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Find And Run Robot / Re: Stop FARR From Searching Further?
« on: May 06, 2009, 01:14 AM »
I like the idea of a beep and allow the user to key again, rather than guessing. Unless it could always guess correctly ;)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Stop FARR From Searching Further?
« on: May 04, 2009, 02:29 AM »
Or just simply stop on pressing one of the F-keys. That's what I use to launch programs on my laptop (no discrete numpad). I have accidently launched the wrong program due to this behaviour on a few occassions also. The problem however lies in the event process. When you press say an F key, that event might be behind the update list event and redraw event, so in this case the wrong program will still get launched, even though at the time of the F key press it appears to be correct. I doubt there is much you can do to solve this. It's simply how things work.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: System Tray plugin
« on: April 07, 2009, 05:47 AM »
Hi mouser,

Does this version work for you regarding the click events? The only thing I've done differently is compile this for x64 only. Worth a short, it maybe some data types were not getting converted correctly from 32 to 64bit, such as ints. But my understanding is that 32bit code should run fine in a compatibility mode under x64. Give it a shot anyways.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Moving from Launchy
« on: February 20, 2009, 09:53 PM »
skajfes, I don't see what time and effort is required to setup FARR. You just install, launch it and start typing what you want. Couldn't be simpler. I agree that if you want alias and such it takes more time, but you don't need to use all this. For simple searching, it's as quick and easy to set up as any other launcher. I will never go back to any other launcher.

And if you want the whole drive, use Everything as you suggested. You can even get a FARR plugin for it :) Instant searches ala launchy, but still with no indexing or performance hit. Perfect.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: System Tray plugin
« on: February 20, 2009, 09:47 PM »
Hi, joshuawood,

I tested PS Tray Factory recently but it didn't quite work for me, so I was very interested to discover your plugin.

A few things that are not quite working yet (on my system - XP Home) that I hope will help you :

* FARR itself appears as a folder icon in the list instead of the default white F in the blue circle which is how it appears in the tray

This is by design. Currently I have issues retrieving the icon of FARR, so I ignore it. This defaults to a folder icon instead.

* I have three hidden XP icons right now - two appear in the plugin's list, the other doesn't
* ZoneAlarm which is not hidden doesn't appear in the plugin's list

By "hidden" do you mean they are visible in the tray, but are hidden the by << icon? Or are you using a program to totally hide them?

* FARR doesn't disappear once I have picked an entry

This is by design. It's easy enough for me to change. Otherwise, if you go into FARR options, settings, Window mode/focus and select the option to hide FARR when it loses focus, it will also then work as you desire.

* I do see Volume, even though you said that you didn't know how to get system icons such as this

The volume and other system icons are only an issue on Vista, not XP.

* trying to select an entry with no tooltip and therefore no title causes an Access Violation - I won't do it again but maybe you could hide them in the first place

This is interesting. It shouldn't, but there are several funny things with this plugin. What software or such does not display a tooltip? I don't have anything to test here, so let me know so I can perhaps try.

I would like to continue work on this, unfortunately most of the code is not mine, and it's far beyond my ability to debug, even though I can follow the basic gist of what it's doing. I've just pieced things together.

Mouser has suggested an alternative method to obtaining the icons, so I'll try and get that going. Icons are really a last issue for me though, working functionality for all is the main goal before beauty.

Thanks for trying. I will post the source in the next few days for anyone interested, like I said I would.

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