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Find And Run Robot / Re: What hotkey(s) do *you* use to trigger FARR?

« on: June 29, 2010, 05:06 PM »

I use alt+space as it defaulted from my launchy days. Tilde or pause are not bad choices since they are single key hotkey(on a full keyboard), but they are a bit far off, especially pause as i have to press fn+pg up on my laptop to get pause. I think even caps lock is not such a disastrous hotkey as it seems at the first sight. Three key combinations are a bit too weird for me, as i bring FARR every two minutes to do something. Tap tap hotkey also seems like a good idea but all the obvious keys are at the side of the keyboard and seem a bit far off.

There was an argument that alt+space is used for menu that allows you to resize, minimize and maximize windows so it shouldn't get overridden, but i added the following to the nircmd alias pack that enabled me to do the same using Farr:

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1000>>>Max>->Maximize last active window | %ALIASDIR%\nircmd.exe win max handle %LASTHWND% /ICON=nircmd_icons\max.png
1000>>>Min>->Minimize last active window | %ALIASDIR%\nircmd.exe win min handle %LASTHWND%
1000>>>Restore>->Restore last active window | %ALIASDIR%\nircmd.exe win normal handle %LASTHWND%
1000>>>Center>->Center last active window | %ALIASDIR%\nircmd.exe win center handle %LASTHWND%

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR Alias "f"

« on: May 27, 2010, 06:02 PM »

I hope these changes will be included in the next release?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Just uninstalled FARR!

« on: May 27, 2010, 05:56 PM »

Good one

Best of luck at the new job 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Req: Ctrl+backspace to delete from cursor position

« on: May 11, 2010, 08:06 AM »

can you fellows truly be planning to use such an odd feature?

-mouser (May 11, 2010, 07:47 AM)

Why not? It is standard behavior for all text boxes in windows (as far as i can tell) and I use it very often, along with other shortcuts (ctrl + del, ctrl + left, ctrl + right, ctrl + shift + del...), so it is a bit confusing when FARR (launcher for keyboard manics) doesn't work as expected.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Updated: GooglePlus - View Google search results in FARR as you type

« on: May 06, 2010, 02:50 AM »

But I can't understand why, but everytime I type "gp", the options dialog comes up

-jgpaiva (July 22, 2008, 04:29 AM)

I had that same problem at first, but I fixed it by shutting down FARR, deleting the plugin folder, restarting & closing FARR and copying the plugin folder back.
I'm not sure if it was the copying of the plugin folder while FARR was not running or the renaming of the plugin folder (I had called it "GooglePlus_v1.1" before), but now it's working without showing the options dialog after every keystroke.

-jan001 (November 25, 2009, 10:17 AM)

I have found that this problem showed up with the lastest FARR version (v2.87.03). I tried many things to solve it but the only thing that saved me i going into the plugins source and have a look. Anyway quick fix is to go to FARRDIR\Plugins\GooglePlus\fscript.js and comment out/delete lines 94 and 95. I have had no sideeffects so far

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to use pskill with farr

« on: May 05, 2010, 02:12 AM »

I realise this might be a little late to add, but there is a ProcessKill plugin for FARR that works well:

http://taichi.dcmembers.com/Plugins/
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=9111.0

-skwire (May 05, 2010, 01:46 AM)

Yes, but ProcessKill plugin kills your local process where pskill can kill a process on another computer. And the rest of PStools are also used to manage processes and services on remote computers. Maybe this alias could be extended to utilize the rest of the tools.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to use pskill with farr

« on: May 05, 2010, 12:38 AM »

if you want it to show in the results list try using the mechanism for showing a custom caption, e.g.

pskill %cliptext% | c:\program files\pskill\pskill.exe %cliptext% $$1

this syntax tells far to show the part before the | in the results list, and in this case i think it should replace contents of the %cliptext%

-mouser (May 05, 2010, 12:27 AM)

It works! 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to use pskill with farr

« on: May 05, 2010, 12:21 AM »

True. When I try to launch it is replaced. But why is it not shown in the result list?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to use pskill with farr

« on: May 04, 2010, 11:21 PM »

Hm, I tried with an alias like this

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1000>>>>->I:\Downloads\PsTools\pskill.exe \\%cliptext% $$1>+>^pskill (.*)

but I can't seem to get the clipboard text to fill in.
FWIW I am using FARR version v2.86.01.
Here's what I get as a result:


I don't get it. I must be missing something? Does FARR have to be started with "copy to clipboard" shortcut or what?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: How to use pskill with farr

« on: May 04, 2010, 04:17 PM »

[1] I didn't have success getting %clipboard% to work though %cliptext% seemed to.

-ewemoa (May 04, 2010, 04:02 PM)

Neither did I. Mouser, could you update the documentation?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Feature request] Context sensitivity and alias list

« on: May 02, 2010, 06:12 PM »

I was playing a bit in Paint.Net and came up with this. Added tabs (when needed) to hold the results. Idea is to use shift+enter or something to add items to queue/basket and to use ctrl+tab to change tabs. offcourse i am not really sure of how would all this work but let's call it brainstorming - not every idea has to be a good one.

If off to bed

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Feature request] Context sensitivity and alias list

« on: May 02, 2010, 05:47 PM »

ok so to answer the first question -- it can't be done currently but i have been thinking about adding something like that.. it wouldn't be too hard to have a table of filename patterns -> aliases that can run on them.

-mouser (May 02, 2010, 02:27 AM)

I was thinking something in the lines of getting context menu items and adding those as actions on every file. Or at least the open with list items.

as for the file explorer to farr, i recall that something like this may exist.. or maybe it's the reverse that exists, going from farr search into file explorer..

-mouser (May 02, 2010, 02:27 AM)

I did a quick research on that and found no elegant solution. Best what I can come up with is using the clipboard. If you copy files they end up in clipboard as DataFormats.FileDrop which is a string[] containing the list of filenames. I tried putting all that in a plugin but it made no sense, since I couldn't get a plugin to activate as soon as FARR is activated.
Maybe this technique can be adapted to ewemoa's solution as a quick fix, but I think that should become a core function in the long run.

Another thing that comes to mind is what to do when multiple files are selected? The only thing I can think of right now is to add another field/simple result list/tab/something to FARR that could hold multiple selected files. And that the main result window shows actions available to those files. But I am thinking too much Quicksilver/Skylight/MightyBox way, which is not that bad by itself but I don't want FARR to suffer a lot of changes.

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Find And Run Robot / [Feature request/Plugin idea] Access last window menus

« on: May 01, 2010, 09:14 AM »

It would be very cool if FARR could access other application's menus, like Quicksilver for Mac does. I was looking through the window api a bit and there is a possibility to get window menus using window handle, but I was unable to make it work. I could see problems with getting the menus of some apps like Office 2007 etc, but what I am really interested is to make it work with at least Notepad++.

Ideas?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FarrWebMetaSearch 1.4.2

« on: April 30, 2010, 07:46 PM »

How can I copy the result to clipboard?

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Find And Run Robot / [Feature request] Context sensitivity and alias list

« on: April 29, 2010, 11:47 PM »

Can it be done so when user selects a file and types in + that all of available aliases and search modifiers be listed in search results?
Eg. I have an alias Zip that zips selected file. What I would like to see is: I select a file, then type in +, and a list of available aliases is shown, then I can select Zip from that list and Farr executes that alias. Then eventually, a plugin or something could be made to add all the context menu items for a selected file/folder to that list.

Additionally, can FARR become aware of what was selected when FARR was called? For example - I select a file in explorer and open FARR. FARR opens up with the file typed in the search bar.

Combined it would look like this. Click on a file - open FARR - +zip [or select from a list of actions] - enter. And my file is zipped.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Help. Can FARR get info, do something with it, then launch program?

« on: February 15, 2010, 04:15 PM »

Is there a way to do this - to get FARR to do two things when I hit enter?

-ebennetthill (February 15, 2010, 03:08 PM)

Offcourse you can do that

You can do that with an alias similar to this one:

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1000>>>>->http://www.google.com ;;; notepad.exe>+>^test$

You can specify multiple commands to execute by separating them with ;;;

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skajfes

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR alt tab 2.0 beta

« on: February 04, 2010, 04:03 AM »

I'm using FARR 2.80.02 and not having much luck getting this plugin to run.

My Troubleshooting Log says:

*Loading plugin: FARRAltTab\FARRAltTab.dll
 Failed.
*Loading plugin: FARRAltTab\FARRAltTabRCW.dll
 Failed.

Is this likely to be a case of -- try uninstalling other plugins?

Edit: I tried a FARR installation with only the plugin in question, but got similar results.

-ewemoa (February 03, 2010, 05:05 PM)

I am working on a new and improved version, but unfortunately I can't allocate much time for this particular task so it'll take a while.

Sorry

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Small feature requests

« on: February 02, 2010, 01:19 PM »

well the voldemort key does not work in Farr - thank god. farr seems to be a bit more advanced:)

-nullal (April 24, 2009, 02:02 PM)

maybe i am too tired and don't get it. can you elaborate?

-skajfes (April 24, 2009, 07:35 PM)

OT (and much later in time...), I guess, but here's my take -- "Voldemort" is a reference to a character from a popular book series [1], and an alias for that character is "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" (see: https://secure.wikim...ia/en/wiki/Voldemort ).  Earlier in the thread, I see the uttering:

  or you can just press the i-don't-know-what-it-is-called-key right next to the alt button.

But where I'm confused (back on topic) is about the claim that the key in question doesn't work in FARR...if it's the one I think it is, it works for me...


[1] Not mentioning the series name is my attempt at recursive humor here

-ewemoa (January 29, 2010, 01:52 AM)

Yeah, I get the reference to He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, but I am also puzzled by the claim that FARR is too advanced for the voldermort key (actually it is called Menu key or Application key according to this, and you can even emulate it with Shift+F10)? I mean, it works. And if anything - FARR would be pretty backward if it didn't support the voldemort key since it was introduced about the time Windows 95 came out. But again, I fail to see what FARR has got to do with it because the OS handles the keyboard.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Context menu

« on: December 11, 2009, 06:47 PM »

Ah, cool, thanks mouser.

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Find And Run Robot / Context menu

« on: December 11, 2009, 09:22 AM »

Is there a shortcut key that goes directly to context menu of the selected item? Ie. right click on an item opens FARR menu, ctrl-r does the same. I've configured ctrl+# to open windows context menu. But, what I am wondering is: can I use something like ctrl+right click to open context menu?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR Won't Run Anymore - Error Messages Galore

« on: November 17, 2009, 03:29 AM »

exit farr and delete the plugins\farrtunes and farralttab plugins
i think these are .net plugins and they seem to be crashing.

-mouser (November 17, 2009, 02:04 AM)

I'd start with FARRGoogleCalendar, as the error message says that there is something wrong with google dll. Google.GData.Client.GDataRequestException is thrown. And it isn't a problem with farr itself or the plugin, as the error message says that the server refused the connection as a bad request. Maybe google changed the api and that is causing the error.

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skajfes

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Not sure about this?

« on: November 08, 2009, 01:54 PM »

Does this only search the C directory or does it do them all C,D,E,F,G...., if it does could you show me how to do it coz i cant seem to find how?? ive got the latest one.

-ron101 (November 08, 2009, 03:44 AM)

FARR does not search all of your partitions. Default setting is to search your My Documents folder, Start menu, desktop etc... You can add additional folders to the search by opening Settings -> Search Folders. You'll see a list of folders that are set by default. You can add folders of your choosing, change order of search by drag and drop etc.

However, FARR is not designed to search your entire partitions or hard drive. Because of the index-less design FARR is slow on searching your entire disk. There is a plugin that can help you index your entire hard drive and quickly find files anywhere. More details here.

Although, you can navigate your entire disk by default, using "File browsing mode". Basically you just type c:\ into farr, and it gives you a list of files and folders inside C:\. You than navigate into folders by pressing tab, and filter the results by typing in more keys.

There is more on all of this in the help file provided.

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skajfes

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Can't launch .odt files in 2.77.02

« on: October 14, 2009, 04:27 PM »

Is .odt file type associated with OpenOffice? And if it is, have you tried changing the launch method (Program Options - Settings - General - Launch Method)?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Aliases - Dumb Newbie Question :)

« on: October 10, 2009, 04:47 AM »

Or, you could just look for torrent

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Unicode??

« on: September 19, 2009, 04:54 AM »

Have you tried setting font overrides in FARR? It is in Settings - Font overrides. Be sure to select script that suites you. I chose central european. Although I've tried playing with theese settings now and got no difference, but try it anyway.