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Find And Run Robot / New FARR flash video demo
« on: April 24, 2006, 02:52 AM »
As a big fan of FARR, I honestly have to say I was surprised at the flash video demo.  Not to sound harsh, but I'd recommend remaking it completely. I doubt I would download the program from watching that video.  Nobody watching the video will be 'used to all this', nor will they want to watch someone click through the help file.

My suggestion is to simply demonstrate FARR as one would typically use it.  Show how you can hit the break key, type a name, and go.  Don't go moving the mouse around and clicking and such, keyboard is the key here.  After you launch and close (don't play minesweeper) a few programs, noting that these are automatically added from the startmenu and such, /then/ throw in a mention about how you can make aliases.

Write yourself a script beforehand to read, and demonstrate it as though it is simply an extension of the features tour on the website.  The video should be as precise as screenshots in motion.  I know a much better video can be made.

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Find And Run Robot / Open path expression + slight typo?
« on: March 13, 2006, 03:34 AM »
I know this is basic stuff, but I was building a simple expression to open a folder on command like C:\misc files\ or F:\misc files\, etc.  Might be a good one to have built in some day, though you can use the "Run" alias with a bit more typing. For anyone else who wants it, use:

Name:
C:\ or whatever drive you know will be included

Regular expression pattern:
^([a-z]\:\\)(.*)

Results: (use two dollar signs, forum edits it out)
Open $1$2 | $1$2

Doesn't check for upper/lowercase, but doesn't seem to matter.

And am I mistaken or is there a slight error in that dialog?
"prefix descriptions with |"

The left side seems to be descriptions, and the right side commands... so | would prefix the command and not the description, wouldn't it?

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