Messages

26

Find And Run Robot / BUG: Result list doesn't follow selected item

« on: July 20, 2017, 06:41 AM »

Hi,
I've noticed a bug with the display of result list.
When scrolling trough results with keyboard, the list doesn't scroll down to show the selected item.

Steps to reproduce:

• Search for something that has more than 9 results (or whaterver results are visible in the list)
• Press keyboard down arrow to browse trough the list
• Try to press down to select item that is offscreen (ie. the 10th item in my example)

The item is actually selected, but you can't see what is selected, because the list doesn't scroll to show the selected item.
If you now press the up key on the keyboard and try to go past the first item, the selected item is now the last item in the list, and the list scrolls to show it. When pressing up further the list follows the selected item.

So works for up, broken for down.

I hope someone understood my rambling.   

27

Find And Run Robot / Re: Display issue after latest update

« on: May 31, 2017, 02:06 AM »

It works for me, on both machines (high dpi and regular dpi) 

28

Find And Run Robot / Re: Display issue after latest update

« on: May 30, 2017, 07:42 AM »

I will fix.

-mouser (May 26, 2017, 11:48 AM)

29

Find And Run Robot / Re: Display issue after latest update

« on: May 26, 2017, 09:43 AM »

No problem,

so, after I bring up FARR first time after it starts, I get the screenshot I posted above.
After a search (I didn't resize the window manually or anything, just typed in the search string), it looks like this:



Every subsequent launch of FARR brings up this:

30

Find And Run Robot / Re: Display issue after latest update

« on: May 26, 2017, 07:04 AM »

Hi, this happens on both of my machines, both are windows 10 x64
One of them has a high dpi monitor and scaling set to 200%
The other has "regular" dpi monitor and scaling set to 100%

31

Find And Run Robot / Display issue after latest update

« on: May 26, 2017, 02:55 AM »

Hi, after the latest update I noticed a small display issue with FARR.

Basically, after the first start the window looks like this:


After the first search, it resets back to normal, and then it works normally until FARR process is restarted.

32

Find And Run Robot / Re: [Feature Request] FARR use across computers

« on: April 26, 2017, 09:09 AM »

I even use dynamic search folders

-nitrix-ud (April 26, 2017, 07:21 AM)

Nice 

33

Find And Run Robot / Re: [Feature Request] FARR use across computers

« on: April 26, 2017, 05:59 AM »

I did it on specific alias files. The files actually live in dropbox, and the symlink is in C:\Users\<user>\Documents\DonationCoder\FindAndRunRobot\AliasGroups\MyCustom.
I didn't want to share the entire folder, because I have some computer specific aliases that I use.

I've created the symlink using mklink tool in cmd, basically:

[Select]

mklink C:\Users\<user>\Documents\DonationCoder\FindAndRunRobot\AliasGroups\MyCustom\myshared.alias D:\Dropbox\Apps\FARR\Shared aliases\myshared.alias

I don't share search folders because I didn't see a way to get them out of the FindAndRunRobot.ini file, which I didn't want to share across computers.
But I do have some aliases that rely on sharing search folders. I've gotten arround that by using search folder modifiers and user variables.

For example, I have a shared alias that searches my dropbox folder, which is basically just

[Select]

dosearch +dropbox

, and on every computer I added a search folder with path to dropbox folder for that pc with a modifer of dropbox.

Similar thing with aliases that rely on some app. For example I have an alias that opens the hosts file in a elevated text editor, and for the actual editor i use a user variable. So this is the alias:

[Select]

%uservar.Common.EditorSingle% "C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts" /runasadmin

and the EditorSingle user variable is set point to text editor executable on each pc. (On one pc it's Notepad++, on another is Vim, on the third one is portable Notepad, etc)

This works for me, but I don't change the search folders and user variables that often, and on a new pc i just copy the settings from an existing one and modify once.

In that light I would maybe propose that the settings file be split up into multiple files, and the criteria is what is generic and what is computer specific. So basically just extract SearchFolders and User variables to separate files.

34

Find And Run Robot / Re: [Feature Request] FARR use across computers

« on: April 26, 2017, 02:51 AM »

FWIW I basically only share aliases across computers. I did that via dropbox and symlinks. FARR is installed in default location (program files) and i've symlinked the shared aliases file from %mydocuments%/DonationCoder/FindAndRunRobot/Aliases to a dropbox folder. Works really well as I have a bunch of shared universal aliases which I update from time to time and don't change the rest of the settings at all.
And the rest of the settings (like search folders, user variables, search history etc) are really computer specific so I don't share them.

35

Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR updates ?

« on: February 23, 2017, 03:25 AM »

Microsoft will push an update to windows 10 soon that promises to fix some of the high DPI scaling issues, that might fix the issues for users that are up to date with their windows installations. More info here

36

Find And Run Robot / Re: [Feature request] FARR retina (high-dpi) aware ?

« on: December 13, 2016, 04:04 AM »

I have a 2736×1824 px screen on my surface 4, not sure if that classifies as retina, but it is a higher dpi than my regular screens. Also font scaling is set to 200%.
Anywhay, this is how it looks:




Maybe you're having trouble with the theme?

37

Find And Run Robot / Re: [Feature Request] FARR use across computers

« on: June 10, 2016, 02:03 PM »

I have a similar setup using dropbox.
I don't run into trouble with changing settings, since i rarely change them anymore. However, I do change aliases a bit. So I have a shared alias file that I symlinked from %appdata% to dropbox shared folder. This works well because FARR seems to instantly notice the change in alias. I am not sure if aliases are actually kept in memory, or loaded from disk every time they're required, but I works, and I'm happy.

I have a similar setup on each pc but there are some differences in text editors of choice etc. If any alias is using such a tool then I leverage user variables to define paths to tools.
I only have one or two for now, mainly a text editor, but that is beside the point.

38

Find And Run Robot / Re: Start FARR emtpy?

« on: May 07, 2016, 04:18 AM »

It is this option:

39

Find And Run Robot / Re: Alternatives / Competition

« on: May 05, 2016, 02:02 AM »

I like the integrated plugin manager in wox, being completely keyboard driven, even though it is a bit needy with all the confirmation dialogs (do you want to install plugin xxx? will now download plugin xxx? will now install plugin? will now restart wox?)

However, I found that a number of plugins that looked interesting to me just didn't work. And I couldn't get it to target a search to a specified folder (ie. just search my folder with code for solution files or something like that).

I also like the fact that it is open source and written in c#, to which I could actually contribute something.

But I also think that FARR is a much stronger beast than wox, with powerfull aliases and plugins, and a simple but really flexible search model (with custom scoring, targeted folders etc).

40

Find And Run Robot / Re: alias request: exit alias when result filter for regex matches no result line

« on: March 29, 2016, 04:02 AM »

I have not tested it, but I think this options should get you really close to what you want.
From my understanding, you will get the alias mathces and the results of any other searches in the same list.




[Edit: added image as attachment, rather than link]

41

Find And Run Robot / Re: Problem with dragging and dropping files from FARR window into Outlook

« on: March 21, 2016, 01:14 PM »

I have a half of an idea of using something like this in combination with an alias to automatically copy file to clip, possibly even paste.

General idea is an alias that would be triggered like this:

[Select]

some search +attach

and on execution on a file it would trigger the ahk script from above that would in turn copy the selected file to clipboard, focus the outlook message window (or last window active) and paste it there.

42

Find And Run Robot / Re: Problem with dragging and dropping files from FARR window into Outlook

« on: March 21, 2016, 12:21 PM »

Yes, but, I am betting that there is someone out there that wants both
Your call, you're the man.

43

Find And Run Robot / Re: Problem with dragging and dropping files from FARR window into Outlook

« on: March 21, 2016, 12:15 PM »

what hotkey would you like?

-mouser (March 21, 2016, 12:06 PM)

I would go for ctrl-c but you'll probably say no

Next best thing is to possibly make it configurable?
Or whatever (ctrl-shift-c, alt-c, ctrl-alt-c, ...), and I can recmap it to ctrl-c with ahk

44

Find And Run Robot / Re: Problem with dragging and dropping files from FARR window into Outlook

« on: March 21, 2016, 04:53 AM »

Yes, same thing happens with FARR and outlook combination.

When I drag and drop from FARR results window to new message windows in outlook, nothing happens.
If there are existing attachments added to the message, and I try to drag and drop a file from FARR to the attachments input box, then attachment is successfully added.
Also when I copy the file in FARR results window to clipboard (right click -> shell context menu -> copy) and go to new message window and press paste, attachment is added.

On a related note: is there a keyboard shortcut to copy file to clipboard (ctrl-c copies only file name to clipboard). @mouser: can this be included in FARR at some point?

45

Find And Run Robot / Re: Problem with dragging and dropping files from FARR window into Outlook

« on: March 20, 2016, 03:02 PM »

I noticed the same problem with Outlook when using a different app, (a file manager named FreeCommanderXE), haven't tried it with FARR. I can't be sure, but I think that Outlook is the culprit.
I've worked around it by just copy/pasting instead of drag and drop, which works fine for me.
I will test this with FARR tomorrow and report back with some more info.

[Edit]
I am using windows 10, FARR and outlook 2013

46

Find And Run Robot / Re: crashes on startup, windows 7, since installing latest windows updates

« on: February 15, 2016, 01:22 AM »

I had the same problem, looked at FARR log, it showed FARREnvironmentalVariables as the culprit. I removed that plugin, everything works.

47

Find And Run Robot / Re: alias for choosing program based on file extension

« on: November 15, 2015, 03:47 AM »

I had to look up your PCRE :  (.+\.(.{3,4}))\s?(.*)$

$$1 contains file name including file name extension.
$$2 contains file name extension maximum length of 4 characters.
$$3 contains optionally for longer extensions 5th char and more followed by optional white space and optional characters that may contain more white space and dots.

-wjamoe (November 14, 2015, 04:56 PM)

Just to clarify:
$$2 contains file extension of 3 or 4 characters. It would probably be better if I set it like \S+ instead of .{3,4} to match any length of characters that has at least one character.
$$3 contains anything else that might be typed after the filename - this is used for additional filtering of the menu.

@mouser, in the hexedit example the user needs to know beforehand that he wants to edit the file in hex mode.

-wjamoe (November 14, 2015, 04:56 PM)

This is not quite true. You can search for files like you do normally, ie. start typing part of the filename. And when you see the desired file in the list you add +hexedit to the end of the search string. If you have only one result in the result list it will change to the alias text, ie: Edit <filename> with hexeditor. If you launch it it will open in hexeditor. However if you have multiple files in the result list, when you launch any of them it will open in hexeditor, however, the result list will not change.

48

Find And Run Robot / Re: alias for choosing program based on file extension

« on: November 14, 2015, 01:15 PM »

Hi, I love this  . It's simple and effective.
However, I've modified it a bit to fit my needs better.
First I've changed the regex to (.+\.(.{3,4}))\s?(.*)$, and I've changed the result filter to $$2 $$3
This ignores the trailing space when you expand the filename so you don't have to backspace it after expanding the filename. It also allows to further filter the menu by typing in the tool you want. (ie. index.html opera)
This also simplifies the result list a bit, as you can just write $$1 everywhere for the full filename instead of $$1.$$2. Also it matches both 3 and 4 character extensions.
I like having the default program in the first place so I can just run it by pressing enter. I've found that just running the file directly has the best results for me, also running a program with just giving the name (see notepad example below), and without cmd.exe or shellexec

[Select]

run default program for file: $$1 | "$$1"
notepad txt ahk bat ini ion pdf | C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe "$$1"

49

Find And Run Robot / Re: Lunch DOS commands directly

« on: September 21, 2015, 02:54 AM »

There is an option for that in FARR.
Go to options -> Launching files. At the bottom, there is a Misc section, enter shellexec $$1 and you're good to go.
Screenshot

You then just type in your command in farr and press enter. The trick is that if there is no results FARR will launch the search string using cmd.

Usually when you type in a shell command with parameters etc it will not match any documents so you're good to go. For example ping google.com, shutdown /l etc

If you execute commands that match some files you can use an alias. For example, create an alias with regular expression ^cn (.*) and result shellexec $$1, then you type in cn <your command with arguments> and it should execute.

50

Find And Run Robot / Re: Using alias action keywords

« on: August 18, 2015, 03:15 AM »

Also, there is an option to "show action modifier label on 1 result".
Is it possible to show action modifier label on all results?