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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Suggestion] Secondary mode with execute on first unique match

« Last post by mouser on May 13, 2014, 09:52 PM »

Another option is you could make ONE alias (group) called "ax"
and put firefox and all your other common programs in that alias as results.

then you would type:

+alias +launchone ax firef...

the only thing to remember in that case is that just type "firef.." alone will NOT find the firefox entry you create..  only typing the name of the parent alias group would show the results contained in it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Suggestion] Secondary mode with execute on first unique match

« Last post by mouser on May 13, 2014, 05:08 PM »

Ill try to read this more carefully and reply in a bit, but a quick note:
you can make a regex alias that lets you type one thing and searches as if you typed something else.
you do this by using "dosearch" as the result of the alias.

in this way you could make an alias where you type "mysearch blah"
and it acted like you typed "+alias +launchone blah"

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Running Windows 8.1 apps

« Last post by mouser on May 13, 2014, 11:59 AM »

Hmm.. FARR should run fine in windows 8.1 but this sounds like possibly the issue we've seen before about some shortcuts pointing to special "virtualized" locations..  Can anyone shed any light on whether these shortcuts to the metro apps mentioned might be unusual?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Suggestion] Secondary mode with execute on first unique match

« Last post by mouser on May 13, 2014, 09:35 AM »

You can always launch any result you want by hitting the specific number (or alt+# depending on your configuration), double clicking, arrowing down, etc.  this specific request is about launching something when there is only one result.

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: Tutorials Now Available for Signing Up, Donating, Entering License Key

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2014, 11:28 PM »

I think I got Amy sorted out over email.

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: Tutorials Now Available for Signing Up, Donating, Entering License Key

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2014, 09:53 PM »

Hi Amy, and welcome to the site.  We are here to help.
As josh says -- which program of ours are you trying to put the license key into?

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Living Room / DC/Indie/coder/startup house/condo/etc

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2014, 07:54 PM »

I know I've said this half jokingly before, but in all seriousness if we could find a multi-family property where 10 of us like-minded individuals/families that work from home could each put up our share of a mortgage -- a place with some retail ground floor space where we could have a little board game shop or maker space or teaching space or something, a place that could be improved and developed over the course of a few years.. maybe a shared car or two, i'm ready to put in my share and labor. Seriously.  Anyone?

Someplace near upstate ny would work best for me but i'm open to literally anywhere.

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Living Room / Re: Need a free survey site

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2014, 06:17 PM »

Resurrecting an old thread to mention that I just used SurveyMonkey to make a small survey for a handful of people.

It was easy to sign up, create a  survey, send it out, look at results. The whole process could not have been smoother.

As stated by original poster, there is a 10 question (and 100 responder) limit for the free version (other plans are available but start at $26/month, ouch) -- and it looks like the free version is still going strong after 7 years.

So if you have a little survey with < 10 questions, I can heartily recommend SurveyMonkey.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Suggestion] Secondary mode with execute on first unique match

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2014, 03:10 PM »

Try redownloading the new alpha version i think i fixed it.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Suggestion] Secondary mode with execute on first unique match

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2014, 03:02 PM »

im getting similar behavior, looks like i didnt nail this one.. back to work for me.. stay tuned.

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Living Room / Re: Valley of Dolls - remote village of Nagoro, Japan populated by dolls

« Last post by mouser on May 12, 2014, 11:01 AM »

Thanks for sharing, Edvard -- very cool. 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Suggestion] Secondary mode with execute on first unique match

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2014, 06:35 PM »

Try: https://www.donation...RunRobotPortable.zip
or https://www.donation...AndRunRobotSetup.exe

And add +launchone to your search.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Suggestion] Secondary mode with execute on first unique match

« Last post by mouser on May 11, 2014, 01:56 PM »

Ok, that I can add -- especially since it doesn't require any additional options checkboxes.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Lost the Time-Delayed Paste in Clipboard Help+Spell CHS

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2014, 07:26 PM »

Not sure what you are asking.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SC freezes in 'Scanner Options'

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2014, 06:47 PM »

Hi lojomu.

That is troubling! SC is no doubt trying to get the list of scanners from the system at that point -- I wonder what could be making it hang.
I'd really like to resolve the issue so I may have to send you some debug versions to try to help me pin down the cause.
If old versions worked the new versions should be able to be made to work.

Can you try this version (4.0):
https://www.donation...rPortable_032713.zip

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Suggestion] Secondary mode with execute on first unique match

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2014, 05:37 PM »

One way it could be done is to use a modifier in the search like "+autolaunch" that means to launch the result when there is only one.
You can already restrict results to only show alias matches by adding "+alias".

So then you can configure in the FARR hotkeys, a hotkey that will start the search box with:
"+alias +launchone "
and then just start typing and it would only show alias results and launch as soon as the results were narrowed down to only one result.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Suggestion] Secondary mode with execute on first unique match

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2014, 03:46 PM »

So, having a second list i think would be too confusing and too much work.
But adding an option that says: launch any alias result as soon as it's the only one in the results -- that i could add with relatively little difficulty.  If you think that would be useful i wouldn't mind adding that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 4 (Maybe more) Absolute top go-to programs

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2014, 03:21 PM »

I make no claim that thebat is better than any other client these days -- i have no idea.  just listing the programs that *i* depend on and appreciate.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Lost the Time-Delayed Paste in Clipboard Help+Spell CHS

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2014, 01:40 PM »

Let me look into this and how date pasting differs from the other stuff.
In both cases, CHS *SHOULD* be smart enough to check to make sure it has changed to the target application successfully before pasting, but it's quite possible i'm mucking something up..

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Possible to autocomplete url.

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2014, 01:37 PM »

you could make some aliases that would help you do this.

One option would be to make an alias that had all of your favorites websites, so you could type something like "myweb mynet" and it would filter down to www.mynet.com and launch it.
Or you could make an alias that matched any string and opened www.MYSTRING.com that could be used similarly.
Or you could try the farrfox addon for searching web bookmarks in firefox and internet explorer (requires a bit of extra work now with new versions of firefox).

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UrlSnooper / Re: URLSnooper Not Snooping on Wi-Fi

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2014, 01:34 PM »

I know there are some issues with certain intel wifi cards especially, thought I occasionally here that other WinPCap tools work with them recently, which suggests that URL Snooper should be easily fixable in those limited cases.  So the first thing I always ask people is to try another winpcap-based tool and see if it works.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Windows 8.1 upgrade seems to have broken C# plugins.

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2014, 01:33 PM »

I hate myself when I put off responding to such posts and then they slip away from me.. I'm sorry it's taken so long to reply.  That normally happens when I don't have a good answer
I don't know why the C# plugins shouldn't work on windows 8.1.  Maybe someone has a clue?  Does the error say anything useful?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [Suggestion] Secondary mode with execute on first unique match

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2014, 01:31 PM »

It's an interesting idea and well described.

It's closely related to an idea I *was* convinced to add, which is a way to make an alias that launches as soon as you fully type it (see here).

I am a bit hesitant about your suggestion because of the potential for FARR launching things due to typos, etc.

However, a middle ground might be an option that automatically launches a single-result alias as soon as it is typed exactly (and completely).
That would make it easier to add short aliases that launch as soon as you type them.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 4 (Maybe more) Absolute top go-to programs

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2014, 01:27 PM »

• Website Watcher
• TheBat
• VmWare
• My own apps

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR V3 Discussion

« Last post by mouser on May 10, 2014, 01:21 PM »

"09 - Bring FARR to front when relaunching FARR"

I like easy ones like this.
I'm looking at your list.. since I have new betas of LBC and SC released, it's time for FARR and CHS to get their chance.  Stay tuned.