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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.

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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.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Feature Idea: Profiles

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

it definitely should be adjusting those settings - something is going wrong with the communication between gui tool and tray tool if its not picking up those changes after you close the gui.  i checked changing of exterenal tool also, and its working right here and updating with the change immediatly, so theres something else going on. remind me what os you use again carol?

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ProcessTamer / Re: Feature Idea: Profiles

« Last post by mouser on September 07, 2005, 07:06 AM »

hmm, looks like i better do a round of internal beta testing..
it's ok, process tamer is next on the block for updating.

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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, 06:59 AM »

ps i added a %fardir% variable that can be used
so for example if you put nircmd.exe inside your find and run directory, in subdir Helpers/nircmd/
you could do like:
Volume $$1 | C:\windows\nircmd.exe %fardir%\Helpers\nircmd\nircmd.exe setsysvolume $$1

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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, 06:57 AM »

wow, excellent! thanks carol!

might be nice to break those down into a couple of groups with 9 or less results.

id love to collect more dictionary search url links, and then maybe we could divide up info search, music search, news?

keep em coming and ill build a nice big collection for when version 2 is released


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kevin, keep in mind she hasnt specified any regular expression stuff here, so presumably all of these could be under regex settings that look something like

go (.*)


see nontroppo's example for a regular expression of slightly greater complexity.

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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, 06:06 AM »

ive already added the functionality that if you hit pause/break when f&r is onscreen but not focused, it will focus it rather than close it, so you shouldnt have to do the double key tap thing again.

regular expression tutorial and home of RegexBuddy, a nice helper tool:
http://www.regular-expressions.info/

(note there is a test area in the alias dialog where you can try out the regular expression as you are working on it, but it can't compare to a tool like RegexBuddy for helping you formulate expressions; also see another thread on this forum discussing other tools).