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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR C# SDK and Documentation V2 (19/10/2008)
« on: January 06, 2009, 06:01 PM »
Ok, I'm still confused. FARRTunes still uses SetSearchParameters and SetFeatureParamaters, and won't compile for me as it stands. Can anyone help?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR C# SDK and Documentation V2 (19/10/2008)
« on: January 05, 2009, 03:38 PM »
skajfes, any chance I could pls look at your source so I can figure it out?

Edt: I didn't see you post about the missing/changed SetSearchParameters method; Perhaps I need to examine the iTunes plugin more; I'm new to all of this.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR C# SDK and Documentation V2 (19/10/2008)
« on: January 05, 2009, 01:35 AM »
I'm having troubles compiling, using VS2005 and the latest SDK. I've copied parts from FARRAltTab, but I get "no suitable method found to override" for SetSearchParameters and SetFeatureParamers. I loaded the template, changed the class to my name, but left the namespace alone. Then just copied some bits from FARRAltTab. It compiled when I initially opened the template ok.

I note all the examples inherit from FARRPluginBase, not FARRCSharpPluginBase, but I get more issues if I change it to the former base, suggesting the template and SDK has changed since the example code was written.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature request: Access system tray icons
« on: January 01, 2009, 03:00 PM »
I don't see why it's not. I've seen programs that can "merge" all the tray icons in to 1, and clicking on that 1 produces a drop list to select each icon, which you can right/left click on as normal. So there must be some way to enumerate the icons, prob with the win32 api. Alternatively, UI automation might be able to be used, as was suggested in my quick googling on system tray coding: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms788733.aspx#UI_Elements_compare

But from the above software, called systrayx http://www.xdesksoftware.com/systrayx.html it is most certainly possible.

Edit: Bit more searching turned up this code:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/applications/ShellTrayInfo.aspx

Looks very similar to what I was suggesting. It seems a bit buggy, eg the right click menus remain, but it's essentially everything that should be needed to do the job. I would suggest reading the comments also.

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Find And Run Robot / Feature request: Access system tray icons
« on: December 31, 2008, 12:43 AM »
Hi,

Since FARR has done away with my start menu, I figured it would be nice to do away with the system tray also, be it natively in FARR or via plugin.

Here's how I'm thinking it would work:

Some alias, say "tray", would enumerate the tray icons and list them in the FARR results window. 2 user-definable hotkeys, one for left mouse click one for right, would trigger the assocaited tray menus, if available (ie, not all tray icons have left/right click options, some have both). Alternatively, you could simply left or right mouse click on the item, but that's somewhat defeating the use of FARR :)

So, you'd get your list and then press for eg, ctrl-fx for left click where fx is the function key corresponding to the desired tray icon in the results window. Or alt-fx for right click. It would then display the appropriate menu as it corresponds to that mouse click for that icon.

You could further refine the search results by for eg "tray <search term>" for those with more than 10 tray icons, where search term works like FARR's current search ability, including non-contiguous results.

This way you could hide most (all, if possible) tray icons but still easily and quickly access them, saving valuable taskbar real estate, esp for those of us on laptops with only 1280x800 screens.

Oh, and happy new year to all.

Regards,
Josh

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