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Find And Run Robot / Re: Can FARR be used to switch between open windows?

« Last post by skajfes on August 28, 2009, 01:47 PM »

I've modified the FARRAltTAb plugin (to be exact - I just took the part where open windows are enumerated) and intercepted the Trigger command, that was the easy part. The logic of switching to open windows is already there from the FarrAltTab plugin, and if a window is not open, just let the execution proceed as normal.

I am not sure what to use as comparison for determining if a window is open or not. Window caption seems a bit too unreliable (although i'd have to test that, maybe it will be reliable enough). The other thing that came to mind was to check the exe file, but the path i get from FARR is the shortcut (.lnk file), and not the exe.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: open gmail inbox/compose in Chrome (non default browser)

« Last post by skajfes on August 27, 2009, 01:23 PM »

You can use "create application shortcut" feature of chrome to create an application shortcut to gmail and use that from farr to launch gmail inbox (this is basically a shortcut to chrome with an argument of gmail.com so you can just use that in an alias or sth).

As for the feature of displaying already active gmail, or start a new window if not running you can use ahk scripts.

I am working on an idea of a farr plugin that will do just that for any app. But it will not be ready any time soon.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Enso - Another FARR similar app, but not quite

« Last post by skajfes on August 26, 2009, 11:40 PM »

I just noticed it too. Yeah, it gets pretty old with open blah blah. Latest beta is a bit different, but i think they missed the point with commands and launching and sticky argument window. If they are making me hold the damn caps lock key then I expect to be over with it in a few keystrokes (and without Tab etc) but typing open or o <tab> window is just too much.
Commands with selected text are great, but it's a but cheap with just lowercase and uppercase. I love that it doesn't use the clipboard for that functionality, though.
I love the learn functionality.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Can FARR be used to switch between open windows?

« Last post by skajfes on August 26, 2009, 05:12 PM »

Could FARRAltTab be modified that it displays open windows AND normal FARR search results at the same time? I figure that it would be enough to provide the solution to mchalkley's original post.

On the more general note, is it possible to combine the results of two or more plugins and/or aliases? For example, one plugin displays open windows, the other displays firefox tabs, and at the bottom is an alias with common apps.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Enso - Another FARR similar app, but not quite

« Last post by skajfes on August 26, 2009, 03:24 PM »

Figures

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Find And Run Robot / Enso - Another FARR similar app, but not quite

« Last post by skajfes on August 26, 2009, 02:34 PM »

I just stumbled upon this launcher and i must admit that I like it. It is really different from anything I've seen before. I love the idea that it is displayed like OSD rather than a full app. And I can't decide if I love or hate the idea of Enso Quasimode. That is - it is active as long as you hold the modifier key.

Of course, it is not as nearly as powerfull as FARR but it has some interesting features. For example - the learn command. Basically, what it does is automating the creation of aliases. You open the app you wish to automate, or select text or something, and then activate Enso, type in learn <alias name> and you have a new alias.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Another FARR similar app - Executor

« Last post by skajfes on August 24, 2009, 12:52 PM »

..snip..
Don't get me wrong it's nice when an app uses little RAM but 2 MB vs 5.5 MB doesn't make any difference (yes more than double but it's 3.5 MB for crying out loud).
-d4ni (August 23, 2009, 08:00 PM)

Yes, any free RAM is wasted RAM. My FARR uses about 50 MB and I really don't give a damn about it, as long as it runs fast and reliable

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Find And Run Robot / Re: bug: launch history bypass search directory file restrictions?

« Last post by skajfes on August 22, 2009, 08:35 AM »

A problem: the restriction excludes any file containing ".txt" in extension OR name. So both "file.txt.pdf" and "file.txt" are excluded. To avoid that we'd need some way to specify the restriction. Compare: in regexp $ marks the end of the string so ".txt$" would do the trick there.
-Nod5 (August 22, 2009, 08:13 AM)

Regex support in the search string would solve this easily. Though, I am not sure if it is really that needed.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: bug: launch history bypass search directory file restrictions?

« Last post by skajfes on August 21, 2009, 04:49 PM »

You could always restrict file types in the alias instead of the search folder definition. The problem, as I see it, is that previously launched .txt file is added to launch history which is then evaluated in later searches. But then it is filtered only by entered search string (and not by search folder definition) and is therefore not excluded from the results as it should be.

Alias:
^b (\w.*)[^\+]$
C:\aaa $$1 | dosearch +aaa -.txt $$1

Search directory:
path: C:\aaa
restrictions: url;jpg
modifier keyword: aaa

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR html view

« Last post by skajfes on August 17, 2009, 03:36 PM »

ok. i see.
you're right that doesnt work, and should.
until i fix you can work around it by doing:
Code: HTML [Select]
<a href="farr://http://www.google.com">restartsearch</a>
-mouser (August 16, 2009, 05:46 PM)

That works great. I've attached the upgraded plugin if somebody is interested.

Another question, though. I noticed that the plugin doesn't always give me the latest page from the web. For example IE shows the weather page as it should be, and FARR shows an outdated version. I was wondering if it has something to do with IE caching, but IE show me the latest page which confused me a bit. I should note that clearing IE cache solves the problem temporarily, but I don't know what is causing it. Any ideas?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR html view

« Last post by skajfes on August 16, 2009, 05:26 PM »

Sure, put this in a html file and open it in FARR's html view mode.

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<a href="farr://dolaunch http://www.google.com">dolaunch</a>
<br>
<a href="farr://restartsearch http://www.google.com">restartsearch</a>

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR html view

« Last post by skajfes on August 16, 2009, 05:13 PM »

With a better look at the documentation I've managed to bypass the security issue using sethtmlsafe FARR command.
There is still the issue of launching the link in a new browser window. My idea was to use dolaunch command to execute the urls but that is not working for some reason. If I use restartsearch I get the expected result - text in the farr textbox is set to the string following the restartsearch. If i use dolaunch in an alias to launch some url the default browser is opened to the url requested. But when I use dolaunch in the plugin nothing happens, FARR just closes.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR html view

« Last post by skajfes on August 16, 2009, 03:50 PM »

by default farr will open html links in your configured browser, it's only because the alias says showfilehtml that it is showing internally.

if the alias said:
1000>>>>->c:\some\dir\weather.html>+>^weath1$

then the page would be opened in your normal browser.
-mouser (August 16, 2009, 02:49 PM)

I was wondering about when already in htmlview mode could you somehow tell FARR to open links in a new window. For example with using links like this:

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farr://dolaunch some url

However, I tried modifying the links that way but I got an error message saying that

NOTICE: For security reasons, remote web pages are not allowed to launch farr:// links.

So, is there a way of telling FARR to open links from htmlview in a new browser window?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR html view

« Last post by skajfes on August 16, 2009, 10:17 AM »

I used czb's idea from his ninjawords plugin to display weather from weather.yahoo.com. Result is attached.

Other alternative is to use Netweather from accuweather.com to get an embed script you could paste to a static html page and use that in a farr alias to display it. You just need to get the embed script from the link above, paste it to a new file, save as html, and change the path to the file in the alias.
alias i used is

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1000>>>>->showfilehtml c:\some\dir\weather.html>+>^weath1$

Is there an option to make farr open links in a new browser window? Preferably in the default browser and not IE?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR html view

« Last post by skajfes on August 13, 2009, 03:33 PM »

In the meantime bbc weather has an embed option that lets you easily use FARR. Just put <iframe src="http://news.bbc.co.u...xhtml?target=_parent" allowTransparency="true" width="306" height="435" frameborder="0">You must have a browser that supports iframes to view the BBC weather forecast</iframe> to a blank html file and use that in an alias.

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Find And Run Robot / FARR html view

« Last post by skajfes on August 13, 2009, 01:33 PM »

Is there an option to run some javascript to parse a webpage before it is displayed? For example I want to check the weather forecast from http://www.weather.c...veler/local/HRXX0005, but I want to extract only the relevant data.
Something like greasemonkey for FARR

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Looking for current vesion of Console (FARR2 Plugin): get version failed

« Last post by skajfes on August 13, 2009, 01:07 PM »

Works just fine.
May I suggest not to trim empty lines as it's messes the console's output formatting?
-djbobo (May 17, 2009, 07:35 AM)

May I suggest not to add extra line breaks as it messes the console's output formatting

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Farr and Rainlendar?

« Last post by skajfes on July 15, 2009, 05:35 PM »

Okay, my first attempt at an alias -- for those who simply want to add an event or task to your default Rainlendar calendar via the command line:

Save the following code as rainlendar.alias to your FindAndRunRobot\AliasGroups\MyCustom folder.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Legacy" ?>

<FarrAliasFile>
<FileFormatVersion>1</FileFormatVersion>
<AliasSetDescription>Rainlendar command line alias</AliasSetDescription>
<AliasEntry>
<AliasText>rld</AliasText>
<Score>1000</Score>
<Regex>^rld (.*)</Regex>
<Results>
<Result>Rainlendar $$1 | %PROGRAMFILES%\Rainlendar2\Rainlendar2.exe --add="$$1" </Result>
</Results>
</AliasEntry>
</FarrAliasFile>

Then in FARR, simply type rld and the event details (without quotes -- the alias adds the quote marks), e.g. type:

rld meeting tomorrow at 7pm

The alias will add the appointment to your Rainlendar default calendar. Hopefully. Works for me anyway, with the latest version of Rainlendar.

You'll need to change the location of the Rainlendar executable (%PROGRAMFILES%\Rainlendar2\Rainlendar2.exe in the alias) if you did not install Rainlendar to the default folder.
-johnk (July 11, 2009, 06:59 PM)

yes, rainlendar can accept command line arguments that allows you to create an event. It uses default template for saving events. last time I checked, you were not able to change the category of an event or the calendar the event is saved to.

Not to advertise, but my plugin can to that, and more. You can search events and tasks, sum total time taken on tasks in a period of time etc. if you want to try, you can find the zip attached somewhere in this thread.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: how can execute a alias without hit enter key ?

« Last post by skajfes on June 28, 2009, 05:46 AM »

I encountered two bug of special alias "dolaunch", my setting is below :
regular pattern : ^kk $
result : dolaunch "notepad.exe"

bug1: when I keyin "kk" (NOT "kk ") it will launch notepad
bug2: once launch alias kk, FARR always can't active via hotkey;
It will launch notepad directly when press active hotkey (break key)

regardless of whether uncheck "when using hotkey to refocus window ... dont clear search text" option,
bug2 always happen.

I can only temporary solve bug2 using :
dolaunch "notepad.exe";;;restartsearch \n
but this is unnatural and bit slow when active FARR window

Best Regards.

-hihihlo (June 22, 2009, 09:56 PM)

I've created this alias
1000>>>>->dolaunch "notepad.exe">+>^kk $

and it works for me as expected. When I type in "kk " notepad is launched, and only then. When I open FARR again nothing happens, as it should be.

But, i have set up FARR to Hide when focus is lost (Settings -> Window mode/Focus), and my hotkey to launch FARR is configured to clear search text.

I think maybe the combination of these settings is causing FARR to run notepad every time.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: weird error using FARR to open explorer window

« Last post by skajfes on June 01, 2009, 01:06 PM »

I am using Directory Opus with FARR and have no problem whatsoever. I must note that I installed Directory Opus to replace explorer completely, and I haven't defined a custom file browser in FARR.

Maybe it is the problem with ShellExecuteMethod option?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: display result problem

« Last post by skajfes on May 19, 2009, 06:00 AM »

how do i set farr to resize the vertical result window automatically
-pet4a (May 18, 2009, 03:40 PM)

it will resize automatically. period. you can just specify maximum height (in rows) with the max size to grow result window

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Find And Run Robot / Re: display result problem

« Last post by skajfes on May 18, 2009, 12:12 PM »

yep..
when i search it display only the first row and i need to resize the result list manually

btw
I love FARR
-pet4a (May 17, 2009, 02:46 AM)

go to Options > Settings > Display Options

set max entries to display in normal result list to 20
set max entries to display in extended result list to 40 or 50
set max size to grow result window to 10

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Farr and Rainlendar?

« Last post by skajfes on May 08, 2009, 08:51 AM »

Define "not working"?

To be honest, I am not using it so much anymore, but now I have tested it out a bit, and it works almost fine for me with the latest version of FARR. I am not sure why, but it does not display todo list anymore, but everything else works fine.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Stop FARR From Searching Further?

« Last post by skajfes on May 04, 2009, 04:11 PM »

Great idea Mouser. I really like this one. Though, I have nothing against the current method - esc or down to stop search so it would be great that this one remains active all the time. I mean, esc always stops search. And additional option - what you just said - either launch what is currently at the selected number, launch what was at the selected number a configurable number of milliseconds, or beep (again optional!) and do nothing.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Oversized icons when using large icon setting (DPI)

« Last post by skajfes on April 30, 2009, 05:21 PM »

I tried resizing the icons on my desktop from 32 to 48 pixels and farr displays them normal. Did I misunderstand you somehow?

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