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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Hotkey commnads via icons

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 14, 2009, 10:05 AM »

Ours is not to wonder why...

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Hotkey commnads via icons

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 14, 2009, 08:15 AM »

There's no reason that you couldn't make an AutoHotKey script (or AutoIt3) and add that to the menu.

For example, the following opens the Windows Search window (Windows+f)

Code: AutoIt [Select]

1. Send, #f

You could easily make the scripts specific to specific windows if needed too.

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General Software Discussion / Re: 10/GUI

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 13, 2009, 11:29 PM »

UI aside: I love the input device. Currently I use a Contour Roller Mouse, that pretty much has similar input dynamics: I love it and even talked my employer into buying one for me at work  So I think the basic concept would work well.

What's also funny is that just the other day I was looking at LCD Tablets thinking that something like that may be my next major purchase; but what occurred to me (and what was demonstrated in the video) is that having the tablet and keyboard is a problem: either the tablet/monitor or the keyboard is too far away. Wouldn't it be better to have the keyboard as part of the display?

All through the video I was wondering how the typing was happening, not until the end did they show that the device sat just below the keyboard. But I was wondering about a screen keyboard, and how that would work (I've never used a LCD tablet and have no idea what it would be like to type on one: unforgiving I'd think -- no key movement)... but it did make me wonder about an integrated keyboard that was part of the windowing system? Sort of select the window, click the button on the window and a screen keyboard displays and sends keypresses to that window.

And I agree with Oshyan and others: I'm happy with multiple monitors and found it a little restrictive in the display.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Fast Keystroke Freezes Up FARR

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 12, 2009, 08:43 PM »

The thing you mention is still related to the problem listed at: here and here

-hamradio (October 12, 2009, 10:07 AM)

Actually, I was in the middle of something at the time, and I probably should have investigated more: ie disabled all the other FScript Plugins.

I'll try that when I get home...

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: AMPL updated to version 0.6.2

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 12, 2009, 08:57 AM »

Fixed a couple of bugs:

• Script Editor was not saving scripts in Simple Mode: fixed
• AMPL Plugin Options was not giving a lot of feedback for unsaved settings: improved
• AMPL Plugin wasn't calling AMPL Recorder: fixed

I'm still struggling with adding the extra space at the end of the restartSearch string. I'm wondering if it's FScript's issue? Mouser?? 

From now on updating via dcUpDater should work: and be easier to boot 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: AMPL [updated to version 0.6.1]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 12, 2009, 05:15 AM »

when one clicks on a menu item and it sets the text, i think you may want a space at the end, so if setting "amn" in search box you really want "amn " so that the other results are excluded because of regular expression match..  FARR normally may remove the extra space -- if so use \s instead of a space at the end.

-mouser (October 11, 2009, 10:45 PM)

I was going to ask you about that: when you pointed out that the double-click was not working the other day, I adjusted the script at work and it added a space OK; but at home the space was removed. Is there a setting somewhere that made home different to work (although they are different versions)??

You mean:

Code: vb.net [Select]

1. FARR.setStrValue "doSearch", path & "\s"

-Perry Mowbray (October 11, 2009, 11:51 PM)

OK, read the help file and I'm trying

Code: vb.net [Select]

1. FARR.setStrValue "restartSearch",path & "\s"

but it's still stripping the space 

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 12, 2009, 05:10 AM »

Personally I'm not keen on a Theme, per se. In past NANYs there was no requirement to adopt a Theme or benefit if you did, which left me wondering why you would.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Fast Keystroke Freezes Up FARR

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 12, 2009, 04:03 AM »

I've just been chatting with CleverCat about her issues with FF.

I have not used KlipKeeper for sometime, so I thought that I'd see if I could find an issue.

So... enable KK Plugin... type kk into FARR and single click on one of the entries and:

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: AMPL [updated to version 0.6.1]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 11, 2009, 11:52 PM »

(Double bugger)

-Perry

You must hail from the buggernation 

-cranioscopical (October 11, 2009, 10:40 PM)

Actually, New Zealanders also use the same phrase, so maybe you mean "one of the buggernations"?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: AMPL [updated to version 0.6.1]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 11, 2009, 11:51 PM »

when one clicks on a menu item and it sets the text, i think you may want a space at the end, so if setting "amn" in search box you really want "amn " so that the other results are excluded because of regular expression match..  FARR normally may remove the extra space -- if so use \s instead of a space at the end.

-mouser (October 11, 2009, 10:45 PM)

I was going to ask you about that: when you pointed out that the double-click was not working the other day, I adjusted the script at work and it added a space OK; but at home the space was removed. Is there a setting somewhere that made home different to work (although they are different versions)??

You mean:

Code: vb.net [Select]

1. FARR.setStrValue "doSearch", path & "\s"

if one invokes the macro recorded from normal AMPL script it still requires manuall copy and paste right? might be nice to fix that too.

-mouser (October 11, 2009, 11:01 PM)

Do you mean invoke AMPL Recorder from AMPL Script Editor?

There are two buttons to be able to insert into either of the code sections (bottom left corner):

one problem i had was that when i tried to edit my recorded macro, the changes didnt seem to be saved.  i clicked save to file, SEEMED to save, but the changes never go into the file.  if i run it or edit it my changed version is reverted to original recording.

-mouser (October 11, 2009, 11:01 PM)

I'm trying this now...

You're right: it certainly is not saved! I'll have to fix this...

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: AMPL [updated to version 0.6.1]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 11, 2009, 09:24 PM »

We have a great phrase in Australia for moments like this: Bugger!!

one error i get when trying to make a new script is:
#Include file "E:\MyDocs\Programming\CodeGear\FindAndRunRobot\Plugins\AMPL\ScriptEditor\includes\Plugins.ahk" cannot be opened.

-mouser (October 11, 2009, 07:02 PM)

Download and unzip this file Plugins.zip (0.22 kB - downloaded 308 times.) into FindAndRunRobot\Plugins\AMPL\ScriptEditor\includes\

Unfortunately got left out of the zip file 

i dont think it saved my ahk directory when i initially specified it.. in options it had G:\
maybe that was the cause of the problems.. trying to set it in options now and trying again.. nope.

-mouser (October 11, 2009, 07:05 PM)

Not sure I'm understanding... do you:

• click the [...] button in options or type in the correct path
• click the "Set" button
• and it's not saved?

Options doesn't warn you of unsaved changes... is that the problem?

You should be able to reset it through Options at anytime. It should update the FindAndRunRobot\Plugins\AMPL\AMPL.ini file. Is the ini file correct, ie what you typed/selected in Options? Note: I've allowed for multiple locations in the ini file, so when a different drive letter is given to my USB it'll ask again, but use that in future...

when i try to "record" nothing happened..

-mouser (October 11, 2009, 07:04 PM)

My mistake again  Wrong filename in Fscript.vbs (Double bugger)

Download and unzip this version FScript.zip (5.44 kB - downloaded 316 times.) over the top of your current and it should be fine (I've just re-installed here at work and that's what I had to do).

first time i tried i think it opened up the recorder script itself which i didn't understand.

-mouser (October 11, 2009, 07:04 PM)

Do you have AHK "installed" so that ahk scripts run when double-clicked?

The script would open in an editor if that was the default system action if your AHK Path was not set correctly.

So I count three errors: two mine and one yours. Is that how you see it?? 

Humble apologies over my bugs: I'll get them fixed tonight...

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / FARR Plugin: AMPL updated to version 0.6.1

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 09, 2009, 05:14 PM »

AMPL has been updated to 0.6.1.

This update fixes a couple of bugs and adds a brief Help file for AMPL Recorder:

• Fixed a bug in the plugin where double-clicking on the am menu did not doSearch the sub-alias
• Enabled script "Deletion" and "UnDeletion"
• Fixed a bug in Recorder that stopped the Toggle between Screen-based and Window-based mouse coordinates
• Help file or AMPL Recorder (albeit brief   )
• Fixed up the dcUpdater files: should be able to update the components from dcUpdater from now on  

If updating please replace the existing AMPL directory with the download, ie delete the existing AMPL directory first. If you have scripts you want to keep you'll need to copy them somewhere else first and then put them back after unzipping the new version.  
Download and Details from the first post.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Fast Keystroke Freezes Up FARR

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 09, 2009, 04:41 AM »

I've wiped and reinstalled FARR - only running AMPL plugin! Will add others of it behaves!

-CleverCat (October 09, 2009, 02:55 AM)

<GULP>

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Fast Keystroke Freezes Up FARR

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 08, 2009, 07:43 AM »

This may be unrelated? but, generally the first invocation of FARR on my system will not focus the FARR window correctly (with cursor, etc). No dramas, just have to delete the alias and search string that went to the text editor by mistake and do it again after clicking into FARR... Never freezes though.

I do get FARR crashing quite regularly after updating the Plugins (during development for example). The Plugin window will display normally, but when I click "OK" FARR disappears (crash and burn).

Normal running is fine though. I think I should go through and clean up my installed plugins: I noticed some were throwing errors in the error log 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Fast Keystroke Freezes Up FARR

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 08, 2009, 07:36 AM »

ok, I just had the problem I described again. The title test translates to "Windows - no harddrive" (see attachment in previous post)

-Nod5 (September 25, 2009, 08:40 AM)

I sometimes get that when booting up without the usual USB Drive plugged in. I wasn't actually sure it was FARR that was causing the problem, but I wondered if there was some history somewhere??

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need something that doesn't exist: online help authoring system w/UI object ref

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 07, 2009, 09:44 PM »

+1 for me: if you're counting 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: AMPL [beta version 0.6.0]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 07, 2009, 06:55 PM »

i keep getting "not implemented yet" errors when trying to click on items in the am menu or just typing amc.

-mouser (October 07, 2009, 02:28 PM)

amc is to do what?

amn is to create a new script.

Double click on the am menu... OK, I've been select and TAB. 

OK: I've fixed that (locally), it'll be in the next update. Thanks

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: AMPL [beta version 0.6.0]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 06, 2009, 07:35 PM »

result = path??

So you think if I make them different (FILE <> URL) it will work? I'll give that a go later...

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: AMPL [beta version 0.6.0]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 06, 2009, 06:39 PM »

what do you mean "won't allow duplicate paths"?

-mouser (October 06, 2009, 01:52 PM)

When amn .* prefix is typed into FARR I display:

• Create: .* with .* as the path
• Record: .* with .* as the path
• Compile: <matched files> with <matched file> as the path

But Record: .* did not display until I used a different path; that is, the path is identical for both Create & Record when .* is used.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: AMPL [beta version 0.6.0]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 06, 2009, 07:57 AM »

• The use of Recorder also allows for a Record and Edit mode in AMPL. Typing amn into FARR will give the option to record a new script: (see attachment in previous post)
  

-Perry Mowbray (September 21, 2009, 10:54 AM)

Actually Mouser: I ran into a wee issue with this... am I correct in thinking that FARR wont allow duplicate paths? Because that's what I was trying to do... 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / FARR Plugin: AMPL updated to beta version 0.6.0

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 06, 2009, 07:46 AM »

What's changed with 0.6.0?

• This version includes a version of Recorder.ahk that's been modified to integrate with AMPL Script Editor. There is no Help for AMPL Recorder at this stage , but I hope it's pretty self explanitory.  Code from Recorder can be inserted into either the code Before or code After sections (no more copy & paste  )
• The use of Recorder also allows for a Record and Edit mode in AMPL. Typing amn into FARR will give the option to record a new script.
  When you stop recording (by clicking the button, or even better for your script: F12 hotkey), the script will be loaded into Script Editor.
• There is also a new "Simple Script Editor" window. If your script can be loaded into the Simple Window if there is no command and only one Step (ie Recorded Scripts).
• Improved the integration of Plugins with Script Editor: See the updated MAT Plugin

I've used the Recorder script, which got some good reviews over at the AHK forums, and Metaxal has been doing some more work on it. I had a few issues getting it working correctly on my computer, so I've changed it quite a bit: I'd be interested in knowing how it performs for other people.

One of the neat things I've added is the ability to tailor what is recorded as the script is recorded!

Note: There is no help for AMPL Recorder yet!! But everything is labeled...

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone [Update version 1.2.1]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 02, 2009, 02:53 AM »

got a report from friend with the trouble -- yeah thats what i figured it would be.

-mouser (October 02, 2009, 12:28 AM)

It'd probably be good to get a standard "fix" for this sort of thing put into the Wiki (when you know if it works) 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone [Update version 1.2.1]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 02, 2009, 12:16 AM »

im not sure timezone plugin works in Windows 7 -- anyone else try it with any luck?

-mouser (October 01, 2009, 10:14 PM)

Are you on Win7, and it's not working?

I'm not, but it's a script that writes to the drive: would that cause issues and require permissions?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: AMPL [beta version 0.5.1]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 01, 2009, 10:04 PM »

I've been playing with ah AHK Macro Recorder and it's got great potential over the current one distributed with AutoHotKey.

now that's exciting.

-mouser (October 01, 2009, 08:38 PM)

Really? I was excited before that! 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: AMPL [beta version 0.5.1]

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on October 01, 2009, 07:47 PM »

 

-mouser (October 01, 2009, 10:03 AM)

I think it's got the basis to be quite a powerful addition to FARR    

I'm hoping to post a significant update next week (which may also remove some of the rough edges as well): I've been playing with ah AHK Macro Recorder and it's got great potential over the current one distributed with AutoHotKey.