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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: How to debug a plugin not loading?

« on: July 06, 2025, 11:39 PM »

p.s - sorry for the double post, but it looks like donationcoder.com went down when I posted. 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / How to debug a plugin not loading?

« on: July 06, 2025, 11:37 PM »

What's the best way to debug a plugin not successfully loading?
I've been working on some mods to farr_tinyev, to use voidtool's search everything as the backend for FARR for launching apps.  It's usually been working great!
But sometimes the plugin fails to load, and I have no idea how to properly debug that issue.

*Loading plugin: FARR_TinyEv\farr_tinyev_20250604_175751.dll
 Failed.

Related: is there a way for me to run FARR with my plugin in a debugger and set breakpoints/step through?  No idea what id need to do in VS code to get it to work. 

It's written in C, using "JrPluginFuncs_FARR.h" and "JrPluginFuncs.h"

I have not pushed my local changes, but the base code is https://github.com/AJolly/farr_tinyev

I updated tinyev to use the Everything 1.5 sdk, and then every search from FARR gets "path: farr: " prepended to the search string.

In everything i have a preset filter farr, with the macro farr, with all the directories I want to search.
ext:exe;lnk;cmd;bat;ahk !sync-conflict c:\ccdc\portableapps\|c:\ccdc\scripts\|c:\ccdc\sysinternals\|c:\ccdc\avalerts\nirsoft\|c:\ccdc\commandlinetools\|<c:\users\jolly\ "start menu">|"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\"|"C:\Users\jolly\Downloads\"

Then I have an alias set so anything i type gets sent to the plugin.

1000>>>sendeverythingtoev>->dosearch ev $$1>+>^(..*)$

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / How to debug a plugin not loading?

« on: July 06, 2025, 11:30 PM »

What's the best way to debug a plugin not successfully loading?
I've been working on some mods to farr_tinyev, to use voidtool's search everything as the backend for FARR for launching apps.  It's usually been working great!
But sometimes the plugin fails to load, and I have no idea how to properly debug that issue.

*Loading plugin: FARR_TinyEv\farr_tinyev_20250604_175751.dll
 Failed.

Related: is there a way for me to run FARR with my plugin in a debugger and set breakpoints/step through?  No idea what id need to do in VS code to get it to work. 

It's written in C, using "JrPluginFuncs_FARR.h" and "JrPluginFuncs.h"

I have not pushed my local changes, but the base code is https://github.com/AJolly/farr_tinyev

I updated tinyev to use the Everything 1.5 sdk, and then every search from FARR gets "path: farr: " prepended to the search string.

In everything i have a preset filter farr, with the macro farr, with all the directories I want to search.
ext:exe;lnk;cmd;bat;ahk !sync-conflict c:\ccdc\portableapps\|c:\ccdc\scripts\|c:\ccdc\sysinternals\|c:\ccdc\avalerts\nirsoft\|c:\ccdc\commandlinetools\|<c:\users\jolly\ "start menu">|"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\"|"C:\Users\jolly\Downloads\"

Then I have an alias set so anything i type gets sent to the plugin.

1000>>>sendeverythingtoev>->dosearch ev $$1>+>^(..*)$

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR C# SDK and Documentation V2 (19/10/2008)

« on: June 04, 2025, 07:33 PM »

@wraith808 I was looking through my files and found a later version of the SDK.  Its got a few more files in there but I did not do a full diff.  https://drive.google...Ebl/view?usp=sharing

I am curious to know what you are working on!

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR C# SDK and Documentation V2 (19/10/2008)

« on: March 13, 2025, 02:09 PM »

Does anyone happen to have a copy of this lying around?

-wraith808 (January 14, 2025, 12:53 PM)

What exactly are you looking for? This contains the c-sharp SDK, but admittedly it might be V1?  Unsure.  What are you working on? https://www.donation...ds/FarrPluginSDK.zip

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New C# FARR Plugin: FARRAltTab

« on: January 09, 2025, 07:03 PM »

Does anyone still have the source code for this? Would like to try and get it running on Win 11.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TinyEV (Everything integration) - 0.9.5 - 12 June 2009 (updated)

« on: January 09, 2025, 07:41 AM »

Looking at the code, the ini has to be named farr_tinyev.ini. 


If it helps anyone my version has a result limit of 1million.

Seems like the issue is doing searches that include any sort of Everything modifiers (like path: or ext:exe )
Any search with those modifiers changes all the results to the hardcoded score of 1000.

But so far, It's nice using FARR as the launcher with everything as the backend!  If I could only get scoring working.

(I set up a filter in Everything, then set an alias to launch the plugin
^(.*)$
results
dosearch ev path:<$$1> launcher:

I'm using everything 1.5 (which I highly suggest). 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TinyEV (Everything integration) - 0.9.5 - 12 June 2009 (updated)

« on: January 09, 2025, 06:02 AM »

1) Does the scoring options in the ini work for anyone? 
[TinyEV]
; Scoring types:
; 0 -- Don't score at all.
; 1 -- Let FARR score
; 2 -- Let FARR filter and score
; 3 -- Let FARR score (w/ patterns)
; 4 -- Let FARR filter and score (w/ patterns)
; The default is 3.
ScoringType = 2


I can't seem to get any scoring options to work, and also the plugin seems to show all results with a score of 1000.
I did manage to compile an updated version, im using it to integrate everything as a launcher to speed up farr.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: A similar function to Listary's Quick Switch function?

« on: May 06, 2024, 02:54 PM »

Btw, there's a search everything plugin that does this quickswitch feature.  https://www.voidtool...iewtopic.php?t=11194
Now if only FARR would use everything as its backend search, the slowness of FARR vs other indexed tools is my one downside to FARR

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR crash related to changing monitor sizes.

« on: January 16, 2024, 01:18 PM »

I've had " When appearing center on monitor turned on", but I'll try disabling it and see if that makes any difference.
The good news is my watchdog script works pretty well.

I do wish far could use some sort of cash to speed up Results though I've been using it for almost 15 years so I don't want to move away, but there's a lot of other launchers these days that run things instantly.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR crash related to changing monitor sizes.

« on: November 26, 2023, 04:21 PM »

It's very likely the intersection between the ini and your specific screen resolution/ monitor count. 

I've worked around it by writing a batch script that triggers when Windows event log notices process crash, it'll check if farr is running and if not it'll remove that line from the INI and relaunch

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR crash related to changing monitor sizes.

« on: November 16, 2023, 07:13 PM »

The crash module is user32.dll, which further implicates farr trying to create a window at an invalid position and not handling the error gracefully.

Faulting application name: FindAndRunRobot.exe, version: 2.239.3.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Faulting module name: USER32.dll, version: 10.0.22621.2506, time stamp: 0x2f5549b5
Exception code: 0xc000041d
Fault offset: 0x00099825
Faulting process id: 0x0x14F90
Faulting application start time: 0x0x1DA18F1D08F60BB
Faulting application path: C:\ccdc\PortableApps\FindAndRunRobot\FindAndRunRobot.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\USER32.dll
Report Id: 25457af3-6d67-4d34-9402-60c90a4f265d
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

AppName = FindAndRunRobot.exe
AppVersion = 2.239.3.0
AppTimeStamp = 00000000
ModuleName = USER32.dll
ModuleVersion = 10.0.22621.2506
ModuleTimeStamp = 2f5549b5
ExceptionCode = c000041d
FaultingOffset = 00099825
ProcessId = 0x14f90
ProcessCreationTime = 0x1da18f1d08f60bb
AppPath = C:\ccdc\PortableApps\FindAndRunRobot\FindAndRunRobot.exe
ModulePath = C:\WINDOWS\System32\USER32.dll
IntegratorReportId = 25457af3-6d67-4d34-9402-60c90a4f265d

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR crash related to changing monitor sizes.

« on: November 16, 2023, 07:11 PM »

I think I've diagnosed the root of the problem:
Farr crashes on activation if the saved position of it's window is no longer valid.  This can happen without having negative numbers. 
1) Farr doesn't actually crash at runtime, it crashes when it's hotkey (alt space) is pressed.
2) Deleting the window position info in the ini lets farr run fine.

Example: Today I swapped monitors (I have 5 monitors connected to my pc, by flipping a power switch I move between using 3 at my desk vs 2 at my couch).  Tried launching farr, nothing happened.  In the ini, there were no negative position numbers.  Removed the MainLeft number, reran farr and it works fine. 

[Windows]
MainLeft=4608
MainTop=1173
MainWidth=2304
MainHeight=767
OptionsLeft=1
OptionsTop=109
OptionsWidth=1142
OptionsHeight=815
AliasLeft=1
AliasTop=108
AliasWidth=958
AliasHeight=662
OptionsActivePage=4
OptionsTransparency=0
ToolbarWidth=90
PluginManagerWidth=958
PluginManagerHeight=843
HotkeyFormWidth=629
HotkeyFormHeight=522
CheckBoxUseCustomBackgroundResultColor=0
ColorBoxCustomBackground=-16777201
CheckBoxUseCustomBackgroundSearchColor=0
ColorBoxCustomSearchBackground=-16777201
ResultMode_Width_0=-1
ResultMode_Height_0=-1
ResultMode_Width_1=1044
ResultMode_Height_1=658
ResultMode_Width_2=2304
ResultMode_Height_2=139
ResultMode_Width_3=2304
ResultMode_Height_3=767
ResultMode_Width_4=-1
ResultMode_Height_4=-1
ResultMode_Width_5=-1
ResultMode_Height_5=-1
ResultMode_Width_6=-1
ResultMode_Height_6=-1

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR crash related to changing monitor sizes.

« on: November 06, 2023, 05:34 AM »

That's the weird thing, I've now had this happen to me across two different computers, multiple times. At some point I'll notice that farr is no longer running, try and restart it and realize it's not starting.  Go delete that section in the ini, and it works just fine again. 

I've got some of the crash dumps if that helps.  I've been using farr for a decade now, but this is the first time I've been switching between monitors so frequently.

I guess I'll try putting back in that section next time it crashes, or let me try and figure out some sort of watchdog script so I get notified when farr crashes. 

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Find And Run Robot / FARR crash related to changing monitor sizes.

« on: November 05, 2023, 08:50 PM »

Having a weird FARR crash issue, which seems to happen when I switch between physical monitors.  It changes the Windows section of the ini, and then any time I restart FARR it immediately crashes.  If I delete the Windows section, it starts back up fine.

Any advice? This is getting annoying, as I do switch between physical monitor configs quite frequently. I think it might have to do with the negative values?

Example: 
[Windows]
MainLeft=-3072
MainTop=34
MainWidth=2304
MainHeight=1654
OptionsLeft=8
OptionsTop=0
OptionsWidth=1022
OptionsHeight=718
AliasLeft=11
AliasTop=8
AliasWidth=851
AliasHeight=662
OptionsActivePage=9
OptionsTransparency=0
ToolbarWidth=121
PluginManagerWidth=917
PluginManagerHeight=718
HotkeyFormWidth=411
HotkeyFormHeight=342
CheckBoxUseCustomBackgroundResultColor=0
ColorBoxCustomBackground=-16777201
CheckBoxUseCustomBackgroundSearchColor=0
ColorBoxCustomSearchBackground=-16777201
ResultMode_Width_0=-1
ResultMode_Height_0=-1
ResultMode_Width_1=3072
ResultMode_Height_1=1654
ResultMode_Width_2=2304
ResultMode_Height_2=1654
ResultMode_Width_3=2304
ResultMode_Height_3=1277
ResultMode_Width_4=564
ResultMode_Height_4=320
ResultMode_Width_5=-1
ResultMode_Height_5=-1
ResultMode_Width_6=-1
ResultMode_Height_6=-1

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: On windows 10 fcalc and PopQuotes make FARR crash...

« on: August 03, 2022, 07:30 PM »

I know this is extremely old, but I sometimes run into the same issue when trying to load the plugin config page.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR and Dropbox - conflicts...

« on: August 03, 2022, 06:02 PM »

A decade later, but thanks for .\%COMPUTERNAME% option, it really helps with multiple computer syncing.

The other thought would be if #filecontents worked on ini files, to split out different sections of the config.
HomeAssistant for example uses that structure, it loads the main config file, and then subsections can either be loaded from a second file, or can be in the main config directly:
 
EX:
[Information]
File Identification=Super Happy Find and Run Robot

[Windows: windows.ini]
[Settings]



(At least for me, what usually changes is the [Windows] subsection of FindAndRunRobot.ini

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR slow searching/pauses - tips

« on: July 18, 2021, 01:15 PM »

I realize that far makes a lot of directory queries when it's searching for something to launch, is it possible for it  to look up directly the MFT, how search everything does? https://www.voidtools.com/

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Find And Run Robot / Re: A similar function to Listary's Quick Switch function?

« on: May 14, 2020, 08:09 PM »

I really like this feature in Listary!

I use FARR to launch programs, and have listary running to jump to folders.
(I also have search everything + FARR for file searching, and an autohotkey script to search between open windows)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.239.02 - Jan 22, 2020

« on: January 27, 2020, 07:53 PM »

Edit: solved

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: WHAT (Windows Hotkey Activator Tool)

« on: October 18, 2019, 06:17 PM »

Is it possible to request a feature where it will launch the application if the window doesn't exist? 

-rlaksana (April 19, 2019, 11:24 AM)

Agreed, this would be useful

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Process Piglet

« on: May 04, 2017, 07:40 PM »

Thanks!
This really matters for chrome - I want it as a way to alert me when some tab suddenly has a memory leak and uses much more ran than expected. 

Right now, there is one chrome process that has a gig of working memory, but its private memory is half that, which is really the stat that matters. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Process Piglet

« on: May 04, 2017, 07:15 PM »

It lets me track working memory, or virtual memory, but not private memory. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release: Process Piglet

« on: April 19, 2017, 05:40 PM »

I'd love if it tracked private memory usage rather than total - so I could tell when a chrome tab is taking up a ton of memory for example

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FaRR not closing after launch

« on: March 26, 2017, 06:23 PM »

Found it!
After a few hours of testing - deleting the Timezone plugin fixes my problem.  *no* idea why that would be the case. 
Now if I could just get FARRAltTab to always load.... https://www.donation....msg405013#msg405013