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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.02 beta - with regular expression commands

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 09:24 PM »

the terms are confusing, 'alias' does seem like it might refer to a word that could stand in for a search term.
maybe i should drop the term 'alias' and just refer to what we are talking about here as "GROUPS"

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.02 beta - with regular expression commands

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 09:11 PM »

kevin, what you are asking about will be implemented, but it isnt yey.
what you are talking about is what we have decided to call "modifiers".

the regular expression commands we are talking about now are just for alias groups, where you type in some expression and are shown a preset list of results.

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General Software Discussion / Re: For Developers: Do Donations Make a Difference?

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 04:29 PM »

that makes a lot of sense to me and seems quite sensible.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.02 beta - with regular expression commands

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 04:27 PM »

what i would do with the POST is have a small f&r helper util submit the post date and just sent the resulting reply to be rendered in the browser of choice.  not too hard to do.

as for canonical F&R format, yeah i just realized that my proposed format is not good since | characters can be used in regular expressions, so some other kind of multicharacter separator would be needed.  maybe xml would be best.

as for different group names, well my thinking was that most of the time youll just want to be importing these links, and so all you really care about is that when you download a set of 40, they are pregrouped into 5 groups or so, which will be created on the fly, rather than have to manually sort each one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: For Developers: Do Donations Make a Difference?

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 04:08 PM »

just be careful about going overboard veign -
i hear developer's sometimes talk about booby trapping their programs to erase files on the users computer, or make the program behave erratically.  these can backfire on a developer by causing real anger from people who might have been potential customers, and can make people believe your program is buggy and thus not worth purchase.

my thoughts are like this:
the best protection against piracy is complicated issue.
but the best protection against losing money to piracy is much simpler matter. most people who pirate stuff are probably never going to buy it no matter what; some proportion can be convinced to donate/buy if they like it and see worth in it.  aim for them.  regular improvements, good tech support, etc.
just my current thoughts - i'm not saying that a medium level protection might not serve to encourage people to purchase programs, just that focusing on protection is probably focusing on the wrong sliver of potential customers, and the time might be better spent addressing the needs of other users.

the story with ultraedit is a good example; they moved to using Armadillo protection for exactly 1 release version - they completlly alienated their loyal customers with the slowdowns in startup.  next version it was gone, and everything went back to normal - i guess they decided that the piracy was probably just spreading the market share and any improvement in converting sales with better protection was causing a much worse damage in public relations, etc.

just some thoughts, take them for what they're worth.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Bug(?) in aliases

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 03:58 PM »

yes but can it generate a long list of example strings that match an abitrary regex you type.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.02 beta - with regular expression commands

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 03:58 PM »

nontroppo i'd love to make a categorized collection of these opera wiki plugins and provide them with F&R, with full credit to the wiki of course.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.02 beta - with regular expression commands

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 03:57 PM »

that is just too cool!!

ok i will look into making the custom mime thing as well as import+export functionality.

the import+export, as well as the mime thing, could benefit from letting each item be able to specify its group heading.

for example before i posted this group:

GROUPNAME: dictionary
REGEX: define (.*)
RESULTS:
Meriam Webster - $$1 |http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=$$1
Dictionary dot com - $$1 | http://dictionary.re...erence.com/search?q=$$1
Thesaurus dot com - $$1 | http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=$$1
Reference dot com - $$1 | http://www.reference.com/search?q=$$1
OED - $$1 | http://www.askoxford...dict&freesearch=$$1&branch=13842570&textsearchtype=exact
Dict dot org - $$1 | http://www.dict.org/...=Dict2&Database=*&Query=$$1
American Heritage - $$1 | http://www.bartleby....type=enty&query=$$1&db=ahd&Submit=Search

so maybe we need like a single line self contained thing:
dictionary | define (.*) | Meriam Webster - $$1 |http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=$$1

then when importing F&R will automatically know what groups to place each alias result into.

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if its desired, i can add support for POST type url submissions.

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Find And Run Robot / A tip - if you want to use digits in searches..

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 02:25 PM »

The default setting of F&R is that you type a digit key to launch the app corresponding to the # of the item to run.
This can cause issues if you want to search for things with numbers in them.

You can specify digits in your search by typing a \ before them.

i.e. type "notebook\2" to search for "notebook2"

this is fine if you rarely use digits, but recently i've found myself needing to type digits in my searches more, so i thought i'd just go over some options.

the first thing is to tell F&R *not* to launch items when you hit the digit keys, it's the first option on config page 1.

now you have some choices:


you can use function keys F1-F9.

you can use ctrl+# or alt+# (see configuration pages to customize what these do, whether its normal launch or other options).

you can hit Tab and then then digit key once you are in the results window (this actually might be a good habbit to get into).

you can hit Enter and then the digit key (see options for other possibilities on pressing enter).

you can of course double click.

--
if anyone has any other ideas for clever ways to add to launch items let me know and may be i can add it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Bug(?) in aliases

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 02:07 PM »

not at all - i can see easily why you did what you did.

you know what someone should make that i haven't seen yet? a reverse-regular-expression generator, that would take a regular expression and generate sample strings that match it - that would be a great way to test a regular expression..  maybe i'll look into it a little later.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Bug(?) in aliases

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 01:36 PM »

hehe

note carol that the regular expression contains the "define" or "search" word on it - i suspect you were just speciying "lookup" as the alias group name and "(.*)" in the regular expression field.  i know its confusing because of the group name thing, but that is actually independent from the regular expression and is used both for naming purposes and for separate patten matching.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: 2.0 Beta problem: cannot find Chinese fonts in Text objects

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 01:10 PM »

hopefully we can find a solution to provide editable chinese/unicode text boxes.
in the worst case scenario i have a trick to make this sort of work using bitmaps.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Feature Idea: Profiles

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 01:02 PM »

the tray should always be willing to show the configuration gui.
maybe its not setting its having trouble locating it for some reason - im gong to check the code again for any oddness regarding current working directory, etc.  maybe ill see if i can't add some diagnostics to log.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Bug(?) in aliases

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 12:53 PM »

any chance you were specifying it incorrectly and that was explanation for bug?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Bug(?) in aliases

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 12:52 PM »

make sure you are specifying the regular expression "lookup (.*)" all on one line in the right place:

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General Software Discussion / Re: For Developers: Do Donations Make a Difference?

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 12:45 PM »

hi rj.
we aren't actually looking to "list" donationware, but we are interested in providing a home for donationware autors who can't find a home.  if you or anyone else is interested in writing donationware and don't have a home for it, we would be happy to provide some web space for you.

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Best Archive Tool / Re: New Review (09/05/05) - Best Archive Tool

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 09:22 AM »

matteo, maybe when you get a chance you might post some thoughts to this thread as well, about donationware: https://www.donation...opic=825.0;topicseen

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The Form Letter Machine / Re: Comments in Variable file?

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 08:18 AM »

yep, i will do as you say and make it ignore lines with ;
it will be updated in next version.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Feature Idea: Profiles

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 08:16 AM »

one thing that might be causing the trouble is if you start the gui configurator from the start menu then the tray tool may not know how to talk to it. make sure you open the gui from the tray tool (maybe i can try to fix that).  but it sounds like you were having trouble doing that, i'll look into it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.02 beta - with regular expression commands

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 08:13 AM »

new version uploaded, minor fixes plus options to not hide f&r after normal numkey launch,
plus you can now configure what you want to happen when you use ctrl+alt keys and press numkeys.
you can also use F1-F9 assuming you are not using them for other hotkeys on your system.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.02 beta - with regular expression commands

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 08:01 AM »

[Select]

define (.*)

Meriam Webster - $$1 |http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=$$1
Dictionary dot com - $$1 | http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=$$1
Thesaurus dot com - $$1 | http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=$$1
Reference dot com - $$1 | http://www.reference.com/search?q=$$1
OED - $$1 | http://www.askoxford.com/results/?view=dict&freesearch=$$1&branch=13842570&textsearchtype=exact
Dict dot org - $$1 | http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=$$1
American Heritage - $$1 | http://www.bartleby.com/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/ahdsearch?search_type=enty&query=$$1&db=ahd&Submit=Search

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.02 beta - with regular expression commands

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 07:59 AM »

the $$1 says grab the first subexpression from the matching regular expression.

thats the part in the first () part.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Error EACCESSVIOLATION upon startup attempt for FindANDRun ???

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 07:30 AM »

new version should fix this i think and prevent it from happening again.
let me know if you do encounter it again after version 1.07.03

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Screenshot Captor / Re: 2.0 Beta problem: cannot find Chinese fonts in Text objects

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 07:28 AM »

ok, that's too bad, i was hoping it would be as simple as adding a unicode aware font dialog.
i'll try to look into another way to solve it and report back.
thanks for testing.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Feature Idea: Profiles

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 07:24 AM »

even though rules are updated in the gui doesnt mean the tray knows about them.
try this, look in the gui screen, and on configuration tab, in the upper left the first line of the System Options groupbox,
should say "Tamer Tray: Running" with running in green.
does it?  if not then it means the gui tool isnt talking with the tray.