Configuring wordweb to search from FARR

[mouser]

You can type "ww definition" and that word will show up in WordWeb if you have SlickRun configured correctly.

want to be able to bring up wordweb with definition for the word you type in farr in exactly the same way as you cite for slickrun? add the following alias (just select this text, go to alias tab and right click and say paste preformatted alias):

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1000>>>ww>->WordWeb - $$1 | C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe WWEB32.DLL,ShowRunDLL $$1>+>^ww (.*)

ps.
farr (v2) has a built in alias "define" so you can type define WORDNAME and get a menu of online dictionaries to search for the definition of your word.

of course you can add your own aliases, etc.

[mouser]

Part of the problem with FARR aliases is that they are a hard concept to explain, so people tend to get excited when some other launch program claims to have a few special built in keywords that do special things, wheras FARR uses the much more generic concept of aliases.

FARR v2 now comes pre-installed with a ton of default ones (most actually contain menus of subcommands), but the main point is that you can create your own powerful aliases that:

• launch programs, open documents, present menus, open urls, parse regular expressions, copy and past clipboard text, conduct more complicated virtual searches, and more.

And this of course doesn't even include the new FARR v2 plugin system which really extends the kinds of things you can do with FARR.

[f0dder]

Hm, the FARR alias syntax looks somewhat daunting!

[mouser]

the FARR alias syntax looks somewhat daunting!

thats not the syntax you use when configuring an alias, just the format for pasting one in that someone else wants to give you.

FARR alias dialog and list:

[lanux128]

want to be able to bring up wordweb with definition for the word you type in farr in exactly the same way as you cite for slickrun? add the following alias...

cool tip, mouser.. hopefully more will come forward with ingenious ways of interacting with DLLs..

[lanux128]

mouser, there's an error with the WordWeb alias in Farr.. any ideas why?

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[mouser]

what version of wordweb do you have installed?

[lanux128]

the latest one, version 5..

[mouser]

hmm, i have v4, maybe that's the problem.  anyone know the dll function for wordweb 5 assuming it's different from ShowRunDLL?

[lanux128]

ok mouser, the problem was solved by doing the following: i uninstalled WordWeb 5, removed all the registry entries then reinstalled without the following options.. now, it's working fine.

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[mouser]

great! i think i better split this thread off so others can find this trick..

[lanux128]

yes, it's a good idea.. we were heading off-topic, anyway..

[thomthowolf]

An easier (at least to me) solution was to make sure that the installer put wweb32.dll into the C:\WINDOWS\system32\  directory.  In my case  it hadn't, but the .dll was in the intallation folder (C:\Program Files\WordWeb)  I copied it over and the thing works a treat.  Thanks, Mouser, this is another useful tool added to FARR with almost no effort on my part.

[lanux128]

... to make sure that the installer put wweb32.dll into the C:\WINDOWS\system32\  directory...

ok, now i see what the "portable app" function does.. thanks for the tip, thomthowolf 

[Nighted]

WordWeb isn't very portable unless you have wweb32.dll installed on the host machine. Too bad you find this out only after having tried the portable install on a machine without this library. 

It does work if you copy this into the directory of the portable install. However, this is very odd considering this SHOULD be done automatically by the installer when choosing the portable install in the first place!!!!!!