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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request Thread

« Last post by mouser on June 13, 2005, 01:28 AM »

one thing you can do that is a bit closer to what you want regarding the mini browser is..
you can already specify folders in an alias.
drag and drop recurses folders so its not helpfull (i could fix this)
but if you specify a list of folders in an alias, and then type that alias,
you will get your list of folders, and clicking any of them will open them in windows explorer.

this is kind of close to what you are suggestings with the minibrowser, except it launches windows explorer.
one thing we could do is add a tab called "custom openers"
which would let you specify a program to use to open each type of file/folder, regardless of the default program you have registered for each file extension.  this would let you specify a custom file browser, html viewer, etc...

i see also that the new re-capture behavior is causing some annoying behavior when you try to launch something or view help.. f&r insists or recapturing focus... perhaps this re-capture behavior should be disabled in certain cases..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request Thread

« Last post by mouser on June 13, 2005, 01:03 AM »

ok i think i see where you are coming from now..
i use a file explorer replacement (directory opus) which has a favorites menu, and i guess i would be inclined to use such a full featured file explorer replacement for viewing favorite folders.. that's my only problem.  f&r is never going to be able to compete with such tools..

i can see that what you are wanting makes some sense.. i'm just trying to figure out how to make sense of it as part of f&r..  i definitely here the argument that you want to be able to search for different things..
i'm resisting the idea of different configuration files just because some things dont seem to make sense to be separate (ie aliases - you really dont want to have different alias sets, and keeping them all in sync accross 10 config files would be a nightmare).  i suppose i could use like a main config and a search config..

this is tricky.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request Thread

« Last post by mouser on June 12, 2005, 11:48 PM »

- Also, I think it would cool to be able to have a list of extensions that are allowed.  Currently, you can say which extensions arent allowed, but this requires tedious entry of the many extensions one has on their computer! 

you can set scores for patterns, either positive or negative.  by putting a high positive score on *.mp3, you will basically get all mp3 files listed at top

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request Thread

« Last post by mouser on June 12, 2005, 11:42 PM »

maybe you are saying that the minibrowser is really a completely different kind of thing than f&r but it shares the same idea of quickly popping up to help you view/locate stuff you want.. so in your minibrowser you really are interested in having a list of "favorite" locations or html files that can easily be selected for further operation?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request Thread

« Last post by mouser on June 12, 2005, 11:38 PM »

first let me say how much i appreciate the work put into making mock screenshots, it really does help..

but from the mini browser screenshot, im a little confused how it would be used.
it just shows a window showing contents of a specific directory? and you can select directories from the dropdown combo box? there is no search functionality in this mode?

in other words, so if you launch f&r in minibrowser mode, is there ANY functionality from the normal f&r?  aliases etc? there is no place to type any search as i understand it.. im just a bit confused as to how this mini browser has any functionality related to f&r..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request Thread

« Last post by mouser on June 12, 2005, 08:42 PM »

as for extensions, i think you should be able to type .mp3 in search window to restrict search to those with .mp3 extensions.

it would be relatively easy (and easy to toggle on and off) the use of a panel under main window which was a mini file brower with full right click menu, drag and drop, etc. and i think that approach might yield the biggest pay off in functionality for the least amount of work, and the least impact on main gui...

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request Thread

« Last post by mouser on June 12, 2005, 04:57 PM »

this is getting interesting..

cracksloth, lol still can't say that name with a straight face , can you explain a little more how you view the mini file explorer being shown?

i'm confused as to how it would integrate with the current window?  are we saying that we would still have only 1 results window, but now it would be a mini file browser?  how would it show 10 results from different locations?

or are we talking about my idea where you would have a mini file browser docked to the bottom of the main window which would jump to the location of the clicked item?

regeular expressions aren't hard to add, there are some good free libraries for them.. but they would slow down search quite a bit when used.

doesn't it seem like all these ideas are suggesting a separate program, a file searcher? which regex support, support for searching inside files, etc.? aren't there already good free tools for this?  or should this be a separate product?

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Living Room / Re: anyone recommend freeware cd/dvd burning soft?

« Last post by mouser on June 12, 2005, 12:37 AM »

CDBurnerXP Pro listed on the site tenseiken linked to also looks quite good and free -> http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

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Living Room / Re: anyone recommend freeware cd/dvd burning soft?

« Last post by mouser on June 12, 2005, 12:34 AM »

thanks guys, my mistake;  free version is fine for what they need.  thanks again.

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Living Room / Re: anyone recommend freeware cd/dvd burning soft?

« Last post by mouser on June 11, 2005, 11:45 PM »

sorry im looking for freeware, for a friend.  deepburner is shareware.

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Living Room / anyone recommend freeware cd/dvd burning soft?

« Last post by mouser on June 11, 2005, 09:45 PM »

anyone care to recommend a reasonable cd/dvd burning tool?  for just burning data.  nice gui w/ drag and drop preferred.

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Cheat Sheeter / Re: Sample .ipi file

« Last post by mouser on June 11, 2005, 08:45 PM »

i've spent a lot of time agnoizing over how to manage these info pages.
i think when its all working it will make more sense, but i'll lay out some of my thinking.

i want it to be easy to add new cheat sheet sets, and easy to enable and disable them.

so if you look at the sample screenshot in the other thread you will see its like a two level hierarchy
you have SETS and then you have RESOURCES (files,urls) in each set.

a SET has an application, author, a homepage, etc.

a SET contains a number of RESOURCES, each one is like a shortcut to a afile or online url, etc.

you can browse SETS, and enable and disable them, and also browse and enable/disable the resources in each set.

each config file describes a SET, you can have tons of config files; they are discovered automatically when found in the data directory.

i could use a more ini style config file file.. couldn't really hurt though i dont think there is any real advantage to it/

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Cheat Sheeter / Teaser Screenshots

« Last post by mouser on June 11, 2005, 05:48 PM »

i'll post screenshots occasionally.
note that the window isnt showing any help currently (just google page).
ive mainly been working on internal data structures, etc.

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Cheat Sheeter / Re: Sample .ipi file

« Last post by mouser on June 11, 2005, 05:46 PM »

I made some changes to organization.  here is a more accurate view of current ipi file:

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// .ipi configuration file for some UltraEdit ResourceSets.
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// About this file format:
//  The file must begin with a SET definition
//  Info Page Entries MUST start with the keyword "RESOURCE" on a line alone
//  Comments *start* with // (only if starting a line is it a comment).
//  Dates should be specified in illogical US format (MM/DD/YYYY)
//  URL's can be online or local (relative to cur dir) resources
//  "Hint" is optional (title will be used on mouse over if no hint specified)
//  "Keyword" is optional (should be comma separated words)
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------


//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
SET
Author=         mouser
Date=         06/10/2005
Homepage=      https://www.donationcoder.com
Application=   UltraEdit
FileRegEx=      *.ue\.exe||*.ultraedit\.exe
UpdateURL=      https://www.donation...user/uedit/uedit.ipi
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------


//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
RESOURCE
Title=         UltraEdit HotKeys
Hint=         Common HotKeys for UltraEdit
Description=   A simple list of hotkeys for UltraEdit, in html format.  Suitable for small window display.
URL=         file://uedit_hotkeys.html
Keywords=      hotkey||shortcut

RESOURCE
Title=         UltaEdit Forum
Description=   Visit the UltraEdit Online Forum
URL=         http://www.ultraedit...?name=Forums&c=1
Keywords=      forum

RESOURCE
Title=         UltraEdit Tips
Description=   A list of tips and tricks for advanced users
URL=         file://uedit_tips.html
Keywords=      tip||trick
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request Thread

« Last post by mouser on June 11, 2005, 04:11 PM »

being able to righ click to get normal shell extension is definitely planned (youll see it in todo list in help file alread).

kfitting you are right about \, we'll have to figure out how to solve that.

in addition to the posts here i've talkedwith cracksloth (and before that kfitting) over email about a whole bunch of new features which are great ideas.. (forum is always better so others can comment!)

one thing that does occur to me though, and it holds for the ideas in the forum about tabs and different config files, is that F&R is being torn between two purposes,

one is as a tiny fast keyboard application LAUNCHER.
the other is as a file search tool.

these are somewhat conflicted purposes.

in the first case, being able to do everything from keyboard is key, and one wants a small window, and wont be switching between configuration files, etc.

in the second case, when using as a file searcher (and i note that are tons of file searchers already, so i give this second priority), its not so important if user needs to use mouse - whats more desirable is flexible use of results (hence right-click contextmenu, drag&drop, etc.)
and as i understand it, what users are interested in F&R as a file searcher is to be able to more efficiently search for common stuff.
so in this case would be nice to be able to quickly select from some preset kinds of searches (ie tabs for mp3s. etc).

i think its important to remember that F&R's main purpose is the first case, to be used as a launcher.
i'm definitely open to thinking about ways to make it useful as a search tool, but only if these can be done without infringing on its functionality as a launcher.

i was thinking that one way to do this would be to have an optional panel at the bottom that you could toggle on and off.
this panel would be a mini file browser, such that when you clicked on a found result, it would jump to that location in the mini file browser panel, where you could do normal file operations, etc.

this panel could also include buttons for quick-loading of different configuration files for different settings/directories..

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General Software Discussion / Re: Special Request

« Last post by mouser on June 11, 2005, 09:34 AM »

i'm not sure exactly what you want it to "do" when it detects different typing but..
if its only in irc that you need this, then it would be 1000x easier to write something that behaved differently depending on what irc channel window you were in.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: movable grouped windows

« Last post by mouser on June 11, 2005, 09:33 AM »

i know there are virtual desktop tools that can do this wrt grouping on different virtual desktops..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: new beta 1.05.15 (update only) available to beta testers

« Last post by mouser on June 11, 2005, 06:53 AM »

I noticed you set ForegroundLockTimeout to 0.  I'm not complaining, just making sure you didn't mean to change that.

i think this is a holdover from code i used to try to fix a bug where message boxes would appear below windows - but as per previous discussions here i've started removing it from my tray-based programs, so i'll try removing it from f&r in next version.  thanks for reminder.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: loading different config files

« Last post by mouser on June 10, 2005, 04:57 PM »

what do you think about this as a simple way to get some of the same functionality with less drastic user interface changes.

what if we added a row of buttons on the top or bottom, that would be for like F1-F10.

each one of these would correspond to a different config file.  you could either push the button or hit F1-F10 (or alt- F1-F10 whatever),
and it would switch to highlight that button and load that config file.  you could also customize the labels of the buttons, so F1 could be music, F2 StartMenu, etc.  the currently selected slot would be colored differently so you could see which search you were currently on.

this would make it easy to select where to search using only keyboard, make it easy to identify what you were searching, and give you 10 slots or so for different config files you could alternate between. 

i agree with previous suggestion that we can kill the help button, since it shows up in options.

i'm kind of a fan of docking windows, but i'd like to skip it in F&R for now, just because i have some ideas of combining f&R with a docking launch bar and i'd rather not waste time on half-hearted measure to try to add docking to F&R.

i do think this idea of switching configuration files is more complicated than we are currently giving it credit for though.
the thing is, things like aliases are stored in the config file, so if you had some alias like "games", then you have to keep repeat it for all 10 config files if you wanted it to work in all 10 slots

thats the downside of having dif config files. and i think its a serious one.

alternatively we could use a single config file, but 10 difference  directory search lists; this would mean that the only thing you could customize differently for the different searches would be the directory and order of search, not search and scoring patterns.  im inclined to think thats better though.. do we really need separate pattern scoring?

having 10 different directory search lists would also probably be the easiest to implement, and the clearest in terms of usability/configurability.

there are def. tradeoffs whatever choice is made.

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Cheat Sheeter / Sample .ipi file

« Last post by mouser on June 10, 2005, 12:35 PM »

just to give you an idea how i am thinking..

you will download cheat sheet "sets" that can contain any number of actual cheat sheets or info pages.
here's a sample of my current thinking of what a configuration file for a SET would look like.

So note that this file just DESCRIBES the resources in the set (ie it refers to some html pages which are the cheat sheets, and one refers to an "online" resource); in this way, cheat sheets can be local, online, html, text, movies, etc.

Sorry the tabs did not display properly smf needs a formatting mode that respects tabs !!


//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// .ipi configuration file for some UltraEdit InfoPages.
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Info about this file format:
//  Note that we can use a single common "Author", "Date", "Homepage" fields
//   (or we could have specified them explicitly with each entry)
//  Entries MUST start with the keyword "Title", others can be in any order.
//  Comments *start* with // (only if starting a line is it a comment).
//  Dates should be specified in illogical US format (MM/DD/YYYY)
//  URL's can be online or local (relative to cur dir) resources
//  "Hint" is optional (title will be used on mouse over if no hint specified)
//  "Keyword" is optional (should be comma separated words)
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------


//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Author=         mouser
Date=         06/10/2005
Homepage=      https://www.donationcoder.com
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------


//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Title=         UltraEdit HotKeys
Application=   UltraEdit
Hint=         Common HotKeys for UltraEdit
Description=   A simple list of hotkeys for UltraEdit, in html format.  Suitable for small window display.
URL=         file://uedit_hotkeys.html
Keywords=      hotkey,shortcut

Title=         UltaEdit Forum
Application=   UltraEdit
Description=   Visit the UltraEdit Online Forum
URL=         http://www.ultraedit...?name=Forums&c=1
Keywords=      forum

Title=         UltraEdit Tips
Application=   UltraEdit
Description=   A list of tips and tricks for advanced users
URL=         file://uedit_tips.html
Keywords=      tip,trick
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Cheat Sheeter / Re: New Program Idea: Cheat Sheeter

« Last post by mouser on June 10, 2005, 11:43 AM »

i'm looking for small clipart images of keys, for use in making hotkey lists.
images like this:
http://www.seoconsul...tips/windows-key.htm

if anybody finds any, let me know.

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Annoying toy

« Last post by mouser on June 10, 2005, 10:14 AM »

no offense taken here; don't take scott too seriously.. he's just looking out for the would-be victims of these pranks

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Living Room / Re: Upgrade cycles — How often is too often?

« Last post by mouser on June 10, 2005, 07:36 AM »

we've reported on upgrade policies in an ad hoc manner - it would probably be good if we made an effort in reviews to say clearly what the program upgrade policy is.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Skinning?

« Last post by mouser on June 10, 2005, 07:33 AM »

f&r isnt going to get more bloated but we can add a lot of functionality with no more bloat.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Skinning?

« Last post by mouser on June 10, 2005, 07:33 AM »

i dont think f&r is going to ever get skins, though i must admit i am trying a toolbar component for cheat sheeter that support minimal skinning.

btw f&r has two modes of running in tray, one runs full app in tray, and another runs the tiniest helper app that launches the main one.