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Find And Run Robot / Re: I have some questions about FARR

« Last post by mouser on September 28, 2011, 12:09 PM »

Then how to actually use those that are already installed(those that I see in the plugins directory when I install the program)

This is a common confusion.  If you look in that plugin directory you will see that those are actually just placeholders -- the plugins aren't actually installed.

Their presence will actually help DcUpdater install the plugins for you if you install that tool.  But basically they are just placeholders and no plugins are installed by default.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: I have some questions about FARR

« Last post by mouser on September 28, 2011, 11:22 AM »

And what about the plugins...I just installed the program and I don't see anything in Options=>Program Options=>Settings=>Plugins and Updates=>Click to Examine and Configure Plugins
The list is always empty no matter what I try.

That dialog is only for configuring installed plugins.
To install plugins, find one you want and install it here: https://www.donation...user/findrun/addons/

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Find And Run Robot / Re: I have some questions about FARR

« Last post by mouser on September 28, 2011, 09:20 AM »

Is there is a way when I start FARR with Pause/Break to make it search in the directory that I currently am(without typing the path to it...just add some alias and to make it search only there)

If I understand your question correctly, i'm afraid not.  Let's clarify -- do you mean that you are using some other program (a DOS commandline terminal?) and you want to bring up farr and have it default to search in the directory that the commandline was open to?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: I have some questions about FARR

« Last post by mouser on September 28, 2011, 09:17 AM »

Hi vsub,

It's fun to get a question about modifiers since I don't think many people use them!

To answer your question:

• Once you add a modifier keyword to a path, it will NOT be searched by default when you do not specify that modifier.
• To change it so it will be, add to the modifier list the word: blank

For more information see the "Keyword Modifiers" help page under the Advanced Use section of the FARR Help file, which I will paste here as well:

Keyword modifiers are new as of version 2.02.01 (January 7th, 2007)

They let you indicate that certain search directories and pattern matching scores should be engaged only when the user specifies special modifier keywords during search, using the +KEYWORD syntax.

This can be extremely useful if you want to search certain directories only in special cases.

For example, you might normally search only your start menu, but you want to search your "MyDocuments" folder and your "Documents and Settings" folders when the modifier "mydocs" is used.
To do this, add the new directories and specify the keyword mydocs in each case.
Now, to search for a file with "money" in its name, in these folders you could type: "money +mydocs" or "+mydocs money".
FARR will know that in this case it should search in these two additional folders

Note that the choice of keywords is entirely up to you, you can use any strings you want for them.  

You can also use keyword modifiers on scoring patterns:

For example, you might not normally care about search for mp3 files, but you want to be able to find them easily.
So add a new score pattern of *.mp3 with a score of 3000, and use the keyword modifier mp3.
Now when you type in +mp3 in your search, all mp3 files will get a huge boost in score.


WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AN ENTRY HAS NO KEYWORDS
The default search directories and scores have no keyword modifiers.  This means they apply ONLY when no keyword modifiers are specified in search string (or when one is specified but it doesn't match anything).  Sometimes you want an entry to run if certain keywords are specified OR if no keywords at all are specified.


ADD blank TO MATCH ON NO KEYWORD AS WELL AS THE ONES SPECIFIED
To specify that a directory should be searched when NO keyword modifiers are specified in addition to when others are, add the special term blank as one of the space separated keywords.


ADD * TO MATCH ON ANY KEYWORD
You can also specify a keyword of * to say that the entry should be used when any keywords are specified.


TIPS AND TRICKS

Each directory pattern or score pattern entry can have multiple keyword modifiers, separated by spaces.
You don't specify the + when you are configuring an entry, but you must specify it when typing a search in the main form.
Feel free to use the same keyword modifiers in multiple scoring and directory entries for maximum benefit.
If you want to match on all keywords except a specific one or two, use the keyword * followed by "-KEYWORD" for keywords to reject.

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General Software Discussion / Re: CyberNet News shout out to skwire

« Last post by mouser on September 28, 2011, 09:06 AM »

congrats 

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by mouser on September 27, 2011, 07:04 PM »

Ha! 

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Living Room / Re: A Religion for the 21st Century!

« Last post by mouser on September 27, 2011, 02:06 PM »

Don't forget the Church of Cody:


[image is from https://www.donation....msg244088#msg244088]

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Image size problem while using wide screen monitor

« Last post by mouser on September 27, 2011, 12:57 PM »

Ok looks like I have a fix for this rare problem -- message me if you want an early download before the next release to test it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Icon for alias group?

« Last post by mouser on September 27, 2011, 10:36 AM »

ok i will fix in next release; ill try to have that out before monday.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Icon for alias group?

« Last post by mouser on September 27, 2011, 10:01 AM »

highend, can you check and confirm that the problem is related to the %USERNAME% in the result path.
If you change those to a pure directory without the variable does it pick up the icons ok then?
If so, i can fix.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone Know of a Multi-Monitor Simulator for Software Testing?

« Last post by mouser on September 27, 2011, 08:54 AM »

Skwire and i were looking at it yesterday and had trouble getting the virtualbox implementation to work -- just got black screens on the simulated extra monitors.  On VmWare workstation we were both able to get it to work.

If someone figures out how to get it to work in virtualbox, please share!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Icon for alias group?

« Last post by mouser on September 27, 2011, 08:53 AM »

The other way to do this is to create a new .alias file for your alias groups (instead of using myalias.alias), and put your aliases in that file.
Easiest way is to just go in your file system and make a copy of myaliases.alias file and edit it with a text editor.

Then if farr finds a .ico file with same name as your alias file, it will use that as the default when displaying alias results.

So for example, if you created highend.alias file and put your aliases in that file, and then put a highend.ico file in that directory, it would use that icon.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alternatives to syncback for folders synchronization

« Last post by mouser on September 27, 2011, 02:32 AM »

super flexible file synchronizer?

https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=7714.0
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=10657.0

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Living Room / Re: Question to Everyone: Setting aside the technical meaning, does Donationware...

« Last post by mouser on September 26, 2011, 10:40 PM »

Very interesting points by Oshyan.

I can't help but feel that both terms turn people off..
I wonder if there is something better.

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Living Room / Re: Hidden Netflix Marathon Gems to Watch Online

« Last post by mouser on September 26, 2011, 09:58 PM »

I already canceled my dvd rental plan with netflix and am now 100% streaming -- it's what i used most of the time anyway; I love netflix streaming.

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Living Room / Re: Hidden Netflix Marathon Gems to Watch Online

« Last post by mouser on September 26, 2011, 08:54 PM »

"How It's Made" series just added to Netflix:

http://movies.netfli...211495?trkid=2361637

Have you ever wondered how things are made? From adhesive bandages to contact lenses, find out how many of the objects we use become the things they are. Watch as "How It's Made" reveals the methods and materials of everyday items.

122 episodes from 7 seasons (2001-2009)

via http://www.geek.com/...-streaming-20110926/

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Handling mulitiple tasks on different desktops with nSpaces

« Last post by mouser on September 26, 2011, 08:18 PM »

Welcome to the site bytesign -- are you the author?

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by mouser on September 26, 2011, 03:26 PM »

I'd like to request a small feature:

Add a menu item called "Change the Weather" and allow me to change the weather where I live.  Normally I will only be using this to eliminate rain, so I don't care too much about being able to generate rain and snow.  But it would be nice to be able to decrease the temperature in summer months. Thanks!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Links to Reviews and Comments - Add yours!

« Last post by mouser on September 26, 2011, 02:32 PM »

thanks steve  

I'm going to try to revisit this rare bug that the editor suffered and see if i can't trace down the cause of it.  The reviewer can hardly be blamed for not choosing a program that can't capture on his screen properly.  But the high number of programs that failed gives a pretty clear indication that something odd is going on -- that something is triggering a bug in all of these screenshot programs.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: netsh alias problem

« Last post by mouser on September 26, 2011, 01:56 PM »

Thanks a lot mouser! It's working perfectly!

Great!  Thanks for your patience and for posting a solution 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - 2.101.01 - Sep 20, 2011

« Last post by mouser on September 26, 2011, 01:52 PM »

 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: netsh alias problem

« Last post by mouser on September 26, 2011, 11:38 AM »

Sometimes I wonder how I manage to forget how to use my own programs...

"runcap" is *not* what you want -- that's an alias that invokes the command you do want: appcapappendmemo

See the help file page Advanced Use->Special/Virtual Launch Strings/Commands:

• appcap FILEPATH - runs an app and waits for it to finish, redirecting stdio capturing any commandline output in %lastappcap% (normal commandline window is hidden and not shown).
• appnowait FILEPATH - runs an app and captures output but doesn't wait for it to complete before continuing launch string execution.
• appcapappendmemo FILEPATH - runs an app and shows output in memo mode as it is outputted by the console program.  If you want to show some custom intro text, call showmemo first before calling this.
• appcapappendmemons FILEPATH - runs an app and shows output in memo mode as it is outputted by the console program.  If you want to show some custom intro text, call showmemo first before calling this; does not auto scroll to bottom.

If you can't get it to work with one of those -- paste me or attach a screenshot of your alias and i'll try to make it work.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone Know of a Multi-Monitor Simulator for Software Testing?

« Last post by mouser on September 26, 2011, 11:13 AM »

The latest VmWare Workstation and VirtualBox virtual machine applications can simulate multiple monitors -- making them once again essential tools for developers.

From VirtualBox help:
http://www.virtualbo...org/manual/ch03.html

With this setting [MonitorCount] VirtualBox can provide more than one virtual monitor to a virtual machine. If a guest operating system (such as Windows) supports multiple attached monitors, VirtualBox can pretend that multiple virtual monitors are present.[14] Up to 8 such virtual monitors are supported.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: netsh alias problem

« Last post by mouser on September 26, 2011, 10:33 AM »

dont do "runcap dns static"
instead put the runcap in the dns alias before the path to netsh.  So make your dns alias result be something like "runcap c:\windows\system32\netsh.exe" or whatever the path is.

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Living Room / Dice Tower Begins their 2011 Top 100 Board Games of All Time View Review Series

« Last post by mouser on September 26, 2011, 06:57 AM »

It's no secret that I am a big fan of board games, and I love watching reviews of board games.  One of my favorite things to watch is a board game video series made by Tom Vassel, who runs a site called the Dice Tower.

He's just announced that he is going to begin his video series counting down his top 100 board games of all time.. And his daughter melody will be presenting her top 100 as well -- perfect if you have young children.

http://www.dicetower.com/top_100.html