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VERSION HISTORY
Version 2.33.01 - November 3rd, 2008
Version 2.31.01 - October 8th, 2008
| · | [MinorFeature] - Added Portable mode support (edit the configdir.ini file and add line PORTABLE=TRUE); when enabled no system files or any files outside of the program directory will be written. |
| · | [MajorFeature] - New UserVariables tab in options, allows aliases and plugins to read custom values set by user in this area. This is an easy way to provide options that are independent from the plugin and alias files, such as user logins, etc. Aliases and plugins can also create default values which will be initialized in the UserVariables tab on first use. |
Version 2.30.01 - August 5th, 2008
Version 2.29.01 - August 4th, 2008
| · | [MinorFeature] - Removed option to hide statusbar.. was causing trouble with skinning system and on reflection seemed to be a bad idea to hide info that might need to be displayed by plugins, etc. |
| · | [MinorFeature] - Improve the right-click context menu for Explore Here, added "Visit this alias" for both partial alias matches and full alias results. |
| · | [BugFix] - using \ during plugin searches didn't work for plugins using non-regex search matches. |
Version 2.28.01 - July 29th, 2008
| · | [MinorFeature] - Added option to show file extensions only when doing explicit directory listings. |
Version 2.27.01 - July 28th, 2008
| · | [MinorFeature] - Changed default memory use to "Average" (was Use More Memory When Minimized). |
Version 2.26.01 - July 27th, 2008
| · | [BugFix] - Improved autosizing of window, especially with custom font overrides and skins. |
| · | [MajorFeature] - You can now specify a list of extensions to restrict search to or exclude from searching in each search folder (when combined with search folder keyword modifiers this can be an efficient way of restricting search). |
| · | [MajorFeature] - You can now specify an optional prefix to trigger alias/plugin matches (and wont match against them if not found). |
Version 2.25.01 - July 26th, 2008
| · | [BugFix] - Some plugins were being called even when an initial explicit directory path was preceding the plugin alias. |
| · | [MajorFeature] - Non-contiguous search option (enabled by default, searching for "ffox" will match "fire fox") |
Version 2.24.01 - July 21st, 2008
| · | [MinorFeature] - Added alert alias launch string to help debugging aliases. |
| · | [MinorFeature] - The %LASTHWND% replacement string is now available to aliases and plugins. |
| · | [BugFix] - Using an action modifier alias on drive letters like C: will now replace with C:\ (slash at end) |
| · | [BugFix] - Some plugin aliases were being listed if the search edit box contained only explicit path and modifiers. |
| · | [BugFix] - The addnote alias was incorrectly referring to the helper addnote.exe file. |
| · | [BugFix] - Pressing enter when a partial alias with one result should launch the alias but was autocompleting it instead; fixed. |
| · | [MinorFeature] - You can add \n at the end of a search string in an alias or hotkey configuration to launch the result immediately. |
Version 2.22.01 - July 11th, 2008
| · | [MinorFeature] - Plugin can get current viewmode. |
| · | [MinorFeature] - Added commands to show a please wait display (useful for plugins). |
| · | [Bugfix] - FARR was refusing to launch farr:// links in html mode if they were triggered by some javascript tricks. |
| · | [Bugfix] - FARR was not calling plugin DocumentComplete function for showhtml commands. |
| · | [Bugfix] - The embedded webbrowser OnDocumentComplete callback was triggering before web page text was available. |
Version 2.20.01 - July 6th, 2008
Version 2.19.01 - July 6th, 2008
| · | [MajorFeature] - A plugin can now embed (dock) their own window INSIDE the farr window, in a user view mode. This lets a plugin generate any kind of output which is shown seamlessly inside farr and resized just like the normal farr contents. |
| · | [BugFix] - Statusbar message sometimes got stuck saying "Searching plugins.." |
Version 2.18.01 - July 5th, 2008
| · | [BugFix] - Mousewheel scrolling of html view from edit box was not always working; new method seems to be more reliable. |
Version 2.17.01 - July 5th, 2008
| · | [Feature] - FARR now remembers the size of the window independently for each of the different view modes (list results, memo, html). |
| · | [Feature] Added setsize command to set the window size of current display mode. |
| · | [Feature] You can now right-click and choose to duplicate an alias item in a read-only alias file, and it will be duplicated in the myaliases alias file. |
| · | [BugFix] Creating duplicate alias entries could sometimes cause access violation fault. |
Version 2.16.01 - July 4th, 2008
| · | [BugFix] - The ReceiveKey command was not being triggered in plugins in htmlview mode. |
| · | [Feature] - You can now use Ctrl (or Alt) +(PgDn,PgUp,Home,End,Up,Dn) from the search edit in html mode to scroll the html window. |
| · | [Feature] - You can now use the mouse wheel to scroll memo and html views without leaving search edit box. |
Version 2.15.01 - July 3rd, 2008
| · | [BugFix] - Plugin customization options were not being saved. |
| · | [Feature] - FARR now keeps focus in search edit box when showing html contents if that was prior focus state (painful). |
Version 2.14.01 - July 2nd, 2008
| · | [BugFix] - But the remove-duplicates option back in Search Behavior tab -- used to be checked by default. |
| · | [Feature] - All built-in "lists" are now filterable (agroups, aplugins, historys, historyl) |
Version 2.13.03 - June 29th, 2008
| · | [BugFix] - The showfile launch command was not properly identifying html files as such. |
| · | [BugFix] - FARR was sometimes refusing to follow far:// links in a file url fetched by file:// |
| · | [BugFix] - Create duplicate alias command was not working. |
| · | [BugFix] - Disabled items on result pop-up menu were sometimes not shown as disabled; they are now hidden. |
| · | [Feature] - Hitting tab with an alias result as first item now always puts alias group name in search box. |
| · | [BugFix] - FARR was not shutting down smoothly with windows shutdown when certain plugins were loaded |
| · | [BugFix] - Plugin reloading speed should be improved, as well as program exit speed. |
| · | [Plugin] - Added multi-monitor-centering farr plugin to list of installable plugins |
| · | [Change] - When an alias has only one result, that result is shown on a partial match, but only if its a non-regex alias and only if the result refers to a real file (otherwise the partial alias is shown). |
| · | [BugFix] - Tab autocomplete behavior has been improved. |
Version 2.12.01 - June 25th, 2008
| · | [Feature] - Redesigned the Options dialog to use an OptionTree. |
| · | [Feature] - Settings file now uses buffered read+write which should dramatically speed up saving and loading of settings file. |
| · | [Feature] - Added option to choose whether to use the old or new launch method. |
Version 2.11.01 - June 21st, 2008
| · | [MinorFeature] - New aliases are now always added at the END of the list (makes it easier to find new ones; you can still drag+drop to re-order). |
| · | [Feature] - Changed the way partial alias matches are displayed and launched. If there is only one result in an alias, then its single result contents is displayed in results (icon and launch file), and it is treated exactly like a match on that contents item. If there are multiple results, the alias name is shown along with a hint about contents, but now the icon from the first result is used for the alias display. This also allows you to simply hit enter to launch a single-result alias is matched partially. |
Version 2.10.01 - June 18th, 2008
| · | [BugFix] - preventing recursive plugin trigger launch takeover. |
| · | [BugFix] - eliminated (and fixed from previous install) the setting of the internet explorer user-agent string. |
Version 2.09.01 - June 14th, 2008
| · | [MinorFeature] Alias launched files are no longer added to history. |
| · | [Feature] Trying improved method to launch documents and shortcuts -- maybe will improve launching issues for that rare minority who have the launching problem. |
Version 2.08.02 - June 14th, 2008
| · | [Feature] $$# regular expression patterns are replaced with blank strings if they are not found in capture groups in pattern |
| · | [MinorFeature] Directory browsing now shows top directory in proper mixed case. |
| · | [BugFix] Using arrow keys and tab from directory browsing now always pops focus back to edit box. |
| · | [Feature] ShellExecute method changed -- hopefully this may fix failure to launch shortcuts for some people |
Version 2.07.03 - June 13th, 2008
| · | [Feature] Disabled skinning of all but main form -- necessary change for now to support some html view browser activex dialogs. |
| · | [BugFix] Fixed htmlviewurl to decode urls that use %20% and similar encoding strings. |
| · | [Feature] - Created a new subdir under FARR dir called MyLocalData\ which is now the recommended place for installed aliases to save data that should not be overwritten on updates (the TiddlyWiki aliases use this directory for example). |
Version 2.07.01 - June 13th, 2008
| · | [MinorFeature] When using the restartsearch special alias command, you should now add a \n at the end if you want it to simulate the pressing of enter after the search (useful especially for plugins triggers). |
| · | [BugFix] Fixed bug with triggering restartsearch alias launch strings from plugins or links. |
| · | [BugFix] Large clipboard contents (>1k) could cause FARR to crash if used with a hotkey that tries to use %cliptext% |
Version 2.06.08 - June 12th, 2008
| · | [MinorFeature] Improved plugin help pages. |
| · | [MinorFeature] Added commands and callbacks for plugins to work with embedded web browser. |
| · | [MinorFeature] Added ability to auto process "farr://" links in html shown via showhtml alias command (wont work with internet loaded pages). |
| · | [MinorFeature] Triggering a hotkey that has no forced searchtext while farr window is still on screen but not in front will now bring farr window to front without disturbing search edit contents and without reseting the output display. |
| · | [Feature] Mouse buttons for back,forward,refresh,stop now work properly in the embedded web browser. |
| · | [Feature] Disabled ActiveX loading in the embedded web browser for security purposes. Unfortunately this prevents any flash pages from being displayed. I will add an option to enable activex, and maybe even a mini whitelist feature for it. We need to discuss what the safest security features are for the embedded web browser. |
| · | [BugFix] Attempting to fix DLL error on windows shutdown. |
| · | [BugFix] Attempting to fix secondary DLL error on windows shutdown due to some plugins. |
| · | [BugFix] farr:// links were sometimes being disabled due to incorrect security check. |
Version 2.05.01 - June 9th, 2008
| · | [MinorFeature] Directory browsing now lists files in alphabetical order without differential scoring. |
| · | [BugFix] Files named ".BLAH" where showing as "BLAH" in results without the leading period. |
| · | [BugFix] Max recursion limit in search directories was 0. |
Version 2.04.03 - June 9th, 2008
| · | [BugFix] Triggering an item in the "historys" command was closing FARR right away instead of showing past search in edit box. |
| · | [BugFix] Removed ugly space at beginning of item labels when number display is disabled. |
| · | [BugFix] Replacement of $$c could still cause recursive hang/crash. |
| · | [BugFix] The restartsearch special launch string was closing window prematurely (also affected the noresults special alias). |
| · | [Feature] The new release of FARR contains update links for most known plugins as of June 9th, 2008; they can now be installed from the updater. |
Version 2.04.02 - June 8th, 2008
| · | [MajorNewFeature] Added balloon messages and alert box popups to Plugin API. |
| · | [Minor Feature] When a in memo mode, the Home+End keys were not working as normal (to go to start and end of search edit text) and were instead being used to navigate the scrolled memo text. Now you have to use Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End (and PgDn and PgUp) to scroll memo. |
| · | [MajorNewFeature] Added KeyPressed messages to Plugin API, so plugins can detect special key combos while displaying their results. |
| · | [MinorFeature] Minor tweaks to the options dialogs. |
| · | [BugFix?] Fixed "launch all" shortcut? (Ctrl+Alt+Enter). |
| · | [MinorFeature] Typing rplugins now reloads/rescans both plugins and aliases. |
| · | [BugFix] Aliases using the $$c string to replace clipboard contents could cause recursive crash if clipboard text itself contained $$c. |
| · | [BugFix] Alias labels (when alias result is configured as LABEL | PROGRAMTOLAUNCH) were not replacing $$c and %cliptext% |
| · | [BugFix] Dragging and dropping an item in options tabs onto itself resulted in deletion of the item. |
| · | [MinorFeature] Ctrl+A selects full editbox text (you can also use Escape key). |
| · | [MinorFeature] FARR is now more suitable for portable use with regard to skin file location -- it will look in local Skin subfolder if the explicit path doesn't resolve to an existing file. |
| · | [MinorFeature] Using the special launch string paste you can now use \r,\n,\t to escape characters |
| · | [MinorFeature] Improved instructions for using the special noresults alias. |
| · | [BugFix] After doing explicit directory browsing, if you cleared search window the default results would show with full paths. |
| · | [MinorFeature] If hotkey is used to restore focus of FARR rather than un-minimize it, then the text will not be forced into editbox. |
| · | [MinorFeature] Added option to minimize FARR when its window loses focus. |
| · | [MinorFeature] Added option to disable the showing of any index numbers on results. |
| · | [MinorFeature] Selection of rows in slide mode now only highlights the text. |
| · | [Feature] You can now specify multiple programs to launch within one alias my separating them with ;;; |
Version 2.00.144 - Oct 22nd, 2007
| · | [bugfix] showmemo command now properly converts multiple \n when displaying in text memo results. |
| · | Added showfile command to show contents of a file into text memo results. |
| · | [bugfix] All keyword modifiers are now forced to lowercase since mixed case resulted in failure to match when searching. |
| · | You can now use Ctrl+PgUp, PgDn, ArrowUp, ArrowDn,Home,End to scroll result memo view. |
| · | [bugfix] Using dashes in search should work now as long as it isn't of the form [SPACE]-WORD which will be treated like a work to exclude from search. |
| · | [bugfix] Virtual folder replacements now intelligently handle \ directory separators, so you can write for example %FARRDIR%\scripts or %FARRDIR%scripts. This bugfix also fixes the case where cpanel items were shown twice. |
| · | Added check-for-updates to plugin manager form. |
| · | Added option to stop search on regex match, and default stop search on exact alias name match to false. |
| · | [bugfix] alias files were sometimes getting extraneous fields saved in them. |
| · | Added option to disable the +action modifier result replacement, where when there is only 1 result and you use a +action modifier, the result shows the action modifier text instead of the normal result text. |
| · | [bugfix] Double quotes were being lost on url searching. |
Version 2.00.143 - Oct 13th, 2007
| · | On VISTA the installer doesn't offer to launch the program as it could run as administrative user. |
Version 2.00.142 - Aug 19th, 2007
| · | Found folders were not obeying the result path option. |
| · | Added a slight delay when triggering hotkey with the copytext option, to give more time for the copy to work. |
| · | Disabled plugins are now completely unloaded (so no resource use if unchecked). |
| · | Sped up search by removing outdated whitespace-removal search heuristic. |
| · | Fixed error where you were unable to delete user aliases and instead got an error about them being readonly. |
| · | Improved interaction with the updater on plugin updates. |
Version 2.00.138 - July 25th, 2007
| · | Improved searching for plugins (just return ENTRYTYPE_UNKNOWN instead of file, if its not a file being returned in results list. |
| · | Improved processing of # characters in search string. |
| · | Tried to improve clipboard capturing routine to eliminate a rare exception case. |
| · | Backup ini files (automatically made when using a new version upgrade) are now stored in a BackupIni subdirectory. |
Version 2.00.137
| · | Added option in hotkeys to pre-highlight search string. |
| · | Special searchword agroups now displays the alias file for each alias; selecting an alias now shows full info in statusbar. |
| · | You can now right-click and jump to the alias file of aliases in agroups. |
| · | [bugfix] Explore Here right context menu item was showing up even on urls. |
| · | [bugfix] The +sall option was not working on directory listings. |
| · | [bugfix] Trying to solve a slowdown problem with shortcuts to UNC paths. |
| · | [bugfix] # hash characters were being replaced in search strings. |
| · | The 'aplugins' special search string now shows all plugins not just first 9. |
| · | Added 'rplugins' search word to quickly reload all plugins (prompting first after unload), which is useful for plugin developers to give them an opportunity to copy over a new dll. |
| · | Delete key in results now removed an item from history (if it is in history). |
| · | Improved right-click pop-up menu (now shows directories for explore here, etc). |
| · | Icon no longer shown on main FARR window. |
| · | Modified default plugin scoring to not use custom user file pattern scoring. |
Version 2.00.135 - July 20th, 2007
| · | Cleaned up some of the options. |
| · | Added new option to set maximum window size for autosizing (useful for +sall). |
| · | Custom font settings are now applied to statusbar and column header. |
| · | Added new default Ctrl+Break hotkey for copying selected text to clipboard and launching FARR with search %cliptext% in searchbox, as a demo of the new hotkey system. |
Version 2.00.134 - July 20th, 2007
| · | Completion (tab or alt+right) now will fill in the 2nd item if the first lists the current directory in edit box. |
| · | [bugfix] Autocomplete tab was adding extra spaces. |
| · | [bugfix] Scores for aliases were sometimes being reset to 0 on locales using comma for decimal separator. |
| · | [bugfix] Some aliase results had an .ico type label due to icon specification |
| · | Sped up display updating and responsiveness. |
| · | Improved autocomplete of shortcuts that link to "Installer{" style shortcuts. |
| · | Improved tab/autocomplete for aliases (no longer completes non alias/files/folder results) |
| · | [major feature] Totally new and flexible hotkey system. |
Version 2.00.133 - July 17th, 2007
| · | Disabled the new fade-in code for now as it was not working as well as hoped. |
Version 2.00.132 - July 17th, 2007
| · | Added commanline options (-show,-exit,-search "search string") to let you control the running version of farr by launching a new version. |
| · | Now detects an infinite recursion that can happen by a bad alias dosearch usage and reports it. |
| · | The goupdate string now closes FARR window while launching updater. |
| · | Set FARR alias files to use Legacy (not UTF-8) encoding by default when saving alias files; will solve issues with manually created alias files that use diacriticals. |
| · | Modified the fade-in code so it will be faster and less jumpy. |
Version 2.00.131 - July 15th, 2007
| · | More improvements of smooth refreshing. |
Version 2.00.130 - July 14th, 2007
| · | Trying some new smarter delayed refresh routines, should lead to smoother update of display and less hard flicker/resizing. |
| · | Added mouseover hints for more menus and options |
Version 2.00.129 - July 13th, 2007
| · | [bugfix] cursor was not being placed at end of line after an alias restartsearch. |
| · | [bugfix] right-click context menu for copying item path to clipboard was not removing custom \ICON stuff |
| · | [bugfix] alias results with urls were showing \ICON in results |
| · | Added feature to show plugin triggers when you type aplugins. |
| · | Ctrl+left/right now move between words. Alt+left/right work as before, deleting last word and autocompleting. |
| · | Fixed updating of hotkeys when options form is closed. |
| · | Previously, including any \ directory components without an initial starting dir (like C:\) would trigger a long slow search starting at root of drives. Now if no initial explicit directory is specified, it does a standard search of configured folders for files containing the directory paths specified. |
| · | Implemented small (500ms) delay between updating of results -- yields much faster directory browsing and somewhat faster display of results when there are lots of results. |
| · | Clipboard text is now used with $$c only when it is <128 characters. |
Version 2.00.127 - July 11th, 2007
| · | Modified it to work with new dcupdater to not cause the silly Vista UAC prompts. |
| · | [bugfix] The special restartsearch alias command was placing cursor in wrong place. |
| · | You can now use a \s at the end of your restartsearch line to add a space in editbox after replacement. |
| · | Corrected many of the mouse-over statusbar hints. |
Version 2.00.126 - July 9th, 2007
| · | Only one instance at a time is allowed to run, thanks to Florian Bömers OneInst component. |
| · | Added option to configure tab to not auto-complete (use Ctrl+Right to autocomplete in this case) |
| · | Display options now update right away when you adjust column options. |
| · | Added options to use ctrl/alt to insert digits in search edit box. |
| · | Directories with periods (.) in them were not displaying properly. |
| · | Autocomplete (tab) on alias now puts alias in search editbox. |
Version 2.00.125 - July 7th, 2007
| · | default alias folder icons are now not used if an alias result refers to a real program with an icon (but they will be used for non-program alias results). |
| · | special alias search commands should now strip off /ICON extra stuff in alias. |
| · | Added scrollbars to exclude subdirectory list in search directory dialog. |
| · | Added plugin callable function "setshowallmode" to switch results into +sall mode. |
| · | Double-clicking an alias that changes search (like an entry in agroups) now puts cursor back in edit box. |
| · | Started putting icons in right-click results context menu, moved system submenus to top. |
| · | [bugfix] When adding aliases via the right click results menu, they werent available until going into options dialog first. |
| · | [bugfix] When using action alias keywords (like "notepad +search"), custom icons were not being shown. |
| · | [bugfix] Results with UNC network paths (//) were causing FARR to pause and appear to hang for a few seconds. |
Version 2.00.123 - July 4th, 2007
| · | [bugfix] custom fonts were not being enabled on initial start. |
| · | Fixed a bug that could crash farr when closing options. |
| · | Improved handling of plugins so that they aren't reloaded unless needed. |
Version 2.00.122 - July 2nd, 2007
| · | Added ability to customize the plugin richedit display font (used by fcalc for example) |
| · | Fixed bug where column sizes were shifting between runs. |
| · | Removed launch options like /ICON from statusbar display when selected a result. |
Version 2.00.121 - July 1st, 2007
| · | [bugfix] go button to visit plugin web pages was not working in plugin manager form. |
| · | Changed options for large icon mode -- now you have checkboxes for when to switch to small result mode, including switching whenever there are too many results for large mode (like when using alias lists and +sall modifier) |
| · | Added 'aplugins' special search to list installed plugins and versions. |
| · | Trying out new code to handle the ontop/non-ontop status management of farr window. |
| · | FARR now creates the file that the updater uses to locate it, so even if you install it someplace custom, the updater will find it. |
| · | Moved to reorganization of alias files by Hamradio (Carroll Dearstone), along with his wonderful icons for them. |
| · | You can now see changes immediately when modifying display options. |
Version 2.00.118 - June 30, 2007
| · | [bugfix] vista had messed up statusbar |
Version 2.00.116 - June 30, 2007
| · | Improved the File -> Create new alias file command and fixed crash that occurred when using it. |
| · | Added hints to some new options items, rearranged them slightly. |
| · | Added "visit forum" to help menus. |
Version 2.00.115 - June 29, 2007
| · | [bugfix] Result pop-up menu commands for adding results to aliases was not working. |
| · | Removed useless option "tab autocompletes" -- tab now always autocompletes when applicable. |
| · | Added option to not keep search history (good for paranoid people). |
| · | [bugfix] - was crashing when keep-launchhistory size was 0. |
| · | You can now create a special alias called noresults and if user hits enter when no results are shown, this alias will be triggered. 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. |
| · | If you use an alias action keyword now, and there is only one result in the results, the alias action will show in results. |
| · | Digit keys now work in the fcalc plugin and any other plugin which does not use results, even if you have the option set to launch using digit keys. |
| · | Added option to customize fonts and fontsizes used by FARR. |
| · | Added optional large number display in large icon (slide) mode. |
| · | [bugfix] resizing the icon toolbar to 0 size was making it impossible to resize later. |
| · | [bugfix] drag and resize of columns was malfunctioning. |
| · | Some installer shortcuts don't really refer to a filesystem location -- jumping to them now jumps to shortcut directory. |
| · | Added update checking integration with options. |
Version 2.00.108 - June 12, 2007
| · | Improved alpha-fading in effect |
| · | Added option to hide from taskbar or not |
| · | Installer is now named FindAndRunRobotSetup.exe, and will close any running version during install or uninstall. |
| · | FARR now appears quicker and does not miss initial keypresses. |
| · | Jump to Dir menu option now adds \ at the end of the dir so that you can see contents of the directory immediately, and fixed bug which was truncating results. |
Version 2.00.104 - June 9, 2007
| · | Added ability to exclude specific subdirectories (or subdirectory patterns) of search directories. |
| · | Fixed bug that was allowing plugins with no alias string to make results blank. |
| · | Attempt to fix weird bug where FARR was hanging or losing its icon on rare occasions. |
Version 2.00.99 - June 6, 2007
| · | Disabled alpha-fade by default on vista. |
| · | Added new option (enabled by default) to display history matches even when they are not in current search paths; this is a change from recent previous behavior. |
Version 2.00.98 - June 4, 2007
| · | Change options form font back to MS Sans Serif unless large font is detected. |
| · | Fixed bug in use of ConfigDir.ini file which can override location of config directory. |
| · | Added ability for aliases to explicitly invoke plugin dll commands, which allows plugins to offer lots of features and menus easily using the alias system. |
| · | Plugins can now set size of richedit results. |
| · | Rescanning for plugins now prompts user between unload + rescan, which can be useful for updating plugin dlls without exiting FARR. |
| · | Released new live-calculation plugin: FCalc |
Version 2.00.97 - June 3, 2007
| · | Added File menu items for creating new alias files. |
| · | Added subdirectory (recursive) search depth value for search dirs |
| · | Fixed bug where /ICON= tags were not being removed from url launches |
| · | Added %ALIASDIR% replacement variable for if you want to put exe helpers in alias directory and launch from there. |
| · | Regex replacement now takes place after /ICON= stripping and so clipboard or argument contents shouldnt fool it. |
| · | When using an alias as an alias action keyword, and only one result is available, it will be launched right after hitting enter (instead of first showing the one result and requiring two taps of enter key). |
| · | Tab key now autocompletes file names as well as folder names |
| · | Fixed bug where using modifier +keywords was disabling search of some search dirs |
Version 2.00.94 - May 30, 2007
| · | Major Change: Moving to external xml alias files. |
| · | Fixed bug where position of window was sometimes not being remembered. |
| · | Fixed minor bug where & character was not being displayed in statusbar. |
| · | Fixed bug where non-contiguous word search was broken after a partial alias match. |
| · | Stripped arguments from alias display. |
| · | Added default icon display for alias files if alis file icon file found (should be same name and location as alias file but with .ico extension instead of .alias). |
Version 2.00.84 - April 30, 2007
| · | Added option to use large icons iff in non-directory listing mode. |
| · | Fixed bug where /STAYOPEN and similar alias result special keyword were hanging the program. |
| · | Fixed bug where past-launched items found through an explicit directory path were not being searched during non-explicit typing. |
Version 2.00.82 - April 26, 2007
| · | Added major new display mode (Slides mode with large icons). |
| · | Fixed statusbar size bug in windows Vista. |
| · | Improved default icon for Vista look. |
| · | Simplemode was not being set as default on new installs. |
| · | Initial skin file name was not displaying in drop down box in options. |
| · | Changed default initial skin to RoueGrey-SLIM. |
Version 2.00.79 - April 15, 2007
| · | Added special command goquit to exit program and added it to helpfarr alias. |
| · | Added Quit item to menu in options dialog. |
| · | Added alias contents modifiers /CLOSEAFTER and /STAYOPEN (see here). |
Version 2.00.77 - April 10, 2007
| · | Fixed bug where hitting tab would bring you into the result list but not highlight first result. |
Version 2.00.76 - April 07, 2007
| · | Fixed bug where hitting Enter on initial window display with history list showing wasn't working. |
| · | ATTEMPT to fix some window redrawing issues involving the option to keep the FARR window ontop (may not work, let's see how the tester reports are). |
| · | Fixed drag+drop in Alias add/edit form. |
| · | Tab now autocompletes partial aliases. |
| · | Fixed bug where aliases with $$1 replacements were trying to be launched when triggered, instead of autocompleting. |
Version 2.00.71 - April 03, 2007
| · | Improved interaction with plugins (statusbar updates, etc.) |
| · | Updated included FarrFox plugin to version 1.06.01 (now includes option to disable periodic rescanning, and manual rescan request "ff `") |
| · | Removed but that could slow down window display |
Version 2.00.68 - March 29, 2007
| · | Alias contents now have some replacement code applied to them so you can use "\filename" to make it refer to current drive, or %PROGRAMFILES% fields, etc. |
| · | Updated included FarrFox plugin to version 1.03.01 (search not just FireFox plugins but also Opera and IE bookmarks). |
Version 2.00.66 - March 27, 2007
| · | Added read-only checkbox to Alias items to mark them as protected built-in items that will be replaced on next update, and made FARR update these built in aliases on update. Just make sure you don't MODIFY the contents of these built-in aliases as they will be overwritten on update. HOWEVER, you can change score and disable them. So if you want to modify a built-in one, just disable it and create another below it. |
| · | Added right-click option to duplicate alias. |
| · | Added special search phrase "historys" which will list all past searches to choose from, and "historyl" which lists past launched files. |
| · | Added ability to remove searches from list of past search history. |
| · | Added a lot more built-in default aliases. |
| · | Search directories are now left as virtual %MYDOCUMENTS% style, and resolved when FARR starts up, making it more suitable for use on portable drives. |
| · | Added more virtual folder strings. |
| · | Added parsing of relative directory paths in search folders list. |
| · | Added a helpfarr built-in alias to show a menu of special commands (help, options, toolbarconfig, show all aliases, show past history). |
Version 2.00.62 - March 24, 2007
| · | Fixed bug where the option to not close after launch was being ignored. |
| · | Added option (and made it default) to launch all shortcuts using the helper tool instead of trying to resolve the shortcut and launch program directly [useful if you have shortcuts which launch with compatibility options and administrator rights, etc.]. |
| · | The agroups special keyword now shows more regex info when listing all known aliases. |
| · | Added a first-use message in the system tray about how to activate the program. |
| · | You can now drag+drop out urls from farr to browsers, etc. |
| · | Modified reporting of history matches to respect folder vs. file display options. |
| · | Modified reporting of history matches to respect current search folder modifiers. |
Version 2.00.61 - March 16, 2007
| · | Fixed bug in the copyclip virtual launch string. |
Version 2.00.60 - March 14, 2007
| · | Added special +sall modifier which says to show all matches and ignore the normal result limit. |
| · | Tried to add code to prevent a situation where you type very fast and hit enter before results are updated (may need improving). |
| · | Fixed bug where folder history items were being displayed inappropriately. |
Version 2.00.59 - March 14, 2007
| · | Added columns in options dialog for modifier keywords and regular expressions. |
| · | Added separate setting for # results to show when explicitly displaying directory contents. |
| · | Fixed bug where first word of search was not filtering out results when the "match against full path" option is set. |
| · | Fixed bug where '.' character (period) was not working as expected when searching for aliases with '.' in them. |
| · | Action aliases (search for a file and specify a regex +ALIASNAME somewhere) were not working; let me know if i've broken anything in the process of fixing this. |
Version 2.00.58 - March 13, 2007
| · | Fixed bug where first word was being ignored when search in a directory. |
| · | Fixed bug where non-regex aliases were not being shown. |
| · | Alias contents results are now shown in their original configured order if no extra search terms are specified. |
| · | Fixed bug where old values were showing in create new alias dialog. |
| · | Improved the ctrl+left last-word-delete feature. |
| · | Right-Alt key + # will no longer trigger launches, to behave well with non-english keyboards using right+alt as an extended shift key. |
| · | When you trigger a partial alias that has only one result, the result is triggered (launched). In previous versions it simply auto-completed the alias which you then had trigger again. |
| · | Fixed bug that would cause program to hang when processing unc path (local network // paths) files in history or alias results. |
| · | Fixed annoyance where it was lowercasing some directory auto-completion results. |
| · | FARR will now show results from multiple aliases IFF they all match exactly. |
| · | You can now use the RUN alias to run programs on the path while specifying commandline arguments (just enclose argument string in double quotes). |
Version 2.00.56 - February 25, 2007
| · | Fixed bug which showed aliases when doing directory search and completion. |
Version 2.00.55 - February 23, 2007
| · | Partial alias matches now show a hint about their contents (and can be narrowed based on content) |
| · | Partial alias listings now show a count of # results inside them. |
Version 2.00.54 - February 22, 2007
| · | Lots of bugfixes regarding alias searches that were broken with plugin support addition. |
| · | Regular expression aliases now show hints on partial match. |
Version 2.00.51 - February 20, 2007
| · | Added new virtual launch command which when triggered from an alias will cause a new search to begin with a specific string. |
| · | You can now filter/score alias result lists by simply typing more words after the alias name (yay! very helpfull) |
| · | First test plugin released: FarrFox |
Version 2.00.48 - February 8, 2007
| · | Fixed initial display resizing for some startup alias settings. |
| · | Added new Addnote helper tool (add a note by typing "addnote"; view notes with "viewnotes") |
| · | Moved calc.exe to Helpers/ subdirectory. |
| · | Clipboard text is replaced after FARR captures it on launch. |
Version 2.00.45 - February 6, 2007
| · | Added option to force forms on top or not. |
| · | Trying to fix crash on alt+p (preferences) from edit box. |
| · | Escape to close options. |
| · | Fix bug on alt+left in edit box when there is a path with spaces, and now it now leaves the \ at end of last subdir |
Version 2.00.44 - February 6, 2007
| · | Added display sound option. |
| · | Smoother/Faster display of form because it is prepped at closing time now. |
Version 2.00.42 - January 3, 2007
| · | Added uninstaller shortcut to start menu (how on earth was this missing for so long!) |
| · | Added shortcut files to control panel to the Scripts directory (clever idea suggest a long time ago on DC forum and first seen implemented in Launchy developers) |
| · | Tab in results box now properly goes into the selected subdirectory and return edit to search box. |
| · | File/Folder names with - (hyphen) in them no longer confuse the keyword detection which now check for preceding space and no following space. |
| · | Updated dclagoa's latest robotDrop icon. |
Version 2.00.41 - January 31, 2007
| · | Fixed transparency not sticking. |
| · | Fixed resize form bug [thx Arjen] |
Version 2.00.39 - January 29, 2007
| · | Fixed column resizing bug. |
| · | Fixed extra space bug at end of columns when opening options. |
| · | You can now re-order columns. |
| · | General optimizations and speedups. |
| · | Added optional date (last modified) column. |
| · | Improved paste operations. |
| · | Added variable %lasthwnd% that can be passed on command line and contains the handle of last active window before farr was shown. |
| · | Fixed "search for all" function. |
| · | Hopefully fixed a delay that could occur during searching sometimes. |
| · | Another try at fixing z-ordering of dialogs. |
Version 2.00.38 - January 22, 2007
| · | Fixed drag+drop issues in options and main form. |
| · | Keyword modifiers now don't interfere with path completion. |
| · | Fixed bug where some paths were not showing results if the "check full paths for multiwords" option was checked. |
| · | Tweaked bonus points for word boundries on multiword search. |
| · | Added new heuristic "File vs. Folder Score Ratio"; set to > 100 to prefer files at top of results, set to <100 to prefer folders at top of results. |
| · | Option scoring changes mostly only have an effect now after the options form is closed. |
| · | Added new modifiers to show only folders (+\) or only files (+.), or use - to invert. |
| · | Improved descriptions of heuristics. |
| · | Changed Folder vs File Heuristic default to 90. |
Version 2.00.36 - January 19, 2007
| · | Completely replaced the internal result listview component to improve issues when hiding and resizing columns and for future optional view modes. |
| · | Added new skin browser combo box - now you can super easily step through and preview each skin file with a single keypress. |
| · | Fixed bug in using up+down arrows from results list and edit box. |
| · | No more flashy blinky editbox and toolbar during results form autosizing. |
| · | Added new icon from dclagoa, and improved other icons a bit. |
Version 2.00.35 - January 17, 2007
| · | Added new Simple Options mode, hides most of the complex options. |
| · | Added code to fit fonts properly even on Large Font installations of Windows (sorry if its hard to read). |
Version 2.00.33 - January 16, 2007
| · | Keyword modifiers at far left of directory path search string were disabling directory search |
| · | Ctrl+P in results list will now the original right-click properties menu for a file/folder (use CTRL+R for FARR context menu) |
Version 2.00.32 - January 15, 2007
| · | Bug fix - locales using , for floating point separation were zeroing out the scores when editing [thx hornsts] |
| · | Fixed bug in command to remove folder entries from launch history. |
| · | If search string ends in \ it now still matches against compatible folder names. |
| · | Activating a folder name with an exact match to search string now opens it. |
Version 2.00.26 - January 14, 2007
| · | Fixed bug in full path searching |
| · | Removed unnesc. start menu items and changed startup entry name. |
| · | Added help page summarizing hotkey shortcuts. |
| · | Added results hotkey Ctrl+R to bring up right-click results context menu. |
| · | Added "Export Formatted Alias Text" tool from options menu to make it easier to share aliases. |
Version 2.00.25 - January 13, 2007
| · | You can now set a hotkey for each alias; pressing it will bring up FARR with the alias results shown (i.e. as a menu) |
Version 2.00.24 - January 13, 2007
| · | Improved and clarified and took out of experimental stage the options for minimizing (or not) memory use on minimiztion. |
| · | Added option to allow multiword search to apply to full paths even without \ path separators |
Version 2.00.23 - January 12, 2007
| · | *ALL* words in a multiword search must be found or files will be rejected |
| · | Multiple words containing * wildcards now work (but aren't normally needed) |
| · | Changed behavior of search keyword modifiers; now if a modifier keyword is used, no entries with blank keyword modifiers will be included in the search. Only if the entry contains * will it be used on a search with all keywords. if you want to have an entry used both on blank search and on other keywords, use the keyword blank. |
| · | Changed the option regarding history score sorting; you can now choose to display launch history on a blank search sorted by last use without regard to scores. |
| · | Non-contiguous search words now prefer words found in serial order. |
| · | Directory searching without explicit paths now only matches keywords against file directory name. |
| · | File extensions are now included in search comparisons |
| · | Added ability to negate words to reject results containing them, just start word with - |
Version 2.00.09 - January 7, 2007
| · | Fixed bug where if form was closed while options are open, the options dialog wont show from tray. |
| · | Break key from options dialog now returns to main form. |
| · | Multiple non-contiguous word search is now implemented (words separated by spaces will be found even if not contiguous) |
| · | Fixed bug where options dialogs were sometimes appearing below others [thx jgpaiva] |
Version 2.00.08 - January 4, 2007
| · | Fixed bug where ( and / stopped working |
| · | Updaed the included FBSL (Freestyle Basic Script Language) calc.exe utility for providing calculator functionality. |
| · | Reduced size of edit box and reverted to standard white background as per requests. |
| · | Fixed bug where \ characters were disrupting alias results. |
| · | Copy path to clipboard now copies the url location of .URL links. |
| · | Simplified some context-menu captions [thanks masu]. |
| · | Added "JumpTo" context menu command to open file directory path in search edit box. |
| · | Added new field %cliptext% that you can use for replacement in alias launching. |
| · | Auto disable inappropriate context menu items on right-click. |
| · | Updated the add pattern context menu rules for directories. |
| · | Added ability to drag and drop files from outside farr onto farr (results, editbar, or tool panel). |
| · | Minor update of built in alias list. |
Version 2.00.06 - December 22, 2006
| · | Improved subtle appearance of forum in several respects. |
| · | Larger font for edit box. |
| · | Added new user-submitted icons and made tray icon user selectable. |
| · | Filled in missing hints for many options. |
| · | Upgraded to support more skin files. |
| · | Hiding the status bar now works again. |
| · | Removed the option to put the edit box at top - didn't work well. |
| · | Tied history item scores are now properly sorted. |
| · | Added option to quickly disable adaptive history use scoring. |
| · | Changed behavior of right clicking on folders - now brings you back to edit box. |
| · | You can now use ctrl+right arrow to jump to file's directory in search edit box. |
| · | Added option to remove missing history items. |
| · | You can now type just the drive letter follow by forwardslash, without the ':', for example: d\ for instead of D:\ |
| · | Minor tweaking of cursor/escape/tab key actions. |
| · | Added option for tab used as autocomplete or normal. |
| · | Added option to toggle column headers. |
| · | Added option to skin the results window or not. |
Version 2.00.04 - December 20, 2006
| · | Fixed bug where . was shown at end of filenames with no extensions and at end of directories, when result label option is on. |
| · | Default is now to show extension in result labels. |
| · | Added ability to go into and pop up out of directories while in the results panel using arrow keys LEFT and RIGHT. |
| · | Tweaked dialogs a little to fix tab orders. |
| · | Changed default folder heuristic score so that lnk shortcuts normally score higher. |
| · | Fixed bug where backspace wasnt working right in search box, and ctrl+backspace. |
Version 2.00.01 - December 19, 2006
| · | Added ability to specify explicit paths in a search. |
| · | Added keyboard hotkeys (alt+arrows, alt+enter, alt+backspace) to aid directory searching. |
| · | Changed hotkey to launch all programs to be ctrl+alt+Enter (was ctrl+Enter) |
| · | If a directory is marked with a -9999 score in search Pattern Scoring tab, it will skipped from searching (useful to avoid searching entire subdirectories). |
| · | Added history execution incremental scoring, so the more an app is launched the higher it will rise in score to a max value (set in heuristics), |
| · | Fixed bug where random icons are being displayed on alias groups. |
| · | Added folder browse button to search pattern scoring entry dialog. |
| · | No more annoying beeps when you press certain keys (alt, escape, etc.) |
| · | When the digits are set to launch files directly, use the # character to escape the next digit |
| · | Incorporated a feature that can quickly reject badly scoring items for faster searching. |
Version 1.13.02 - Oct 10, 2006
| · | Fixed bug when activating FARR with "-standalone" commandline option, or showing via manual tray "restore from tray" menu item [thanks JanS]. |
Version 1.13.01 - Oct 08, 2006
| · | Improved startup speed and efficiency. |
Version 1.11.01 - Oct 02, 2006
| · | Added option to try to keep program in memory for faster wakeup. |
| · | Improved wakeup-search on alias, so it doesn't do further search in this case. |
| · | Improved custom explorer/browser links to work even when there are spaces in path. |
| · | Improved custom explorer/browser to allow custom launch strings with parameters. |
| · | Improved (hopefully) some odd focus issues when working with options. |
| · | Added Help item to tray menu. |
| · | Attempting to improve catching of first key when window not yet visible. |
Version 1.10.04 - Sep 19, 2006
| · | Fixed bug when . character was in alias name [thx lanux and bugtracker submitter]. |
| · | Alt+P from farr edit box now shows options. |
| · | Confirmation is requested on deleting alias/scoring items. |
| · | Fixed bug where using digit keys to launch on non-standard keyboards could result in superfluous searching. |
| · | Added option to specify starting search text (useful for starting with an alias menu). |
| · | Changed default startup mode to tray based (use -standalone) to exit immediately after display. |
| · | Fixed bug in launching all results (Ctrl+Enter). |
| · | First attempt to improve some inefficiencies in launch display speed and focus grabbing. |
| · | Added experimental directory cacheing attempt (see General options) to reduce startup delay after long disuse. |
| · | Fixed bug where $$1 arguments in regex alias groups were being forced to lowercase [thx perlguy] |
| · | Fixed bug where custom file explorer was not being used to explore folders. |
Version 1.09.05 - Mar 23, 2006
| · | Fixed bug where it was not saving the license key file (thanks to everyone on the forum for reporting this). |
Version 1.09.04 - Mar 06, 2006
| · | Fixed bug that wasn't displaying all past history items on blank startup. |
| · | Only keeps history of real files launched in the past (not aliases). |
| · | Fixed bug when changing display options while skin activated |
Version 1.09.02 - Mar 03, 2006
| · | Added a bunch of default aliases for internet searching, pasting common expressions, and more. |
| · | Fixed crashing bug with danish Jaws v6.0x screenreader (if anyone had any other odd shutdown crashes this might also fix) |
| · | Ctrl+Space option for launching added |
| · | Trying to remove the occasional "ding" sound on hitting enter to launch an application |
| · | Option to launch programs with numpad keys |
| · | All forms are skinned if skinning is enabled |
| · | A skin is now configured as default. |
| · | Options are saved on windows shutdown. |
| · | Options button now directly opens options form (configure toolbar from that menu) |
| · | Improved speed of startup and filechecking by limiting filechecking of initial history list. |
| · | Added random startup statusbar hints |
| · | Changed some of the default settings for new installations. |
Version 1.07.21 - Oct 05, 2005
| · | changing position of edit box/statusbar now tries to fix up skinning without requiring a restart. |
Version 1.07.20 - Oct 05, 2005
| · | statusbar now reports total search time after search finishes |
| · | options to disable statusbar |
| · | options to show editbox at bottom |
| · | startup statusbar text now always shows welcome. |
Version 1.07.19 - Oct 04, 2005
| · | mailto: containing spaces in subject fixed |
| · | trying to fix lanux window sizing bug |
Version 1.07.18 - Oct 02, 2005
| · | Preferences option in system tray icon. |
| · | Changed wording of system tray icon exit option. |
| · | CONTROL+Click of results now launches an app and STAYS open.. |
| · | When autosize window option and clear window options are checked, main window is now shrunk before restoring to avoid flicker. |
Version 1.07.17 - Oct 02, 2005
| · | Autoshrink of window now reduced window size using a rapid timer to prevent flickering during incremental search. |
Version 1.07.16 - Oct 02, 2005
| · | You can now type 'agroups' in the search edit box to get a list of all available group aliases |
| · | Added new special command "alias" which can be used in a group alias entry to cause search to renew using the words following the alias. Useful to let one alias group to trigger further searches. |
Version 1.07.15 - Oct 02, 2005
| · | Full skin selection plus ability to disable skinning |
| · | Setting transparency to 0 now changes window mode to non-transparent (better for capturing screenshots of it) |
| · | Reorganized some preference dialog pages. |
Version 1.07.14 - Oct 02, 2005
| · | when remove-duplicates option was enabled, shortcuts which differ only in arguments are now treated as non-duplicates |
| · | added auto-sizing window option (see config panel2 and disable "Blank search shows files from launch history" if you want smallest bar window on launch). |
| · | preliminary test of skinning |
Version 1.07.13 - Sep 23, 2005
| · | [bugfix] location path options were not working |
Version 1.07.12 - Sep 23, 2005
| · | added paste command (can be used with alias group to paste text to previous app) |
Version 1.07.11 - Sep 21, 2005
| · | Added import+export+paste of group aliases |
| · | You can add - at start of any item in an alias group to disable it |
| · | Reenbabled ins/del/edit keys in listviews |
Version 1.07.10 - Sep 16, 2005
| · | [feature] Added environment variables in dir paths for search %USERPROFILE%, %USERNAME%, %ALLUSERSPROFILE%, %MYDOCUMENTS%, %MYFAVORITES% |
| · | [bugfix] regex field replacement failed if two fields were directl adjacent, e.g. $$1$$2 |
Version 1.07.09 - Sep 10, 2005
| · | [feature] you could now be able to launch files that are in system path without specifying directory |
| · | [bugfix] escaping digits \# was broken on last release |
| · | [bugfix] regular expressions were not being saved the first time you created a particular alias group. |
Version 1.07.07 - Sep 08, 2005
| · | Disabling launch with digits was also disableing all the alt,control modifiers (defeated the entire purpose!) |
Version 1.07.03 - Sep 07, 2005
| · | adding some special variable for alias commands: %fardir% = find&run exe dir. |
Version 1.07.02 - Sep 06, 2005
| · | Hotkey now restores focus rather than minimizes if pressed while in another window. |
| · | Configuration backup files now saved. |
| · | Configuration safety save - prevents corruption of configuration files if system crashes during save. |
| · | Custom file explorer can be specified in options for launching folders (use \ at end of alias entry for folders). |
| · | Added option for lanching first result on enter no matter what. |
| · | You can now customize columns displayed in report view of results. |
| · | Fixes Alt+# hotkey (show f&r right-click menu). |
Version 1.07.01
| · | Full regular expression commands and arguments in alias groups |
| · | Manually specified alias result descriptions (see alias edit dialog) |
| · | Help file was sometimes not being shown when requested. |
Version 1.06.02
| · | Added hotkeys for Ctrl+# (show shell context menu), Alt+# (show f&r right-click menu), Ctrl+Alt+# (launch and stay open) |
Version 1.06.01
| · | Working directory (start in directory) of shortcuts was not being respected. |
| · | Stop on exact alias match option was ignored, was always stopping. |
| · | Alias results were not showing url contents properly |
| · | Alias urls were not being launched properly |
| · | Actual urls of shortcuts now shown in status bar when clicking on them |
| · | Alias results "location" column now shows group name |
| · | Unlimited alias group contents results now shown when an exact alias match is found. |
| · | Added custom browser configuration option for launching shortcuts. |
| · | Launched urls can now be added to history and scored appropriately. |
| · | Last version was improperly focusing results window on startup. |
Version 1.05.24, August 29, 2005
| · | added ability to drag files out of f&r window into other programs. |
| · | added ability to drag and drop url links as urls. |
| · | changed help/options button to icon toolbar |
| · | added user-configurable toolbar items (and right-click option to add app to it) |
Version 1.05.23, August 27, 2005
| · | fixed numerous minor form layout issues |
| · | added file browse button to alias form. |
| · | added properties menu item to right click |
| · | changed from default of startmenu\program files to startmenu\ |
Version 1.05.22, August 27, 2005
| · | Added instructions about right-clicking in options tabs |
| · | Added normal shell context menu pop-up |
| · | Added "add to group" menu item for easy alias making |
| · | Added scrollbars to alias listbox |
| · | bugfix - hotkeys weren't being set on startup |
| · | bugfix - horizontal scrollbar was being shown on start |
Version 1.05.19, July 24, 2005
| · | fixed bug with some win9x users where system shortcut hotkeys would be disabled |
| · | config options being broken up into multiple tabs |
| · | new options for custom hotkey and checkbox for pause/break key |
| · | new options for focus-retaining function (this may be improved later) |
| · | asks for confirmation before reseting all options from the menu |
| · | better default settings on first use |
| · | fixed messagebox bug where it was appearing under main window. |
| · | Verion 1.05.16, June 02, 2005 |
cleaned help file a bit
added info about running main executable with -tray commandline option
fixed a failure to identify some duplicate links
added browse for file+folder buttons from the config add/edit entry dialogs.
removed menus to load and save configuration files (not it always use the main FindAndRunRobot.ini file.
program tries to grab focus back whenever it loses it.
attempt to fix issue with launching SFN versions of apps (ie opera problem).
fixed bug where it kept re-activating the start-with-windows switch (bug also could cause tiny slowdown on startup)
| · | Version 1.05.13, April 03, 2005 |
statusbar hint for "stop on exact alias match" was corrected; thanks mario_a from forum.
| · | Version 1.05.12, Match 31, 2005 |
strange ms office shortcuts were not launching properly (thx Alex for pointing this out)
| · | Version 1.05.11, Match 28, 2005 |
improved handling of .lnk files with arguments
| · | Version 1.05.10, Match 28, 2005 |
bugfix: typo in options dialog
bugfix: popup menu in heueristics scoring tab should not have presented add/delete options
modification: installer corrected to display DonationCoder.com info and "Super Happy" removed from program name.
| · | Version 1.05.09, Match 27, 2005 |
bugfix for error if launching an app while search still ongoing
| · | Version 1.05.08, Match 26, 2005 |
selecting an item in results window stops search
stated adding scripts feature - more scripts to come
| · | Version 1.05.07, March 25, 2005 |
Improved shortcut launching
Added new helper mini exe to circumvent weird windows ShellExecute delay on launching docs via ShellExecute()
Added code to not get confused by quick double hotkey activation that seems to occur from some apps (ms excel).
Alpha Blending options were causing complaints on win9x; this is now fixed, program works fine on win9x (though alpha blending has no effect of course).
| · | Version 1.05.04, March 25. 2005 |
Cursor arrows in and out of search box works better now.
Pressing down arrow during search stops search and moves cursor into results view.
Fixed bug with scrollbars on long listviews.
Slightly improved icon.
| · | Version 1.05.02, March 25. 2005 |
New window transparency control in options.
By default moves recent docs and desktop links to top of search list and enabled by default.
Added instrcutions in install to enable recent docs and move to top.
| · | Version 1.05.01, March 25. 2005 |
fixed bug that could result in program trying to save changed options more than necesary
changed default launch history to 50 items
fixed (maybe) gray empty header on launch in details mode with no items
fixed bug causing flash of previous items when clear on restart is checked
double click now toggles view when using fast style launcher
fixed bug where on trigger you would see previous find list first before it resets
adding exclusion rules for apps now adds these rules to pattern match box not history box, and removes any existing entry from history launch.
some apparent "hanging" of the program was due to obscured windows, hopefully fixed now.
adding an exclusion now forces score to -9999 even if a prior rule exists
| · | Version 1.04.08, Sep 26, 2003 |
Form now forces itself onto screen if it find itself offscreen.
| · | Version 1.04.07, Aug 22, 2003 |
Fixed bug where settings were not being saved on windows shutdown.
| · | Version 1.04.06, July 10, 2003 |
Added options to control whether to clear last search on reactivation.
Fixed bug from 1.04.05 that was disabling scoring.
| · | Version 1.04.05, July 10, 2003 |
The option to show history now always shows top history in order of most recent execution, ignoring scores.
Aliases matches now only count if they match the leftmost input string.
| · | Version 1.04.04, July 03, 2003 |
Added option to stop search when an exact alias match is found, and ctrl-enter to launch all found links, which together can be used to launch groups of applications.
| · | Version 1.04.03, July 03, 2003 |
Added "copy target path to clipboard" to context menu, with ctrl-c shortcut.
| · | Version 1.04.02, July 03, 2003 |
Slight bug was slowing down the user interface.
| · | Version 1.04.01, July 03, 2003 |
Fixed an isidious bug that was leaking file handles (leaving them open), which could result in wasted memory usage.
| · | Version 1.04.00, July 02, 2003 |
Major new option which allows you to select from two very different ways of configuring startup behavior.
| · | Version 1.03.02, May 16, 2003 |
Programs are now launched with their working directories set to the program's location, which is nesc. for some apps.
Added text in pattern scoring dialog to remind user they can use -9999 to block a pattern from showing.
| · | Version 1.03.01, May 15, 2003 |
Fixed a bug in the way shortcuts linking to same target app are handled - in prior versions it was possible for lower scoring duplicates to take the place of higher scoring ones.
New option for specifying whether low-scoring duplicates should be removed.
Moved to x.yy.zz version numbering.
You can now use \# to represent a digit in a filename even when you've got the "Digit Keys Launch Results" option checked.
Added right-click context menu item to 'remove this entry from launch history'.
Status bar now shows location of *linked* shortcut file, if main window shows shortcut path.
Added right-click context menu to 'add a rule to prevent this link from being found again'
| · | Version 1.2b8, Aug 22, 2002 |
added WinConsole to related apps list
| · | Version 1.2b7, April 25, 2002 |
when triggered program now grabs focus - nesc. on win2k to insure that the launched window does not lose focus because of some fluke
added ShellSearch to related apps list.
| · | Version 1.2b6, March 29, 2002 |
when you click on a found file result, status bar now shows full filename.
major feature added - new tab for aliases - you can add custom aliases for a single file or for groups of files
| · | Version 1.2b5, March 22, 2002 |
complete help file now provided
speedup in search routine
| · | Version 1.2b4, March 20, 2002 |
minor feature added - new option in right-click on results to open explorer at *linked* file location (location pointed to by shortcut).
minor feature added - new option in right-click on results to perform a one-time search of ALL matching results (rather than just the top x)
minor feature added - the statusbar now shows hints for all controls as you drag the mouse over them.
bugfix - dbl-clicking on entry in history window caused crash.
| · | Version 1.2b3, March 20, 2002 |
minor feature added - if a shortcut match is found, each pattern entry will get points if it matches either shortcut name or linked file name (so a shortcut pointing to an exe would get points for *.lnk and also *.exe).
minor feature added - function keys can now be used to select the item to launch (if you dont have these configured as hotkeys for other applications through OS global hotkeys).
feature added - from the File menu on Options dialog, you can now reset settings to defaults.
bugfix - duplicate file finder was completely rejecting non-shortcut files. oops.
bugfix - shortcuts to non-existent files were causing very long delays to resolve.
bugfix - disabling heuristic searches was not having any effect (they were always included in score).
| · | Version 1.2b2, March 20, 2002 |
bugfix - percent match scores now work properly when you use explicit wildcards in your search string.
| · | Version 1.2b1, March 20, 2002 |
feature added - now checks for duplicate references in shortcuts, etc. eliminates duplicate files shown.
| · | Version 1.1, March 19, 2002 |
minor feature added - if you use wildcards in your search string, the pattern will be used explicitly for searching; previously all searches were treated as *searchstring*.
| · | Version 1.0, March 18, 2002 |
First release
Thank You:
| · | Brad Stowers for his ItemProp unit to display context menu easily |
| · | Only one instance at a time is allowed to run, thanks to Florian Bömers OneInst component. |
| · | Troel Jakobson for his wonderful components - http://subsimple.com/delphi.asp |
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