Tip: Htmlviewurl works for local files too! :)

[kartal]

This is good news, this way we can view simple txt, images etc 

[mouser]

With the new version you can also put links like this in the html you show:
farr://LAUNCHLINEHERE

for example:
farr://restartsearch blondie

or:
farr://notepad.exe

NOTE:
the farr:// links will ONLY work when found in local files or showhtml text, they will be ignored for security reasons if found on an internet file.

[kartal]

Mouser would you mind explaning this stuff little more? I am little puzzled about what to achieve with these new stuff? Also what are the purposes of showfile and showhtml? SOrry help file is very limited and I did some preliminary tests and could not get anything spectacular

In my first post I was referring using htmlviewurl to show image and text files inside farr html viewer.

[mouser]

the far:// links mean you could make an html file which acts as a farr menu,
in the same way you would use an alias to act like a menu.

why would you use an html file as a farr menu?  Well maybe for example if you made a nice html page using javascript or css to show a tree menu or image menu, etc.

showfile is used to show stuff either in html view or rtf memo view depending on file extension.

showhtml lets you set html contents directly from an alias without having to tell farr to load it from an external file.

[kartal]

I was hoping to look at my todo txt files with htmlviewurl inside Farr without opening any other application.

I will investigate the options you have mentioned here. Maybe they are more suitable for me.

[nitrix-ud]

the farr:// links will ONLY work when found in local files or showhtml text, they will be ignored for security reasons if found on an internet file.

the use of the internet for collaborative work is quite frequent, i have some tools i've developped which are on the internet
there is no way to use farr:// links ?? maybe have a white list in FARR settings saying you want to add such and such urls ... ?

when tools are run locally : http://localhost .... does farr:// links will work ?

[Nod5]

kartal and others, here is an example alias that uses farr:// links:

Code

1000>>>test>->test | showhtml <a href='farr://htmlviewurl exacttimenow.com'><img src='%FARRDIR%\AliasGroups\Installed\Core_Aliases\icons\farr\core-internet_www.ico'></a><br>click the image to Internal Surf to exacttimenow.com<br><br><a href='farr://restartsearch gowebpage'>use internal command to launch FARR webpage in external browser</a>>+>^test$

[jgpaiva]

nod5: now that's interesting!

For some strange reason, though, the second link isn't correct on my computer, it gets an extra forward slash '/'.

[mouser]

Thanks for posting a sample nod5.. I can see the new farr:// style links aren't working perfectly yet.  I'll fix and update.

[mouser]

I have fixed the farr:// links sometimes not working.. will be working in next release.

[herojoker]

Is it farr:// or far://?

[mouser]

sorry it's "farr://" (two Rs)

[herojoker]

In the changelog delivered with the app you wrote "far://".

[mouser]

thanks, i'll fix it.

[Nod5]

I just played some more with the new Html View Mode. I made a local .html file containing an ultracompact version of the Compact Calendar (  http://davidseah.com/page/compact-calendar ) and added some javascript to make it highlight the current date (= cell with light blue background in screencap) and scroll to the current week on launch. Needs some more work but so far it offers very quick date and week number lookup. Screencap (the red stuff in swedish are names of national holidays):


With the farr:// functionality I think dynamically adding tasks to such a html calendar (or any other local html for that matter...) could be possible roughly like this: For each table cell, add a farr:// link that runs some command with the cell id as a parameter. That command (tied to an autohotkey script or some plugin) edits the basic html file by changing the contents of the cell with the matching id and then refreshes the the displayed html. Not a real replacement for google calendar or other full features calendars of course, but it could still be useful for some things.

[kartal]

This one will be very useful once javascript is enabled in Farr. A local file based html wiki can be invoked by using htmlviewurl

http://www.tiddlywiki.com/


btw I am trying to use showhtml instead of htmlviewurl and it does not show anything. How is it supposed to work ?

Here is my string in an alias
showhtml c:\showme.html

[mouser]

this gave me another thought..
perhaps one way we could give people to write a different kind of farr "plugin"
is to let an alias load an html/javascript page, and automatically set some javascript variables corresponding to the search string.

this is very similar to the dqsd idea but even simpler. FARR would simply load an html page and preset some variables so the javascript on the page could know what was typed into search string, and proceed to handle it the way it wants.

[mouser]

This one will be very useful once javascript is enabled in Farr.

isn't it already?

[kartal]

Mouse I just tried this one
http://www.checkettsweb.com/tw/gtd_tiddlywiki.htm

it works (javascript) however all the fonts and page is very small. Would you mind trying?

[Nod5]

The basic tiddlywiki.com runs in FARR but I can't save:

Edit: but I get the same error in my regular browser so FARR isn't the problem. It's pretty obvious that I don't know much about tiddlywiki

[Nod5]

this gave me another thought..
perhaps one way we could give people to write a different kind of farr "plugin"
is to let an alias load an html/javascript page, and automatically set some javascript variables corresponding to the search string.

this is very similar to the dqsd idea but even simpler. FARR would simply load an html page and preset some variables so the javascript on the page could know what was typed into search string, and proceed to handle it the way it wants.

Isn't it possible to just make an alias that passes the search string as a parameter to the .html file? Without any plugin needed? (but maybe that was just what what you meant when you added quotes around the term plugin?)

[mouser]

The basic tiddlywiki.com runs in FARR but I can't save:

actually there is a farr-related problem here, im trying to fix it now.  believe it or not it's related to skin system.

Isn't it possible to just make an alias that passes the search string as a parameter to the .html file?

well you are quite right that the search string could be passed as a simple html get parameter, without anything being added to the system by me.  clever.

[mouser]

i'm going to start a new thread on gtd tiddlwikiplus.

[Nod5]

I just tested and it indeed works!

I made an alias "alb" that passes the search string to a the file "album.html" as a parameter. So doing "alb beatl" passes "beatl". Album.html loops over a list of foldernames and displays an image if the foldername matches the passed string. Each displayed image links to a .m3u file that when run plays the tracks on the album.

So the plugin I requested here seems more and more doable: http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=8071.msg116150#msg116150
A drawback with the current test is that you in advance must index the folders and make the .html. A script can do that if the folders are well structured but it is still not ideal. It's also not as easy select and run a displayed match as in FARR's default mode. It would definitely be better if FARR's default mode could show a list of linked images like that. I think such a feature could be useful for other stuff too, like displaying thumbnails when searching for images. Or searching anything else for which a thumbnail can be useful really.

Here's "album.html" (to be placed in helpers folder):

Code: (javascript)

<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<FORM NAME="a">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="b">
</FORM>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript">

var loc = window.location
document.a.b.value = loc

var text = document.a.b.value

function delineate(str)
{
left = str.indexOf("?") + 1;
return(str.substring(left));
}
xx = delineate(text);

document.write(xx+"<br><br>");

function albummatch(zz)
{
var pos=zz.indexOf(xx)
if (pos>=0)
 document.write("<a href='" +zz+ "/test.m3u'><img BORDER=0 src='" +zz+ "/folder.jpg' width=200 height=200></a><br>")
}

xarr = new Array("beatles - yellow submarine", "rolling stones - exile on main street", "beatles - abbey road") 

for (var i = 0; i < xarr.length; i++) {
albummatch(xarr[i])
}
</script>

And the alias:

Code

1000>>>album>->test param pass to album search .html | htmlviewurl %FARRDIR%\Helpers\album.html?$$1>+>^alb (.*)$

It also needs some folders and files of course. edit: See the array "xarr" above for details.

[Nod5]

Here's an updated version of my test file "album.html" that now also can handle two search phrases (both must match) separated by a space:

Code: (javascript)

<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<FORM NAME="a">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="b">
</FORM>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript">

var loc = window.location
document.a.b.value = loc

var text = document.a.b.value

function delineate(str)
{
left = str.indexOf("?") + 1;
return(str.substring(left));
}
xx = delineate(text);
xx = xx.toLowerCase()

var ww = [];
var pos=xx.indexOf(" ")
if (pos>=0)
 var ww = xx.split(" ")
else 
{	
 pos=xx.indexOf("%20")		//firefox compatibility mode, since javascript debugging is handy in FF
 if (pos>=0) 
  var ww = xx.split("%20")
}

// document.write(xx+ "  " + ww[0] + "  " + ww[1] + "<br><br>");

function albummatch(zz)
{
var zz1 = zz.toLowerCase()
var pos=zz1.indexOf(xx)
if (pos>=0)
 document.write("<a href='" +zz+ "/test.m3u'><img BORDER=0 src='" +zz+ "/folder.jpg' width=200 height=200></a>")
 }

function albummatch2(zz)
{
var zz1 = zz.toLowerCase()
var pos=zz1.indexOf(ww[0])
var pos2=zz1.indexOf(ww[1])
if (pos>=0 && pos2>=0)
 document.write("<a href='" +zz+ "/test.m3u'><img BORDER=0 src='" +zz+ "/folder.jpg' width=200 height=200></a>")
 }

xarr = new Array("beatles - yellow submarine", "rolling stones - exile on main street", "beatles - abbey road") 

if (ww[1])
for (var i = 0; i < xarr.length; i++) {
albummatch2(xarr[i])
}
else
for (var i = 0; i < xarr.length; i++) {
albummatch(xarr[i])
}


</script>

I tried it with a much larger number of folders and it works fine. Promising!

Mouser, is it possible to use a special farr:// link to silently do a command line action? When clicking a specific image I want to send it's related folder to an external audio player through such a link. If possible then that sidesteps the use of .m3u playlist files.