Alias For Dictionary App?

[siouxdax]

Hello:
I'm wanting to be able to use FARR to trigger my dictionary app to show a result. I use TheSage. I would try this myself, but I know nothing about creating aliases. But essentially I want to bring up FARR, type in a word and have TheSage open and display the result. Is this possible?

[bgd77]

I know how to create an alias:

http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=17819.msg159056#msg159056

but not how to pass the word to sage.

Can somebody help?

[lanux128]

I would try this myself, but I know nothing about creating aliases. But essentially I want to bring up FARR, type in a word and have TheSage open and display the result. Is this possible?

depends on the interaction, e.g. WordWeb uses a DLL file from which an alias can be constructed. i'm not sure how Sage works in that respect. maybe some screenshots would be of help.

• Configuring Wordweb to search from FARR

[mouser]

siouxdax, see if the sage has a way to pass it the word to look up as a commandline arguement.

[lanux128]

i did a cursory check on the website but couldn't find any, though there is an online version of theSage..

Code

http://www.sequencepublishing.com/thesageonline.php?lemma=<query>

[skajfes]

Import this into FARR

Code

1000>>>sage>->Define $$1 with TheSage | C:\Program Files\TheSage\TheSage.exe $$1>+>^sage (.*)

Or you can simply copy the attached file to <FARR installation folder>\AliasGroups\MyCustom\

Type in "sage some_word_to_define" and press enter. That's it...

[mouser]

[lanux128]

Import this into FARR

Code

1000>>>sage>->Define $$1 with TheSage | C:\Program Files\TheSage\TheSage.exe $$1>+>^sage (.*)

Or you can simply copy the attached file to <FARR installation folder>\AliasGroups\MyCustom\

Type in "sage some_word_to_define" and press enter. That's it...

good work, skajfes.. didn't realize that TheSage takes command-line keyword..

[bgd77]

Thank you, skajfes! It works great! 

[skajfes]

Thanks guys, I am just glad I can help.