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alexball
Joined: 04 Jun 2008
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 Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:26 pm Post subject: Search with Firefox from everywhere. |
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Hi there.
I love Autohotkey and I love the Firefox searchbox. I have Conquery installed in Firefox which lets me search in a new tab for every text I mark with any of my search engines from the search box. Conquery is truly amazing for people who search a lot with Firefox. Check it out:
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/231
With Autohotkey I can use one of my many mouse buttons to search for any word with any of my engines both inside Firefox and outside of Firefox in any application of windows. I use my middle mouse button
Plus:
In Firefox I use middle click to open a link in a new tab in the background. Now I've modified the script so that it checks if I've selected a word in Firefox. If I've selected a word it lets me search for it. If I've not selected a word it assumes that I want to do a normal middle click and it does so.
So now you don't lose your normal middle click functionality in Firefox and you can still use my script to look up words.
Skript updated 23/07/08
| Code: | IfWinActive, ahk_class MozillaUIWindowClass
{
clipboard = ;empty clipboard to be able to check for text selection
send ^c
if clipboard = ;this checks if you have selected some text
{
send {MButton}
exit
}
else
{
Sleep 100
Send {Shift down}{RButton}{Shift up}
KeyWait, LButton, D
Sleep 500
send ^v {Enter}
exit
}
}
else
send ^c
IfWinExist, ahk_class MozillaUIWindowClass
{
Winactivate
Sleep 100
Send {Shift down}{RButton}{Shift up}
KeyWait, LButton, D
Sleep 500
send ^v {Enter}
exit
}
else
msgbox, 262144,, You have pressed the search button but Firefox is not running. Please start Firefox first |
Cheers
Alex
This was an old post. It took me some time to figure out how to do this. The script above is the most recent one. The posts beneath are posts that refer to my original post where I wanted to build this script.
Last edited by alexball on Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:05 pm; edited 4 times in total |
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PurloinedHeart
Joined: 04 Apr 2008
Posts: 209
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:17 am Post subject: |
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Isn't firefox's searchbox the same as Google's "I'm feeling lucky" button?
Quick edit:
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Search = Search term here
run, http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%Search%&btnI=3564
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I think using this is more friendly, it will open the page even if you don't have FF installed. |
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Red Hat Dude
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 3:56 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | | IfWinExist, Winactivate, ahk_class MozillaUIWindowClass |
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SoggyDog
Joined: 02 May 2006
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Location: Greeley, CO
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alexball
Joined: 04 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:06 am Post subject: |
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Hi, thanks everybody for your quick answers.
@SoggyDog
Basically my script is quite similar to the one you mention.
| SoggyDog wrote: | Not to derail your project, but why reinvent the wheel?
Have you seen this post? |
Except that it is easier to add engines to my script because it uses the engines you have in Firefox. So if you want to add an engine, rather then looking up how the engine works and writing the code you just add the engine to your firefox search box. And my script also uses the icons of the engine.
Well since I use Firefox a lot and change my search engines a lot as well the "Look Up Selected Text... " SoggyDog suggested is less conveniant for me.
I work like this. I have a logitech mouse where I can customize every button using the uberOptions extension. Now in Firefox I use my MediaPlay button to have HotHotKey do
| Code: | | Send {Shift down}{RButton}{Shift up} |
This tells conquery to do a popup showing all searchengines. Selecting one onpens search in a new tab.
Now porting this to Windows in general works so far like this:
| Code: | Send ^c
IfWinExist, ahk_class MozillaUIWindowClass
{Winactivate
send ^k ^v !{Down}
Sleep 2500
send {Enter}
}
else
MsgBox, Der Suchknopf wurde gedrückt, aber Firefox ist nicht da. `nBitte Firefox starten! ;Please start Firefox |
now I want to improve this part so that it waits until leftbutton is clicked and then waits 500 more before hitting enter
| Code: | send ^k ^v !{Down}
Sleep 2500
send {Enter} |
Thanks a lot
Alex
Last edited by alexball on Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:14 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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alexball
Joined: 04 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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I did it. Yes Yes! 
The problem was that Autohotkey is just too fast. If I launch the script via mouse key and I tell it KeyWait it recognizes the release of the key which launched the script. I added some delay and voila:
| Code: | send ^c
IfWinActive, ahk_class MozillaUIWindowClass
{
Sleep 100
Send {Shift down}{RButton}{Shift up}
KeyWait, LButton, D
Sleep 500
send ^v {Enter}
exit
}
else
IfWinExist, ahk_class MozillaUIWindowClass
{
Winactivate
Sleep 100
Send {Shift down}{RButton}{Shift up}
KeyWait, LButton, D
Sleep 500
send ^v {Enter}
exit
}
else
msgbox, 262144,, You have pressed the search button but Firefox is not running. Please start Firefox first |
Thanks for your help everybody. |
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