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Author Topic: Google Calculator - closed  (Read 20583 times)

czb

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Google Calculator - closed
« on: February 19, 2008, 03:12 AM »
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« Last Edit: February 23, 2009, 09:50 AM by czb »

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Re: Google Calculator
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2008, 03:25 AM »
Very neat!!! Installing right away!!

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Re: Google Calculator
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2008, 07:20 AM »
Really really cool, czechboy!

I don't understand: why do you need the '=' at the end?
Is it to avoid google queries without anything interesting?

(i removed it and it works perfectly :) )

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Re: Google Calculator
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2008, 07:41 AM »
Yes.. it is not to overwhelm google by queries (I do not know if google can ban you or something) but sure you can make query after every single character pressed
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Re: Google Calculator
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2008, 02:36 PM »
it seems like i need to add 2 things:
let user hit enter to activate the plugin (instead of having to type a special character).
and maybe some kind of way to send the plugin a signal after a short delay of no typing, so that plugins like this could query an online source after a short delay so it wouldnt have to check every character, but could still check "live" without requiring enter to be hit.  what do you think?

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Re: Google Calculator
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2008, 03:25 PM »
mouser: yes, definitelly add the "enter" option!
I like the the idea about the short delay, the problem is that that depends on how fast the person writes, i guess. Probably not easy to do on reality, i think.

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Re: Google Calculator
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2008, 02:40 AM »
some kind of way to send the plugin a signal after a short delay of no typing, so that plugins like this could query an online source after a short delay so it wouldnt have to check every character, but could still check "live" without requiring enter to be hit.  what do you think?

 :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
Much needed option, in my opinion.

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Re: Google Calculator
« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2008, 04:14 AM »
it seems like i need to add 2 things:
let user hit enter to activate the plugin (instead of having to type a special character).
and maybe some kind of way to send the plugin a signal after a short delay of no typing, so that plugins like this could query an online source after a short delay so it wouldnt have to check every character, but c ould still check "live" without requiring enter to be hit.  what do you think?

Both ideas are great, probably there could be an TAB option as well (not only enter). Similar to the Launchy one ;)
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Re: Google Calculator
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2008, 09:23 PM »
I really like this plugin but I wish that there was an offline-non google version as well :(