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Find and Run Robot Changelog

What's new in Find and Run Robot 2.239.02

Jan 23, 2020
  • BugFix:
  • Incorrect icons were showing for 64bit apps on some computers (Win10?)
  • Added some built in environment variables that can be passed to aliases, etc.: %FARRWINWIDTH%, %FARRWINHEIGHT%, %FARRWINLEFT%, %FARRWINTOP%. See here for complete list.
  • Improved handling of double quotes in alias results.
  • Improved display of some alias results with arguments.
  • The advanced AliasDirs user variable was not expanding environment strings.
  • Improvement:
  • When specifying the /ICON= parameter for alias results, FARR will now look in the default icons/ directory if a custom icon is not found relative to the current alias directory.
  • Settings file location shown in about box.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.238.01 (Dec 31, 2019)

  • [BugFix] Incorrect icons were showing for 64bit apps on some computers (Win10?)
  • [Feature] Added some built in environment variables that can be passed to aliases, etc.: %FARRWINWIDTH%, %FARRWINHEIGHT%, %FARRWINLEFT%, %FARRWINTOP%. See here for complete list.
  • [BugFix] Improved handling of double quotes in alias results.
  • [BugFix] Improved display of some alias results with arguments.
  • [Improvement] When specifying the /ICON= parameter for alias results, FARR will now look in the default icons/ directory if a custom icon is not found relative to the current alias directory.
  • [Improvement] Settings file location shown in about box.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.234.01 (Feb 28, 2019)

  • [BugFix] The htmlviewurl command used to display a web page in the FARR window was not urlencoding some urls, so that the + sign in urls was not being encoded properly.
  • [Feature] New virtual launch string (command) to run a script/executable and grab output as a list of results to display: appcapresults.
  • [Feature] New virtual launch string (command) to read a text file and display as a list of results (very similar to the special #filecontents alias results, but can be chained with other commands): fileresults.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.233.01 (Feb 25, 2018)

  • [BugFix] Titlebar with date and time in it (Advanced Visuals options tab) was being overwritten with fixed date/time.
  • [Improvement] Variable replacements (like %APPDRIVE%) are now performed on external tools paths, making them more suitable for portable use.
  • [Improvement] Added context-menu item to copy all result paths to clipboard.
  • [Feature] Added an advanced-user feature for customizing the htmlview mode using a custom css style sheet.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.229.01 (Mar 24, 2017)

  • MajorFeature] First High-dpi compatible version beta.
  • [BugFix] Commandline arguments could be truncated at only 255 character length.
  • [BugFix] Custom titlebar was sometimes being blank after installing an update over a running instance.
  • [Feature] You can now choose any icon image file as your tray icon.
  • [Improvement] Improved the way some custom font override settings look.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.226.01 Beta (Oct 5, 2015)

  • [BugFix] Network folders in history or recent file/folder list could cause hang during searching.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.224.01 Beta (Oct 5, 2015)

  • [BugFix] Fixed issue where double quotes in alias results were causing failure to launch result and bad icons.
  • [BugFix] On the "Search Behavior" tab, if you enabled the option to "Remove duplicate links to same target", but disabled the option to "Resolve shortcuts when adding items to results", it would not actually remove duplicate links.
  • [Improvement] The environment resolution testing field on the Tweaks tab now does not require % to be specified for simple environmental variable testing.
  • [BugFix] Fixed some spelling errors on options dialog.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.223.01 (Jun 26, 2015)

  • [Feature] A new "Quick Search Words" tab in options allows you to specify quick search word replacements; here you can quickly specify words that have alternate meanings when typed into the search box. Start each line with a search word, followed by = and then the replacement text. For example, if you would like to be able to type "ff" to search for "firefox" you can specify that here as "ff = firefox". This just makes it much easier to do certain simple things without using aliases. Note that replacements will only be made on word boundaries ("ff" will not match "eff").
  • [Feature] On History Options you can now choose to have FARR automatically add all applications that you launch outside of FARR (that have foreground windows), automatically added to FARR launch history; this makes them visible in main window on display, and makes them faster to find.
  • [Feature] New option to require search words to match on left hand boundaries of words (whether contiguous enabled or not) -- can be useful in reducing spurious matches.
  • [Feature] Added field where you can test how FARR will resolve a path with environment or other special % replacements, on Tweaks and Debugging tab.
  • [Change] If only one result is being shown in directory browsing mode, FARR won't autoswitch into small report display mode; this is nicer to look at when using an absolute path to a file and makes clearer when there is a unique result in directory browsing mode, and makes it more convenient to use the Quick Search Words to specify an explicit file path.
  • [Bugfix] Non-contiguous scoring had a bug which might allow some results to list which should not (though it would give them a very low score).
  • [Bugfix] Using spacebar to toggle checkboxes in the hotkey, searchfolder, pattern lists was not saving changes.
  • [Bugfix] Launched *folders* were no longer opening on Windows XP.
  • [Bugfix] Using Ctrl+# or Ctrl+Enter to launch apps should keep FARR window open AND focused, regardless of FARR window behavior configured on Window options tab.
  • [Bugfix] Some users on Windows 8 were not seeing large icons in results.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.218.02 (Mar 26, 2015)

  • [Bugfix] Fixed issue with some alias icons and some launching of aliases related to a path resolution problem.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.217.01 (Mar 24, 2015)

  • [Feature] FARR now understands how to search certain windows registry keys to find lists of recently saved documents and recently run applications; if configured in search folder paths it will search these lists quickly. You can also view them explicitly by typing: "historyr". See the "History" option tab for more information and options.
  • [Feature] You can now customize the fixed font used when memo display is showing fixed font output (such as when displaying result of console output, appcap output, etc.).
  • [Feature] You can now drop files onto the search edit box and it will append them to existing search comments.
  • [Feature] Alias results can now contain % environmental variables.
  • [BugFix] Reset to defaults option on custom font settings tab was not resetting all options.
  • [BugFix] Hint for "Use generic icons for folders" option was wrong.
  • [BugFix] Option for "Do not add network drive paths to lauch history (they can slow search)" under Settings/Search Behavior was not being saved.
  • [BugFix] Right-click menu items for custom alias entries with custom /ICON values were not triggering correctly.
  • [Change] Changed the way shortcut (.lnk) icons are resolved for display

New in Find and Run Robot 2.215.01 (Mar 24, 2015)

  • [MinorFeature] Added special search modifier +launchone that will launch the matching alias as soon as there is only one result in display.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.213.01 (Dec 4, 2013)

  • Tweaks:
  • Option to use generic filetype icons for network drives listed in options to avoid slowdowns
  • Improved icon lookup times (but still some improvements remain to be done, stay tuned)
  • Added tweaks+debugging tab in options

New in Find and Run Robot 2.211.01 (Dec 4, 2013)

  • Change:
  • FARR used to have a setting for periodic update checking; periodic update checking is no longer supported. Starting with this version there is a new setting on the initial General Options tab that says whether an update check should be performed at program startup. If user wants to check for updates more frequently they can trigger an update check explicitly from the options dialog or tray menu
  • BugFixes:
  • In previous versions an english language keyboard layout could be loaded at startup and not unloaded in some cases
  • FARR will not minimize on loss of focus when options form is visible

New in Find and Run Robot 2.207.01 (Dec 4, 2013)

  • BugFix:
  • Autocomplete of directories on network mapped drives was not adding trailing \ character

New in Find and Run Robot 2.206.01 (Jan 10, 2013)

  • [MinorFeature] Added option to not differentially score different results within a single alias when using regex filtering option for the alias.
  • [MinorFeature] Added some plugin settable/getable values to bypass % variable replacement: showhtmlraw, rawuservar, launchmeta
  • [BugFix] Plugins were not being given a chance to act on explicit directory browsing (e.g. no custom statusbar icons)
  • [BugFix] querynokeywords being passed to plugins was not correct, it was including keywords.
  • [BugFix] AppCapAppendMemo functions were starting out with "Hello" in memo.
  • [BugFix] AppCap function could hang FARR if it was repeatedly invoked many times per second.
  • [Kludge] You can now use ;;, to separate multiple launch strings when specifying farr:// links inside html pages.
  • Thanks to DC member ewemoa for all the help with this release.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.203.01 (Oct 23, 2012)

  • [BugFix] FARR would not launch files with hidden spaces at the END of the filename.
  • [BugFix] FARR was not showing proper icons for shortcuts that use custom icons.
  • [Change] Changed default heuristic score of folder as % of file score from 90 to 50, because folders were showing up above files in some cases.
  • [Documentation] Added info about using CapsLock to trigger FARR.
  • [MinorFeature] Added option to not launch results via function keys

New in Find and Run Robot 2.105.01 (Apr 3, 2012)

  • [Feature] New option to position FARR window centered on current monitor when triggered.
  • [Feature] For portable users, program now checks for ConfigDir_Default.ini if ConfigDir.ini not found; prevents your custom ConfigDir.ini file from being overwritten when unpacking portable distribution zip.
  • [Feature] For portable users, StartWithWindows option now starts unchecked on first use, if running in portable mode.
  • [Feature] ConfigDir.ini directory now supports environmental variable replacement, including %COMPUTERNAME%.
  • [Feature] Pressing Ctrl while you hit Enter will now launch the selected (or first if in search box) item AND keep the FARR window open.
  • [Doc] Added note about excluding FARR from Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus for better performance.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.104.01 (Apr 3, 2012)

  • [MajorFeature] Executable and setup are now digitally signed for extra security; instead of a zip-compatible installer, there are now 2 separate downloads for installer and portable version.
  • [BugFix] When using the -launch commandline call, and several other unusual places where files were launched, custom plugins were not being given a chance to take over launching.
  • [BugFix] Some windows 7 start menu items were failing to launch (for example the Snipping tool)
  • [MinorFeature] Added context menu item to run the selected result "as admin"
  • [MinorFeature] New option in custom font overides to set statusbar font size same as small text fontsize.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.102.03 (Apr 3, 2012)

  • [BugFix] Restores previous custom myaliases.alias.bak file automatically if it was erased by previous installer bug.
  • [MinorFeature] Better backing up of alias files after editing.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.102.02 (Oct 4, 2011)

  • [BugFix] Alias contents that used % variables were not showing their application icons if a default icon was specified for alias -- thanks Ulf.
  • [BugFix] The new advanced option to block saving of settings was enabled by default (STUPID).
  • [BugFix] The updater dialog was not showing program name.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.102.01 (Oct 4, 2011)

  • [BugFix] Document files that started with . were not being launched properly.
  • [Feature] New option for specifying a custom portable document opener which will be used to launch documents (works well with Portable Extension Warlock).
  • [Feature] Added command sendkeys to allow alias results to simulate keypresses (alternative to paste); for syntax see here.
  • [MinorFeature] You can now use % variables and environmental variables in \ICON entries for alias results.
  • [MinorFeature] Version # now shown in tray icon hint.
  • [MinorFeature] Added option to prevent FARR from saving settings except when closing Options dialog -- useful ONLY for users on network share or similar scenario.
  • [MinorFeature] Added option to close after toolbar button launch.
  • [MinorFeature] Added new value plugins can retrieve, "userdatadir", which points to writeable directory where plugins should store any (uniquely named) configuration files.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.101.01 (Oct 4, 2011)

  • [BugFix] The %MYRECENTDOCS% macro was not being expande

New in Find and Run Robot 2.99.01 (Jun 13, 2011)

  • [MinorFeature] You can now drag files onto custom toolbar button to open them with the toolbar command; as always you can still just select a result and click the toolbar button.
  • [MinorFeature] You can now use Ctrl+Backspace and Ctrl+Delete to delete previous and next words from search edit cursor position, and ctrl+left/right arrows to move cursor by words; i still don't know why people use this feature but users demanded it.
  • [MinorChange] Changed wording of result context menu items for adding scoring rules.
  • [BugFix] Fixed problem where FARR window would sometimes slightly change size after multiple executions.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.98.01 (Jun 13, 2011)

  • [MinorFeature] Added ability to set caret position when triggering search via hotkey (put $caret; where you want caret).
  • [MinorFeature] Eliminated inefficiency when triggering search via hotkey.
  • [MinorFeature] Added option to do early replacing of %environmental% and user variables in the search text (useful for directory browsing).
  • [BugFix] Hotkey option to not clear search text was not being obeyed.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.96.01 (Feb 7, 2011)

  • [BugFix] No more "No Disk in Drive" errors on shortcuts that link to unmounted drives (yay! thanks to all testers)
  • [MinorFeature] New options on Search Behavior tab to disable shortcut resolving (can speed up search of start menu but prevents search matching real linked filenames)

New in Find and Run Robot 2.95.01 (Jan 17, 2011)

  • [BugFix] New updater code was popping up options dialog on checking, could result in random display of options dialog every 12 hours for no reason.
  • [BugFix] The ++arguments method of passing commandline arguements now does not lowercase options
  • [MinorFeature] Added some commandline options.
  • [MinorFeature] Added some plugins to list of installable plugins (farrwindowssearch,farrwebmetasearch,farrmilk)

New in Find and Run Robot 2.93.01 (Nov 22, 2010)

  • [MinorFeature] New minimal built-in update checking (optional) even for users with the DcUpdater tool installed.
  • [BugFix] Properties dialog now shows on Windows 7.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.92.01 (Nov 22, 2010)

  • [MinorFeature] Added "balloon" launch command for showing a balloon mesage

New in Find and Run Robot 2.91.01 (Nov 22, 2010)

  • [BugFix] Better default icons for web urls (could be blank in previous version)
  • [MinorFeature] You can now (manually) add urls and "restartsearch ..." entries to the history list

New in Find and Run Robot 2.90.01 (Aug 19, 2010)

  • [MajorFeature] Faster wakeup display from minimized state (see also the StayInMemoryLonger option on General Options tab)
  • [Feature] Alias matches now show instantly even when keypress delay option is enabled.
  • [BugFix] When you do not have "stop on exact alias match" checked and an alias was matched, it could show large numbers of results.
  • [Feature] New install of farr now adds the search directory %PROGRAMFILES64% which will search in the win64 specific program files directory (not just the Program Files (x86) directory); older users should add this directory manually.
  • [BugFix] When launch results had an argument that ended in \ it could mess up launching of them
  • [BugFix] When the option to show FARR in taskbar when active was set, there was an additional delay before FARR could start accepting characters after unminimizing.
  • [MinorFeature] Added text in options tabs reminding people to right-click to add/edit/delete items.
  • [MinorFeature] Added version of appcapappendmemo that doesn't scroll to bottom of memo.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.87.03 (May 5, 2010)

  • [MinorFeature] appcapappendmemo now auto scrolls to bottom of memo.
  • [MinorFeature] new alias launch string to explicitly go to end of memo (gomemobottom)
  • [MinorFeature] modified text in alias dialog to make clear alias name was also trigger text
  • [MinorFeature] attempt to remove some blinking from memo mode when text doesn't change.
  • [BugFix] attempt to extend max length of environmental variable replacement in things like search directories
  • [Feature] you can now refer to the currently selected result (or first result) using a variable replacement (%CURRENTRESULTNB%); especially useful for triggering actions via hotkey.
  • [Feature] you can now recursively include file contents with the #filecontents alias string.
  • [Feature] improved and documented the use of * for alias pattern to always match search against contents.
  • [Feature] added -exitifnotrunning commandline option and clarified help on others.
  • [Feature] added error on commandline args that aren't understood.
  • [Feature] now checks the return value from plugin Initialize function; if false is returned, the plugin is not loaded. This could break plugins that have been returning false from the Initialization function in the past with no effect.
  • [Feature] you can now ask FARR to recache the search folder directories and re-resolve any user variable or environment variables, using the recachedirpaths launch string.
  • [Feature] added ewemoa's "fhelp" alias file that provides direct links into farr chm help file based on matching
  • [Feature] errors parsing xml files are now reported (and saved to troubleshooting log)

New in Find and Run Robot 2.80.01 (Nov 20, 2009)

  • [Feature] - Ability to customize titlebar, including ability to put date and time in it.
  • [BugFix] - Users can no longer delete built-in hotkeys (but they can be disabled).
  • [MinorFeature] - Added option to disable troubleshooting log.
  • [Feature] - You can launch an item as an administrator by holding Ctrl+Shift as you launch it (or adding /runasadmin to the result in alias list)
  • [Feature] - The launch history and search history are now saved to independent files (in config dir) instead of the ini file; allows faster save of bigger lists, and means less paranoia when moving and sharing normal ini settings file.
  • [MinorFeature] - Improved text of options dialog for history options.
  • [MinorFeature] - When reducing the number of items to keep in history, it now truncates the current list.
  • [BugFix] - When launch history reached max, new items were not being added.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.77.02 (Aug 28, 2009)

  • [BugFix] - When option to use numpad keys to launch was set, numpad keys could not be used for memo/html mode typing of numbers (which hindered their use in calculator plugins for example).
  • [BugFix] - Changing skins preview while options dialog was open sometimes showed larger window than it should.
  • [BugFix] - Triggering toolbar button with .lnk file argument was not resolving the lnk.
  • [BugFix] - Farr was showing more results than it should if an alias used the dosearch action.
  • [BugFix] - Alias action modifier launching was not working.
  • [BugFix] - When launching alias results that were .lnk files, the /showmax type alias arguements were not obeyed.
  • [MinorFeature] - some options moved to new tabs in options.
  • [BugFix] - Moving and deleting items in one of the option lists could on rare occasions lead to an error when loading the ini file on next run (would report bad ini file and reset to defaults).
  • [MinorFeature] - Using the paste special alias command now pastes
  • when the
  • constant is found in the paste text.
  • [Feature] - You can now customize the result background color for the main results window and search edit box.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.75.01 (Jul 27, 2009)

  • [Minor Feature] Attempt to speed up first display by pre-checking file existence in history.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.71.01 (Jul 13, 2009)

  • [BugFix] Icons for shortcut links with custom icon settings were not being shown properly due to change in v2.70.01; hopefully now this is fixed and the previous x64 shortcut/icon fixup stuff is still working.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.70.01 (Jul 8, 2009)

  • [BugFix] Using the igo alias multiple times could result in an error about "Resource In Use" for users with old versions of Internet Explorer 6 installed.
  • [BugFix] Attempt to fix icon display and launching for some .LNK shortcuts (especially x64 programs on x64 OS); let's see if this breaks anything for other users.
  • [BugFix] Clarified the statusbar display during initial searching.
  • [MinorFeature] Program now checks file existence of previous launch history on startup which should avoid the delay on first search.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.67.01 (Jun 28, 2009)

  • [BugFix] Pressing * on numpad was ignored if you had the "launch with numpad option set":
  • [MinorFeature] Plugins can now call resolve:filename to have FARR fixup the location of a file if the drive letter has changed.
  • [MinorFeature] Toolbar buttons that try to perform a restartsearch by invoking the FindAndRunRobot.exe are now simply passed along directly to the running process.'
  • [MinorFeature] Toolbar button links are now resolved if they refer to files whose drive letters have changed (portable use).
  • [BugFix] Calling setsearch and window.show from a plugin was causing hidden window to appear but search text to be ignored. Hopefully the fix won't break anything -- let me know if it does.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.66.01 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • [BugFix] Fixed bug where plugin functions OnProcessTriggerV2 were not being called if OnProcessTrigger didnt exist in the plugin dll (even though it was never used).
  • [MinorFeature] Added pscommand which works just like pcommand except you can specific dll to send a pscommand to by specifying the dllname first.
  • [BugFix] Fixed bug with alert messages moving the main form on multimon systems.
  • [MinorFeature] Added print command that aliases or plugins can call to send some simple text to the printer.
  • [BugFix] Visit this alias context menu item was not showing right caption sometimes.
  • [Feature] Added help page on troubleshooting.
  • [Feature] Added clearmenus command that plugins can call to clear statusbar icon menus.
  • [Feature] Upgraded to latest version of EmbeddedWb web browser component
  • [Feature] Added function "score:" that plugins can call to have farr score a string based on current search terms.
  • [BugFix] On IE6 and earlier, repeated plugin calls that use html view (jscalc,czbpack plugins) could hang.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.63.01 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • [Feature] Added option to always reset search string when hotkey triggered (default is old behavior which is to just refocus farr window if already on screen).
  • [Feature] Added new alias action called "dolaunch" which is like dosearch except it triggers an immediate launch of the specified line as soon as a match is made with search string (i.e. user does not have to hit enter or otherwise trigger result).

New in Find and Run Robot 2.62.01 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • [Feature] Added runcap built in alias to shell a commandline tool and show its output in FARR window (see this forum post).
  • [Feature] Improved seed of changing/interrupting search of plugin -- should speed up some plugin searches that return lots of results.
  • [BugFix] Variables weren't being replaced in the #filecontents command.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.61.01 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • [BugFix] Autofixing of missing paths was changing root drive letters to a valid drive; now only more specific search paths which are found on moved drives are fixed.
  • [BugFix] A blank showmemo which would be useful to clear memo before running appcapappendmemo was not working, now it does.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.60.02 (Jun 22, 2009)

  • [Feature] - Added "appcapnowait" launch command to launch an app to capture its output, but continue running launch strings without waiting for it to finish.
  • [Feature] - Added "appwait" launch command to launch an app, NOT capture its output, and wait for completion before continuing.
  • [Feature] - Apps run through "appcapappendmemo" and associated functions that write into memo live are now terminated if user starts a new search.
  • [Feature] - Added display of extra info in statusbar as appcap and related functions are running.
  • [BugFix] - Hiding slide numbers was messing up display [fixed in v2.60.02]
  • [Feature] - Added keyword -history to temporarly disable, on the current search, the use of and scoring modifications from the launch history list.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.59.01 (May 16, 2009)

  • [Feature] - Added launch command "appcapappendmemo" to show console tool output as it runs instead of at end.
  • [Feature] - Added launch command "tempmemofont" to temporarily switch memo font to fixed font (useful for some console tools which use spacing/tabs).

New in Find and Run Robot 2.58.01 (May 16, 2009)

  • [MinorFeature] - Added $$h1 available in aliases like $$u1, for useful encoding for curl commandline.
  • [BugFix] - Folder icons were not being displayed properly since v. 2.57.01.
  • [Feature] - Added troubleshooting log in options dialog -- can be used to log debug/troubleshooting info.
  • [Feature] - Plugins that crash the program on load are now auto-detected and temporarily disabled.
  • [BugFix] - Large icon results sometimes resulted in too small window during autosizing.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.57.01 (May 16, 2009)

  • [MinorFeature] - You can now choose how to handle large 48x48 icons when the windows system is configured to use Large Icons, and these will display properly.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.56.01 (Apr 24, 2009)

  • [BugFix] - Replacement of variables was happening prematurely in alias launch strings; hopefully this bugfix doesn't cause unintended changes in behavior.
  • [Feature] - You can now pass commandline arguments to any launched program by typing "++ any args here" at the end of your search string.
  • [Feature] - New Search Behavior Option that lets you enable or disable(default) scoring of files in explicit directory browsing mode.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.55.01 (Apr 24, 2009)

  • [MinorFeature] - Added variables accessible by aliases: %SEARCHBOX% (contents of current search box as shown) and %SEARCHSTRING% (current search string; may differ from search box based on alias dosearch manipulations).
  • [MinorFeature] - Updated to be compatible with new VclSkin Builder version 5.
  • [MinorFeature] - Added modal messagebox function DisplayMsgBox that plugins can call.
  • [BugFix] - DeleteAll from launch history wasn't working.
  • [MinorFeature] - Added commandline option -launch.
  • [Feature] - Added delayed search initiation option.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.54.01 (Apr 24, 2009)

  • [BugFix] - the new setuservar alias launch string wasn't working right.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.53.01 (Apr 24, 2009)

  • [BugFix] - Web browser errors were being shown as popups when they shouldn't be.
  • [Feature] - Added variables available to aliases and plugins for querying %LASTURL%, %LASTURLSET%, %CUSTOMFILEBROWSER%, %CUSTOMWEBBROWSER%, %MAXRESULTS% and more.
  • [Feature] - Added ability to set uservars from an alias launch string.
  • [Modification] - Changed the way non-regex plugins are passed the nonlcsearchstring: the alias keyword trigger is now removed from the string passed to the plugin.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.52.01 (Apr 24, 2009)

  • [BugFix] - Fixed a very rare bug that was causing crashed on some pcs (thank you David A. for the help tracking this down)

New in Find and Run Robot 2.51.01 (Apr 24, 2009)

  • [BugFix] - Some plugin alias results were being shown even in directory browse mode.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.50.01 (Apr 24, 2009)

  • [BugFix] - the #grabfile alias results trick wasn't working if you didn't precede it with a "label |" prefix

New in Find and Run Robot 2.49.01 (Apr 24, 2009)

  • [Feature] - Web browser mode now handles javascript commands to close the window without crashing with OLE error.
  • [Feature] - Some dynamically created javascript ajax scripts in test plugins were failing to run.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.48.01 (Mar 2, 2009)

  • added variable %APPDRIVE% for portable use.
  • added new launch virtual command "waitforhtml" that attempts to wait until the web browser contents are loaded.
  • updated to latest version of EmbeddedWebBrowser control.
  • added "appwait" launch command to launch an app and wait for it to finish (but not redirect stdio).
  • added ability to put in a separator in a custom menu.
  • Ctl+R and Ctrl+P in edit box now work as if you had selected first item and then hit those keys (shows context menu or custom menu)
  • Ctrl+T will show any custom statusbar buttons as a menu.
  • Plugins are now sent Tab Key (#8) to takeover if they want (but plugin must return TRUE to receivekey call to take it over; other more general keys may be added)
  • Type "goareload" to reload all aliases (but not plugins)
  • File extension restrictions in search directory configuration no longer affect folder name searching
  • Typing + or - at end of search string yielded unusual results
  • Tweaked Leftmost bonus scoring heuristic to try to improve points added for matching on left side of words.
  • Attempting to improve automatic url encoding of web urls -- still not perfect but hopefully improved.
  • Added new ability to use $$u1 and $$uc to explicitly ask farr to urlencode a search string arguement.
  • Added new option to hide system tray completely (when farr is minimized).
  • Tried new code to show history on blank search which gives plugins a chance to trigger. Needs testing.
  • Directory entries can now contain multiple directories, separated by ; which is useful if you want to use an environmental path like %PATH%.
  • Added %ALLDESKOP% and %USERPROFILE%Application DataMicrosoftInternet ExplorerQuick Launch to preconfigured default search directories.
  • In an alias contents you can now specify #filecontents fullfilenamewithpathhere (can use %ALIASDIR%), to have the contents of the file dumped into the alias results when searching.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.43.01 (Jan 1, 2009)

  • Added postpluginlaunch call for plugins.
  • Using
  • when doing restartsearch wasn't always working (with special buildin aliases like preload)
  • Trying to allow launch modifiers (like /winmin) on each launch of a multilaunch ;;; separated line
  • Icons in custom context menus were not being shown correctly.
  • Custom icons in statusbar were not all being shown.

New in Find and Run Robot 2.34.01 (Dec 1, 2008)

  • [BugFix] - Directory browsing wasn't working if you had the "show folder matches by default" option unchecked

New in Find and Run Robot 2.27.01 (Jul 29, 2008)

  • [MinorFeature] - Changed default memory use to "Average" (was Use More Memory When Minimized)
  • [Bug Fix] - 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)
  • [Bug Fix] - 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")
  • [MinorFeature] - Added alert alias launch string to help debugging aliases
  • [MinorFeature] - The %LASTHWND% replacement string is now available to aliases and plugins
  • [Bug Fix] - Using an action modifier alias on drive letters like C: will now replace with C: (slash at end)
  • [Bug Fix] - Some plugin aliases were being listed if the search edit box contained only explicit path and modifiers
  • [Bug Fix] - The addnote alias was incorrectly referring to the helper addnote.exe file
  • [Bug Fix] - Pressing enter when a partial alias with one result should launch the alias but was autocompleting it instead; fixed
  • [MinorFeature] - You can add
  • at the end of a search string in an alias or hotkey configuration to launch the result immediately

New in Find and Run Robot 2.00.144 Beta (Oct 23, 2007)

  • [bug fix] showmemo command now properly converts multiple
  • when displaying in text memo results
  • Added showfile command to show contents of a file into text memo results
  • [bug fix] All keyword modifiers are now forced to lowercase since mixed case resulted in failure to match when searching
  • You can now use PgUp, PgDn, ArrowUp, ArrowDn to scroll result memo view
  • [bug fix] 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
  • [bug fix] Virtual folder replacements now intelligently handle directory separators, so you can write for example �RRDIR%scripts or �RRDIR%scripts. This bug fix 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
  • [bug fix] 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
  • A dosearch virtual launch string that is blank will now show history of past launched files
  • [bug fix] Double quotes were being lost on url searching

New in Find and Run Robot 2.00.76 Alpha (Apr 17, 2007)

  • 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.