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General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite ZIP/RAR application?

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 27, 2007, 04:20 PM »

Same here, steeladept.
I've been using AlZip for about a week, and i'm finding it to be better than both 7zip and winrar. (although i have to admit that i first changed because i didn't like the "buy me" message of winrar)

Also, i'm eager to see how will that ALZip Speed Extractor work, it does look like a grand idea.

Renegade: may i make a suggestion regarding that? There's a basic problem with it. As i never know how the inside of the archive is before i open it, i'd never use the "extract here on double click" function, which is the most interesting feature.
BUT, if there was some safety about it, like "if there's more than one file on the base dir, extract to here/ArchiveName", oh man that'd be perfect

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: My Windows Cursors

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 27, 2007, 03:34 PM »

 
I just had a few good laughs after setting some of those animated cursors as the default cursor.. Then i wasn't able to click anything! eheh

This got me wondering: You use animated cursors as the default cursor? How about transparent cursors?

I find a bit confusing using anything other than the default black and white pointer (without shadow), but maybe i'm just paranoid

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Auto-Tile open windows.

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 27, 2007, 01:47 PM »

Ok... Done.
See the post above for download link.

The default height is 200 pixels, but it can be custumized. Just edit the ini file and change the "dialogheight" parameter.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fixing Vista's pesky resource problem

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 27, 2007, 01:07 PM »

Repost
Looks like this blog sure is getting some atention. See here for a post about the blog itself.

Looks like this was a breakthrough for everyone, thus it's good to call its atention again.

I've locked the thread to avoid confusion. Please post replies at the other thread

edited due to lack of tact by me

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Auto-Tile open windows.

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 27, 2007, 12:13 PM »

Right, but perhaps you could not "invoke" the javascript from the ahk if... the height was less than 200px.  Maybe?

-thefritz_j (July 27, 2007, 10:24 AM)

Ok, that's simple, I should have it in a few hours. (not that it takes much time, but i've got to go buy myself some clothes now )

(Also, I'm just getting a feeling for things, has this gone beyond the "snack" stage?)

-thefritz_j (July 27, 2007, 10:24 AM)

You surely haven't seen GridMove's thread. THAT'S gone beyond the snack stage

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: A place to share Cursors, Icons, etc at DC?

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 27, 2007, 12:10 PM »

ICONS!!!!

I'm an absolute atrocity when it comes to art work.
Currently, in terms of imaging we have nudone (which does the all-might cody and most of the artwork images you see on DC) and hamradio (which does almost every icon you see on DC programs / forum).
I'm sure another artist would be very welcome

It's good to hear that there's another helping hand around.

As for how to offer your help, i'd say this thread you opened can do (although others might have another idea of a "formal presentation"  )

Now all you have to do is, when people ask for some icon work.. Step up!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Auto-Tile open windows.

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 27, 2007, 10:14 AM »

I see the combination with sweptaway, fritz.. Interesting!

About #2: It can be hard to identify those windows. Let's just specify better what you mean by "tiny pop-up" window. I can specify something like: if window is smaller than a specific height, do not tile.

BUT, if that window stays on the screen and a window is minimized / opened / etc, that window will be tiled too, because of #1. I have no control on which windows are tiled, all of the active windows are.

What do you think about this idea?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Farr Alias: Window Management

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 27, 2007, 09:29 AM »

This alias allows you to do a few things with the active window by typing a command in farr.



Here's the table describing the alias:

Command	Description
WindowManagement	List all the commands
Minimize	Minimize the active window
Maximize	Maximize the window
MaximizeHorizontally	Maximize Horizontally the active window
MaximizeVertically	Maximize Vertically the active window

Note: Everything assigned in bold is a farr keyword. If you find any keyword is too long, just type part of it, then when it's the first result, press tab to autocomplete.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Delete an Alias

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 27, 2007, 09:02 AM »

Well.. If the alias is in "myaliases.alias", it should NOT be read-only and you should be able to delete the entry by right-clicking it and selecting "delete".

If you can't, please check farr's directory -> AliasGroups -> Installed, and check if myalias.alias is there. If it is, please move it to AliasGroups -> MyCustom.

All the aliases under the "installed" directory are read-only, maybe that one ended up there by error

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Farr Alias: nircmd alias

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 27, 2007, 08:48 AM »

Here's an alias that uses nircmd to do several useful functions



Here's the table describing this alias:

Command	Description	Example
cmd	List all the commands	cmd
Screensaver	Start your Screensaver	screensaver
Monitor	Turn your monitor on or off	Monitor on or Monitor off
LockPc	Lock your computer (the same as pressing windows+L)	LockPc
Set Resolution	Set the resolution of your computer (width, height and depth)	SetRes 800 600 32
ChangeVolume	Increase or Decrease the master volume of your computer (varies from 0 to 65)	ChangeVol +10 or ChangeVol -10
Mute	Toggle the mute status the computer sound	mute or unmute
Reboot	Restart the computer	Reboot or Restart
Shutdown	Shutdown computer	Shutdown or PowerOff
Standby	Get the computer in standby state	Standby
Logoff	Logoff from the current session	Logoff

Note: Everything assigned in bold is a farr keyword. If you find any keyword is too long, just type part of it, then when it's the first result, press tab to autocomplete.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [feature request] i have no idea if this is hard to do...

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 27, 2007, 04:46 AM »

Here edbro:

Replace the following command line:

[Select]

Music album search $$1 | dosearch -alias +folder_music +open_winamp +\ $$1

with

[Select]

playlist seach $$1 | dosearch -alias +folder_music +open_winamp *.m3u +sall $$1

That should do it.
I replaced the "+\" which means "only seach for folders" by "*.m3u", which means only seach for playlists.
Also added "+sall" so that all the hits are shown.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Auto-Tile open windows.

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 26, 2007, 03:31 PM »

What does the js file do anyway?

-thefritz_j (July 26, 2007, 03:27 PM)

The js file is what actually tiles the windows. As ahk doesn't have any code for this, and it'd be quite a pain to code, i used some "help"

Glad to know it's working for you, fritz

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Auto-Tile open windows.

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 26, 2007, 03:30 PM »

Oh damn... Do you get that error when you try to run the windowtitle.js included in the zip, nite_monkey?

That's a javascript file, but i supposed it was somehow installed on all windows instalations.

Does anyone know how this can be solved?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 26, 2007, 02:27 PM »

OK thanks.  I sort of figured things out after tinkering with a couple of new grids.  So it would seem that any formula involving width or height should always have the left and top variables in the formula to establish a baseline offset?

-biosmonkey (July 26, 2007, 02:13 PM)

Yep, that's exactly it.

1) I am having trouble with template cycling.  I created two templates, and placed them in the cycle order, but when I right click to cycle to the next one nothing happens.  The grid goes away, and it seems like gridmove deactivates.   If I then go into the template list, nothing is checked (which explains why nothing happens). 

I assumed this feature would cycle between all listed templates with each right click (and roll around). Note that both templates work if checked individually.

2) The help for that dialog (template cycling) refers to a specific list of templates that are available.  Does this mean only these can be cycled?

-biosmonkey (July 26, 2007, 02:13 PM)

The thing is: there are 2 representations of grids: the initial (which sucks, and is hardcoded in the code and i still wasn't able to remove), and the ones in .grid files. On that dialog's default configuration, there's no example of how to include the former.
You have to do like i have in the folowing screenshot:


This means: place your custom grid on the Grids folder and then refer to it on that dialog as:
Grids/NAMEOFGRID.grid

3) Why do the items in the list have a comma before and after the list?

-biosmonkey (July 26, 2007, 02:13 PM)

Well... That's sort of a workaround to get the thing to work. You don't have to worry about them, though. The first comma and the last don't need to be there. They'll reappear when you get back to that dialog, though. Just don't worry about them, it's an explicit example of how i suck at coding

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General Software Discussion / Re: Encrypt single file?

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 26, 2007, 10:37 AM »

I don't know il alzip can do it, dhuser. But i ended up solving that problem with 7-zip, which can make self-decompressing encripted zip files through command line

I just gave up using it for regular use, i've kept it in my file management alias for find and run.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Auto-Tile open windows.

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 26, 2007, 10:01 AM »

Ok... Let's see what you think about this.
Just unpack the attached zip, and run "AutoTile.exe". (or AutoTile.ahk, if you have autohotkeys installed).

added window height check and fixed misspelling

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General Software Discussion / Re: Encrypt single file?

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 26, 2007, 09:29 AM »

Yep, it wasn't the greatest of ideas.
I had no knowledge that 7zip couldn't handle winrar archives.
I've changed to Alzip, which feels better than winrar and 7zip (i like the tree view), and has the added bonus of having sexy icons.. eheh
 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Custom Font Settings for FARR

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 26, 2007, 09:04 AM »

I was confused because you have the same skin as I have ;-)

-tablaji (July 26, 2007, 08:46 AM)

That can only mean one thing: you have good taste

Thank you for your efforts.

-tablaji (July 26, 2007, 08:46 AM)

Well, that's as far as i can go, but hopefuly, mouser will get here, read this, and come up with an immediate explanation

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Custom Font Settings for FARR

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 26, 2007, 08:35 AM »

tablaji:
I'd hardly say that's a "very very minor" problem. Let's try to figure this out:
Was it like that when you installed farr? Or did it appear after you changed the size of the text?
Do you have any program to increase the size of the icons somewhere? (like a desktop enhancer or something like that)
Does the small icon view in farr also have icons too big? (to see that view, just add "+sall" to your search)

I've attached an image of my windows explorer with icon view. Could you please check if your icons have the same size? How about the icons on your Desktop?

Thanks a lot!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR V2 core alias tables

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 25, 2007, 03:13 PM »

Here you go, Grorgy!

Glad you like this table

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: drag window to edge automatically resizes it

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 25, 2007, 03:10 PM »

The reason for existance of those variables is that those numbers are variable from computer to computer (depending on the resolution), and variable depending on your monitor setup.

Monitor1, is always the primary monitor. Thus, its Top and Left are always zero.Its Right and Bottom are always equal to Left+Width and Top+Height, respectivelly.

BUT, on monitor 2, things don't work like that. That's because Monitor2 is placed on a relative position to Monitor1.
In your case, with 2 monitors, if you have Monitor2 on the right, the Left will be 1601, or.. Monitor1Top + Monitor1Width + 1. The Top will be the same as Monitor1, 0.
If you have it on the left, its left would be -1601, because it'd be Monitor1Top - Monitor1Width -1. The Top would remain the same.

You can now imagine how things can get messy if you'd have 2 monitors with different resolutions, and not horizontally aligned (like i do ).

The idea behind having grids defined like this is that you don't have to do this math, GridMove does it for you. Also, if you use those variables, you can share your grids with others, because it isn't hardcoded for your resolution.

PS: to better understand what i mean, please try doing the following procedure:
Go to "Display Properties" -> Settings tab, then, just click and drag one of the monitors. That allows you to get them on the left, on the right, on top, bottom or even "southwest", "southeast", etc

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Find And Run Robot / FARR V2 core alias tables

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 25, 2007, 02:42 PM »

Here's a table with a bunch of useful commands in farr!

In these tables, bold items are farr keywords or phrases. Try them!

Menus:

command	description
helpfarr	opens a menu with several help items: <open help file> (gohelp), <open options> (gooptions), <configure toolbar> (gotoolbar), <visit website> (gowebsite) and <update farr> (goupdate)
listfarr	shows a menu with all the built in listings: <list available aliases> (agroups), <list launch story> (historyl), <list past search history> (historys) and <list installed plugins> (aplugins)

Dictionaries, Thesauruses, and Encyclopedias aliases:

command	description	example
define	Find definitions/synonyms for words through various dictionaries and thesaurus	define pachydermatous
lookup	Find information about a query, through encyclopedias, A9, reference.com, answers.com, etc.	lookup pachydermatous

News:

command	description	example
news	search for news about something in google, yahoo or bbc	news global warming

Search for specific contents:

command	description	example
search	make a general web search using your favourite search engine: google, yahoo, ask.com, etc...	search donation coder
blog	search for blog posts about something, in Google Blog Search and Technorati Blog Search	blog software
news	search for news about something in several news sites	news global warming
imdb	search for movies on internet movie database	imdb the godfather
img	search for images several image sites, like google image search, yahoo image search, flickr, NASA, ask.com, etc	img landscape
maps	search for locations in google maps	maps lisbon,Portugal
music	search for artists, albums or songs at AMG, discogs, etc...	music norah jones
software	search for software (you found on donationcoder ) on tucows,snapfiles or betanews	software find and run robot
tor or torrent	search several torrent sites, like torrentz.com, mininova, torrentSpy or pirateBay	tor ubuntu or torrent suze linux
videos	search for videos on youtube or imdb	videos football
wiki	search for wikipedia information on wikipedia search, wikiseek, Clusty Wikipedia seach or futef wikipedia search	wiki donationcoder

Want to go online shopping?
Check out these aliases:

command	description	example
amazon	search for items to shop at amazon.com, amazon.de, amazon.co.uk, or amazon.fr	amazon monty python and the holy grail
ebay	search for items to shop at ebay.com, ebay.de, ebay.co.uk, or ebay.fr	ebay flying carpet
bn	search for items to shop at barnes and noble	bn harry potter
newegg	search for items to shop at newegg	newegg samsung monitor
tigerdirect	search for items to shop at tiger direct	tigerdirect maxtor

Here's 2 useful internet aliases:

command	description	example
dc	make a search at DonationCoder forums or check out the latest unread posts	dc find and run or dc
yn	use the powerful yubnub to make any websearch that FARR might miss	yn simpsons or yn random 100 or yn man random

And here's 2 miscelaneous aliases:

command	description	example
fileinfo	Get information about a specific file extention	fileinfo XML
paste	paste the date, the time, or both to the active window	paste

Also, there's a very simple note manager:

command	description	example
addnote	create a new note	addnote hello, this is a note!!
viewnotes	open the notes file	viewnotes

These are very useful aliases, that'll allow you to browse the web or send e-mails:

command	description	example
email	Send a simple e-mail with a specific subject	email [email protected] i love farr!!!
email	Send a simple e-mail with a specific subject, just by typing the e-mail	[email protected] i love farr!!!
email3	check the temporary spam email at bugmenot or at mailinator	email3 newyortimes.com or email3 [email protected]
www, http://, ftp:// or https://	open websites only by typing in the address!	http://donationcoder.com, https://paypal.com, ftp://darkstar.ist.utl.pt or www.google.com

If you'd like to add or correct something, please make a post below!!

For non-default aliases, see:
File management
Window Management
Finance aliases
NirCMD alias (shutdown,standby,lockpc,mute sound,etc)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [feature request] i have no idea if this is hard to do...

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 24, 2007, 06:53 PM »

edbro: from reading that wiki page, i think there's no way to append entire folders.
I don't have jriver, thus can't test it, but maybe the following works:

[Select]

Play | MC12.exe /PlayReplace "$$1*"
Append | MC12.exe /Append "$$1*"
Back | restartsearch m $$c

So that the command line would be, for example: c:\music\*. Not sure if it'd solve the problem, though.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: new launcher just released

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 24, 2007, 06:19 PM »

I think i'll give some help, since mouser is busy right now.

#1:
  index: Yep, no index, and you're right as it needs to be done. Still won't be included in V2, though.
  adaptive search: done
  non-contiguous search: not done (i also find it a bit confusing), but multi-word works (f f would find firefox)

#2:
  better look: I've talked with mouser just yesterday about this. It indeed does make a difference for many people, and it'd probably get more people to use farr, BUT, the time it'd take to change the looks would probably be better spent in improving other parts of farr, at the expense of losing some "costumers" because of the looks.
  Also, farr's looks have been dramaticaly improved with the new "large icons display", even though it still isn't as eye-candy as the competitors.
  IMO, even more important than the looks, are the webpage and the screencasts, which make a huge difference on first contact with farr.

#3:
  simple/advanced mode: done.
  default configurations:

making google searches, opening firefox/explorer bookmarks, finding start menu items, being able to navigate and find the most important system folders (my documents, etc) out of the box should be a priority.

yep, all of those work out of the box, although the bookmarks part is done through a plugin, which might not be included in the default package (not sure, as this is mouser's decision).
Another way to solve this problem would be to just carry farr on your usb disk, since farr is fully portable

Also, farr can now work as a calculator, a process killer, a clipboard enhancement, a service starter/stopper, program unninstaller, etc etc etc, all through plugins.

As for the name... I do agree that there could be better names, but i think it's a bit late to be changed.


Thank you for your post, amadawn, it has contributed in 2 ways: to remember what else still needs to be done, and how well farr is now compared to other launchers
Quoting mouser on our conversation (i hope he won't get upset ):

<mouser> it IS a very huge leap from v1
<mouser> in fact when i think on v1 now i get sick

Maybe you should take a look at farr V2 beta, or wait for its grand launch next week. I think you'll be positivelly surprised

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: New PC with Windows Vista and LaCie ICON is MISSING.

« Last post by jgpaiva on July 24, 2007, 02:39 PM »

Interesting... I had no idea that could be done for usb disks.
Pretty cool solution, PitrPaulus.. Thanks for letting us know!