rij73 wrote:
> Hello all... I have been a very happy user of dqsd for some time. I just
> switched to mozilla firefox, though, and i'm having a heck of a time
getting
> it to work! I tried setbrowser - followed the instructions exactly as in
the
> FAQ, but dqsd searches still open in IE. I feel lik
Monty Scroggins wrote:
> Currently all searches (even searches which are "disabled" in the help
> window) are still loaded in memory. The workaround until the design is
> changed is to rename the searches so the toolbar doesn't recognize them on
> startup. I threw together a utility that can gen
I would like the search bar smaller as I use a 2 level task bar. But to see
the >> popup button it must be greater than clocklongwidth (default=139).
Why is it tied to this? I my screen the search bar is 4.2cm (1.75inches)
wide and >> is not visible.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Tom.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ty
Tom Corcoran wrote:
> I used a trial version of Funducs Application Mover to move dsqd to the
> other drive. Afterwards I rebooted, then reregistered the dll as above and
> then rebooted again. The result was a msn web page showing in dqsd :-)
I looked at this again. The Quick Launch to
Hey Kim,
Kim Gräsman wrote:
>> Any problems I should be aware of if I move the
>> installation files? There's nothing relevant in the registry I could see.
> You need to re-register DQSDTools.dll like this (from the command line):
> C:\NewDir>regsvr32.exe DQSDTools.dll
> I'm not sure if DQSD even
Peter Heath wrote:
> I remember a discussion a while back on country codes, but don't seem
> to see any in dqsd
> attached are ebay.xml and ov.xml, modified for multiple countries
> both can use a user_country if defined in preferences
Thanks so much for doing this. I've wanted an ebay search for
Just gone through a reinstall...hope I am not missing anything here but the
dqsd install put everything in c:\program files automatically. Perhaps the
install could be updated. Any problems I should be aware of if I move the
installation files? There's nothing relevant in the registry I could see.
Monty Scroggins wrote:
> If anyone is interested -
I am :-)
Cool. Still hoping someone locates a rss farside feed!
Thanks, Tom.
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>From: Monty Scroggins >Subject:
[DQSD-Users] daily comic strip
>If anyone is intersted.. I have been hacking
around with the
>rssx.xml file to create comics.xml.. It
uses the tapestry
>rss feed to display any of a bunch of different
daily comic
>strips.. The strips stay up until
th
Hi Sarah,
From: "Sarah Sweeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I use the Tabbrowser Extensions extension in Firebird to force links to
> open in the same Firebird window, but in new tabs. It's kind of an
> extreme solution to the problem, but it does work. (Of course, it means
> that even popup windows ope
This problem has been bugging me for a while. In my LocalAliases I have
reuseBrowserWindowMode = 0 and my launchmode=2 as my web browser is Mozilla
firebird.
All searches are opened in the current window, I usually have to press the
back button and open a new tab and run the dqsd search. Ideally o
I have a local alias to requalify the amazon search :
amaz|amaz /domain:uk %s
Has anyone looked into adding a domain option for ebay? Just wondering as
it's been on my to do list.
Cheers - Tom.
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Hey Shawn,
>From: "Shawn K. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Ok. In defer_tools.js try making this change:
> In search.htm (in the "direct" function):
> Reload and test " http://google.com/";.
Ah, regular expression bug...fix works perfect.
> This should at least fix the errors (and submit the url to
Hey Shawn,
> What version of DQSD?
> With 3.1.8 I'm not getting errors (I have my system setup to report
> all errors).
> Any chance you modified your search.htm file before this?
I'm running 3.1.8 as well. I tracked down the problem, in localprefs.js if I
change launchmode=0 it works fine but mi
I discovered today by accident that if you enter an url preceded by a space
it causes an internet explorer (not by default browser) script error in
search.htm on line 12, char 5 (comments). Try " http://www.google.com";
Cheers - Tom.
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Hey Shawn,
<>
Cool. I'm wondering if a solution might be do a standard escape so one could
end up doing :
mysearch /from here /date 20//01//04 /to there
Perhaps parseArgsEx could be tweaked to allow that...
Cheers, Tom.
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Hi JB,
<<
In the preferences file (and thus able to be overridden in
localprefs.js) there is (or should be... I didn't find one in my
preferences.js) a setting for which app to use to edit the different
config files.
They look like this in my localprefs.js:
cssEditorExe="C:\\Program Files\\Microso
Hi,
I uninstalled 3.1.6 on a Windows XP Pro SP1 machine and installed 3.1.8
today. From the configure menu if I select local preferences / aliases /
stylesheet I get an error :
([object error]/) occurred running the search for "editconfigfile('[relevant
local file]')"
Any thoughts?
Thanks, Tom.
I am using parseArgsEx as some of my argument values can have spaces. As one
of the argument vales I need to pass a date in the form dd/mm/yy but I
imagine this conflicts with the switch divider /, though I have no numeric
switches defined. So I want to do something like :
mysearch.xml :
mysearch
Thanks for the info Shawn.
<<
For now, you can safely disable the check for updates and reenable it
in a couple of days when the version file on SF is safely on DQSD's
site.
>>
A quick addition to the localprefs.js (checkForUpdate = false) did the
trick.
Cheers, Tom.
Thanks Brent,
> Try parseArgsEx instead of parseArgs.
Excellent. Wasn't getting it working before I read in deter_tools.js :
Also the arg name
* and value are separated by a space not a : like parseArgs.
* This will also allow you to have spaces in the argument value
* as well.
Surprisingly i
Hi Kim / Glen,
> document.mysearchf.getElementByName("0").value = "value";
> document.mysearchf["0"].value = "value";
Great these both worked fine.
I need to pass an argument with a space so from mysearch.xml:
mysearch /from: here /to: there and everywhere /three: another
It only picks up 'ther
I installed the new version today on my XP home machine. I periodically get
the message : failed to parse on-line version information, Error message :
the system cannot locate the object specified. It's come up a few times
instead of google not sure what's the story.
Cheers - Tom.
Hi Kim,
I'm wondering why "dictionarypop innocuous" finds nothing?
Note, there is a spare '<' in the popup message window towards the bottom.
Cheers - Tom.
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I am writing a search for a page with elements :
in the standard switch( args.switches[j].name ) block
switch( args.switches[j].name )
the line
case "from": document.mysearchf.0.value = "value"; break;
gives an error expected ';'. I can change the 0 to anoth
Great Kim! I had stopped using the old version because of the problems,
thanks for that.
Tom.
> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kim_Gr=E4sman?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 17:06:08 +0100
> Organization: Labs2
> Subject: [DQSD-Users] ANN: DictionaryPop 0.3
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Google has added UPS & fedex tracking for ups just enter the number...for
fedex enter fedex, a space, and the number. You can also do "patent 5123123"
and fcc equipment numbers "fcc B4Z-34009-PIR"
http://www.googleguide.com/ may also be of interest.
cheers, tom.
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Hi Shawn,
> Which version of DQSD, and are you running the Google toolbar/deskbar?
> The 3.1.8 version includes the Google-toolbar-style keyboard hooks,
> which I imagine, when used on a system that also has that installed,
> would experience keyboard-hook blocking.
This happened with 3.1.6. I'll
I installed dqsd on an xp pro machine. At startup I get an IE message :
problem initialising the enhanced keyboard support - some keys & hotkeys may
not work (error "DQSDTools.keyboardhook - can't install hook").
Has anyone come across this?
Thanks, Tom.
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Type bphonebook: for business phone numbers and rphonebook: for residential
searches.
Only works for the US :-(
Cheers - Tom.
Peter Gibbons: You know I never really liked paying bills, I don't think
I'm going to do that either. Office Space (1999)
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Thanks guys.
I use ! a fair bit as well, since it was pointed out ages ago when I was
learning how to create searches, cheers Shawn. Anyway Glen spotted my error:
>Probably need to also rename the internal function from jsexec to jsx.
>Renaming the file doesn't have any affect on the actual comma
Thanks for the tip Shawn.
> > It would be handy if there was a way of getting the deskbar
> > to show the time [clocklongform] when you've been using.
> > Perhaps someone has an alias setup for this?
> You can use the following line (assuming you've replaced jsexec.xml
> with jsx.xml, if not, cha
Hi Shawn,
>You seem to be the first to know about changes to the way Google
>works - where do you get your leads? Am I missing anything else?
Tara Calishain author of Google Hacks has a newsletter (see
http://www.researchbuzz.com/). One of those ones I stay subscribed to as
every issue or so I he
sorry...meant to add. try "define:freeloader" to get just the definition and
no search results
Cheers - Tom.
Agent Smith: "I want everything." Morpheus: "Would that include a bullet
from this gun?" The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
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Google have added a new web definition, to try it type "define freeloader"
in the dqsd.
Cheers - Tom.
He's alive, Jim. Should I shoot him again?
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>That should be controllable by:
>clockdelay=5000;
>from preferences.js. Just copy and paste into localprefs.js, and modify
>the delay to your heart's content :)
Thanks for that. I was using that. However I need to click something else on
the taskbar to remove focus, once that's done it will refre
> I'm not sure I understand... Do you want it to show the clock
> immediately, or do you want it showed in a different format?
> Care to clarify?
Sorry for being vague Kim. I want to show the clock immediately.
Cheers, Tom.
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I am not sure if there is preference setting to reshow the time
[clocklongform] on the deskbar after it has been in use. Mine does return
after a couple of seconds.
It would be handy if there was a way of getting the deskbar to show the time
[clocklongform] when you've been using. Perhaps someone
>From: "B.J. Herbison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>Only one annoyance
left -- the time doesn't show up in the>window until I click in the
taskbar. I fooled around with>the delay and display help settings
and those didn't seem>to fix the problem
My localprefs.js settings are as follows
:
clock=t
metacritic
Entertainment Tom
Corcoran
http://www.metacritic.com/
Metacritic compiles
reviews from respected critics and publications for film, video/dvd, music and
games. Usage: crit
<title> [{/movie | /music | /games |
/all}]
Examples:
crit
fyi, I have XP home / DQSD 3.1.6 / all the latest windows update patches and use
Firebird with no problems. Why are ye guys still using IE, I used it for years
but can see no reason to go back to it. Occasionally I will have to load a page
in IE that Firebird can't cope with, but I think that
Acoording to http://whittlebit.com/index.php
"WhittleBit works much like
most other search engines, except it can help you to refine your searches by
allowing you to give positive or negative feedback on each search result."
Here's the search :
WhittleBit Searc
> From: "Shawn K. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
Subject: RE: [DQSD-Users] Google synonyms> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003
01:07:30 -0400> > Hi Tom,> > > fyi Google has
just introduced a new operator to search> > for synonyms. You use it
by adding a tilde in front of> > the keyword for which you want to
fyi Google has just introduced a new operator to search for synonyms. You
use it by adding a tilde in front of the keyword for which you want to find
synonyms. This works with dqsd.
Cheers, Tom.
Thanks Shawn,
>Maybe. There's really no telling. It could be
working correctly, and>the jscript parser might have incorrectly parsed
the>"clockupdate=1000;" line in your prefs file. Try deleting the line
and>retyping the characters explicitly, just to make sure they're
accurate.
Unfortun
Hey Alec,
Great eye, thank you man :-)
> From: "Alec Burgess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> I've got no idea about the details of what you're trying,
but I'll bet => the ":08" means August:-)> Somewhere you've
probably got a date_time spec that says HH:MM that => should be HH:mm or
vice-versa.> Re
> From: "Shawn K. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
> I have reported the problem with my clock not updating> > before
but have never got it resolved.> > clockupdate=1000;> >
IIRC this is due to XP treating the milliseconds (1000 = 1 second)>
incorrectly as seconds (1000 = 16 minutes, 40 seconds).
I have reported the problem with my clock not
updating before but have never got it resolved. I am running dqsd on Windows XP
home with service pack 1.
For example currently it shows 11:08 and the actual
time is 11:35. I don't know the pattern of difference, this morning I noticed it
showe
Cool idea John,
>I loved this one that came with the install>word|run
winword|Microsoft Word|Start Microsoft Word|Microsoft Office
Interesting. Think I'll stick with my quick launch
icon though.
Not quiet what you had in mind perhaps, but one I
use is
xeus|curr /from:usd /to:gbp %s
that
:
js programmer /market:it
js delphi /market:it /latest /1
js legal secretary /market:leg /permanent /latest
Other
http://www.jobserve.com/
Ryan Edwards, Tom Corcoran
<![CDATA[
function js(q)
{
t:leg /permanent /latest
Other
http://www.jobserve.com/
Ryan Edwards, Tom Corcoran
<![CDATA[
function js(q)
{
document.jsf.jobType.value = "*";
document.jsf.order.value = "Rank";
var jobMarket;
if( null
/4 - Within 4
working days.
/5 - Within 5
working days.
Examples:
js programmer
/market:it js
delphi /market:it /latest
/1 js legal secretary
/market:leg /permanent /latest
Other
http://www.jobserve.com/
Ryan Edwards, Tom
HotBot (owned by Lycos) have released a free quick
searchbar that they says is based on Dave's Quick Search
Deskbar.
http://www.hotbot.com/tools/
Did anyone talk with the dqsd team?
if I type an url (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/release-notes.html) in dqsd it opens in the current browser window
open (I use the awesome firebird). Is there any way to make this open in a new
browser window?
Thanks, Tom.
This is an interesting site
http://www.faganfinder.com/
A search would have a lot of possible
arguments!
Cheers, Tom.
Does anyone else have problems running
dictionarypop?
I have been getting a popup message reading
:
Error executing web service, Client service unavailable, null.
Instead I use
http://www.spellonline.com/
for which I have been meaning to add a
search.
Cheers, Tom.
Mel,
Thanks for the info. My calendar now shows in full,
the calwidth has to be 300 to sjow the whole thing. Ideally, it would be nice
to fix the font size and have the popup the regular size. But my
calendar works again :-)
Thank you, Tom.
From: "viking
mel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: [EM
This sounds class, thanks a million for the work. I
am only on the digest list. Is their anyway other way to access the zip file?
Perhaps a brinkster account...
Cheers - Tom.
Jb,
Sorry my mail was unclear. I have localsearch.css
but only the default one, I have not added to it. For this month for example, it
shows sun to s - where the last day is cut off, the visible days are (jan 26 to
jan 31), feb 2-7, 9-14 and 16-21 are chopped horizontally in half. I
shoul
Very interesting re the XP time sync, I have been
using Atomic clock sync. Note that one can just run Date and time fro the
control panel rather than turning back on the task bar clock. When I try it I
get an error connecting with either of the two servers, maybe it's Sysgate
Personal firewa
Jb,
Thanks for posting your settings. Mine were in
search,css and unchanged from the default. Note your version is slightly
different, instead of :
.caleventday, .caleventday{
color:red;}
I have
.caleventday, .caleventdayhigh{
color:red;}
and I also have an additional :
.calmon
I don't know how you would do it but it would be
excellent to be able to type "sync" into the quickbar and for it to sync your
computer time with an atomic clock server. Is this possible with
scripting?
Cheers, Tom.
All of a sudden in the last couple of days the font
size of my dpsd right click calendar has increased to the point where it only
shows up to 21 February and that's chopped as well. Does anyone know how I can
resize the font and how it was increased?
Thanks & cheers
- Tom.
>>From: Sharad Khanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>>Is there any
particular reason why the messages show up with extensive
>>headers, is there a way to turn that off. It is rather hard to read
through >>all that extra and unnecessary info while trying to figure
out what users
>>are saying.
I would
>>Your dicp shortcut probably shows in the Reference category (where
>>dictionary pop normall lists) as a second way to invoke dictionary pop.
There it is! An enhancement suggestion is to show the dicp alias in the user defined
test colour.
Adding
helpSortKey = 'alias';
to localprefs.js worked a
Excellent additions with the shortcuts menu and the
colours.
In localaliases.txt I have the entries
:
&|gg %s /news|Google
Newsdicp|dictionarypop
Google News shows in the shortcuts menu but
dicp is missing, it does work however.
Also, is there anyway to get the shortcuts menu to
name
MLL,
<>
Your totally
right. For now I removed .exe from the autostart list, I'll suggest to them to
add some better filte
I tried
ac 770
This page _tried_ to open in my
browser
http://www.getzips.com/CGI-BIN/ziplook.exe?What=4&Area=770
and my download manager (FreshDownload) popped up
looking to save ziplook.exe.
Has anyone else experienced this
problem?
Cheers - Tom.
Monty,
Sorry, I'll try to restate it. In the deskbar type something and hit enter this will
open a browser window. If one is open already, shift enter will open another browser
window. The help says this functionality only works for IE. My suggestion was that it
be extended to work with Mozill
Mozilla 1.1 is an excellent browser, give it a go. It would b fantastic if shift enter
would open a new brower window or ideally a new tab in Mozilla as well as IE.
Cheers, Tom.
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I have had to uninstall 3.1.3. It completely killed the quickbar on my windows 2000
(sp1) machine.
I installed 3.1.3 and rebooted and got the message :
the DQSD helper dll is not correctly installed
then
unable to instansiate DQSDTools Launcher automatic server can't create object
then
prob
I am running Windows 2000 with Update Pack 1. On startup I get 2 messages : Unable to
load searche for searches/dictit.xml, switching from current encoding to specified
encoding not supported and also for aicne.xml.
Cheers, Tom.
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Just downloaded the new curr.xml, works perfectly
for me. Thanks guys, Tom.
Glen,
Thanks for that, however I wasn't able to read it.
When I enter "125.74 gbp>usd" it gives :
74.00 GBPUnited Kingdom Pounds = 113.559
USDUnited States Dollars 1 GBP = 1.53458 USD 1 USD =
0.651646 GBP
Cheers, Tom.
From: "Glenn Carr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Tue, 13
Au
The deskbar just gets better and
better..awesome!!
I would love to be able to do something
like
125.74 gbp>usd
Currently it parses this as 74 pounds
Thanks - Tom.
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