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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Bug report?] farr - short freeze every 6 launch/close

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

I'd love to get a report on whether the new version (2.12.03) still suffers from this problem.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Bug report] Farr freezing on XP for a few minute, then comes back

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

I'd love to get a report on whether the new version (2.12.03) still suffers from this problem.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR Won't Start Programs - Vista

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2008, 05:08 PM »

Note that as of 2.12.03 this has become an option -- so after you update to the next version you probably will have to go to general options tab and change launch method to method #2

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Searching network shares

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2008, 04:46 PM »

right now FARR specifically tries to avoid network shortcuts because it tends to result in slowing down search.  but i will try to re-enable it as an option soon.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Refresh environment variable changes

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2008, 04:17 PM »

I know that chr15 wrote code to do this in his System Path Commander program, so it should be possible -- i'll ask him how to do it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Webcam Signature 1.0 - My Submission for the DC Programming Contest

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2008, 04:13 PM »

I'm getting an unhandled exception when i choose "grab a frame":

"Object reference not set to an instance of an object"
************** Exception Text **************
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at System.Drawing.Bitmap..ctor(Image original)
   at SampleGrabberNET.UnsafeBitmap..ctor(Bitmap bitmapRef)
   at WebCam_Signature.MainForm.GetFullFrameBitmap()
   at WebCam_Signature.FineTuneTrackColorsForm.GrabAFrameButton_MouseClick(Object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug report] launching problem after installing 2.10.01

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2008, 02:46 PM »

Mouser, please update the forum thread Latest FARR <Rel. #> Release - <Date> when releasing new versions

I wanted this one to be a quiet release until i got some feedback, so i wouldn't make a fool of myself again publicly releasing a version with launch problems.  Now that i hear it is working for people i made it official release and i will update.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Internationalization issues

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2008, 02:45 PM »

this may certainly be fixable:

It's not with all diacritical, but capitalized ones : É, À, Â, Ç...
é à è etc. are ok.

but full fledged flawless support for arbitrary character sets no.

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

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2008, 02:34 PM »

It's the pound sign that escapes digits when you have the "digits launch" option set, e.g. '#7'
I recommend not using that option -- but i'll put a note in the options panel about using #.

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Living Room / Re: Idea: "DC Member Book X - Volume 1" - Request For Volunteers

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2008, 02:00 PM »

Of course don't even think twice about this, it's not important and it's nothing to worry about at all.
Are thoughts are with you..  hang in there and just try to survive each day.
Paladin, please do not hesitate to stop in any time you want some cheering up.  Just click the chat button at the top of the page and you can chat with a couple dc members any hour of any night -- there is always someone in the chat room.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Is FARR right for me? Requesting barebones JScript example

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2008, 07:24 AM »

assuming you don't need to generate those strings dynamically through some computation, you can do what you want much much easier than what you might be thinking.

you can make a simple alias that does exactly what you want.

just go to options, alias tab, choose myaliases.alias and create a new alias titled whatever you want (like for example "helloworld")
and then in results make a list like this:
Hello World! | paste Hello World!
Bonjour Tout le Monde! | paste Bonjour Tout le Monde!

that's all there is to it.


now if you wanted to generate those strings using some algorithm or getting them from a website or something, then you would want to write a javascript plugin like you initially said.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Internationalization issues

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2008, 05:34 AM »

This is one of the places where Launchy may be a better choice for some users, since it supports Unicode.

Note: Launchy developer asks for donations -- if you use launchy please consider donating to them -- they deserve the support.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug report] launching problem after installing 2.10.01

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2008, 05:26 AM »

New version is up (2.12.03) -- previous versions weren't saving options changes to file.

Does this framework allow you to add icons to the leaves on the tree? I think it'd help in the visual aspect.

yes, i will do so.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug report] launching problem after installing 2.10.01

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2008, 05:10 AM »

it still has a long way to go before it looks good but at least it's better.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug report] launching problem after installing 2.10.01

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2008, 05:05 AM »

Please re-download and see i've got it launching properly again now.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug report] launching problem after installing 2.10.01

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2008, 04:49 AM »

nitrix i need to know if this used to work fine with older version of farr..
and if you have tried all the different launch options (launch helper, shortcut, launch mode)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug report] launching problem after installing 2.10.01

« Last post by mouser on June 25, 2008, 04:29 AM »

Can i get a report on how this new test version works launching stuff:
https://www.donation...AndRunRobotSetup.exe

IMPORTANT:
please try the various launch options -- i'd love a report from people about which methods fail on which file types

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Farr is not very responsive when it is searching

« Last post by mouser on June 24, 2008, 04:25 PM »

isn't the order just top to bottom in the list of which directories to search?

Yes.

And this is important.  It means you should always put the small most likely directories at top, such as the Start Menu.

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Living Room / Re: How Interesting is Your IP Address?

« Last post by mouser on June 24, 2008, 04:17 PM »

yep, it's mine that looks like Cody! Coincidence or..



ps. the score was 1 (what rubbish!)

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Living Room / Re: How Interesting is Your IP Address?

« Last post by mouser on June 24, 2008, 04:09 PM »

Is it just me or does Deozaan's ip look a bit like cody? 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug report] launching problem after installing 2.10.01

« Last post by mouser on June 24, 2008, 10:43 AM »

I apologize; i will try to get it done today.

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General Software Discussion / Re: NewEgg

« Last post by mouser on June 24, 2008, 03:29 AM »

one of the things newegg has done for me before (don't remember if i requested or they suggested), is send me a new one before i even sent old back, by charging me and then auto-refunding when they get back the rma one.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Farr is not very responsive when it is searching

« Last post by mouser on June 23, 2008, 09:40 PM »

There are really two issues here:
1) the minor issue, which is that FARR's user interface should be more responsive even while searching deep directories.  The problem is caused by unsophisticated use of multithreading that gets hung up waiting for the operating system to load directory information when it is out of the OS cache.
2) the larger issue, which is that when searching giant directories, for example if you have FARR to search your entire hd instead of just your start menu (the default is just start menu), then the fact that FARR does not index becomes a hindrance to use because it can take so long to live search those directories.  An index would make such searches significantly faster, but brings with it it's own problems.

I'd like to ask that we don't get into a detailed discussion of indexing and such stuff now, just because i'm not quite ready to think about it in detail -- i want to fix all my other pending issues in the next week or so and then we can talk about this again.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New plugin: FARR MultiMonitor

« Last post by mouser on June 23, 2008, 09:10 PM »

Can't believe we aren't seeing more "thank you"'s for this plugin since people have requested this feature in the past.. i think they are just not seeing this thread.

ps.
it would be really nice if you could make a .dcupdate file for this, so people could check for updates, and so i could include it with the list of things FARR knows how to install for new users.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Farr is not very responsive when it is searching

« Last post by mouser on June 23, 2008, 08:27 PM »

Yes i will try to fix this in the near future with a better use of threads.