Re: [DQSD-Users] Search related

[Shawn K. Hall]

Hi Steven,

 I want to be able to highlight text in my browser and then 
 right click and search Wikipedia for the highlighted text. 
 ...
 Any thoughts on how I can make the link to and search on 
 Wikipedia as smooth as possible.

The easiest way would be to change the default search in DQSD to
wikipedia. Do this by editing localprefs.js to add this line:
  defaultsearch=wik;

Reload DQSD (!).

Now, instead of 'right-clicking', just highlight the text you want to
search in Wikipedia, and drag and drop it into DQSD. It'll search in
Wikipedia by default from then on.

HOWEVER, this will ALSO set your default search action anytime you
simply type text into the DQSD window to searching Wikipedia unless a
different search is specified. To search google prefix the search text
with gg:
  gg search text

I hope that works for what you're after.

Regards,

Shawn K. Hall
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Re: [DQSD-Users] Search related

[Glenn Carr]

Updated to remove HTML tags from the search text ('bsearch text/b')


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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Carr
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 6:19 PM
To: 'DQSD users mailing list'
Subject: Re: [DQSD-Users] Search related


Steven,
 
Here's a quick-n-dirty solution with some script...
http://www.dqsd.net/misc/SearchWikipediaContextMenu.zip
 
There are two files... 
- search_wikipedia.html
- search_wikipedia_ie_context_menu.reg
 
The .reg file adds a context menu item Search Wikipedia to Internet
Explorer when you have text selected in the browser.  I've only tested this
on XP, but it appears to work ok with Avante and IE.
 
Installation...
- Extract the files to some directory
- Edit the .reg file and correct the path to the extracted .html file.
I.e., if you extracted the files to C:\Documents and Settings\Glenn\My
Documents\search_wikipedia.html, change the path in the .reg to
C:\\Documents and Settings\\Glenn\\My Documents\\search_wikipedia.html
- Double click the .reg file to make the changes in the registry.
- You'll need to restart any open browser windows.
- With Avante I had to create an popup exception rule for *wikipedia*
windows.
 
Anyway, it probably could be improved, but it seems to work pretty well.
 
Glenn


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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven
Bellamy
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 4:05 PM
To: dqsd-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [DQSD-Users] Search related


Windows XP
Avant Browser
 
Not strictly DQSD but as this list has most of the 'search' and 'lookup'
gurus on it I hope you will allow this. 
 
I want to be able to highlight text in my browser and then right click and
search Wikipedia for the highlighted text. 
 
Wikipedia has problems but for my purpose (checkable facts and figures) it's
perfect. I find myself typing 'wik etc etc' into DQSD constantly.
 
Any thoughts on how I can make the link to and search on Wikipedia as smooth
as possible.
 
Thanks 
 
  
 



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