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Official Announcements / Re: Forum upgraded Nov 20, 2017

« Last post by Nod5 on February 03, 2018, 04:15 PM »

Deozaan & mouser:
Not code blocks, I mean a way to make e.g. only the word apple in this sentence appear as code without any linebreaks.
See https://github.com/a...down-Cheatsheet#code

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum upgraded Nov 20, 2017

« Last post by Nod5 on February 02, 2018, 07:53 AM »

Does the forum support inline code formatting? Like what wrapping a part of a line in single backticks does in GitHub comments.

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Find And Run Robot / request: dosearch_noregex (dosearch but ignore regex in other aliases)

« Last post by Nod5 on February 02, 2018, 07:43 AM »

Background
Imagine a user has these two aliases and one search directory item in FARR.

Alias1 (example of regex to get a single static result)
text: a
regex: ^a$
result: C:\folder\app.exe

Alias2 (example of regular expression aliases as search templates)
text: cdir
regex: ^(?:c|cd|cdi|cdir) (.+)$
result: dosearch +cdir $$1

Search Directory item
directory path: C:\cdir
optional modifier keywords: cdir

Problem case
The user types "c a" and want as result the list of files/folder in C:\cdir that contain "a".
But instead the result is "C:\folder\app.exe" . Because Alias1 is triggered by the new "a" search and since it is a regex alias it gets priority.

Collisions like that increase the more aliases of these two sorts one has. A pity since both sorts of aliases are useful.

Request for solution
Add a new virtual launch string named dosearch_noregex to FARR.
dosearch_noregex would start a new search but ignore all alias regex matches.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Everything Efu Explorer -- helper tool to browse folders in .efu files

« Last post by Nod5 on January 26, 2018, 06:51 PM »

I know this is old, but I can't get the script that you posted working.

-jaredbidlow (January 26, 2018, 02:02 PM)

everything_efu_explorer works for me. Can you give some more details to help troubleshoot this. First, have you confirmed that the .efu file you're testing with is ok. Double click the .efu to open it in Everything and do a search in it. If that works then the problem is probably in the way everything_efu_explorer reads information from Everything's statusbar and results window. 

(Note: the script efu_make from 161121 at the bottom of my first post didn't work any longer because there was a change in how ES.exe handles command line arguments. I'll edit that post now and change the line that needs changing to get that to work.)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: alias help using ScanFs (to grep files from the FARR command line?)

« Last post by Nod5 on January 23, 2018, 09:37 AM »

It looks like you're conflating the syntax for direct editing in the myaliases.alias file and the import syntax for the FARR options GUI.

Try creating a new alias entry in the FARR options GUI.
Go to FARR help > program options > Lists > Aliases... > myaliases.alias and click the "Add a new Alias" button and enter these

Alias trigger:

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grep

Score:

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1000

Regular Expressions pattern:

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^grep (\S*) (.*)

Results:

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grep $$1 $$2 | C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Saleen Software\Saleen ScanFs\ScanFs.exe /path="$$1" /contents="$$2"

Also, try the below command in Windows cmd, but replace <file path> and <search string> with something useful. If it doesn't work look up the correct parameter syntax for ScanFs.exe

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C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Saleen Software\Saleen ScanFs\ScanFs.exe /path="<file path>" /contents="<search string>"

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alphabetize the Alias Keywords?

« Last post by Nod5 on December 18, 2017, 03:28 PM »

My filter_alias helper script from last year can help with this. See here https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=43223

The scripts adds a ctrl+space hotkey when the FARR options window with the alias list is active. The hotkeys shows a filterbox. Type e.g. "ff" to filter to only aliases with text that contain "ff".

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Find And Run Robot / Re: #filecontents FILEPATH -- how does it work?

« Last post by Nod5 on November 19, 2017, 12:49 PM »

Great to hear. I think virtual commands that ease input/output of this sort can be quite useful, since they enable users to do plugin-ish things with some well crafted aliases and simple Autohotkey scripting (simple compared to learning to code FARR plugins).

I believe there is already a virtual command in FARR that launches a command script and grabs the output to show as a result list

-mouser (November 19, 2017, 11:18 AM)

I don't see anything on this list would do that
https://www.donation...l_launch_strings.htm

Grabbing output from some external process can also be useful. Though when using Autohotkey it is easier/shorter to read from a plaintext file and/or the clipboard.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: #filecontents FILEPATH -- how does it work?

« Last post by Nod5 on November 19, 2017, 09:41 AM »

Holy necro thread revival!  But on topic I think.

I want to make a FARR alias that first runs an external script and thereafter displays results from that script as a list of files in the regular FARR search results window. Not as a html view.

Request: make the #filecontents virtual string compatible with other, preceding virtual strings and the ;;; command .

I'm thinking of a use case like this:
alias trigger:

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zzz

results:

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| dolaunch appcap C:\script.ahk ;;; #filecontents C:\list.txt

The alias would first run C:\script.ahk which does something and then outputs a newline separated list of filepaths to C:\list.txt . FARR thereafter moves on to the #filecontents command. Which reads list.txt as rows for the alias results box , which are then displayed in the FARR search results window.

Alternative request to achieve the same end result:
Add a new virtual launch string, for example "showfilelist FILENAME", that can be used to import a linebreak separated plaintext list of files to display as search results . Must also be compatible with ;;; and other, preceding virtual strings.

Edit:
I realized this two alias workaround is a way to do it. But a one alias method would be less messy.
first alias:

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zzz

results:

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| dolaunch appcap C:\script.ahk ;;; restartsearch zzx

second alias:

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zzx

results:

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| #filecontents C:\list.txt

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Ideas Thread

« Last post by Nod5 on September 09, 2017, 02:57 PM »

I'd like to suggest that someone make a web-based clone of the new awesome two-player cooperative board (card) game called Codenames Duet.

-mouser (August 31, 2017, 02:46 PM)

There are a few webapp clones of the regular (not duet) Codenames game with source on GitHub. Might save time to fork one and modify based on the Duet rules.

https://github.com/jbowens/codenames
webapp https://www.horsepaste.com/

https://github.com/ninjabunny/KodeNames
webapp https://ninjabunny.github.io/KodeNames/

https://github.com/siemanko/words/
webapp https://siemanko.github.io/words/

Edit: After a quick glance at some of the code for these I think the most tricky step in forking one of the above into a Duet version is to code a way to deterministically but (for human player brains) unpredictably map one seed generated grid to its "partner" grid while obeying the mapping rules in the image in mouser's OP.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: here is possibility to copy the same name without path ?

« Last post by Nod5 on March 02, 2017, 02:38 PM »

It is in the command "Copy target patch (ctrl+c). Is possibility to copy the same name without path ?

-Judykator (March 02, 2017, 11:43 AM)

I don't think FARR has a built in hotkey for that. Here is a quick Autohotkey script to get what you want by quickly pressing ctrl+c twice a file is selected in FARR.

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. #NoEnv
2. #SingleInstance force
3. ;double tap ctrl+c in FARR
4. ;to turn clipboard full path into filename
5. #IfWinActive, ahk_exe FindAndRunRobot.exe
6. ~^c::
7. if (A_PriorHotkey == A_ThisHotkey)
8.  if (A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 500)
9.   {
10.   clipwait
11.   if !FileExist(clipboard)
12.    return
13.   SplitPath, % clipboard , file
14.   clipboard := file
15.   }
16. return
17. #IfWinActive

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2013 Submission - BookCrop

« Last post by Nod5 on February 26, 2017, 08:38 AM »

Anybody get this to work in windows 10?
thanks

-jedidiah123 (February 22, 2017, 05:18 AM)

What is it that does not work? Do you get an error message?

If you get "Error: GraphicsMagick not found" then the problem is that some recent version of GraphicsMagick installer has changed their registry paths so BookCrop does not find it. I'm attaching a new version that fixes that problem. Working for me here in Windows 10. No other changes compared to the 160412 version.

hashes version 170226
2e2bfbb52e9305547b7eef142f81e7ba *BookCrop.ahk
381e6dd5e44135c392a3968925ebb023 *BookCrop.exe
08c8d8b15a7b3063161abb5c7c06cdf6 *BookCrop.ico
f2fb36506b309265c7ee8ab172f85928 *bookcrop.zip

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Protocol links?

« Last post by Nod5 on January 21, 2017, 12:36 PM »

I appreciate it, but I don't have and don't expect to acquire any skill in AHK scripting, so I can't maintain it on my own.

-aloishammer (January 20, 2017, 06:08 PM)

No skill needed. Save script, add paths, install autohotkey and copy script shortcut to Windows Startup folder. Then the links will be up to date on each boot.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Protocol links?

« Last post by Nod5 on January 20, 2017, 05:30 PM »

Has anyone come up with a clever way to maintain cloned links?

-aloishammer (January 15, 2017, 08:36 PM)

I had this in mind when I wrote the small script above. Easy to add a few lines to also remove .urls to games that have been deinstalled. Put a link to the script in Windows autostart and the shortcuts will update on each boot. To update more often add some lines with a timer and keep it running in the background. Or use Task Scheduler to run it at some interval.

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. #singleinstance, force
2.     ;SteamLinker
3.     ;Creates one .url link file for each currently installed steam game
4.     ;Setup: add full path to steam root folder and an output folder to save the .url files
5.     ;For example C:\steam\  and C:\folder
6.     ;Warning: all old files in outdir with "[ste].url" in name will be removed when script runs
7.     steamdir =
8.     outdir =
9.     If !FileExist(steamdir) or !FileExist(outdir)
10.      exitapp
11.     Loop, files, %outdir%\*[ste].url
12.      FileDelete, % A_LoopFileFullPath
13.     Loop, files, %steamdir%\steamapps\*.acf
14.     {
15.     FileReadLine, idline, %A_LoopFileFullPath% , 3
16.     FileReadLine, nameline, %A_LoopFileFullPath% , 5
17.     StringSplit, id, idline, "
18.    StringSplit, name, nameline, "
19.     IniWrite, steam://rungameid/%id4%, %outdir%\%name4% [ste].url, InternetShortcut, URL
20.     }

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Protocol links?

« Last post by Nod5 on January 20, 2017, 12:21 PM »

The special steam desktop shortcuts have this url format

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steam://rungameid/341800

In the folder \steam\steamapps\ there are .acf files like this one

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\steam\steamapps\appmanifest_341800.acf

The number in the file name is the same as in the desktop shortcut url. And the .acf is a plaintext file that includes the same number and the full game name. For example

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"AppState"
{
"appid" "341800"
"Universe" "1"
"name" "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes"

So this autohotkey script should generate up to date shortcuts.

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. #singleinstance, force
2. ;SteamLinker
3. ;Creates one .url link file for each currently installed steam game
4. ;Setup: add full path to steam root folder and an output folder to save the .url files
5. ;For example C:\steam\  and C:\folder
6. steamdir =
7. outdir =
8. If !FileExist(steamdir) or !FileExist(outdir)
9.  exitapp
10. Loop, files, %steamdir%\steamapps\*.acf
11. {
12. FileReadLine, idline, %A_LoopFileFullPath% , 3
13. FileReadLine, nameline, %A_LoopFileFullPath% , 5
14. StringSplit, id, idline, "
15. StringSplit, name, nameline, "
16. IniWrite, steam://rungameid/%id4%, %outdir%\%name4%.url, InternetShortcut, URL
17. }

Stuff that could be added: check names for forbidden characters, autoremove shortcuts when games are uninstalled

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Feature request(s)] Aliases

« Last post by Nod5 on November 29, 2016, 01:08 PM »

In case someone has notification or finds this thread, I did a workaround script to filter the aliases list here .

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / filter_alias - FARR alias filter autohotkey helper script

« Last post by Nod5 on November 22, 2016, 03:19 PM »

filter_alias - the FARR alias filter autohotkey helper script

Useful especially if you are a FARR power user (which you should be!  ) with a lot of custom aliases.

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. #NoEnv
2. SendMode Input
3. SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%
4. #SingleInstance force
5.  
6. ;filter_alias - FARR alias filter helper script
7.  
8. ;WHY?
9. ;When a user has many aliases it can be a hassle to find and edit one of them
10. ;because the FARR options list isn't autosorted and has no filter/searchbox.
11.  
12. ;SETUP
13. ;run the script (tip: make it autostart it on boot)
14.  
15. ;USAGE
16. ;- open FARR options > aliases and press Ctrl+Space to show a filter box
17. ;- Type in box to filter alias name/regex rows
18. ;- Select a row and press Enter to jump to that row in FARR options
19. ;- Press Esc pr Ctrl+Space again to close filter_alias
20.  
21. ;by Nod5 - version 161122
22. ;Listview filter code adapted from
23. ;https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?p=72578#p72578
24.  
25. #IfWinActive, ahk_class TOptionsForm
26. ^Space::
27. gui, destroy
28. if !winexist("filter_alias ahk_class AutoHotkeyGUI")
29.  goto showgui
30. return
31. #IfWinActive
32.  
33. #IfWinActive, filter_alias ahk_class AutoHotkeyGUI
34. Esc:: gui, destroy
35. ^Space:: gui, destroy
36. #IfWinActive
37.  
38. showgui:
39. name = filter_alias
40. FileRead, f, %A_MyDocuments%\DonationCoder\FindAndRunRobot\AliasGroups\MyCustom\myaliases.alias
41. f := StrReplace(f, "</AliasText>", "")
42. f := StrReplace(f, "</Regex>", "")
43. xarr := []
44. xarr2 := []
45.  
46. ControlGetPos, cx, cy,,, TListView1, ahk_class TOptionsForm
47. WinGetPos, wx, wy,,, ahk_class TOptionsForm
48. gx := cx+wx, gy := cy+wy
49.  
50. Gui, Add, Edit, r1 vsearch gsearch,
51. Gui, Add, ListView, r20 w400 h200 grid, Alias|Regex
52.  
53. Loop, Parse, f, `n, `r
54. {
55. If InStr(A_LoopField, "<AliasText>")
56.  xali := SubStr(A_LoopField, InStr(A_LoopField, "<AliasText>") + 11)
57. If InStr(A_LoopField, "<Regex>")
58.   xreg := SubStr(A_LoopField, InStr(A_LoopField, "<Regex>") + 7)
59. If InStr(A_LoopField, "<AliasEntry>")
60.  xali := xreg := ""  ;clear vars for new alias
61. if xali and (xreg or InStr(A_LoopField, "<Results>") ) ;stop at Result if no Regex
62.   {
63.   xreg := xreg ? xreg : a_space
64.   LV_Add("", xali, xreg), xarr.push(xali) , xarr2.push(xreg)
65.   xali := xreg := ""  ;clear vars for new alias
66.   }
67. }
68. LV_ModifyCol(1, 120)
69. LV_ModifyCol(2, 250)
70. Gui, Show, x%gx% y%gy%, %name%
71. return
72.  
73. search:
74. Gui, Submit, NoHide
75. LV_Delete()
76. For key, val In xarr
77. {
78.    If (search == "")
79.     LV_Add("", val, xarr2[key])
80.    Else
81.     If InStr(val, search) or InStr(xarr2[key], search) ;match
82.      LV_Add("", val, xarr2[key])
83. }
84. GuiControl, +Redraw, LV
85. Return
86.  
87. #IfWinActive, filter_alias ahk_class AutoHotkeyGUI
88. PgDn::
89. Down::
90. ControlGetFocus, contr, A
91. if !(contr == "Edit1")
92.  send {%a_thishotkey%}
93. else if (LV_GetNext() == 0)
94.  send {Tab}{Down}
95. else
96.  send {Tab}
97. return
98.  
99. Enter::
100. selrow := !LV_GetNext() ? 1 : LV_GetNext()
101. LV_GetText(seltext, selrow, 1)
102. gui, destroy
103. winactivate, ahk_class TOptionsForm
104. controlfocus, TListView1, ahk_class TOptionsForm
105. sleep 50
106. RegExMatch(seltext, "^[^ ]+",seldo)
107. send % seldo ? seldo : seltext
108. return
109. #IfWinActive

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Coding Snacks / Re: Everything Efu Explorer -- helper tool to browse folders in .efu files

« Last post by Nod5 on November 21, 2016, 07:10 AM »

This seems like a cool idea but I run it and follow the instructions and literally nothing happens.

-FrankEBailey` (November 02, 2016, 04:21 AM)

Sorry for my delayed reply Frank. Try running the script as administrator and see if it works then. What version of Windows are you on?

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General Software Discussion / Re: software to build ebook by importing PDF files and creating table of contents

« Last post by Nod5 on September 24, 2016, 06:17 AM »

I have a lot of articles that I've written that I want to assemble into one or more ebooks.

I can easily format each as a PDF file, but I don't know what software to use to merge them all, in the correct order, and at the same time create a table of contents that updates every time I add a new file.

-HankFriedman (September 19, 2016, 12:25 AM)

Hi Hank. This might help, but only if you with ebook had in mind a merged .pdf file rather than .epub (reflowing text).

I updated an older autohotkey script of mine. It now uses pdftk to merge many pdf files to one big pdf with one bookmark per component pdf file. the order is set in a plain txt file so it is easy to add/rearrange.

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. #SingleInstance,Force
2. ;PdfMergeMark  (by nod5  version 160924)
3. ;Merge (concatenate, join) pdf files and add bookmarks
4.  
5. ;How to use:
6. ;1 Install PDFtk Server for Windows, https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/
7. ;2 Create pdflist.txt in same folder as PdfMergeMark.ahk
8. ;3 Add one pdf file path per line, in the order you want. Save.
9. ;4 Run PdfMergeMark.ahk  --> outputs yyyymmddhhmmss.pdf
10.  
11. ;pdflist.txt example:
12. ;C:\test\file name.pdf
13. ;C:\folder\another.pdf
14. ;C:\some other folder\this file.pdf
15.  
16. ;optional: custom path to pdftk
17. pdftk =
18. out := A_ScriptDir "\" a_now ".pdf"
19. if !FileExist(pdftk)
20.   pdftk := A_ScriptDir "\pdftk.exe"
21. if !FileExist(pdftk)
22.   pdftk = C:\Program Files (x86)\PDFtk Server\bin\pdftk.exe
23. if !FileExist(pdftk) or !FileExist(A_ScriptDir "\pdflist.txt")
24.  exitapp
25. clip := ClipBoardAll
26. clipboard =
27. p := 1
28. Loop, Read, %A_ScriptDir%\pdflist.txt
29. {
30. SplitPath, A_LoopReadLine, name,,ext, noext
31. If !FileExist(A_LoopReadLine) or (ext!="pdf")
32.  continue
33. tooltip, Reading... %A_LoopReadLine%
34. runwait %comspec% /c ""%pdftk%" "%A_LoopReadLine%" dump_data | clip",,hide
35. RegExMatch(clipboard, "NumberOfPages: (\d+)\R",pages)  ;NumberOfPages: 154 -> 154
36. bm .= "`nBookmarkBegin"
37. bm .= "`nBookmarkTitle: " noext
38. bm .= "`nBookmarkLevel: 1"
39. bm .= "`nBookmarkPageNumber: " p
40. p := p + pages1
41. pdfstring .= A_Space """" A_LoopReadLine """"
42. }
43. FileAppend, %bm%, %out%_txt
44. tooltip, Concatenating...
45. runwait "%pdftk%" %pdfstring% cat output "%out%_temp",,hide    ;concatenate pdfs
46. runwait "%pdftk%" A="%out%_temp" cat A1-end output "%out%_temp2",,hide ;del old bookmarks
47. tooltip, Bookmarking...
48. runwait "%pdftk%" "%out%_temp2" update_info "%out%_txt" output "%out%",,hide  ;new bookmarks
49. FileDelete, %out%_* ; clear temp files
50. clipboard := clip   ;restore clipboard
51. tooltip, FINISHED
52. sleep 1000
53. tooltip

The pdflist.txt can be created and edited in Notepad. Put the path of each pdf file to merge in the order you want.

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C:\test\file name.pdf
C:\folder\another.pdf
C:\some other folder\this file.pdf

Some limitations:
All bookmarks are on the same level, in other words no tree view of bookmarks (chapter 1, 1.1,  ...)
No bookmark numbering (unless the user adds numbers to the filenames)
May fail if pdflist is very, very long (when exceeding maximum line string length for cmd)

I might add some more stuff later on and make a small NANY release out of it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by Nod5 on September 17, 2016, 10:49 AM »

Currently I am trying out UltraSearch.  I have used Everything for years, and Locate32 before that.  UltraSearch uses MFTs as Everything does but has the advantage of a content search option.

-MilesAhead (September 15, 2016, 05:25 PM)

Everything can also search content, though that feature is tucked away in the advanced search window ( menubar > search > avanced search) and there is no pregenerated index. Does UltraSearch index content?

Off topic: I might as well mention in this thread that I made a small helper tool, Everything Efu Explorer, for using Everything as a offline disc cataloger and browser tool (replacing e.g. Cathy).

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Feature request(s)] Aliases

« Last post by Nod5 on September 08, 2016, 10:21 AM »

Hi, here is a small Autohotkey script that I think does what you're requesting in (b). It exports the alias and results fields in myaliases.alias to a textfile on the desktop.

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. ;FARR myaliases: export alias and result fields to txt list
2. myaliases := A_MyDocuments "\DonationCoder\FindAndRunRobot\AliasGroups\MyCustom\myaliases.alias"
3. output := A_Desktop "\myalias_" A_Now ".txt"
4. if !FileExist(myaliases)
5.  exitapp
6. Loop, Read, %myaliases%, %output%
7. {
8. RegExMatch(A_LoopReadLine, "<AliasText>(.*)</AliasText>", alias)
9. RegExMatch(A_LoopReadLine, "<Result>(.*)</Result>", result)
10. FileAppend, % alias1 ? "`n" alias1 "`n" : result1 ? result1 "`n" : ""
11. }
12. exitapp

Like you I also hope for sorting/filtering for the aliases window in FARR. Though I think an editbox to live filter the list of aliases would be more useful than sorting options like A-Z etc. But both would be great. Aliases is an outstanding FARR feature and sets FARR apart from many other launchers.

Edit: here is a version of the script that also includes the Regex lines

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. ;FARR myaliases: export alias and result fields to txt list
2. myaliases := A_MyDocuments "\DonationCoder\FindAndRunRobot\AliasGroups\MyCustom\myaliases.alias"
3. output := A_Desktop "\myalias_" A_Now ".txt"
4. if !FileExist(myaliases)
5.  exitapp
6. Loop, Read, %myaliases%, %output%
7. {
8. RegExMatch(A_LoopReadLine, "<AliasText>(.*)</AliasText>", alias)
9. RegExMatch(A_LoopReadLine, "<Regex>(.*)</Regex>", reg)
10. RegExMatch(A_LoopReadLine, "<Result>(.*)</Result>", result)
11. FileAppend, % alias1 ? "`n" alias1 "`n" : result1 ? result1 "`n" : reg1 ? reg1 "`n" : ""
12. }
13. exitapp

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Coding Snacks / Everything Efu Explorer -- helper tool to browse folders in .efu files

« Last post by Nod5 on August 19, 2016, 03:58 PM »

Everything Efu Explorer
A helper tool to explore/browse folders in .efu files in Everything.
Similar to folder navigation in Windows Explorer.
Useful for browsing indexes of offline drives.

Download page and up to date instructions for setup and use: https://www.dcmember...ything-efu-explorer/

feature request ware
everything_efu_explorer is "feature request ware". I hope the Everything developer likes it and makes these features native.

Wishlist
I wish Everything had a hotkey to change the window background color, to signal that efu browse mode is started. The Everything.ini file has a normal_background_color variable but edits to the ini only have effect when Everything is closed, so that can't be used to quickly toggle a background color on/off.

Background
Everything is a very fast file and folder search engine - a great program! It can save search results to .efu file lists for later use.

When a .efu file is loaded Everything lists all files/folders in the index matching the search string. But it can be useful to browse a drive index folder by folder, like when navigating through folders in Explorer. That is what Everything Efu Explorer enables. This makes it more convenient to use Everything as a cataloger for offline drives or discs.



efu_make - a companion script to automatically save drive indexes to .efu file list files.


180223 new version of efu_make works with changed command line syntax in never versions of ES.exe

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. ;efu_make   by Nod5
2. ;a helper tool to index drives to Everything .efu files
3.  
4. ;SETUP
5. ;- install Autohotkey, https://www.autohotkey.com/
6. ;- install Everything 1.4.1.895 , https://www.voidtools.com/
7. ;- download es.exe 1.1.0.9 , https://www.voidtools.com/downloads/
8. ;- save script as efu_make.ahk , compile to efu_make.exe
9. ;- place es.exe in the same folder as efu_make.exe
10.  
11. ;USAGE
12. ;run efu_make from the command line with a string of drive letters as parameter
13. ;example: C:\folder\efu_make.exe CFG
14. ;example output: C:\folder\YYMMDD_C.efu , ... _F.efu , ... _G.efu
15.  
16. #SingleInstance, force
17. drives = %1%
18. if !FileExist(A_Scriptdir "\es.exe")
19.  exitapp
20. stamp := SubStr(A_now,3,6)  ;YYMMDD
21. Loop,Parse,drives
22. {
23. If !FileExist(A_LoopField ":\")
24.  continue
25. Tooltip, make new .efu ... %A_LoopField%  , 400, 200
26. ;old ES efu export syntax
27. ;RunWait, "%A_Scriptdir%\es.exe" "%A_LoopField%:\" -efu "%A_ScriptDir%\%stamp%_%A_LoopField%.efu" -p -s ,, Min
28. ;new ES efu export syntax
29. RunWait, "%A_Scriptdir%\es.exe" -export-efu "%A_ScriptDir%\%stamp%_%A_LoopField%.efu" "%A_LoopField%:\",, Min
30. }
31. Tooltip, make new .efu ... done!  , 400, 200
32. sleep 2000
33. exitapp

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR feedback/first impressions

« Last post by Nod5 on August 17, 2016, 11:44 AM »

hi paplaukes, I'm just a FARR user but let me jump in here with a friendly tip anyway. 

I get your request 3, would be a neat feature. But while FARR aliases need manual setup they can also speed up launching. For example this alias

Regular expression pattern:

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^(ff)$

Results:

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dolaunch C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe

Will launch Firefox immediately when the FARR inputbox has "ff", no Enter press needed. But it won't trigger on "buffalo". Similar mnemonic two letter dolaunch command aliases can be set for the program you use most frequently.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Can FARR search Chrome bookmarks?

« Last post by Nod5 on August 14, 2016, 03:52 AM »

Another strategy is to have a background script that unpacks the Chrome Bookmark to temporary individual .url files at each reboot (or at some interval). They are then searchable by FARR, Everything and other tools.

My FFBookmarksUnpacker does that for Firefox bookmarks, http://nod5.dcmember...ookmarkunpacker.html   The method would be similar with Chrome but use jxon.ahk library https://github.com/c...gica/AutoHotkey-JSON to get the json data. I can give that a shot if someone will use it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: how does setuservar work ? [feature request ?]

« Last post by Nod5 on June 07, 2016, 03:40 PM »

nitrix-ud, have you tried modifying the UserVars line in FindAndRunRobot.ini directly? Just an idea, haven't tried it.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2013 Submission - BookCrop

« Last post by Nod5 on April 13, 2016, 10:44 AM »

The new version 160412 fixes the non-english language problem.