISTORY closed nosearch
ITEM
RESULT on
ITEM
RESULT off
ITEM
RESULT low
ITEM
NAME Resolution
RESULT setdisplay ...
HISTORY open nosearch ( collect valid settings)
ITEM
RESULT 800 600 16
and so on...
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i know this has been suggested before but i think the following would be useful:
plugin that shows list of installed printers and select one to set as default.
plugin that shows list of of add/remove entries and select to uninstall.
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plugin that shows list of of add/remove entries and select to uninstall.
-mouser
Now that'd be cool! (even though i don't unninstall software that often)
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hierarchical organization for aliases is an interesting idea jenny.. i was thinking of writing a kind of hierarchical notetaking and clip management plugin, it might be usable for the kind of thing you are suggesting..
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i know this has been suggested before but i think the following would be useful:
plugin that shows list of installed printers and select one to set as default.
plugin that shows list of of add/remove entries and select to uninstall.
-mouser
Interesting ideas. Now if only I knew how to program...better!
EDIT - Before anyone says it - I am trying to learn it better via online tutorials, classes, and even the DC Programming School. It just takes time and practice, neither of which I have in any abundance.
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hierarchical organization for aliases is an interesting idea jenny.. i was thinking of writing a kind of hierarchical notetaking and clip management plugin, it might be usable for the kind of thing you are suggesting..
-mouser
Yes, even a simple circular queue from which an alias could take its arguments (my programming background is mainly Forth).
A general point for all plugin writers - if you are making something that searches for a window, process, printer or whatever, please leave a way of allowing someone else to write a command-line +alias that can do something you didn't anticipate with whatever is chosen.
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Would anybody be interested in a plugin that did Shutdown, Standby, Hibernate, and Reboot?
Nevermind :-[
It took 60 seconds for people to explain why it was a bad idea. And I agree with them. :P
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to clarify why tinjaw's idea is not good:
it's actually a great idea, but a much easier approach is to create an alias file for a commandline tool with such functionality, like NirCmd which is already exists for farr.
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Did someone suggest yet a spellcheck plugin?
you would type:
spellc necesary
and it would display as results the top suggested words, when you click one it would copy it to the clipboard.
1 necessary
2 ...
3 ...
(ps there are free spellcheck engines like http://aspell.net/)
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Just to cast another vote for the "kill active processes" plugin, it'd be the one i want the most.
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Just to cast another vote for the "kill active processes" plugin, it'd be the one i want the most.
-jgpaiva
Yeah, I wanted to implement this as well. Mouser said he's probably the best guy to implement this though, since he already has a lot of process management code from ProcessTamer :up:
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yeah but that was before i saw how good and fast you are at implementing these tricky windows system plugins :)
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IDEA: Search URL history in Firefox (and IE too I guess).
I find myself doing so much from inside a browser that the ability to fire up FARR and get a list of matching URLs that when exceuted will start Firefox and load the requested URL would be a great help.
Thoughts?
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very nice idea.. (i can't remember if this has been suggested yet).
i've included in the plugin sdk the full source of my farrfox plugin, which lets you search favorites of firefox, ie, and opera, so it might be a good starting point for anyone who wants to add a history search. i'm not sure if history searching would be best added to farrfox or created as a standalone plugin with a different trigger.
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I thought about the Favorites but I have so many Favs that I either just start typing a URL (from memory) or run a Google search.
This is a problem that I can't figure out how to remedy - the more bookmarks I have the less I use them, even though mine are very well organized.
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I would love to see a plugin to integrate locate32 (http://www.uku.fi/~jmhuttun/) into farr. There has been many requests for this so this would probably be one of the most popular plugins! See here (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=8281.new#new) for example.
Locate32's sources are available (http://www.uku.fi/~jmhuttun/sources.shtml) so that shouldn't stop you! (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/Themes/Dc2/images/dcgoldcoin.gif)(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/Themes/Dc2/images/dcgoldcoin.gif)I'd be happy to donate a few credits to the best solution. (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/Themes/Dc2/images/dcgoldcoin.gif)(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/Themes/Dc2/images/dcgoldcoin.gif)
As said before in this thread, Total Commander has a plugin for this (http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=14087), so perhaps if someone would be more interesting in supporting TC plugins as FARR plugins indirectly it would incorporate this request.
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Justice,
Adding an indexing *option* to FARR is planned. Not as part of the version 2 release though.
There is a reasonable chance that I will actually use the Locate32 codebase, since the Locate32 author comes here occasionally and is a nice person, with lots of fans here of his excellent program. Not sure yet though.
But anyway, as tempting as it might be to try to write an indexing plugin, or a plugin that tries to emulate this by searching locate databases, it's probably not an ideal solution to do it as a plugin -- it should be part of the core functionality.
(if there are any ambitious good c++ coders who want to work with me on adding some really fast and custom indexing code to FARR let me know!)
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Ooops ok take that post as a good starting point for resources ;)
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if someone would be more interesting in supporting TC plugins as FARR plugins
now that is an interesting idea..
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I've been playing with the idea of a note-taking plugin for FARR with a focus on tags/keywords..
Then i wondered if Tranglos might make a keynote plugin for FARR :)
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I would like to see a plugin, if someone is willing, or perhaps a separate app which integrates farr into the windows taskbar similar to google deskbar and allows it to always be displayed and have results popup from the taskbar. This would be awesome and make farr that much nicer to access. You can even assign a custom hotkey to focus the taskbar portion of farr and type your search there. Any takers?
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stop spamming us with this crazy request ;D
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Two more plugin requests:
1) a plugin that can run an exe with commandline parameters and capture its stdout and show it in results memo view (note that users could use this with the explicit dll invocation technique to make their own alias configurations that use your dll to run any commandline program and capture the output).
2) a plugin that can fetch a web page and then extract text from the webpage (using a regex mask) and display text (stripped of html) as farr result memo. (again this should use the explicit dll invocation technique to let people configure their own aliases that fetch different pages and use different regex matches). The uses for this one are practically unlimited.
note: i guess that #1 might benefit from a regex mask as well, making these two plugins 95% identical.
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[plugin request]
a plugin that would show any webpage (local or on the internet)
it would be handy for some to have somekind of "homepage" when opening FARR (i guess it would be better with a local page... or some caching mechanism)
it would also be handy to "launch" bookmarklets ...
i'm thinking also skype buttons etc.
Nitrix
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plugin that shows list of of add/remove entries and select to uninstall.
-mouser
Done. :)
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=9246.0
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Yesterday i had a great idea.. we need some plugin games for FARR..
I actually thought of one that would fit well, a quiz game plugin.
When you type quiz or (qz) it might display a result list of categories (or difficulty levels?),
you choose one and it presents you with a random question and a result list of possible answers,
get it right, earn some points, get it wrong, lose some.
It should keep a running tally of your score, and which questions you've already answered. i know there are some free quiz data sets that might be usable.
(to keep people from cheating, i was thinking that as soon as it presented you with a question, it would pre-emptively deduct points as if you got it wrong, and then award you points if you get it right, so that you can't just keep skipping questions).
sounds fun? anyone want to try to make it?
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I suggest for that plugin that the first use of it should quiz on RegEx.
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Yesterday i had a great idea.. we need some plugin games for FARR..
I actually thought of one that would fit well, a quiz game plugin.
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sounds fun? anyone want to try to make it?
-mouser
Not a quiz, but I will make a hangman game. That would make a nice plugin game.
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Not a quiz, but I will make a hangman game. That would make a nice plugin game.
-tinjaw
The problem with hangman games are that those usually only work for a language (english, in this case).
I like the idea about a quiz for regex. Something like:
"give an example of what the following reges would match:"
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The problem with hangman games are that those usually only work for a language (english, in this case).
-jgpaiva
Why is that a problem? I grab the language from the OS and use the appropriate language file that my friends here at DC have translated for me! :Thmbsup:
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I grab the language from the OS and use the appropriate language file that my friends here at DC have translated for me! :Thmbsup:
-tinjaw
:-* :-* You're a genious! :P
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:-* :-* You're a genious! :P
-jgpaiva
Why thank you. :-[
And we will need both versions of Portuguese!
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Both?
I can't make the brazilian one. But i'm sure there'll be people to do it :)
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what about british, american, australian english etc? ;)
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what about british, american, australian english etc? ;)
-justice
Actually, there's a serious difference between portuguese and brazilian portuguese, that's why i said i can't do the brazilian one, recently i read a brazilian blog entry and wasn't able to understand much more than our fellow lashiec, which is spanish :)
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interesting. so it's more a family of languages, like germanic? hmm I'll have a lookie on wikipedia :)
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what about british, american, australian english etc? ;)
-justice
Actually, there's a serious difference between portuguese and brazilian portuguese, that's why i said i can't do the brazilian one, recently i read a brazilian blog entry and wasn't able to understand much more than our fellow lashiec, which is spanish :)
-jgpaiva
I agree with you jgpaiva. The Portuguese from Portugal and the one from Brazil are quite different in many parts, but its core is the same. As Brazilian I can assure you that :P
I will be very happy doing the Brazilian version, but I have no clue about what I should do. If we are talking about the hangman list of words, I can do the translation from the English version.
Please, let me know if I can be useful.
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A way to create alias from the sherlock & opensearch search engine plugins (http://mycroft.mozdev.org/) of Firefox/IE7 would be fantastic. I have more than hundred search engines there and i often add/remove engines, so it take me too many time to create ffar alias manually.
for firefox you can extract/decode url, names and icons from xml files in "C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[profile]\searchplugins\"
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that's a really nice idea cerAmik.. let's see if we can't find a way to make all of those search engines available using some kind of filterable plugin.
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Maybe this idea is crazy, not faisable or simply plain stupid, but here it is. For a few days now, i've been using farr to search my mp3 library from time to time, and find it quite convenient. Maybe there would be a way to make farr some kind of mp3 manager. Mouser mentionned the upcoming database option, which could be an improvement for mp3 handling, considering the amount of files. But then i thought, it would be awesome to find a way to store id3 in a database and have farr search it. This way we could use lightweight players (like xmplay) and still have quick access to mp3. No more memory-eating programs like iTunes etc.
Maybe that's an idiotic thought, i dunno...
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indexing, which will let farr be able to search through mp3 tag information, is coming, and will be a combination of built-in code for maintaining indices, and plugins to let other programs add meta information.
but it won't be in version 2 coming out this month, it will come later.
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indexing, which will let farr be able to search through mp3 tag information, is coming, and will be a combination of built-in code for maintaining indices, and plugins to let other programs add meta information.-mouser
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Oh, my, someone is spamming the forum with smileys and scrolling acronyms. Moderator!
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How about someone making a simple plugin that just displays a bunch of info about your computer in memo mode (super easy to set this, see calc example). If you can find open source code on the web for showing uptime, memory, computer info, etc, this would be a really easy plugin to write.
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How bout a search plugin that finds errors in FARR's source code?
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How bout a search plugin that finds errors in FARR's source code?
who wants to die? >:(
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Here's a simple plugin idea:
A plugin which shells another program with commandline arguments, captures it's output, and displays it in the FARR Text Memo display mode.
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I'd like to see a plugin that converts various measurement units, such as Celsius -> Fahrenheit, gallon -> liter, for instance.
example: alias 'conv'
conv 100 fahrenheit celsius
would convert 100 fahrenheit to celsius.
Or the crazy Fahrenheit/gallon/inch/etc. people out there could just use proper units :P
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TucknDar:
You can already do that. Just do search 100 farenheit in celsius
, and press enter :)
(explanation: google can make conversions like that)
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yes, jgpaiva, I know, but that requires a browser window to be opened and google to do its magic. I'd like instant results within FARR.
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Just wondering, in Firefox and Opera you can set keyword searches. So if I go to Wikipedia and create a search for w. When I type w "whatever I'm looking for" it comes up in my web browser. I realize FARR has this same capability (as I've used it myself for google and I think Wikipedia once). But can we create searches anywhere that has a search engine? How would we add that to FARR?
Also, an idea for a plugin (inspired by the launcher dash video I saw). Google calendar support. Though I'm not sure how it would be implemented. Though if it's possible to create a new event then it should also let you edit reoccurence and add a note to it.
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i had a really cool idea for a plugin (and ps there are still a couple of plugin writer cody mugs available for any plugin coders):
The idea is a plugin that will let you easily search your own custom text files in different formats. Call it "Custom TextData Searcher"
It would work like this:
In the options of the plugin you can configure a list of files.
For each file the user specifies:
- Filename, for example "mydefinitions.txt"
- Regex pattern to match each RESULT ENTRY (e.g. line, paragraph, etc.); group matching () is allowed, for example "Item: (.*) = (.*)"
- Text pattern to show in results list, e.g. $$1 (see this item is from the regex match above).
- Text pattern to show in text box when a result is selected, e.g. $$2 (again from above).
The plugin will essentially load in the ext file and parse it into entries according to the regex pattern, and then use the result and text patterns for returning results to FARR.
It should also check the file data when triggered so it can auto-reload changed files, so that it is always up to date, even with things like log files.
Seems like it could be quite useful.
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that's a very good idea and it would be much useful
and i believe people would create quite interesting stuff
the really cool idea is to use a regex pattern to parse the files :Thmbsup:
Text pattern to show in text box when a result is selected, e.g. $$2 (again from above).
or the ability to copy the text pattern to the clipboard
or even better to specify a file which will take care of the result : copytoclipboard.exe $$2
Cheers, Nitrix
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http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-windows-download/schedule-gcal-events-with-launchy-and-the-google-calendar-plug+in-300144.php
Is this possible right now? If not, please somebody implement this.
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Plugin idea:
search inside zip files and launch files inside the zipfiles. Could work like this:
open_zipfile myzip.zip -- would display all files contained in myzip.zip and launch a selected file
open_zipfile myzip.zip fmask -- would execute a "dosearch" on the above view thus shortening the result list
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could someone please create a plugin to be able to interact with autohotkey scripts? This way we would open up the autohotkey world / community here on donationcoder to the farr world.
For example I made a SwitchToTask script that accepts part of a window title, it would be great if it could be enhanced to do livesearch on window titles.
At the moment I'd have to write an autohotkey script that writes out all window titles as text files in a folder periodically which is indexed by farr, lol would be interesting.
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could someone please create a plugin to be able to interact with autohotkey scripts? This way we would open up the autohotkey world / community here on donationcoder to the farr world.
+1 :Thmbsup:
i also think it would be EXTREMELY useful to access some FARR informations for writing autohotkey scripts
since it seems that FARR windows are not standard ;)
Cheers, Nitrix
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+1 too for interaction with AHK. :up:
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http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-windows-download/schedule-gcal-events-with-launchy-and-the-google-calendar-plug+in-300144.php
Is this possible right now? If not, please somebody implement this.
-Code6226
This is already easily possible. Haven't tried it because I don't need it. Just apply the explanations found there http://lifehacker.com/software/hack-attack/take-launchy-beyond-application-launching-284127.php to farr, but instead create an alias to run the .bat files with curl.exe.
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Okay I tried it and will sxplain more :
Let's say we want to append bits of text (notes...) to a todo list once in a while...
1- download all the needed files (curl.exe, the .bat files etc., like it's explained in the link above)
2- extract the curl.exe file in your \windows directory (ONLY curl.exe)
3- create a new directory (maybe in the farr directory ; e.g. C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\Personnal Utilities where you want to extract the .dat files you've downloaded (they're zipped). The only one we need for my example is the "add.bat" one
4- Modify the first line of the add.bat file according to where you want to have your little todo.txt file. (change only the path) (e.g. : here’s mine echo %*>>E:\doct\todo.txt . What’s BLUE is what you need to modify)
5- Optional, I think : create you “todo.txt” file where you’ve decided it should be. according to the edited path in the add.bat file.
6- You can either :
a) open farr's options dialog --> “aliases/groups” tab -->Right click ---> choose "Import : paste preformatted alias goru"
paste this line :
1000>>>"todo">->C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\Personnal Utilities\add.bat $$1>+>^todo (.*)
then go straight to #12
OR
b) Open farr's options dialog --> “aliases/groups” tab, and then...
7- Create a new alias : right click in the alias window —> "add new entry"
8- Give your alias a short but meaningful name: like "todo" (I’d personnally keep the quotes in there : prevents accidental launching with the name)
9- Create a regex pattern for easier launcing in the "regular expression pattern" field : e.g. : ^todo (.*)
10- in the "Results" field, write : C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\Personnal Utilities\add.bat $$1 (where "FindAndRunRobot\Personnal Utilities\" correponds to the path where you've put the add.bat you've modified.)
11- Click "OK"
12- Close the option window
13- Open farr, write todo, a space, and write a note, press enter.
14- Go check your todo.txt file : your note should be in there.
You can use a similar procedure for all other .bat files included in the zip file.
seems a bit complicated... but , really, it's quite simple.
[edit : added the preformatted alias]
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Here's an easy idea: FarrTimeZones
User types: ftz [KEYWORDS]
and it displays current time of matching areas.
So use could type:
ftz florida
to see current time in florida.
etc.
A nice bonus would be if it let user put their own extra time listing file, so user could add for example time zone differences for their frients. So i could put in my file something like:
mom +1
then if i typed
ftz mom
i would see the current time for my mom, etc.
ps. this would qualify as a GOE challenge (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=10648.0) entry.
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Another related idea to FarrTimeZones is FarrDaysUntil:
User would create a text file with events and their dates or deadlines, like
My Final Exam, 12/20/07, 5pm
Uncle's Birthday, 2/24
etc.
Then when you type:
fdu [KEYWORDS]
You would see a display of matching events with the TIME LEFT UNTIL THAT EVENT
like fdu example would show:
1. My Final Exam - 30 days and 4 hours (12/20/07, 5pm)
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Hmm, FarrTimeZones could be done with an alias, taking advantage of the sites around the net that gives you that information, among other things like the weather and such.
Bonus points if someone can link FarrDaysUntil with Rainlendar :D
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Another idea: FarrTimer
Basically the idea here would be that you could add and manage timers from farr.
So if you time:
ftimer
you would see list of all current timers set.
(it would be nice to support countdown timers or preset time alarms, or maybe even countup timers?)
then you could type:
ftimer down 4
to add a new countdown timer that triggers in 4 minutes
or
ftimer down 2:30
to add a countdown timer that triggers in 2 hours and 30 minutes
ftimer alarm 2:30pm time to go to dentist
to add an alarm that triggers at 2:30pm and shows the message "time to go to dentist"
you get the idea.
to delete a timer maybe the best way to do it is, when you click on a timer after listing them all with: ftimer
then you get a dialog where you can edit or delete a timer.
bonus options:
1. options to show the countdown on screen (always or only when nearing alarm time)
2. ability to set alarms for specific days, or repeating alarms, etc. (ie every thursday at 5pm, or jan 24, 2008 at 9am)
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this has actually been requested several times as a core farr feature, but maybe it would be good to do it as a plugin?
plugin to let farr search recently opened files, e.g.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/recent_files_view.html
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It would be nice if farr could include firefox tabs in its searches. Humanized's Enso has this feature, and I love it. A wilder idea that I haven't seen anywhere is interfacing with firefox to search across open pages for a given text string. Not sure how that'd be implemented, but it'd sure be awesome.
FARR rocks!
--- digiO
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FARR + Point Motivator: Would be nice to have a Point Motivator plugin in FARR. That way I could use FARR to add points. something like "pointm 10 tidied my desk" would add 10 points for tidying my desk...
think this would be much faster than opening Point Motivator and adding points. But I suppose I'll have to wait for this plugin until more people actually use Point Motivator ;)
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i actually strongly considered writing point motivator as a farr plugin instead of a standalone tool.
if anyone actually ever uses point motivator i'll make a plugin so you can interact with point motivator data from farr.
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Hi, I am just currious. Has anybody started on coding local dictionary search? It would be wonderful if it cooperated with tab files, babylon files and stardict files or at least some of them :). I have many dictionaries and have to use stardict now which I do not like... farr plugin would be much better! :Thmbsup:
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Hi, I am just currious. Has anybody started on coding local dictionary search? It would be wonderful if it cooperated with tab files, babylon files and stardict files or at least some of them . I have many dictionaries and have to use stardict now which I do not like... farr plugin would be much better!
great idea !
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Yes great idea (+1)!
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Hi, I am just currious. Has anybody started on coding local dictionary search? It would be wonderful if it cooperated with tab files, babylon files and stardict files or at least some of them :). I have many dictionaries and have to use stardict now which I do not like... farr plugin would be much better! :Thmbsup:-czechboy
as for searching in dictionaries, this (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=7989.0) comes quite close but a plugin with configurable dictionaries would be nice also..
• Configuring wordweb to search from FARR (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=7989.0)
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Here's another potentially useful (??) plugin idea, inspired by Sprankle (http://acko.net/blog/sprankle).
Sprankle[/b][/url] is a handy keyboard activated character map. Find the character you need with leaving the keyboard.
-Nighted
Like I said in a post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=11541.msg97404#msg97404) in this other thread : couldn't Sprankle be linked to farr : type the letters in farr to show all the different related characters, and selecting the character in the farr result window sends it to the clipboard. It should be possible to make a few mollifications to Sprankle to have it play nicely with farr...
What do you think?
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It would be nice if farr could include firefox tabs in its searches. Humanized's Enso has this feature, and I love it. A wilder idea that I haven't seen anywhere is interfacing with firefox to search across open pages for a given text string. Not sure how that'd be implemented, but it'd sure be awesome.-digitalorganics
This (http://www.codeproject.com/KB/applications/JWinSearch.aspx?df=100&forumid=467309&exp=0&select=2306648#ffExt) should be quite helpful if someone wants to implement this.
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here's a simple plugin idea that i think would be really useful: FARR Command Sheller with Display (FCSD).
it's only job is to shell a commandline and capture the output and display it in FARR textmemo mode.
so you might create an alias like:
FCSD C:\Program Files\MyBatchFiles\myfile.bat
and it would run "C:\Program Files\MyBatchFiles\myfile.bat" and capture the output of that and display it in the memo display mode of FARR.
i think this could be quite useful.
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I apologize if this has been requested and or done already, but I just had a very simple plugin idea.
Why not a shutdown plugin? Like if I type "shutdown" as-is into FARR, I get no results, but I want to be able to open FARR and type sleep/shutdown/restart (etc) and have it come up with various options. Would this be possible?
-Brandon
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There's actuallu the aliases for nircmd -- isn't it a default farr alias? Can't remember. I think I've got mine set to "^cmd (.*)" regex. But if I write, "shutd" Farr will show me the "shutdown" option. "reboo" and farr will show me reboot, etc. "cmd " and farr will show me all the nircmd options
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I have grown dependent on FARR and I try to do more and more with it... One of the things which I still have to do manually (clickety click) is to use options in the menus accessed with right-clicking on the icons in the system tray (also known as the notification area).
Hence the idea for a plugin: type in "tray" and you get a list of all programs visible in the tray. Selecting one item would display the tray right-click menu for this application. Alternately, typing e.g. "tray volume" would directly display the right click menu of the volume control application.
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nice idea jabberwock, i wonder how hard it would be though.
brandon and Armando, nircmd downloadable alias pack is here: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=9365.0
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nice idea jabberwock, i wonder how hard it would be though.
brandon and Armando, nircmd downloadable alias pack is here: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=9365.0
-mouser
Thanks.
I installed it many months ago -- I was only wondering it was a default alias (already included)... I guess not! :)
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I have grown dependent on FARR and I try to do more and more with it... One of the things which I still have to do manually (clickety click) is to use options in the menus accessed with right-clicking on the icons in the system tray (also known as the notification area).
Hence the idea for a plugin: type in "tray" and you get a list of all programs visible in the tray. Selecting one item would display the tray right-click menu for this application. Alternately, typing e.g. "tray volume" would directly display the right click menu of the volume control application.
-Jabberwock
This shouldn't be too hard to do. The following article describes the method to obtain the systray icons and how to send left click, double click, or right click to those handles.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/applications/ShellTrayInfo.aspx
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This should be a good exercise to anyone who wants to try developing a FARR plugin!! :up:
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HELL YEAH! I'd really want a plugin like that. It would even better if vitalyb could add that capability to his FARRAltTab plugin
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+1 for that idea. Would be quite awesome!
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i should say that while i think its a neat idea im not sure how much real use it would be -- just a heads up for someone who might be tempted to spend a lot of time coding it. there are more useful plugin ideas that have been suggested, imho.
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FARR could use a commandline tool to post to twitter as described here: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/07/post-to-twitter-using-the-command-line/
and here: http://lifehacker.com/365123/send-twitters-from-the-command-line-in-any-os
But what about a nice little javascript FARR plugin for interfacing with twitter and doing various things like posting?
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How about pasting text off the clipboard, and you get all that formatting (html, rtf, ms-word, whatever). I've tried a couple of apps for this (Plain Paste, and I forget the others), but nothing I didn't have issues with.
They have a pretty clean one built into KeyBreeze, something like "remove clipboard formatting".
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I would like Farr to be able to pass arguments to found .exes or other executables. Trying to create aliases for everything can be cumbersome at some point. For example I have locate32.exe I should be able to use FArr to find locate32 and when I press tab I should be able to type the arguments on the fly.
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Also It would be great if we have date-time, memory usage etc kind of information on FARR title bar. It seems quite empty up there why not use it?
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How about a plugin for the saved sessions in Putty? Launchy has it...
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Also It would be great if we have date-time, memory usage etc kind of information on FARR title bar. It seems quite empty up there why not use it?
-kartal
Why you want to do that. FARR was designed to appear, launch and disappear. I would prefer it to be as light as possible, we already got too many bloated software out there.
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well it would be great to have only one app for small tasks like checking time. I have farr on "rigth alt", if I need to check date time I can just press alt and check it. Do not you think it would be more bloated if I need to run another app for instant date time?
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Windows clock was there for that reason 8)
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windows clock does not show the date and memory available
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Anyways what I was saying that there is wasted space in the title bar that can be utilized for numerous things. Time or memory was the first thing that came to my mind. It is nto a big deal for me I have 8 gb with 4 cores. I can run 20 different programs to check my date and time. But it is just not a preferred method of having utilized work environment. If it is going to bloat the Farr then sure it would be stupid to implement.
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Well the Windows clock displays the date by simply hovering over it with your mouse, and memory information is beyond unnecessary for you with 8GB :) Anyway, as a plugin it's no problem ofcourse. If someone decides to write one I wouldn't use it, though ;)
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No 8gb is not enough for what I am doing even :) My softwares generally use 1-11 gb. And I never had my task bar visible so to hower it I need to press windows key move my mouse and wait a sec to see the date. The whole point is lost I can just look at my watch for that :) Anyways it was just an idea. I was not expecting comments at all :)
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I want to be able to use todo.txt (http://todotxt.com/)
I built a .bat file that use the python script like that
@todo.py %'
@pause
but it's a bit ugly, cause each command open a cmd window.
can someone show a way those printout will show under FARR (like in gc, that types "Welcome to Quick Add for Google Calendar")
this will be very useful tool for FARR.
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Fruch:One option would be to convert pthon into javascript and then I would be able to do something with it :)
Or if you know python well you can try this:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=12232.0 ;)
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How about a plug in that can retrieve a password via a key from an encrypted source and then pass that in to the program being launched?
For example, if I have an alias with a regular expression of:
sqlp (.+)@(.+)/(.+)
Which would result in:
($$1 = user) ($$2 = database) ($$3 = password)
sqlplus $$1@$$2/$$3
where the password could be retrieved from a secure source such that if this was available it would look like:
sqlp (.+)@(.+)
which would then result in:
sqlplus $$1@$$2/lookuppassword($$1,$$2)
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lrosenfeld,
the idea bout storing and retrieving encypted passwords might not be worth the effort, only because the existing good password management tools (keypass (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=4061.0)) are pretty darn good, and most include live search functionality. when you combine that with the importance of secure handling of this info, it makes me think this plugin idea may be more trouble than it's worth.
however i do think a general purpose note saver/searcher/displayer is an important missing idea to farr plugin collection, and it's always possible that encrypted items could be added to that that could do the kind of thing you want eventually.
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I've split off the idea for a DQSD plugin into it's own thread here:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=13266.0
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mouser: this brings me new idea. I wanted to use timer also as note keeping software (to implement additional functions etc) but I figured out that you can paste only limited length of text into FARR window. Why is that? Is there any bypass?
The other thing I would like to see in FARR is following. You can call function something like pasteintolastactivewindow. Do you think it is possible to have function copyfromlastactivewindow which would take a look into last active window and if it finds highlighted area it would send it to FARR (JS SDK)? this would be great. Just imagine you would set any dictionary certain key, you would highlight text you want to translate and hit the key and you get it ;) Also it would help implementing some copy paste storing functions. What do you think about it?
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Do you think it is possible to have function copyfromlastactivewindow which would take a look into last active window and if it finds highlighted area it would send it to FARR (JS SDK)?
See screenshot for configuration of hotkey:
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So basically FARR let's you configure certain hotkeys that should copy selected text in current application before triggering FARR. When you combine that with the ability to configure the search text associated with a hotkey, you have the pieces you need to make dictionary and other searching type hotkey triggers.
It would be nice to ALWAYS trying to copy selected text when triggering FARR but that can cause problems.
The other thing is that FARR records the last active window, so a plugin could always ask FARR for this window handle and try to do other stuff with it.
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This post here (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=13258.msg112108#msg112108) about recentX made me think that a nice plugin for FARR would be one that listed recently opened documents and recently executed programs, sorted by last access date (i.e. most recently used at top).
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Recent discussions (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=13202.0) about applications/addons allowing one to search specific programs' commands (like...MS Word...) made me wonder if farr could achieve such a thing... I don't see why not. It would be interesting and potentially super useful and powerful especially that farr is already such a good launcher with great flexibility.
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This post here (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=13258.msg112108#msg112108) about recentX made me think that a nice plugin for FARR would be one that listed recently opened documents and recently executed programs, sorted by last access date (i.e. most recently used at top).
-mouser
I like that.
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It's not a plugin, but an idea that involves plugins-
Why not have FARR be able to launch and/or include a "Plugin Directory" or something? Where you can pick what you want and mass download/install like DcUpdater. Ex:
- MyAwesomePlugIn V1.0
- MousersInsanePlugIn V4.2
- CoolFarrPlugIn V2.3
with checkboxes next to them all (in place of the dots)? :tellme:
It could even be web-based and invoke FARR via a special URL (like FARR:\\ or something)... right? :huh:
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The DcUpdater used by FARR actually does this mostly.. It has the ability to read a files of available updates and install them on demand. You can actually see this with FARR, some plugins are available to install on the AvailableForInstall tab.
However, these available plugins are known to the updater because they were listed explicitly in the original FARR installation. It's a much nicer idea to add a facility in DcUpdater so that an application can specify a web page where all plugins are listed. That would make it so that if a new plugin was released, it would show up in the list of plugins that can be installed. I will put that on my todo list for DcUpdater.
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I had a thread that talked about finding an application that would search a file for a specific word and return the entire line just like FARR does with files, but as I kept looking more and more into FARR it dawned on me that someone with actual coding skills could make a FARR plugin that does the same thing in about 30 seconds :p
I thought this would be a more appropriate place to put the request.
In short, I'm a 911 dispatcher and require access to lots of various info very quickly. I'd love to dump all that random stuff into a file. I'd put each contact, location, protocol or whatever I want at my fingertips on a new line in the file, then it would pop up as I would type along with the matching files like a normal FARR search.
Whee! Whoever makes this plugin will be making my city a safer place!
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sabot, we definitely need these plugin. I have quite a few ideas for it too, how to make it even better by letting it search on tags as well as text. eventually i'll have to code it if no one else does, but i'd also be happy to help someone else work on it.
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Sabot: do you know about grep? This venerable command line tool does exactly what you need, and then more!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep
Sadly, grep does not come by default with windows (bleh), but you can definitely install a version of it:
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm
Hope that this can help make your city safer right this day! ;-)
cheers,
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Ya I use grep a lot when I'm running through *nix logs, but the systems we use at work are windows based and therefore don't have grep handy.
Until if/when someone makes the farr plugin, I've been using baregrep with some success. I like how its able to bring me my results fast on the fly rather than a search or cmd line where I have to enter a string and hit enter. For my purposes, I may not know exactly what I'm looking for until I find it by randomly entering strings :p
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you can try this search. It has text file search and command line as well.
http://www.saleensoftware.com/?ref=scanfs
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Nice find, Kartal :up:
Mentioned a few times in the forum, but never tried it
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Developer is very responsive as well
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I didn't see an option for it to return lines inside of a file though, did I miss that somewhere? I only saw it return file names that matched what I was searching for :)
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search "file contents". You can also enable preview for text files.
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I don't use twitter, but it seems to me that if there was ever a plugin that would be a natural for FARR, it's a twitter plugin.. doesnt anyone want to write this?
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How about a plugin to work with "Remember the Milk":
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/api/
It's a web service that lets you set up reminders to yourself that will be emailed or sms'd to you, etc.
Similar: http://iwantsandy.com/
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I personally think that spending time more on extending commandline and argument passing would be better spent. Because most of these websites offer basic connection to tools like curl. I successfully sent twitter messages from Farr using curl. It is just an alias. But RTM could be little more daunting for novice Farr user because you may need to define multiple inputs.
http://curl.haxx.se/
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I personally think that spending time more on extending commandline and argument passing would be better spent. Because most of these websites offer basic connection to tools like curl. I successfully sent twitter messages from Farr using curl. It is just an alias. But RTM could be little more daunting for novice Farr user because you may need to define multiple inputs.
couldn't agree more, spending time on the core of FARR, adding aliases functionnalities, switches, ... would be great
i consider some of my aliases pretty much like plugins :D
considering curl, i personnaly use external autohotkey scripts that i call from FARR :
here is one to save an url on your del.icio.us account (change name and password) :
this is pretty basic but does the job... first the names, then the tags...
OSD(text)
{
#Persistent
; borderless, no progressbar, font size 25, color text 009900
;Progress, hide Y600 W1000 b zh0 cwFFFFFF FM50 CT00BB00,, %text%, AutoHotKeyProgressBar, Backlash BRK
Progress, hide b w400 zh0 cw000000 FM30 CTFFFFFF,, %text%, AutoHotKeyProgressBar, Backlash BRK
;WinSet, TransColor, FFFFFF 255, AutoHotKeyProgressBar
DetectHiddenWindows, on
WinSet, Transparent, 150, AutoHotKeyProgressBar
Progress, show
SetTimer, RemoveToolTip, 2000
RemoveToolTip:
SetTimer, RemoveToolTip, Off
Progress, Off
}
EncodeURL
( p_data
, p_reserved
=true, p_encode
=true ){
old_FormatInteger := A_FormatInteger
unsafe =
( Join LTrim
25000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F101112131415161718191A1B1C1D1E1F20
22233C3E5B5C5D5E607B7C7D7F808182838485868788898A8B8C8D8E8F9091929394
95969798999A9B9C9D9E9FA0A1A2A3A4A5A6A7A8A9AAABACADAEAFB0B1B2B3B4B5B6
B7B8B9BABBBCBDBEBFC0C1C2C3C4C5C6C7C8C9CACBCCCDCECFD0D1D2D3D4D5D6D7D8
D9DADBDCDDDEDF7EE0E1E2E3E4E5E6E7E8E9EAEBECEDEEEFF0F1F2F3F4F5F6F7F8F9
FAFBFCFDFEFF
)
unsafe = %unsafe%24262B2C2F3A3B3D3F40
loop, % StrLen( unsafe )//2
{
}
loop, % StrLen( unsafe )//2
{
}
SetFormat, Integer, %old_FormatInteger%
}
DecodeURL( p_data )
{
}
dir_curl = C:\_Garbha\Program Files\curl
IfExist
, %dir_curl%\
log.txt
url = %1%
url := EncodeURL(url)
InputBox, description
, Description
, Entrez la description
,,150,100 {
InputBox, tags
, Tags
, Entrez les tags avec des virgules
,,150,100 {
description := EncodeURL(description)
tags := EncodeURL(tags)
RunWait, %dir_curl%\curl
.exe -ku name:password
"https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/add?url=%url%&description=%description%&tags=%tags%&replace=yes&shared=no" -o
"%dir_curl%\log.txt",,hide
if not ErrorLevel
; Successfully loaded. {
IfInString, result, "done"
{
OSD("URL saved")
}
OSD("Problem!!!")
}
ExitApp
}
}
}
}
in FARR : it is one of multiple results for the following regex trigger :
^(https?://)?(([0-9a-z_!~*'().&=+$%-]+: )?[0-9a-z_!~*'().&=+$%-]+@)?(([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}|localhost|alextd|mickytd|([0-9a-z_!~*'()-]+\.)*([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]{0,61})?[0-9a-z]\.[a-z]{2,6})(:[0-9]{1,4})?((/?)|(/[0-9a-z_!~*'().;?:@&=+$,%#-]+)+/?)$
Delicious___$$4$$8$$9 | C:\_joker\Utilities\Ahk\DeliciousPost.ahk "http://$$4$$8$$9" /ICON=icons\delicious.ico
THIS is the beauty of FARR, it is only one of multiple results, so when i have an URL in FARR, i can either save the it to del.icio.us, open it in opera or firefox, etc.
you really customize you experience ;)
... to the point... one fantastic addition to FARR would be the possibility to post variables to a website and open the resulting page
don't know how to do it with curl by the way, you post you get the resulting page but not in the browser...
on many search sites, you cannot send your search using get variables... i'd be great to be able to post your search... and see the resulting page
it would be easy to automate logging to a website (without using tools like roboform...)
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I'd love to see something similar to InstantNavigator for OneNote (http://i-navigator.hut2.ru/), which searches for specific notes. It behaves much like FARR, but I'd obviously prefer doing this through FARR and not run another app just for this.
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Two more plugin requests:
1) a plugin that can run an exe with commandline parameters and capture its stdout and show it in results memo view (note that users could use this with the explicit dll invocation technique to make their own alias configurations that use your dll to run any commandline program and capture the output).
2) a plugin that can fetch a web page and then extract text from the webpage (using a regex mask) and display text (stripped of html) as farr result memo. (again this should use the explicit dll invocation technique to let people configure their own aliases that fetch different pages and use different regex matches). The uses for this one are practically unlimited.
note: i guess that #1 might benefit from a regex mask as well, making these two plugins 95% identical.
-mouser
Wow #2 would be amazing :o :o Any progress on that front. As you say the uses for this, combined with the html viewer you mentioned in another thread, would be practically limitless. I wouldnt think it necessary to reinvent the wheel with a full browser inside farr however a scaled down html mode would be great. I can imagine using this for quick wiki searches, reviews, quick weather updates etc etc where all you need is some specific info from a html page without having the need to browse and follow links. It actually shouldnt be that hard to do as long as FARR could support html output :D
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a plugin that makes it easy to search/browse and install plugins
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a plugin that makes it easy to search/browse and install plugins
-alivingspirit
Great idea. Mouser is going to add install option for plugins into Dcupdater, but I think it would be better as FARR plugin than to have special software for it. So when Mouser releases xml file for installing new plugins I will try to write FARR javascript plugin for searching/browsing and installing plugins
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This may be a rare occasion where i disagree with czb -- I think this is something i can do more cleanly by building it into FARR or the update system.. i dont think it's something that should be optional and done via a plugin. And most of all I don't think we should waste our precious and valuable czb coding time on it.. there are more important plugins to write that we NEED him for(!)
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I understand. I just do not like the idea of having Dcupdater for plugins only... it should be directly in FARR, so it would be easy to install ;)
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To check the web for new plugins to install, my solution will require dcupdater.
But to install a new plugin for the first time that you have downloaded, i will add a function into FARR to let you browse for the zip and install it using just plain FARR. Same with alias packs.
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and what about to create special FARR links on the web (similar to firefox plugins etc) and when you click on them FARR would be called and plugin installed automaticaly?
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yeah i could do that through updater system.
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How about a PHP function locator which lets me start typing 'php [function name]' and a list of matching function is provided and when selected takes me to the PHP.net website for that function (default browser). If this is easy I could provide a function list to assist.
The format for locating a function at php.net is:
http://www.php.net/[function name]
so, to find information on strlen would be:
http://www.php.net/strlen
Plugin could be expanded to other languages as it would be a simple data file for the langauge syntax and a URL format to locate the information. One data file could hold multiple languages in an array
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From my another post.
Maybe someone can create "auto alias" plugin which would go through desktop and start programs and create aliases for installed shortcuts. So for newbie users that would make things faster.
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mouser, please read this ;)
How about a PHP function locator which lets me start typing 'php [function name]' and a list of matching function is provided and when selected takes me to the PHP.net website for that function (default browser). If this is easy I could provide a function list to assist.
this is a good idea
there is a way to do it without any plugins, it is cumbersome but it works :
convert the functions list to text files (1 file = 1 function), can be easily done with autohotkey for instance...
add a search folder (to the text files...) with the following modifier keyword : folder_with_php_function_text_files (<=can be shorter :P)
add an action alias : open_browser
Open in browser $$1| C:\_pathtoscript\open_browser.ahk "$$1"
then create a dosearch alias :
regex : ^php (.*)
php $$1 | dosearch +folder_with_php_function_text_files +open_browser $$1
open_browser.ahk is as follows :
SplitPath, 1, name, dir, ext, name_no_ext, drive
Run, http://www.php.net/%name_no_ext%
as you see, it is a bit cumbersome but it WORKS exactly as expected (if i understood well)
now obviously one need to have autohotkey installed for that setup to work or i could send you a compiled version...
a new feature would simplify the process... and eliminate the need of autohotkey (or any other scripting langage)
in this alias :
Open in browser $$1| C:\_pathtoscript\open_browser.ahk "$$1"
$$1 refers to the full file name (with its path)
if we had some special FARR function to split that path
then we would have :
Open in browser $$1| http://www.php.net/FARR($$1,"only file name")
an other idea :
it would be great to have a new command :
dosearchfile "C:\...\functionlist.txt" +open_browser $$1
just specify a file and FARR searches it line by line...
i am not saying a plugins would not be great, however i think using core functions of FARR is almost enough to achieve Veign's idea
to be short... let me say that I am much much more excited by new core functions/features for FARR than anything else... it just opens new horizons each time
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i believe the right way to do this is with a generic plugin that has been talked about before -- a kind of structured file searching plugin.
Basically the plugin would let you configure search keywords, along with specifying the file they should search, and how they should look for text and tags and what info to show on match.
So this could be used to search almost any kind of text,xml, or help file in a structured way that would allow you to type keywords or tags and have FARR show ranked resuls -- then select one to show full text of the entry.
It would be incredibly useful for a wide variety of things.
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Though note that in veign's request, it might also make sense to use a generic web scraper plugin to query the php.org site and grab matches from that.
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How about a PHP function locator which lets me start typing 'php [function name]' and a list of matching function is provided and when selected takes me to the PHP.net website for that function (default browser). If this is easy I could provide a function list to assist.
this is a good idea
There's such a search provided in DQSD. If I ever get time to get into writing the DQ plugin, that one would come for free, along with hundreds more.
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i believe the right way to do this is with a generic plugin that has been talked about before -- a kind of structured file searching plugin.
Basically the plugin would let you configure search keywords, along with specifying the file they should search, and how they should look for text and tags and what info to show on match.
So this could be used to search almost any kind of text,xml, or help file in a structured way that would allow you to type keywords or tags and have FARR show ranked resuls -- then select one to show full text of the entry.
It would be incredibly useful for a wide variety of things.
Yes that would be great, i would certainly use it
BUT
it is really too bad not to have some kind of similar mechanism within the core of FARR
WHY ?
simple, that way you can customize more, because of action modifiers...., because of switches..., because of all your great work mouser !
i don't believe a plugin would be able to do everything you could with a core function...
the way i see FARR (i may be the only one :D) is that you create your own environment (when i describe what i do with FARR, i simply say it's a additional layer on top of windows...)
somehow i see plugins as independant utilities
FARR is amazingly powerful, in about 5 minutes, i implemented Veign's idea !
Let's not forget that...
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nitrix you have come up with some of the coolest, most unusual uses for FARR, i can only admire it :)
and i see you invented yet a new trick -- you create some dummy files that FARR can find, and then you use the names of these files to figure out what to search for on the web. very clever.
your last idea to have FARR search a text file and search web based on those results, is very close to the idea i was trying to suggest about a generic text file searcher -- and it's the ideal way to handle these cases in my opinion. it would be incredibly useful for creating and searching any kind of reference information.
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and i see you invented yet a new trick -- you create some dummy files that FARR can find, and then you use the names of these files to figure out what to search for on the web. very clever.
well i have to be there are so many features missing :P
just kidding ;D
i was trying to suggest about a generic text file searcher -- and it's the ideal way to handle these cases in my opinion. it would be incredibly useful for creating and searching any kind of reference information.
i would love such a plugin if it would be possible to keep using all the neat FARR commands, namely :
- /STAYOPEN
- /ICON
- action alias
- showfile
- showhtml (yet to be implemented, to show the result right into FARR use action alias : Open in browser $$1| showhtml http://www.php.net/FARR($$1,"only file name"))
do you think it's possible to use a plugin yet keep all the neat FARR commands ?
maybe some already work using dosearch ? i have to try...
i just feel that it would be great to be able to use some specific plugins in regular FARR use... i imagine a small date and time library, path manipulation, etc...and the infamous dosearchinfile :D
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how about a plug-in to submit tweets to twitter?
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excuse the pun, but i keep plugging the need for someone to write a twitter plugin (to both add items and view items) -- it seems like a reallly natural plugin for FARR.
i think we will see it soon.
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1000>>>twitter>->twitter | PATH TO \curl.exe -u username:pass -d status="$$1" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml>+>^twitter (.*)
this one works fine for me. You just need to download curl.exe
http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
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nicely done kartal -- that should surve well until we get a more specific plugin.
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As far as sending twitter we do not need a plugin I think since we do not need any special interface. But maybe a plugin can be used to check followers, followeds on top of sending and getting messages.
The only problem with alias is that password is not encrypted.
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As far as sending twitter we do not need a plugin I think since we do not need any special interface.
:Thmbsup:
i love it when it uses core functions...
for del.icio.us :
i post using curl and a small autohotkey GUI (so that i can specify tags... and name)
and then i use the del.icio.us plugins to fetch the result....
and all of this can be nicely wrapped with aliases :D
i don't think a plugin for each particular task is the way to go, i would much prefer plugins opening new horizons by offering new functions, new features...
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i would looooove :-* some type of outlook plugin where you could start typing in the name of a contact and it would filter the names against your outlook contacts. Once you found the contact you wanted you could hit enter and it would display all their info in rich edit mode like address, email, phone # etc... You could then type +email to bring up the compose email dialog from outlook with the contacts email address already filled in.
If that proved too difficult how about simply being able to type the name of the contact and the plugin would search through an excel or comma separated file which you could than use the +email keyword on. As has been mentioned before the ability to search through some type of delimited list in a file would be extremely powerful for a number of applications.
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I mentioned this to Mouser and he said I should suggest it as a plugin.
A plugin that could launch different browsers depending on what link you type. (I think that's what he meant.)
What I had suggested was a way to specify in your query what browser was used by adding ff/IE/Opera etc to the beginning, but he said a plugin would be better because it would handle all url launching, even by other FARR aliases. I'll leave it to him to reply here and explain the rest of the idea, since he knows more about the program than I do. heh.
The thing that sparked my suggestion though was wanting to be able to choose which browser would launch, rather than having it just use my default. So I could launch say... irc://irc.prison.net/#donationcoder and have it open Firefox, since that's where I have my IRC program.
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This would be a good opportunity for someone to try writing a plugin that didnt produce results, but tookover the launching of urls.
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Not sure if this has been suggested or not (or if it already exists) but, how about a plugin that allows you to close active programs? One that can read the active programs from windows task manager. Something like... when you type CloseProgram <tab> it will list all active programs, and you can either type the one you want to close or select it from the list.
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process kill plugin:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=9111.msg67199#msg67199
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Thanks Mouser! I don't know how I missed seeing that on the plugin list...sheesh.
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The thing that sparked my suggestion though was wanting to be able to choose which browser would launch, rather than having it just use my default. So I could launch say... irc://irc.prison.net/#donationcoder and have it open Firefox, since that's where I have my IRC program.
i use the following alias :
regex mask :
^(https?://)?(([0-9a-z_!~*'().&=+$%-]+: )?[0-9a-z_!~*'().&=+$%-]+@)?(([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}|localhost|([0-9a-z_!~*'()-]+\.)*([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]{0,61})?[0-9a-z]\.[a-z]{2,6})(:[0-9]{1,4})?((/?)|(/[0-9a-z_!~*'().;?:@&=+$,%#-]+)+/?)$
then for the results just do the following :
Default browser $$4$$8$$9 | http://$$4$$8$$9
Internet Explorer $$4$$8$$9 | C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe http://$$4$$8$$9
Firefox $$4$$8$$9 | C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe http://$$4$$8$$9 /STAYOPEN
Opera $$4$$8$$9 | C:\Program Files\Opera\Opera.exe http://$$4$$8$$9 /STAYOPEN
you need to modify the regex mask to add protocols ;)
here above, i just show a small part of my result list, you can add whois, whohost, html validation, etc.
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very nice nitrix -- you always come up with interesting stuff. :up: :up:
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very nice nitrix -- you always come up with interesting stuff.
thanks :-[
i cannot stress that enough... FARR is very very powerful and much of your effort mouser should be put into core functions...
i believe that most of anyone's need could be done through alias with some more functions
keep up the good work !
oups i forgot when is the new release coming ????? and please please i'd like to beta test it the week end :P!
:D :D
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i use the following alias :
regex mask :
^(https?://)?(([0-9a-z_!~*'().&=+$%-]+: )?[0-9a-z_!~*'().&=+$%-]+@)?(([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}|localhost|([0-9a-z_!~*'()-]+\.)*([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]{0,61})?[0-9a-z]\.[a-z]{2,6})(:[0-9]{1,4})?((/?)|(/[0-9a-z_!~*'().;?:@&=+$,%#-]+)+/?)$
-nitrix-ud
Wow. I'll have to think about that one... :-[
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Wow. I'll have to think about that one...
don't remember where i got this one... there are quite a lot of capturing parenthesis :D
i DID add the localhost part ;) very handy ;)
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It would be amazing if farr could show image thumbnails(optional) while listing files.
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I've long requested a plugin for http://Twitter; now there is a competitor called http://Plurk, which would also be nice to have a plugin for.
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How about a plugin to work with "Remember the Milk":
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/api/
It's a web service that lets you set up reminders to yourself that will be emailed or sms'd to you, etc.
Similar: http://iwantsandy.com/
-mouser
I'll be the first to request this?!
I'm an avid user of RTM.
I wonder how many other DonationCoders use this amazing web-tool?
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it would be nice to have a good weather plugin..
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Or a good RTM (rememberthemilk.com) plugin?
*wink*wink*
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How about an Rss plugin that works well with new html viewing mode?
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I have a folder.jpg cover image file in almost all my mp3 music album folders.
Maybe a plugin can be made that utilizes the new HTML output mode to make searching for a mp3 album much cooler!
Example:
the user inputs "mp3 beatl".
FARR searches some folders for subfolders that
(1) contain the searchphrase "beatl" and
(2) contains a "folder.jpg" file
FARR displays the folder.jpg for the matches in HTML mode at some set size (200x200 for example), in this case some beatles albums.
When the users runs a match, the corresponding album is sent to the default mp3 player (either by running the related m3u file or sending all mp3 files in the folder to the player)
edit:
This plugin would involve these steps I think:
1. user inputs "pluginalias searchstring"
2. FARR feeds matching folder paths to plugin
3. plugin loops over each match:
if it contains folder.jpg, append that to a html with a link to .m3u
4. FARR displays the html in Html View Mode (showhtml HTMLCONTENT)
Does it seem possible to do based on the javascript plugin system? (if so then I'll give a shot at making a crude version of it myself)
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On the Aliases/Groups tab, it would be nice to be able to click on the columns to sort them A to Z.
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I know a lot about translator plugins. I really want one like defnir , but with Vie-English translator :) Can you guys make me one :p
Thanks so much ^^
http://www.tratu.baamboo.com/ << This site :p ( I have no idea about coding yet )
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I'm thinking about Todoist plugin which work like Gtddlywiki. Open whole browser in FARR, we can check or create new todos :p
Thanks
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I have a folder.jpg cover image file in almost all my mp3 music album folders.
Maybe a plugin can be made that utilizes the new HTML output mode to make searching for a mp3 album much cooler!-Nod5
:-*
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I haven't ran accross it, so I was hoping someone could make a plugin that lets you post updates to ping.fm.
there is a tutorial for updating with launchy here (http://goodblimey.com/archives/2008/06/12/post-to-pingfm-using-launchy) if that helps
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I know a lot about translator plugins. I really want one like defnir , but with Vie-English translator :) Can you guys make me one :p
Thanks so much ^^
http://www.tratu.baamboo.com/ << This site :p ( I have no idea about coding yet )
-Nxqd3051990
Someone can do this for me. Thanks so much :p
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Nxqd3051990: I can do it, but not sooner than in a week ;)
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a currency converter would be very useful, considering how we need to compare prices from different regions. i remember that there was a thread that discussed this but nothing concrete came out of it.
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lanux, see this (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=12565.0) for ultrafast conversion from one specific currency to another. It now works again with a little help from czechboy.
Apart from that doing, for example, "igo 200$ in €" gives a google page with the conversion. The output is somewhat cluttered but can be read without scrolling.
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a currency converter would be very useful, considering how we need to compare prices from different regions. i remember that there was a thread that discussed this but nothing concrete came out of it.
-lanux128
Maybe Google Calculator could be also used ;)
http://czb.dcmembers.com/#Google_Calculator
Try "gcal 125CZK in USD=", you can even do aliases of such a type:
group alias name:convert
regular expression pattern:^convert (.*)$
results:
$$1 CZK to USD| dosearchontrigger gcal $$1 CZK in USD=
$$1 SKK to USD| dosearchontrigger gcal $$1 SKK in USD=
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thanks Nod5 & czechboy, i'll continue in that thread then. :Thmbsup:
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A last.fm plugin or pandora plugin would be nice.
(new last.fm api: http://blog.last.fm/2008/06/27/developers-developers-developers)
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I have a huge and growing list of my personal aliases as well as the ones associated with the fantastic plugins that have been so generously created.
REQUEST: How about a plug-in that will pop up a list of aliases, either a complete list or by alias type or alias group.
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jdd: type agroups into farr, it'll display all of farr's aliases :)
ps: for more lists, type listfarr. For a listing/description of the core aliases, see this post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=9342.0).
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jgpaiva: When I type agroups into farr, I get a very long list which includes things I never use. This is my wishlist:
- I would like to be able to call only certain groups of aliases, especially the Custom User Alias file 'NewAliasFile.alias' group.
- I don't want to delete any core aliases but it would be nice to be able to select (e.g. checkbox) which ones will show up when I type agroups.
- It would be nice to be able to filter aliases beginning with a certain letter. For example, if I were to type 'agroups m' it would be nice for all the aliases beginning with 'm' to be listed.
I am not sure if this is a reasonable or realistic request.
Thanks,
jdd
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- It would be nice to be able to filter aliases beginning with a certain letter. For example, if I were to type 'agroups m' it would be nice for all the aliases beginning with 'm' to be listed.
this will be coming in the next day or so.
- I don't want to delete any core aliases but it would be nice to be able to select (e.g. checkbox) which ones will show up when I type agroups.
you can uncheck whole alias files to disable them, or uncheck individual alias files to disable them. that should also prevent them from showing up in agroups list.
I would like to be able to call only certain groups of aliases, especially the Custom User Alias file 'NewAliasFile.alias' group.
it seems like it might be a good idea to have a special keyword associated with an alias file that you can type to list all aliases in that alias file only; i'll add that to todo list.
you can also make your own alias which contains a list of other aliases.
ie make an alias called: afav
and in that alias have results like:
games | restartsearch games
mydocs | restartsearch *.doc
then type: afav
to show your menu, and select an item to trigger that search.
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this will be coming in the next day or so.
great ! hope this will also be possible with historys !!! as it would be more than useful
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I don't know if this is even possible, but I've played around with AutoHotKey a bit and have found tremendous value in the "Favorite Folders" script. When you activate the "Favorite Folders" hotkey, it will bring up a pop-up menu that contains a list of folders (user-defined, in an INI file). If you activate the hotkey (in my case, the middle mouse button) on a Windows Open/Save dialog or in Windows Explorer/My Computer, when you click on one of the folders in your menu, it will change the current folder in the dialog or window to the favorite folder you selected. If you activate the hotkey on a different type of window, the selected folder will open a new Windows Explorer window at that location (of course, FARR can already do this part).
It would be awesome if FARR could provide similar functionality. For instance, activate FARR, type the folder name, press Enter and it would change the location in the dialog or Explorer window (if it was the last focused window before FARR) to your specified folder. I realize you can type in a path directly in the filename box of the open/save dialog or the address bar of Windows Explorer, but this would also harness the awesome powers of FARR (aliases, history, etc) to get there a lot quicker.
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CatamountJack, that is a GREAT idea.
FARR keeps track of the window that was active last before it was triggered, and so i think this idea could even be implemented without even writing a plugin, just using aliases and an external commandline version of this autohotkey script.
If someone makes a commandline version of the autohotkey script which takes 2 parameters, a folder/file name and a window handle, and does the switching, the rest is easy.
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I don't know if this is even possible, but I've played around with AutoHotKey a bit and have found tremendous value in the "Favorite Folders" script. When you activate the "Favorite Folders" hotkey
good find, favorite folder is a really nice one ;)
but being a FARR lover, i really wanted to use FARR !
so i found a workaround for the time being... (i've been using it for almost a year i think...)
i always had a "favorite folder" alias which is set as below :
regex pattern
^f (.*)
result
Favorites search $$1 | dosearch +folder_fav +open_fav -alias $$1
+folder_fav is a folder containing shortcuts to my favorite folders
+open_fav is an action modifier which opens an authotkey script :
Open | C:\_Garbha\Program Files\OpenFav.ahk "$$1"
and here is the autohotkey script (my explorer is directory opus) :
file = 1
{
Run, C:\Program Files\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\dopusrt
.exe /cmd Go
"C:\" NEWTAB
}
Run, C:\Program Files\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\dopusrt
.exe /cmd Go
"%1%" NEWTAB
}
should only be
Run, C:\Program Files\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\dopusrt.exe /cmd Go "%1%" NEWTAB
but for some reason a shortcut to C:\ turns out to be C:".... no idea why (FARR bug ?)
then i discovered a great tool ! Flashfolder http://zett42.de/flashfolder/
so now i use FARR in conjunction with autohotkey and flashfolder to achieve this goal...
here is the script :
file = 1
if WinExist
("ahk_class FlashFolder_3832795") {
{
}
}
}
{
Run, C:\Program Files\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\dopusrt
.exe /cmd Go
"C:\" NEWTAB
}
Run, C:\Program Files\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\dopusrt
.exe /cmd Go
"%1%" NEWTAB
}
}
basically what this does :
if flashfolder exists (that is a open/save dialog exists) then autohotkey changes the flash folder path to the one coming from FARR (then enter to reflect that in the open/save dialog)
if not then it opens the folder in my explorer
works flawlessly :D
of course ruling out flashfolder of the equation would be even greater !
i'm no windows programmer, and i don't know how to change the location of the open/save dialog...
if you use the file name box to change the path then you loose the filename...
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i forgot to ask !
FARR keeps track of the window that was active last before it was triggered
how do you do that in an alias ??
are there special secret commands ??
mouser please tell me :D
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@mouser: I'm encouraged it might be easier than I thought. I don't do a lot of programming, but I'll see if I can modify the AHK script to work as you suggested. Looks like I'll be right out straight for the next week or so, so I probably won't get to it immediately.. but if anyone else wants to take a crack at it, I wouldn't stop them :)
@nitrix-ud: That sounds like your work around does just what I'm looking for as well. As mouser suggested, I hope it can turn out to be a little simpler in the end, but I'll give yours a shot too when I get a chance!
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That sounds like your work around does just what I'm looking for as well. As mouser suggested, I hope it can turn out to be a little simpler in the end, but I'll give yours a shot too when I get a chance!
the great thing about using flashfolder as an intermediary, is that it works with office dialog and many other right out of the box ;)
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Wheres the favourite folders AHK script?
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i think this is this one :
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic5414.html
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May I suggest a plug-in to embed GUI's in the new graphical view called
: "UserWindowMode", for advanced user interface.
:-\
( I've seen it here :
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=13961.0
)
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Someone wrote about a standalone mini utility which basically just provides a simple interface to the Answers.com page for asking questions:
http://www.deefrag.com/blog/?p=42
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It seems to me that it would be a useful use of the FARR web browser window to make an interface to a few of these q&a type sites. Maybe even a way to query multiple sites and show them in one window or something?
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A screensaver controller plugin would be nice. It would show a list of all known screensavers you could choose from to trigger immediately, plus maybe options to disable/renable screenaver.
A wallpaper manager plugin would also be nice to let you choose a background image to set as your wallpaper.
A resolution changer plugin would be nice too (i think this could probably be done simply with an alias group and a commandline tool for changing plugins).
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Both the screensaver and wallpaper stuff should also be possible through alias+command line tools. nircmd can at least enable/disable screensaver and start the default one, while Irfanview can set wallpaper (centered/tiled/stretched).
I'll try to make some alias for these things in a day or two. Just starting to delve into the more advanced alias features, so should be good practice :)
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the screensaver and wallpaper ones are trickier because idealy one would want to show a file list to let the user choose from.
this is actually possible using an alias, but you may need dc user nitrix to show you how to do it using an alias and the dosearch alias command.
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yes, nitrix has made some amazing aliases!
I'll still look into it. Will learn something along the way :)
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This leads to the following request:
Allow aliases to have place holders to be filled by other alias' or commands results.
This means: Instead of $$2 or something you could write ${restartsearch new input} which would cause a new (virtual) instance of FARR to appear with input "new input". Somehow also certain plugin functions could be used this way.
Example:
my_alias: Hey, that's it | run ${restartsearch $$1 +somefolders}/bar.exe
which would do the following (I hope so):
1. I enter "my_alias foo" and press enter
2. The input is replaced by "foo +somefolders"
3. I see a list of results (assuming that +somefolders is a modifier which causes only music folders to be displayed)
4. I choose a certain folder, e.g. "C:/this_is_so_foo"
5. Technically the search returns to the alias, which would add "/bar.exe" and then run it:
6. run C:/this_is_so_foo/bar.exe is executed
If there were more ${...} parts these would have been opened before executing the command.
I guess the implentation of this might be much easier if the command stack I mentioned in some suggestions about FARR (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=13963.0) would be implemented first.
I see that problems with recursion might occur here. Perhaps there should be a depth limit (the user himself could set it).
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herojoker:
That is VERY along the lines discussed in previous requests, specifically for "actions" to be added to farr.
This probably isn't the right topic to discuss it (previous talks quicky rose to a few pages of posts), maybe we should start a new thread or continue at the last ones.
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Oops, sorry :)
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Oops, sorry :)
-herojoker
You couldn't have known, the original thread ended prior to you joining DC ;)
Here's the link for the thread I mentioned: FARR version 2 - discuss the best way to handle 'actions' (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=2277.75).
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It would be extremely cool if someone made a plugin that displayed results from Windows Search engine.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940157
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Another plugin idea: Searching for songs via meta data.
For example MP3 files may have so called ID3 tags which contain information like Album Title, Track Number etc.
I have no idea whether it takes much performance to search for a given text in many MP3s but perhaps it's possible. Creating an index is possible too (many music players do that, then called Library or something similar).
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Something I tried to do by myself - but seems to have too little knowledge:
Notes outliner (or notes manager).
There are lots of this kind (see http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/807/0/list-of-outliners for example).
Still, they are mostly a huge pile of tree structure, difficult to manage. It hit my mind that maybe the keyword navigation on FARR can do better.
I personally tried to embed an IE based HTML editor (there are many free ones on the WEB) in the "igo" window. I even managed to be able to save the file, but to load it is another thing (from FARR command line). Seems that any real programmer can do better than me.
It is an idea, I wonder if doable at all. :tellme:
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A Todoist plugin using javascript sdk would be ace, API details:
http://todoist.com/API/help
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echo, you should try the tiddlywiki samples that come built into the new farr:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=13673.0
just type: gwp or tiwi
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however: i do think that a nice tag-based note taker plugin is needed and it's one of the plugins i'd like to work on.
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mouser do you think it is possible to pass aruments or name of the new page to gwp or tiwi in the type bar prior to launching them inside FARR?
For example
"gwp books to read" would create a page books to read and open gwp?
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I've wanted to write it by my own but I still have VCBuild.exe errors for C# SDK so...
Maybe someone could write a plugin for ObjectGraph dictionaries:
http://www.objectgraph.com/dictionary/
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another plugin feature that i've been thinking about is to input RSS feeds into Farr and display the items.
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I'd like to second allen's request (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=8071.msg65781#msg65781) for a built-in text editor. I use text files to store idea snippets in a Reference folder, but it's a waste of time having to open up the text editor or Windows Explorer from FARR each time I want to view or edit the files. Some features I'd like to see if someone does decide to make such a plugin are:
- Hotkey compatible (undo, save, ctrl+bksp!!)
- Cancel changes by escaping out of FARR
- Copy/Cut/Paste compatible with Klipkeeper
- Create new files by typing the name of the file with the plugin alias
Thanks in advance!
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It's the same suggestion I made for AltTab plugin:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=10988.msg134438#msg134438
but maybe it would be more viable as a standalone plugin. Basically, double clicking (or clicking) tray icons by typing respective program names (window captions?) in FARR... This would make mouseless system management much more complete!
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I'd like to second allen's request (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=8071.msg65781#msg65781) for a built-in text editor. I use text files to store idea snippets in a Reference folder, but it's a waste of time having to open up the text editor or Windows Explorer from FARR each time I want to view or edit the files. Some features I'd like to see if someone does decide to make such a plugin are:
- Hotkey compatible (undo, save, ctrl+bksp!!)
- Cancel changes by escaping out of FARR
- Copy/Cut/Paste compatible with Klipkeeper
- Create new files by typing the name of the file with the plugin alias
Thanks in advance!
-teegee543
Cant you just use aliases with:
igo http://docs.google.com/?action=newdoc
igo http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?new
igo http://docs.google.com/?action=new_presentation
and to see already created documents:
igo http://docs.google.com/#all
All shortcuts like ctrl+s, ctrl+z work there ;)
Edit: if there was a demand for it I could try to write a plugin using google docs api
If you like offline version you can always use zoho with google gears
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a cool idea for a plugin might be one that keeps statistics of how many times you have run farr, how many launches, avg time typing in farr, keys typed, etc.
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Cant you just use aliases with:
igo http://docs.google.com/?action=newdoc
igo http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?new
igo http://docs.google.com/?action=new_presentation
and to see already created documents:
igo http://docs.google.com/#all
All shortcuts like ctrl+s, ctrl+z work there ;)
Edit: if there was a demand for it I could try to write a plugin using google docs api
If you like offline version you can always use zoho with google gears
-czechboy
Hey czechboy, thanks for the quick reply. Your suggestion of using Google or Zoho, even if offline, are good because they let you keep your files in a central location. Unfortunately, (though I may be wrong) that means I have to keep a browser or gears window open all the time. What I'm looking for is Windows Notepad functionality built-in to a FARR plugin for a quick, low-memory plain-text editor with no bells and whistles (like printing, text formatting, etc). A find and replace function would also be nice, but not necessary.
If this can be done without Google Gears installed, that would be terrific, but I can understand that plugins should appeal to as wide an audience as possible. Maybe my use of text snippets isn't so popular. :D
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well I am javascript coder only. So for direct notepad integration somebody else might help. What I can offer you is to make javascript notepad using tinymce.
Se full features example:
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/examples/full.php
and simple example:
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/examples/simple.php
But again I would do it only if there is enough demand for it :Thmbsup:
EDIT: just to make sure, although tinymce is built for HTML, it would be directly in FARR htmlview window and it supports hot keys such as ctrl+back, control b,i,u,save etc
Cant you just use aliases with:
igo http://docs.google.com/?action=newdoc
igo http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?new
igo http://docs.google.com/?action=new_presentation
and to see already created documents:
igo http://docs.google.com/#all
All shortcuts like ctrl+s, ctrl+z work there ;)
Edit: if there was a demand for it I could try to write a plugin using google docs api
If you like offline version you can always use zoho with google gears
-czechboy
Hey czechboy, thanks for the quick reply. Your suggestion of using Google or Zoho, even if offline, are good because they let you keep your files in a central location. Unfortunately, (though I may be wrong) that means I have to keep a browser or gears window open all the time. What I'm looking for is Windows Notepad functionality built-in to a FARR plugin for a quick, low-memory plain-text editor with no bells and whistles (like printing, text formatting, etc). A find and replace function would also be nice, but not necessary.
If this can be done without Google Gears installed, that would be terrific, but I can understand that plugins should appeal to as wide an audience as possible. Maybe my use of text snippets isn't so popular. :D
-teegee543
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i think bad idea to do tinymce way. wait for my tagged-note taking plugin :)
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A tagged-note taking plugin sounds exciting! I'd definitely be interested in helping with testing your plugin once it reaches that stage. :Thmbsup:
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great :up:
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Sorry if this has already been suggested but I would really like to see a pidgin plugin like Launchy has (see http://code.google.com/p/putty-launchy-plugin/). I'm a long-time Launchy user and I've become quite used to having that feature.
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Sorry if this has already been suggested but I would really like to see a pidgin plugin like Launchy has (see http://code.google.com/p/putty-launchy-plugin/).
-Dagur
I am confused -- did you mean PuTTY or Pidgin (or both...or something else)?
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sorry, of course I meant PuTTY :-[
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Thanks for the clarification.
Depending on how many sessions you have, may be a cheap way to get by until someone writes a plugin is to create an alias which gives you the option of choosing sessions - each choice could be specified via the -load command line option to putty.exe. Does that help at all as a temporary solution?
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I gave it a shot but it's not quite what I want. I have a rather large number of sessions to choose from and FARR doesn't remember my parameters so I have to type the whole session name out every time.
Edit: With help from mouser I could create an alias that works for me (at least sufficiently).
Attached is a python script I made that generates the alias file by reading the session names from the windows registry. Just change the extension from .txt to .py and enjoy!
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Good to hear that you got a work-around :)
FWIW, I looked into doing an FSubScript FARR plugin for PuTTY, but from what I learned so far, enumeration of registry keys is somewhat of a pain using JScript -- at least it's not nearly as straight-forward as reading, deleting, and writing keys. I'm partial to versions of PuTTY that store setting information in the filesystem so my leaning is towards working on something that works with that (if I do make something). But may be as time goes on I'll learn differently.
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I looked at it too, and given the current fscript, it is not even doable to enumerate keys. It would require getobject which is not available on the global fscript FARR object. I may add it since it will allow many connection with the desktop.
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ecaradec: do I understand correctly that approaches such as used by:
http://digivation.net/programming/registrytools
would not function in the current fscript?
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This will not work in the current fscript because the GetObject function does not exist in FScript.
var WMIRegistry = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\\\" + computer + "\\root\\default:StdRegProv");
However it should not be a very difficult work to add it. It should just be a call to CoGetObject and return a script interface if everything goes well.
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Thanks for the response, ecaradec.
I'd be interested in being able to interact with the registry more conveniently via FScript -- well, specifically, being able to enumerate registry keys.
In addition to possibly helping a plugin for PuTTY along, I think it might make it easier to read IE 7's search providers which are also stored in the Registry [1] -- this would be helpful in the development of a plugin I'm working on.
[1] Though as I understand it from some searches, it's possible to use the reg.exe command to make that content available in file form -- which could then subsequently be parsed...but yuck.
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Some notes about a potential PuTTY session plugin.
Regarding PuTTY sessions, it looks to me like some (recent?) versions of PuTTY don't store session names under:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions
Instead the following type of location is where I see settings:
HKEY_USERS\<SID>\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions
where <SID> seems like it is account-specific.
I haven't come up with a good way for determining (via JavaScript) an appropriate value for <SID> for the current user.
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Related to PuTTY (maybe helpful?)... I know it's not exactly what was requested, but I've had good luck with using KiTTY (http://kitty.9bis.com/ (http://kitty.9bis.com/)) as an alternative to PuTTY. The program has a bunch of handy features that the original PuTTY lacks, including auto-login. One of its other options is that there is a built-in portable mode (although you have to specify it in the kitty.ini file) (more info here) (http://www.9bis.net/kitty/?page=Portability&zone=en), so session configurations are saved to text files instead of the registry. Perhaps it would be easier to create a plugin that could parse those text files instead of the registry for session info?
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It might be easier and it is what I'm more interested in:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=8071.msg140183#msg140183
;)
It seems like it'd be nice to be able to support multiple persistence schemes though and my impression (just a complete guess) was that it's likely that the registry methods are the most widely used so I was trying to figure out what might be involved for it first. If there appears to be enough interest though, I'm happy to consider working on the file-based persistence method [1] first.
[1] I'm not sure if there is more than one, but I have noticed there appear to be multiple portable PuTTYs derivatives.
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I'm not sure what the deal is w/ the registry storage locations for PuTTY (i.e. HKEY_CURRENT_USER vs HKEY_USERS and SID) -- perhaps it's just my poor understanding of Windows :)
At any rate, I've got a preliminary version of a PuTTY plugin which seems to be working with the standard PuTTY. I tested a modified version w/ KiTTY's registry-based sessions (the only relevant difference I noticed seemed to be the location in the registry) with some success.
If there is interest, I might put together a preliminary release for testing.
I'm considering the file-based stores too -- it seems like it may be straight-forward.
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Hy.
I'm new here, so excuse me if my suggestions are stupid :D
Anyways, here's a list of what kind of plugins i'd like (if possible that is :P)
Winamp Remote : i'm thinking that probably using AMIP we could have some advanced functions to control Winamp (like list all loaded songs and select which one to play, jump to previous/next track, play/pause/stop, ...)
Miranda : list all users (or maybe just online users) from Miranda, and when you select one user it opens a new chat window with that user, i think this would need a plugin to be loaded in Miranda too which would give the list of users and open the chat window
StartupManager : list all programs that startup with the system (from Startup folder and registry) and give the ability to disable them
SkyPE : similar to Miranda, list users (or only online users) and on selection start conversation with the user
TeamViewer : list the last entered ID's or aliases from TeamViewer and on selection start TeamViewer with that ID (or give the ability to start TeamViewer with a give ID).
(TeamViewer is a very good remote desktop control, very usefull when trying to help other people to configure stuff).
P.S.
If i manage to learn how to write plugins for FARR i'll try to implement some of the plugins.
P.S. 2 : why don't you make a database with the plugin suggestions and possible solutions, so it's easier for users to see what was suggested and if it's already possible or not. It would also be easier for plugin developers to see what plugins have been requested.
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Hi all!
I am looking for a way to use FARR to replace Lifehacker's Texter [1]. I use texter to quickly replace shortcuts by longer portions of text. One example (with Texter):
* I create a new mail
* At the bottom of my mail, I type "SIG" (without quotes)
* Texter replaces SIG by some text - my signature in this example
I could imagine that FARR could do the same, maybe in another way:
* Create new mail
* Hit the FARR shortcut
* Type the string (SIG)
* FARR copies the expanded text to the clipboard, changes back to the mail window and executes paste.
Of course, it should not interfere with KlipKeeper :-)
What do you think?
Thanks a lot!
Rico
[1] http://lifehacker.com/software//lifehacker-code-texter-windows-238306.php
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A Facebook plugin (or alias?) would be nice, to update status and possibly retrieve other's statuses or updates.
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few more ideas:
Screensaver manager. Would let users:
- Set a new screensaver as default
- Configure options of screensavers
- Disable/Enable screensaver
- Start default screensaver
- Start any screensaver
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Spotify (http://spotify.com/) plugin!
Search and launch results :)
FYI:
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Hi ewemoa
At any rate, I've got a preliminary version of a PuTTY plugin which seems to be working with the standard PuTTY. I tested a modified version w/ KiTTY's registry-based sessions (the only relevant difference I noticed seemed to be the location in the registry) with some success.
If there is interest, I might put together a preliminary release for testing.
-ewemoa
Sure! I wonder why there's so little echo on your posting. I'd love to test it.
Cheers
Rico
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I'm not sure what the deal is w/ the registry storage locations for PuTTY (i.e. HKEY_CURRENT_USER vs HKEY_USERS and SID) -- perhaps it's just my poor understanding of Windows :)
If there is interest, I might put together a preliminary release for testing.
-ewemoa
@ewemoa, both the locations you mentioned are the same, HKEY_CURRENT_USER is a virtual one which maps to the HKEY_USERS\<SID> with respect to the current user who is accessing the registry, so ideally you should be picking it up from HKEY_CURRENT_USER, which would make the settings user specific and you dont have to worry about the SID.
Also being a Putty User myself even i am interested in testing out the plugin, until now i have been using some aliases for FARR integration with Putty
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For those interested in a PuTTY plugin, you can see what has me stalled in this thread (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16498.0).
dinesh_ms, thanks for the registry-related tip -- I think in the most recent code that I worked on (it's been a while), I ended up doing something that seems in line with your tip (but I don't remember at this point).
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I would love to see a plugin that connects FARR with the GMarks (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2888) extension for Firefox. I use the quick bookmark search feature all the time, but often find myself hitting the FARR hotkey first by accident :D. So I thought that a plugin interfacing FARR with the quick bookmark search in GMarks would be great. I could pull up FARR, type GM[space] and then use it like I would GMarks. If I was better at coding I would try it myself. :(
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Hi
Just added my thoughts on putty and other launches:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16498.0 (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16498.0)
Volunteers? :D
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I would love to see a plugin that connects FARR with the GMarks (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2888) extension for Firefox.
-thancock20
Yes, that would be nice. See this thread for some related discussion
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16942.0
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I'd love to see a plugin that searches the Linkman (http://linkmanlite.outertech.com/index.php?_charisma_page=product&id=8) database. It's easy to pop up the Linkman search dialog, but integrating it into FARR would be even easier. Maybe the FarrFox plugin could be updated to also search Linkman?
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I'd like to suggest two interrelated ideas for plugins, both relating to the use of FARR to bring currently running windows/applications to the foreground.
1] Using FARR as an alternative to alt-tab to selecte a currently running window/app
With FARR installed on my machine I find that it is much much easier to run a new program than to find one which is already running! Running a new program with FARR takes only milliseconds, but searching the couple of dozen icons in my taskbar for the one I want takes far longer. Cycling through the alt-tab list is even more laborious, because all microsoft office documents receive their own little icon on the alt-tab list, and since I regularly have 30-40 docs open in Word at a given time, it is nearly impossible to find the one I want!
I'd like FARR to first try to match my input to one of the currently running applications or open windows (I suppose it would be best to first try to match the window caption of an open window, and if not, to try to match to a process name among the running processes).
I would further be interested in the option of limiting FARR to match windows of one specific process. For instance, this would allow me to create a hotkey to launch FARR and to use it specifically to locate one of my open Microsoft Word documents.
2] My second request is for FARR to provide the user with a single-stop option to either switch to a given app if it is running, or if not, to run the application.
Often I find that I want to use a given app (say, calc.exe), but I don't know whether I am running the app or not. Searching through alt-tab or the taskbar is laborious, as noted above, so in these cases I usually just run another instance of the given program with FARR. However, this creates clutter on the machine, and not all apps do a good job running multiple instances. Thus, it would be ideal if I could configure FARR such that after selecting an application to run, FARR would first check to see whether the application is already running, and if so, FARR would give me the option (via a single keypress) to decide whether to launch a new one or whether to just bring the current one to the foreground.
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I here by request for a Twitter plugin, one that would show the number of characters left as a tweet (message/update) is being typed.
There's a limit of 140 characters per tweet imposed by Twitter.
Additionally if the plugin can provide URL shortening (auto shortening as an option), that would be great!
Here (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=14849.0) is a thread on Twitter alias to anyone who might want to take this up as it can perhaps be used as a starting point.
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it'd be nice if the twitter plugin could also do the following:
• show last few updates of a user.
• follow users via the plugin interface
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It would be great if someone could build plugin to search in Read it Later saved sites
http://readitlaterlist.com/
i mean with better search algorithm
http://www.ideashower.com/support/read-it-later/better-search-algorithm-or-something/#post-8566
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^ I think this would be very doable (for an experienced coder), since Read It Later has an API (http://readitlaterlist.com/api/)
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Was/is there a unit converter plugin for FARR or am I imagining things?
If there is not, I suggest one... I suppose it could work similarly to FCalc (which I absolutely love!), i.e. you type in:
convert 5 meters to inches
and you see the result in the results pane.
Unit autocompletion would be nice.
Wait... just had an idea - type in just "convert 5 meters" and 10 most frequently used conversions (from meters, of course) show up automatically!
Edit: Just found this:
http://units.sourceforge.net/
I am not sure how usable it could be for a plugin...
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Here's my suggestion for a plugin. I've used the search and cannot find anything like this: a plugin to search the Windows registry.
It could work something like this:
reg <keywords>
reg hkcr <keywords>
reg hklm <keywords>
reg hku <keywords>
reg hkcc <keywords>
ie. either search all of registry, or specified branch (hkey_classes_root, hkey_current_user, hkey_local_machine, hkey_users, hkey_current_config)
It could display keys like FARR currently does folders and values like FARR does files, with the value type if possible (reg_sz, reg_binary, reg_dword, reg_qword, reg_expand_sz, reg_multi_sz).
Selecting a search result would open regedit.exe and jump to the selected key/value. I've used registry searchers in the past that did this, but wouldn't it be cool if you could do this from FARR? 8)
Thanks for reading.
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i have a suggestion.
can a plugin be made to kill processes eg.
kill explorer.exe
or using the title of the window
kill $title$="Notepad"
for the first taskkill /f %exename% can be use but for the second winApi must be used
thankx
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I just gave Keybreeze a try and came running back to FARR! Having said that though, it has a nice feature. Typing keyword "note" allows you to create a post-it style desktop note. I know FARR has addnote/viewnote, but this desktop sticky note is pretty cool.
-edbro
I second that, I am finding I am using keybreeze just for this reason.
I also think that if you could integrate FARR with a simple app (one small .exe) like Diana, which is a very small and simple calendar/with memo feature that would me great.
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there is an excellent note plugin for farr called hamnotes (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=18850.0).
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Never got the hang of it, all those arguments \q \a etc to write a simple note just confusing for a dumbass like me.
Also sticky notes is what i really like, and the one with keybreeze is awesome, with its timers etc.
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if one of these stickies programs has a commandline callable interface to add notes, someone could easily make a farr alias to add sticky notes to it.
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I was thinking about making a FARR plugin for Stickies (http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/) for a while but came to the conclusion that there's not enough benefit of having one. If you want notes in FARR I guess hamnotes is as good as it gets. If not, Stickies offers global keyboard shortcuts and much more. Don't know if it has timers though.
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Although I haven't used the following:
http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/
(http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/)
it appears there is an API (Windows Messages) for getting it to do various things:
http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/api/ (http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/api/)
There also appear to be various utilities for working with it -- on first glance it looks like there may be some kind of command line interfacing mentioned too:
http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/tools.html (http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/tools.html)
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Although I haven't used the following:
http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/
(http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/)
it appears there is an API (Windows Messages) for getting it to do various things:
http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/api/ (http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/api/)
There also appear to be various utilities for working with it -- on first glance it looks like there may be some kind of command line interfacing mentioned too:
http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/tools.html (http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/tools.html)
-ewemoa
Yep, that's the one I was talking about.
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lol...silly me to not have examined your posting closely enough :)
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is there a password manager plugin? I use FARR for going to web sites but some require a password and it would be great if FARR could also bring up a window with you passwords in for your favourite sites.
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I would like to post a request for Chinese users, maybe even for most Asian language users, which is to allow using pinyin/brief-pinyin to search items(for me, mostly shortcuts).
Pinyin is the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese Character, for more info: http://www.zdic.net/c/cipy/
Reason:
We have lots of apps and documents in Chinese title, which makes it inconvient to locate items using English words. e.g. an IM app called "腾讯QQ" ( Tencent QQ ) or even all Chinese "为知笔记" (Wiz Note), now we have to call out Chinese Input Method first, enter pinyin and find the right character. (one single pinyin can have one-to-many relationship with character).
My idea is to use pinyin or the brief form of pinyin (the first letter/part of each pinyin) to locate items directly.
e.g. shortcut 腾讯QQ (Pinyin form: Teng Xun QQ), can enter "tengxunqq" or brief form "txqq" to find.
To achieve this,all the items with Chinese characters to be searched need translate to pinyin form and brief-pinyin form. I think a new translation mechanisim needed.