Author Topic: New C# FARR Plugin: FARRGoogleSuggest (Read 68460 times)

jpgrosen · « **on:** December 29, 2007, 02:22 AM »

Hi,

I have made a Google Suggest plugin. It query's Google just like the Google Toolbar and returns suggestions and checks your spelling.

Type gs and your query.
Example:

Sincerely

Jens Peter Grosen

mouser · « **Reply #1 on:** December 29, 2007, 02:38 AM »

WOW!!!

with a fast internet connection this is absolutely outstanding

incredible -- it feels a bit like magic to me.. damn that's cool.

vitalyb · « **Reply #2 on:** December 29, 2007, 07:53 AM »

Works great! Nice work!

mouser · « **Reply #3 on:** December 29, 2007, 02:25 PM »

jpgrosen,
i think you are using vitalyb's C# sdk..

others were having trouble getting that to work on some windows machines, including myself -- i think it may have to do with beign built with the latest .net runtimes required, instead of a more conservative build?

ive gotten 2 reports that the farr google suggest plugin isnt loading, and this is what happened for me with vitaly until he uploaded a new build.

vitaly can you share with jpg how to build this for better compatibility?

Armando · « **Reply #4 on:** December 29, 2007, 02:59 PM »

(but... i'm having the problem mouser mentions...)

jpgrosen · « **Reply #5 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:15 PM »

(but... i'm having the problem mouser mentions...)
-Armando (December 29, 2007, 02:59 PM)

What is happening. Is there an exception or just nothing? Can you see the plugin in the "Configure Plugins dialog"?
I am using Vitalyb's SDK but it should target .NET 2.0. Are you using the FARRAltTab plugin? (Which was build with the first release of the SDK)

Sincererly

Jens Peter Grosen

mouser · « **Reply #6 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:20 PM »

sorry i probably should not have been the one posting this bug report, since it works like a charm for me

maybe the problem people didnt even have .net2 installed.
i'll let them post about their problem -- i think it just wasn't showing in the plugin list.

skwire · « **Reply #7 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:26 PM »

i'll let them post about their problem -- i think it just wasn't showing in the plugin list.
-mouser (December 29, 2007, 03:20 PM)

Correct, I don't see it in my plugin list. I've added the files to a "FARRGoogleSuggest" subfolder of my plugins folder. Restarting FARR doesn't get it to recognise and neither did the manual scan from the FARR options dialog. Please let me know if I can provide further information. Thanks.

PhilKC · « **Reply #8 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:28 PM »

The lib is indeed using 2.0, and I presume Vitalyb's to be doing the same.

Sadly, user side support for .NET is patchy at best, mainly due to Microsoft not pushing it upon people. Most people will have 1/1.1, some will have 2.0 and only devs will likely have 3.x.

Looking at the refactored code it would appear that the library would need a total rewrite to bring it down to 1/1.1 standard, no fun at all: I would instead suggest that the .NET wrapper should use the Visual Studio deploy magic to install .NET 2 if it is not found.

.NET 2.0 framework: http://www.microsoft...5&displaylang=en

(Be sure to check Windows Update for patches etc)

PhilKC

skwire · « **Reply #9 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:40 PM »

For the record, I have the following .NET frameworks installed:

Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0

jpgrosen · « **Reply #10 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:42 PM »

Correct, I don't see it in my plugin list. I've added the files to a "FARRGoogleSuggest" subfolder of my plugins folder.
-skwire (December 29, 2007, 03:26 PM)

You have placed it correctly.
Can you use any of the other .NET plugins FARRAltTab, FARRTunes, FARREnviormentVariables?

/JP

Armando · « **Reply #11 on:** December 29, 2007, 03:55 PM »

(but... i'm having the problem mouser mentions...)
-Armando (December 29, 2007, 02:59 PM)

What is happening. Is there an exception or just nothing? Can you see the plugin in the "Configure Plugins dialog"?
I am using Vitalyb's SDK but it should target .NET 2.0. Are you using the FARRAltTab plugin? (Which was build with the first release of the SDK)

Sincererly

Jens Peter Grosen
-jpgrosen (December 29, 2007, 03:15 PM)

Hi Jens,

Yes, FARRAltTab works. I have .Net v2.0.50727 installed.

What I did is create a "FARRGoogleSuggest" directory in C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\Plugins
and then I extracted your archive in there. Farr didn't seem to detect the plugin. I restarted it. Still nothing...

skwire · « **Reply #12 on:** December 29, 2007, 04:45 PM »

Can you use any of the other .NET plugins FARRAltTab, FARRTunes, FARREnviormentVariables?
-jpgrosen (December 29, 2007, 03:42 PM)

Yes, FARRAltTab works. Would you like me to try the others?

vitalyb · « **Reply #13 on:** December 29, 2007, 05:22 PM »

Hey jpgrosen. What did you compile it with? I had a problem with mouser with FARRTunes when I compiled it under VS2008, still not sure why.

Recompiling it under VS2005 solved it.

mouser · « **Reply #14 on:** December 29, 2007, 05:28 PM »

now that you guys (both google suggest c# and javascript fscript) have mastered web page grabbing, how much longer till we get 2 holy grail plugins:
1) rss fetcher w search ability
2) generic web page regex parser (let user configure web page to grab and how to parse it into items with regex)

in both cases one extra complication is that it would be nice for a user to be able configure multiple sources which could be selected.

e.g.:
frss dc keywords..
where the first thing after the rss is the label telling the rss plugin which configured rss to grab from.
(just typing rss might list the known rss feeds).

how nice would that be

in the second case, it would be similar, so that you could configure it to grab a page and display result(s) either as a list or in richedit mode.
this could be used to grab almost anything from a web page (weather, news, etc).

tomos · « **Reply #15 on:** December 29, 2007, 05:34 PM »

unfortunately neither this nor FARRAltTab works for me with NET 1,2, & 3
(just added both to correct folders in plugins folder and restarted FARR after each)

other plugins work
these two dont show when I type "aplugins" - I'm not that familiar with FARR plugins in general but dont think I'm doing anything wrong..

jpgrosen · « **Reply #16 on:** December 29, 2007, 06:29 PM »

Hi,

I have recompiled the plugin with the latest SDK and VS 2005. Please see if it makes a difference.
I have updated the first post in this thread with the new plugin.

/JP

Armando · « **Reply #17 on:** December 29, 2007, 07:23 PM »

It works!

So that was it!

mouser · « **Reply #18 on:** December 29, 2007, 07:32 PM »

it's a bit scary though isnt it, that we don't know why but vs2008 is building incompatible dlls.

vitalyb · « **Reply #19 on:** December 30, 2007, 02:39 AM »

it's a bit scary though isnt it, that we don't know why but vs2008 is building incompatible dlls.
-mouser (December 29, 2007, 07:32 PM)

Yes it is. And it is even scarier than for some people it doesn't work with VS2005 too.

tomos · « **Reply #20 on:** December 30, 2007, 06:14 AM »

I have recompiled the plugin with the latest SDK and VS 2005. Please see if it makes a difference.
I have updated the first post in this thread with the new plugin.
-jpgrosen (December 29, 2007, 06:29 PM)

I'm afraid still no work here
I have it in correct folder and cant see anything else I can do...

unfortunately neither this nor FARRAltTab works for me with NET 1,2, & 3
(just added both to correct folders in plugins folder and restarted FARR after each)

other plugins work
these two dont show when I type "aplugins" - I'm not that familiar with FARR plugins in general but dont think I'm doing anything wrong..
-tomos (December 29, 2007, 05:34 PM)

KlipKeeper, FarrFox, PrinterList, and FarrUninstall are the only plugins I've used so far, but they all work

vitalyb · « **Reply #21 on:** December 30, 2007, 06:34 AM »

Tomas I'll talk to you privately then. We'll try a few things.

I'm afraid it could be a problem.
Can you PM me your email?

PhilKC · « **Reply #22 on:** December 30, 2007, 06:43 AM »

Hey jpgrosen. What did you compile it with? I had a problem with mouser with FARRTunes when I compiled it under VS2008, still not sure why.
-vitalyb (December 29, 2007, 05:22 PM)

Perhaps because VS2008 defaults to using .NET 3.5 (3 != 3.5) (See Project -> Properties -> Target Framework)?

vitalyb · « **Reply #23 on:** December 30, 2007, 07:01 AM »

Nope. I compiled it specifically targeted at .NET 2.

I *think* it is something to do with C++ DLLs.

tomhogers · « **Reply #24 on:** January 01, 2008, 09:30 PM »

I had a similar problem but the recompiled version of plugin is now working.

However, the plugin only shows up in the Options --> Find and Run Robot Plugins ---> Click to Examine and Configure Plugins ---> Plugin Manager view. It doesn't show up in the DC Updater window.