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Find And Run Robot / Re: cmd.exe results in FARR

« Last post by ewemoa on April 18, 2010, 10:43 AM »

Does the following help?

https://www.donation....msg163084#msg163084

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (beta - download)

« Last post by ewemoa on April 17, 2010, 05:01 PM »

I think there is.  Does the image in the following post help?

https://www.donation....msg200201#msg200201

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Skrommel's Software / Re: CAPshift enhancement suggestion

« Last post by ewemoa on April 16, 2010, 04:44 PM »

It's odd -- I thought I also had the same problem of the modified version not working, but it seems to be working for me now.

Here's what I tried after downloading, unzipping to the Desktop, and stopping my already running vanilla version of CAPshift (this was admittedly after some initial confusing testing):

  Start CAPshiftMod.exe
    => I noticed a new .ini file being created

  Hold CapsLock until I see a string which is 500 ms (or 400 ms or ...) and then let go
    => LED on keyboard comes on, no menu appeared

  Hold CapsLock until I see a string which is 500 ms (or 400 ms or ...) and then let go
    => LED on keyboard goes off, no menu appeared

Oh, and BTW, nice suggestion and nice modification

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Problems with fscript 1.20

« Last post by ewemoa on April 15, 2010, 09:07 PM »

Honestly though, if it's going to be "complicated", I'll just erase the todoTXT plugin. I don't use it and am not planning to use much more anytime soon.

-Armando (April 15, 2010, 08:42 PM)

This might be a good first thing to try

I noticed that a bunch of plugins I regularly use don't appear in the plugins list.

Thanks for the update -- if you get around to doing the spring cleaning, may be you wouldn't mind posting an updated list of plugins you've got installed (assuming you still experience the problems you mentioned).

For reference, so far I haven't manage to reproduce the issues reported -- but in my case, some plugins failed to load.  BTW, I learned this by looking at the troubleshooting log via FARR's options window.

I always thought that using a secondary "interface" to manage plugins was a fairly unintuitive way of doing things (there should probably be a note in the farr plugin manager informing the user about the syntax allowing to see the list -- fssc)...

The folks who worked on FSubScript (I confess I was partly involved) felt so too, but AFAIR, the reason it's the way it is has to do with technical issues.

One thing that puzzles me, is why does DC updater doesn't tell me that those outdated plugins should be updated ?

I don't have a good answer for you on this one.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Problems with fscript 1.20

« Last post by ewemoa on April 14, 2010, 10:30 PM »

2- Yes, it is correct : I don't use the todoTxt plugin. I should probably get rid of those I don't use. Spring cleaning. That said, I'm pretty sure my python installation is functional, but maybe is it a bit old, etc.

-Armando (April 14, 2010, 10:10 PM)

If it works for you, perhaps you could do the spring cleaning and then see if you still get the problems you mentioned.  It might simplify trying to determine possible causes of the issues you encounter.

With respect to Python -- IIUC, TodoTXT may need one of ActiveState's Pythons installed due to the way FScript works.  As an example, I have a portable Python installed and my current understanding is that TodoTXT won't work with it.  Also, I vaguely recall czb mentioning something about not supporting that one any longer.

2- some plugins just stopped working. (Like the Google Translate one : the farr window flashes briefly and I can see that the internet explorer blank page is displayed in farr's result area)

-Armando (April 14, 2010, 05:58 PM)

I didn't see this in the listing.  Is it installed and if so which version might it be?  What I have at hand appears to be 2.0.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Problems with fscript 1.20

« Last post by ewemoa on April 14, 2010, 09:40 PM »

Thanks for the list.

Setting up a similar environment may take some time here, but FWIW:

I have found:

• Network Connections Plugin 0.0.0.4, but no 0.0.0.3
• ProcessKill Plugin 0.0.0.7, but no 0.0.0.5
• Timer 2.0 (an FSubScript plugin via CZBPack), but no 1.01.13

IIUC, TodoTXT was an FScript Python plugin -- if you don't have python installed or if the plugin can't find an appropriate installation of Python on your system, I doubt it will work (which might explain the odd display of characters).  Is it correct that you don't use this one?  What happens if you disable it and restart FARR?  Do you still observe the symptoms from before?

The following I haven't fetched yet -- don't see them in DcUpdater (forum search time, perhaps):

• Clock (v1.0.0.1)
• Delicious (V1.0.18)
• Everything Plugin (v0.1)  [DEACTIVATED]
• FarrWindowsSearch (FARR 2 Plugin) (v0.1.0)
• GoogleSuggest Plugin (v1.0.0.1)
• TinyEverything (v0.9.5)

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Problems with fscript 1.20

« Last post by ewemoa on April 14, 2010, 08:15 PM »

Would you mind sharing the specific list of plugins you have installed?

Perhaps one of us might consider trying to reproduce the situation you are encountering.

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (beta - download)

« Last post by ewemoa on April 14, 2010, 12:40 AM »

(Pardon the side track - But I just remembered something - There is a program Listed here on the board called ActiveHotKeys that was a total Life Saver when I was working on the configurable hotkeys part. It was the only reason I found out that I was registering the keys properly, but with the wrong information (which is why nothing had worked in testing (for 2 days)). So... I just wanted to throw in a quick pitch for it.

-Stoic Joker (April 13, 2010, 09:40 PM)

I'm also a fan of it  Though I noticed it didn't seem to work with at least one AHK hotkey of mine (may be that's normal).

Anyhow, I never did find a truly complete list of (default) Windows HotKeys (but I love collecting them), which is why I started putting together a database of them - which I then never had time to finish. It's a bit plain (ok it's ugly) but works:

Stoic Joker's HotKey db

Thanks for that.  That reminds me -- I looked into what you said about the Windows key being reserved a bit more and found this:

  http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/11/30/6605629.aspx

It pointed to:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms971323

which had an interesting section that starts with the text:

  Use the following guidelines for designing shortcut keys:

May be you are already familiar with it.

Oh, and if you have any suggestions on/for the Time Sync "feature" (mess) I'm still futzing with it.

To be honest, I don't ATM.  But if I think of something...


Edit: I forgot to ask -- I found this Global Atom Viewer but it appears to be a Japanese application.  It seems to be handy when doing RegisterHotKey-related things.  Do you know of anything similar in English?

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (beta - download)

« Last post by ewemoa on April 13, 2010, 08:55 PM »

Tangential note...

The Windows keys do not work reliably because they're a reserved System Key.

-Stoic Joker (April 07, 2010, 05:40 PM)

I was just reading about RegisterHotKey:

The F12 key is reserved for use by the debugger at all times, so it should not be registered as a hot key. Even when you are not debugging an application, F12 is reserved in case a kernel-mode debugger or a just-in-time debugger is resident.

I noticed that the latest T-Clock 2010 doesn't allow F12 to be registered

BTW, do you know of a good list of reserved keys?  What I've found so far is:

  http://www.aquariuss...indows-shortcuts.asp

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Skrommel's Software / Re: CAPshift

« Last post by ewemoa on April 13, 2010, 04:14 AM »

Good luck with the program

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Skrommel's Software / Re: CAPshift

« Last post by ewemoa on April 12, 2010, 05:19 PM »

If I just type 'ae', how does it know what I want it to replace the 'ae' with??

-janetb (April 12, 2010, 09:47 AM)

I'm not sure I follow your question, but below are two attempts at answering how I understood your question:

Short answer:

I guess that CAPshift decides what to replace the 'ae' with by essentially examining what appears to the right of the equals sign in its settings file for the line that begins with:

ae=

The default settings file contains the section:

ae=æ
oe=œ
aa=å
AE=Æ
OE=Œ
AA=Å

and I guess that the first line would match if the selected characters were ae because the first line has ae to the left of the equals sign.  The ae is then subsequently replaced with æ -- or in other words, what appears to the right hand side of the equals line.

Much longer answer (warning: may require time and patience to read):

The settings file that CAPshift creates ends with what look like the following lines (actually it depends on which I application I use to view the settings file, but more on that in a bit):

ae=æ
oe=œ
aa=å
AE=Æ
OE=Œ
AA=Å

To get these lines to show up here on the forums, copying and pasting lines didn't work (the portions to the right of the equals signs appeared garbled) for me, so I did a search for what I thought were the proper characters at Wikipedia (e.g. æ).  Luckily, searching for ae (that's two characters) did eventually turn something up and I could see æ (one character) in my browser.  I tried copying and pasting that with fortunate successful results.  For reference, the Wikipedia page had a "See Also" section which listed the other characters so that was a time-saver.  Also, each of the individual Wikipedia pages listed both the lower case versions and the upper case versions.

On the computer I'm using at the moment, depending on the application I use to view the settings file, those lines appear different (e.g. Notepad here doesn't show those lines very nicely, whereas Notepad++ does display them nicely).  (I just noticed that I can view the settings file appropriately by dragging it on to a browser window (Firefox and K-Meleon handled it fine, though Internet Explorer asked me whether I wanted to save it).)  [1]

So back to the main point -- please recall the series of steps from before:

1. Open notepad or some other editor
2. Type the two letters a and e
3. Select them both
4. Hold down the CapsLock key until the menu pops up
5. Choose the "Replace user chars" menu item

As I understand it, once step 5 is performed, CAPshift does what amounts to the following sort of thing:

1. Examine which characters have been selected
2. If the selected characters contain matching sequences of characters as specified on the left hand side of the equals signs (from the relevant portion of the settings file), replace them with what appears to the right hand side of the equals sign (for the corresponding settings line).

So as an example, If I select the text:

ae oe

and use the replace user chars functionality, I get:

æ ø

I guess this is because ae matches the first of the relevant settings lines:

ae=æ

and oe matches the second relevant settings line:

oe=œ

Note that it appears that the order of the settings lines may make a difference.  When I tried the replace user chars functionality on:

aae

I got:

aæ

instead of:

åe

Perhaps CAPshift prioritizes for sequences that appear earlier in the settings file -- the settings line starting with ae= precedes the settings line which starts with aa=:

ae=æ
oe=œ
aa=å
AE=Æ
OE=Œ
AA=Å

I tested this by changing the order of the settings lines to:

aa=å
ae=æ
oe=œ
AE=Æ
OE=Œ
AA=Å

Subsequently using the replace user chars functionality on:

aae

yielded:

åe

instead of the original:

aæ

I hope at least some of that was useful -- if you have further questions on this matter, please mention it.


[1] I'm not sure why the results are different, but my suspicion is that it has to do with file encodings and the fact that the programming language which CAPshift is written in doesn't (yet) support the Unicode file encoding.  May be someone else can give an appropriate explanation of this

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Skrommel's Software / Re: CAPshift

« Last post by ewemoa on April 12, 2010, 09:27 AM »

Regarding Startup, http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/6085 had a number of incorrect 'answers'....:-)

-janetb (April 12, 2010, 08:31 AM)

Oops -- sorry about that.

I just thought most programs with settings allow you to do this within the program.....

Aha.  Yes, that certainly sounds reasonable.  I don't believe CAPshift has this capability though.

The item I was most interested in was "Replace user chars", which would be very useful to me if it does what I think it does.....

I didn't figure out how to use this until just now.  Perhaps you already know, but for what it's worth, here's an example of using it (assuming CAPshift is running and has the default settings):

1. Open notepad or some other editor
2. Type the two letters a and e
3. Select them both
4. Hold down the CapsLock key until the menu pops up
5. Choose the "Replace user chars" menu item

If all goes well, the two letters should be replaced by a single character.

On a side note, I experimented with the settings for replacement and found the following sorts of things work too:

He=Helium
Silver=Ag
Hi=This is some longer text.  There is even more than one line..newline.Neat!

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Skrommel's Software / Re: CAPshift

« Last post by ewemoa on April 12, 2010, 07:33 AM »

I'm not Skrommel, but may be the following will be of some use.

1. How can I make it open at Startup?

-janetb (April 12, 2010, 04:24 AM)

Does the following sound like your question?

  http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/6085

May be one or some of the answers provided will help -- please mention whether they do or not.

2. For Settings, I only get an .ini file, which is Greek to me....:-(....Do you have to know scripting to set settings?

As far as I understand, unless you are not satisfied with CAPshift's default behavior, there is no need to modify the settings.

However, the following are my guesses as to what the settings affect (this summary is based on reading the comments in the settings file and direct experimentation).

capslockidle=120

Roughly speaking, this setting represents the number of seconds to wait before turning off CapsLock (assuming it was already in an "on" state) when the keyboard is idle.  The default value is 120, but it appears you can set it to anything between 0 and 999 inclusive.  However, if the value is set to 0, CapsLock is not automatically turned off -- at least this is how it seemed to me when I tried a value of 0

showstatus=1

This setting appears to control the displaying of at least two things.  The first is the balloon message which appears above the tray icon for CAPshift.  The balloon message seems to indicate which keys are currently in an "on" state.  The second is the display of a count-down timer indicating how much time is left before the key being pressed switches state (e.g. going from on to off or going from off to on).

The default value for the setting is 1 which means that the two things are displayed.  If the value is changed to 0, neither thing will be displayed.

delayf1=1
delayinsert=1
delayscrolllock=1
delaynumlock=1

These settings represent the keys which CAPshift "slows down".  The keys that can be affected are:

F1
Insert
ScrollLock
NumLock

The default values are all 1 indicating that all four of the keys are affected -- so CAPShift "slows" all four of them.  If for some reason, you'd not like some or all of the keys to be slowed down, you can set the corresponding values to 0 instead of 1.  For example, if I didn't want my F1 key to be affected, I'd change the corresponding setting to 0:

delayf1=0

The remaining settings appear to have to do with the "Replace user chars" functionality of CAPshift.  If you don't use the functionality, my guess is that it is safe to leave the corresponding settings alone (or remove them).

BTW, I think that in order for any new settings to take effect, CAPshift may have to be exited once and then started again.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alternatives to Daemon Tools?

« Last post by ewemoa on April 12, 2010, 06:49 AM »

and another one - never used it so can't vouch for it, but it may be worth a look

http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/

-Target (December 21, 2009, 10:50 PM)

FWIW, this has been working ok for my limited use.

-ewemoa (December 22, 2009, 08:37 PM)

I forgot that ImDisk can work with iso images.  I use ImDisk for other purposes but may be its iso image support is worth trying out.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: logout when monitor turns on

« Last post by ewemoa on April 11, 2010, 07:16 PM »

When I looked into this a bit, I got the sense it's doable in Vista and later.  Is that what other folks found too?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Windows Search 0.1.0

« Last post by ewemoa on April 11, 2010, 02:31 AM »

I don't know if this is relevant but, FWIW, I think the latest version of FScript is 1.20 -- at least it looks that way currently:

  http://e.craft.free.fr/farr/FScript/

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (beta - download)

« Last post by ewemoa on April 08, 2010, 03:07 AM »

Yes, hope you get some good rest

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (beta - download)

« Last post by ewemoa on April 07, 2010, 06:41 AM »

Nice-looking dialog

BTW, I have not succeeded in getting a hotkey with the windows key to work.  Should it? 

A specific example is for the combination:

  Left Windows + A

While configuring the hotkey combination, after I pressed the Apply button, I saw "None" as a field value (no error). 

Trying the hotkey combination out after configuration didn't seem to have any effect. 

A short while later, I noticed that when I was typing a letter "A", the hotkey seemed to come into play (a dialog popped up). 

Upon checking the hotkey configuration dialog, I noticed that the field value now had the value "Left Windows + A" in it.  However, invoking the hotkey combination didn't work, though a single letter "A" seemed to.

I hope the description made sense.

Are you able to reproduce on your end?

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (beta - download)

« Last post by ewemoa on April 06, 2010, 08:04 PM »

Testing -beta- 5.2.

Not seeing previously reported problematic behavior 

Now seeing:

1. Bring up HotKeys tab in Properties dialog
2. Click Reset button for "Display Timer Watch Hotkey"
3. Enter hotkey: Control+Shift+A
4. Click Apply buton



and



Note: Control+Shift+A works though.

After exiting and starting up again though the hotkey configure state appears appropriate (it shows Control+Shift+A) and the hotkey is active.

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (beta - download)

« Last post by ewemoa on April 06, 2010, 04:33 PM »

After the initial (just updated) run can you do it again?

-Stoic Joker (April 06, 2010, 09:07 AM)

Sorry, not sure I follow.  I tried the steps again (after exiting the application once and restarting it) and was able to reproduce, FWIW.  I also re-downloaded (with 2 different browsers) but the hashes came out the same as the original beta -5-.

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Developer's Corner / Re: another coding tutorial

« Last post by ewemoa on April 06, 2010, 10:02 AM »

Looks like this may have moved or is in transition:

  http://www.highercom...tingforeveryone.com/

FWIW, it's been a bit now since I worked through a fair chunk of the original lessons but I am finding that it has turned out to be helpful for me.

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (beta - download)

« Last post by ewemoa on April 06, 2010, 07:56 AM »

Thanks for the update.

I briefly tried the HotKeys feature in beta -5-.



To reproduce, please try:

1. Bring up HotKeys tab in Properties dialog (what, no hotkey for this?  kidding)
2. Click Reset button for "Display Timer Watch Hotkey"
3. Enter hotkey: Control+Shift+S
4. Click Apply buton
5. Press: Control+Shift+S (notice window pop up)
6. Click Reset button for "Display Timer Watch Hotkey"
7. Try to enter hotkey: Control+Shift+S (notice that only the text Control+Shift shows up and a timer watch window pops up)
8. Click on Properties dialog
9. Try to enter hotkey: Control+Shift+S (notice that the text field gets additional content)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Quickly go to any directory

« Last post by ewemoa on April 02, 2010, 08:21 AM »

You enter some characters of a directory, with or without wildcards. wcd then presents a list of possible matching directories in one of three formats: a numbered list, an list numbered with letters of  the alphabet, a directory tree that you can navigate.

-howardb (October 27, 2009, 09:50 PM)

It looks like the -od command line option gives back output which would almost work for FARR's #filecontents.

So as to:

So am i understanding correctly that wcd has a commandline tool that lets you specify a substring on the commandline and outputs a simple list of matching directories? Or does it add extra info to the output that needs to be cleaned up.

-mouser

The most obvious thing that might require some massaging is that the output uses slashes instead of backslashes for the path separators.

My browsing of the man page didn't turn up anything useful in this regard.

May be someone else knows better

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

« Last post by ewemoa on April 01, 2010, 02:09 AM »

• FARR CSharp SDK.chm - I compiled using NDoc a pretty referece file, some was copied was Mouser documentation and some I wrote myself. It isn't complete but it is better than nothing

-vitalyb (November 23, 2007, 11:23 PM)

I only just discovered this documentation.  It's way better than nothing -- and it seems to me that it's worth a look even if you are interested in developing FARR plugins, w/ or w/o CSharp.

Thank you so much for this 

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (beta - download)

« Last post by ewemoa on March 29, 2010, 08:59 PM »

Okay, as it turns out Hotkeys are a hell of a lot easier that I'd originally thought. So...

T-Clock Hotkeys
Ctrl + Shift + S      : Opens the T-Clock Stopwatch.
Ctrl + Shift + T      : Opens T-Clock Add/Edit Timers.
Ctrl + Shift + W   : Opens the T-Clock Timer Watch Window.
Note: Timer Watch will auto-close if it isn’t needed (has no timers being watched).

-Stoic Joker (March 28, 2010, 01:08 PM)

Thanks for adding these.  They seem to work here.

Ctrl+Shift+T happens to be something I use often for Firefox (opening the most recently closed tab).

Given the possibility of conflicting shortcut keys, I wonder if configurability of the specific keys would be helpful.  If that's a pain or too much work or whatever, perhaps you can punt on the shortcut keys for the moment (sorry, I know I asked for them initially).

A random thought: if command line options for the functionality of opening (and closing or toggling) the various windows were available, it'd be possible to set up something else (e.g AHK or FARR) to handle the specification and triggering of hotkeys.  What do you think?