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Find And Run Robot / Re: Text of options is cut (not all is showing).

« Last post by nontroppo on January 24, 2006, 08:21 AM »

Hi Amadawn, can I quickly remind you that if you have time you should make bugs / wishes into seperate items in the bug tracker to help mouser keep note of what needs to be done:

https://www.donation...m/Software/Tracking/

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Link to FRR forum from the FRR application

« Last post by nontroppo on January 17, 2006, 09:48 AM »

+1 including the bugtracking link

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Some Performance Questions and Suggestions

« Last post by nontroppo on January 17, 2006, 09:47 AM »

Basically, I think it's the disk access slowing things up during another background disk access. 

-kfitting (January 15, 2006, 02:04 PM)

Do try to turn off showing history on starting (link to bug 77), that has kept me able to continue using FARR on my older machine...

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Another similar app (disclaimer: I haven't tried it)

« Last post by nontroppo on January 07, 2006, 09:46 AM »

Memory use averages ~19mb on my system compared to ~0.8-1mb for FARR!

Frustratingly I cannot get the settings panel to come up to configure it at all (did you manage Darwin?)! Aesthetically it is quite pleasing, minimalist like quicksilver with the drop down of options like FARR or AppRocket. The skinning possibilities seem good as it uses transparent PNGs for the interface.

It is faster than FARR because it pre-caches the contents of the start menu. Using Filemon it only access the tahoma font while running.

Overall, it is nice visually and promising but vastly inferior to FARR currently.

r.e. QuickSilver: the application is amazing. I had an iBook for a week and played briefly with it. The magic lies in the simplicity of the interface exposing the great power of the underlying engine. You type and it finds items adaptively like FARR but you then get a contextual side menu which relates to the found item (we have that basically with the windows context menu but it is harder to access and not as "smart" in its options). The data is exposed to a neat plugin system to extend QuickSilver greatly.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: a little progress report

« Last post by nontroppo on December 16, 2005, 01:26 PM »

Well mouser, good luck and if you need to bounce ideas around then we're happy to help in any way we can. Have a great Christmas by the way ;-)

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Find And Run Robot / Multithreading?

« Last post by nontroppo on November 17, 2005, 11:57 AM »

Hi mouser,

Another of my "inner workings" questions. On my slow work machine, when FARR is held up on a slow directory scan, even though I searched for only aliases the alias list does not show until the disk activity stops (this relates to a bug I posted). I wonder whether having the directory searching as a seperate thread to the main program execution would be another way to stop this pause? I assume it is quite complicated to do but I'm curious for your thoughs on it.

cheers,

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

« Last post by nontroppo on November 14, 2005, 05:50 PM »

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

« Last post by nontroppo on November 13, 2005, 05:14 PM »

cool, just hope it didn't impact negatively  in your education (as teachers can be ignorant of it). my flatmate always felt so bad about her math abilities, until I told her she was synaesthetic and we discussed how creative it was to see numbers with colours / personalities. We are all synaesthetic to an extent (and the brain is very cross-connected between sensory modalities), you are simply better at it!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Links to Review and Comments - Add yours!

« Last post by nontroppo on November 13, 2005, 12:29 PM »

Mouser, the Fileforum page has an old version number and even older screenshot; it maybe worth updating...

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

« Last post by nontroppo on November 13, 2005, 11:49 AM »

Bug tracker link: https://www.donation...cking/view.php?id=81

kfitting: are you really a synaesthete? My flatmate is too, with colours/numbers. I am Neuroscientist so I find synaesthesia fascinating.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Some Performance Questions and Suggestions

« Last post by nontroppo on November 13, 2005, 11:36 AM »

Bug tracker links relating to this:

Stop scanning on start: https://www.donation...cking/view.php?id=77
Temporary File list cache: https://www.donation...cking/view.php?id=78
Stop Scanning on Alias match: https://www.donation...cking/view.php?id=79

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Any volunteer to enter bugs/feature requests into the bugtracker?

« Last post by nontroppo on November 11, 2005, 07:21 AM »

I'm happy to add stuff in as I get time!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: TIP: hold ALT when resizing bitmap objects to preserve aspect ratio

« Last post by nontroppo on October 23, 2005, 10:07 AM »

This is great (restore to original size would be wonderful), thanks mouser :beer:

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Find And Run Robot / Window Resizing on Windows 2000 with Transparency breaks Skinning

« Last post by nontroppo on October 19, 2005, 10:48 AM »

I'm posting this as a seperate thread (it was hidden in another) to help tracking, and you asked for info whether this is still present in the latest beta V1.07.20; it is. By the way, my FARR says it is V1.07.21 — am I in a time-space continuum warp?

Original post: https://www.donation...1070.msg7090#msg7090

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Find And Run Robot / Re: F&RR does mathematics...

« Last post by nontroppo on October 17, 2005, 03:43 PM »

In XP I simply duplicated the _default.pif, renamed it and changed its settings.

I'm with mouser, plugins seem perfect for this.

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Screenshot Captor / Bug / Issue — Paste of Images Changes their Aspect Ratio

« Last post by nontroppo on October 16, 2005, 12:50 PM »

I was making a screenshot where I wanted to add together two screenshots (before/after) of a window into one screenshot. I made the first shot, then the second. I then changed canvas size of the second shot to be double the width, then selected all of the first shot, copy to clipboard, then paste into the second shot. First it didn't work, so I tried selecting, then it pasted, but not in my selection and it changed the aspect ratio of the first shot distorting it! I would like that copied images retain their aspect ratio and don't distort when being pasted as objects.

Oh, and screenshot captor rocks  btw (not having frequented this forum yet)!

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Find And Run Robot / Feature Request V2 — Adaptive Alias Group Ordering

« Last post by nontroppo on October 16, 2005, 09:14 AM »

Nothing major, but when I trigger an alias group, the order is fixed to the order of the alias group. However what I'd like is an option to allow the order to change depending on which items are used, just as FARR does elsewhere. This obviously relates to my other general adaptive frequency-of-use history request in that the same weighting would apply here too.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Find+Run Plugin System Idea

« Last post by nontroppo on October 15, 2005, 08:56 AM »

mouser rocks: +1

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Find+Run Plugin System Idea

« Last post by nontroppo on October 14, 2005, 03:09 AM »

Sounds wonderful. Though for the second idea I'd be a little worried if it took over just on matching a regex as what happens if more than one regex validly match? I'd rather have the plugin triggered just like regular aliases by default; i.e. the alias plugin is present in the list and selecting it then triggers the plugin and takes over output.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: F&RR does mathematics...

« Last post by nontroppo on October 14, 2005, 03:03 AM »

Is there not a windows rather than dos program that will open up a requestor with the result? Here is the alias for this dos program. You need to make a .pif and change the path to suit your needs. I don't like the left over console window either so either another program or some magic by mouser is needed...

1000>>>eval>->Evaluate $$1 | c:\windows\eval.pif $$1>+>^([\d\.\+\-\*%=<>&\|\^\$\(\)/\s]+)

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

« Last post by nontroppo on October 14, 2005, 02:37 AM »

If you ever contemplate a scripting language, make sure you check [http://www.lua.org]Lua[/url], a wonderful fast tiny embeddable scripting language with glue for C++

To be honest I don't really need it; Aliases can launch whatever is needed, but maybe I'm missing something; if any AW users (I've never tried it) can tell us whether the scripting language can do anything one otherwise couldn't...

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

« Last post by nontroppo on October 13, 2005, 06:31 PM »

You're right it won't. So here is the regex that combines your multiple dot matching, expands the character matching and allows an optional subject:

1000>>>email3>->email $$1 | mailto:$$1?subject=$$2>+>^([\w\+\-]+(?:\.[\w\+\-]+)*@[\w\+\-]+(?:\.[\w\+\-]+)+)(?:\s?)(.*)

Don'tcha just love Regex's?

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

« Last post by nontroppo on October 13, 2005, 06:21 PM »

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.

-mouser (October 13, 2005, 01:00 PM)

 I absolutely don't doubt it, your applications are excellent and it is clear to see you are a consumate craftsman!
 
 

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

-mouser (October 13, 2005, 01:00 PM)

 For the full progressive search of my 5 folder locations on each keypress. On my home machine it is 0 seconds (rounded down), but my laptop is much more recent than my work machine.
 

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!
 

-mouser (October 13, 2005, 01:00 PM)

 Yes, this does make a valuable difference.

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

« Last post by nontroppo on October 13, 2005, 12:44 PM »

OK, a version of that regex that is a bit more cautious, and fixes a small bug in the optional subject matching

1000>>>email3>->email $$1 | mailto:$$1?subject=$$2>+>^([\w+-]+@[\w+-]+\.[\w+-]+)(?:\s?)(.*)

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

« Last post by nontroppo on October 13, 2005, 12:36 PM »

Well, though not recommended, there are other officially valid characters according to the RFC's than + and -

<offtopic>I never knew about how useful + is in email addresses until recently, you can use it to tag mail addresses which nevertheless go into the same mailbox, e.g. [email protected] and [email protected] both get delivered to the same box ([email protected]) but allows you to distinguish / filter them</offtopic>