DonationCoder.com Forum

DonationCoder.com Software => Mouser's Zone => Find And Run Robot => Topic started by: mouser on October 22, 2007, 10:14 AM

Title: Latest FARR Release 2.250.0 beta - Mar 23, 2020
Post by: mouser on October 22, 2007, 10:14 AM
Download latest stable version from Official Web Page: HERE (https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun).


Download beta version (2.250.01) from here (https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/downloads/beta/FindAndRunRobotSetup.exe) (portable zip (https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/downloads/beta/FindAndRunRobotPortable.zip)).


[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

Version 2.250.00 - Mar 8, 2020

Version 2.239.02 - Jan 22, 2020

Version 2.234.01 - Feb 11, 2019

Version 2.233.01 - Feb 10, 2018

Version 2.229.01 - March 24, 2017

Version 2.226.01 - June 26, 2015

Version 2.223.01 - Apr 28, 2015

Version 2.218.01 - Mar 25, 2015

Version 2.217.01 - Mar 18, 2015


Version 2.213.01 - Nov 29, 2013

Version 2.211.01 BETA - August 26, 2013


Version 2.206.01 - Jan 7, 2013

Version 2.203.01 - Oct 22, 2012

Version 2.200.01 - Sep 25, 2012

Version 2.105.01 - April 1, 2012

Version 2.104.02 - Feb 14, 2012

Version 2.102.03 - Oct 4, 2011

Version 2.102.02 - Oct 3, 2011

Version 2.102.01 - Oct 3, 2011

Version 2.99.01 - June 11, 2011

Version 2.98.01 - Mar 22, 2011

Version 2.96.01 - Feb 5, 2011

Version 2.95.01 - Jan 16, 2011

Version 2.93.01 - Nov 21, 2010

Version 2.90.01 - Aug 18, 2010

Version 2.87.03 - May 4, 2010

Version 2.86.01 - February 28, 2010

Version 2.84.01 - February 15, 2010

Version 2.80.02 - November 20th, 2009

Version 2.77.01 - August 26th, 2009

Version 2.75.01 - July 26st, 2009

Version 2.71.01 - July 12th, 2009

Version 2.70.01 - July 7th, 2009


You can read more about the changes and bugs in previous releases on this long 35 page thread (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=6624.0).  Or in the online help file (https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/help/index.html) for FARR v2.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: edbro on October 22, 2007, 10:23 AM
Well, I said "I'll believe it when I see it" and now I'm seeing it! Congrats Mouser.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Josh on October 22, 2007, 10:26 AM
Yews, as I said in PM, great job mousey. After a year of alpha status, its good to see some exposure for farr2 :)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on October 22, 2007, 10:27 AM
There's nothing to celebrate really, this is just one more v2 release -- there will be more as more bugs are fixed and features are added.  This is *not* the public final release of v2.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: nitrix-ud on October 22, 2007, 10:39 AM
Beta is a better status than Alpha for FARR i think  :Thmbsup:

good move ;)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Josh on October 22, 2007, 10:44 AM
Mousey, after 1 year of alpha status, I don't see how making it public beta ISN'T a huge move. Come on now, it's had one year of HEAVY work, now the public gets to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on October 22, 2007, 11:52 AM

There's nothing to celebrate really
-mouser (October 22, 2007, 10:27 AM)

Still : well done! I've just installed it and it works well.
 

Should we post comments here?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Ralf Maximus on October 22, 2007, 12:03 PM
Just installed it and gave it a quick spin.  Rookin good!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Veign on October 22, 2007, 12:47 PM
There is some comfort in knowing that I no longer have an alpha software installed on my development computer even though it was stable and never gave me any issues.

Thanx for the update.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on October 22, 2007, 01:19 PM
Ok mouser, I'll post my few comments here. You can always move them somewhere else if you want.


These are actually little things I noticed in the last month but forgot to mention -- the beta reminded me of those :


1
a- The new locate plug-in, when used, slows down farr a bit. Or am I the only one?

A locate32 search from within farr will : 1- take a few seconds to produce some results, 2- and make the transition back to the standard farr search a bit too long too (stalls for a few seconds -- nothing really bad, but it varies depending on how many results you've set the plug-in to disclose).
 [it depends on the quantity of results displayed --2007 12 29 ]

b- Also, and  I know that this is not farr per se, but the locate32 plug-in doesn't play well with accents (é è à, etc.).
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

c- Which brings me to this question: if you're going to keep the locate plug-in as an "official" one, do you believe that it would be possible to have it use the same (or similar) search conventions than the "regular" farr ones (e.g. : non contiguous characters etc....)? It might be a pretty hard to do, but it would make more sense.


2- Maybe that has been mentioned before : farr finds but cannot launch a file if it has a space as the last character of its name
(e.g. : E:\Doct\xLC-.Moreno,Jacob L.__Théâtre de la spontanéité__+tgsPat tgsPthée+ .doc)


3- There still seems to be a problem with certain characters and folder names. I'm not 100% sure, but it seems to be related to the "É" character (only?). i.e. : each time one my folder names uses the É character, farr won't display the subfolders and files it contains.
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
And here are 2 extra ideas for the future :

- Select and launch multiple files at once
- Sort by date/name etc. with column headers.

Thanks mouser!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: muntealb on October 22, 2007, 01:31 PM
Mouser, the software is good, but I must tell you that I never saw in a software interface fonts as little as those used by you in the options for FARR. Really, you should make the fonts bigger, the options panel is resizable so it shouldn't be a problem. Many users will thank you for that.

And of course FARR doesn't support Unicode, so typing Ș and Ț results in the display of ? and ?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: masu on October 22, 2007, 01:41 PM
This new version is amazing.
It's just mindblowing

Good work mouser.

Looking forward for the Final version  :Thmbsup: :-*
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on October 22, 2007, 02:08 PM
Maybe that has been mentioned before : farr finds but cannot launch a file if it has a space as the last character of its name

 :o

There still seems to be a problem with certain characters and folder names. I'm not 100% sure, but it seems to be related to the "É" character (only?).

could you maybe test if the problem isn't with all UPPERCASE diacriticals? I wonder if it's not a case-related thing.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on October 22, 2007, 04:37 PM
By the way, I still have a couple FARR Plugin Creator Mugs to give away to new plugin writers.
Info on creating a plugin here: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=10105.0
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Lashiec on October 22, 2007, 04:48 PM
Mousey, after 1 year of alpha status, I don't see how making it public beta ISN'T a huge move. Come on now, it's had one year of HEAVY rock, now the public gets to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
-Josh (October 22, 2007, 10:44 AM)

Fixed :P ;D

*Lashiec checks up the browser two times, makes sure the interface chair-computer is working at full power, reconnects the eyes-brain bus...*

So it's actually true! Well done! Now FARR can regain the lost time, but let's wait a bit more before we spread the word :Thmbsup:

Armando, which is the font you're using in your shots?

EDIT: Now complies with mouser's requisites ;)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on October 22, 2007, 04:50 PM
Don't spread the word, this is still not yet ready for primetime release.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Veign on October 22, 2007, 07:21 PM
Don't spread the word, this is still not yet ready for primetime release.
-mouser (October 22, 2007, 04:50 PM)

Once you give the word I would love to do a blog post on this release.  Just give the word...
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: rgjordan on October 22, 2007, 09:54 PM
Terrific application! Useful for novice and advanced users alike.

Rob
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on October 23, 2007, 12:47 AM

could you maybe test if the problem isn't with all UPPERCASE diacriticals? I wonder if it's not a case-related thing.
-mouser (October 22, 2007, 02:08 PM)

Yes mouser, exactly. I only had "É" in my some of my very old folder names, but, yes, it does it with all all UPPERCASE diacriticals.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on October 23, 2007, 12:54 AM
Armando, which is the font you're using in your shots?

EDIT: Now complies with mouser's requisites ;)
-Lashiec (October 22, 2007, 04:48 PM)

EditBox font : Baskerville Old Face - Regular - 14
Small-Icon Result Font: Arial - Regular - 8 (keep in mind that I have a 15' laptop screen - 1280x800)
 :)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Lashiec on October 23, 2007, 04:46 AM
I see. Thanks! I'll try both when I get home, they look very classy :)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: teegee543 on October 23, 2007, 04:32 PM
Hey mouser, congratulations on hitting the public beta milestone! Everything works great and runs fast and efficient. The only thing I was disappointed about was the folder navigation bug I posted before: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=6624.msg74060#msg74060

Other than that, I'm really enjoying the plugins feature. It's like Firefox where you get to put together your own toolbox.  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Icfu on October 24, 2007, 05:30 AM
There are some obtrusive default settings:

1. custom skinning enabled
Respect of corporate look should have priority for productivity tools.
2. bump sound when calling the console
As it's the expected result that an application opens when it is told to open, a success sound is redundant as long it isn't started with a delay.

Options are lacking comfort:
1. no apply button
2. two rows of tabs, tab order is not fixed, this is against all usability recommendations

I suggest switching to a decent tree view dialog with OK, Cancel and Apply button to clean up the mess.

Icfu
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on October 24, 2007, 09:19 AM
A tree view configuration is probably a good idea.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Josh on October 24, 2007, 12:56 PM
To all users,

Please post each new BUG REPORT in it's own thread. Do not use this thread for bug reports. You can add them to the Find And Run Robot (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?board=12.0) forum. After one is posted, we will add it to the FARR v2 - Official Bug Tracking Thread (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=10533.0). This will help eliminate the clutter that was the old bug tracking thread.

Thanks for your help!

Josh
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: TucknDar on October 25, 2007, 05:45 AM
A tree view configuration is probably a good idea.
-mouser (October 24, 2007, 09:19 AM)
Sounds like a good idea to me, too, although the current layout doesn't really bother me.

I suppose if you do change to a tree view config dialog you could implement this in your other apps too
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: VSiAQ on October 26, 2007, 03:57 AM
Hi mouser,

I've been using FARR for a long time, and I'm really happy with FARR v2.00.142.

When I decided to update my copy of FARR to the newest version, unfortunately something went wrong.

I can not launch any of my file, and I find that I can only do so if I type in the whole directory name, e.g C:\Program Files\ProgramName\program.exe. Typing only the shortcut name (program) didn't work, although FARR finds these shortcuts successfully.

For your information, in the About box it says that I'm using version 2.00.145.

I update FARR by simply install the new version over the old one.

Regards,

EDIT: I uninstalled FARR and reinstall it. Sometimes FARR can launch file, sometimes it can not.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on October 26, 2007, 04:01 AM
Can you try this:
Go to the "General" tab of options, and change the setting labeled:
"Always launch shortcuts directly instead of resolving links"

If it's checked, uncheck it.  If it's already unchecked, check it.

See if that helps.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: VSiAQ on October 26, 2007, 04:06 AM
Leaving the settting uncheck solves this problem  :Thmbsup:

Thanks for your super fast reply ;D

p.s: i always wonder why these Lifehacker guys prefer Launchy to FARR while this little robot is by far greater :down:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on October 26, 2007, 04:25 AM
Now i have to think if i should change the default value of this setting.. i'm trying to remember the reason i added it to begin with..

And thanks for the sweet words about FARR :)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on October 27, 2007, 01:07 AM

p.s: i always wonder why these Lifehacker guys prefer Launchy to FARR while this little robot is by far greater :down:
-VSiAQ (October 26, 2007, 04:06 AM)

If you find an answer, tell me what you found!   ;)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: VSiAQ on November 01, 2007, 05:56 AM
I experience the same problem today  :(

FARR can not launch some of my programs, e.g MS Word 2007  :tellme:

I checked/unchecked the "Always launch shortcuts directly instead of resolving links" setting but it didn't help.

Any suggestions?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on November 01, 2007, 01:02 PM
I experience the same problem today  :(

FARR can not launch some of my programs, e.g MS Word 2007  :tellme:

I checked/unchecked the "Always launch shortcuts directly instead of resolving links" setting but it didn't help.

Any suggestions?
-VSiAQ (November 01, 2007, 05:56 AM)

Have you modified your shortcut names in any way? I know I've had problems with file names containing a space as the last caracter (before the file type extension e.g. : "hello .doc"). Farr would find them but not launch them.

Try to find out if there is a common denominator between all these file names/shortcut names farr won't launch.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: perlguy on November 08, 2007, 08:49 PM
I'm a little lost on how to get 'noresults' alias working... and couldn't find a complete example of how to set it up - looked in forum and help and google.  Is it broken, or do I just not have it configured properly?

I've tried

group alias name:  noresults, regex pattern: noresults, result(s): run $$1 | $$1
group alias name:  noresults, regex pattern: noresults, result(s): $$1
group alias name:  noresults, regex pattern: <empty>, results(s): $$1

none of them work... the first two at least seem to trigger the 'noresults' behavior - farr goes away, but nothing executes.  the last one, when you hit enter, nothing happens, and the FARR window doesn't disappear.

I really hope it's just a matter of configuring properly... would love to have it work.

I'm running 2.00.145.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on November 08, 2007, 09:21 PM
i wonder if noresults alias trick broke in the latest release -- i can't get it to work myself.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: nitrix-ud on November 09, 2007, 03:46 AM
this works for me :

group alias name :
noresults

regex :
noresults (.*)

results :
restartsearch g $$1

g being an other alias of mine that i use to search the web...

PS: i'm using v2.00.145
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on November 09, 2007, 09:09 AM
nitrix to the rescue.
ok so perlguy for what you want just put $$1 in results, and use what nitrix said for alias name and regex.

ps. i'm going to split off the noresults discussion into its own thread.

ps2. for those who don't know about the noresults thing, it's how you can tell farr what to do when you type something and there are no results and you hit enter.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: perlguy on November 09, 2007, 02:23 PM
Ah.  "noresults (.*)" ... why didn't I think of that... thanks! works like a charm now... I may never need the "Run" box again.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on November 09, 2007, 02:35 PM
i still say thats a bug -- you shouldnt have to put any regular expression in there, it should work right away.
and i should make the noresults entry a default in the myaliases file so users can more easily configure it.

thanks for not giving up  :up:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: zajc on November 13, 2007, 02:36 AM
I'm using a Firefox plug-in. A lot  :)

I have a problem with Central European characters which doesn't display correctly. I tried to change font-script to Central European but it doesn't improve the situation. Check the image I send.

I'm using 2.0.0.144.

Anyway, FARR  :-*
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on November 13, 2007, 01:30 PM
The same thing happens with other plug-ins, like the locate32 one.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Duchess of Argyll on November 18, 2007, 10:46 PM
Thank you for having created a site that not only helps people like me who are learning the in's and out's of using a computer. I will try it for a while and should I be as impressed as I am at the moment I will make a donation towards your very well set up work. Once again Thank You.
Patricia  :-*
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: arsan on December 02, 2007, 01:54 AM
This is an excellent launcher. Thank you for creating this fine program.

Just a little doubt.

In the older version (1.13.01) I could see a lot of items. I'm used to seeing 27 items together as shown in the screenshot:

(http://aycu21.webshots.com/image/33780/2005215670070059092_rs.jpg) (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2005215670070059092)

In the newer version I can see fewer items at a time. I prefer the list view instead of the detail view so that I could see lots of choices in a relatively small launch window.

I cannot find the list view in the newer version. Is it removed or is it just me?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Kailef on December 16, 2007, 04:22 PM
Just a quick comment.  I used Launchy for quite some time, without even knowing that FARR existed.  Having found it last week, it has instantly replaced Launchy.  It is so unbelievably superior that it's not even worth discussing.  At all.  Seriously.

Got a couple questions and comments.  First off, I haven't run into any problems since installing the latest beta.  I haven't exactly been stressing it to the breaking point, though.  I'll try harder.

Second - And I may have simply not noticed this feature, so pardon me if I'm just being dumb - But, is there a way to tell FARR to completely ignore a certain filetype extension?  I know you can lower a particular extension's weight, which more or less does the same thing if you make the negative value high enough, so maybe it's a waste of time to implement this suggestion.  But, if there was a right-click contextual menu entry that said "ignore this filetype extension" or something of that nature, it would be handy.

Third, and this is just a question on mechanics - Does FARR create an index like Launchy and Key Launch.  (Key Launch can be found here: http://www.konradp.com/products/keylaunch/?underline_app=keylaunch but it's definitely not as good as FARR)

And lastly, I agree with Arsan's above comment - Although I have never actually used anything other than the current beta of FARR, I do like the idea of being able to see multiple columns as his image depicts, because sometimes I'm looking for an app or document that has a very similar name to others.

Anyhow, great product, light years ahead of everything else in my opinion.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: jgpaiva on December 16, 2007, 04:37 PM
Hey Kailef!
Thanks a lot for your post, i bet mouser will love to read it ;)

In the meantime, here are some of your answers:

RE ignore file extention:
You can right-click a file and set the pattern to *.FILEEXTENSION, and the score to -9999. That'll make it not come up anymore. It's true that it's not exactly a one-click-ignore-extension solution, but imagine if you had a right-click entry for "ignore pattern", "ignore this file", "ignore this extension", etc ;)

RE index:
No, currently farr doesn't support indexing, but Okke has made the terific locate plugin (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=10501.0), which acomplishes something close to that ;)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on December 16, 2007, 05:32 PM
currently the only way to exclude extensions is to give them high negative scores as mentioned; i have been thinking though that in the search directory list it might be nice to be able to specify for each directory which file extensions to include or exclude.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on December 17, 2007, 12:36 AM
Kailef : welcome to the wonderful world of farr.  :Thmbsup:

Third, and this is just a question on mechanics - Does FARR create an index like Launchy and Key Launch.  (Key Launch can be found here: http://www.konradp.com/products/keylaunch/?underline_app=keylaunch but it's definitely not as good as FARR)
-Kailef (December 16, 2007, 04:22 PM)

1) There's the locate plugin, as jgpaiva pointed out. (and to use the plugin efficiently, you could assign a special hotkey to the plugin.)

2) You could also almost "simulate" an index by making  the "max. files to keep in launch history" value pretty high (in the "Interface" section of the "options" window) -- mine is now set at 990. But it's an index that's being created as you use farr, so to speak... It will remember all the files you searched or the programs you launched.


If you want to use the locate32 plugin, read there for a short explanation/tutorial :
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=11374.msg91582#msg91582


Edit : created another thread and moved the "tutorial" there: farr: users' tips and tricks (fun aliases, plug-in configuration, general usage) (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=11374.msg91581#msg91581)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Kailef on December 17, 2007, 02:12 AM
Thanks for the tip.

I'm not as worried about having an index, mind you, as I was with just finding out of FARR used one or not.  I sort of like that it doesn't use one, because I know I'm always dealing with live data.  Don't need to worry about refreshing the index if I install a new program or whatnot.

Bottom line is: I don't really FARR to index, as I use it for, well, running stuff.  *chuckle*  I really only point it at my desktop, my start menu, and one other folder that I keep some odds and ends in.  I use Windows Desktop Search if I actually want to find a document of some sort, since it indexes and searches the contents of files.  In my book, they are two entirely different concepts.  One is an in depth search, and one is a "get my app started as fast as possible without any fuss" program.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on December 17, 2007, 03:06 AM
I too like the fact that farr doesn't rely on an index.

you might eventually find that farr can be pretty nice to quickly open documents, templates, url, browse directories, copy paths, send emails, paste clips, create new tasks or calendar events, search the web, uninstall programs, etc.

My use of Desktop search programs is mostly for content... Or "serious research". I use Archivarius and X1.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: nitrix-ud on December 17, 2007, 04:33 AM
currently the only way to exclude extensions is to give them high negative scores as mentioned; i have been thinking though that in the search directory list it might be nice to be able to specify for each directory which file extensions to include or exclude.

that would be great...
it is one of the very few things i prefer in launchy over FARR

since it helps reducing the number of wrongly searched items

 :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: lanux128 on December 17, 2007, 05:55 PM
as Armando explained above with Farr incorporating the Locate plugin, you can have the best of both - live & indexed search! :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CWuestefeld on December 19, 2007, 01:40 PM
Problem report:
The dropdown windows listing the matches consistently comes up several pixels too short.
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

I have normal font size specified in my display settings.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on December 19, 2007, 04:05 PM
looks like it might be a skin issue..
one solution is to go to FARR options, and switch to "Plugins, Updates, Fonts" tab, and check the "Override default font settings" and put in custom values for result height, etc.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on December 19, 2007, 06:26 PM
Yes, I think that most of these problems are "skin related". Even farr's window placement: I had problems with farr not keeping exactly its given position on the desktop, but when I removed the skin, it behaved perfectly.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: rbeeger on December 20, 2007, 12:17 PM
looks like it might be a skin issue..
one solution is to go to FARR options, and switch to "Plugins, Updates, Fonts" tab, and check the "Override default font settings" and put in custom values for result height, etc.
-mouser (December 19, 2007, 04:05 PM)

Strange. I've never had such problems with slenderFARR myself. From the screenshot it looks like CWuestefeld is somehow using a bold font. I surmise that the same problem will appear with any other skin.

@CWuestefeld: Could you check whether this problems also appears with other skins or only with slenderFARR?

AFAIK VCL Skin SkinBuilder doesn't provide the possibility to specify the row height of a table.

Merry XMas,
  Robert
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CWuestefeld on December 20, 2007, 12:24 PM
@CWuestefeld: Could you check whether this problems also appears with other skins or only with slenderFARR?
-rbeeger (December 20, 2007, 12:17 PM)

Yes, this is happening in all skins. I changed my font settings from bold to regular, but that does not seem to affect the behavior at all.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: vixay on January 14, 2008, 09:43 PM
possible double shutdown issue with FARR + Locate.
I have both installed and running (the locate find window as well as FARR)
when shutting down, i have to shutdown twice! Usually after the first shutdown FARR and locate are left running in the system tray, while everything else has shutdown.
I have to manually exit FARR to be able to shutdown normally.
I don't know how else to diagnose this. What do ya think?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Obiwan2A on February 02, 2008, 02:56 PM
Problem report:
The dropdown windows listing the matches consistently comes up several pixels too short.
-CWuestefeld (December 19, 2007, 01:40 PM)

I can confirm this problem (at least with the SkinnyTunes skin) - but can't reproduce it right now since fixing it (see below). Specifying custom heights as suggested by Mouser did not help.

But the thing which DID help was unticking "Hide statusbar completely". After this (and a restart of FARR; don't know, if necessary) I could hide the statusbar again without the original problem reoccurring.

I'm waiting for it to show up again, so I can test, if other skins are concerned too. ;)

Oh, btw, GREAT work with FARR, Mouser! And I have to say, great work, once again. :) Thank you very much!
P.S. No bold font was involved on my side.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: cnewtonne on February 12, 2008, 09:47 PM
Hi all,
I have FARR configured to hide after launching, but it never does that. It stays open. Please see attached for my configs. What am I missing?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: lanux128 on February 12, 2008, 09:51 PM
someone was having a similar problem as mentioned in this thread (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=12210.0).
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: cnewtonne on February 12, 2008, 10:20 PM
I ended finding out the cause before I got to this thread. It was indeed the first plugin listed below that did it. Once I disabled it, things are working fine now.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: inter on March 13, 2008, 04:43 PM
Hi,

I have been a happy user of FARR, Google Desktop and Humanized Enso.
Enso has recently went Open Source.

While I think that Enso is a great product (as well as FARR) with an interesting view concept,
it may benefit with FARR experience

Maybe interested readers / developers can take a look at Enso to
"cross polinizate" ideas.

http://www.humanized.com/

I am sure that it can be of mutual benefit.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on June 09, 2008, 12:07 AM
New alpha version uploaded.  If i broke things, please let me know!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: lanux128 on June 09, 2008, 12:14 AM
hooray! :eusa_dance: there are several bug-fixes and added features that i was looking forward to. :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: JennyB on June 09, 2008, 12:52 AM
Hi,

I have been a happy user of FARR, Google Desktop and Humanized Enso.
Enso has recently went Open Source.

While I think that Enso is a great product (as well as FARR) with an interesting view concept,
it may benefit with FARR experience

Maybe interested readers / developers can take a look at Enso to
"cross polinizate" ideas.

http://www.humanized.com/

I am sure that it can be of mutual benefit.

-inter (March 13, 2008, 04:43 PM)

The Open source project is at http://code.google.com/p/enso/
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on June 09, 2008, 10:36 AM
New release 2.04.03 is up, mainly with bugfixes for some problems that nitrix and others found (see first post for list of changes).

Also with this release is an update of known plugins which can now be easily installed using the updater tool (right-click on FARR tray, choose update, switch to Installable Packages).  There are only a few plugins not listed (clock, google suggest, and farrtunes), because they don't have update files.  when authors get those prepared i will include them.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on June 09, 2008, 11:10 AM
Note:
For those of you who downloaded version 2.04.02 which was up from last night to early this morning, i accidentally included a couple of plugins that were auto-installed with the release (klipkeeper and todolist i think).  You can delete this if you dont want them by deleting the folders in the Plugins directory.  Sorry for any inconvenience.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on June 09, 2008, 08:23 PM
New minor update posted.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on June 09, 2008, 09:09 PM
Congratulations mouser.
I'm really happy to see you actively at work again on this marvelous app.
BTW the link to Version 2.05 seems to still link to Version 2.04.03. Is it just me? Thanks.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: s.newave on June 09, 2008, 09:43 PM
Great job with the new release!!! I think this html mode is a huge step forward. Donated :Thmbsup:

Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on June 13, 2008, 11:56 AM
Congratulations mouser.
I'm really happy to see you actively at work again on this marvelous app.
BTW the link to Version 2.05 seems to still link to Version 2.04.03. Is it just me? Thanks.

-Armando (June 09, 2008, 09:09 PM)

BTW : it was a problem with firefox.  Fixed by clearing cache, etc.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: kartal on June 18, 2008, 02:58 PM
I am yet having small fonts problem when I use internal viewer :(

Mouser is there wa way to tell if Farr is using 32bit or 64 bit version of Iex under 64bit xp? Would that be a problem?


Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: ptran on June 25, 2008, 09:54 PM
Just wanted to drop a note that I updated to 2.12.03 using DcUpdater and am once again impressed. I was already impressed by the responsiveness and care taken with the IE UserAgent fix and the toggle for the ShellExecute behavior. Then I saw the pretty new option tree. Just lovely! And as I lurk and read various posts, I know I'm barely scratching the surface of what FARR can do.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: kartal on June 25, 2008, 09:56 PM
the problem I have with locate plugin is that when I start search via plugin it hangs for a w hile because it is bringing first hits. Is there a way to disable such behaviour?

I use loc -lfd -p for full search

as Armando explained above with Farr incorporating the Locate plugin, you can have the best of both - live & indexed search! :Thmbsup:
-lanux128 (December 17, 2007, 05:55 PM)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: lanux128 on June 25, 2008, 11:02 PM
yeah, for the tree options! :Thmbsup:

@kartal: how do you invoke the plugin, via an alias?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: kartal on June 25, 2008, 11:05 PM
Lanux I am using shortcut and I have "loc -lfd -p" in the shortcut text field. What happens is that Farr searches for plugins for a while before letting me type.  Probably there should be a better way to invoke it.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: lanux128 on June 25, 2008, 11:16 PM
why not try using an alias, that way you can also assign different keywords to different options. just a thought.

[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

btw, Farr doesn't stall when i type 'loc' on my PC. assuming that your shortcut starts with 'loc'.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on June 25, 2008, 11:20 PM
I like it too. Great move.
yeah, for the tree options! :Thmbsup:

@kartal: how do you invoke the plugin, via an alias?
-lanux128 (June 25, 2008, 11:02 PM)

Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: kartal on June 25, 2008, 11:33 PM
no typing loc does not stall Farr. The problem is loc with options in this case "loc -lfd -p". This forces Farr to search plugins because it seems like Farr does not recognize "loc -lfd -p" as "loc" with search options.




why not try using an alias, that way you can also assign different keywords to different options. just a thought.
 (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=10505.msg118551#msg118551))
btw, Farr doesn't stall when i type 'loc' on my PC. assuming that your shortcut starts with 'loc'.
-lanux128 (June 25, 2008, 11:16 PM)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Lashiec on June 26, 2008, 05:22 AM
A redesigned options dialog, no skinning in the rest of the interface, faster saving of the settings file... those are the improvements! :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: s.newave on June 26, 2008, 04:52 PM
Love the new options dialog. Great job as always  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Codebyte on June 30, 2008, 12:25 AM
I must say, very impressive! im glad that i found this thing! Thanks for your hard work!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 02, 2008, 04:34 AM
New version 2.14.01 is now up (let's hope i don't regret putting this through private beta).

The most notable change is that you can now filter the built in lists like:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: jgpaiva on July 02, 2008, 04:42 AM
Am i the only one who as a hard time finding the farr private beta link?  :-[
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 02, 2008, 04:45 AM
just download from normal link in first post on thread.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: lanux128 on July 02, 2008, 05:17 AM
  • [BugFix] - But the remove-duplicates option back in Search Behavior tab -- used to be checked by default.
-mouser (October 22, 2007, 10:14 AM)
(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/1Small/41.gif)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: jgpaiva on July 02, 2008, 05:34 AM
just download from normal link in first post on thread.
-mouser (July 02, 2008, 04:45 AM)
Oh.. right  :-[
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: nitrix-ud on July 02, 2008, 09:34 AM
The most notable change is that you can now filter the built in lists like:

    * agroups - list of all known aliases
    * aplugins - list of all known plugins
    * historys - past search history
    * historyl - past launch history

wonderful, i was really waiting for that !
BUT  :P
i'm still waiting for more results for the historys command !!
20 is not enough ;)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: czb on July 02, 2008, 09:45 AM
does rplugins work for you??
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: kartal on July 02, 2008, 10:31 AM
Launching web links or commands from a list style alias via f keys or ctl+numbers is broken. v2.13.03  this has been the best version that things were working fine.

Just type "news" and try launch any of them.

Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: echo on July 02, 2008, 11:23 AM

2- Maybe that has been mentioned before : farr finds but cannot launch a file if it has a space as the last character of its name
(e.g. : E:\Doct\xLC-.Moreno,Jacob L.__Théâtre de la spontanéité__+tgsPat tgsPthée+ .doc)


3- There still seems to be a problem with certain characters and folder names. I'm not 100% sure, but it seems to be related to the "É" character (only?). i.e. : each time one my folder names uses the É character, farr won't display the subfolders and files it contains. (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=10505.msg82218#msg82218)) (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=10505.msg82218#msg82218))And here are 2 extra ideas for the future :
-Armando (October 22, 2007, 01:19 PM)


Seems that the space character inside URL links still haunts FARR.
Pity (although can be bypassed by copying tothe WIN+R command line)
 :huh:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 02, 2008, 12:01 PM
i changed rplugins to: goreload
to make it more consistent with the other "instant" strings like gohelp,goupdate, etc. and to emphasize the fact that it reloads both plugins and alias files.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 02, 2008, 01:18 PM
kartal wrote:
Launching web links or commands from a list style alias via f keys or ctl+numbers is broken. v2.13.03  this has been the best version that things were working fine.

can anyone confirm this -- it seems to be working fine here.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: kRs on July 02, 2008, 04:53 PM
Here seems to work well.. I tried with news and search, either with function keys or ctrl + number
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on July 02, 2008, 05:30 PM
seems to work here too. v.2.14.01
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: lanux128 on July 03, 2008, 03:55 AM
mouser, the 'remove missing item' option doesn't seem to work (see pic). any suggestions? i'm using 2.14.01

[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: d4ni on July 03, 2008, 06:16 AM
Please don't forget to add the ability to display file extensions on file browsing only :-[
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Christian.Eitner on July 03, 2008, 07:07 AM
For me, 2.14 reintroduces the problem that keyword aliases don't fire immediately, but bring up a list instead. I think this was once introduced with 2.10 and solved with 2.12.

Anyone else?

Cheers,

Christian
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 03, 2008, 11:04 AM
Christian, can you give me an example of what happens (preferably using a built in alias that i also have) so i can reproduce and test?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 04, 2008, 10:30 AM
Minor alpha update -- see first post for list of changes.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 04, 2008, 08:28 PM
very minor update with 2.16.01, mostly of interest to plugin writers using html mode.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: nitrix-ud on July 05, 2008, 04:34 AM
Hi mouser,

could you give us some exemples on how to use new FARR features ?

setfocus
setviewmode
pcommand
setsize

small bug : the wheel to scroll the htmlview from the search box does not work all the time... in particular it does not work with donationcoder.com ????
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 05, 2008, 10:22 AM
i've confirmed your report about wheel scrolling, i'll try to figure out what the problem is.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 05, 2008, 10:50 AM
keep in mind that these new calls are mainly intended to be used by plugins.
from the help file:


If you wanted to load a web page and then change focus to the html view (since by default it stays in the edit box now), you could make your alias result like this:
htmlviewurl www.google.com ;;; setfocus mainpanel


setviewmode would be used by a plugin that wants to keep the display in html mode for example without having to reload a webpage again and again.  it would be called by plugin like: farr->set_strvalue("launch","setviewmode html")
It's hard to think of a case where anything but a plugin would call this.


pcommand is intended to be used to call a function exposed in a plugin.  there are no plugins that use this yet, but a perfect example of where this would be useful is in the console (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=13053.0) plugin for farr.  this is a plugin meant to help out aliases and other plugins by running a command and capturing output for display.  right now the way it works is if you want console to run something you actually have to pretend the user has typed some long search string, which affects the display and looks wierd.  using the pcommand, an improved console plugin could support a few functions that you could call using the pcommand interface which would make for a much cleaner method of operation.  a plugin would call this via farr->set_strvalue("pcommand","string to pass to plugin").  A pcommand will always be sent first to the plugin currently controlling the view, and then to all others if the current plugin doesnt accept it.  If no plugins accept the command then farr will report an error, under the assumption that a helper plugin is not installed.


setsize is used to force the farr window within a size range.
so for example to force farr window to an exact height you could do: setsize 640,480,640,480
or to make sure its at LEAST 640x480 you could do: setsize 640,480,*,*
or to make sure it is no larger than 640x480 you could do: setsize *,*,640,480
or to make sure its at least 640 pixels wide: setize 640,*,*,*
EXAMPLE: htmlviewurl www.google.com ;;; setsize 640,480,640,480
OR: htmlviewurl $$1 ;;; setsize 640,480,640,480 ;;; setfocus mainpanel
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 05, 2008, 12:29 PM
small bug : the wheel to scroll the htmlview from the search box does not work all the time... in particular it does not work with donationcoder.com ????

try the new alpha v2.18.01 just uploaded
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: whippy on July 06, 2008, 07:09 AM
Hi Mouser , this is one of my most used programs and it does a great job thanks .
If it had a minimize button it would be even better , plus an easy way of choosing what directory to search . For instance I have 2 hard drives and the first is split into a few partitions . If on opening one could simply choose which ones to search it then would be real super.
Just food for thought  .
 thanks
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 06, 2008, 11:59 AM
If it had a minimize button it would be even better
the close button does a minimize, so that's already there unless you are saying something else?

plus an easy way of choosing what directory to search
you can do this using keyword modifiers.  go to your Search Folders tab in the options and add your 2 main directories.  for the first put "dir1" in the Optional Modifier Keywords section at the bottom of the search directory dialog.  In the second directory put "dir2" in the keywords.

now when you want to search dir1, type your search like
+dir1 my search terms (or my search terms +dir1)

and to search dir2 type:
+dir2 my search terms

Keyword modifiers let you easily use keywords to search differently.

You can even make different hotkeys to bring up FARR with the +dir1 or +dir2 already filled out so you could use different hotkeys depending on what you wanted to search.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Christian.Eitner on July 07, 2008, 09:01 AM
Christian, can you give me an example of what happens (preferably using a built in alias that i also have) so i can reproduce and test?
-mouser (July 03, 2008, 11:04 AM)

Hmmm, the easiest example is one you won't have: hibernate.

If I type it, FARR first displays 'Alias - from myaliases.alias' (there is only one result).

If I then select this one entry, FARR displays 'Alias hibernate'. Only the second invokation triggers the command.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 07, 2008, 12:56 PM
Christian, i think i might understand.  You ay:

If I type it, FARR first displays 'Alias - from myaliases.alias' (there is only one result).
If I then select this one entry, FARR displays 'Alias hibernate'. Only the second invokation triggers the command.

this behavior happens if at the first time you hit enter, the alias is not fully spelled out.  so the first time you hit enter it is autocompleting the alias.  so: hibern -> [ENTER] -> hibernate -> [ENTER] -> launch

personally i like this behavior BUT i can definitely see how people would prefer farr just launch it straight away and that that would make more sense perhaps.  i will either make an option to do it that way, OR make it work like that period.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: nitrix-ud on July 07, 2008, 01:14 PM
i will either make an option to do it that way, OR make it work like that period.

mouser, i suggest you never change FARR behavior, FARR is too complex now to change a thing without having collateral damages !

please make it an option  :D
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: s.newave on July 07, 2008, 08:04 PM
this one entry, FARR displays 'Alias hibernate'. Only the second invokation triggers the command.
-mouser (July 07, 2008, 12:56 PM)

this behavior happens if at the first time you hit enter, the alias is not fully spelled out.  so the first time you hit enter it is autocompleting the alias.  so: hibern -> [ENTER] -> hibernate -> [ENTER] -> launch

personally i like this behavior BUT i can definitely see how people would prefer farr just launch it straight away and that that would make more sense perhaps.  i will either make an option to do it that way, OR make it work like that period.

hmm, correct me if im wrong but i was under the impression that the functionality to automatically launch an alias with only a single result was added a few releases ago  :huh:. So for your example above hitting enter once would launch the alias which i though was great. However im all for making it an option.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Christian.Eitner on July 08, 2008, 07:35 AM
hmm, correct me if im wrong but i was under the impression that the functionality to automatically launch an alias with only a single result was added a few releases ago  :huh:

This was exactly my impression. But an option would be great.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: whippy on July 09, 2008, 12:44 AM
Thanks Mouser for the explanation......   What I find with the existing minimize  is that when you start a search and while it is going , should one click on anything else, it will like you say "minimize" to the tray . But when one double clicks it to maximize, the search has gone and one has to start over ok no great drama as it is still a great program
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 11, 2008, 07:58 AM
updated with new features mainly for plugin writers.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: yksyks on July 11, 2008, 11:33 AM
Maybe a bit off-topic, but is it only me noticing that there's a checkbox missing "Run Find and Run Robot Now?" at the end of upgrade? It happens on my Vista Business laptop, not on the desktop XP.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: kartal on July 11, 2008, 11:49 AM
mouser, what is the difference between the new and the old launch method? I do not see any mentioning in the help file.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 11, 2008, 12:14 PM
there's a checkbox missing "Run Find and Run Robot Now?" at the end of upgrade? It happens on my Vista Business laptop, not on the desktop XP.

because of Vista's security measures, the setup program runs as an Administrator automatically.  i don't offer the user the option of launching the program at the end of the installer because if i do, it runs as administrator instead of normal user account, and causes all kinds of havok.  there may be a better way for me to handle this case but the safest is to just remove that option when installing on vista.

mouser, what is the difference between the new and the old launch method?
technically the differences is that one uses ShellExec and one uses ShellExecEx and attempts to specify the class name for documents.  in PRACTICAL terms, you shouldn't leave the setting alone unless FARR has trouble launching files or documents for you.  I don't really understand why but for some people one method works and not the other.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: yksyks on July 11, 2008, 02:05 PM
Thanks for an explanation. Not a big issue, anyway.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: TucknDar on July 17, 2008, 05:59 AM
A minor issue: In the 'Plugins and updates' dialog in options, under the Program Update Checking section, it says "Last Successful Check: [somedate]"

Well, try going offline and click the "Check for Updates Now" button. What happens is that even before the check is made, the date of "Last Successful Check" is changed, even if being offline obviously means the check can't be successful. So technically, the date is referring to the last check, regardless of whether the check was successful or unsuccessful! ;)

Suggestion: Either change the caption to "Last check" and maybe information if it was successful or unsuccessful OR just don't change the date if the check is unsuccessful.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: kartal on July 18, 2008, 09:17 PM
With recent versions some weird issue has been introduced. I find myself needing to restart Farr multiple times a day. What happens is that Farr becomes unresponsive, but not in a cpu wasting way. When I bring Farr window, first no history is shown, second typing keywords or commands do not do anything. It feels like Farr window is just a window without any functionality. I am pretty sure that this has been a result of frequent use of html view based functions - aliases. Because I seem to get this more when I use html view function to quesry some websites like dictionaries.


Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: J-Mac on July 18, 2008, 10:34 PM
Whoa.  Much, much weirdness.  To the point where I just cranked up my old ObjectDock+ and started using it again, and I'm running without FARR for the first time in over a year.

I don't know what was done with the last few versions - or maybe the plugins - but I can no longer easily get FARR to find my programs - instead it is finding everything but.  Program I am trying to launch is usually down around 10 or 12 on trhe list.

Dccupdater has been going nuts lately all with FARR + plugin updates - several a day.  But I can't use it as is.  Think I might disable Dcupdater and install an older version.

Jim
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: J-Mac on July 18, 2008, 10:36 PM
BTW, where can I get the previous versions - that a problem with using the updater - you lose the older versions.

Jim
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 19, 2008, 10:42 AM
Just a minor update but fixes an annoying bug people have been complaining about (sorry it took so long to fix):
[BugFix] - Pressing enter when a partial alias with one result should launch the alias but was autocompleting it instead; fixed.

I hope to have another release this weekend with some new good features.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: J-Mac on July 19, 2008, 01:28 PM
I don't know if this is because FARR is being made into more of a search engine than a launcher, but some terms still bring up too much other junk than the application I want to launch.

E.g., when I type in "Music", trying to open Music Collector, I instead get about 30 URLs for various music stores/web sites.  I right-click and tell FARR to ignore these but they come right back - I have never even been to these web sites and have no desire to go there.

What is doing this?  If it is the plugins, how the heck do I lose them?  Dccupdater installed all the plugins that I have NO use for.

Jim
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 19, 2008, 01:33 PM
ok first of all, there is a music alias that may be causing this trouble for you.
go to the alias tab in options, select Core_Aliases\Core-Search.alias at top
and UNCHECK the music alias (or if you prefer, disable this entire alias group by unchecking checkbox at top right).

see if that helps.

if not, go to your search folders tab in options and disable all but start menu folders. see if that helps.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 19, 2008, 01:40 PM
One of the features i want to add very soon is an OPTION to say that FARR should not try to match aliases or plugins unless you start your search with a special character.  this could help avoid situations where people are having aliases accidentally trigger when they dont want them to.

so if the option was enabled for example then if you just type search words it will only match against files on your disk.
and to get an alias you would do like @music, at which point it would ONLY match against aliases.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: J-Mac on July 19, 2008, 01:43 PM
That did it.  Which of those aliases can I uncheck without disturbing the launching function?  Which is all I use anyway.

Thanks!

Jim
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 19, 2008, 01:45 PM
ALL.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 19, 2008, 01:45 PM
just uncheck the upper right checkbox to turn off all use of aliases in a given file.

or wait a few days for me to implement that feature im talking about.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: J-Mac on July 19, 2008, 01:50 PM
OK - Thanks mouser.

Jim
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: nitrix-ud on July 19, 2008, 06:05 PM
One of the features i want to add very soon is an OPTION to say that FARR should not try to match aliases or plugins unless you start your search with a special character.  this could help avoid situations where people are having aliases accidentally trigger when they dont want them to.

so if the option was enabled for example then if you just type search words it will only match against files on your disk.
and to get an alias you would do like @music, at which point it would ONLY match against aliases.

maybe you could do it by adding a new dosearch command :
"dosearchinsidealiasesandplugins"

that way one could specify how to trigger it
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Lashiec on July 21, 2008, 10:08 AM
mouser, you forgot to update the "Version" string in the .dcupdate file :)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 21, 2008, 10:12 AM
thanks for the heads up, will fix now.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: davidma22 on July 22, 2008, 08:25 AM
Not sure if that's what the update was today or not.. fixing the version info.. but in the help file it now says the latest version is 2.24.01 but has the same changelog as the update 2.23.01. Which isn't actually present in the help file.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: J-Mac on July 23, 2008, 02:42 PM
mouser,

I have never noticed this before so I think it is a new behavior. In XP Pro, when Dcupdater auto-installs a new version of FARR, FARR immediately restarts when the installation is complete.  On my notebook, running Vista Ultimate, it has always done the same as far as I can remember.  But after the installation of 2.24.01 it did not; I had to start FARR manually from the Start>All Programs menu.

Must be an issue in Vista because after the XP Pro installation via Dcupdater FARR restarted itself.

Jim
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 23, 2008, 02:51 PM
Must be an issue in Vista


yep. it's by design.  i dont have FARR start after installation on vista because installs on vista run as admin wheras the program itself shouldnt.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: J-Mac on July 23, 2008, 03:26 PM
Got it.  Maybe it was not restarting on the notebook all along and I just missed it before.

Thanks!

Jim
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 26, 2008, 08:29 PM
New version uploaded.

This adds a long requested feature, non-contiguous matching.
So searching for "ffox" will match "fire fox".

The scoring favors letters that start words and are in sequence.

This is enabled by default (see option on Search Behaviors tab), and can slow down searching a little bit if enabled; but it is very useful.

Hope you like it!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: lanux128 on July 26, 2008, 09:49 PM
ah! the long awaited 'fuzzy-logic' query. looking forward to test this out.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 27, 2008, 06:55 AM
Looking forward to hearing how people like it.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: cranioscopical on July 27, 2008, 08:08 AM
FWIW I like it.  Thanks for the effort!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: davidma22 on July 27, 2008, 08:11 AM
Hm. Only one problem I see with it so far.. can we make it so that if an alias matches it will ignore the fuzzy options? When I type the alias for my blog (nutang) it includes a whole long list of other files that have the same letters.

EDIT: Hm. I just checked the box for "stop search on exact alias match" which ends that problem.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: davidma22 on July 27, 2008, 09:31 AM
Mouser. Any chance we could get FARR to treat program names like aliases? You have the option to stop search on exact alias match.. can we get an option to do the same for exact program match?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 27, 2008, 09:35 AM
You have the option to stop search on exact alias match.. can we get an option to do the same for exact program match?

is it ever the case where an exact program name match isnt the top result? if not, why does it matter?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: J-Mac on July 27, 2008, 11:15 AM
You have the option to stop search on exact alias match.. can we get an option to do the same for exact program match?

is it ever the case where an exact program name match isnt the top result? if not, why does it matter?
-mouser (July 27, 2008, 09:35 AM)

Actually, that was exactly the case that I posted about in so much frustration above!!

I had never used FARR for anything except launching programs and when I typed in "Music" trying to launch Music Collector, there were like 20 or so music web sites shown -- but Music Collector was not showing!  I changed the option for number of results to something higher - 30 or 40, can't remember - and then Music Collector showed near the bottom of the list.

I unchecked the aliases as oyu suggested so that wouldn't happen.  Of course if I were wanting to use the alias searches that would stop it.

Thanks!

Jim

Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 27, 2008, 11:25 AM
ah yes this problem -- i have a better fix for that coming up.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: s.newave on July 27, 2008, 02:47 PM
WOW  :o

Great job with the non-contiguous searching. I know this is going to be one of those features where we dont how we ever managed without it  ;).
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 27, 2008, 02:52 PM
ive improved the noncontiguous scoring a bit too -- will be in next update.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on July 27, 2008, 03:13 PM
I don't know why, but when I type ffox, firefox doesn't show.

The shortcut name for FireFox is "Mozilla Firefox.lnk"

What am I doing wrong? Or is there a conflicting option that I've selected?

AFAICT, the only option affecting non-contiguous searching/scoring is the "score non-contiguous matches" option.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CatamountJack on July 27, 2008, 03:23 PM
Just out of curiosity - since you are in the midst of improving different matching methods - one of the few things that I miss about Launchy was that I could mis-type the name of a program (the right letters, but in the wrong order) and it would still match.

I'm guessing that most of the matching in FARR is by regex (?) so maybe this isn't possible to do.  Frequently, I will type "tuh" or instead of "thu" when I want to launch Thunderbird...  Launchy somehow would still make the match, but FARR won't.

Is this even possible?  Ultimately I should learn to type better, faster but I haven't been able to break my "keyboard dyslexia" yet.

Thanks!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 27, 2008, 03:38 PM
Big day for FARR releases..

You can now specify that certain search folders should only match against certain file extensions (you can use this along with modifier keywords to help you narrow search to certain folders and file types easily with the +keyword approach).

You can also now specify a prefix that will turn on or off matching against aliases - J-Mac this is for your problem.  Using this you can for example set a prefix of ! and now it will never match against aliases+plugins unless you start by typing ! and when you do that it will ONLY match against aliases+plugins.  Useful if you like to be in control of when it matches against aliases+plugins or not.

I've also attempted to improve dialog autosizing with skins.. i HOPE i haven't broken anything here but i may have -- let me know if FARR is autosizing wrong for you now and was working before.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on July 27, 2008, 04:52 PM
Nice work, mouser.

I still can't get the non-contiguous searching to work. I must be doing something stupid. But what?

I don't know why, but when I type ffox, firefox doesn't show.

The shortcut name for FireFox is "Mozilla Firefox.lnk"

What am I doing wrong? Or is there a conflicting option that I've selected?

AFAICT, the only option affecting non-contiguous searching/scoring is the "score non-contiguous matches" option.

-Armando (July 27, 2008, 03:13 PM)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 27, 2008, 05:02 PM
I still can't get the non-contiguous searching to work. I must be doing something stupid. But what?

i know what it is, you've got the "Check full path for search words even when not using \ characters" option checked.. i'm going to try to make it work with that, please hold for an update to follow.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on July 27, 2008, 05:06 PM
Mouser, that's it. Thanks.  :up:
I'll disable the ""Check full path..." option for now... just to have fun with the non-contiguous searching. It's great BTW, really great. I'm not too bad as a typist, but... I tend to make small mistakes...
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 27, 2008, 05:15 PM
updated (but not marked as update available with updater so you have to right-click and force an update).
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on July 27, 2008, 05:21 PM
that was fast...!
And it works well here.  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: s.newave on July 27, 2008, 09:08 PM
Whoa! Big weekend for FARR  :Thmbsup:.

Regarding the file extension restrictions it might also be useful to be able to specify which file extensions NOT to include. I found this useful when setting up Locate32 where for example there were only 1-2 filetypes i didnt want to include and include everything else. Maybe by using a "-" before the extension i.e -bak;-tmp. Def not a priority for me though.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 28, 2008, 02:58 AM
s.newave, that is already done, almost exactly as you say (except that you only specify one - at the very begining of the string).
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: anne_r on July 28, 2008, 08:38 AM
I have 2.27.01.  8) And my harddrive is full of FARR plugins. :)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 28, 2008, 01:24 PM
It looks like i need to turn off the non-contiguous (fuzzy) matching when an alias is typed, to cut down on garbage results.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: TucknDar on July 28, 2008, 01:29 PM
This adds a long requested feature, non-contiguous matching.
So searching for "ffox" will match "fire fox".

Hope you like it!
-mouser (July 26, 2008, 08:29 PM)
Absolutely! Very helpful feature.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on August 05, 2008, 07:08 PM
new version posted to update.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: math0ne on August 05, 2008, 09:14 PM
I love this program, my main launcher for a long time. 

However I think I'm too much of a minimalist to use it with the status bar being displayed all the time now.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: J-Mac on August 19, 2008, 11:14 PM
just uncheck the upper right checkbox to turn off all use of aliases in a given file.

or wait a few days for me to implement that feature im talking about.
-mouser (July 19, 2008, 01:45 PM)

Mouser,

You posted the quoted reply in response to my query about stopping all the other stuff showing up when I am just trying to launch programs with FARR.

So far the subsequent releases have only made it worse for what I am doing.  I haven't really used FARR as a pure search tool, but only as an application launcher.  Each release makes it harder and harder to use FARR as a launcher.

I guess I misunderstood your quote above. I thought that FARR was going to have a setting that would make it useful once again as a program launcher.  Yet at this point, using the latest version - even with ALL aliases turned off - I type in the first four or five letters of a program name and the first .lnk from the Start Menu is almost always no higher than 8th or 10th on the results list.  Instead I see junk that I in no way wish to open.  I realize that I am not checking the results list as carefully as I need to mainly because FARR used to present me with the program shortcut that I wish to launch, almost flawlessly.  Now it is much more likely that I am going to start the setup file to reinstall that program than to launch the program.

I realize that these extra search features are more popular among members here and so you are catering more to those members.  But if FARR is no longer going to be as useful as it once was as a pure program launcher, please just say so plainly.  That way I can give up on it and start using a real program launcher.

Thanks!

Jim
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on August 20, 2008, 12:08 AM
If you set the optional alias prefix to something other than blank, then farr should only match against stuff in your start menu, etc., and not against any aliases.

[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

If you are still seeing results you dont want.. go to your search folders and disable all but the 2 start menu items.

[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

And if you are STILL getting results you dont expect, send me a screenshot or something, because it should be behaving the way you want at this point.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on December 04, 2008, 12:55 AM
My FARR says no update, but I'm on version 2.33.01?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on December 09, 2008, 01:24 AM
Had to manually update FARR - updater not working... :(
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on December 10, 2008, 01:10 AM
HELLO - anybody out there - Earth to DC, Earth to DC..... ;D
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: J-Mac on December 10, 2008, 01:20 AM
HELLO - anybody out there - Earth to DC, Earth to DC..... ;D
-CleverCat (December 10, 2008, 01:10 AM)

I'm not sure what to say - it is definitely working here.

Jim
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on December 10, 2008, 06:03 AM
Worked perfectly for me too till recently!   :huh:

Not sure if I can trust the plug-in updates - better check a couple manually... ;D
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on December 23, 2008, 09:04 PM
New beta is posted -- i'm leaving it as beta for now as i'm not 100% confident my changes won't cause an issue or two.

Most of the changes are there to help plugin writers, but a few bugs have been corrected here and there.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: rbeeger on January 07, 2009, 08:36 AM
Hi Mouser,

I was glad to see
[BugFix] - Changing size of window was sometimes being forgotten on restart.
in the release notes. Unfortunately as of 2.43.01 this still isn't fixed. I like to have my FARR window semi-transparent and to take up nearly all the screen space when it comes up. That really looks cool, but it only looks cool when it is centered on the screen and has the same margin left/right top/bottom.
When I resize it into the right form it works for one or maybe two days and then the window gets smaller from the right and bottom and that looks ugly. I still use FARR because of it's funcionality, but it just looks ugly.

Please fix this or maybe provide some settings where one can specify that the window should be centered and what size or even better which margins to the sides of the screen it should have. The last one would in fact be much better as FARR would nicely adjust itself to changing screen resolutions.

Best regards,
  Robert
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: d4ni on January 07, 2009, 02:06 PM
Hey Mouser,

Just updated from 2.34.01 to 2.45.01, but now the FARR window always stays open after launching anything (just using the Enter key to launch the #1 result). Any thoughts? I have downgraded to 2.34.01 for now.

Running WinXP SP3 (only FarrMilk 0.4.4 as plugin right now, just reinstalled everything).
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: phitsc on January 07, 2009, 03:22 PM
Please fix this or maybe provide some settings where one can specify that the window should be centered and what size or even better which margins to the sides of the screen it should have. The last one would in fact be much better as FARR would nicely adjust itself to changing screen resolutions.
-rbeeger (January 07, 2009, 08:36 AM)
For centering you could use my FarrMultiMonitor (and center) plugin: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=13760.msg117762#msg117762

That wouldn't solve your other problem however...
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: phitsc on January 07, 2009, 03:23 PM
Just updated from 2.34.01 to 2.45.01, but now the FARR window always stays open after launching anything (just using the Enter key to launch the #1 result). Any thoughts? I have downgraded to 2.34.01 for now.
-d4ni (January 07, 2009, 02:06 PM)
How did you do that, downgrading? Can I download older versions of FARR somewhere?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mja on January 07, 2009, 04:48 PM
Hey Mouser,

Just updated from 2.34.01 to 2.45.01, but now the FARR window always stays open after launching anything (just using the Enter key to launch the #1 result). Any thoughts? I have downgraded to 2.34.01 for now.

Running WinXP SP3 (only FarrMilk 0.4.4 as plugin right now, just reinstalled everything).
-d4ni (January 07, 2009, 02:06 PM)

I have the same issue. I think I updated from 2.34.01 as well.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on January 07, 2009, 07:56 PM
can you see if its one of the plugins that might be causing the stay-open behavior?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: J-Mac on January 08, 2009, 12:09 AM
I updated on my desktop PC running XP Pro and my Vista Ultimate notebook and it seems to be OK on both.

Jim
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Lashiec on January 08, 2009, 01:46 PM
Try exiting FARR and running it again. I had the same problem, and this fixed it right away. Might help to know what caused it, though.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: d4ni on January 08, 2009, 02:17 PM
It works now. I installed 2.45.01 again over 2.34.01 and the problem never occurs again it seems. The only difference I know is I updated FarrMilk from 0.4.4 to 0.4.5, this might have been the cause.

This brings me to the following though; would it be possible to allow the user to customize what is being installed? For example, I never use the built-in aliases (installed to %farrdir%\AliasGroups\Installed) and I always change the contents of the %farrdir%\Scripts directory. When I update FARR it keeps restoring the default files (it does *keep* my changed ones, though). After every installation I have to manually delete these again. Not a big deal by any means; but if you could change the installer a bit to offer a 'normal installation' and a 'custom installation' it would be nice. The custom installation would include:

[ ] FindAndRunRobot core files (required) | would be checked and disabled
[ ] Plugin templates | or whatever you would call the existing *.dcupdate files for many plugins which are available in %farrdir%\Plugins
[ ] Standard aliases | the files in %farrdir%\AliasGroups\Installed
[ ] Special files and locations | the files in %farrdir%\Scripts\

Again, not a big deal but a nice touch imho. Everything about farr is so totally customizable, the installer just kinda lags behind on this.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: biox on January 14, 2009, 09:59 PM
thought you might want to know that FARR is running nicely on Win7 :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: floop on January 21, 2009, 06:31 AM
hope on Win7 it work great.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on January 21, 2009, 06:34 AM
From http://techreviews.in/find-and-run-robot-redefine-searching-and-launching-application-in-windows/:

When I was planning to write about FindandRun Robot. I was wondering why would someone need it on a Windows 7 or for that matter a Windows Vista machine. I totally understand it’s need on prior versions of Windows before Windows Vista. But after I installed and started using it I was in love with this utility. Also, it’s much more advanced than Vista or Windows 7 “Search programs and files” feature.

 8) :)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: cranioscopical on January 21, 2009, 08:10 AM
Also, it’s much more advanced than Vista or Windows 7 “Search programs and files” feature.
-mouser (January 21, 2009, 06:34 AM)

Mouser, why don't you stop dipsy-doodling about with FARR and get on with Windows8?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: J-Mac on January 21, 2009, 01:34 PM
I noticed that you revised/updated the online Help file. Thank you for that! The only issue I have with FARR is trying to do more beyond just launching applications and finding out that the documentation/instructions are kind of spread out all over the place! The online help was usually a few versions behind, the plugin instructions - which I just found BTW - are on a completely separate page by themselves, and other than that there are tips and other info all through the forum threads.

Being a little on the basic side (that pretty much means "slow on the uptake" I guess), if documentation isn't organized like in a standard user manual, I get lost pretty quickly.  :o

But I am getting there slowly, surely, intrepidly.  8)  And I promise to do my best to pull all the documentation together and create a PDF user manual by the time I "get" it all.  :)

Jim
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: wreckedcarzz on January 21, 2009, 07:07 PM
And I promise to do my best to pull all the documentation together and create a PDF user manual by the time I "get" it all.  :)
-J-Mac (January 21, 2009, 01:34 PM)

Send me a copy of that PDF, will ya? Except for opening stuff and going through directories, I don't use (lack of knowledge) any of FARR's other features.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on January 22, 2009, 01:04 AM
Also, it’s much more advanced than Vista or Windows 7 “Search programs and files” feature.
-mouser (January 21, 2009, 06:34 AM)

Mouser, why don't you stop dipsy-doodling about with FARR and get on with Windows8?
-cranioscopical (January 21, 2009, 08:10 AM)

If FARR expands much more, it will become an OS!  ;D
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: cranioscopical on January 22, 2009, 10:31 AM
And I promise to do my best to pull all the documentation together and create a PDF user manual by the time I "get" it all.
-J-Mac (January 21, 2009, 01:34 PM)

And you'll be doing most FARR users a service!
In a way, though, I'll miss the great FARR detective game a.k.a. hmmm what was that alias again?

Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: biox on January 22, 2009, 10:21 PM
From http://techreviews.in/find-and-run-robot-redefine-searching-and-launching-application-in-windows/:

When I was planning to write about FindandRun Robot. I was wondering why would someone need it on a Windows 7 or for that matter a Windows Vista machine. I totally understand it’s need on prior versions of Windows before Windows Vista. But after I installed and started using it I was in love with this utility. Also, it’s much more advanced than Vista or Windows 7 “Search programs and files” feature.

 8) :)
-mouser (January 21, 2009, 06:34 AM)

For a start, there's no quick launch in win7. You can get it back but it doesn't stick, for now, reboot and it's gone. (at least on my PC) :D

I know about the 'super bar' but I don't like having everything 'jumping into my face', it better stays hidden, this way I see it when I need it.

I don't really have the time to fool around with win7, so FARR  :up: is the tool that finds the stuff on my computer.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: biox on January 22, 2009, 10:33 PM
^Are those good enough reasons?  ;)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: rbeeger on February 01, 2009, 06:29 AM
Please fix this or maybe provide some settings where one can specify that the window should be centered and what size or even better which margins to the sides of the screen it should have. The last one would in fact be much better as FARR would nicely adjust itself to changing screen resolutions.
-rbeeger (January 07, 2009, 08:36 AM)
For centering you could use my FarrMultiMonitor (and center) plugin: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=13760.msg117762#msg117762

That wouldn't solve your other problem however...
-phitsc (January 07, 2009, 03:22 PM)

Thanks for the pointer to the multimonitor plugin. Since I don't use multiple monitors I ignored this plugin. It's centering feature makes FARR's shrinking behavior bearable and the shrinking even seems to stop at some point. Very strange.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on February 02, 2009, 04:39 AM
Ever since moving FARR away from C drive, the updater pops up in sys tray but does nothing! I have to keep manually checking? :huh:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: phitsc on February 06, 2009, 04:48 AM
Please fix this or maybe provide some settings where one can specify that the window should be centered and what size or even better which margins to the sides of the screen it should have. The last one would in fact be much better as FARR would nicely adjust itself to changing screen resolutions.
-rbeeger (January 07, 2009, 08:36 AM)
For centering you could use my FarrMultiMonitor (and center) plugin: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=13760.msg117762#msg117762

That wouldn't solve your other problem however...
-phitsc (January 07, 2009, 03:22 PM)

Thanks for the pointer to the multimonitor plugin. Since I don't use multiple monitors I ignored this plugin. It's centering feature makes FARR's shrinking behavior bearable and the shrinking even seems to stop at some point. Very strange.

-rbeeger (February 01, 2009, 06:29 AM)
I was thinking about extending the FARR Multimonitor plugin to allow resizing the FARR window to some percentage of the screen's width. It turned out not to be very easy though and I haven't got much time to experiment at the moment. Obviously, it would only be fighting the symptoms.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on February 25, 2009, 05:35 AM
I've uploaded a beta with a bunch of new features.. I've kept it as a separate download because it has a few changes that i want to make sure dont cause problems before a final release.  feedback is appreciated.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: lanux128 on February 25, 2009, 07:22 AM
cool! several new features to play with.. :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: ewemoa on February 26, 2009, 07:47 AM
Thanks for the new features :)

%APPDRIVE% seems to be working nicely here, hurray!

BTW, any examples for the following?

In an alias contents you can now specify #filecontents fullfilenamewithpathhere (can use %ALIASDIR%), to have the contents of the file dumped into the alias results when searching.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on February 26, 2009, 07:52 AM
nitrix requested and is excited about his use of this feature -- i've asked him to post about how he uses it  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: d4ni on February 26, 2009, 02:47 PM
Hmm, icon is still there in systemtray for me (I enabled to hide when minimized). It does blink when I dismiss FARR but is still present. Why not disable it all together, instead of just when minimized? Does that mean the icon would pop up every time I call FARR  :-\?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Jespar on March 27, 2009, 05:06 AM
I'm bringing up an issue again that I aired earlier in the topic of the Everything plugin concerning incorrectly displayed danish letters (and other special chars i reckon).

After a bit of thinking, I was wondering if it might be something in the FARR core?

For a description of the "showing characters from weird languages" problem, see:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16582.msg147302#msg147302

Sorry if this seems like nonsense, I'm a bit tired.

/Jes.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on April 19, 2009, 05:24 PM
Latest release:

Version 2.55.01 - April 19, 2009
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: J-Mac on April 19, 2009, 10:27 PM
Hi mouser.

When I saw that a new version was out I got a little lazy and instead of navigating to the download page I just right-clicked on the SSC tray icon and then clicked "Check for Updates". Nothing happened. I tried again - still nothing. I don't mean that it doesn't find an update; it just doesn't seem to do anything at all. Doesn't say there is an update, doesn't say there is not an update, doesn't open a browser page. Since DCupdater doesn't work with SSC I thought that maybe at least the individual Update Check in the program would help. Is this turned off by design for some reason? If so, why not just take that link out of there - frustrating to see it but not be able to use it.

Thanks!

Jim

Whoa!! Wrong forum! Sorry about that, but the post is still valid for Screenshot Captor! (I can't get any action from the Check for Updates link when there is an update available). Move this if possible, please.  :)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: J-Mac on April 19, 2009, 10:34 PM
BTW, now I am up to 11 FARR plugins that will not update. Any fix for this coming? Or are we supposed to look around for them?

Jim
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on April 20, 2009, 01:27 AM
I'm having same with plugins that will not update and no FARR yet....

Says my version 2.53.02 is up to date?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: nitrix-ud on April 21, 2009, 12:19 PM
Last version is amazing !

i'm having real fun with the new -launch command  :Thmbsup:
and the experimental delay search start seems to make FARR even more responsive

this is a real delight, keep up the good work mouser
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CatamountJack on April 21, 2009, 04:01 PM
Mouser, the new experimental delay is A-W-E-S-O-M-E!   :Thmbsup:  I'm running AVG Anti-Virus on my computer and (from what I've read), that can make FARR pretty slow... and that's really been my experience as well.  Often times I'll begin typing in something and there is a 4-5 second delay after typing the first letter before FARR will recognize anything else I type - but the new delay has fixed that - and it's WONDERFUL!!!

THANK YOU!!!!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on April 21, 2009, 04:05 PM
glad to hear it.. sorry it took so long for me to implement it.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on April 24, 2009, 04:19 AM
Some useful improvements:

Version 2.56.01 - April 24, 2009
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: TucknDar on April 24, 2009, 01:14 PM
I like the new features in 2.56.01! Will certainly be very useful!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: cranioscopical on April 24, 2009, 04:41 PM
You can now pass commandline arguments to any launched program by typing "++ any args here" at the end of your search string. [/li][/list]
-mouser (April 24, 2009, 04:19 AM)

Thank you kindly!

Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: rulfzid on April 24, 2009, 05:44 PM
The "#filecontents" command seems to have stopped working for me. Anybody else experiencing this?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on April 24, 2009, 06:34 PM
i was afraid of this.. i believe you've found a problem with the use of %aliasdir% variable the way things are done with my new change.
working on it now.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: kartal on April 24, 2009, 07:47 PM
Amazing and long waited addition. I will try it asap.

[Feature] - You can now pass commandline arguments to any launched program by typing "++ any args here" at the end of your search string. [/li][/list]
-mouser (April 24, 2009, 04:19 AM)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on April 24, 2009, 07:49 PM
New version up 2.56.02 -- just an attempt to fix the #filecontents and other %aliasdir% problems introduced by last version.
would appreciate hearing if it solves the problem for you rulfzid.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on April 25, 2009, 08:28 PM
anyone?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: kartal on April 25, 2009, 09:10 PM
Well, since the addition or argument passing Farr has become the master of the universe in my opinion.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: rulfzid on April 26, 2009, 08:44 PM
New version up 2.56.02 -- just an attempt to fix the #filecontents and other %aliasdir% problems introduced by last version.
would appreciate hearing if it solves the problem for you rulfzid.
-mouser (April 24, 2009, 07:49 PM)

Sorry for the delayed response - i've been working my ass off at, well, work.  :(

With the new version, #filecontents and %ALIASDIR% seem to work perfectly.  :)

Thanks for the super-quick fix.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CatamountJack on April 27, 2009, 06:24 PM
Mouser, did something change in your very last version with the new delayed search feature and/or the "stop search on exact regex match"?  (I'm not sure which might be causing the problem)

I have an alias called "disable", which had a regex of ^disable (.*)? and it used to work well - I would type "dis", hit tab to complete and life was good (especially since the delayed search was implemented).  Suddenly, now, as soon as I type "dis" the program starts searching (C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu specifically, so it says in the status bar) for 3 or 4 seconds before it matches the alias.  I changed the regex to ^(dis|disable) (.*)? to see if it would make any difference, but alas, no.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

PS - is there any place I can download an old version of the program to test against?  I was going to double-check what I said against 2.55.01 to see if something really changed with the version or if something is screwy with my system.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: phitsc on April 28, 2009, 02:35 AM
PS - is there any place I can download an old version of the program to test against?  I was going to double-check what I said against 2.55.01 to see if something really changed with the version or if something is screwy with my system.
-CatamountJack (April 27, 2009, 06:24 PM)

I agree this would be useful and I was asking for it as well in the past.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Jesper Hertel on April 28, 2009, 11:39 AM
  • [Feature] - Added delayed search initiation option.
-mouser (October 22, 2007, 10:14 AM)
This is sooo cool! :Thmbsup: I have really been missing this, because FARR couldn't follow my typing speed and was all too busy searching long before I was finished typing what I was looking for, and when I was finished, it was often still searching for something that was not the right thing. Very often a couple of seconds (it feels like 1 to 3 seconds) was spent "Searching for plugins" - I don't know if this has been fixed too? I don't want it to search for (new?) plugins when I just want to search for something on Google...
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: surftwo on April 28, 2009, 03:58 PM
NICE PROGRAM BUT IT WONT OPEN A JPEG IMAGE.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on April 28, 2009, 04:02 PM
NICE PROGRAM BUT IT WONT OPEN A JPEG IMAGE.


sounds like the old "space at end of file name" problem: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=11987.0
i'll try to put in a fix for this.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: owilsky on May 05, 2009, 03:09 AM
I wanted to update to 2.56.01 this morning. Now my about box shows 2.57.01. Did I miss anything?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: owilsky on May 05, 2009, 03:13 AM
I have a problem with KlipKeeper: When I type kk and then press cursor down, FARR crashes everytime.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on May 15, 2009, 02:40 AM
I get this message every boot up since latest version.... :huh:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on May 15, 2009, 07:28 AM
What version of FARR is is CC?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on May 15, 2009, 08:17 AM
2.56.02 mouser.

I seem to have a version that isn't on site!  ;D
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on May 15, 2009, 08:19 AM
All my 'get versions' fail on updater?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on May 15, 2009, 09:28 AM
Exit farr and delete that file "D:\FindAndRunRobot\Plugins\FarrFox\advoptions.cfg.tmp" and "D:\FindAndRunRobot\Plugins\FarrFox\advoptions.cfg" and restart.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: lanux128 on May 15, 2009, 10:22 AM
I get this message every boot up since latest version....
-CleverCat (May 15, 2009, 02:40 AM)

curiously enough i had the same error in Windows 7 RC but it went away after i installed Firefox.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on May 15, 2009, 10:32 AM
CC do you also not have firefox installed?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: lanux128 on May 15, 2009, 11:08 AM
i noticed that in another thread, CC reported that KlipKeeper is also showing some error msg on startup. maybe this is a case of Farr's settings being corrupted due to improper shutdown e.g. hard reboot or power failure..
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on May 16, 2009, 12:22 AM
released:

Version 2.59.01 - May 15, 2009
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: kartal on May 16, 2009, 12:34 AM
mouser, it looks like console output is never cleared out. My console memo keeps getting longer and longer everytime I invoke an alias via appcapappendmemo

edit: I was using  the alias the wrong way. It works fine now after your example in other post.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: lanux128 on May 16, 2009, 12:45 AM
Version 2.59.01 - May 15, 2009
  • [MinorFeature] - Added $$h1 available in aliases like $$u1, for useful encoding for curl commandline.
  • [BugFix] - Folder icons were not being displayed properly since v. 2.57.01.
-mouser (May 16, 2009, 12:22 AM)

thanks mouser for these two.. :)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on May 16, 2009, 01:19 AM
CC do you also not have firefox installed?
-mouser (May 15, 2009, 10:32 AM)

I do and since reinstalling KlipKeeper to fix bug I haven't had the FarrFox error and the FarrFox\advoptions.cfg.tmp file is gone  :huh:

We'll see what happens when I update FARR... ;) BTW is it too soon for updater to see new version?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on May 19, 2009, 03:43 PM
new release:
Version 2.60.01 - May 19, 2009
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on May 19, 2009, 10:14 PM
hopefully i didn't break anything in this update -- i heard a report from dc member JoTo that somehow since version 2.56.02 the czb plugin pack plugins (jscalc in particular) are crashing his farr, so i'm looking into that.

the new appcap stuff (especially appcappappendmemo) should make it easier to run commandline tools and see their output in FARR window.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Nod5 on May 20, 2009, 01:21 AM
with v2.60.01 I now get no icon at all when disabling SlideNum, regardless if I have large or small icon mode on.
(I'm posting this to the other thread too -- just needed a post here to get notified when the thread is updated in the future  :))
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on May 20, 2009, 01:24 AM
hahah you know what the sad thing is -- that was on purpose.. somehow i got it into my head that i was supposed to remove both the big number and the icon.. damn it sometimes i don't know how you guys put up with me  :(
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on May 20, 2009, 01:34 AM
 :-* What would we do without you!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on May 20, 2009, 02:18 AM
v2.60.02 is on the server as a silent update (i.e. wont show up as an update on the updater) and should fix the slide number issue.
so just right click on farr and say to update even though same version, and it should fix it.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: lanux128 on May 20, 2009, 09:43 AM
going to download v2.60.02, hopefully Nod5's problems will be fixed with this release. :)

also mouser, a working example on the usage of appcap and appcappappendmemo would be nice.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Nod5 on May 20, 2009, 11:13 AM
hahah you know what the sad thing is -- that was on purpose.. somehow i got it into my head that i was supposed to remove both the big number and the icon
-mouser (May 20, 2009, 01:24 AM)
;D

Problem solved in v2.60.02! I appreciate the great work you do on FARR.  :Thmbsup:
I'm also interested to hear more about the appcapp commands. Can they be used to integrate FARR and Everything easier for example?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: djbobo on May 20, 2009, 02:12 PM
I believe not, as for what I know it only works versus console commands/programs (cmd, ping, ipconfig and etc.)

Mouser, if accidentally I type
[Select]
ping google.com -t
FARR won't search any further untill I kill the ping process.
Killing the process when hitting ESC, would be an option here, wouldn't you think?

Besides that, great update.  :up:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on May 20, 2009, 02:33 PM
can you explain how you are launching that command?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Nod5 on May 20, 2009, 03:51 PM
I found an appcap example here (must have missed that thread earlier):
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=18325.msg164396#msg164396
here's a sample alias:
pingtest | tempmemofont fixed;;;showmemo Output of Ping:;;;appcapappendmemo c:\windows\system32\ping.exe donationcoder.com
-mouser (May 16, 2009, 12:33 AM)

Here's an example alias that uses es.exe to command-line search Everything and output 10 results in memomode
[Select]
1000>>>zzz2>->test | showmemo Everything search: $$1;;;appcapappendmemo C:\Program\Everything\es.exe -n 10 "$$1">+>zzz (.*)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: lanux128 on May 20, 2009, 08:27 PM
is there a way to run appcap commands from Farr's address bar without creating an alias? it'd be faster that way if i want to check the output from a console app.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on May 20, 2009, 08:35 PM
you can use the included core run alias to do anything you would do from an alias, but perhaps it would be useful to include one just for appcap.
so for example you can do currently:

run showmemo Pinging;;;appcapappendmemo c:\windows\system32\ping.exe www.donationcoder.com

but perhaps a new alias would be better like:

runcap (.*)
which did
showmemo Running $$1;;;appcapappendmemo $$1

Here is is for you to import, but i think ill add it to defaults since it seems pretty useful:
1000>>>runcap>->Run and Capture $$1|showmemo Running $$1;;;appcapappendmemo $$1>+>runcap (.*)

with that alias you could just type: runcap ping.exe donationcoder.com

which would have same effect of typing run ping.exe donationcoder.com *except* that with runcap the output is shown in farr window.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CatamountJack on May 20, 2009, 09:08 PM
Mouser, I've got a couple of TrueCrypt volumes listed in my Search Folders list - drives  M:\ and N:\.  In the last couple of versions (I finally just figured it out today though) I keep losing them...  they all turn into C:\.  Didn't used to happen - but it seems to be an issue now every time I turn off my computer (or maybe just unmount the volumes?  I haven't explored further).

Becoming a real pain to have to re-configure my search folders every time I start my computer...  I'm hoping it'd be an easy fix?

Let me know if you need any more specific information about it.  I'm running 2.60.01 on WinXP SP3 and I think it was happening at least in the version immediately prior to this as well.

Thanks!

UPDATE:  Just figured it out.  Happens not when the volumes become unmounted, but on restart when FARR launches before the TrueCrypt volumes are mounted the first time.  So apparently when FARR launches it looks for the drive letters in Search Folders and if doesn't find them it resets them back to C:\.  Hope that helps.  Thanks again!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on May 20, 2009, 09:13 PM
i know why it's happening -- i added some more advanced folder drive auto-fixing suitable for people with removable drives.
what i can do is add an option to disable this.

question:
in the search directory entries, do you actually have them listed as "N:\"
or is it more like "N:\Program Files\" , i.e. specifies a directory which also exists on C:.

the reason i ask is that i thought i coded it so that it never reassigned just a plain drive letter.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: djbobo on May 21, 2009, 01:07 AM
can you explain how you are launching that command?
-mouser (May 20, 2009, 02:33 PM)

Using :
[Select]
Run console command: $$1 $$2 | showmemo Output:;;; appcapappendmemo $$1 $$2
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on May 21, 2009, 01:12 AM
on my farr if i run that command, i can do exactly as you wanted -- hit escape to terminate it and then start my new search.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: djbobo on May 21, 2009, 01:24 AM
It's working on my work PC, it might didn't work for me because I haven't updated yet to the latest release at my home PC.
Speaking of which, is there way to update a portable version of FARR using DcUpdater, w/o DcUpdater  installing FARR?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Nod5 on May 21, 2009, 05:16 AM
Is there some way to display the command-line output via showmemo without first putting any other memo text?

If I use the showmemo command without any text then FARR autohides when I run the command:
showmemo;;; appcapappendmemo ______(command line stuff)______
If I add some text to show then FARR shows that and then appends the output from the later command-line action:
showmemo some text here;;; appcapappendmemo ______(command line stuff)______

Another thing: in cases where the command-line output only contains linebreak separated file/folder paths it would be really cool if there was a version of appcapp that automatically displayed the results as a regular FARR results list ("appcapappendlist" would be a good name). Does that sound like a good command to add to FARR? It could potentially bypass the need for plugins in many cases. An alias that operates on some external tools with clever command-line arguments and other FARR commands might be enough.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on May 21, 2009, 06:58 AM
in cases where the command-line output only contains linebreak separated file/folder paths it would be really cool if there was a version of appcapp that automatically displayed the results as a regular FARR results list..
yes definitely i was thinking the same thing.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CatamountJack on May 21, 2009, 08:31 AM
question:
in the search directory entries, do you actually have them listed as "N:\"
or is it more like "N:\Program Files\" , i.e. specifies a directory which also exists on C:.

the reason i ask is that i thought i coded it so that it never reassigned just a plain drive letter.
-mouser (May 20, 2009, 09:13 PM)

I only have them listed as M:\ and N:\ - just the root directories/drive letters themselves.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on May 21, 2009, 08:39 AM
ok well then it sounds like farr is being naughty -- i'll try to fix tonight.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: djbobo on May 21, 2009, 11:02 AM
It's working on my work PC, it might didn't work for me because I haven't updated yet to the latest release at my home PC.
Speaking of which, is there way to update a portable version of FARR using DcUpdater, w/o DcUpdater  installing FARR?
-djbobo (May 21, 2009, 01:24 AM)

mouser, what about that?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on May 21, 2009, 11:07 AM
you can use updater to check for updates, and go to dcupdater options to tell it not to run the installer but just download it for you.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: djbobo on May 26, 2009, 03:25 AM
mouser,
Is it possible to use keypad keys to launch only in conjunction w/ alt, ctrl and alt+ctrl?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CatamountJack on May 26, 2009, 07:34 AM
Mouser - thanks for the fix on the changing root drive letters in search folders!  Much better now :-)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on May 27, 2009, 01:19 AM
Yikes - another update! You've been burning the midnight oil mouser... ;)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on May 27, 2009, 03:31 AM
When I check for update it says I have 2.60.02 and I need to update to 2.61.01 - but I have 2.61.02 installed? :o
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on May 27, 2009, 03:33 AM
you cant possible have 2.61.02 installed.. it doesn't exist.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: tomos on May 27, 2009, 03:47 AM
you cant possible have 2.61.02 installed.. it doesn't exist.
-mouser (May 27, 2009, 03:33 AM)

CleverCat must have connections :D
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on May 27, 2009, 03:48 AM
Wanna bet!  ;D
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on May 27, 2009, 03:50 AM
The FARR Angel has visited... :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on May 27, 2009, 03:57 AM
 :o
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on May 27, 2009, 04:02 AM
Exactly - and my email is my old one and my surname is wrong on the window!

Yikes...
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: J-Mac on May 27, 2009, 12:45 PM
Wow! I knew that FARR did a lot that is beyond me...... But this??

A little scary!

Jim

FARR out, man...   ;)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mohaqeq on May 27, 2009, 01:37 PM
Hi,

Just wanted to point out my confusion about the FARR upgrades & their dates.   I think it was last week that for the 1st time I downloaded & installed FARR.  The "About" screen showed that to be version 2.61.02.   Today I downloaded what's supposed to be the latest version, dated 5/25/09, and now the "About" screen shows it as 2.61.01.  While downloading the software last week, did I accidentally step through a portal into the future and retrieved a version not yet hatched by the Mouser?  If so, will I be able during my next connection to a donationcoder server to step even deeper into a future where Find-And-Run Robots will have taken over the entire global network, finding and running down the last pockets of human resistance?  And which of you will then join the crusade to stop the Mouser before his creation unwittingly ushers in the Great Quaternary Cenozoic global extinction?

PS I just noticed that this version issue was pointed out before, but I'm too lazy to rewrite the above ramblings.  So what's the resolution?  I also noticed that on the donationcoder main page the latest versions are not correctly shown; FARR is shown as 5/19.
BTW, thanks a lot for the fine program; nice work.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on May 27, 2009, 01:59 PM
i think what must have happened is i accidentally labeled 2.60.02 as 2.61.02.
so then the version after that was 2.61.01, leading to all the confusion.
ill release 2.63.01 this week and that will clear up the problem.

v2.61.01 is most recent version.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mohaqeq on May 27, 2009, 02:06 PM
Thanks.  If we use DcUpdater, will it correctly identify the latest version even if mislabeled?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on May 27, 2009, 02:08 PM
thats a good question -- try the updater, see what it says.
if it says you have a newer version installed, right click and say to install anyway.
if it lists your version correctly as 1.60.02 2.60.02 then it will offer to download update and confirm my theory about the mislabeling.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on May 28, 2009, 01:37 AM
thats a good question -- try the updater, see what it says.
if it says you have a newer version installed, right click and say to install anyway.
if it lists your version correctly as 1.60.02 then it will offer to download update and confirm my theory about the mislabeling.
-mouser (May 27, 2009, 02:08 PM)

1.60.02?   ;D ;D
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on May 28, 2009, 01:46 AM
damn it.. too many programs.. too many versions..
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on May 28, 2009, 01:47 AM
 :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on May 28, 2009, 01:50 AM
damn it.. too many programs.. too many versions..
-mouser (May 28, 2009, 01:46 AM)

Well FARR is way ahead of it's time.. ;)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on May 28, 2009, 02:03 AM
Time Traveler Licenses for DonationCoder members:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=1413.0
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on May 28, 2009, 02:12 AM
Yep - got my License while voyaging with the Star Trek team! :Thmbsup:

Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Grorgy on May 28, 2009, 03:21 AM
 ;D like the licences mouser, they are fun
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on May 28, 2009, 06:02 AM
He was up in the wee hours doing that too!  :-*
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on June 21, 2009, 09:53 PM
This release has some new plugin (minor) features /bugfixes that are used by hamradio's new and excellent hamNotes (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=18850.0) plugin.

Version 2.66.01 - June 21st, 2009
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: pmoore on June 22, 2009, 03:53 AM
runcap (.*)
which did
showmemo Running $$1;;;appcapappendmemo $$1
-mouser (May 20, 2009, 08:35 PM)

I had one like that, but I prefer to set the window font to fixed, because some of the programs I use regularly use spaces to create a tabular layout. For example, gcal:
[Select]
      June 2009
 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
     1  2  3  4  5  6
  7  8  9 10 11 12 13
 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
 21<22>23 24 25 26 27
 28 29 30           
                     

Here's what I use:
[Select]
Run $$1 | tempmemofont fixed ;;; appcap $$1 ;;; showmemo %lastappcap%

Paul.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on June 22, 2009, 04:10 AM
thanks for reminding me about that paul, i should have set fixed font in the alias; you should try the appcapappendmemo method, its nicer for commandline tools that can take a bit of time to produce their output.  The new runcap alias will be this in the future:

runcap $$1 | tempmemofont fixed ;;; showmemo Running $$1;;;appcapappendmemo $$1 /ICON=icons\farr\core-sysutils_run.ico
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: pmoore on June 22, 2009, 10:34 AM
thanks for reminding me about that paul, i should have set fixed font in the alias; you should try the appcapappendmemo method, its nicer for commandline tools that can take a bit of time to produce their output.  The new runcap alias will be this in the future:

runcap $$1 | tempmemofont fixed ;;; showmemo Running $$1;;;appcapappendmemo $$1 /ICON=icons\farr\core-sysutils_run.ico

-mouser (June 22, 2009, 04:10 AM)
Thanks for the reminder. I stopped using appcapappendmemo because of the "append" - the output kept growing. I should have thought of addinga showmemo at the start like you did :-)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Nod5 on June 22, 2009, 11:10 AM
"dolaunch" works great!  :up:

I now use it like this: for some very often used apps I've made aliases consisting of one letter three times in a row. example: the regex alias "^fff$" triggers: dolaunch C:\path\firefox.exe . Such letter aliases are speedy to type and there's slight chance of launching the alias by mistake. I'm now also thinking of making a "zzz" alias to immediately shut down the computer :D
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: dandersahn on June 23, 2009, 10:19 AM
Just upgraded and I noticed that the FARR window background flashes black before it displays the content (which has a white background) for the first time.  It's a trivial issue, but is visually distracting and takes away from the very polished feel of the program.  v2.61 didn't do it from what I remember.  Is there anywhere I can download v2.61 to confirm?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on June 23, 2009, 10:29 AM
I'd appreciate that dandersahn -- let me know what you find ([email protected]); prior version is at:
https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/downloads/old/FindAndRunRobotSetup.exe

If you could tell me if it's doing that when displaying normal results or if its only when showing the memo or html windows.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: dandersahn on June 23, 2009, 11:27 AM
Thanks.  v2.61 doesn't have the problem.  

In v2.66.01, it happens when window is first displayed immediately before the last 9 results are displayed.  So, to answer your question, it's when displaying normal results.  It looks like the sequence of events is, 1-window is displayed, 2-window resizes (at which point the content area is black), 3-content area is rendered (with text, icons, and white background).  It happens very quickly, but the black to white change produces a noticeable "flickering" effect.  Hopefully that is helpful. 

One additional note.  After the initial results are displayed, it doesn't happen as the results change.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on June 23, 2009, 11:30 AM
ok, ill try to figure out what it might be.
can i ask: what skin are you using and what operating system?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: dandersahn on June 23, 2009, 11:36 AM
Sure.  I'm not using a skin.  I tried with a few different skins, just to see if it made a difference and it did not.  I'm using Windows 7 x64 RC :D
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on June 23, 2009, 11:50 AM
the face that it doesnt happen on 2.61.01 but reliably happens with 2.66 means it must be something simple to fix.
if you don't mind i'd like to send you 2.63.01 if i can find it, to further help me narrow down when the change was made that started this problem.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on June 23, 2009, 11:59 AM
would it be possible to ask you to try, if you don't mind, v2.66.01 with a completely clean farr install with no plugins and the default configuration settings..

(with win7 the findandrunrobot config ini file will be in your documents subdirectory).

i just want to make sure we are comparing apples to apples here, and that the problem happens with a clean out of the box farr, when the only thing that changes between what has the bug and doesnt is the 2.66 exe vs. the 2.61 exe.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Nod5 on June 23, 2009, 01:22 PM
I also have the black flash in 2.66.01 though I'm not sure if that's a new thing or not. I am using a slenderFARR skin mod and transparency.

See also this post (and #795 further below it) from 2007:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=6624.msg70341#msg70341
I don't remember if the issue was solved back then. Either it was or I just blocked it out. If the latter, then I blame dandersahn for bringing it to my attention again  :mad: :P
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Nod5 on June 23, 2009, 01:33 PM
This request is a repost from a while back I think but I can't find the other post I made.

The FARR statusbar displays text on startup even when the GUI was just opened and no text has been entered:
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
Maybe add some way to disable the "Found _ results in _ seconds." message (or replace it with " ")? Or more radically, to disable all statusbar text.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on June 23, 2009, 01:50 PM
Nod5, what OS are you using? can you do the test for me and back up your FindAndRunRobot settings file .ini and delete it and remove any plugins and see if the problem persists?

I don't get the black screen so i need some help figuring out what triggers this.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: dandersahn on June 23, 2009, 01:55 PM
Mouser, to answer your previous question, I did try v2.66 with a clean install + default settings and had the same issue. 
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: dandersahn on June 23, 2009, 02:03 PM
I just reinstalled and tried some of the setting that Nod5 mentioned in the earlier posts.  Enabling "alpha fade into view" or disabling "auto-shrink" eliminates the issue.  The transparency setting has no effect on the issue for me.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on June 23, 2009, 02:06 PM
that's really interesting.. looking back at the old post nod5 points to, i find that i can get the black effect IFF i configure some non-0 transparency for FARR.. very strange.. ok well it looks like we have some clues.. and most importantly i can reproduce at least something like what is being described.

dan, not to beat a dead horse, but can i just confirm from you that v2.61 does not have this problem, even with EXACT SAME settings, plugins, etc. (i.e. if you just replace the exe)? the only reason i really want to confirm this is that otherwise i'll spend a day chasing up the wrong tree.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: dandersahn on June 23, 2009, 02:15 PM
Yep.  Using the exact same settings I see the problem in 2.66 but not in 2.61. 

What's interesting is that, as you noted, with some degree of transparency enabled, the same "black box" appears every time the window resizes.  With no transparency it only happens when the window is initially resized the first time.  I have transparency turned off and fade into view turned on now, so I don't get the black box any longer.


Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on June 23, 2009, 02:25 PM
ok i think i have enough to solve this -- though i may try to get you v 2.63 to help me narrow down my focus.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on June 24, 2009, 03:20 AM
ok i think i might have found it.. stay tuned and thanks for all the help dan+nod.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on June 26, 2009, 07:20 PM
minor update:

Version 2.67.01 - June 26th, 2009
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on June 28, 2009, 10:21 PM
Version 2.68.01 - June 29th, 2009
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: tomos on July 08, 2009, 05:20 AM
Version 2.68.01 - June 29th, 2009
-mouser (June 28, 2009, 10:21 PM)

this one seems to have zapped my settings (not that I had messed with the settings that much) & history
e.g. no longer searches my portable software folder
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: tomos on July 08, 2009, 06:35 AM
Version 2.68.01 - June 29th, 2009
-mouser (June 28, 2009, 10:21 PM)
this one seems to have zapped my settings (not that I had messed with the settings that much) & history
e.g. no longer searches my portable software folder
-tomos (July 08, 2009, 05:20 AM)

I guess you could call this user error:

I was typing in some other app when the Install dialog box opened in front with install location so default location (text) was replaced by whatever I was typing. I browsed to install folder C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\
but it installed into folder
C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\FindAndRunRobot
which is then correct I guess . .

Should I simply delete that folder (the extra install) or actually uninstall it (dont want to lose the settings of the 'real' install) ?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 08, 2009, 10:04 AM
you can just delete, no need to uninstall.
but you do need to run the installer and point it to the real place afterwards.

i.e. it's important to have the latest install be to the right location, and it's going to default to the previous location when you run the next install, so pay attention to the location that is set as default when you run the next install.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 08, 2009, 10:06 AM
minor update:

Version 2.70.01 - July 7th, 2009
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Lashiec on July 11, 2009, 11:00 AM
[BugFix] Attempt to fix icon display and launching for some .LNK shortcuts (especially x64 programs on x64 OS); let's see if this breaks anything for other users.
-mouser (July 08, 2009, 10:06 AM)

It did :(. All my customized links for Internet-facing applications are showing a generic executable icon, and other icons are not being shown correctly (Steam, for example)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 11, 2009, 11:08 AM
lashiec, can you clarify -- did it work in older versions of FARR, but just not this new one? are you on an x64 OS? Which OS?
and can you clarify what icons are showing incorrectly? any clues about which ones?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Lashiec on July 11, 2009, 11:36 AM
Yup, it used to work on older versions (AFAIK in all I ever had). I'm on Windows XP SP3, 32-bit. Yeah, the ones showing up incorrectly are the ones who use DropMyRights to reduce the rights of the launched applications, like so:

"C:\Archivos de programa\DropMyRights\DropMyRights.exe" "C:\Archivos de programa\Opera\Opera.exe"

Also, the Steam icon shows an unknown icon (looks to be part of Windows standard icons). This is one of these strange shortcuts which does not specify a program to be launched, the "Target" field is greyed out, and simply reads "Steam". Plus, the Half-Life shortcut shows the Steam icon, instead of the usual encircled red lambda.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 11, 2009, 11:47 AM
ok i gotcha.. i will fix this weekend, shouldn't be a problem.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: d4ni on July 12, 2009, 05:03 AM
Mouser what did you do!? Apparently you tried to fix some icon display issues but now you messed up some for me :( They have always worked before.

~edit: oh and I just noticed the statusbar reports "Found n+1 results in x seconds" for n items -- in the attached screenshot it reports finding 2 results but it just found one. This does not always happen but usually it does, quite strange. I don't have any other file named 'standby' or something in my search folders if I recall correctly.

I attached the .ico file (rename it from .txt as it's not allowed to post .ico files... lol)
I attached a .zip file containing all 3 .ico files from the screenshot.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 12, 2009, 05:12 AM
You are reporting same problem as Lashiec it seems, i should have it fixed tomorrow.
The n+1 results i think is due to duplicates being removed.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: d4ni on July 12, 2009, 05:15 AM
Thanks for your quick answer Mouser.

About the n+1 items: I also thought about the duplicates but it actually turns out to be a slight bug anyway, it simply found the same file twice.. This happened for some more files I noticed. Below is the output with 'remove duplicates' unchecked. This isn't supposed to happen I guess?

~edit: actually notice the difference in capital letters: Programs\.... vs programs\
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 12, 2009, 02:01 PM
d4ni and lashiec, can you see if this beta version fixes your icon problem:
https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/downloads/beta/FindAndRunRobotSetup.exe
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: d4ni on July 12, 2009, 02:11 PM
Hi Mouser,

Your new beta fixes my problem with the Standby and other system power icons, thanks!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 12, 2009, 02:13 PM
great! :up:

(now let's just hope the weird x64 links that i fixed in the previous version still work!)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 12, 2009, 07:02 PM
Minor release fixes icon problem in previous version:

Version 2.71.01 - July 12th, 2009
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 26, 2009, 01:04 AM
minor release:
Version 2.75.01 - July 26st, 2009
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on August 26, 2009, 07:44 AM
New release, mostly bugfixes, but a fair number of them:
Version 2.77.01 - August 26th, 2009

NOTE: As of 8/26/09 I have not yet told the updater about the new version, but if you right click on FARR and tell it to install the new version it will install it.  I'm hoping I can get some reports from early testers before i make the update public.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Ampa on August 26, 2009, 07:55 AM
Just installed and delighted to see the numeric keypad issue fixed! Thank you :)

Eek - but you broke standard launching with the numeric keypad (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=19683.0)!!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: alias on August 26, 2009, 11:38 AM
Just fyi - the dl on the page is the correct version, but the version and date in the upper right corner still say it's the old one...
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on August 27, 2009, 02:16 AM
Thanks for the new Background colour option mouser! Now I can match my Window Blinds skin.. :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on November 20, 2009, 10:54 AM
New version with some useful features requested by users, including customizable titlebar which supports date+time, as well as ability to easily launch applications as an administrator.

Version 2.80.01 - November 20th, 2009
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Tuxman on November 20, 2009, 04:52 PM
Thanks Mouser  8) trying FARR for a couple of days now as a Windows-Run replacement. So far it does the job quite well.  :-*
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CatamountJack on November 20, 2009, 05:44 PM
Hi Mouser,

FYI...  I just installed the new version, but suddenly my user variables no longer work.  I haven't dug too deep yet, I'll try to investigate more.

EDIT:  Well, now I don't know...  some of my user variables are no longer working.  I have a user variable called UtilitiesHome in the [Environment] section of my user variable definitions that references C:\Utilities.  Using %uservar.Environment.UtilitiesHome% in an alias no longer works.  However, a similar reference to C:\Program Files by the ProgramFiles variable in the same [Environment] section seems to work just fine.

I've also noticed that any alias that launches a program brings up a dialog asking which user to run the program as (WinXP, SP3)...  that could get annoying, since I just want them to all run as me (I'm on an admin account... yes, bad form, I know).  Doesn't seem to affect programs that are launched from search though - just aliases.

EDIT 2:  Argh, actually, in order to run as the current user, I have to uncheck the box that says "Protect my computer and data from unauthorized program activity" every time I run it - otherwise it won't launch at all.  Sorry for all of the edits.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on November 20, 2009, 08:50 PM
I've also noticed that any alias that launches a program brings up a dialog asking which user to run the program as (WinXP, SP3)...

$*&#*(&&%(&%(*#(*&#@!@!@!@#@$@ >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
I messed up. I will push a new update now.  Very stupid to not do more testing before I pushed an update.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on November 20, 2009, 08:57 PM
New version uploaded; please try it and let me know.  v2.80.01 was trying to launch everything as an administrator.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on November 20, 2009, 09:03 PM
Everyone with 2.80.01 please update to 2.80.02 to fix the bug where everything is trying to be launched with administrator privileges introduced in last version. sorry!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: lanux128 on November 20, 2009, 11:19 PM
i can confirm launching now works on admin accounts. i alternated launching between folders, shortcuts and aliases and they all worked without any dialog box prompts.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CatamountJack on November 21, 2009, 10:17 AM
Hey Mouser, it happens - no harm, no foul.   8)

Thanks for the quick fix - this seems to take care of all of the problems I was experiencing!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: nitrix-ud on November 23, 2009, 01:39 PM
Thanks for the update !
i'm glad to see a new release !

Keep up the good work mouser  :up:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on February 15, 2010, 08:56 AM
New *BETA* release (not available yet through updater, grab from url in first post):

Version 2.84.01 - February 15, 2010 - BETA
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on February 15, 2010, 08:57 AM
I think there are some cool functions in this latest release, most notably the PgDn feature much requested to find more results, and a new option to specify simulated search text on blank search.

Special thanks to DC member ewemoa for helping me test and providing so many good ideas.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: cranioscopical on February 15, 2010, 09:15 AM
I think there are some cool functions in this latest release
-mouser (February 15, 2010, 08:57 AM)
My goodness, you've been busy -- 9 enhancements and 7 fixes! And thank you, ewemoa, for lighting the master's path.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on February 17, 2010, 05:00 AM
I'd like to put this release on the updater but wouldn't mind getting some confirmation first that i haven't broken stuff like i normally do :)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Perry Mowbray on February 17, 2010, 07:57 AM
The PageDown & Up feature is pretty neat:  :Thmbsup:

What are the chances of being able to page down | up in the normal window without going to the list window?

and/or: will the list window ever become htmlified?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: cranioscopical on February 17, 2010, 08:35 AM
wouldn't mind getting some confirmation first that i haven't broken stuff
It's working for me here but I don't avail myself of its more esoteric features.  :up:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: TucknDar on February 17, 2010, 11:51 AM
Works for me as well. And I love the PgDn function! :Thmbsup: Veeery useful!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on February 17, 2010, 12:32 PM
The PgDn feature is definitely a win -- credit goes to those who have been advocating for it.
I did just notice a bug where if you page down to the end of the multi-page results it can sometimes get confused and be reluctant about paging back up; working on fix.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Nod5 on February 27, 2010, 04:18 AM
"[Feature] - You can now hit PgDn from search box to tell FARR to find *ALL* results, not just the few that normally fit in the window; You can continue to hit PgDn and PgUp to page through results after that.  When more results available the statusbar now hints about PgDn."
Nice!  :) Confirmed working. Two small tweak thoughts:
1. if I search "pdf" FARR gets 2000+ hits. Hit PgDn and FARR starts working at listing them. If I then PgDn again before FARR has filled the entire list then I get a scroll down in the list followed by a quick reset of that scroll as FARR keeps filling the list. For a search with many matches FARR takes several seconds to fill so that can get annoying. Two alternatives: Stop filling the list once the user presses PgDn. Or keep filling the list but remember how many PgDn the user has pressed and move there after the list is complete.
2. On second PgDn FARR scrolls the long list but the cursor is in the input box. That makes triggering something in the list by keyboard tricky. Better alternative: let the second PgDn do the same as arrow down + PgDn.

(Unrelated: hotkey config: wasn't there a special variable that represents the main input box contents in the "Text for search edit box" inputfield? I want a hotkey to prepend current inputbox text, i.e. "newtext $$1" but $$1 doesn't work. I've probably just forgotten what it is but can't find it through searches/helpfile now so...)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: thefatdude on February 28, 2010, 01:14 AM
Just ran into FARR and trying it out.  I normally use launchy all the time.  I like Launchy's interface a little better, also that it has a builtin calculator (need to find that plugin for far).  But anyway...

Not sure if this has been reported before; I was trying the different skins.  Was at or just next to the bottom of the list and I used the scroll mouse to go up the listbox.  I did a small flick which made it go maybe 3 or 5 entries up.  So I did it really fast to get up to the top of the list, but FARR locked up.  Had to kill it using task manager.  Tried it again with similar result.  If don't do it too fast, it seems to work.  When it locked up second time, I let it sit for 15minutes before I looked at it again and it was still unresponsive.

Win 7 ultimate x64.  q6600 @ 3.2ghz, 8gb ram
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Nod5 on February 28, 2010, 03:30 AM
hi thefatdude and welcome to DC  :Thmbsup:
The CZB plugin pack for FARR includes JSCalc: "powerful calculator for farr with history tape, variables, conversion functions, and best of all a super easy way to add your own custom functions." Get it here: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=17153.0
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on February 28, 2010, 08:13 PM
Better alternative: let the second PgDn do the same as arrow down + PgDn.
i think that's not a bad idea, let me just sleep on it and make sure it won't cause trouble.

(Unrelated: hotkey config: wasn't there a special variable that represents the main input box contents in the "Text for search edit box" inputfield? I want a hotkey to prepend current inputbox text, i.e. "newtext $$1" but $$1 doesn't work. I've probably just forgotten what it is but can't find it through searches/helpfile now so...)

doesn't exist yet -- but it's coming.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on February 28, 2010, 08:14 PM
thanks for the report thefatdude, i'll look into it.

in addition to jscalc, which is excellent, there is also fcalc (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=8769.0).
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on March 01, 2010, 12:54 AM
Is there any way to sort a long list in an alias group into alphabetical order mouser?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: alias on March 01, 2010, 12:56 PM
Thanks very much for the new version!  One thing I've noticed is that, in the past, the first time I open FARR after a restart, it would take 5-10 seconds to initialize the first time I tried to use, during which time it indicated it was retrieving the previous launch history.  Now, it initializes almost instantly.

I noticed that you made some changes regarding searching, but the issue I reported here (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=19953.0) still seems to exist, at least on my machine with my configuration.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on March 01, 2010, 12:58 PM
thanks for reminding me -- i'll see what i can do about it asap.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: alias on March 01, 2010, 04:33 PM
Thanks again, Mouser - FARR easily gets my vote as the greatest time saver/utility program ever.  (Of course, I'd place Vimperator for FF second, so you know I'm strange...)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Tuxman on March 01, 2010, 05:34 PM
alias: + to both.  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on March 09, 2010, 01:08 AM
My version 2.80.02 says it's up to date? :huh:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on April 26, 2010, 10:43 AM
Version 2.87.01 beta - April 25, 2010
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: IainB on June 05, 2010, 12:36 PM
Well, I'm not sure what's happening now.
Having just rebooted my laptop, I get this error:
---------------------------
Find and Run Robot
---------------------------
ATTENTION: Because it appeared to crash on the last run, the following plugin has been disabled:
C:\UTIL\Windows utilities\FindAndRunRobot\Plugins\Gmail Tasks\FScript.dll

NOTE: The plugin will attempt to be loaded on the next run of the program,
 so to prevent this from happening in the future, please remove or
 update this plugin and report the problem on the www.DonationCoder.com forum.
---------------------------
OK   
---------------------------

Then I get:
---------------------------
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
---------------------------
Runtime Error!

Program: ...IL\Windows utilities\FindAndRunRobot\FindAndRunRobot.exe

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
---------------------------
OK   
---------------------------
FARR then crashes.
So I removed Gmail Tasks from the equation, and next time another plugin is found to be faulty.
And then FARR just crashes again (same pattern) every time I restart it.
When I restore Gmail Tasks, it's the guilty party again.
Help! I have become addicted to using FARR and now I can't get my fix!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Curt on June 09, 2010, 01:37 PM
It's like launchy but better!

Laiptai (http://www.algimantolaiptai.lt/index.php/galerija)
-Jongoro (June 09, 2010, 01:30 PM)

I am having a very hard time trying to understand what an earth the linked Italian staircase producing company has to do with Launchy! Nothing, I guess!
 :tellme:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: IainB on June 09, 2010, 04:09 PM
@mouser: OK, following on from my post above, I have just established that FARR crashes on startup if any one of these plugins are in the FARR directory:

So, I have removed them, and now FARR starts up fine.
I have no idea why these plugins should suddenly seem to start to cause offence.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on June 09, 2010, 06:14 PM
Thanks for the report Ian.. I think these are all fscript based plugins.. do you have any other plugins that use fscript.dll that work?
There have been some incompatibility issues with older versions of the fscript.dll and other plugins.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: IainB on June 10, 2010, 12:42 AM
@mouser: In answer to your question:
...do you have any other plugins that use fscript.dll that work?

I presume all the plugins work (I don't know that any have stopped working). There just seem to be three that cause FARR to crash on startup.
Offhand, I don't know which of the plugins use fscript.dll, but here is a list of the folders in my Plugins folder:

The Uninstalled Plugins folder is where I have put the following plugins that cause FARR to crash on startup (they are in ZIPped folders.):
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: ewemoa on June 10, 2010, 01:06 AM
AFAIU, the following are fscript-based (and I'm fairly certain the others are not):

  • Clock
  • Gcal_quicadd <- discontinued (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=12238.0)
  • Google_Translate <- now in CZBPack (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=12124.msg99822#msg99822)
-IainB (June 10, 2010, 12:42 AM)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Perry Mowbray on June 27, 2010, 08:06 AM
Thanks for the report Ian.. I think these are all fscript based plugins.. do you have any other plugins that use fscript.dll that work?
There have been some incompatibility issues with older versions of the fscript.dll and other plugins.
-mouser (June 09, 2010, 06:14 PM)

Any ideas? I use 2.87.03 without any issues (though goodlePlus does act strange at the moment)???
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: reckoner on July 01, 2010, 12:59 PM
Is it possible using aliases (or something else) to map ';1' to do Alt+1 ? The current behaviour is to start searching for the ';1' string. What I want is that ';1' string to invoke an action, or sequence of programmable actions.

Little help?

BTW, I can do this using autohotkey, but I can't stop it from automatically attempting to search using the input string.

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Nod5 on July 10, 2010, 02:41 PM
reckoner, you can create an alias for that (option > lists > aliases/groups > myaliases > right click and create new.

In the "regular expression" box, add this:
[Select]
^;1$

In the "Results" box add actions you want executed when you type ";1" (see FARR helpfile for details on commands).
Example:
[Select]
.| dolaunch htmlviewurl http://www.fifa.com/ ;;;setsize 300,600,300,600

(This would display the webpage fifa.com in the FARR window immediately when you type ";1")
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: reckoner on July 15, 2010, 06:57 PM
Thanks. However, the problem with it is that it alters the presented results. What I'm trying to do is *operate* on the list of presented results using ';1' to edit the first result in the list. Likewise, ';2' would operate on the 2nd item in the list, and so on. FARR already operates on the list using Alt+1 and Ctrl+1 without altering the results shown. I'm trying to accomplish the same thing without using the Alt or Ctrl keys.

thanks again.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on August 18, 2010, 08:44 PM
New update with big improvement to the speed at which FARR displays/wakesup from minimized state:

Version 2.90.01 - Aug 18, 2010
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: tomos on August 19, 2010, 04:14 AM
New update with big improvement to the speed at which FARR displays/wakesup from minimized state
-mouser (August 18, 2010, 08:44 PM)

yes, it is a big improvement, thanks!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: CleverCat on August 20, 2010, 02:43 AM
Very fast on Windows 7  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: remailednet on August 20, 2010, 05:20 PM
Did the -show command line argument get removed?

I'm getting a message:
FARR 2nd INSTANCE COMMANDLINE ARG ERROR. Not understood commandline argument: -show


Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on August 20, 2010, 05:34 PM
sorry remailednet, looks like a small bug; i've re-uploaded a new version.  can you re-download and see if it's fixed? (note: its not detected in the updater)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: remailednet on August 20, 2010, 05:41 PM
Sweet. Grabbed the new version and it works for me. :)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: andhar on August 24, 2010, 01:00 AM
Thanks for the new version! :)
FARR is one of the most useful programs I have ever used.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: alias on September 07, 2010, 09:49 PM
Hi Mouser,

My CNET download tracker app just told me there's a 2.90.02 version of FARR out, so I dl'ed it and installed it without visiting the site first, and it does indeed say that's the version, but the version history in the Help file only shows versions through 2.90.01.  Any idea how I got a version that's later than the one here?  Did they somehow get hold of one they shouldn't have?

Thanks,

Alias
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on September 07, 2010, 10:43 PM
its impossible for any other site to get a version more recent than the one on dc.  they all originate from DC.

what happens is that i sometimes release a "silent" update, which means i might make a tiny change and increment the 3rd component of the version number, but not announce it because the change is so slight.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: alias on September 08, 2010, 07:26 AM
Thanks, Mouser - I knew you're the "grand poobah" of FaRR, so I was concerned that somebody might've been "manipulating" your stuff...
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: MilesAhead on October 11, 2010, 11:37 AM
its impossible for any other site to get a version more recent than the one on dc.  they all originate from DC.

what happens is that i sometimes release a "silent" update, which means i might make a tiny change and increment the 3rd component of the version number, but not announce it because the change is so slight.
-mouser (September 07, 2010, 10:43 PM)

I was wondering about that. I noticed it on Softpedia.
They have been pretty good to deal with but I noticed on my stuff if I don't up the version number even if I send 'em an update notice, they won't post it. The other thing that gets old is messing around the pad files. I just make a comment in one of my postings that I have this new software and hope they post it.  I'm getting lazy. :)

Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: brianpals on November 04, 2010, 04:50 PM
Why I prefer Launchy to FARR

•   When I want to update Launchy (or even just to check for updates) I don’t get the DonationCoder Updater Utility Not Found message appearing.

Yes, I suppose it’s there to help me but I don’t want that help.  I just want to know if there is a newer version of the program available and ready for download on the web.

•   When I typed bt.com into Launchy and hit Return it took me to bt.com on the net.  When I typed bt.com into FARR and hit Return it took me to a website that was stored in my My Documents folder.

•   When I type x into Launchy it knows that I want to open Xmind and subsequently puts only that into the suggestion box.  If that wasn’t what I wanted then I could hit my down arrow to access other suggestions.

In FARR I get too many suggestions.  I only want to launch a program.  When I’m in that program I can then decide which files I want to open.

•   Similarly, when I type mo it’ll be there ready with Microsoft Money, whereas if I add an n to make mon it’ll offer MediaMonkey.  It seems to learn what I want to the point where it’s almost intuitive.

•   Launchy is a simple interface with simple Options… not a complicated mess of ‘tweak this’ and ‘tweak that’ to get… whatever! 

Why don’t you make a ‘lite’ version that doesn’t have all of those complications?  Then, and only then, if I want to complicate my searching life later on, I can use the full version and go online to the forum and get really confused!

Ok, so maybe some of the above are quite trivial, but you did ask me why I preferred Launchy, Mouser.  :)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on November 04, 2010, 05:32 PM
fair enough.. ill chew over your comments and think about if some of these things can't be done better in farr.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: lanux128 on November 04, 2010, 09:53 PM
i think we went over this some time back and generally it was agreed that one of Farr's appeal is an array of features which users can tweak to their own liking. this was preferable than the program second-guessing users' every action and end up being more of a hindrance.

i suggest new users taking the time to go through mouser's handy screencast videos (https://www.donationcoder.com/screencasts/dc/3ds/fr1/fr1.html) to make the most of Farr's robustness and flexibility.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: brianpals on November 05, 2010, 03:40 AM
Yes, I suppose I can agree with lanux128, mouser.  If/when I'm ready I'll try ascending to a higher level using FARR! :-)
Meanwhile, it'll be my 2nd choice.  You can't please everyone!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on November 05, 2010, 05:53 AM
Different strokes for different folks as they say!  I think Lanux touched on my general feeling about trying to be too smart about learning what they user intends in a non-transparent way -- in general i'm wary of things like this because i feel like predictability is really important.  But everyone has different styles.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: nitrix-ud on November 09, 2010, 01:58 PM
i switched from launchy to FARR a few years ago, and i can say it was the single best thing i've done on a computer...
get to know FARR and i promiss you'll never go back
you can do so much (i'm not talking about plugins i'm talking about core features ... filecontent, regex, dosearch, copyclip, variables, ...)
with some autohotkey scripts, you don't even know what OS you're running  :P

keep up the good work Mouser

one happy FARR user  :-*

Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on November 21, 2010, 04:51 PM
new release:

Version 2.93.01 - Nov 21, 2010
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on November 21, 2010, 05:03 PM
the reason i released this as a beta is that it uses the new built-in mini update checking code im adding to all of my apps, which can check for new versions even if you dont want to install the DcUpdater utility (though downloading updates is not as fun if you don't use DcUpdater).  And i'd like to get a few reports that this is working ok before i make it official.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Tuxman on November 21, 2010, 05:07 PM
How can we check if it works while there is no newer version which could be detected?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on November 21, 2010, 05:09 PM
hehehe good point.. its actually worse than that since if you check for updates its going to say you have a more recent version installed than is available.
maybe i should just make it the new version and deal with any troubles if they emerge..
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Tuxman on November 21, 2010, 05:11 PM
Probably.  8)
So if any error occurs, people will come here anyway.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on November 21, 2010, 05:18 PM
ok you convinced me.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: ebennetthill on November 21, 2010, 07:49 PM
Thanks for the new release. I've wanted to use the "properties" several times.
But the properties window appears behind the FARR window.
Does this happen with everyone? It should be in front, don't you think?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: jaden on November 22, 2010, 04:37 PM
Thanks for the Win7 properties fix!

@ebennetthill the properties window shows up in front for me
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: ebennetthill on November 22, 2010, 05:20 PM
@jaden Thanks. Your reply made me look through the options and I found "Force FARR window on top" in Window Options. When I unchecked that, the properties window does show up in front.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on January 16, 2011, 11:02 PM
previous release was popping up the options dialog every 12 hours when it checked for updates.  new version fixes this -- sorry!

Version 2.95.01 - Jan 16, 2011
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on February 06, 2011, 02:11 AM
Minor update but important for those who have been annoyed by the "no disk in drive" errors that can occur with shortcuts to missing files:

Version 2.96.01 - Feb 5, 2011
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: hanzo on March 10, 2011, 09:52 AM
i heard Faar was way better than launchy and here i'm. Strangely, I couldn't get Faar to remember my last entered text despite having the option "don't clear search text" ticked. The input box keeps going blank.

May I say a few fair words for launchy, if the author don't mind. The "second-guessing" nature of Launchy is very very misunderstood. In Faar, the use of keywords to launch something is very explicit, done through alias. U must first instruct Faar. However, in Launchy, the use of keywords to launch something is both implicit and explicit. We tell launchy the folders where they can guess, we type in something, and it gives us the nearest match it can find. After the guessing, launchy remembers the keywords in it's ini file, which users can edit (but is never taught to users unless one pokes around). This part works the same as Faar.

I like Faar. It seems to work very fast. Now, if only I can get it to remember my last inputed text.

Oh, I would really appreciate it too if Faar doesn't add the small registry entries to remember the registration dates.  I'm a sucker for self contained portable designed softwares that doesn't leave registry entries and files in other folders.

Thanks for this great software!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on March 10, 2011, 11:43 AM
Welcome hanzo -- and thank you for the well expressed thoughts.  Launchy is an excellent program, no disagreement from me!

I'll check into the issue with chooding to NOT clear the search text -- this is one of those features that i don't use (and find hard to imagine why one would!) and so it may have gotten messed up recently with some other change.

One feature you may not know about which i find much more useful, is ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down with cycle you through your paste searches.  You could also type: historys to see a history of your past searches (or historyl for history of past launches).

If you edit the file configdir.ini and put as the first line: PORTABLE=TRUE
That should turn off any storage of anything outside the directory of FARR.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: hanzo on March 10, 2011, 08:30 PM
Thank you so much for the response, Mouser. with your advise, Faar now works the way I need it to, and perhaps even faster once I get used to it - the use of search folders with modifier keywords + history (ctrl+up). Plus, the keywords typed automatically appear in the search box, saving me time typing all over again for the next search/launch. Thanks a million.

I also tried out the portable mode. It works beautifully.

This is a very fine application/folder launcher indeed.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on March 10, 2011, 09:58 PM
At the risk of overwhelming you, there are about 36 video screencasts showing how to use different functions in FARR:
https://www.donationcoder.com/3ds/
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: hanzo on March 10, 2011, 10:30 PM
oh, i sure have. thanks a lot for the help.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: hanzo on March 12, 2011, 02:42 AM
ok. just wana thank you again Mouser. after some poking around, Faar works exactly like launchy now and more. The "second-guessing" nature is just as good, memory usuage is a little smaller, and things seem to work little faster with history and search string history tracking and less to type.

Still, if the text input box could remember our last inputed text, it will be even faster. I wonder what I did wrong there. It still keeps going blank.

Thanks!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on March 12, 2011, 11:08 AM
I wonder what I did wrong there. It still keeps going blank.

i very much suspect a recent change killed this option.. i'll put it back.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: dnknitro on March 13, 2011, 07:56 AM
ok. just wana thank you again Mouser. after some poking around, Faar works exactly like launchy now and more. The "second-guessing" Still, if the text input box could remember our last inputed text, it will be even faster. I wonder what I did wrong there. It still keeps going blank.
-hanzo (March 12, 2011, 02:42 AM)
But would you want last entered text to be present and selected when the window is shown? If you wanna be able to execute last thing you did previously - just hit Enter and farr will run first item in the history.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: hanzo on March 13, 2011, 09:01 AM
i have a lot of files named xx-01, xx-02, xx-03, yy-01, yy-02 and so on. i often want to launch xx-01, then xx-something, then yy-something, u get the idea. I don't really need the history list as much as the history of inputed text. I gave the alias "h." with results "dosearch historys -h." to bring up the historys, and ctrl+up to retrieve the last search text, so it's not really a big issue. Mouser has made Farr so great with all the possibilities that I've officially switched over. And I wonder why i've only heard Farr until now. Sorry for that.

Thanks a lot for this again.

edit: changed faar to Farr. no offense, Mouser.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Ath on March 13, 2011, 09:04 AM
... Mouser has made Faar so great ...
-hanzo (March 13, 2011, 09:01 AM)

We know FARR a fine piece of software, but... have you tried to type FARR correct, or is there a malfunction in your keyboard?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: hanzo on March 13, 2011, 09:15 AM
ops. sorry. guess i have a spelling disability. Farr it is. No offense, Mouser.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on March 23, 2011, 05:59 PM
Version 2.98.01 - Mar 22, 2011
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Josh on March 23, 2011, 06:27 PM
Version 2.98.01 - Mar 22, 2011
  • [MinorFeature] Added option to do early replacing of %environmental% and user variables in the search text (useful for directory browsing).
-mouser (March 23, 2011, 05:59 PM)

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!

 :-* :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: hanzo on March 29, 2011, 08:03 AM
thanks a million too!

[BugFix] Hotkey option to not clear search text was not being obeyed.
about this, er...i don't mean to be an ass/idiot, but how do i disable it now, lol. i have gotten used to farr showing historys on toggle because it's surprising faster instead. when i untick windows option>when using hotkey to focus window, don't clear search text, it still shows my last inputted text.

sorry for the trouble, mouser.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on June 11, 2011, 09:50 PM
Minor Update:

Version 2.99.01 - June 11, 2011

Also I released a new plugin: fprocs (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=27011.0) (lists running processes and provides alt+tab, process termination, and switchto-instead-of-run functionality).
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: MarcR on June 12, 2011, 12:20 AM
The website says:  Download v2.99.01
But the program about says:  v2.99.02

Thanks!


Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on June 12, 2011, 12:43 AM
nothing to worry about, just me distinguishing between insignificant builds.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: kyrathaba on June 25, 2011, 05:04 PM
I'm trying to create an alias to launch 2 applications.  Is that possible?  Here's a screenshot (I want typing "devMode" to launch my IDE and my favorite text editor, Notepad++).  The following doesn't work.  Only the IDE gets launched.  Notepad++ doesn't start:

[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on June 25, 2011, 05:20 PM
In FARR, when you have multiple items, they act like a menu when you type in the alias name -- letting you choose which to launch.

If you want to launch both you could hit Ctrl+Alt+Enter (i think).

Alternatively, you could but both items on one line, separated by ;;;
(in which case you probably want to use the | facility to give it a label, for example "Launch Both | C:\expresslink;;;C:\notepad.exe).
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: kyrathaba on June 25, 2011, 05:25 PM
That worked.  Thanks!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: IainB on September 19, 2011, 01:43 AM
@mouser: Not sure what I may have done here, but for a while now, I have been getting these FARR-related error message on boot-up (FARR is auto-started) and on restarting FARR, though FARR itself seems to load and function OK despite the error messages, after hitting ESC through all the error messages:

There's always one of these error messages first:
---------------------------
FindAndRunRobot.exe - System Error
---------------------------
The program can't start because SALRTL.DLL is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
(Windows Search shows there are 0 copies of SALRTL.DLL on the disk.)

- and then there are several of these error messages:
---------------------------
Advanced Options: FindAndRunRobot.exe - System Error
---------------------------
The program can't start because BASS.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
(Yet ,Windows Search shows there are 5 copies of bass.dll on the disk.)

The update for FARR did not make it go away, and I have just now re-installed FARR, and that did not make it go away either.
I don't want to blindly uninstall FARR and risk losing all my settings, and I figure I should be able to point-and-shoot the problem - if I knew what might have caused it. (I'm going looking for SALRTL.DLL after posting this.)

Any ideas?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Ath on September 19, 2011, 02:08 AM
The website says:  Download v2.99.01
But the program about says:  v2.99.02
-MarcR (June 12, 2011, 12:20 AM)
nothing to worry about, just me distinguishing between insignificant builds.
-mouser (June 12, 2011, 12:43 AM)

Hm, maybe it's time to teach the webpage to read the current versioninfo from version.xml? There have been more reports of this 'issue'.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: IainB on September 19, 2011, 10:02 PM
@mouser: FARR v2.99.01 needs SALRTL.DLL

What version is required please? Are you able to tell me?

Also, where could I download the correct version from?
(Thanks.)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on September 19, 2011, 10:02 PM
what is SALRTL.DLL?

i think you are associating farr with some files it has nothing to do with.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: skwire on September 19, 2011, 10:10 PM
It's a DLL that comes with and is used by the Altap Salamander file manager.  
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on September 19, 2011, 10:45 PM
Ah you know what.. if you have the salamander dll in the farr plugins folder for some reason, FARR is going to try to load it as if it was a farr plugin, which could cause an error if one salamander dll is trying to load another, etc..
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on October 03, 2011, 08:22 AM
New release:

Version 2.102.01 - Oct 3, 2011
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: skwire on October 03, 2011, 08:30 AM
Thanks, mouser.  Nice work.   :up:
/me updates his FARR install.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: highend01 on October 03, 2011, 08:52 AM
The bug with a leading dot in filenames (not processed correctly) is indeed fixed :)

Using % variables in an .alias file still leads to an incorrect icon for all entries inside that group.

E.g.:
D:\Users\Highend\Tools\FindAndRunRobot\AliasGroups\MyCustom\highend_start[1].alias
D:\Users\Highend\Tools\FindAndRunRobot\AliasGroups\MyCustom\highend_start[1].ico

The .alias file contains e.g.:
            OpenVPN | D:\Users\%USERNAME%\Tools\OpenVPN\_OpenVPN.exe
            AdMuncher | D:\Users\%USERNAME%\Tools\AdMuncher\AdMunch.exe
            Clipboard | D:\Users\%USERNAME%\Tools\CHS\ClipboardHelpAndSpell.exe

The icon for the alias group after typing in ".s" is correct but all three entries show the same icon :)

The only way to fix it seems to replace the variable with the real folder name or adding an /ICON entry for each one.

Can you have a look at it again, mouser or is it (now) working as intended and you want the user to add an icon for each entry?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on October 03, 2011, 09:00 AM
highend, can you email me ([email protected]) so i can have you try a test version to figure out why it's failing?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: highend01 on October 03, 2011, 09:11 AM
Sure, e-mail sent :)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Jibz on October 03, 2011, 10:48 AM
  • [MinorFeature] Version # now shown in tray icon hint.
-mouser (October 22, 2007, 10:14 AM)
I think there might be a minor issue with this. When you ask Windows to always show or hide a notification area icon, it appears to do this by matching the text in the tooltip. So if you include the version number in the tooltip, and a user chooses to always show or hide the FARR icon, the next time FARR is updated, Windows will revert to the default hide when inactive setting because the name no longer matches.

Whether this is true only for the first line of the hint or in general, I am not sure. But I think this is part of the reason so few applications have version numbers (other than possibly the major) in the notification tooltip.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on October 03, 2011, 10:49 AM
thanks for the info jibz -- so i may have to roll that change back.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Tuxman on October 03, 2011, 11:56 AM
Downloading does not work right now? Error 404.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Tuxman on October 03, 2011, 12:52 PM
Ah - fixed.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on October 03, 2011, 12:54 PM
Sorry about that -- after some initial reports i pushed out another update. Not my best moment.

Version 2.102.02 - Oct 3, 2011
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: thancock20 on October 03, 2011, 07:57 PM
I upgraded today, and all of my own aliases were gone.  It turns out that the myaliases.alias and myaliases.alias.bak file were both overwritten with empty ones.  :(

Thankfully, I had a copy of the files on another hard drive, that I think was only missing 1 alias in it.  8)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on October 03, 2011, 09:48 PM
wow i really messed up this latest farr release.. :(
it seems i accidentally created a blank myaliases.alias file in the setup distribution, and it will overwrite on install on any XP machine.
if you use XP and FARR and updated and have created custom aliases.  go to your Aliases/MyCustom/Myasliases.alias file and make a copy of your myaliases.alias or myalias.alias.bak file and hopefully you still have a good copy of them.

do this BEFORE you go to your myaliases alias in the program settings!

i have fixed the installer now for anyone who updated from here on.

i'm so sorry i hope i didn't end up erasing anyone's aliases  :( :( :(
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on October 04, 2011, 08:15 AM
This is an important update for windows XP users who install version 2.102.02; just install it over old version and it will automatically recover your backup myalias.alias file of your custom aliases, if (and only if) the main one is blank because of the mistake in the previous installer.

Note: It is important that you not go into options to examine your old myaliases file before running this, as that might cause your backup alias file to be blanked.  I apologize for any inconvenience.

Version 2.102.03 - Oct 4, 2011
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: MilesAhead on October 06, 2011, 05:19 PM
With latest version on Windows 7 32 bit, it shows an icon on the TaskBar as well as in the system tray.  Right click on icon in the TaskBar and select Close Window. It doesn't close.

For now I fixed it by reinstalling 2.99.02
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on October 06, 2011, 05:50 PM
Wow that is odd.. I wonder if this has to do with what f0dder jibz warned me about -- putting the version # in the icon hint.. I can't think of anything else i did to cause a change in this.

Anyone else noticing this as well?

Miles, email me and I'll send you a link to a version that doesn't have the version# in the system tray icon hint -- let's see if that solves it: [email protected]
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: MilesAhead on October 06, 2011, 06:25 PM
Sent. The return address is FavesSoft support email.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on October 06, 2011, 09:30 PM
Based on Miles test -- that looks like the cause.  +1 point for f0dder jibz.
I've replaced the uploaded version with the new one, without a version change; so if you want the fix just re-download.
I will release an official update soon.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: lanux128 on October 06, 2011, 09:36 PM
Wow that is odd.. I wonder if this has to do with what f0dder warned me about -- putting the version # in the icon hint.. I can't think of anything else i did to cause a change in this.
-mouser (October 06, 2011, 05:50 PM)

i think it was Jibz who highlighted (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=10505.msg263831#msg263831) it.. ;)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on October 06, 2011, 09:47 PM
Right you are, it was Jibz, DC Member #3.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on October 07, 2011, 01:32 PM
i'm so sorry i hope i didn't end up erasing anyone's aliases  :( :( :(
-mouser (October 03, 2011, 09:48 PM)

Well, everything's fine here ! ;)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Judykator on November 11, 2011, 12:38 PM
How to make a secure update? I have a properly working and configured version 2.99.02. I use it in portable mode.I want to upgrade. Which files must be overwritten ? Only FindAndRunRobot.exe ?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on November 11, 2011, 12:41 PM
You can just unpack the new files on top of the old ones -- except for the one mess up above which is now fixed -- your configuration files won't be messed with.

Usually its just the FindAndRunRobot.ext that is updated, and the help file.  But future updates could change other files.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: MilesAhead on December 05, 2011, 11:58 PM
Just a note. The help file still says to check the option in General Tab to copy selected text on open. You actually have to edit the start hotkey pause/break entry.  Took me a while to find it. Makes it handy for looking stuff up in dictionary from any app. :)

Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on December 06, 2011, 12:10 AM
thanks miles, glad you like it.  i'll update the help file.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on February 14, 2012, 01:34 PM
Version 2.104.01 - Feb 14, 2012
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on February 14, 2012, 08:44 PM
Please redownload the new version 2.104.02 -- the version i uploaded was a debug build which will write run significantly slower than real release build that I just uploaded now.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: ewemoa on February 14, 2012, 09:12 PM
Thanks especially for:

Version 2.104.01 - Feb 14, 2012
  • [MajorFeature] Executable and setup are now digitally signed for extra security; instead of a zip-compatible installer, there are now 2 separate downloads for installer and portable version.
  • [BugFix] When using the -launch commandline call, and several other unusual places where files were launched, custom plugins were not being given a chance to take over launching.
  • [MinorFeature] Added context menu item to run the selected result "as admin"
-mouser (February 14, 2012, 01:34 PM)

Re: SnippingTool...
Failed to verify the following:

[BugFix] Some windows 7 start menu items were failing to launch (for example the Snipping tool)

SnippingTool.exe doesn't appear to show up here via FARR (via typing SnippingTool.exe as well as via c:\windows\system32\snipping).  I am able to drag and drop SnippingTool.exe on to the edit field of FARR's main window (starting from Windows Explorer), but pressing Enter doesn't appear to launch anything.  FWIW, SnippingTool.exe does launch via Windows Explorer.

This testing was done under Windows 7 Pro 64-bit -- and FARR 2.104.2.

Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: cranioscopical on February 14, 2012, 09:36 PM
FARR v2.104.02 does find the Snipping Tool.lnk from my start menu and launch the tool. This testing was done under Windows 7 Pro 64-bit also. What fun, a moving target!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: ewemoa on February 14, 2012, 09:44 PM
Thanks to lanux128 for some tips.  SnippingTool will launch from FARR here if it's via the .lnk locatable via the Start Menu.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on February 14, 2012, 11:25 PM
Is anyone else getting new exception errors under win7 with one of my plugins installed?  I have a feeling that the new use of a manifest file in the new build of FARR is causing windows to be more strict about plugins trying to save their options under program files\ instead of in user doc area.  I think i may have to release an update of my plugins asap..

I uploaded new versions of all my plugins that should fix the problem I hope.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: IainB on February 15, 2012, 01:29 AM
Under Win7-64 Home Premium, running FARR v2.104.02:
SnippingTool.exe:
%windir%\system32\SnippingTool.exe (is the link in the Start Menu) - does not execute in FARR.
C:\Windows\System32\SnippingTool.exe - does not execute in FARR.
C:\Windows\System32\SnippingTool.exe.lnk - does not execute in FARR.
C:\Workdata.001\Download\SnippingTool.exe.lnk - DOES execute in FARR.

Conclusion: a .lnk for SnippingTool will execute only if it is outside of the C:\Windows\System32\ directory.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: lanux128 on February 15, 2012, 02:16 AM
after some discussion (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=26314.msg278357#msg278357) with hamradio, we noticed that the missing snipping tool is related to a windows component called "tablet pc component". it is worth a try to see if that is consistent with all the other PCs plagued with this problem.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: cranioscopical on February 15, 2012, 03:08 AM
after some discussion (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=26314.msg278357#msg278357) with hamradio, we noticed that the missing snipping tool is related to a windows component called "tablet pc component". it is worth a try to see if that is consistent with all the other PCs plagued with this problem.
-lanux128 (February 15, 2012, 02:16 AM)
Am I right to assume that the probem occurs with that component active?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: IainB on February 15, 2012, 04:46 PM
No, I think the discussion is suggesting that the Tablet PC Component feature needs to be turned ON.
Spoiler
http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/96612-snipping-tool-missing.html

Maybe that will help some thats missing it from system32 directory.
-hamradio (February 14, 2012, 10:46 PM)

as advised in the thread above, i checked and found that the tablet pc component is turned off on my pc. however when i tried to turn it on, explorer crashed so i'm leaving it off.. so is anyone else willing to try? :)

(http://i.imgur.com/DCNjx.png)

-lanux128 (February 14, 2012, 11:05 PM)
In any event, it is not true in my case, as this feature was already turned ON, but the Snipping tool still does not launch from FARR (I get no error messages when it fails to launch):
Conclusion: a .lnk for SnippingTool will execute [from FARR] only if it is outside of the C:\Windows\System32\ directory.
-IainB (February 15, 2012, 01:29 AM)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: IainB on February 15, 2012, 05:09 PM
Is anyone else getting new exception errors under win7 with one of my plugins installed?  I have a feeling that
-mouser (February 14, 2012, 11:25 PM)
Just wanted to note that I have not been getting any exception errors, so far.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: justauser on February 20, 2012, 06:20 AM
I get a crash any time I try to use the farr windows seach plugin.  Here is the info windows had in the box when I crashed just now:

Problem Event Name:   APPCRASH
  Application Name:   FindAndRunRobot.exe
  Application Version:   2.104.2.0
  Application Timestamp:   00000000
  Fault Module Name:   StackHash_e4fa
  Fault Module Version:   6.1.7601.17725
  Fault Module Timestamp:   4ec49b8f
  Exception Code:   c0000374
  Exception Offset:   000ce6c3
  OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
  Locale ID:   1033
  Additional Information 1:   e4fa
  Additional Information 2:   e4fa9d7c64136e319e3e5cb5b298a157
  Additional Information 3:   2b2f
  Additional Information 4:   2b2f11bbf0b34e668df5af372320eed0
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: skajfes on March 03, 2012, 01:39 PM
february 2011?  :D
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on March 03, 2012, 02:28 PM
oops
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Josh on March 03, 2012, 02:31 PM
Any word on FARR 3.0 with SSC 3.0 out the door?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Tuxman on March 03, 2012, 02:36 PM
The website still says 2.104.01?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on March 03, 2012, 03:00 PM
FARR 3.0 will include an option for indexing and probably a revamped plugin system.  release date unknown.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Josh on March 03, 2012, 03:12 PM
When do you plan to initiate development?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: anishm on March 06, 2012, 09:33 PM
FARR 3.0 will include an option for indexing and probably a revamped plugin system.  release date unknown.
-mouser (March 03, 2012, 03:00 PM)

Hi Mouser

FARR is one of my "must install" apps on every new PC!

Not sure where to put this feature request but that why I like DC - very accepting of our human limitations. :)

Please would you consider a "Clone Entry" or "Copy Entry" option in the Lists-> search folder settings. I.e. if I have a current folder added, it will copy all the settings into the dialog box so I can just add a new name!

Thanks for fantastic software.



Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on March 07, 2012, 05:31 AM
Thanks for the kind words anishm -- Clone entry sounds like a reasonable idea.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on April 01, 2012, 11:09 AM
Small update:

Version 2.105.01 - April 1, 2012
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on April 01, 2012, 11:52 AM
Note: I made the new "center on current cursor window" default, so people would discover the feature.  To disable and have FARR always remember where it was last shown, go to the Display Options tab and uncheck the relevant checkbox.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: ewemoa on April 01, 2012, 06:27 PM
Thanks for the update :)

Made a screenshot to aid in enabling / disabling the centering on current monitor behavior:

[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on April 01, 2012, 10:14 PM
Thanks mouser !
I don't know if you missed it, but I don't think that only MSE affects farr's performance. Avast seems to cause similar problems : https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=29756.msg279427#msg279427

Don't know about other antivirus.

Maybe you should add a few words concerning that possibility... something like :

It has been confirmed that Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus (and possibly other antivirus and HIPS) can slow down FARR searching (and result in delays/pauses during searching).

The fix is to exclude FARR's process from MSE (or other antivirus) scans.

For more info and instructions see:

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=29756.0


Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on April 01, 2012, 10:24 PM
  • [Feature] Pressing Ctrl while you hit Enter will now launch the selected (or first if in search box) item AND keep the FARR window open.
-mouser (April 01, 2012, 11:09 AM)
This doesn't seem to work here. Is the option to be found somewhere and I missed it ?
"Close window after launch by defaut " is checked, but... I thought that maybe the point of the Ctrl+Enter feature was to circumstantially circumvent the default closing... Am I wrong in that assumption?  :)[/list]
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: ewemoa on April 02, 2012, 06:53 PM
FWIW, it seems to be working here.

Not sure if these are relevant, but screenshot of some options for the local setup follows below:

[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on April 02, 2012, 08:37 PM
@ewemoa : That's very nice of you. Thanks. It still doesn't work though; some other setting is probably conflicting... Unfortunately I  don't have enough time to debug this at the moment. Maybe next weekend.

@mouser : I saw that ctrl+shift+arrow(L/R) for quick selection in farr is still no selecting anything. Can we expect a "fix" soon ?   :)  (I'm calling this a "fix" as it used to work a few versions ago)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on April 03, 2012, 11:31 PM
Armando, see if you maybe have that option above set in the radio box "Hide When Focus Is Lost" -- that can cause some odd behavior.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on April 03, 2012, 11:32 PM
@mouser : I saw that ctrl+shift+arrow(L/R) for quick selection in farr is still no selecting anything. Can we expect a "fix" soon ?  (I'm calling this a "fix" as it used to work a few versions ago)

yes i will try to figure out what is going on with this.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: ewemoa on April 04, 2012, 03:21 PM
see if you maybe have that option above set in the radio box "Hide When Focus Is Lost" -- that can cause some odd behavior.
-mouser (April 03, 2012, 11:31 PM)

FWIW, here, toggling

  Options
    Window Options
      Focus Preservation
        Hide When Focus Is Lost

seems to toggle the new Control+Enter behavior here -- if any of the other radio buttons are set, the new behavior appears to be in effect.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on April 06, 2012, 12:22 AM
Armando, see if you maybe have that option above set in the radio box "Hide When Focus Is Lost" -- that can cause some odd behavior.
-mouser (April 03, 2012, 11:31 PM)

Thanks !
It doesn't seem to change anything here.

Here are my settings :

[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]


FWIW, here, toggling

  Options
    Window Options
      Focus Preservation
        Hide When Focus Is Lost

seems to toggle the new Control+Enter behavior here -- if any of the other radio buttons are set, the new behavior appears to be in effect.
-ewemoa (April 04, 2012, 03:21 PM)

Thanks ewemoa.
Doesn't seem to apply in my case. Unless I'm misunderstanding your explanations... Which entirely possible.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: ewemoa on April 06, 2012, 03:03 AM
Armando,

FWIW, I mirrored your settings, but I still have access to the new behavior...
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on April 06, 2012, 12:54 PM
Armando, can you walk us through an example of it not working?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on April 06, 2012, 03:12 PM
1- open farr (caps lock in my case)
2- write something in textbox
3- press Ctrl+Enter to "launch the selected (or first if in search box) item AND keep the FARR window open"

Item is launched but farr disappears instantly. Alt-tabbing confirms that it's gone.

Here's my ini file, in case it would help (removed personal info in the settings at the end).
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on April 06, 2012, 03:24 PM
couple things to check, even though this may sound stupid:
1) this happens even when top item is a program to launch not an alias
2) double check that farr isn't simply hiding behind another window by having it be the only app on the desktop
3) make sure you have latest release
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Armando on April 06, 2012, 04:02 PM
1) Yes ; e.g. happens when MicrosoftOfficeWord2003.lnk (if I understand correctly that .lnk aren't considered aliases in that context...)
2) Yes, I checked that already. Farr isn't hiding.
3) Yes : v2.105.01
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: _hunter on April 16, 2012, 06:14 AM
Greetings,

Strange problem appeared after I upgraded to 2.105.01 – all “complex” shortcuts stopped to work in FaRR. By complex shortcuts I mean all those shortcuts without actual “target” specified, like Skype, Chrome, Microsoft Office…
And by “stopped to work” I mean that nothing happens after I’m “running” such shortcut.
I’ve checked “Launch History” – there are entries for those attempts.
And if I switch “Launch Method” to “Method 2” next:
[Select]
---------------------------
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Skype.lnk
---------------------------
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Skype.lnk is not a valid Win32 application.

---------------------------
OK  
---------------------------
error appears.

I’m on Windows 2008 x64 (if it helps).

Best regards…
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on April 16, 2012, 10:48 AM
Can you try messing with the other launch options in the Launching Files tab, notably the "Disable WOW64 redirection" checkbox, since that is the thing that's really new, and the "use file helper" checkbox.

Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: _hunter on April 17, 2012, 02:51 AM
Uchecking "Disable WOW64 redirection" done the job...
Thanks.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on April 17, 2012, 03:00 AM
I'm glad that solves the problem for you.. but now I still have to figure out why this is failing for some people and if i've made a mistake making it the new default.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Nod5 on April 18, 2012, 03:43 PM
Thanks for control+enter to launch and stay open. Very useful. :Thmbsup:

When randomly testing it out I ran into a problem launching only one of the test files. Turned out the issue was caused by the file name ending with a space i.e. this bug https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=24037.msg . Not sure if that issue has hung around or reappeared but it is here now.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: jnulu on July 25, 2012, 12:03 AM
Hi Mouser!

I'm using the current version of FARR on my newly assembled PC running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
All my search history comes up when I invoke FARR. I restart the PC and all my search history is still there.
But if I shutdown my PC and then start it up all but one or two items in the search history show up
and the rest disappear!
 I un-installed and then re-installed FARR, but the problem continues.
Not sure what is going on and so would appreciate some help!
Thanks in anticipation.
Regards

Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on July 25, 2012, 12:27 AM
Hi jnulu.

You say when you restart the pc everything is fine but when you shutdown and start the history is gone.

Restarting the pc should be the exact same thing as shutting down and restarting.. Can you experiment a little more and try to figure out what circumstances the behavior shows itself?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: jnulu on July 25, 2012, 11:29 AM
Yes, Mouser, initially all the searches that I do using FARR are there.
No problem if I restart the PC.
It's only when I shut down my PC and then start it up again, I am having this issue.
I am trying to find out as to why this is happening, but in the meanwhile do you think
trying out a previous version of FARR would help, just to see if this problem is still there?
If yes, where I can I download a previous version from?
Thanks!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: jamesthebod on July 26, 2012, 03:39 PM
I recently updated Find and Run on my Windows 7 from 2.102.03  to 2.105.01.

With the new version, every time I try to launch an app from Find and run, i get a message box headed "command line argument error" and the message is "-1". When I click OK on this, I then get another message box headed "bad invocation of Quickdoclauncher", with the message "--1".

I reverted to the previous version and everything works OK again. I don't see this problem posted before, does anyone know why this is happening?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: jnulu on August 02, 2012, 10:39 PM
Installing FARR from Safe Mode, solved my problem!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on August 03, 2012, 11:26 AM
Hmm that is odd, i'm going to have to check that out -- there is no reason you should get that error.

jamesthebod you could also look into telling farr not to use its QuickDoc Launcher helper, and other launch options:
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: jamesthebod on August 24, 2012, 06:47 AM
Hmm that is odd, i'm going to have to check that out -- there is no reason you should get that error.

jamesthebod you could also look into telling farr not to use its QuickDoc Launcher helper, and other launch options: (see attachment in previous post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=10505.msg295632#msg295632))
-mouser (August 03, 2012, 11:26 AM)

Thanks, I did that, that solved the problem. Then I reset it back again, to use the launch helper, using default method, and now it works fine, as before. So I don't why this worked, but it did.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on September 18, 2012, 10:39 PM
New beta release posted.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on September 18, 2012, 10:40 PM
Thanks to Josh for all his help testing, and for encouraging me to add some of the features.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Josh on September 18, 2012, 11:08 PM
YEAY! We are officially in beta for this release! Glad to see it. There are some nice features here that mouser has put in.

For those of you unfamiliar, you can now use environment variables to reference specific paths in the Windows environment. I personally define one as %google% which points to %userprofile\google drive (c:\users\username\google drive). This can help save a lot of typing. It was this feature that helped identify the lag caused by the custom folder icons (google drive, root of a drive, etc).

Additionally, the shellexec and updated "noresults alias" is a great feature. This helps design FARR to operate more like the run dialog in all versions of Windows. What I mean is this.

Normally, in FARR, you know the name of the program you want and type in an entry from the start menu and FARR finds it as it scans. Let's say, however, you want to directly launch an MMC applet (Disk management, event viewer, etc). Currently, farr does not index control panel applets and requires the use of specially crafted shortcuts. This presents a problem in that these shortcuts have to be created as new control panel applets are identified. My solution to this is to use the run dialog and type devmgmt.msc and launch the file directly since it is in the system path. FARR did not provide this capability. Additionally, some pages I launch by manually executing internet explorer (certain work sites and other sites that present problems in alternative browsers or activex enabled sites). For this, I always manually execute internet explorer and pass it the argument (iexplore www.google.com).

This new "no result" capability allows FARR to more closely mimic the run dialog functionality so that you can launch files directly if you know the name and it is in the system path, but not in a FARR search folder path (say, %windir%, which I don't think many would want scanned by FARR).

I did identify a way for mouser to poll a list of control panel applets in Windows Vista+ (Vista, 7, 8) using the registry since Microsoft has stopped using .cpl files for most functions. Hopefully this makes its way into a future FARR release so we can populate control panel applets and further enhance FARR.

I must say that mouser has done an exuberant amount of work on this release and I think it has progressed very nicely!

Mouser, I tip my hat to you!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Judykator on September 18, 2012, 11:09 PM
Please do something about this problem:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=30924.0
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on September 20, 2012, 05:08 AM
Try now.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: justauser on September 21, 2012, 07:06 AM
Mouser, thanks for the update.  I use the portable version. The link in the first post is for the installer.  I hacked the name and the portable version seem to be there.  Downloaded and it is the right one.  I'm assuming you build both but don't have the portable link in the post for some reason?  Am I right?  Can you make the portable version "official" in the first post?

Thanks again.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on September 21, 2012, 08:58 PM
Version 2.107.02 - Sep 21, 2012 - Beta
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on September 21, 2012, 08:59 PM
Huge thanks to Josh for creating a totally new replacement control panel alias (cpanel) from what FARR used to have.  This one includes a big update for Windows Vista/7/8.

Type: cpanel to see the control panel list, then filter away.

It's brand new so their are likely to be a couple of issues with an occasional control panel items, so report any issues.

Huge thanks to Josh! 
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Josh on September 21, 2012, 09:11 PM
My pleasure! I am happy to help. This is a tool that, with these updates, has become indispensable to me.

A note on the control panel list. It is hard coded to the control.exe procedural calls. With Vista, .cpl files slowly went away and were replaced with namespaces. Right now, I am focused solely on adding the core control panel applets found in XP, Vista, 7 and 8. Applets like NVidia control panel, AMD Control Panel, SiSoftware Sandra or Everest, etc. will not be added as not everyone has them and I have no way to detect their presence in FARR.

Another note, the icons are NOT EXACT MATCHES to the icons in the classic control panels. If someone has an icon of decent resolution (32x32), please send me a pm with a link to it and what applet it replaces and I will update the alias for mouser. Additionally, if some are found to be missing or not working, post to a thread in the FARR forum and I will look into it. Be sure to let me know the control panel applet name so I can l look it up.

Please pass any feedback so we can continue to improve this tool and capability. I will be adding admin tools (msc file) and a separate alias file for active directory management (ADUC, Sites and Services, Federated services, DNS, DHCP, etc). So look for that in the next beta release.

Bring on the feedback!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Josh on September 21, 2012, 09:21 PM
Also, a thank you to mouser for putting up with my constant nagging to get him to add some of these features :)

 :drinksmiley: Cheers Mouser!  :drinksmiley:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: d4ni on September 23, 2012, 06:14 AM
Hi Mouser,

The new beta (v2.107.02) crashes for me when typing '%' to list environment variables, followed by pressing the spacebar. In the picture I pressed them in quick succession, hence no environment variables were displayed at all. However, even if you press %, wait till the list gets populated and then press space it happens.

Some testing leads me to believe this only occurs when the Core-Misc.alias file is missing from %FARRDIR%\AliasGroups\Installed\Core_Aliases. I don't like all the aliases FARR comes with (websites, search etc) so I tend to remove all contents of Core_Aliases to get rid of them. Me removing all those files is actually caused by the cumbersome process to disable every built-in alias through the Options dialog; you have to select every alias/group from the dropdown, then uncheck the box 'Enable alias'. It would be nice to have a way to disable / enable all aliases at once =)

(http://i.imgur.com/Xwp9y.png)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on September 23, 2012, 10:16 AM
How strange!

I don't think removing core aliases is the cause of this problem, but i'm not sure what is..

I'm guessing you might have one of your own aliases configured to use %?

Can you do a little more experimenting to figure out what's going on?

The special use of % is actually governed by a new alias "AliasGroups\Installed\EnvVars\EnvVars.alias", so if you delete/disable that you will see behavior when it is around.

Love to hear some more clues about what might be causing this.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on September 23, 2012, 03:22 PM
Version 2.107.04 - Sep 23, 2012 - Beta
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Josh on September 23, 2012, 03:24 PM
As always folks, if the admin tools don't work for you, let me know!

Thanks for the help, Jesse!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on September 23, 2012, 05:32 PM
v2.107.04 is a new update with substantially improved search speeds in some cases, especially directory listings, and especially for machines with slow antivirus engines.

But i'm a little nervous about the possibility that i may have broken some alias parsing, parsing where commandline parameters are being passed to executables, so let me know if you spot anything.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on September 24, 2012, 11:44 AM
Any one try the new version and find that all your old stuff is working fine?  I'd like some confirmation that I haven't broken things before I release it as official.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: highend01 on September 24, 2012, 11:51 AM
Until now I didn't find any issues with the latest (.04) version.

Response time is much! better when FARR is not on the exclusion list of MSE but still a little bit unpredictable. In most cases it only needs half a second (although it's never instant) to display it's results but sometimes (about 1/5 of all searches) up to about 4 seconds. Apart from that, a great step forward.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: ewemoa on September 24, 2012, 11:26 PM
v2.107.04 is a new update with substantially improved search speeds in some cases, especially directory listings
-mouser (September 23, 2012, 05:32 PM)

A subjective comment here, but it does feel faster with directories :)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on September 24, 2012, 11:52 PM
By the way, FARR is now ten and a half years old.  :huh:

Version 1.0, March 18, 2002 - First release
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: phitsc on September 25, 2012, 02:31 AM
By the way, FARR is now ten and a half years old.  :huh:

Version 1.0, March 18, 2002 - First release
-mouser (September 24, 2012, 11:52 PM)
And some parts of it show (especially the options screen, with all these clipped labels) ;).

It's still a very good program though. So congratulations!  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: d4ni on September 25, 2012, 02:58 PM
How strange!

I don't think removing core aliases is the cause of this problem, but i'm not sure what is..

I'm guessing you might have one of your own aliases configured to use %?

Can you do a little more experimenting to figure out what's going on?

The special use of % is actually governed by a new alias "AliasGroups\Installed\EnvVars\EnvVars.alias", so if you delete/disable that you will see behavior when it is around.

Love to hear some more clues about what might be causing this.
-mouser (September 23, 2012, 10:16 AM)

Mouser,

Well I actually removed my previous version completely and reinstalled the new beta (ZIP version), so none of my aliases were interfering ^_^ Here are the steps to reproduce:

1) Download portable zip version, extract
2) Delete contents of \AliasGroups\Installed\Core_Aliases
3) Start FARR
4) Press % [SPACE]
5) Enjoy the crash =)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: Josh on September 25, 2012, 04:01 PM
How strange!

I don't think removing core aliases is the cause of this problem, but i'm not sure what is..

I'm guessing you might have one of your own aliases configured to use %?

Can you do a little more experimenting to figure out what's going on?

The special use of % is actually governed by a new alias "AliasGroups\Installed\EnvVars\EnvVars.alias", so if you delete/disable that you will see behavior when it is around.

Love to hear some more clues about what might be causing this.
-mouser (September 23, 2012, 10:16 AM)

Mouser,

Well I actually removed my previous version completely and reinstalled the new beta (ZIP version), so none of my aliases were interfering ^_^ Here are the steps to reproduce:

1) Download portable zip version, extract
2) Delete contents of \AliasGroups\Installed\Core_Aliases
3) Start FARR
4) Press % [SPACE]
5) Enjoy the crash =)
-d4ni (September 25, 2012, 02:58 PM)

Confirmed, I can duplicate in the portable edition. Removing the core aliases folder produces the crash on win8 x64 pro.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on September 25, 2012, 04:41 PM
ok i will find and fix.  im very curious to see what explains the crash!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: mouser on September 25, 2012, 06:51 PM
Crash should be fixed in latest beta upload.  Thanks for the reports -- looks like i had a bug with cacheing regular expression search results; it may have caused some other erroneous regex alias matches in the past as well.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.200.01 - Sep 25, 2012
Post by: mouser on September 25, 2012, 09:42 PM
Ok we have an official new non-beta release:

Version 2.200.01 - Sep 25, 2012

Thanks again to Josh for his encouragement and help, and his fantastic job with the new (Windows 7+8 compatible) cpanel and mmc aliases.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.200.01 - Sep 25, 2012
Post by: IainB on September 26, 2012, 03:36 AM
Thankyou!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.200.01 - Sep 25, 2012
Post by: justauser on September 26, 2012, 08:45 AM

With the 2.200.1 release I get an access violation (win 8, x64).  Happened after I tried to run an alias that open 6 pages in the browser.  Also ALT-O doesn't bring up options.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.200.01 - Sep 25, 2012
Post by: mouser on September 26, 2012, 08:49 AM
Also ALT-O doesn't bring up options.
this was removed because it conflicted with some foreign language keys.

With the 2.200.1 release I get an access violation (win 8, x64).  Happened after I tried to run an alias that open 6 pages in the browser.
If you can reproduce it please do let me know what causes it.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.200.01 - Sep 25, 2012
Post by: d4ni on September 28, 2012, 01:04 PM
Hi Mouser,

Thank you for fixing the crash :Thmbsup:

Another thing I noticed; FARR does not seem to pick up custom .ico files set on a shortcut, but instead always (?) uses the 'integrated' icon file of an executable. Case in point; I created shortcuts to psshutdown.exe (available here (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897541.aspx) for people who want it) to shutdown / reboot / standby my computer using FARR and have associated the proper icons via Properties > Change Icon... This works fine in Windows (of course) and also in Launchy, but FARR seems to not pick up the icon. The result in the FARR window is the middle (.lnk) file which has the standby.ico associated with it, and points to the psshutdown.exe file next to it.
(http://i.imgur.com/06EK5.png)

~edit:

Hehe, I just realized this exact issue has occurred in the past, I dug up my old post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=10505.msg171445#msg171445). Perhaps it can help you in finding / solving the problem. 3 years ago already, time flies xD

~edit2:
I also notice I launch search results using the F1-F9 keys for some reason, but I cannot seem to configure this behavior (I'd like to disable it)? I already disabled launching using the numpad keys in options.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.200.01 - Sep 25, 2012
Post by: mouser on September 28, 2012, 02:05 PM
Another thing I noticed; FARR does not seem to pick up custom .ico files set on a shortcut, but instead always (?) uses the 'integrated' icon file of an executable.

There are a few options in farr for whether to "resolve shortcuts" on the bottom of the Search Behavior tab -- you might try turning those off and seeing if that fixes it.  If not let me know -- I can surely fix it as an option.


I also notice I launch search results using the F1-F9 keys for some reason, but I cannot seem to configure this behavior (I'd like to disable it)? I already disabled launching using the numpad keys in options.
I will add such an option.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.200.01 - Sep 25, 2012
Post by: d4ni on September 29, 2012, 02:08 AM
There are a few options in farr for whether to "resolve shortcuts" on the bottom of the Search Behavior tab -- you might try turning those off and seeing if that fixes it.  If not let me know -- I can surely fix it as an option.
Yeah I tried playing with those settings (and some under Launch Options) yesterday but unfortunately they did not solve it :) I think you can easily reproduce by just making a shortcut to some random executable and associate a .ico with a different icon.

I also notice I launch search results using the F1-F9 keys for some reason, but I cannot seem to configure this behavior (I'd like to disable it)? I already disabled launching using the numpad keys in options.
Great :-*
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.200.01 - Sep 25, 2012
Post by: daylessland on October 14, 2012, 01:27 PM
Dear donationcoder

after last update, the icons are not been shown:
http://imageshack.us/a/img705/8240/farr.png

i've tried uninstalling-reinstalling, deleting appdata\roaming folder, running portable version -- the icons are still not there.

cheers

(Dell Latitude 6520
Windows 8 Pro x64)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.200.01 - Sep 25, 2012
Post by: mouser on October 14, 2012, 01:29 PM
Stay tuned I'm going to see if I can't release a beta version today to see if I can't fix this problem with missing shortcut icons.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.200.01 - Sep 25, 2012
Post by: mouser on October 14, 2012, 03:16 PM
For those with bad icons on shortcut results can you try this beta:
https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/downloads/beta/FindAndRunRobotSetup.exe
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.200.01 - Sep 25, 2012
Post by: d4ni on October 14, 2012, 03:25 PM
It seems to have fixed the issue with my custom icons mouser, thanks :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.200.01 - Sep 25, 2012
Post by: daylessland on October 16, 2012, 11:50 AM
nope, still no icons  8)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.200.01 - Sep 25, 2012
Post by: mouser on October 16, 2012, 11:53 AM
I think something else must be causing your problem dayless.. some problem with explorer displaying icons..
If you open up windows explorer and browse around, do you see proper icons?

Did the prior version of FARR show correct icons?  I can re-upload the old version to test if needed.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.200.01 - Sep 25, 2012
Post by: daylessland on October 18, 2012, 08:08 AM
yeah, the explorer shows proper icons.

lets try with the older version. i think 24th of september or earlier should be alright.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.203.01 - Oct 22, 2012
Post by: mouser on October 22, 2012, 12:40 PM
Version 2.203.01 - Oct 22, 2012
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012
Post by: MilesAhead on December 22, 2012, 09:27 PM
thanks miles, glad you like it.  i'll update the help file.
-mouser (December 06, 2011, 12:10 AM)

I just updated to the latest version. It still says to check option in the General Tab to copy selected text on startup. I had to find my post in this thread to find out how to do it again. :)

The Option is in Hotkeys, Pause/Break

Edit: I used the zip file. Perhaps it was updated in the installer. I don't know.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.206.01 - Jan 7, 2013
Post by: mouser on January 09, 2013, 09:42 AM
Minor update, mostly bugfixes:
Version 2.206.01 - Jan 7, 2013
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.206.01 - Jan 7, 2013
Post by: Filipe Meira Castro on January 09, 2013, 04:34 PM
Allright, thanks for the update :D Have a great day!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.206.01 - Jan 7, 2013
Post by: ewemoa on January 09, 2013, 05:15 PM
Seems to be working well here so farr^H

Thanks for all of your time and energy on this update :up:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.206.01 - Jan 7, 2013
Post by: nedalnib on May 16, 2013, 06:01 AM
Hello Everybody.
I find trouble with ShellExecute method 2 (new). When I try to open .txt file from find result window selected file was opened in standard MS notepad.exe

I switched to ShellExecute method 1 and everything working (I have dafault application set to notepad++ in operating system).
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.211.01 BETA - Aug 26, 2013
Post by: mouser on August 26, 2013, 09:26 AM
Minor beta update:

Version 2.211.01 BETA - August 26, 2013


I'm making the rounds doing updates on my apps -- FARR is getting just a minor update this round, but i expect to be doing some more substantial improvements in the coming months so stay tuned.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.211.01 BETA - Aug 26, 2013
Post by: Filipe Meira Castro on August 27, 2013, 06:44 AM
Great, thanks for the update  :D
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.211.01 BETA - Aug 26, 2013
Post by: Don Cody on September 01, 2013, 03:25 PM
I'm making the rounds doing updates on my apps -- FARR is getting just a minor update this round, but i expect to be doing some more substantial improvements in the coming months so stay tuned.
-mouser (August 26, 2013, 09:26 AM)

Many thanks.  :up:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.213.01 - Nov 29, 2013
Post by: mouser on November 29, 2013, 12:22 PM
Minor update since last beta, but major update since last official:

Version 2.213.01 - Nov 29, 2013

Stay tuned, I'm considering doing some major improvements and moving to version 3..
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.213.01 - Nov 29, 2013
Post by: Filipe Meira Castro on November 29, 2013, 01:44 PM
Iaaahhh!!! nicee, keep it up:D
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.213.01 - Nov 29, 2013
Post by: Josh on November 29, 2013, 02:42 PM
:greenclp: :greenclp: :greenclp: :greenclp: You tweaked the installer to allow for "Launch on complete". THANK YOU! :greenclp: :greenclp: :greenclp: :greenclp:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.213.01 - Nov 29, 2013
Post by: Tuxman on December 02, 2013, 11:49 AM
Back on FARR now. Launchy seems to be dead. Initially I switched due to Launchy's better performance, but that seems to have improved...

Any chance for a better font display on the options window/status bar? It could need more blur.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: mouser on March 20, 2015, 06:56 AM
I have released a new beta -- first in a long time.
Some bug fixes, some new features, and a couple of changes that MIGHT break things -- so let's see...

Version 2.217.01 - Mar 18, 2015
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: mouser on March 20, 2015, 07:00 AM
I guess probably the one interesting thing to try is typing: historyr
This will now show recent files saved/loaded from the Windows OS save/load dialog [as found in the system registry] and could be a nice way to find files when you can't remember the name of what you are looking for.
These files are also searched for as if they are cached, so they should come up in results quickly and with higher scores.
[note also the previous keywords: historys and historyl will show your last searches and launches, so this fits right in].

Now I changed the way shortcut icons are resolved -- this fixes an issue where shortcuts has custom icons that weren't being shown.. however it is not clear to me whether this will break anything, so please let me know if you notice that the new FARR is not showing icons correctly in some cases (especially for shortcut .lnk files).

I hope to update FARR more rapidly now that i have somewhat re-acquainted myself with the code..
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: tomos on March 20, 2015, 07:23 AM
thanks mouser :up:

will be interesting to try historyr - I use FARR plugin: FARR Most Recently Used (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=13899.0) a fair bit (but in a very basic manner: typing mrua to show all most recently used files).
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: mouser on March 20, 2015, 07:30 AM
FARR MRU is an awesome plugin..  it will be interesting to hear how the results differ.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: tomos on March 20, 2015, 08:56 AM
I havent used this machine in about a week which maybe affects the results - keeping that in mind:

mru plugin using mrua shows:
     a) recent files from today and yesterday
     b) recent files from previous time machine was used (last week)

historyr shows:
     1) recent files from today and yesterday
     2) dopus and dopus viewer exe (from 64bit programme folder)**
     3) lots of exe files from my download folder mostly dating around 2012 - and most of which (or maybe all) have not been accessed in years (FWIW see shot below)

** It is not showing other apps I used since install of beta.

[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

where can I check the settings for it?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: mouser on March 20, 2015, 10:30 AM
Thanks tom!
Yeah those exe files are coming from a registry key that is looking less and less useful unfortunately.. i'll probably change it to ignore those.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: mouser on March 20, 2015, 11:43 AM
the mru plugin is much nicer all around, the main benefit of this being built into farr now is that these recent documents will always be searched quickly when you do a general search and get bonus scores -- so they will come up instantly and be highly ranked when you search for them -- rather than only appearing when you explicitly list them.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: Filipe Meira Castro on March 20, 2015, 03:12 PM
Greeeaaaat :D

I know it is quite some core stuff to change but hopefully you will have the time to tackle the most needed feature in FARR!!! :
Launch, stay open and continue searching! (ctrl dbl click should keep FARR open and keep populating results)

Hopefully I am not being too annoying with this one!!!

Good coding :D
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: mouser on March 20, 2015, 05:41 PM
I suppose you're right that it would be a good idea to have some way to launch and tell FARR to keep searching.. i'll add it.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: Nod5 on March 21, 2015, 03:16 AM
New FARR release, this is great!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: mouser on March 21, 2015, 03:19 AM
thank you for the encouragement -- i can't speak for all developers but for me personally it makes all the difference to have some friendly encouragement  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: Nod5 on March 21, 2015, 03:40 AM
However: beta crashes for me when I do rplugins, "exception error EAccessViolation"
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: mouser on March 21, 2015, 03:56 AM
reliably? if so i'll send you a debug version and we can track down the problem.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: CleverCat on March 21, 2015, 05:12 AM
I'm only on 2.213 and says up to date? :(

Ah   I see it's Beta.... :-[
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: CleverCat on March 21, 2015, 05:15 AM
thank you for the encouragement -- i can't speak for all developers but for me personally it makes all the difference to have some friendly encouragement  :Thmbsup:
-mouser (March 21, 2015, 03:19 AM)

I wouldn't know what to do without FARR  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: Nod5 on March 21, 2015, 05:42 AM
reliably?
-mouser (March 21, 2015, 03:56 AM)
No issue in the portable version. The problem is caused by an unreleased plugin I've made. When I remove that folder from C:\Program Files (x86)\FindAndRunRobot\Plugins\ and restart the error goes away. I'll troubleshoot that plugin on my own a bit.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: tomos on March 21, 2015, 05:45 AM
thank you for the encouragement -- i can't speak for all developers but for me personally it makes all the difference to have some friendly encouragement  :Thmbsup:
-mouser (March 21, 2015, 03:19 AM)

I wouldn't know what to do without FARR  :Thmbsup:
-CleverCat (March 21, 2015, 05:15 AM)

+1 :D
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: mouser on March 21, 2015, 10:14 AM
The problem is caused by an unreleased plugin I've made.

ah ok, i won't worry about it then.

feel free to message me though, i could either send you a debug version or you could send me the plugin and i may be able to help track down the problem more quickly.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: Nod5 on March 22, 2015, 06:12 PM
mouser: I worked around the issue anyway. It was a fscript plugin for browsing/filtering some set of files through a html thumbnail grid (a more generic spinoff of the Album Displayer plugin I did way back). Maybe I used an outdated fscript version, not sure.

I realized I could skip the fscript/plugin part and only use an alias with "dolaunch" and "showfilehtml" commands and variables. The rest can be done in the .html file with javascript and an imported index file made manually or through autohotkey or some such tool. A key step is that the showfilehtml command can pass parameters from FARR to the html javascript code when the html is loaded. Since the FARR .chm manual (I think) doesn't explicitly describe that possibility I'll post here a general sketch on how to do it for anyone else who might want to try something like that.

First create a FARR alias with these details:
name: test
regular expression pattern:
[Select]
^test (.+)$
Results:
[Select]
test | dolaunch showfilehtml C:\folder\test.html?$$1
The dolaunch command means that the html will be loaded immediately each time the FARR inputbox string is updated and matches the alias pattern.

Next create C:\folder\test.html with this content
[Select]
<SCRIPT>
var loc = String(window.location);
var pos = loc.indexOf("?")+1;      
var searchstring = loc.substring(pos);
document.write(searchstring);
</SCRIPT>

Now type "test hello" in FARR. The FARR results window should as you type "test h" immediately show "h" and so on. You can react to that input in any number of ways with html, javascript and the special farr:// commands that let you run stuff on the PC command line from the html/javascript.

For example the javascript code
[Select]
location.href = "farr://C:/folder/";
would run (open) that folder. We can similarly run programs and pass command line parameters to them.

The html/javascript file can also import some pregenerated index you have made. For example of images that represent folders, books, music albums, games or whatever files/folders you want to index and display in a filterable thumbnail grid in FARR. For example create indexfile.txt in the same folder as test.html, add this to test.html
[Select]
<script type="text/JavaScript" src="indexfile.txt">
and fill indexfile.txt with a comma separated array of things to index. For example:
[Select]
rootfolder = "C:/folder/test/";
filearray = new Array("fileone.wav", "another file.wav", "third.wav");

Next code the test.html javascript to loop over the index and filter it based on the FARR search string and show thumbnails associated with matching index items. For the above simple array example we would also need to have positioned and named thumbnail files on the harddrive in a consistent relation to the items in the index. For example give each thumbnail the same non-extension name and folder as a file item in the index ( "fileone.jpg" and so on). Or if you index folders put an image named "thumb.jpg" in the root of each folder in the index. The javascript code can then for each item figure out its thumbnail file path and render the thumbnail image as a hyperlink that on click runs farr:// commands that runs/opens the file/folder .

Alternatively make a more complex index array that pairs each thing (file or folder) you may want to trigger from a thumbnail grid in FARR to the full path of its special thumbnail file.

The index would in all these cases need to be updated manually or through a separate script, unlike with regular FARR searches. But if the files/folders to be indexed don't change name/location very often a small indexing script that runs at boot or every nth hour may be good enough.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: mouser on March 22, 2015, 08:20 PM
Very clever use of dolaunch and showfilehtml!!!
Hadn't even occurred to me that you could do that. nice  :up:
We might want to split this post off and put it in it's own thread for others to find more easily.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: Nod5 on March 23, 2015, 02:36 AM
We might want to split this post off and put it in it's own thread for others to find more easily.
-mouser (March 22, 2015, 08:20 PM)
Good idea. I'll try to expand this more to a template of sorts with more sample code and then give it a separate post.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: Don Cody on March 23, 2015, 02:19 PM
Thank you for the update.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: mouser on March 23, 2015, 02:27 PM
Sorry it took so long to arrive -- i promise the next update will not be so far away  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: erikts on March 23, 2015, 08:32 PM
I have updated to the latest [beta] version. So far so good.  :Thmbsup:  :-*
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: dcsev on March 24, 2015, 12:41 AM
I  am really glad to see this program updated. I was gonna look for an alternative next week but I saw an update today :)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: dcsev on March 24, 2015, 12:42 AM
Where are you guys getting the betas from??
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: anandcoral on March 24, 2015, 02:36 AM
Got the update mesg window from FARR and updated it.

I have been using FARR since so long (Xp to W8.1) that now it seems like it is inbuilt feature of the OS  :)

I hardly thing twice before pressing the 'break' key to pop FARR to run any program I need. It has become my habit and I feel handicapped on my friends machine where FARR is not installed. Hey how you run a program ? What ? Start menu !! They look puzzled to me and I can not explain to them.

Regards,

Anand
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: CleverCat on March 24, 2015, 03:20 AM
Got the update mesg window from FARR and updated it.

I have been using FARR since so long (Xp to W8.1) that now it seems like it is inbuilt feature of the OS  :)

I hardly thing twice before pressing the 'break' key to pop FARR to run any program I need. It has become my habit and I feel handicapped on my friends machine where FARR is not installed. Hey how you run a program ? What ? Start menu !! They look puzzled to me and I can not explain to them.

Regards,

Anand

-anandcoral (March 24, 2015, 02:36 AM)

I second that!  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: tomos on March 24, 2015, 05:38 AM
Where are you guys getting the betas from??
-stisev (March 24, 2015, 12:42 AM)

you usually get it from the first post (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=10505.msg82198#msg82198) in this thread - but I see it has been officially released.

If it hasnt been offered to you yet, try right-clicking farr icon in the tray and check for updates.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.217.01 - Mar 20, 2015
Post by: mouser on March 24, 2015, 05:42 AM
what tomos said -- and the reason you are confused is because there WAS a new beta up until yesterday, at which point it became official -- and so became available via normal download url (and beta removed).
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.218.01 - Mar 25, 2015
Post by: mouser on March 25, 2015, 05:28 AM
oops, last version broke some aliases/icons.  update should fix:

Version 2.218.01 - Mar 25, 2015
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release v2.218.01 - Mar 25, 2015
Post by: Nod5 on April 05, 2015, 01:25 PM
Another small issue with the latest version (in Win 7): if I search FARR for a folder and launch it the navigation pane (right side folder tree structure) is disabled, as I want it to be and as is default on my system. But if I launch a folder from an alias with
[Select]
dolaunch C:\test\

then explorer opens with the navigation pane enabled. If I disable it manually and rerun the alias the pane appears again. It didn't appear in earlier versions of FARR.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.220.01 BETA - April 12, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 12, 2015, 12:17 AM
Version 2.220.01 - Apr 12, 2015 BETA

New Quick Search Words tab
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.220.01 BETA - April 12, 2015
Post by: tomos on April 12, 2015, 02:49 AM
  • [Feature] A new "Quick Search Words" tab in options allows you to specify quick search word replacements; here you can quickly specify words that have alternate meanings when typed into the search box.  Start each line with a search word, followed by = and then the replacement text.  For example, if you would like to be able to type "ff" to search for "firefox" you can specify that here as "ff = firefox".  This just makes it much easier to do certain simple things without using aliases.  Note that replacements will only be made on word boundaries ("ff" will not match "eff").
-mouser (April 12, 2015, 12:17 AM)

my kind of feature :Thmbsup:
(easy to use :-[)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.220.01 BETA - April 12, 2015
Post by: Nod5 on April 12, 2015, 07:23 AM
[Feature] A new "Quick Search Words" tab in options allows you to specify quick search word replacements
-mouser (April 12, 2015, 12:17 AM)
Nice!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.220.01 BETA - April 12, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 12, 2015, 12:38 PM
Minor update:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.220.01 BETA - April 12, 2015
Post by: cranioscopical on April 12, 2015, 01:28 PM
Yeah, that's handy  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.220.01 BETA - April 12, 2015
Post by: Nod5 on April 19, 2015, 12:56 PM
I've tried 2.220.01 beta. In Win 8.1 on a laptop with a high res screen no icons are shown in FARR. And the issue mentioned above persists: when FARR opens a folder (via alias or through regular search and match) in Explorer the left side tree view navigation pane is always shown, even if disabled and not visible when opening the same explorer folders from a link on the desktop. The navigation pane didn't show in FARR versions before the spring 2015 updates.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.220.01 BETA - April 12, 2015
Post by: IainB on April 19, 2015, 06:22 PM
@mouser: Thanks! I downloaded latest FARR v2.220.01 Beta from the link here (https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/downloads/beta/FindAndRunRobotSetup.exe) in the opening post.
It installed and seems to run fine under Win8.1-64 PRO, but I noticed on DCupdater that it thinks this is v2.219.01.
Is that actually the correct version number for the latest Beta or have I downloaded a slightly older version?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.220.01 BETA - April 12, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 19, 2015, 07:40 PM
you have the latest, i just didn't update version number.

the folder navigation issue is a bit odd -- i do have an idea how to fix though, so hopefully i will fix for next version.

as for icons.. that's trickier.. anyone else notice anything odd?
does the icon problem happen in both large display mode and small display mode?
there is a setting on the Tweaks tab that might be worth a try too.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.220.01 BETA - April 12, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 19, 2015, 11:29 PM
Nod5, can you try redownloading the new beta and see if it fixes your explorer problem?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.220.01 BETA - April 12, 2015
Post by: sfeldman on April 21, 2015, 10:14 AM
One issue - with a high resolution and scaling turned on, new FARR looks really bad :(
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.220.01 BETA - April 12, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 21, 2015, 01:43 PM
Hmm.. can you elaborate? Do you mean that with scaling turned on the new beta looks different than previous releases? Or are you just making a general comment about the effect of scaling on FARR which is true for old versions of FARR too.
Can you show me a screenshot?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.220.01 BETA - April 12, 2015
Post by: phitsc on April 21, 2015, 02:03 PM
Everything is tiny. This is v2.218.02 on a 4k screen.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.220.01 BETA - April 12, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 21, 2015, 02:09 PM
Hmm, sounds like on a tiny screen you are going to have to do some tweaks on the Font Overides tab:
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

I'll look into some of the scaling options and see if there is something better I can do.


But to confirm -- is this something new or something that has always been the case for FARR running on super hi-res screens?

I should say, I run FARR (and my other apps) on a 2560x1440 screen, and I think it looks perfect at that high resolution.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.220.01 BETA - April 12, 2015
Post by: phitsc on April 21, 2015, 03:06 PM
It's a 15'' screen, so not extremely tiny. I'm not completely sure, but I think it's a problem of the newest version. Can I download an older release somewhere to make sure?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.220.01 BETA - April 12, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 21, 2015, 03:21 PM
Here's an older version:
https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/downloads/old/FindAndRunRobotPortable_112913.zip
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 21, 2015, 08:28 PM
New beta:
Version 2.221.01 - Apr 22, 2015
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: Nod5 on April 22, 2015, 01:25 AM
2.221.01 beta feedback:
Win 7 and Win 8.1: the issue with folders opening with navigation pane in Explorer is now gone  :Thmbsup:

Win 8.1 pro on laptop with high dpi screen:
- no icons
- aliases with browsers plus url parameter do not launch:
test | "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" https://google.com/
test | "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" https://google.com/
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 22, 2015, 01:37 AM
If anyone has ideas about why win8 is borked on these things, let me know -- otherwise i guess i'm going to have to break on the virtual machine and start experimenting.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: phitsc on April 22, 2015, 02:45 AM
Here's an older version:
https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/downloads/old/FindAndRunRobotPortable_112913.zip
-mouser (April 21, 2015, 03:21 PM)
Confirmed, this one is not tiny.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 22, 2015, 02:50 AM
great -- excellent discovery, then i should be able to fix in short order.
i wonder if people could check the win8 icons in that older one too, to tell me if maybe that problem is new too?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: phitsc on April 22, 2015, 02:52 AM
great -- excellent discovery, then i should be able to fix in short order.
i wonder if people could check the win8 icons in that older one too, to tell me if maybe that problem is new too?
-mouser (April 22, 2015, 02:50 AM)
It is. I have icons in that older version, but not in the new one.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 22, 2015, 02:59 AM
thanks so much, i will fix.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: tomos on April 22, 2015, 06:07 AM
  • [Feature] On History Options you can now choose to have FARR automatically add all applications that you launch outside of FARR (that have foreground windows), automatically added to FARR launch history; this makes them visible in main window on display, and makes them faster to find.
-mouser (April 21, 2015, 08:28 PM)

this is great help (e.g. for new portable apps)  :up:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 22, 2015, 04:04 PM
Win 8.1 pro on laptop with high dpi screen:
- no icons

ok i need some assistance -- i just installed farr on a win8 virtual machine and i see icons.
what settings do you have that you think might be responsible for icons not showing?  can you give me any more info -- does it show no icons in any scenario, whether the icons are from typing "cpanel" alias or from browsing directories?
can you check that you have icons in windows explorer?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 22, 2015, 04:53 PM
Nod5, can you redownload the new beta i've uploaded and tell me if that's any different wrt win8 icons?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: CWuestefeld on April 23, 2015, 12:57 PM
[Feature] On History Options you can now choose to have FARR automatically add all applications that you launch outside of FARR (that have foreground windows), automatically added to FARR launch history; this makes them visible in main window on display, and makes them faster to find.
This is a fantastic addition, I'm very much looking forward to it.

[Feature] New option to require search words to match on left hand boundaries of words (whether contiguous enabled or not) -- can be useful in reducing spurious matches.
Will this be invoked by something in the typed search text, like "^mysearch" or something? Or is it a global option that you set for everything.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 23, 2015, 01:03 PM
Will this be invoked by something in the typed search text, like "^mysearch" or something? Or is it a global option that you set for everything.

it's a global option:
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: phitsc on April 23, 2015, 02:01 PM
Win 8.1 pro on laptop with high dpi screen:
- no icons

ok i need some assistance -- i just installed farr on a win8 virtual machine and i see icons.
what settings do you have that you think might be responsible for icons not showing?  can you give me any more info -- does it show no icons in any scenario, whether the icons are from typing "cpanel" alias or from browsing directories?
can you check that you have icons in windows explorer?
-mouser (April 22, 2015, 04:04 PM)

I see icons both with cpanel and directory browsing, but not with regular application searching. Can't tell you about options though. The options dialog is so tiny it hurts my eyes trying to read it  ;)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 23, 2015, 02:12 PM
, but not with regular application searching
ok so that suggests to me that the problem is with shortcut icon lookup..

can you redownload and try new beta i just uploaded?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: phitsc on April 23, 2015, 03:51 PM
Beta doesn't want to be downloaded right now. I'll try again tomorrow.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 23, 2015, 06:26 PM
nod5?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: phitsc on April 24, 2015, 02:11 AM
Mouser, for some reasone I still can't download the beta. Gets stuck about halfway through.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: phitsc on April 24, 2015, 03:25 AM
Still no shortcut icons with v2.221.01.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 24, 2015, 08:26 AM
Wow that surprises me.. Ok I must be overlooking something.
Thanks for the testing, I'll have a new version to test soon -- I'll get this fixed.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: IainB on April 24, 2015, 09:08 AM
Running FARR v2.221.01 Beta in Win8.1-64 PRO, on a laptop.
I just noticed the correct icons were missing too. I don't usually look for the icons, so had not realised they were blank squares document rectangles.

EDIT: 2015-04-25 1559hrs:
Here's an example.

[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: phitsc on April 24, 2015, 09:36 AM
Wow that surprises me.. Ok I must be overlooking something.
Thanks for the testing, I'll have a new version to test soon -- I'll get this fixed.
-mouser (April 24, 2015, 08:26 AM)
If there's anything specific you want me to check out let me know.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 24, 2015, 06:43 PM
can you take a look at a shortcut (or two) where farr does not show the icon properly, and look at the properties of it, and tell me if you see anything interesting?
is it a 64bit app? do 32bit apps show icons?  any clue you can give me about which shortcuts dont show icons and which do..
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 24, 2015, 06:45 PM
if someone is willing to run a debug version and do some back and forth emails with me this weekend to try to track down the problem in log files it would be appreciated.
email me at: [email protected]
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 24, 2015, 08:01 PM
But of course the best thing would be if i could duplicate the problem.

Here's an idea -- can someone with bad icons on win8 do a search that finds a built-in windows 8 app that should have an icon but doesn't, and then give me a screenshot so i can try to reproduce the problem here?

For example, searching for Notepad and Wordpad give blank icons?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: wut?! on April 24, 2015, 09:28 PM
I'm running 8.1, but I am unable to find any icons which don't display correctly. Are there any common offenders I can try? Notepad and Wordpad both work.

Sorry for the unhelpful "working-for-me" post.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: IainB on April 24, 2015, 11:04 PM
I just made a correction, and added an image as an example, to my post above.
Sorry. I should have given an example when I made the post.

However, the "blank" icons all seem to be God Mode functions or non-applications related, so maybe they are correct (i.e., displayed as they should be).   :tellme:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: phitsc on April 25, 2015, 03:56 AM
can you take a look at a shortcut (or two) where farr does not show the icon properly, and look at the properties of it, and tell me if you see anything interesting?
is it a 64bit app? do 32bit apps show icons?  any clue you can give me about which shortcuts dont show icons and which do..
-mouser (April 24, 2015, 06:43 PM)

Both the Word and Wordpad links have no icon. Might be the icons are only missing in large icon mode. How can I force small icon view?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: phitsc on April 25, 2015, 03:57 AM
Any idea how to fix the DPI problem? The current FARR version is unusable like this on my 4k laptop.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: IainB on April 25, 2015, 04:32 AM
Any idea how to fix the DPI problem? The current FARR version is unusable like this on my 4k laptop.
-phitsc (April 25, 2015, 03:57 AM)
The FARR->Options screen is almost unusable on my laptop now as well. Very small text. I was thinking it was my eyes that were the problem, but no.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 25, 2015, 05:15 AM
Can you guys try the new beta (2.222.2), which i'm sure will break something but lets see what it does for the high DPI issue and windows 7 icons.  Let me know.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: IainB on April 25, 2015, 07:36 AM
That file installed v2.222.02 Beta, which started up with:
"Warning: Init common.com controls failed to initiate"
- or something.
A screenshot of the whole screen and showing FARR->Options tab shows Options to be of much the same miniscule variety as in v2.221.01 Beta. There is a difference, but it is not any better.

This screenshot is per v2.222.02:

[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]


This screenshot is per v2.221.01:

[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]


The miniscule size of the Options panel is not apparent in the screenshot as viewed on this page, since it enlarges the image.
If the Options panel were actually the size/scale of that image, then it would not be difficult to read.
However, the screenshots do enable one to compare the (very) minor differences between the panels.

I reverted to v2.221.01 Beta after doing this comparison.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: phitsc on April 25, 2015, 03:01 PM
Sorry mouser. For some reason I can't download the beta. Stops half-way through. Last time clearing the browser cache helped, but not this time. I really don't understand what's wrong. I'll have to try again tomorrow.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: Nod5 on April 25, 2015, 05:09 PM
Sorry for late reply mouser, very short on time. Updated feedback on v2.221.01 (win8.1 pro device with high dpi screen): in large icon mode, no icons whatsoever are shown in the result list. In small icon mode icons are shown correctly.

[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]


[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

I use font overrides: editbox height 30, result height 20, sideline height 11. But disabling font override doesn't solve the problem with missing icons in large icon view.

How can I force small icon view?
-phitsc (April 25, 2015, 03:56 AM)
program options > settings > display options > lower right corner: results display style

IanB/phitsc: have you tried fiddling with the font (size) override settings as a way to make text less tiny when using a high dpi screen?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 26, 2015, 03:32 AM
In small icon mode icons are shown correctly.  <-- that could be a BIG clue.. is this true if you search for notepad, wordpad, rather than using cpanel alias?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: Nod5 on April 26, 2015, 09:26 AM
yes, all icons display correctly in small icon mode I think.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: IainB on April 27, 2015, 02:25 AM
icons in large or small size seem to be OK on my setup - Win8.1-64 Pro - though I am assuming that the God Mode icons (per screenshot above) are being displayed correctly as rectangular documents.

IanB/phitsc: have you tried fiddling with the font (size) override settings as a way to make text less tiny when using a high dpi screen?
-Nod5 (April 25, 2015, 05:09 PM)

I already successfully use font (size) override settings to increase the display of the FARR output panels/lists. However, fiddling with those settings further doesn't seem to have any observable effect on the size of the characters in the Options panels - still very difficult to read.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: phitsc on April 27, 2015, 03:00 AM
icons in large or small size seem to be OK on my setup - Win8.1-64 Pro - though I am assuming that the God Mode icons (per screenshot above) are being displayed correctly as rectangular documents.

IanB/phitsc: have you tried fiddling with the font (size) override settings as a way to make text less tiny when using a high dpi screen?
-Nod5 (April 25, 2015, 05:09 PM)

I already successfully use font (size) override settings to increase the display of the FARR output panels/lists. However, fiddling with those settings further doesn't seem to have any observable effect on the size of the characters in the Options panels - still very difficult to read.
-IainB (April 27, 2015, 02:25 AM)

That, and FARR should really display decently on high res screens without having to fiddle with the font options.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 27, 2015, 09:28 PM
Can I get you guys to try the latest beta and let me know how it looks now.

regarding:
in large icon mode, no icons whatsoever are shown in the result list. In small icon mode icons are shown correctly.

can i ask you guys to try a couple of things:
first, turn OFF any custom visual font/size stuff height stuff on the Font Overides tab -- it may be that it's cutting it too short to show the icons because of the height?
and second, if that still has no effect, can you try messing with icon size at the top of the Tweaks and Deugging page, making sure to completely exit and restart farr after you change that value.

let me know if the latest version looks any different.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: IainB on April 28, 2015, 07:02 AM
Using FARR v2.221.01 Beta on Win8.1-64 PRO.
CASE 1: Font (size) override settings are ON to increase the display font size in the FARR output panels/lists.

CASE 2: Font (size) override settings are OFF.
Changing icon size to 48x48 or 72x72 in the the Tweaks and Deugging page, and then restarting FARR, seems to make no visible difference to icons (large or small) in FARR List display or the small-sized font in the Options panel.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 28, 2015, 11:31 AM
Thanks Iain.

I've re-uploaded a new version, which should show as version 2.222.03 -- i'll make sure to update the version #s from now on so we can be sure we are talking about the same version.

I'm interested in two things: First, whether the large icons show in this version on Windows 8, and second, how it looks on high DPI setting where options panel is normally too small in prior versions.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: phitsc on April 28, 2015, 01:29 PM
v2.222.03 fixes both the icons problem and the scaling problem for me, including options screen! tested on a 4k 15'' laptop. No font overrides active.

excellent  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 28, 2015, 01:51 PM
that is wonderful news.

and thank you all for your patience and testing -- don't know what i would do without you folks  :up:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.223.01 - April 28, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 28, 2015, 11:38 PM
New official release:

Version 2.223.01 - Apr 28, 2015
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.223.01 - April 28, 2015
Post by: wut?! on April 29, 2015, 01:00 AM
Oh man, I really like the new foreground apps feature. I tested it out on a couple .exes that didn't show up before and sure enough, they started popping up in FARR. Nice one!  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.223.01 - April 28, 2015
Post by: IainB on April 29, 2015, 05:28 AM
Thanks, using FARR v2.223.01 on Win8.1-64 PRO.
All OK, except the font size in the Options panel is still almost too small to read properly.
Not a showstopper - I've been putting up with that and can continue to do so.

By the way, I'm not sure whether I mentioned this, I have been playing about with the Quick Search Words, which seems to work quite well with strings like these that I have tried:

The latter two are copies of two of my search bookmarks and are a sort of alternative to using Aliases.
I'm still experimenting with the QSW and freely admit I don't have a clue what I am doing.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.223.01 - April 28, 2015
Post by: Nod5 on April 29, 2015, 06:05 AM
Also confirming that large icons now work in Win 8.1 with v 223.01 with and without font overrides.  :Thmbsup:
 
I still have the issue where aliases that run things with parameters doesn't work in Win8.1 (works in Win 7). Example:
[Select]
test | "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" https://google.com/
I've tried it with different applications. If I plug the same application path and parameter into the win+R run box it works.
phitsc, IanB could you check if you also have that issue with aliases in Win 8?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.223.01 - April 28, 2015
Post by: phitsc on April 29, 2015, 07:09 AM
Thanks, using FARR v2.223.01 on Win8.1-64 PRO.
All OK, except the font size in the Options panel is still almost too small to read properly.
Not a showstopper - I've been putting up with that and can continue to do so.
-IainB (April 29, 2015, 05:28 AM)

Options dialog was fixed for me with v2.222.03. Will try later with the current official release.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.223.01 - April 28, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 29, 2015, 07:11 AM
I still have the issue where aliases that run things with parameters doesn't work in Win8.1

is it all apps or just web browser apps?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.223.01 - April 28, 2015
Post by: IainB on April 29, 2015, 07:59 AM
Sorry, I had not seen the message asking me to check Aliases...looks like the ones with URLs are not working.
Shall test some more tomorrow if I have time. Must get some sleep now.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.223.01 - April 28, 2015
Post by: Nod5 on April 29, 2015, 10:58 AM
is it all apps or just web browser apps?
-mouser (April 29, 2015, 07:11 AM)
All I think. Have tested Chrome, Firefox, Notepad and VLC.

update: using quote marks on the application path is the cause:

[Select]
1 works in win8 | C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe https://google.com
2 works in win8 | C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe "https://google.com"
3 fails in win8 | "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" https://google.com
4 fails in win8 | "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" "https://google.com"

Note: 3 worked in Win 7, so the behaviour is different in Win 7/8.

(Sidenote: while testing this I see that if an alias has multiple commands and the first is phrased in ways that will work (like 1 and 2 in win8) then all subsequent commands in the list for the same alias that are *not* correctly phrased will reuse the icon from the last correct command.)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.223.01 - April 28, 2015
Post by: mouser on April 29, 2015, 11:41 AM
ok thats a great help to me Nod5, i can fix that.
can everyone confirm that the only failing cases are when there are double quotes around the exe path?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.223.01 - April 28, 2015
Post by: phitsc on April 29, 2015, 02:33 PM
v2.223.01 works fine for me, including options dialog.

I can confirm that the above aliases work/fail on my Windows 8.1 laptop as reported by Nod5.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.223.01 - April 28, 2015
Post by: IainB on April 29, 2015, 06:47 PM
2015-04-30 1147hrs NZT - Confirming test results:
Using FARR v2.223.01 on laptop, OS=Win8.1-64 PRO:
Options pane: font used in display box is (unchanged from before) consistently almost too small to read. I would like to make it larger. Not a showstopper. Not sure whether it is a bug per se.

Aliases: The above 4 aliases (i.e., without/with quotes) as reported by Nod5 work/fail similarly on my laptop, except that I substituted the Chrome Canary as the browser and DuckGo as the search engine, thus:
Code: Text [Select]
  1. C:\Users\(UserID)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe https://duckduckgo.com
  2. C:\Users\(UserID)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe "https://duckduckgo.com"
  3. "C:\Users\(UserID)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe" https://duckduckgo.com
  4. "C:\Users\(UserID)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe" "https://duckduckgo.com"

So, Aliases #1 and #2 worked OK and with a correct result.
When Aliases #3 and #4 FAILed, the error messages were respectively: (notice the single and double quotes)
Code: Text [Select]
  1. -------------
  2. Windows cannot find '"C:\Users\(UserID)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe" https://duckduckgo.com'.
  3. Make sure you've typed the name correctly, then try again.
  4. -------------

and...

Code: Text [Select]
  1. -------------
  2. Windows cannot find 'C:\Users\(UserID)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe" "https://duckduckgo.com'.
  3. Make sure you've typed the name correctly, then try again.
  4. -------------
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.223.01 - April 28, 2015
Post by: mouser on May 06, 2015, 07:01 PM
See if the beta fixes the problem with result filenames in quotes:

here (https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/downloads/beta/FindAndRunRobotSetup.exe) (portable zip (https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/downloads/beta/FindAndRunRobotPortable.zip)).
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.223.01 - April 28, 2015
Post by: phitsc on May 07, 2015, 04:04 AM
I'm afraid it doesn't mouser. Both result 3 + 4 from Nod5's alias above still do not launch with v2.224.01 under Win 8.1.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.223.01 - April 28, 2015
Post by: IainB on May 07, 2015, 04:30 AM
@mouser:
 :tellme:   Looks like it's all fixed from my perspective.    :Thmbsup:
That is, unlike @phitsc, I get all 4 (not just Nos. 1 and 2) of the test alias searches to work OK now.
This is using FARR v2.224.01 (Beta), which I just now downloaded and installed.
The 4 search strings are (as above):
1. C:\Users\Iain\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe https://duckduckgo.com
2. C:\Users\Iain\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe "https://duckduckgo.com"
3. "C:\Users\Iain\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe" https://duckduckgo.com
4. "C:\Users\Iain\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe" "https://duckduckgo.com"

The test PC is a Toshiba Satellite L855D laptop,  and OS is Win8.1-64 PRO, with all auto-updates current to date.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.223.01 - April 28, 2015
Post by: IainB on May 07, 2015, 05:09 AM
@mouser: Regarding the difficult-to-read Options panel of FARR:
The FARR Options panel still has small fonts that are difficult-to-read.
The CHS Options panel has fonts that look a bit different, just as small, but which are not so difficult-to-read.
The ProcessTamer Options panel has fonts that look different again, just as small, but which are not so difficult-to-read.
The ScreenshotCaptor Options panel has fonts that look near-identical to the CHS Options panel.

After close inspection, I think the FARR fonts look as though they are less thick (maybe not so many pixels wide/dense?), but I can't be sure.

It occurred to me that these applications may not all use the same display output standards, and that if you were to standardise them to a common display output standard - (say) one that matched CHS or ScreenshotCaptor - then the problem for those users' displays affected might go away.
If you did that, then it might be a good idea to increase the font size used as a standard as well, since it could well be borderline-legible for many users wearing reading glasses or (like me) laptop-reading glasses. (The latter have lower magnification and a deeper depth-of-field to reading glasses.)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.226.01 - June 26, 2015
Post by: mouser on March 06, 2017, 02:59 PM
The FARR Options panel still has small fonts that are difficult-to-read.
The CHS Options panel has fonts that look a bit different, just as small, but which are not so difficult-to-read.

I think I will have a fix for this soon.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.226.01 - June 26, 2015
Post by: nitrix-ud on March 07, 2017, 04:15 AM
I think I will have a fix for this soon.

can't wait to try !
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.229.01 - Mar 24, 2017
Post by: mouser on March 24, 2017, 04:49 AM
Version 2.229.01 - March 24, 2017
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.229.01 - Mar 24, 2017
Post by: nitrix-ud on March 26, 2017, 04:43 AM
awesome  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.229.01 - Mar 24, 2017
Post by: mouser on March 26, 2017, 04:44 AM
It won't be so long until another update now that I've got my toe in the water.. I'll try to get back to a more frequent update schedule.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.229.01 - Mar 24, 2017
Post by: dantheman on April 01, 2017, 03:50 PM
Just want to say a huge "thank you" to Mouser for updating my favorite "Windows Super Key" alternative!  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.229.01 - Mar 24, 2017
Post by: mouser on April 01, 2017, 11:07 PM
Thank you for saying so.

The next update to FARR should be soon.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.229.01 - Mar 24, 2017
Post by: duarte.framos on May 17, 2017, 08:09 PM
Hell yeah! Keep it up, we have not forgotten you.
I use FARR daily and to date haven't found anything that even reaches its toes even remotely  :up:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.229.01 - Mar 24, 2017
Post by: mouser on May 17, 2017, 10:23 PM
Thanks for saying so  :up:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.229.01 - Mar 24, 2017
Post by: nitrix-ud on May 18, 2017, 02:19 AM
Hell yeah! Keep it up, we have not forgotten you.
I use FARR daily and to date haven't found anything that even reaches its toes even remotely
+1


Mouser, it's time to get updates out !!!  :D
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.229.01 - Mar 24, 2017
Post by: insulae on August 16, 2017, 06:28 PM
MAN YOU ARE A GENIUS!!! YOUR APP IS AMAZING!!!

(first my english is bad)

I come from Linux, I am sysadmin, but now i need to use a windows machine. In linux I have a "custom desktop" very minimal, and i use gmrun (is old and simple but works)

Now I needed something similar but in windows and i found FARR, IS GREAT!!
To many configuration and clears, very flexible. Has everything i dream :P.

So many thanks, And I want to thank you at least with a possible bug  ;)

First: i used a "vanilla" configuration

Second: the problem is when i use a configuration like (image farr1)

[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

and i search more than "my windows size" FARR generate the scroll, but if i want go down using the keyboard the scroll not response, "the selected item go lost"  like (image farr2)

[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

the next item "dont get down" the window remains fixed. If i move the scroll with the mouse works ok!.


Third: i think "is a bug" because when i change the option "result display style" to "small icon report, the scroll go down perfectly with keyboard and mouse, like (image farr3)
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

Thanks and regards, On my next "internet purchase" I will buy a license from the site (the US Dollar is expensive for me  :mad:)

Edit1: I'm using the portable version, I do not know if that can influence
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.229.01 - Mar 24, 2017
Post by: mouser on August 16, 2017, 07:06 PM
Welcome to the site, insulae  :up:
I'm glad you are liking the program.

Someone *just* reported this same bug the other day -- I'm not sure how/when it slipped in.
I'll be away from my desk this week but I'll try to get it fixed next week.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: mouser on February 11, 2018, 04:08 PM
Beta release (see first post in thread for download url).

Nothing really major but hopefully this will get me warmed up for some bigger improvements, and it fixes the weird titlebar date bug.

Version 2.233.01 beta - Feb 10, 2018
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: IainB on February 11, 2018, 06:52 PM
Thanks. FARR v2.233.01 running fine and showing the actual date/time in the header bar.    :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: yjs14 on February 18, 2018, 06:55 PM
thx! works great!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: Ishmaeel on February 21, 2018, 06:08 AM
Thank you for not abandoning my favorite piece of software, Mouser. Since you broke cover and stepped into the crossfire, it's only fair that we should pelt you with bug reports and complaints.  :P

A minor snag: cpanel aliases (actually, all aliases, but that is the only one I use) don't seem to display icons on my Windows 10 system.
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

When I peek with Process Monitor, I see that FARR is trying to access the whole alias definition as if it were an actual *.ico path.
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

No rush, just FYI.  :D Thanks again.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: mouser on February 21, 2018, 06:17 AM
How strange! I shall look into it.
So you say it happens with all of the alias icons on windows 10??

Missing icons is not a minor snag -- icons are a key feature of FARR!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: Ishmaeel on February 21, 2018, 06:56 AM
So you say it happens with all of the alias icons on windows 10??
-mouser (February 21, 2018, 06:17 AM)

Yes, that has been my experience. As I said, I don't use the majority of built-in aliases and most of them don't even have icon definitions, but the ones I tested all show up like this.

[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

I have another installation on Win8 but I have gotten so used to broken icons due to the Control Panel weirdness that I honestly don't remember if the situation is different on that computer. I can report back later if you like.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: mouser on February 21, 2018, 06:57 AM
If you could check that the alias folders have the icons in them.. and let me know if this is a portable or setup install.

Can anyone else confirm this issue?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: Ishmaeel on February 21, 2018, 07:19 AM
I have long been using the Chocolatey setup (latest stable).

Today I figured something could be wrong with that package so I uninstalled it and installed the version you posted at the top of this thread. (2.233.01 beta. Not portable)

Icons look like they're where they're supposed to be (I have "C:\Program Files (x86)\FindAndRunRobot\AliasGroups\Installed\cpanel\Region.ico" and all its friends).

Switching to large icons and clearing Windows icon cache did not help. Not using any font overrides.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: mouser on February 21, 2018, 09:01 AM
ok i will look into it and report back soon.. it's good timing, so hopefully i'll have a fix this week.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: Filipe Meira Castro on February 21, 2018, 03:21 PM
Regarding icons, it could be really handy to add a feature/option to show batchfiles icons in a different way:

if a batchfile named "testfile.bat" has, in the same folder, an icon file "testfile.ico" it could use that icon instead.

(I often use batchfiles, but don't want use a tool like bat2exe to embed the icon because the antivirus incorrectly usually detect the output exe as a virus)

:D
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: mouser on February 21, 2018, 08:12 PM
Strange, testing it on a vmware windows 10, the cpanel alias icons all showed fine..
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: mouser on February 21, 2018, 08:12 PM
Regarding icons, it could be really handy to add a feature/option to show batchfiles icons in a different way:
This is an interesting idea.. perhaps an option to set custom icons by file extension would be useful..
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: Ishmaeel on February 22, 2018, 01:20 AM
Strange, testing it on a vmware windows 10, the cpanel alias icons all showed fine..
-mouser (February 21, 2018, 08:12 PM)

I went ahead and switched to a brand new windows user profile and sure enough, cpanel icons are working nicely in there. So it looks like something about icon associations is kinda borked on my main account. I'll post an update here if I can figure out what it is.

One other thing I noticed though: In the new profile, I created a duplicate copy of cpanel in myaliases and named it "cp". (I also do this on my main account to save keystrokes.) Afterwards, the real "cpanel" aliases were still working ok, but the custom alias "cp" all showed a generic icon. This generic icon was different from the one shown in my main profile, so it's entirely possible this too is caused by something borked on my end.

Lastly, deleting the DonationCoder directory in MyDocuments and starting over with a clean setup did not change anything, so it's most probably due to some other Windows setting on my user profile.

Anyway, thank you for your time.

**A great idea about custom icons for batch files**
-Filipe Meira Castro (February 21, 2018, 03:21 PM)

I too would love this feature!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: mouser on February 22, 2018, 01:26 AM
I created a duplicate copy of cpanel in myaliases and named it "cp". (I also do this on my main account to save keystrokes.) Afterwards, the real "cpanel" aliases were still working ok, but the custom alias "cp" all showed a generic icon.
I'll have to go remind myself about creating duplicate aliases.  It may simply be that it copies the alias but the icons aren't in the new alias directory so they aren't being found.

One thing you should check out though is that FARR now has a "Quick Search Words" area specifically designed to make it easy for you to specify shorthands for things, so if you just added
cp=cpanel
To that, you could type cp instead of cpanel.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: Ishmaeel on February 22, 2018, 01:47 AM
...It may simply be that it copies the alias but the icons aren't in the new alias directory so they aren't being found.
-mouser (February 22, 2018, 01:26 AM)

Ding! That was exactly the case with my test profile. Everything was working after I copied all icons to [Documents]\DonationCoder\FindAndRunRobot\AliasGroups\MyCustom

"Quick Search Words"
-mouser (February 22, 2018, 01:26 AM)

Well, that's a much cleaner solution now, isn't it?  :-[

I still will need to use a custom alias for the time being though, because at least one of the cpanel aliases is not updated to show up on Win10 (namely, "Region").
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: mouser on February 22, 2018, 01:48 AM
can you give me a tip for fixing Region?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: Ishmaeel on February 22, 2018, 01:56 AM
can you give me a tip for fixing Region?
-mouser (February 22, 2018, 01:48 AM)

When I set the winvermin to 6.1 (as opposed to 6.3), it starts working for me. Dunno if it would break anything for other people though.

[Select]
Region | %windir%\system32\control.exe international /ICON=Region.ico /winvermin=6.1 /winvermax=6.3
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: Ishmaeel on February 22, 2018, 05:08 AM
...I'll post an update here if I can figure out what it is.
-Ishmaeel (February 22, 2018, 01:20 AM)

Well, that's embarassing. Turns out something was wrong with the *.ico file associations in my profile. I don't know what exactly fixed the issue, but I reset/deleted several different things and all is fine now. Sorry about the bother.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: mouser on February 22, 2018, 05:14 AM
not at all, glad you found the solution!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: mouser on February 24, 2018, 05:43 PM
I have made 2.33.01 the latest official release; it should now be available from the updater.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: erikts on February 25, 2018, 11:47 PM
I have made 2.33.01 the latest official release; it should now be available from the updater.
-mouser (February 24, 2018, 05:43 PM)

The text in FARR product page (https://www.donationcoder.com/software/mouser/popular-apps/farr) still prints "LATEST OFFICIAL RELEASE: Download v2.229.01" but the executable I downloaded is version 2.33.01.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: jacemdom on February 26, 2018, 12:08 AM
Wrong version number on website. But downloads v2.233.01.

https://www.donationcoder.com/software/mouser/popular-apps/farr

LATEST OFFICIAL RELEASE:
 Download v2.229.01
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: mouser on February 26, 2018, 12:36 AM
Thanks, fixed!
It's almost like I forgot I had to update the web pages..
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: erikts on February 26, 2018, 12:54 AM
Thanks, Mouser  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: jacemdom on February 26, 2018, 02:21 AM
Thanks, fixed!
It's almost like I forgot I had to update the web pages..
-mouser (February 26, 2018, 12:36 AM)

almost lol ;)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: Vanav on May 01, 2018, 10:13 AM
After updating to latest FARR version I see new popup windows:

[Select]
[Window Title]
Web Browser:  Find and Run Robot

[Content]
Sheetfiltepath: C:\Users\Ivan\Documents\DonationCoder\FindAndRunRobot\MyLocalData\userstylesheet.css

[OK]

[Select]
[Window Title]
Web Browser:  Find and Run Robot

[Content]
Htmlstr to show is: <head><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="file://C:\Users\Ivan\Documents\DonationCoder\FindAndRunRobot\MyLocalData\userstylesheet.css">
</head><body><i>hello here</i></body>

[OK]

How to reproduce:
1) Create plugin directory with fscript.dll of any version.
2) Create fscript.js based on FScriptSample with a call (full source (https://gist.github.com/Vanav/c50ae4c608de9f59294c54ca1a9bc013)):
[Select]
FARR.setStrValue("launch", "showhtmlraw <i>hello here</i>");
3) Type "fscript".

There is no issue with "htmlviewurl" or "showfilehtml", also creating userstylesheet.css changes nothing. This popups are very annoying with plugins line CZB_pack.

How can I fix this?
Where can I download previous version of FARR as a temporary workaround?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: mouser on May 01, 2018, 10:19 AM
I can't believe you are the first one to report this bug! I left some debugging statements in place for the new feature I was working on (userstylesheet.css).
I am uploading new version without them now.. Standby..
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: mouser on May 01, 2018, 10:23 AM
Please redownload from official links (https://www.donationcoder.com/software/mouser/popular-apps/farr).
Let me know if it's fixed.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: Vanav on May 01, 2018, 11:43 AM
Let me know if it's fixed.
-mouser (May 01, 2018, 10:23 AM)
Thank you, it is fixed now.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: mouser on May 01, 2018, 11:51 AM
Excellent  :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: mikeyww on July 28, 2018, 10:40 AM
Auto update not working.
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: mouser on July 28, 2018, 11:05 AM
It's just temporary. We have enabled cloudflare proxy security for the last couple of days because our server is experiencing overwhelming traffic due to some weird russia/china attempt to overload our server.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: IainB on July 29, 2018, 07:31 PM
Is it Russia, OR China, or Russia AND China, and how would you know?
Just curious.
It might be North Wales - a lot of agitprop there...    ;)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: IainB on July 29, 2018, 07:36 PM
Auto update not working.
-mikeyww (July 28, 2018, 10:40 AM)
I use DCUpdater to check for updates to all the DC apps/plugins as a single batch. Just ran it now. Seems to work just fine.(??)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: mikeyww on July 29, 2018, 08:40 PM
Problem is resolved.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.233.01 - Feb 11, 2018
Post by: wraith808 on July 29, 2018, 09:10 PM
Is it Russia, OR China, or Russia AND China, and how would you know?
Just curious.
It might be North Wales - a lot of agitprop there...    ;)
-IainB (July 29, 2018, 07:31 PM)

He would know from the IP addresses that the attacks are originating from, I'd assume.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.234.01 - Feb 26, 2019
Post by: mouser on February 26, 2019, 10:43 AM
Version 2.234.01 - Feb 11, 2019
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.234.01 - Feb 26, 2019
Post by: nitrix-ud on May 03, 2019, 09:37 AM
 :up: Thanks for making FARR better one release after another !!  :-*
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.234.01 - Feb 26, 2019
Post by: lindagriffithh on August 07, 2019, 03:43 AM
The last version from 2009?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.234.01 - Feb 26, 2019
Post by: mouser on August 07, 2019, 09:37 AM
The latest official release is from February of this year (2019).
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.234.01 - Feb 26, 2019
Post by: mouser on December 30, 2019, 09:36 AM
Could I get some testers of this beta:
Download beta version (2.238.01) from here (https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/downloads/beta/FindAndRunRobotSetup.exe) (portable zip (https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/downloads/beta/FindAndRunRobotPortable.zip)).

I've made some improvements to the way alias results with arguments are handled.. my main concern is that I might have broken something.. so if you could let me know if any of your alias results don't display or launch correctly..  There shouldn't be any change with what it finds -- I'm more concerned with the result displays for alias results, and possibly launching results with arguments..



Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.238.01 beta - Dec 30, 2019
Post by: mouser on December 30, 2019, 05:54 PM
Version 2.238.01 beta - Dec 30, 2019
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.238.01 beta - Dec 30, 2019
Post by: Nod5 on December 31, 2019, 10:58 AM
Quickly tried 2.238.01 beta portable in Virtualbox Win10 but couldn't get FARR to launch anything. Probably something wrong in my VM. Will get back at it tomorrow.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.238.01 beta - Dec 30, 2019
Post by: mouser on January 01, 2020, 12:36 PM
Tried on win10 vmware seemed to work ok.  Anyone else?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.238.01 beta - Dec 30, 2019
Post by: Nod5 on January 01, 2020, 06:21 PM
Mouser, I tried 2.238.01 beta portable in Virtualbox Win10 again now.
I confirm that this works:
- variables %FARRWINLEFT% %FARRWINTOP% %FARRWINWIDTH% %FARRWINHEIGHT% in results
- adding ICON="web.ico" or /ICON=web.ico to show a custom icon
I ran into issues with the quotes in filepaths and parameters. Will post details and tests in the specific forum post about that issue (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=49295.0)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.238.01 beta - Dec 30, 2019
Post by: mouser on January 03, 2020, 09:51 AM
I have experienced a bug when trying to use the "Explore Here" right-click menu of a result.. working on it..
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.238.01 beta - Dec 30, 2019
Post by: mouser on January 03, 2020, 10:15 AM
New version uploaded which hopefully fixes the problem; my recent code changes to better handle quoted arguements was stripping quotes when using the explore here option with a custom exe.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.239.02 - Jan 22, 2020
Post by: mouser on January 23, 2020, 01:38 AM
I've uploaded the latest beta as a final release.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.239.02 - Jan 22, 2020
Post by: skajfes on January 23, 2020, 06:40 AM
Something is broken with the latest version, some of my aliases have stopped working as intended.

So I have an alias like this:
[Select]
1000>>>Search with Everything>->dolaunch C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe -search "$$1">+>(.*)\s\s$

When I trigger the alias, I get the everything command line options window, instead of the search results. It behaves like I executed just "Everything.exe -search", so the quotes and the $$1 is missing.
I have other examples but this is the simplest one.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.239.02 - Jan 22, 2020
Post by: mouser on January 23, 2020, 06:41 AM
Sigh.. this is exactly what I hoped to avoid with the long beta release.. :(....

I'm looking into it..
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.239.02 - Jan 22, 2020
Post by: mouser on January 23, 2020, 06:51 AM
Can you give me an example of what your $$1 would be?

Ok i see the problem.. working on it..
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.239.02 - Jan 22, 2020
Post by: mouser on January 23, 2020, 07:04 AM
skajfes, can you redownload the new version and see if it fixes it? (i think it should).
The problem was that I recently rewrote my parsing of commandline arguments to respect double quoted arguments and it seems in the process i messed up the handling of multiple arguments (it was sending them in reverse order).  Should be fixed now.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.239.02 - Jan 22, 2020
Post by: skajfes on January 23, 2020, 07:31 AM
 :Thmbsup: Works like a charm. Thanks.
Sorry, I kind of missed the beta version so I didn't test it before.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.239.02 - Jan 22, 2020
Post by: mouser on January 23, 2020, 07:32 AM
Thanks for reporting the problem so quickly -- at least you saved me some (further) embarrassment!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.239.02 - Jan 22, 2020
Post by: anandcoral on January 24, 2020, 06:26 AM
Website not updated properly yet, it seems.

[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

Further now, Win10 is also getting paranoid on "FindAndRunRobotSetup.exe" installer !

[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

Regards,

Anand
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.239.02 - Jan 22, 2020
Post by: AJolly on January 27, 2020, 07:53 PM
Edit: solved
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.239.02 - Jan 22, 2020
Post by: Filipe Meira Castro on February 09, 2020, 05:56 PM

So I have an alias like this:
[Select]
1000>>>Search with Everything>->dolaunch C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe -search "$$1">+>(.*)\s\s$
-skajfes (January 23, 2020, 06:40 AM)

How is this working? Do you get the results in FARR? That would mean indexing on FARR exists!!!!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.239.02 - Jan 22, 2020
Post by: skajfes on February 10, 2020, 02:18 AM
How is this working? Do you get the results in FARR? That would mean indexing on FARR exists!!!!
-Filipe Meira Castro (February 09, 2020, 05:56 PM)
No indexing in FARR. The alias is triggered by appending two spaces the end of a search string. The alias opens everything.exe with the search query from FARR.

I use it when searching for things in FARR, if it doesn't provide a result, just append two spaces, same query is then searched in Everything
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.239.02 - Jan 22, 2020
Post by: Filipe Meira Castro on February 10, 2020, 02:27 AM

No indexing in FARR. The alias is triggered by appending two spaces the end of a search string. The alias opens everything.exe with the search query from FARR.

I use it when searching for things in FARR, if it doesn't provide a result, just append two spaces, same query is then searched in Everything

-skajfes (February 10, 2020, 02:18 AM)

Ok! Looks a good idea still, will give it a try someday... or hopefully mouser gets inspired and implement indexing that would be handy at least for a 1st stage search ;)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.239.02 - Jan 22, 2020
Post by: Filipe Meira Castro on February 10, 2020, 02:32 AM
Launch file, Keep FARR opened and Continue searching! - "ctrl+dbl click" launches the file and keeps FARR opened but it should also keep populating results insead of stopping further search!

@mouser, maybe a good idea to be included on the next version? ;)
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.250.0 beta - Mar 23, 2020
Post by: mouser on March 23, 2020, 05:30 AM
Minor beta release:

Version 2.250.00 - Mar 8, 2020
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.250.0 beta - Mar 23, 2020
Post by: Jabberwock on April 06, 2020, 05:15 AM
For me the beta did not fix the 'Explore here' problem - the path still gets truncated (I am using Directory Opus as the explorer).
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.250.0 beta - Mar 23, 2020
Post by: mouser on April 06, 2020, 12:48 PM
Can you elaborate a little on what's happening and what should be happening?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.250.0 beta - Mar 23, 2020
Post by: Jabberwock on April 23, 2020, 05:29 PM
Sorry for the late response! I forgot about this topic...

The 'Explore here' menu item from the right-click menu on a searched item lists the correct path, but when used, it gets truncated, e.g. 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Gaming\freepiebeta\' sends me to the folder 'C:\Program' in Directory Opus. The menu item 'Copy target path' provides the correct path to the item. My version is v2.250.0.
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.250.0 beta - Mar 23, 2020
Post by: mouser on April 23, 2020, 06:07 PM
Are you using a custom file explorer on the "External Tools and Plugins" options tab?
If so try double quoting the $$1, like:
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.250.0 beta - Mar 23, 2020
Post by: Jabberwock on April 24, 2020, 05:34 AM
Yes, that works! Thank you!
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.250.0 beta - Mar 23, 2020
Post by: mouser on April 24, 2020, 06:31 AM
 :Thmbsup:
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.250.0 beta - Mar 23, 2020
Post by: nxqd on May 23, 2020, 01:10 AM
Great, Jabberwock, it's the exact question I'm going to ask :)

Btw mouser, is there anyway I can change the font of FARR?
Title: Re: Latest FARR Release 2.250.0 beta - Mar 23, 2020
Post by: mouser on July 12, 2020, 10:36 PM
You can customize FARR fonts on the "Font Overrides" tab of options.