NANY 2012 Release: Nea

[ewemoa]

NANY 2012 Entry Information

Application Name	Nea
Short Description	A Helper App for FARR
Supported OSes	Windows XP
Setup File	zip, MD5: 49f35a7ac5b2d29ac384d481a3270894
Description	Nea starts and stops certain AHK_L scripts -- though the current intent is for FARR-focused scripts.  Over the years a variety of FARR-related AHK scripts and snippets have been posted to the DC forums and this app might make it convenient to manage a collection of these.
Features	Start, stop, reload, or view/edit individual FARR-related AHK(_L) scripts via a single menu.
Screenshots
Installation	Uncompress the archive to a suitable location.  See the app's help information.
Using the application	After start-up, there should be a tray icon visible.  Nea can be used via its tray menu or a hotkey.  See the app's help information for more details.
Uninstalling	After ensuring the app is not running, delete the folder containing Nea.exe.

[mouser]

nice work ewemoa!

[ewemoa]

Thanks.

FWIW, the archive comes with some of the AHK code that's been posted to the forums.  Things enabled by default live in the scripts folder, while other bits live in the goodies folder.

scripts (enabled by default) currently has:

  FARRHere.ahk
    When a suitable Windows Explorer window (full path in title bar) is active, bring up FARR with the corr. path

  SelectionToFARR.ahk
    Send a single selection in a Windows Explorer window to FARR

  ReclaimWindowSpaceForFARR (based on suggestion from skjafes)
    http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=20535.msg249373#msg249373

  MayBeRunFARR
    Upon invocation, tries to see if FARR is running, if so, offers to stop it, if not, offers to start it

goodies (not enabled by default) currently has content from the following threads/posts:

  AutoCenterFARR.ahk (uries62)
    http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16725.0

  RemoveStatusBarFromFARR.ahk (Nod5)
    http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=7949.msg172845#msg172845

  Sean-TrayIcon-Farr-Mod.ahk (lanux128)
    http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=12191.0

  ToggleFARRSize.ahk (Nod5)
    http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=16506.0

  ToggleSallFARR.ahk (lanux128, Nod5)
    http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=12899.msg108631#msg108631

  WindowsKeyOnlyForFARR.ahk (TucknDar)
    http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=22134.msg199049#msg199049

Full credits included in app's help + source code.

[ewemoa]

Added the following to goodies:

  TabAsDirection.ahk (skwire)
    Modified so that Ctrl+Tab goes up
    http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=27310.msg255471#msg255471

Changed the following in scripts:

  FARRHere.ahk
    Modified so that it may work with 7-Zip and Notepad++ as well

Haven't uploaded yet.

[kyrathaba]

Very useful! 

[ewemoa]

Added "ShowFARRAtPointer" -- this should cause FARR's main window to show up close to the pointing device cursor.  I use this to shorten dragging distances.  

odd tricks

As a side note, after dropping some file or folder on to FARR's main window, it's possible to then move the FARR main window close to some target destination and drag FARR's first result off on to some target.  This is a round-about way of doing drag and drop -- utilizing FARR as a sort of "raft".

Also been using Nea as a sort of AHK_L script manager of sorts and have added some non-FARR-related scripts:

• SevenZipHere - requires 7-Zip
• RakeHere - requires Rake (tested with Ruby 1.9.3)

SevenZipHere tries to detect some current path (e.g. active Windows Explorer window or containing folder of file open in Notepad++) and open 7-Zip with that path.


RakeHere tries to detect some current path (e.g. active Windows Explorer window or some window that has a title that starts with a full path) and if it finds a Rakefile, attempts to display a pop-up menu of Rakefile tasks (ones that have descriptions).  Invocation of a pop-up menu item should then lead to the corresponding rake task being executed.

So with a Rakefile like:



you might get a pop-up like:




I have punted on trying to support Windows 7 by the end of the year as I don't appear to have reliable access to the OS (due to sharing of computing resources).

[ewemoa]

Changed to "Release".

Also added "CommandPromptHere" -- as I don't tend to go for registry-modifying programs, but I like this functionality.  It has an option of specifying a batch file to get CALLed before the cd to the target directory.  See the source for details

I use this pretty much on a daily basis on an XP SP3 machine.  I know it has some problems under Windows 7, but YMMV depending on which scripts you choose to use.

[kyrathaba]

Cool 

[ewemoa]

Made some modifications to the included README.txt file and reuploaded.  Hope that doesn't cause any trouble.

[ewemoa]

Modified MayBeRunFARR to allow execution from Nea's menu.