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Find And Run Robot / Re: some suggestions about FARR

« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2008, 11:34 AM »

1. when no matches, simply add "run " before the word, in this way FARR can replace win+R , and in the future put "run (keyword)" into the searching list

This is possible using a little-known trick (I plan to make it easier to use in the future).

There is a special alias you can create in FARR called the "noresults" alias, which can be used to tell FARR how to handle what happens when the user hits Enter and no results are shown.

Go to your myalias.alias file in the ALIAS tab, and create an alias like this:



Then if you type something and hit enter and no results are shown, the program will be launched as if using the run command.
(test it by typing notepad.exe and then enter).

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: GTDTiddlyWikiPlus for FARR (alias pack)

« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2008, 11:15 AM »

Now as for why tiwi is not showing any results.. that is odd, i'm not sure..
Maybe you could go to the alias tab and select the TiddlyWiki.alias file and look at the tiwi alias and see if its unchecked for any reason.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: GTDTiddlyWikiPlus for FARR (alias pack)

« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2008, 11:13 AM »

It sounds like the reason that its finding the extra results for each is that you might have the actual FARR directory in your FARR search path.  Which is an interesting thing i've not considered..

Probably the smart thing to do (and which I should do in the default installation), is add the FARR directory to your list of subfolders to EXCLUDE when searching the PROGRAMFILES directory.

In other words, if you have checked the checkbox to ask FARR to search %PROGRAMFILES% (which by the way i personally have unchecked), then double click on it and add the farr directory to those directories to exclude:

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Find And Run Robot / Re: some suggestions about FARR

« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2008, 04:32 AM »

Welcome to the site zhouzh2 

Your #1 suggestion has been made by quite a few people -- i'm afraid it's not possible currently.  I haven't ruled it out but there are some complications with doing it and so it's not at the top of my list.

The #2 suggestion is a very good one; in fact i added code to do this at one point, BUT i'm afraid it's going to have to wait until FARR gets optional indexing support, which is planned.  This is because it would simply be too cpu and disk intensive to resolve all the shortcuts live during search.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: GTDTiddlyWikiPlus for FARR (alias pack)

« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2008, 04:08 AM »

If you do get it working, you may want to "package" a standalone alias pack for your sidebar wiki so others can just download and install it, in much the same way that the gwp and tiwi aliases are packaged, with their own alias file and icon.  i can help with that when the time comes 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: GTDTiddlyWikiPlus for FARR (alias pack)

« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2008, 04:06 AM »

Welcome to the site Morris 
Great to see you post here.

I created 2 aliases for FARR that use tiddlywiki and gtdwiki, which are installed by default into FARR.
You can access them by typing: tiwi OR gwp

If you go to the FARR options and the ALIASES tab, and select the gtd_tiddlywiki.alias file you will see this for the gwp result:

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GTD Tiddly Wiki Plus| htmlviewurl file://%FARRDIR%MyLocalData/TiddlyWiki/gwp/gtd_tiddlywiki.htm /ICON=gtd_tiddlywiki.ico

that line is all that is needed to show the self-contained wiki htm file in html view mode.  the file is located in the %FARRDIR%MyLocalData/TiddlyWiki/gwp/ directory.

TIWI is:

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Tiddly Wiki| htmlviewurl file://%FARRDIR%MyLocalData/TiddlyWiki/tiwi/MyTiddlyWiki.html /ICON=tiddlywiki.ico

If you want to add your own, what you should do is make a directory in
%FARRDIR%MyLocalData/

and put your wiki htm/html file and any other helper files in that directory.

and then make an alias to refer to it, just like the tiwi and gwp aliases.

an important note:
you need to select the myaliases.alias file to add your own aliases (you can move and manually edit stuff later); it's done like this to make updating safer.

one thing i noticed while getting the tiddlywiki and gtdwiki to work before was that i had to manually create some of the backup subdirs or it failed.

i can help getting your tiddlywiki to work if you get stuck following these instructions -- this htmlview mode is all brand new and the aliases aren't the easiest thing to master, so there's no shame in needing help getting it working!

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Find And Run Robot / New FARR Plugin Display Mode: UserWindowMode

« Last post by mouser on July 05, 2008, 09:25 PM »

What's this?



A plugin can now tell FARR to embed its window inside the FARR result window in a special userview mode.

Basically this lets you embed an entire program inside the FARR result window when a plugin wants to do so, enabling a plugin to display any form of data it can generate.  This is a live window that is resized along with farr. Any language can be used -- basically FARR just takes over as the parent for a normal Window.  Very easy to use.

I hope this will open up a new range of possible plugins

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Draw on your desktop

« Last post by mouser on July 05, 2008, 07:29 PM »

skrommel for the love of god put this on your site and update your web page!
(and recompile your exes to solve the false positive antivirus alerts).

your fans demand it!!!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Request for ideas for html view mode size memory

« Last post by mouser on July 05, 2008, 07:04 PM »

i wonder if this means is should really have a maxmize button on the farr titlebar, and perhaps a hotkey to toggle in and out of maximized mode.. others might find it useful to switch to fullscreen mode..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Request for ideas for html view mode size memory

« Last post by mouser on July 05, 2008, 06:43 PM »

my farr window is always set to full screen with slight transparency

very interesting. i'll have to try that to see what it's like.

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Find And Run Robot / Request for ideas for html view mode size memory

« Last post by mouser on July 05, 2008, 06:23 PM »

With the new html view (and also somewhat with the richedit memo view), we have a slight dilemma with regard to the FARR window size; for normal FARR usage you typically want a pretty small window; for html view you usually need a bigger window.

I've added a few features to make working in html/memo mode a little easier:
First, FARR now remembers independently the size of the window in each different mode.  This goes a long way to making FARR usable in these different modes since you can have a large html view and a small results window.
Second, I've added a command that aliases and plugins can call to force the FARR window to be a specific size.

However, I'm thinking this may not be sufficient.  Are there going to be some html windows you want one size and others you need another size?  I'm trying to think what the best solution would be to this?  Is the ability to set window size from aliases good enought?

Or do we need some system for letting the user specify the desired window size on a per-plugin basis? or on a per-website url basis?  Other ideas?

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Programmer Libs / Re: JrDebugLogger - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.06.01 - July 5th, 2008

« Last post by mouser on July 05, 2008, 01:52 PM »

very minor update to allow easy specification that debug output files should be opened in append mode.

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Mirc Script Pack / Re: Mirc Script Pack Updated with new script (JrHourlyMarker) - July 5, 2008

« Last post by mouser on July 05, 2008, 01:40 PM »

Mirc Script Pack Updated with slightly newer version of JrHourlyMarker with improved timer that does not turn off when you are disconnected from server.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on July 05, 2008, 12:29 PM »

small bug : the wheel to scroll the htmlview from the search box does not work all the time... in particular it does not work with donationcoder.com ????

try the new alpha v2.18.01 just uploaded

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on July 05, 2008, 10:50 AM »

keep in mind that these new calls are mainly intended to be used by plugins.
from the help file:

• setfocus searchedit | mainpanel - sets focus to either the search edit box or whatever output mode (results, memo, html) is currently showing (result list, htmlview, richedit view).
• setviewmode list | memo | html - sets main panel view mode.
• pcommand EXTRA_TEXT - sends a command to the current plugin and then to all other plugins if the current one doesn't handle it; sent via a plugin->set_strvalue("pcommand",EXTRA_TEXT) call -- so plugins need to return FALSE from this if they do not handle it.  An ERROR will be announced to the user if no installed plugin accepts the command.  This can be a useful way for plugins to talk to one another, so you should use EXTRA_TEXT strings that are uniquely identifyable.
• setsize MINWIDTH,MINHEIGHT,MAXWIDTH,MAXHEIGHT - forces size of window to be within the specified range; you can use -1 or * for values to ignore.

If you wanted to load a web page and then change focus to the html view (since by default it stays in the edit box now), you could make your alias result like this:
htmlviewurl www.google.com ;;; setfocus mainpanel


setviewmode would be used by a plugin that wants to keep the display in html mode for example without having to reload a webpage again and again.  it would be called by plugin like: farr->set_strvalue("launch","setviewmode html")
It's hard to think of a case where anything but a plugin would call this.


pcommand is intended to be used to call a function exposed in a plugin.  there are no plugins that use this yet, but a perfect example of where this would be useful is in the console plugin for farr.  this is a plugin meant to help out aliases and other plugins by running a command and capturing output for display.  right now the way it works is if you want console to run something you actually have to pretend the user has typed some long search string, which affects the display and looks wierd.  using the pcommand, an improved console plugin could support a few functions that you could call using the pcommand interface which would make for a much cleaner method of operation.  a plugin would call this via farr->set_strvalue("pcommand","string to pass to plugin").  A pcommand will always be sent first to the plugin currently controlling the view, and then to all others if the current plugin doesnt accept it.  If no plugins accept the command then farr will report an error, under the assumption that a helper plugin is not installed.


setsize is used to force the farr window within a size range.
so for example to force farr window to an exact height you could do: setsize 640,480,640,480
or to make sure its at LEAST 640x480 you could do: setsize 640,480,*,*
or to make sure it is no larger than 640x480 you could do: setsize *,*,640,480
or to make sure its at least 640 pixels wide: setize 640,*,*,*
EXAMPLE: htmlviewurl www.google.com ;;; setsize 640,480,640,480
OR: htmlviewurl $$1 ;;; setsize 640,480,640,480 ;;; setfocus mainpanel

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on July 05, 2008, 10:22 AM »

i've confirmed your report about wheel scrolling, i'll try to figure out what the problem is.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Plugin: AlbumDisplayer (BETA)

« Last post by mouser on July 05, 2008, 10:17 AM »

very cool!!

But since the enter key currently has no use in the plugin when the input box has focus, maybe I can modify it so that the enter redoes the search and immediately loads the first match. Let me look into that.

there is actually an easy way to do this.  the new plugin api and new fscript api pass an additional variable to the OnSearch functions named triggermethod, which is 1 when user has hit enter to complete their search and 0 otherwise.  it's made for exactly the purpose you are talking about here.  we just need ecaradec to give us a sample of how to make the fscript.js use the new feature.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release v2.107.04 beta - Sep 23, 2012

« Last post by mouser on July 04, 2008, 08:28 PM »

very minor update with 2.16.01, mostly of interest to plugin writers using html mode.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Tip: Htmlviewurl works for local files too! :)

« Last post by mouser on July 04, 2008, 07:45 PM »

karal, can you try opening normal internet explorer, and change font size to large, then exit and restart farr.  see if it makes any difference.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Adding ALL CAPS to quick modification menu

« Last post by mouser on July 04, 2008, 03:18 PM »

if you open up the CHS window, then click the "Modify Format/Case" button at top of the clip panel, that will bring you to the formatting dialog.  Then choose the UPPERCASE text formatting and nothing else, then save the preset with a useful name (From preset menu).  After that the new preset formatting operation will appear on your quick pop up menu under "Formatting Presets".



There is currently no way to assign this to a hotkey, but that is coming when i do some more CHS updates.

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Living Room / Re: DC Forum Members -- Tell Us About Your Website

« Last post by mouser on July 04, 2008, 01:07 PM »

myarmor, that's your component!?!
fantastic 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Tip: Htmlviewurl works for local files too! :)

« Last post by mouser on July 04, 2008, 12:07 PM »

cedardoc,
you probably don't realize but one of the first things we did to demo the new html capabilities of FARR was integrate a tiddlywiki and a gtdwiki into FARR and it comes included with the latest FARR distribution

See:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=13673.0

So you shouldnt have to do anything but bring up farr and type:
tiwi
Or type:
gwp

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Html View Mode in FARR (Find and Run Robot)

« Last post by mouser on July 04, 2008, 11:22 AM »

A few notes about the web browser stealing focus:

I spent a lot of time and trial and error figuring out a way to prevent the web browser from taking focus automatically from the edit box.  It turns out that the web browser activex automatically grabs focus and there is no easy way to stop it from doing so.  So basically what I do is keep track if you were in the browser control and clicked on a link vs. if you initiated a display from the edit box, and try to preserve that after the document finishes loading.  It remains to be seen how good a job i did.

There are also some new commands described in the help file that can be put in alias results or used from a plugin to force the focus to the web browser should you so desire after a page loads.  Remember you can now specify multiple commands in one alias by separating them with ;;;

So for example here is an alia result that will go to a website and force the focus into the web browser:

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mgo $$1 | htmlviewurl $$1 ;;; setfocus mainpanel

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: [Bug] Cannot edit plugin options

« Last post by mouser on July 04, 2008, 11:11 AM »

(In case it wasn't intentional, FYI, I do get a message that says "ATTN:DEBUG Saving to C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\Plugins\FCalc\FCalc.cfi.tmp.debugtemp" when I close the plugin manager window after making a change, but the changes seem to work now.)

ha!
woops that for finding that, indeed i should have removed that and will now and reupload in 5 min.

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Living Room / Re: Firefox 3 annoyance: Keying-in disabled in file upload control

« Last post by mouser on July 04, 2008, 10:51 AM »

Not convinced this is a big issue - previously you could click on the field and then paste, now you click the field and a file requester opens - but you can still paste the full path of the file you want to upload into the requester (works for me anyway)..

ok well that definitely mitigates it down from a showstopper to a minor inconvenience for me.  i still don't like the change but it it does indeed help security i can live with that.  someone will probably come up with a nice plugin to make it act like before anyway.