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Find And Run Robot / Re: date and time in statusbar

« on: January 07, 2010, 03:13 AM »

Some of the flags are not working for me as I would expect :

Flag	Expected	Actual
%c	07/01/10 nn:nn:nn	01/07/10 nn:nn:nn
%e	7	00
%S	Update while FARR is on screen	Doesn't update
%x	07/01/10	01/07/10
%X	Update while FARR is on screen	Doesn't update
%z,%Z	Don't know	<blank>

FARR 2.80.02
My locale is United Kingdom (dd/mm/yy).

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: System Tray plugin

« on: February 24, 2009, 02:46 PM »

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

OK, thanks.

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?

Sorry I wasn't clear - hidden by the << icon.

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

Ah yes, I should have read more carefully what you originally wrote. Sorry.

What software or such does not display a tooltip?

This icon is for the internal ADSL modem.

Thanks for the reply.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Puzzling results

« on: February 24, 2009, 02:36 PM »

Thanks. I hadn't realised that a .lnk gets its target's score, as well as its own.

I have done a quick test to confirm this :

* uncheck the "Remove duplicate links to same target" option
* set %MYSTARTMENU% and %PROGRAMFILES% to the same score
* type the leftmost few letters of an executable name

The .lnk appeared above the .exe in the results list and the difference in scores confirms what you said.

Thank-you for looking at this, mouser.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: System Tray plugin

« on: February 19, 2009, 03:26 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
* 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
* FARR doesn't disappear once I have picked an entry
* I do see Volume, even though you said that you didn't know how to get system icons such as this
* 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.

I am planning to continue trying the plugin, so if you need some help testing a new version then let me know.  Thank-you for your hard work so far. I hope that you find some more time to spend on this project.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Puzzling results

« on: February 01, 2009, 01:51 PM »

Thank-you.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Puzzling results

« on: January 31, 2009, 12:02 PM »

czb : Thanks for taking the time to reproduce my problem.

mouser : As my non-contiguous search option was already disabled, I tried enabling it.  The scores for the two items in question didn't change.
Do you think you will be able to look into this for me or is it not high enough on your list of things to do?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Puzzling results

« on: January 26, 2009, 12:48 PM »

Hi, Mouser,

Thanks for your welcome to the board and your kind comments on my first post.

Yes, I noticed that IrfanView - Thumbnails.lnk includes the substring mbna, so I wasn't surprised that it appeared, just that it appeared at the top.

I already had the non-contiguous search option disabled.

If you could reproduce my problem that would be cool. 

Thank-you for your help.

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Find And Run Robot / Puzzling results

« on: January 24, 2009, 10:49 AM »

New user of FARR.          

When I type mbna the top two entries that come up are :

Name	Score	Location
IrfanView - Thumbnails.lnk	878	C:\Documents and Settings\xxx\StartMenu\Programs\IrfanView
mbna.rfp	862	K:\XXXXXXX\YYYYY

I don't understand how Irfan can beat mbna.rfp. I have tried looking at the scoring options and have come up with:

	IrfanView	mbna.rfp
Search Folders
%MYSTARTMENU%	100
K:\XXXXXXX (Subdirectory depth = -1)		100
Heuristic Scoring
History bonus (both are listed in my history)	200	200
Exact match		100
Leftmost bonus		150
Percentage of Search String		25 (??)
Whitespace Removal	0	0
(The other entries are not explained in the Help file and I can't work out how to use them.)
Pattern Scoring
*.rfp		100
*.lnk	50
Total	350	675

These scores, although obviously only part of the story, are so heavily in favour of mbna.rfp (which is what I want) and yet it comes up second. Please could someone help me understand
i) the other entries in the Heuristic Scoring options
ii) what other tests are affecting the scores.

Thank-you.

(The Help file is badly out of date in many ways - the screen prints are of a previous version and some new features, such as the extra heuristic scoring options, that have been added to the application have not been added to the Help.  This makes it very difficult for a new user such as myself to make the most of what is obviously a very powerful program.)