Author Topic: Latest FARR v2.00.140 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - Aug 15, 2007 (Read 680180 times)

Lashiec · « **Reply #775 on:** July 24, 2007, 05:58 PM »

mouser, I've been experiment with FARR this night, and I have a technical question. Does it really make a difference in reaction time to have the heaviest or the lightest memory profile in "Inactive memory use"? I'm not noticing anything, and I remember correctly, I didn't have speed problems in the old workhorse.

mouser · « **Reply #776 on:** July 24, 2007, 06:22 PM »

the only difference these settings make is in waking up from the system tray after a long time of non-use.

jOc · « **Reply #777 on:** July 25, 2007, 02:57 PM »

Josh actually asked for this and i kind of implemented it in an odd way -- i need to add an alias to make it easier to use. Basically i added a way to tell farr what to do if there are no results found. See the "The noresults alias" help topic in Advanced Use:
[Select]
You can now create a special alias called noresults.
If user hits enter when no results are shown, this alias will be triggered.
It can be useful if you want to do something like launch what they type directly (as if it was on path), or invoke another search program, etc. Just use $$1 in the results.
I will make a default alias for this to make it easier to use.

Aha. I thought there might already be a solution. Thanks!

But I have played with it and I don't get it. Should there be any search pattern? For example, how to throw regedit keyword to system, like it would be throug standard windows run box?

The improvement I do like very much is browsing through folders. I have a folder for which I have set high score. In that folder I put links to folders I use often. What I like is, if I start to type the name of the link (that is in that folder, having favorits links) and pres tab the alias for the link is resolved into path and you can directly browse in that *favorits* folder.

just to make sure: you are saying this is something you already can do, not requesting something new?

Of course this works. And I use it all the times. For example if you would like to browse through a folder that is deep in the hierarchy of the hard disk, what you can do is to put a link to that folder into the folder that FARR seeks. You then just type the name that you gave to link and press type and voila, FARR throws you to that folder and you can search inside that target folder.

Trilinea · « **Reply #778 on:** July 25, 2007, 06:48 PM »

MOUSER = AWESOME! FARR ALPHA = AWESOME!

Thank you!

xbz · « **Reply #779 on:** July 27, 2007, 01:28 AM »

Trying FARR v2 and i love it!

But.. i want to use FARR as a launchbar, so i need it to be always on top, always on screen, it is possible but it looks like this

captition is surely unnecessary here, but it cannot be turned off

second problem, when i run shortcut behind the ">>" on toolbar, i don't know how to explain... shortcut "jumps" to start of the toolbar, i thinks this is feature, but I really hate it, all shortcuts change over and over, i wish i could turn it off..

two more things and i'll love FARR forever, but it just my dreams

Folders for shortcuts on toolbar
Results list folding upwards not downwards, so i can place FARR at the bottom of the screen

Thanks! I love FARR!

Armando · « **Reply #780 on:** July 27, 2007, 02:13 AM »

Trying FARR v2 and i love it!

But.. i want to use FARR as a launchbar, so i need it to be always on top, always on screen, it is possible but it looks like this [ Invalid Attachment ]
-xbz (July 27, 2007, 01:28 AM)

Don't you use farr to launch stuff using your... keyboard?

farr appears and disappears when you hit the "break" key (Can also be configured to work with (Alt+Space), (Ctrl+Space) etc.). Why would you need it to be permanently there?

And you can turn the caption off by selecting another skin : open the "Options" window, click on the "Display" tab, enable "Use fancy skinned display", choose the "slenderFARR.skn"

You could also play with transparency.

Have fun

xbz · « **Reply #781 on:** July 27, 2007, 03:04 AM »

Don't you use farr to launch stuff using your... keyboard?

farr appears and disappears when you hit the "break" key (Can also be configured to work with (Alt+Space), (Ctrl+Space) etc.). Why would you need it to be permanently there?
-Armando (July 27, 2007, 02:13 AM)

Why FARR have toolbar with buttons? Isn't toolbar is for mouse? I prefer permanent toolbar, not hitting "break" before using toolbar with my mouse

Thanks for the skin tip, FARR looks better without captition, but it is still thick, is there any skin to make it more more thin

It would be perfect if FARR fit my browser captition, not covering the browser menu buttons

mouser · « **Reply #782 on:** July 27, 2007, 03:42 AM »

you can drag the divider where the toolbar is far to the right to completely hide it.

Armando · « **Reply #783 on:** July 27, 2007, 01:08 PM »

Thanks for the skin tip, FARR looks better without captition, but it is still thick, is there any skin to make it more more thin It would be perfect if FARR fit my browser captition, not covering the browser menu buttons
-xbz (July 27, 2007, 03:04 AM)

Maybe someone will be willing to make such a skin. I wouldn't know how to do it though.

You should also have a look at LaunchBar Commander https://www.donation...Commander/index.html.

xbz · « **Reply #784 on:** July 28, 2007, 12:01 PM »

strange behavior for some cyrillic letters
try "search роутер"

xbz · « **Reply #785 on:** July 29, 2007, 12:13 AM »

you can drag the divider where the toolbar is far to the right to completely hide it.
-mouser (July 27, 2007, 03:42 AM)

Could you make butons on toolbar just stand on their places? Thats all i want

To make FARR thiner
Options -> Plugins, etc -> EditBox Height

jsturtridge · « **Reply #786 on:** July 30, 2007, 09:24 AM »

Mouser,

Minor point UI/usability point. I've got a lot of aliases in "my_aliases" (more than a screenful) and when I want to move an alias from the top to the bottom - I would expect to be able to drag the alias to the bottom of the visible window and since there are more aliases off the page - it would scroll automatically until the end of the alias list was reached - but it doesn't.

Minor point though - all the rest looking good.

J.

Code6226 · « **Reply #787 on:** August 01, 2007, 02:19 PM »

Bug with Uninstaller plugin (which I love, btw): When you uninstall something, it is not removed from the list.
It would be really nice if the list of installed programs refreshed on its own after you uninstall something... or at least remove that particular program.
I know, the program is not removed from the registry list until after the particular Uninstaller is done doing its thing, and it's hard to say when that is... but it's not that hard.
Worst case you could Launch the uninstaller with another helper program, which would ExecWait the Uninstaller, and once closed, refresh the list.
That would give proper results no matter if the Uninstaller was canceled or succeeded.

Other than that, great work!

PS: Still wish there was Fuzzy Search like Launchy has so I can find "noetpad", but no biggy.

mouser · « **Reply #788 on:** August 01, 2007, 02:24 PM »

Still wish there was Fuzzy Search like Launchy has so I can find "noetpad", but no biggy.

can you be a little clearer about what you mean?

ah i see you want when you type noetpad for it to find notepad, despite the bad spelling, even without adding it as a special alias. i'm afraid thats not coming anytime soon, however i will probably try to add a first word abreviation thing where if you type a few letters like np it will match notepad.

Nod5 · « **Reply #789 on:** August 01, 2007, 04:05 PM »

I've noticed a small GUI-related thing...

If I set FARR v2.00.135 to
- checked: options > auto-shrink window to fit results
- unchecked: options > alpha fade into view
- set to some degree: options > window transparency
(... perhaps some other setting - i've played around with many of them)
I then get a very brief but clearly noticeable black colored FARR results window when launching FARR. It's as if the whole results part of the window first gets painted black in a flash and then quickly re-painted like it should be. I hope that description makes sense - I can't think of a better way to put it.

Changing any of the three settings above removes the brief "black flash"

mouser · « **Reply #790 on:** August 01, 2007, 04:09 PM »

thanks nod, i'll look into it. sounds like the transparancy stuff may be causing some troubles.

Armando · « **Reply #791 on:** August 02, 2007, 10:30 AM »

There seem to be a little bug with the "Plugins, Updates, Fonts"-->"Advanced Custom Font Configuration". Don't know if anybody mentionned it yet.

When I start changing the "EditBox Height" value, everything I'll click on afterwards in the option window will add one unit to the EditBox Height. it's not even possible to close the option window normally (atl+f4, the right corner X icon, etc.). The only way to get rid of the option window, is to hit the hotkey (Pause/Break, Alt+Space or Ctrl+Space) twice to make farr disappear. When relaunched with the hotkey, farr's fine.

mouser · « **Reply #792 on:** August 02, 2007, 10:43 AM »

i can't reproduce this armando, anyone else?

Armando · « **Reply #793 on:** August 02, 2007, 10:54 AM »

Ok, let me try this with other skins since it looks like a GUI problem.

Armando · « **Reply #794 on:** August 02, 2007, 11:00 AM »

Different skins don't have any effect -- predictably since the option window is not skinned.

Let me add that the bug occurs only when I'm changing the Height value with the little "arrow" buttons. It doesn't happen when I change the value using the keyboard.

Nod5 · « **Reply #795 on:** August 02, 2007, 01:48 PM »

mouser, just an addition: I later realized that that brief black background I wrote about also appears every time the window gets auto-shrunk (or de-shrunk) given these settings:
- checked: options > auto-shrink window to fit results
- set to some degree: options > window transparency

tablaji · « **Reply #796 on:** August 03, 2007, 03:44 AM »

Armando's problem is the same that I described here:
https://www.donation...08.msg70048#msg70048

Armando · « **Reply #797 on:** August 03, 2007, 11:15 AM »

Armando's problem is the same that I described here:
https://www.donation...08.msg70048#msg70048
-tablaji (August 03, 2007, 03:44 AM)

Yes, that's it!

lethalrocks · « **Reply #798 on:** August 06, 2007, 03:06 PM »

Bug in #138... (although present in version 1 too)

Latest FARR v2.00.140 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - Aug 15, 2007

Some fields are coloured in the tooltip colour, which is fine, but the text isn't the tooltip text colour (which is white for me).

Also, the options dialog is still in ugly MS Sans... can't it be changed the to system font? Same goes for the main window, too, I'd rather not have to set a custom font (although it's good that I can)

Edit: More problems

Minor annoyance #1: When changing alias files, the options dialog flickers once

Minor annoyance #2: After upgrading from v1 (I got two error messages about a timer on installation as it failed to close FARR), I have a run alias in myalias.alias and in sysutils... is there a way for it to detect duplicates (not at runtime, but when migrating the alias file to the modular format)
This means that typing "run" results in two results, not one. Easy to fix by removing the old alias, but since the old one was a default too, the program should really fix it's own changes.

tablaji · « **Reply #799 on:** August 09, 2007, 05:24 AM »

one small wish:
I am used to select all text in an input box with Ctrl+A, but in FARR, the input field does not react to this.
Mouser, could you implement this?