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PopUp Wisdom / Re: Two 'essential' features

« on: November 04, 2008, 05:02 AM »

An interesting idea -- I guess to see it then I could just invoke 'Show Desktop'.

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PopUp Wisdom / Re: Two 'essential' features

« on: November 03, 2008, 10:41 PM »

An additional nudge regarding the focus issue 

I started thinking whether there might be some other (optional/additional) way [1] to indicate to a user that there's a new quote waiting and then when they are ready they can pop up a quote via hotkey or double-clicking the tray icon...


[1] For example, a colored border around the edges of the screen or some indication via the tray icon...I guess I could use some other app just to get a recurring timer plus subsequent action in combination.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Fingers in the nose guide to build javascript plugins. Does that mean its ea

« on: November 03, 2008, 09:34 AM »

Much better thanks!

Now if we can get mouser, ecaradec and/or czechboy [1] to comment on the actual content 


[1] Or any other relevant entity!

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Fingers in the nose guide to build javascript plugins. Does that mean its ea

« on: November 03, 2008, 07:11 AM »

Hmmm...no smily?

"usually" is a bit too flexible and all-encompassing for my taste in this context 

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Living Room / Re: Help me build my new Home Theater PC

« on: November 03, 2008, 07:07 AM »

If I had to choose a remote it would probably be along the lines of ATI's Remote Wonder or, (since you're going to use BeyondTV anyway), SnapStream's Firefly.

-4wd (November 03, 2008, 06:19 AM)

A bit of a tangent here -- does anyone have experience w/ EZ Commander?  I'm of the dying breed of trackball users and have been considering whether this remote might be decent.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Tray Icon ..

« on: November 02, 2008, 10:20 PM »

Thanks for the pointer -- I'll see how that script and what you posted in that thread work out.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Fingers in the nose guide to build javascript plugins. Does that mean its ea

« on: November 02, 2008, 09:33 PM »

Thanks for the comment of confirmation

I hope that if it's broken it gets fixed and if it's not broken, I hope my understanding can get fixed...

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Coding Snacks / Re: codename: CopyCap - a tool to copy caption text

« on: November 02, 2008, 09:31 PM »

Ewwwwwwwwww

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Tray Icon ..

« on: November 02, 2008, 09:30 PM »

Well, we have the Task Manager for that

-d4ni (November 02, 2008, 06:24 PM)

Not sure I follow this -- unless I have the Task Manager window open all of the time, wouldn't I have to perform a series of actions to check whether FARR is running?

Besides, you should always have FARR running, no icon should be required to check if it is

When doing plugin development, I don't always end up having FARR running -- sometimes it goes away and sometimes I terminate the process

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Tray Icon ..

« on: November 02, 2008, 09:48 AM »

FWIW, I look at tray icons in some cases to see if certain things are running -- I know this doesn't work out in all situations, but it's been useful for me enough to want to leave at least FARR's icon visible.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Fingers in the nose guide to build javascript plugins. Does that mean its ea

« on: November 02, 2008, 07:30 AM »

I hope this is an appropriate thread for the following...

I've been reading the guide while testing out some code and am puzzled by something (well, I'll start w/ one thing anyway...).  I encountered the following text in a version of the guide I downloaded:

querynokeyword is the query without alias

I tried taking a look at values for this parameter via a debugger and I didn't get the feeling that what I was seeing corresponded to "query without the alias".  In fact, I found the content quite odd -- looking at a portion of some of the source code for fscript I got from github I got the sense that querynokeyword is related to searchstring_lc_nokeywords.  Stranger still, I didn't get the feeling that what I saw corresponded to the search string without keywords either.

Any comments on what querynokeyword and/or searchstring_lc_nokeywords actually are (as well as perhaps what they are supposed to be...)?

For reference, in a plugin I'm working on now, for onRegexSearchMatch at one point when queryraw was:

[Select]

webgrab http://www.weather.com/weather/local/11020 \"Feels Like<BR> +(\d+)\" \"Weather in your town is %1 degrees\"\n

I got [1] the following for querynokeyword:

[Select]

webgrab http://www.weather.com/weather/local/11020 \"feels like<br> \"weather in your town is %1 degrees\"\n +(\d+)\"

I think this is with FScript 1.8.

Help would be appreciated


[1] I hope I've recreated the values here appropriately -- Microsoft Script Debugger doesn't seem to make this easy...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Open Containing Folder

« on: November 02, 2008, 04:33 AM »

hotkey detection is a bit tricky with AHK but it could made configurable instead.

-lanux128 (November 01, 2008, 11:21 AM)

Understood.  Thanks for the consideration.

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Coding Snacks / Re: codename: CopyCap - a tool to copy caption text

« on: November 01, 2008, 10:38 PM »

Thanks for a pointer to that thread -- I took a look and although I'm hoping for Unicode support in AHK, looking at the span of time that the thread covers I'm not hopeful for it any time soon...

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Coding Snacks / Re: codename: CopyCap - a tool to copy caption text

« on: November 01, 2008, 09:54 AM »

Hmmm, neither Captain nor CopyCap seem to handle Japanese text in captions on one of my machines.  Perhaps this is an AHK thing...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Open Containing Folder

« on: November 01, 2008, 09:43 AM »

Seems to work nicely here

(I changed MButton to XButton1 as I was already using MButton for something else [1].  In my tired state, I didn't think of any good approaches to work around the issue of multiple programs using the same mouse button -- any ideas on that front?  Is it easy to detect whether something else is already using a particular mouse button for something in AHK (or anything else for that matter)? [2])


[1] Either I configured VirtuaWin to do this or it does it by default -- don't remember...

[2] Ah, I guess Captain has an option to change the hotkey.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Scriptable FARR window events for interaction with other windows apps?

« on: November 01, 2008, 09:04 AM »

I think the biggest issue here is that FARR has generaly no way how to get information from any program. How to let FARR know on which forum you are on? Ubiquity is addon for firefox so it has access to such type of information but again it is limited to firefox only. There would have to be some kind of shared api among all programs. But I doubt there is any for Windows. So generaly you would have to write addon for program in use + plugin for FARR. Is it worth it?

-czechboy (November 01, 2008, 04:22 AM)

For reference, some of the approaches taken for Quicksilver plugins included: use the AppleScript support that some applications provided (retrieve data as well as request execution of tasks), write tools that extracted information from application data files, and I believe there were a few plugins that went as far as injecting code into other processes to get info or even control

I've not played w/ D-Bus at all, but a Wikipedia page on it seems to suggest that there might be some such thing for Windows too [1] -- it sounds like for that to be useful though, applications would have to support it.

Under Windows, don't certain applications support some kind of way to get info, say via COM (or whatever it's called these days)?

It sounds like it'd be nice to have the MPI (Metaprogramming Interface) mentioned in Fred Brooks' "The Mythical Man-Month after 20 Years"...

Sorry if I'm missing the point here...should go to sleep.


[1] Ah, perhaps it's: http://sourceforge.net/projects/windbus

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do you keep two computers synchronized? i.e. work + home. If so, how?

« on: November 01, 2008, 08:41 AM »

I wasn't too crazy about DSynchronize the last time I tried it as it didn't seem to handle files with names containing CJK and such [1].  In fact, a fair number of synchronizing utilities didn't seem to do so well on this point (at least many of the ones that I've tried -- I think this includes PathSync, TreeComp, and SyncExp). 

I think a few of the Java-based ones (JFileSync and DirSync Pro [mentioned already as a Linux alternative, but I believe it works under Windows too]) ended up working out for me in this regard but I found that Java-based stuff sometimes adds a bit of complexity to my portable set-up.

I think SyncBack Freeware might have worked ok, but IIRC it wasn't quite portable.

Was trying Toucan, but I think it still feels quite rough around the edges.

Will have to try Synkron -- hadn't seen that one.


[1] Not in the habit of intentionally creating files w/ names that use CJK, but when I create bookmarks when visiting certain pages, it tends to happen...

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 44

« on: October 31, 2008, 01:34 AM »

Thank you again

Loved the following phrase:

the result of faulty code inserted by programmers from the Mountain View, California search behemoth.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Farr Plugin Idea Again: Generic web page retrieve with regex show

« on: October 30, 2008, 09:43 AM »

A preliminary version should be available for interested parties

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: My Computer and maybe a bug

« on: October 29, 2008, 11:31 PM »

May be this is off, but is it possible it is related to explorer.exe's ability to handle guids associated w/ certain things (like My Computer, My Network Places, etc.)?

http://www.thinkdigi...dex.php/t-47562.html

(Search for text "You might want to open Explorer to certain system folders")

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LATEST LaunchBar Commander VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.75.02 - Oct 27, 2008

« on: October 27, 2008, 11:10 PM »

The escape key now makes the menus go away

Hurray!

Now if I can just get it to stop spawning multiple ones 

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LATEST LaunchBar Commander VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.75.02 - Oct 27, 2008

« on: October 27, 2008, 06:43 PM »

i figured out what causes it and i did fix it for most cases.  just checked and i can see that if you have your LBC minimized to tray instead of docked, then it doesn't behave right.  i will try to figure out a workaround for that case.

-mouser (October 27, 2008, 03:16 PM)

I think that's how I have things configured at the moment and I am experiencing the menu staying around

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LATEST LaunchBar Commander VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.73.01 - Oct 26, 2008

« on: October 26, 2008, 11:09 PM »

Now, I don't have anything anywhere, I just pop the menu up under my mouse whenever I need it with the hotkey.

-superboyac (October 23, 2008, 05:52 PM)

I've started to try a similar approach -- next I'm hoping to set things up so that one of my 4 trackball buttons will bring up the menu (or perhaps have the dock show up instead).

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LaunchBar Commander / Getting docks to stay on the current desktop when using VirtuaWin

« on: October 25, 2008, 09:25 AM »

It's probably obvious to experienced VirtuaWin users, but FWIW on a suggestion from mouser, I was able to successfully have a dock stay visible on all of my VirtuaWin desktops.  This was achieved by using the 'Always Show' option for the dock in question via the control menu [1] for the dock window (I needed to select 'Manage Window' via the control menu first before the 'Always Show' option would appear).  Perhaps this will help someone some day...wait, may be that will be me when, inevitably, I forget how to do this


[1] Note, the control menu is a VirtuaWin feature.

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 43

« on: October 24, 2008, 08:26 PM »

Thank you for this week's edition