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Find And Run Robot / Re: Another related app : Mayk

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 01:00 PM »

2 things:

1)
the file search code in F+R is clean fast c++ code;

but there are no doubt inefficiencies that are now in there doing things like resolving shortcuts and grabbing icons, and storing long+short versions of filenames,etc.

and i understand that  F+R needs to be as fast as it can be; so i promise that once we get some of the additional search functionality that is pending which will allow better searching for multiple words etc, that i will go back through code and really spend some time making it as fast as it can possibly be.  so fear not, F+R will take a back seat to no app in terms of speed.


2) i don't understand the 4 second for each letterpress comment.  it takes 4 seconds for what to happen?


--

color coding is an interesting idea..

also remember: after you launch a file once, it is stored in the fast launch history for super fast location next time - so only the first time you search for a particular file should take any time at all!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Another related app : Mayk

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 10:55 AM »

yeah frr does some resolving of icons and shortcuts - i probably should do a round of optimization and make sure that im not retrieving information that i don't need to be doing (ie no need to resolve shortcuts or get icons unless they are displayed in the results view).  no reason f+r should do more file operation than is absolutely nesc.  after we get some more core features done ill go through the code an optimize everything.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Why Miranda might blow you away (do you use IRC, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, Google.talk..

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 10:03 AM »

i actually like miranda's minimalistic default interface (though nice screenshots!)

as brotherS says, feel free to test it out by joining us in the official irc #donationcoder channel on efnet irc.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: AdMuncher 20% discount code (advertisement blocker)

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 10:01 AM »

josh has been in contact with me - something nice for members will be in the works for our november thing if all goes well

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Sample mini group alias file for F&R - download here

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 09:57 AM »

i forget who suggested this feature (kfitting was it you?) but you might want to check that you have these checked in options if youd like to be able to launch command aliases faster once they are displayed.

also note for things like dictionary search, etc.  you can configure F+R to make it easier to launch multiple results, so that when you hold control while you mouse double click or press a number, it launches but stays open.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Sample mini group alias file for F&R - download here

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 09:54 AM »

jibz just gave me an alternate email regular expression alias you can use if you dont want to be bothered typing in "email xxxxx" and would prefer just to be able to type in someones email adress to create a mail to them:
just copy this and go to Group Alias tab, right click and say "Pase Preformatted Alias Group" and paste it in:

1000>>>email3>->email $$1 | mailto:$$1>+>^(\w+(?:\.\w+)*@\w+(?:\.\w+)+)

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DesktopCoral / Re: Help

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 09:39 AM »

it does exactly what you say already with regard to saving settings, but someone else had this problem too that it wasn't saving them.  i will have a new version of desktop coral up this weekend and hopefully it will fix these issues.  if you are willing to test and report back that would be great!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: ActiveWords and Find&Run Robot

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 09:07 AM »

see my separate post with a sample command file to import.

in the future these commands and MANY more will come pre-installed in F&R, so this is just a teaser.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Sample mini group alias file for F&R - download here

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 09:05 AM »

btw if you ever forget what commands are available, you can get a list of them by typing (stands for allgroups):
agroups

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Find And Run Robot / IMPORTANT: Sample mini group alias file for F&R - download here

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 09:02 AM »

OK,
all the questions about can you use F&R to go to websites, launch email,etc.

I've made a little sample alias file you can import in.

In the next major release of F&R it will come with these and many other commands already configured.  and of course you can always write your own.

INSTRUCTIONS:
1) click to download the file: https://www.donation...wnloads/aliases2.ini
2) go to F&R options, and from Import&Export menu, choose import and then browse to and select that aliases.ini file


close the options.  youl now have some new commands in your F&R:

imdb -> to get info on web about a movie just type: imdb [MOVIENAME]
search -> to run one of several web searchs just type: search [SEARCH WORDS]
define -> to run a web dictionary search on a word type: define [SEARCH WORDS]
www -> to go to any site just type the site url (for example www.donationcoder.com)
music -> search for info about any band or artist type: music [BAND NAME]
email -> begin an email to someone type: email [EMAILADDRESS]
email -> begin an email to someone and specify subject type: email [EMAILADRESS s=SUBJECT]
paste -> paste date or time into current program type: paste (then choose from menu)
run-> to run any program on your computers search path: run [PROGRAMNAME]


thanks to nontroppo's opera page for some of these.

note the some of the above will show you full menus of choices, like the search and define commands.
you can easily add your own stuff to these from the Options-> Groups tab.


let me know if this works for you and how you like it!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Menu / Tray / Settings => sync problem

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 08:33 AM »

thanks for the bug report about tray menu sync.

in my struggles to tweak the left hand thumbnail browser it seems a recent change has caused problems with it again.

those who have followed discussions know that this thumbnail browser has been a constant source of struggle and i am trying to replace it; thats probably whats causing your file save errors also.  im going to test and see if i can at least get it back to where it was before asap, and then try to replace it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: ActiveWords and Find&Run Robot

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 06:00 AM »

just to give you some idea of the flexibility of F+R,

in addition to making a rules so that you can type in any url to visit it with your browser you could also do something like make an alias group with 4 different browsers listed, so you could just type a url and then hit the key corresponding to which browser you wanted to use to surf there.  i know its not useful for many, but thought id mention it

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Find And Run Robot / Re: ActiveWords and Find&Run Robot

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 05:58 AM »

you absolutely can - i posted an alias rule for it earlier.

i will include a bunch of useful aliases in the next major release.

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Find And Run Robot / Another related app : Mayk

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 05:32 AM »

freeware

http://www.beotel.net/~darkdst/

[found via ShellCity.net]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Controlling hotkeys

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 04:39 AM »

i'm trying to remember how systemwide hotkeys work -
won't it remove itself on reboot?

there are freeware tools to list all the systemwide hotkeys and remove them -
that seems a better solution than reinstalling.

i can't remember any at the moment but would love to hear a report if you find one that works well.
could be useful in other occassions too.

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Unicode Image Maker / Ascii art

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 04:36 AM »

previous thread mentioned wanting to use Text-to-image with ascii art.

as was pointed out to me, the way to display ascii art is to choose a proper font. specifically try the font:
TERMINAL

below see an example of ascii art in default ARIAL font and then in TERMINAL font:

(ill be adding quick button to change into terminal font in next version for exactly this purpose).

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft and RealNetworks have settled,almost a merger.

« Last post by mouser on October 13, 2005, 04:11 AM »

as someone who has been a fan of Real for a while, i'm happy to see this got settled.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: ActiveWords and Find&Run Robot

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2005, 10:33 PM »

very useful comments and i think very wise advice that mirrors my thinking.

people seem to like the low footprint of F+R and i think any constant monitoring of keyboard would be counter to what F+R users want, so all of those features are going to be left out of F+R.

the only thing i'll mention is that F+R now has (though we need to include a bunch of prewritten commands to make it a lot easier to use) a full system for supporting commands to:
launch web searches and any other kind of web-based stuff like dictionary lookups, etc., start mail messages, paste boilerplate text after selecting items from a menu, etc.

so i think in the area of the flexibility to launch certain kinds of commands and stuff that F+R might have the most to gain from looking at what ActiveWords did right, though the triggering system in the two cases is different.

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Post New Requests Here / Movies of coding snacks.

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2005, 09:42 PM »

movies of coding snacks..

i was thinking it might be nice to have very short simple screencasting movies of coding snacks that get written -
especially skrommel's coding snacks.

if anyone decides this is something they would like to do, there is our screencasting review (https://www.donation...index.php?board=41.0) and some good free tools, and we'd be willing to give anyone who decided to take on this job as a regular task a gift of BB FlashBack or another commercial screencasting tool.

or if skrommel himself would like such a tool to make movies of his tools he is welcome to a copy of bb flashback, just ask.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Registry Cleaning Software

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2005, 09:29 PM »

bottom line:
treat a registry cleaner like working with dynamite, be very very very careful with what you delete, and don't let it delete anything that you aren't convinced is really junk.  when in doubt, LEAVE IT in your registry.

i would go with the registry cleaner that is most conservative and least aggressive, and most able to explain what it intends on deleting and why and makes it easiest to decide whether something is safe to remove.

again getting back to carol's problem, a registry tool backing up your settings is not quite as helpful as it might sound at first.
because once you start installing new programs, you can't simply "roll back" your registry without breaking stuff you've done since the backup.
a good idea might be to run a full system backup (drive image),
then do your registry cleaning
then make a real effort to test your computer and make sure there are no issues.

and again, be conservative in cleaning your registry!


ps.
i've yet to see a single real quantitative report about the "gains" of having a "cleaner" registry.

having a clean registry brings peace of mind to those who like to "know" that their registry doens't have so much junk it in.

can anyone show me something concretely showing any real benefit from it though?

if not, then good advice is to treat your registry like that closet filled with spiders in the basement, just don't go in there.  let the spiders live in peace.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Registry Cleaning Software

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2005, 09:27 PM »

This point by carol bears repeating:

You may not have experienced problems (in which case you are very lucky in my experience) or, more likely, you may have only experienced the problems some time later and lost the association with registry cleaning.

this is what is so damn dangerous about using something like a registry cleaner -
you may cause a subtly problem that you don't notice for weeks or months... then suddenly you realize that double clicking on a pdf file results in a game of solitaire starting up.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: Idea - Weighted Audio Inputs

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2005, 09:22 PM »

not sure i understand clearly the request.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Macro programs - advice sought...

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2005, 09:21 PM »

johk (and any other Activewords users) - im really interested in hearing about where Activewords is better then Find+Run Robot.
If you have any thoughts on it, would love to hear about it on the Find+Run Robot section of the forum.

there isn't a perfect overlap in the programs, as there are probably things that ActiveWords does that Find+Run Robot doesn't want to try to do, but i know there is a lot of common ground and I'd like to hear about any areas that ActiveWords users think F+R could be improved.

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Living Room / Website for Cats!

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2005, 04:28 PM »

"Is your cat fascinated with movement on your computer screen?
Well, it's about to get a lot worse.
Congratulations!  You've found the worlds first website for cats!  "
 

http://www.cattv.com/catwebsite.htm

[found via cynical-c blog]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bunch of neat and fun freeware apps

« Last post by mouser on October 12, 2005, 03:01 PM »

something i noticed:
if you hold mouse over any icon on the site youll get  a description of what the prank app does.

great collection of funny utils.