Author Topic: Alias: Send Twitter updates from Farr (Read 81,898 times)

Jabberwock · « **Reply #25 on:** June 11, 2009, 02:48 PM »

I have a problem with Polish characters... (ąęćźż etc.). They are rendered as French and Spanish letters...

lanux128 · « **Reply #26 on:** June 11, 2009, 03:27 PM »

Quote from: Jabberwock on June 11, 2009, 02:48 PM

I have a problem with Polish characters... (ąęćźż etc.). They are rendered as French and Spanish letters...

i can't seem to type the characters even though i found a chart for it. i would appreciate if you can let me know whether the characters appear normally when you type inside the Farr? also let me know if you can post an update containing the Polish chars by typing in Twitter's webpage itself.

Jabberwock · « **Reply #27 on:** June 11, 2009, 10:07 PM »

Yes, Polish characters can be input normally in FARR and return appropriate searches. Twitter displays normal Polish characters when input from the web and from a mobile phone app.

You will not be able to input them on non-Polish OSes with RightAlt-letter combination, unless you change the keyboard driver in the International settings (it's Polish (programmers')). You might try the Alt+ numpad digits option (described here, at the end of the page):

http://adsorption.org/awm/info/pl-codes.htm

However, I am not sure if this will give Polish characters on non-Polish Windows. Try it out in Notepad first, FARR seems to capture some Alt+numpad combinations.

lanux128 · « **Reply #28 on:** June 12, 2009, 01:48 AM »

thanks for the link, now i can copy-paste the characters. i'll do some further testing on curl later this week.

reckoner · « **Reply #29 on:** September 08, 2009, 02:33 PM »

Thanks for all the hard work!

I'm having some trouble installing this. I have followed the instructions exactly, but I can't get this plug-in to come up in the plug-ins dialog within FARR.

It just doesn't seem to recognize it. On the other hand, DCupdater seems to recognize it and offer an update. However, even updating using DCupdater doesn't fix this. It is still not present in the plug-ins dialog within FARR.

Thanks in advance.

hamradio · « **Reply #30 on:** September 08, 2009, 03:43 PM »

Quote from: reckoner on September 08, 2009, 02:33 PM

Thanks for all the hard work!

I'm having some trouble installing this. I have followed the instructions exactly, but I can't get this plug-in to come up in the plug-ins dialog within FARR.

It just doesn't seem to recognize it. On the other hand, DCupdater seems to recognize it and offer an update. However, even updating using DCupdater doesn't fix this. It is still not present in the plug-ins dialog within FARR.

Thanks in advance.

Its an alias not a plugin which I think the folder should go into the FARR folder group AliasGroups\Installed and if it doesn't show still restart FARR. Since it is an alias it will not show up in the plug-ins dialog.

EDIT: Also follow the instructions on the first post.

reckoner · « **Reply #31 on:** September 08, 2009, 06:05 PM »

Quote from: hamradio on September 08, 2009, 03:43 PM

Its an alias not a plugin which I think the folder should go into the FARR folder group AliasGroups\Installed and if it doesn't show still restart FARR. Since it is an alias it will not show up in the plug-ins dialog.

EDIT: Also follow the instructions on the first post.

Thanks. You are right. Brain freeze on my part.

sri · « **Reply #32 on:** September 09, 2009, 07:44 AM »

Is it possible to add the feature of showing how many remaining characters can be typed in a twitter message?

hamradio · « **Reply #33 on:** September 09, 2009, 06:10 PM »

Quote from: sri on September 09, 2009, 07:44 AM

Is it possible to add the feature of showing how many remaining characters can be typed in a twitter message?

My guess would be no since this is just an alias and not an actual plug-in but I am not sure.

lanux128 · « **Reply #34 on:** September 10, 2009, 03:29 AM »

hamradio is right. since this is an alias, it's not possible.

thanks for answering the queries hamradio.

sri · « **Reply #35 on:** September 10, 2009, 03:41 AM »

Quote from: lanux128 on September 10, 2009, 03:29 AM

hamradio is right. since this is an alias, it's not possible.

thanks for answering the queries hamradio.

Posted a request for Twitter plugin here.

hejer · « **Reply #36 on:** October 04, 2009, 06:34 AM »

I just tried Japanese words but it still doesn't work.did anyone try multi-byte character like korean or japanese or chinese?

lanux128 · « **Reply #37 on:** October 04, 2009, 08:53 AM »

there was some work done to make it work with accented characters but it's not possible to do the same with double-byte chars.

rtruch · « **Reply #38 on:** November 21, 2009, 12:19 PM »

Rookie request:

- Can you please provide some examples of specifically what you would type for a 'twitter direct message'? After you type 'tw' and select 'twitter direct message'. But before you hit 'enter'.

I have no doubt that it is 100% user error but I am new to this and can't seem to get the syntax down. Or perhaps it is not installed correctly.

lanux128 · « **Reply #39 on:** November 21, 2009, 01:13 PM »

Quote from: rtruch on November 21, 2009, 12:19 PM

Can you please provide some examples of specifically what you would type for a 'twitter direct message'? After you type 'tw' and select 'twitter direct message'. But before you hit 'enter'.

to send a direct message (dm), simply type the username followed by a space then the message, after that use the 'down' arrow key to select the 2nd item and press 'enter'. that's all to it.

here's a screenshot showing that. hth..

rtruch · « **Reply #40 on:** November 21, 2009, 04:28 PM »

Thank you. It was user error.

Works perfectly.

For what its worth, for the few of us that use hiveminder for task tracking. The combo of your alias and texter is a wonderful accelerator to getting tasks on the radar quickly with little distraction.

Thank you!

rtruch · « **Reply #41 on:** November 21, 2009, 11:47 PM »

okay .. last question. Sorry to be a pain.

This works fine on my home computer. But my work laptop asks me 'Which user account do you want to run this program?'. Upon selecting a user, focus returns to the FARR dialogue and nothing happens.

Thoughts?

mouser · « **Reply #42 on:** November 22, 2009, 12:29 AM »

Sounds like the buggy version of FARR i released briefly before the latest update. Download the latest FARR.

lanux128 · « **Reply #43 on:** November 22, 2009, 12:55 AM »

Quote from: rtruch on November 21, 2009, 11:47 PM

This works fine on my home computer. But my work laptop asks me 'Which user account do you want to run this program?'. Upon selecting a user, focus returns to the FARR dialogue and nothing happens.

as mouser mentioned, this has been fixed in the version 2.80.02, please update and try again.

rtruch · « **Reply #44 on:** November 22, 2009, 02:33 AM »

Outstanding. It works perfectly now.

Dash is coming off. FARR rules.

TucknDar · « **Reply #45 on:** April 18, 2010, 09:43 AM »

BUUUMP, latest version off of DCUpdater works fine with my crazy Norwegian characters, æ, ø, å, etc... however the version in the first post in this thread, doesn't work, so I suggest you update it, lanux

Otherwise, thanks for a wonderful alias. I'm hopeful that something similar for Facebook status will be possible eventually. They've released their API, so maybe...

lanux128 · « **Reply #46 on:** April 19, 2010, 02:02 AM »

Quote from: TucknDar on April 18, 2010, 09:43 AM

BUUUMP, latest version off of DCUpdater works fine with my crazy Norwegian characters, æ, ø, å, etc... however the version in the first post in this thread, doesn't work, so I suggest you update it, lanux

thanks for this discovery, i'll update the 1st post.

Quote from: TucknDar on April 18, 2010, 09:43 AM

Otherwise, thanks for a wonderful alias. I'm hopeful that something similar for Facebook status will be possible eventually. They've released their API, so maybe...

actually there is this script that uses cURL to update Facebook status.

lanux128 · « **Reply #47 on:** April 20, 2010, 12:44 PM »

i just remembered that FarrWebMetaSearch by phitsc is a very handy Farr plugin. there is support for Twitter and the search results are shown live as you type.

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• http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=21340.0

lanux128 · « **Reply #48 on:** September 06, 2010, 01:44 AM »

ok, this is not so good news. as of August 31, twitter has switched to OAuth exclusively and removes basic authentication support from the API. this means the alias cannot be used to post updates anymore, i'll see if i can add OAuth support but no promises..

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• http://blog.twitter.com/2010/08/twitter-applications-and-oauth.html

Saturday24 · « **Reply #49 on:** December 16, 2010, 03:39 PM »

Any updates on this? what alternative way of tweeting have you developed since?