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Phi · Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 32

S.F.,

I think I may have found a solution that handles extended char set correctly, but I can't be sure. Can you please email me at phi1618 (*a.t*) gmail :D0T: com so that I can send you a test version to verify on your system?

Phi · Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 32

jonny, i haven't been able to find time to extract your requested segments of Seek. However, if you look thru the program, with the help of the comments, it should not be too difficult to get what you need. Smile

Let me know if you need more help on that.

Meanwhile, check out http://www.desktopapps.co.uk/menuApp.html
It appears to be doing something similar to what you have in mind.

jonny · Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 3004 Location: Minnesota

Gah... but... it... wha... ::faints::

lol ty phi, its perfect! I haven't gotten around to perusing the code for a while, but ya I think I might be able to do it.

valenock · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 17

Seek is a nice script, but it has some problems on none-english systems where the commandline codepage is not equal to the GUI codepage. (It was done some decade ago to support already outdated codepages of DOS era).
One of the examples of such systems can be Russian language system.
Even on systems without such problems it can speed up start menu caching significantly.

The problem was solved by substituting the original external call to "DIR" command by the following Autohotkey code:
/ The beginning and ending comments left intentionally - so you can easily track where to place this fragment /

Phi · Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 32

valenock, thanks for the feedback. That loop-code was already included to replace the "dir" command in my next version of Seek v2.0.3. This new version shall be released either today or tomorrow. Smile

Phi · Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 32

It's out! Check the 1st posting for details. Smile

chessonly · Joined: 06 Feb 2005 Posts: 9

hi ppl am new here,
autohotkey is awesome, way beyond my expectations.

this seek script sounds good, but what i hav in mind is a 'find in page' utility. I use the opera browser which lets me find as i type(type '.' followed by terms to search. i miss this a lot when i am using absolutely anything else.

this seek thing seems promising though,
Can this script be modified to search the contents of an active window
instead of the contents of the start menu? things wld be awesome then

Thanks for any help

jonny · Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 3004 Location: Minnesota

Um... I don't know if you knew this already, but Firefox (my main power-browser) has this functionality.

You can take a look at my comprehensive hotkey list for more info, but a short summary is that forward slash (/) starts finding text anywhere as you type it, and apostrophe (') does the same thing, but for links. I find the latter really handy for keyboard-only browsing.

Edit: Ok, my list doesn't have any more info than that, just that F3 will find the next instance. Oh well, you get the idea. Smile

Guest · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:35 am Post subject:

yup i know abt afirefox.
and i was wondering abt making this feature system wide.

Phi · Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 32

chessonly, your idea is pretty cool. However, to do that system wide, in any program, the only method that I know of is to activate the "Find" function in that particular program and then enter the search text. The method to trigger the "Find" function differs from one program to another. In Notepad, it's CTRL-F; in Firefox/Opera it's /; in Thunderbird, it's CTRL-L.

So, unless you'll willing to find out how each program does its "Find", and then have the AutoHotkey script triggers "Find" according to which program is active, there isn't another simpler method. Smile

joly · Guest

Newbie question:
I try seek, great script!
run perfectly, I try for 2 day to customize but nothing...
How and where I can insert new directory?
I want to search in this dir:

C:\Documents and Settings
E:\MP3
F:\Downloads

Thanks.

daonlyfreez · Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 755 Location: Berlin

I am using QuickStart at the moment, but if this script keeps getting better, I probably can get rid of it... Cool

A couple of options that QuickStart has that might be worth mentioning (and implementing):

- The window of QuickStart consists only of a dropdownlist, the results are presented as a 'dropped-down' dropdownlist Razz

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- It has 'autocomplete'
- One can add the Desktop, the IE history and favorites, Firefox bookmarks, Recent files, and custom folders easily to be included in the scan
- It has the option to ignore certain words (e.g. install, about, licence)
- It has the option to use filemasks (to include only specific files)
- It can optionally launch directly if only one match is found
- It can run keywords on the command line if not found

Cool

If this could become a mixture of QuickStart and MCL, this would indeed be a killer app...

- Custom keywords (that lead to a script or whatever) would be nice too...
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Phi · Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 32

Joly, you can add your own customised list of directories to be included in the scanning. You just need to create a text file 'Seek.dir' in the same directory as Seek.exe or Seek.ahk, and specify the full path of the directory to be added, one directory per line. Do not enclose the path in quotes or double-quotes.

daonlyfreez, thanks for the suggestions. I'll see if those features can be added. Smile

joly · Guest

Thanks !!!
great indeed!

Phi · Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 32

If you like Seek, check out this proggy:

http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/index.html

ps: I'm not affiliated to the "Find and Run Robot" author, or the DonationCoder.com site. Just happened to chance upon this link in a RSS feed.