I really like the fuzzy matching search algorithm that Sublime Text 2 uses for its command palette and I was hoping to create something similar that runs through the Windows 7 Start menu search.
I already found the Windows API Code Pack for .NET Framework but that only seems to provide API hooks for using the existing Windows Search inside my own applications.
Is there any way to modify or replace the search algorithm that the Start menu search uses for searching installed applications and files?
I am pretty sure that is not possible. But it shouldn't be hard to program a little something that overlays the search box and (if there is something in the search box) also the results area. With this custom gadget it wouldn't be hard to use any search algo you want.
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I'm creating a Roku app in SceneGraph and trying to near duplicate the search functionality I had using the old SDK. I'm stuck at only being able to display the mini keyboard. I'm trying to add buttons via buttongroup (i.e., Search, Cancel) but having two issues:
Not sure how to get the text string that's typed into the mini keyboard and store that in a variable or field so I can perform the search on it.
How to create a Search button and give it focus when user is ready to search for the string they entered.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
SGDEX (Scenegraph Developer Extensions) is what you need. They have a view called "SearchView". Look it up.
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RALE (Roku Advanced Layout Editor) has good search options. - I have been unable to find a decent Search sample. It would be cool if we could export the source code from RALE.
However if you haven't tried RALE. You could upload your script, then add search to it.
I am working on a form, for which I would rather not rely on the one fingered typists in the workshop to fill in (with the inevitable typo's). Therefore I wondered if anyone know how to speak directly into some cells in excel and have that speech turned into text?
I have searched the net and constantly find the text to speech option which is the exact opposite of what I would like to do.
Although this question might be more appropriate for a different site (e.g. https://superuser.com/), here's some information that's out there.
Windows has built-in support to speech-to-text. This article is for Windows 7, but I was able to do something similar to get it to work for Windows 10 (I'm not sure what version of Windows your shop uses). I'm sure there are other commercial products you can use.
With Windows 10, I had to enable speech services, then use the Win+H keyboard shortcut to activate dictation. With Excel open and in focus, anything I said was entered into the active cell.
Long ago, I was using the hack given in http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/VimTip805 . This hack allowed me to edit any active window frame using gvim. For instance, I was able to edit my gmail replies using gvim.
Unfortunately, the hack does not work to me any more. Is there any other way to achieve the same? Or at least to achieve the same using some concrete browser (for example, firefox)?
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you can use GhostText with running server vim-ghost. Its not ideal, but allow to interactively use external editor (text is automatically copied to a web textarea element each return to normal mode).
Vim-ghost is written in tcl so you need install tcl.
In my case I have tcl installed but without standard library tcllib. So I found lacking packages in tcllib (tcllib/module/sha1 and tcllib/module/json) and copy them to a folder listed in tcl path (the first result of echo $tcl_pkgPath). More info: man pkg_mkIndex or here.
Of course vim-ghost server must be run (eg. in autorun script):
~/.ghost-text-server.tcl &
You can also like Vimium to navigate through web using links, tabs, j, gg and many vim-like features.
You should check vimperator( pentadactyl, which is a fork of vimperator). They offer the ability to edit text boxes, but also offers several additional functions that allow you to control firefox in a similar way to Vim.
If you prefer Vim only for edit text boxes you could try the firefox plugin "It's all text", as mentioned by Kent.
I'd recommend It's All Text plugin for Firefox.
In the past, I have used thinking_sphinx with Rails 2.3 and I found no problems with it. Is it worth considering a new search option?
What are the differences between searchlogic and thinking_sphinx? Is there a better alternative for Rails 3? I am keeping my options open at the moment and I am looking for suggestions.
The search functionality will need to perform full text search, efficiently and would probably be better if results were indexed.
Go for thinking sphinx. I have used searchlogic in 2.3.x apps but I couldn't use it for Rails 3 although it's probably working now. And remember that searchlogic isn't designed for full text searching.
The helpers for sorting are helpful. But in my opinion nothing beats full text search.
You should check out Sunspot - https://github.com/outoftime/sunspot
It uses the Apache Solr search engine and works well in Rails 3.
I'm developing a Win CE 6 OS image and want to make it fit in the "Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Core Run-Time License".
This means, among other things, that I have to remove the Wordpad application.
From a product service and development perspective I'd like to replace it with something similar but free.
One thought was to do a simple editor in C#/CF.Net but I'd rather like to find something which can be plugged in and works, preferable free or at least cheaper than the 15$ per unit a bumped up license would cost.
Is there any suitably licensed text editors out there which are available for Win CE 6?
I don't need a rich text editor just a simple text editor to edit xml and text configuration files. The editor must be able to handle utf-8/unicode.
cke is quite good and I'm sure you can make some kind of a deal with it's author. CEdit is another good one.
I ended up writing my own simple file editor in C#/WinForms. Not great, but gets the job done.