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Find And Run Robot / Re: Html View Mode in FARR (Find and Run Robot)

« on: June 02, 2008, 02:17 AM »

@all plugin writers: Be careful not to overuse the html view! I fear that instead of the normal result list artificial html result lists will be created just to make it look better...

very good point

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Html View Mode in FARR (Find and Run Robot)

« on: June 01, 2008, 02:40 PM »

i may have to make a little mini toolbar for the htmlview mode with options like "open in browser", refresh, etc.  and i guess an address bar too

that would be great, i also suggest a button to copy the url to the search box... so that you can trigger a url regex...

one thing i was thinking might be needed is an options page in FARR dedicated to the html view mode,

good idea, i think options on how to handle popups and new windows are a must

one thing it might include is a list of websites url regex patterns that FARR should open in it's internal window, vs. those it should open externally.  just an idea.

it would be easier using aliases no ?

let's say you have the infamous url alias :
^(https?://)?(([0-9a-z_!~*'().&=+$%-]+: )?[0-9a-z_!~*'().&=+$%-]+@)?(([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}|localhost|alextd|mickytd|([0-9a-z_!~*'()-]+\.)*([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]{0,61})?[0-9a-z]\.[a-z]{2,6})(:[0-9]{1,4})?((/?)|(/[0-9a-z_!~*'().;?:@&=+$,%#-]+)+/?)$

just add the two results :

$$4$$8$$9 | http://$$4$$8$$9
$$4$$8$$9 | showhtml http://$$4$$8$$9

and we are done !

my only fear is that we do not want to overcomplicate this -- it's not meant to be a replacement browser.

i think you are right, i see it as a starting point before using a full blown browser...

BUT in the other hand, i have quite a lot of web tools that i run locally that will be used right within FARR, and that is pretty amazing !

keep up the good work

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Instant infos via aliases?

« on: June 01, 2008, 02:31 PM »

the biggest problem with this plugin idea is that it threatens to be so complicated that it never gets coded, so we need to figure out a nice reasonable set of ideas.

i agree

at first i thought this plugin idea was pretty much like searching for lines in a file (which is very similar to searching for files in a folder...)
i think this plugin will be great

however i DO think a simple core function for aliases would really be great, aside from this powerful plugin
this function is :
dosearchfile similar to dosearch....
or simply a new form of keyword for dosearches

dosearch +modifier_specifying_file_to_be_searched

then you can add an action modifier... and you can do many things

for instance i found a simple .ahk script on the autohotkey forum, it works as follow :
if you run msn.ahk [email protected]
it opens the conversation with your friend [email protected]

with a core function in less than a minute you can set up the following alias :

msn
^msn (.*)
dosearch +file_with_list_of_friend_emails +open_msn_ahk $$1

then set open_msn_ahk as the following alias :
msn.ahk $$1

i can find dozens of uses...

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Html View Mode in FARR (Find and Run Robot)

« on: June 01, 2008, 02:16 PM »

i would imagine you should be able to do this as is by right clicking on the link and choosing "open in new window"

my ie7 does not have this, is that normal ?? 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Html View Mode in FARR (Find and Run Robot)

« on: June 01, 2008, 03:25 AM »

waouh mouser, you've done it, this is pretty amazing ! it will really opens up new things, new uses...

good you keep esc key for FARR
links to open up FARR searches will be very useful too
about links i wonder what is the best strategy for new windows (target="_blank") and popups ?
i think it would be great to be able to open a link in your regular browser when you want it

say you google search within FARR, i'd like to see the results in FARR but then open an interesting link in my full blown browser...
maybe shift+enter AND middle mouse click are good choices

then what i'd like when i click on the link is see FARR closes automatically OR not

see this post
https://www.donation....msg112110#msg112110

obviously the more configurable the better

Also possibility to choose path (like html/body/div#1/a) which is going to be displayed would be useful

this kind of thing is useful, just have to decide whether to make it core part of FARR or a plugin.

i think this should be a core part of FARR, it would be very useful in aliases

i think one thing that is needed is to have an address bar, so that at some point you can copy the url and paste it in a regular browser, or copy the url in FARR search box
of course "bridges" between html-rendering object and FARR search box would be great

mouser, i know you don't want to create a full browser but an address bar is no gadget
one other thing i mentionned previously is the small bug about showmemo and showfile (and maybe the new showhtml command ??) :

if you have a showfile or showmemo command as a second result of an alias (or third, fourth, etc.)
the ESC does not select the search box... so you cannot close FARR by using ESC twice, you have to use the mouse ! to reselect the search box...
very annoying

just want to make sure it is not forgotten

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Html View Mode in FARR (Find and Run Robot)

« on: June 01, 2008, 03:07 AM »

it would be amazing if Farr could pull the page without special formatting like www.donationcoder.com would invoke html mode.

seems like you will be able to do it as it stands now :


regex mask :

^(https?://)?(([0-9a-z_!~*'().&=+$%-]+: )?[0-9a-z_!~*'().&=+$%-]+@)?(([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}|localhost|alextd|mickytd|([0-9a-z_!~*'()-]+\.)*([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]{0,61})?[0-9a-z]\.[a-z]{2,6})(:[0-9]{1,4})?((/?)|(/[0-9a-z_!~*'().;?:@&=+$,%#-]+)+/?)$

Show website | showhtml http://$$4$$8$$9

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Html View Mode in FARR (Find and Run Robot)

« on: May 31, 2008, 06:17 PM »

As it stands now you can have an alias open a web page in the FARR window

that simply rocks !!

is it possible to have the following alias ?

^php (.*)

PHP search | showhtml www.php.net/$$1

that would be awesome

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Post your FARR v2 Plugin Idea Requests Here - Plugin Writers Read In

« on: May 31, 2008, 02:23 AM »

Wow. I'll have to think about that one...

don't remember where i got this one... there are quite a lot of capturing parenthesis 
i DID add the localhost part very handy 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: feature idea : "dynamic aliases"

« on: May 30, 2008, 12:46 PM »

this i could do.

as long as it is "refreshed" everytime it is triggered that would be wonderful 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: feature idea : "dynamic aliases"

« on: May 30, 2008, 11:50 AM »

just a few thoughts, i think it is natural to be able to have "dynamic aliases"
because it is so powerful to have contextual aliases !

depending on the project you are working on... depending on which browser is your current default (same for the music player...)
depending on the keyword layout, depending on the current date, etc.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: feature idea : "dynamic aliases"

« on: May 30, 2008, 11:42 AM »

this seems pretty strange

i guess my english is not good enough  since this request seems just natural to me ! not even close to fancy 

other ways to do it ...     ok... let's try...

1) let's say i'm gonna change FindAndRunRobot.ini manually (i don't like that ... modifying .ini file duh)
could you add a command-line switch to reload the FindAndRunRobot.ini file ?

• -standalone = start FARR visible and in taskbar, and exit on close of window
  
• -search "search string" = start FARR visible (or bring up any running copy) and start a search
  
• -show = start FARR visible (or bring up any running copy)
  
• -exit = exit any running copy of FARR
  
• NEW! -reload = reload FARR ini file without bringing up FARR

2) better option in my opinion, i already asked for this many many times
please allow to configure the results of an alias in an external text file...
that is :
instead of having :
Music album search $$1 | dosearch -alias +folder_music +open_winamp +\ $$1
give the possibility to specify a text file :
c:\pathtofile...\result.txt

where result.txt is :
Music album search $$1 | dosearch -alias +folder_music +open_winamp +\ $$1

now an external program can change the result.txt file with much ease...

this has many applications : changing the action keyword, the folder to search, etc.

or you can just use that to quickly add an item in an alias without opening FARR
imagine a list of web favorite...

more core functions = more power !!

cheers, nitrix

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Find And Run Robot / Re: List of commandline tools that works well with Farr

« on: May 30, 2008, 09:01 AM »

Cool thread, but even cooler with a little example of what can be done with each of these tools. Either a downloadable alias file or just a snippet of code would be excellent. I've only just looked into creating my own alias' and using commandline tools, so some examples would be VERY helpful!

most of mine a quite complex... (not one-liner)

but here is one i love for CCleaner :
^cc$

[Select]

CCleaner | "C:\Program Files\CCleaner\CCleaner.exe" /AUTO

just type cc then enter ... it cleans your browser cache, etc.

use it maybe 50 times a day


and see this one for del.ico.us post :
https://www.donation....msg113400#msg113400

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR filetype?

« on: May 30, 2008, 08:41 AM »

this is indeed a very cool idea 

and i'm glad mouser will implement it !

it also reminds me my idea about dynamic alias
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=13163.0

@mouser, i'd really like to know your thoughts about this one

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Post your FARR v2 Plugin Idea Requests Here - Plugin Writers Read In

« on: May 30, 2008, 08:39 AM »

very nice nitrix -- you always come up with interesting stuff.

thanks 

i cannot stress that enough... FARR is very very powerful and much of your effort mouser should be put into core functions...

i believe that most of anyone's need could be done through alias with some more functions

keep up the good work !

oups i forgot when is the new release coming ????? and please please i'd like to beta test it the week end  !
 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Post your FARR v2 Plugin Idea Requests Here - Plugin Writers Read In

« on: May 30, 2008, 08:25 AM »

The thing that sparked my suggestion though was wanting to be able to choose which browser would launch, rather than having it just use my default. So I could launch say... irc://irc.prison.net/#donationcoder and have it open Firefox, since that's where I have my IRC program.

i use the following alias :

regex mask :

[Select]

^(https?://)?(([0-9a-z_!~*'().&=+$%-]+: )?[0-9a-z_!~*'().&=+$%-]+@)?(([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}|localhost|([0-9a-z_!~*'()-]+\.)*([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]{0,61})?[0-9a-z]\.[a-z]{2,6})(:[0-9]{1,4})?((/?)|(/[0-9a-z_!~*'().;?:@&=+$,%#-]+)+/?)$

then for the results just do the following :

[Select]

Default browser $$4$$8$$9 | http://$$4$$8$$9
Internet Explorer $$4$$8$$9 | C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe http://$$4$$8$$9
Firefox $$4$$8$$9 | C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe http://$$4$$8$$9 /STAYOPEN
Opera $$4$$8$$9 | C:\Program Files\Opera\Opera.exe http://$$4$$8$$9 /STAYOPEN

you  need to modify the regex mask to add protocols

here above, i just show a small part of my result list, you can add whois, whohost, html validation, etc.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: List of commandline tools that works well with Farr

« on: May 30, 2008, 02:08 AM »

nice list 

i use :

autohotkey : http://www.autohotkey.com

curl : http://curl.haxx.se/

imagemagick : http://www.imagemagi...org/script/index.php


...don't really know if they work well, since i add (most of the time) an autohotkey layer 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: is it possible to search the search history ?

« on: May 30, 2008, 02:03 AM »

Still not sure what you mean by this, which extra step?

if you don't need to use the history...

that's why an extra box (gmail like) would be a good solution IMHO

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Farr Alias: nircmd alias

« on: May 30, 2008, 02:00 AM »

it is not a plugin per se
it is only an alias

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Find And Run Robot / Re: is it possible to search the search history ?

« on: May 29, 2008, 02:30 PM »

For example say you had an alias called "go" that after you entered a keyword it would launch that website. So you type "go <donationcoder>" and the alias would simply wrap the keyword with www and .com. Now if you had a history for that alias as soon as you started typing "go don.." it would search your history and display donationcoder in the results box and than you would hit enter to launch the site. Pretty soon you would have all your most visited sites in the history!

i use a regex mask like so :
^(https?://)?(([0-9a-z_!~*'().&=+$%-]+: )?[0-9a-z_!~*'().&=+$%-]+@)?(([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}|localhost|([0-9a-z_!~*'()-]+\.)*([0-9a-z][0-9a-z-]{0,61})?[0-9a-z]\.[a-z]{2,6})(:[0-9]{1,4})?((/?)|(/[0-9a-z_!~*'().;?:@&=+$,%#-]+)+/?)$

just type an url and it works like a charm 


i think we need a different box because you don't want to add an extra step... and because we are not talking about history only...
and do not forget one alias may lead to many many results... not like most of the other launchers (launchy, dash, quicksilver, etc.)

now my initial request is to be able to filter the historys results (past searches), they are displayed in the result box and that's fine with me (no complain about that )

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Find And Run Robot / Re: is it possible to search the search history ?

« on: May 28, 2008, 02:58 AM »

Pleeeeeeeeeease also add the functionality to keep a per alias/plugin history that can be searched against when using that alias.

i can only agree, and support this request, it would be indeed very useful (dash does it well)

i think the result list should stay the result list  so i suggest having some kind of autocomplete box (like the infamous gmail contact list) above or below the search box
it could also be triggered when typing + to show all the modifiers
or when typing \ to get all FARR specific command (\STAYOPEN, ...)

however, i think being able to filter the history of launched items, search terms and plugins would be great, and maybe much easier to implement

keep up the good work mouser ! i really hope the new release is really approaching
by the way, i CAN beta TEST it, if you want 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Looking for a little help with arguments.

« on: May 28, 2008, 02:46 AM »

Sounds like a familiar mac app i have heard of . My only issue with this approach is that it potentially limits you to 3 actions. Whereas if you look at the app i mentioned above you could have many more steps to use when "building a sentence/macro". It also has a very clever way of handling this as well as providing feedback to the user as to which step they are currently at.

yes you are right the stack approach is very quicksilver-ish 

i also know dash (i even bought it ) it seemed like an excellent start but like you said it is kind of dying as of now

on thing i love about FARR is that you can specify multiple results for one alias, which is not the case for dash, with farr for a web search i just type : g keyword1 keyword2
then i choose the search engine...

with dash you would have to create a plugins...
Search->keyword1 keyword2->choose engine<enter>

well that's great too, but only if anybody can do it !

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Finished Programs / Re: tv_out: a shortcut for quickly turning extended desktop on/off

« on: May 27, 2008, 01:54 PM »

@Nod5
do you plan adding the ability to offset the second monitor ?

i would love it since my second computer is on the left side, so even with you great tool, i have to do pretty much the whole process 

cheers, nitrix

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Find And Run Robot / Re: 10+ suggestions to make FARR the most interesting launcher

« on: May 27, 2008, 11:50 AM »

Basically it is a FARR feature that lets you run anything if no results were found.

i personally keep the noresult command for google

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Find And Run Robot / Re: is it possible to search the search history ?

« on: May 27, 2008, 11:46 AM »

that would be awesome

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Find And Run Robot / Re: 10+ suggestions to make FARR the most interesting launcher

« on: May 27, 2008, 08:13 AM »

Another issue that wasn't mentioned is the search-as-you-type. The problem occurs especially with the Locate32 plugin - FARR sends what you write immediately to all the plugins. While this can be solved on the plugin level, it might be better if FARR didn't "send as you type" but instead give it a few milliseconds for you to finish the search query (or even better, make the delay customizable).

i think there is already a delay, which is not customizable... i already asked for that, IMHO it could be directly in the ini file

i think the real problem is when you search a network drive, where you feel that the search box is linked to the results
when i search for music on my network drive using a dosearch alias, FARR just hangs for seconds (sometimes even showing not responding in the title bar) just after i typed the trigger of my alias (so i cannot continue to type...)