Recent Posts

501

Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR - Options to remove few elements on Launch window?

« Last post by Nod5 on August 15, 2013, 11:35 AM »

As you get more into FARR do experiment with the different types of alias commands available. There is a lot you can tweak and customize there to fit and speed up the way you work with programs and files.

If you have a small number of files/programs that you launch very often then set up few dolaunch actions with short launch phrases.
For example, in options > lists > aliases > myaliases.alias  add a new alias and set

[Select]

^cc$

in the regex field and then under results

[Select]

dolaunch C:\somefolder

With that set up you open FARR, press c twice and the folder opens. No wait for search results and no need to press enter.

502

Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR - Options to remove few elements on Launch window?

« Last post by Nod5 on August 14, 2013, 02:42 PM »

Hi there!

1. Use the slenderFARR skin
2. Hide Help and Options buttons by dragging that window area to the right until it disappears
3. Hide statusbar text with an autohotkey script (There is no way currently to actually disable the statusbar AFAIK)

Great to see another FARR minimalist! 

503

Find And Run Robot / Re: Amazon conifguration

« Last post by Nod5 on August 12, 2013, 03:28 AM »

If you want to use FARR to load amazon with a searchphrase in an external browser then import this to myaliases:

[Select]

1000>>>amazon>->Amazon.com - $$1 | http://www.amazon.com/s/field-keywords=$$1>+>^(?:ama|amaz|amazo|amazon) (.*)

- Go to options > lists > aliases > myaliases.alias
- Right click list and select import. Copy and paste the row above at the end of the list in the popup window.
- then go to core-shopping.alias and uncheck the amazon alias there (otherwise the two aliases might conflict)

After that you can enter "amazon camera" in FARR and press enter to open your default browser and search for "camera" on amazon.
You can also use the shorter "ama camera".

504

General Software Discussion / Re: The Non-Notepad(MS) Thread!

« Last post by Nod5 on August 04, 2013, 03:21 PM »

Speaking of Notepad2, here is an AutoHotkey script I made that lets you toggle three different settings by clicking your middle mouse button in different parts of an open Notepad2 window.

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. #IfWinActive, ahk_class Notepad2
2. Mbutton::
3. WinGetPos,,,w,h, A
4. MouseGetPos,x,y,,contr
5. if contr not in SysListView321,msctls_statusbar321
6.  return
7. if ( h - y < 60 )
8. {
9.  send !s   ;mbutton near lower edge: toggle statusbar
10.  send oo{enter}
11. }
12. else if ( x < w / 2 )
13.  send ^+n   ;mbutton left half: toggle line numbering
14. else if (w - x < w / 2 )
15.  send ^w        ;mbutton right half: toggle line wrap
16. return
17. #IfWinActive

505

General Software Discussion / Re: The Non-Notepad(MS) Thread!

« Last post by Nod5 on August 03, 2013, 02:45 AM »

Well it turns out notepad2-mod autocomplete does work in .ahk files already. I mistakenly thought autocomplete used a fixed dictionary (external to the file being edited) and had only tested it in with a blank .ahk file - which of course didn't work. In fact, the autocomplete uses all commands already entered in the document as dictionary.

506

General Software Discussion / Re: The Non-Notepad(MS) Thread!

« Last post by Nod5 on August 02, 2013, 01:31 PM »

Have you looked at SciTE4AutoHotkey?

-dr_andus (August 02, 2013, 11:35 AM)

No I hadn't. But that is a standalone editor (right?). I want to stick with Notepad2-mod and .ahk code highlighting already works there. It is only the autocomplete that falters.

507

General Software Discussion / Re: The Non-Notepad(MS) Thread!

« Last post by Nod5 on August 02, 2013, 11:15 AM »

I have tried a bunch of the programs mentioned above and for me Notepad2 hits the sweet spot. Much more powerful than Microsoft Notepad but not as complex as Notepad++. But I have no word autocomplete in autohotkey files in Notepad2-mod. Does anyone here have that working?

508

Find And Run Robot / Re: command to open options with myaliases.alias?

« Last post by Nod5 on July 02, 2013, 01:36 PM »

I took the scripting route. In the unlikely case that someone else wants this:
Save this autohotkey script somewhere as farr_options.ahk

[Select]

winwait, ahk_class TOptionsForm
winactivate, ahk_class TOptionsForm
ControlFocus, TTreeView1, ahk_class TOptionsForm
send AL
ControlFocus, TListView1, ahk_class TOptionsForm
send {down}
exitapp

Then create a FARR alias to launch options with something like this in the results field:

[Select]

FARR options | dolaunch C:\farr_options.ahk ;;; dosearch gooptions

This saves me one second now and then. Some time after 2018 I will have earned back the seconds spent in figuring out the script (reference: http://xkcd.com/1205/ )

509

Find And Run Robot / command to open options with myaliases.alias?

« Last post by Nod5 on June 25, 2013, 02:58 PM »

Any alias shown in the FARR results list has a right click context menu action called "visit the source alias" which opens the options window with the right alias group file selected in the tree view. Is there a special search phrase for the same action i.e. opening help with myaliases.alias focused? The special search phrases in the help file doesn't list such a command. But I was thinking there was one anyway given that the context menu actionb can make that jump.

510

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

« Last post by Nod5 on June 22, 2013, 09:39 AM »

BookCrop has been updated. Changelog for v130622:
.tif input now also works
faster preview thanks to -size command in graphicsmagick
faster crop thanks to jpegtran from libjpeg-turbo (but slower jpegclub jpegtran still works)
fix: find GraphicsMagick path via registry 64bit Windows now works
fix: removed term "lossless" from info

511

General Software Discussion / Re: From the B.F.D. Dept. - Microsoft releases first video preview of Win 8.1

« Last post by Nod5 on June 08, 2013, 09:49 AM »

However, there are a number of apps installed whose names I cannot recall, hence cannot search for them.  These are applications that were installed for [usually] one (1) specific function not available in my mainstream programs.  For instance, there are three (3) different regex programs installed, each for a specific usage - a usage that I found lacking while working in other, sometimes similar, programs.

-barney (June 07, 2013, 08:38 PM)

I have a lot of such seldom use programs too. But I don't worry about that in moving to Win 8 since I don't use the start menu in Win 7 anyway. I use three tools instead:
1. the Quicklaunch toolbar on the taskbar. I have it show a few of the programs I use most (Firefox, VLC, etc) and then the drop down (or rather drop up) menu has around 50 more. I've there renamed some links to seldom use programs by adding descriptive tags. E.g. "shellexview shell extensions manage edit nirsoft". The drop menu shows all the (small) icons and names at the same time without having to scroll. That makes it very quick to browse and find an app, even if I don't remember its name.
2. FARR. The description/tags added to the program link names makes the programs easy to find in a FARR search. E.g. typing "shell ext" shows shellexview as the number one result in FARR.
3. Everything. If I haven't found it after a few seconds using FARR I pass the search to Everything which then almost always finds it.

Maybe the same search/browse setup could work for you too? I don't have a thousand programs but I think this way of finding/launching programs would scale up well. Quicklaunch and FARR both work in Win 8 (caveat: I've only played with the Win 8 RTM trial a bit).

512

General Software Discussion / Re: From the B.F.D. Dept. - Microsoft releases first video preview of Win 8.1

« Last post by Nod5 on June 08, 2013, 09:31 AM »

I don't want to spoil your sense of optimism but I'm told that the presenter's wish had been for a full head of hair.

-cranioscopical (June 07, 2013, 09:02 PM)

That wish is unlikely to materialize given the fact that Microsoft have handed the reigns over to Ballmer who, among other things, is not a keep-a-full-head-of-hair-expert.

513

General Software Discussion / Re: From the B.F.D. Dept. - Microsoft releases first video preview of Win 8.1

« Last post by Nod5 on June 07, 2013, 04:39 PM »

Could those here who have used Win 8 for some time and who don't use the new Start Screen stuff say what you wish for in 8.1 (or subsequent updates)? Is there any feature in Win 7 that you miss, and haven't found an adequate replacement/workaround for, in Win 8? Let us put the start button aside however - anything other than the start button? I'm still on Win 7 but am getting closer and closer to move up to  8.

514

Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Bvckup 2

« Last post by Nod5 on June 07, 2013, 01:01 PM »

I can't find a link to the beta on your site

515

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

« Last post by Nod5 on May 28, 2013, 04:02 AM »

Hi. My impression was that jpegtran does lossless crop regardless of what dimensions the user inputs by automatically adjusting those inputs a little if needed. But I'm frankly not entirely sure since the information on http://jpegclub.org/jpegtran/ is not so clear.

516

Find And Run Robot / Re: possible regex search alias bug

« Last post by Nod5 on May 10, 2013, 02:26 PM »

Yes, you're right, thanks! But why didn't I think of that?    

517

Find And Run Robot / Re: possible regex search alias bug

« Last post by Nod5 on May 10, 2013, 10:32 AM »

mouser & skajfes: you are right, thank you for the explanation.  

skajfes: good practice in general - agreed! But in this particular case I wanted the alias to trigger first on "aa" (show all files in a folder) and on "aa somephrase" (show files in the folder matching "somephrase") *and* not switch back to a regular FARR search inbetween that. For that I needed the first space included in the match pattern.

518

Find And Run Robot / Re: possible regex search alias bug

« Last post by Nod5 on May 09, 2013, 01:09 PM »

Aha! The problem is a space in the dosearch command string. If I change

[Select]

aa | dosearch C:\test\ $$1

into

[Select]

aa | dosearch C:\test\$$1

the problem is solved.

519

Find And Run Robot / Re: possible regex search alias bug

« Last post by Nod5 on May 09, 2013, 12:46 PM »

"bb " does nothing. But what makes me think there is some issue with FARR here is that if I change the second alias from

[Select]

^aa(|.+)$

to

[Select]

^testing(|.+)$

I still have the problem i.e. "testing " triggers the first alias.

I have checked my list of aliases and found no third alias triggering on "aa" (nor on "testing"). Could this be related to the fact that the aa-alias is designed to trigger both on "aa" and on "aa whatever"?

Anyway, since

[Select]

^aa(| .+)$

works good enough I'm by now just curious why there is a difference.

edit: Let me add that  the two aliases are used to launch these actions

[Select]

^aa(|.+)$
aa | dosearch C:\test\ $$1

[Select]

^(.*)\s\s$
dolaunch copyclip $$1 ;;; C:\ev2.exe

where ev2.exe is my workaround autohotkey script that passes a search to everything

520

Find And Run Robot / Re: possible regex search alias bug

« Last post by Nod5 on May 09, 2013, 12:28 PM »

No this reproduces whatever name I set for it.

More testing: if I open the "edit group alias" window for the first alias and enter "aa " in the test box it (correctly) says "no match" in red text. But I enter "aa " (without quotation marks) in the regular FARR inputbox the first alias runs. Weird!

I tried tweaking the second alias into the below, but the problem is still there.

[Select]

^aa( .*)$

edit:
hm, if I use this the problem also occurs

[Select]

^aa(|.+)$

but if I use this there is no problem

[Select]

^aa(| .+)$

A drawback is that with this last regex the alias first runs on "aa", then a regular FARR search is shown on "aa " and then the alias runs again on "aa test". I use this alias to on "aa" list all files in a folder and on "aa test" list all files in that folder matching the phrase test. Anyway, I don't understand why the problem appears in all but the last version of the regex.

521

Find And Run Robot / possible regex search alias bug

« Last post by Nod5 on May 09, 2013, 09:05 AM »

Hi, I have a conflict with two aliases. To reproduce, make these two regex aliases:

[Select]

^(.*)\s\s$

and

[Select]

^aa((?: .*|))$

If I type "aa[space]" in FARR the first alias is mistakenly triggered. Is that a bug?

522

Find And Run Robot / Re: Run a program with file(s) selected in Explorer

« Last post by Nod5 on March 26, 2013, 03:37 AM »

I don't have a general solution. I wish it was possible to drag and drop files onto FARR search result items in the same way you can drag a drop a file (file.txt) on a shortcut to a program (firefox) to start that program with the file as command line parameter.

A quick way to open a file in explorer in a program that is not default for that filetype can be had through autohotkey:

[Select]

#IfWinActive, ahk_class CabinetWClass
#Enter::
#Lbutton::
send ^c
clipwait
run notepad.exe "%clipboard%"
#IfWinActive

Replace notepad.exe below with your VIM path. Then win+click a file in Explorer. Or select the file in Explorer and press win+Enter.

523

Find And Run Robot / Re: [solved] FARR freeze after quick repeat of dolaunch appcap alias

« Last post by Nod5 on January 10, 2013, 10:44 AM »

Ok. It is no problem really, I was just curious. I added a string of random letters at the end in that box. Then there's no unwanted matching and browsing is not impeded.

524

Find And Run Robot / Re: [solved] FARR freeze after quick repeat of dolaunch appcap alias

« Last post by Nod5 on January 09, 2013, 02:20 PM »

As a follow up, while troubleshooting I also discovered a tiny issue that I hadn't run into before: when you make a regex alias any string in the first editbox in the Edit Group Alias window is still active in FARR. That can give unexpected effects when using dolaunch and regex subpatterns. To see it, try this:

[Select]

1000>>>x>->dolaunch showmemo $$1>+>^x(\w+)$

type: x  FARR displays: $$1  <--- caused by the non regex alias
type: xa  FARR displays: a
type: xabc  FARR displays: abc
Is it by design or unintended that the non-regex alias is used even after a regex alias has been set up? Clearing the first editbox removes the effect of course. But putting text in that editbox is handy as a name the alias, for easy browsing through the list of aliases later on.

525

Find And Run Robot / [solved] FARR freeze after quick repeat of dolaunch appcap alias

« Last post by Nod5 on January 08, 2013, 02:01 PM »

I'm trying to make an alias that continuously pipes the FARR alias regex match text to an autohotkey script, the script processes that input and outputs a html file that in turn is after save refreshed in FARR. But I've run into a freeze problem.

Here is an easy way to reproduce it:
1. make this alias:

[Select]

1000>>>x>->dolaunch appcap C:\test.exe>+>^x(\d*)

2. compile this autohotkey code into C:\test.exe

[Select]

test = 1

3. open FARR and type x and then quickly type a string of numbers (with multiple keypresses).
FARR will now maximize its CPU (for one core) and no new commands are possible. To break the freeze a shutdown from the task manager is needed.

I've tried a few other alias designs using alternative commands but didn't find one that did all the things in the first sentence above.

I tried the below alias command chain together with an autohotkey line that saves the command line input to C:\test.html but the html doesn't reliably refresh after each run. I want to avoid adding delay/sleep times if possible.

[Select]

dolaunch showhtml . ;;; C:\test.exe "$$1" ;;; showfilehtml C:\test.html

Edit: Mouser has fixed it in Version 2.206.01 
[BugFix] AppCap function could hang FARR if it was repeatedly invoked many times per second.