Update: EasySearch Plus! V.1.2.115

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Update: EasySearch Plus! V.1.2.115 by Tobiaz on 11-19-2005 at 09:40 PM

Update December 29th, 2005:

EasySearch Plus! includes now 10 Search-Engines:

Google
A9
Wikipedia
PicSearch
Altavista
Yahoo!
Answers
MSN Search
Search.com
LookSmart

You can search for Websites, Audio, Videos, Groups, News, Maps and Encyclopedia. As little 'extra' you can do Googlefights!

Special Thanks to CookieRevised for looking at the SourceCode and fixing the bugs!

To open the Search-Window, type:
/xESPSearch

To open the About-Dialog type:
/xESPAbout

To open the Configure-Window, type:
/xESPConfigure or /xESPConfig

To make a QuickSearch type:
/xQS <search text> <search engine> <search type>

(for the <search type> part, you can use the first Letter. P.E. for 'Websites' type 'w', or for 'Pictures' type 'p' or any abbrivation starting with that first letter for that matter.
(note: these can change per language)
eg: for 'Websites': 'web', 's', 'site', etc... for 'Pictures': 'pic', 'i', 'imag', 'images', etc...)

Also, the GoogleFight can be done from the command line now:
/xQS <search text1> | <search text2> Google Fight
eg:
/xQS dark vader|yoda g f

The additional alternative abbrivations for the search engines are:
(note: these are language independant, they are not translatable)
For AltaVista: 'alta', 'vista', 'av'
For Answers: 'answer'
For LookSmart: 'look', 'smart', 'ls'
For MSN Search: 'msn', 'ms'
For PicSearch: 'pic'
For Search.com: 'search'
For Wikipedia: 'wiki', 'wp'
For Yahoo!: 'yahoo', 'y'
And any other word/letter triggers the Google search.

Feel free to send me suggestions!

EasySearch Plus! is translated into other languages! If you want to translate it into your own language, or if you want to download an other language-file, goto the official translation site

You can download EasySearch Plus! here or use the Attachment.

Thank you for downloading (and for bug reports

)

Greeeeeez Tobiaz

RE: EasySearch Plus! V.1.0.0.24 by matty on 11-19-2005 at 10:52 PM

Ummm this is interesting little plugin. Honestly I don't see it being all that useful tho. What you could allow is /xEspSearch <search test>,<site>,<website/images>

RE: EasySearch Plus! V.1.0.0.24 by Tobiaz on 11-20-2005 at 07:34 AM

Yes... I know. I wanted to do this in the next update.
Something like /xEspQuickSearch <search> <site> <website>

I have allready began with that. It will be finished soon!

Greeeez

RE: Update: EasySearch Plus! V.1.0.0.34 by Sypher on 11-20-2005 at 05:23 PM

The idea is cool, but the command is way too long

How can we remember it?

maybe /xqs or something is better?

Just a thought, no flame intended

RE: Update: EasySearch Plus! V.1.0.0.34 by Tobiaz on 11-20-2005 at 05:48 PM

Yes... that's right.
I think /xqs is an good Shortcut. I will change it in the next Update.

Thank you Sypher!

Greeeeeeez

RE: Update: EasySearch Plus! V.1.0.0.34 by Sypher on 11-20-2005 at 06:01 PM

No problem. you're welcome.. I'll see my name in the about right? (j/k .. but you may do that though )

Looking forward to your upgrade

RE: Update: EasySearch Plus! V.1.0.0.34 by absorbation on 11-20-2005 at 06:41 PM

Your a good little programmer keep up the great work i know soon you will be creating famous plugins for plus!

RE: Update: EasySearch Plus! V.1.0.0.34 by Tobiaz on 11-20-2005 at 06:51 PM

Wow, thank you! That's really nice and motivating!

Greeeeeez

RE: Update: EasySearch Plus! V.1.0.0.34 by J-Thread on 11-20-2005 at 07:22 PM

Yeah you're a hard worker (Y)

With some help you'll be creating a lot of usefull plugins

RE: Update: EasySearch Plus! V.1.0.0.34 by CookieRevised on 11-21-2005 at 12:53 AM

I hate to say this, but you're making all the same mistakes as you did with HolidayCounter. Result: same old errors popping up everywhere and stuff and thus not working as it should.

error 13
error 440
error 5
etc...
you name it

PS: I've just send you the fixed source from HolidayCounter, I suggest you study it. eg: the method how preferences are loaded/saved/etc, how variables are used, what to do and what not to do, etc. Perfect one plugin first, aka: keep it to one easy plugin, like this quicksearch one, before developping more plugins.

RE: Update: EasySearch Plus! V.1.0.0.34 by Tobiaz on 12-05-2005 at 05:03 PM

So... Hello!
It's me...

I wanted to know, if someone has downloaded my plugin, and if someone found some bugs!

Cookie wrote, that at his PC some errors appears, but, is it on othermachines too!?

Thanks for reporting...

Greeeez

RE: Update: EasySearch Plus! V.1.0.0.34 by absorbation on 12-05-2005 at 05:16 PM

Works fine here, great little plugin Am i allowed to make a post about it?

A suggestion is get the installer skinned and lower the setup size as well as a brand new gui, i could help with these

RE: Update: EasySearch Plus! V.1.0.0.34 by Tobiaz on 12-05-2005 at 05:31 PM

Oh... now I didn't understand very much
What is a GUI? And what did you mean with

quote:
Originally posted by Absorbation
A suggestion is get the installer skinned

Ofcourse, your help is welcome

Greeeez Tobiaz

Edit:

quote:
Am i allowed to make a post about it

Of course you are...

RE: Update: EasySearch Plus! V.1.0.0.34 by absorbation on 12-05-2005 at 05:33 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Tobiaz
What is a GUI? And what did you mean with

the design of it. i think it could do with some graphics changes

Oh and the about screen should link to the possible search form you use just in case you dont or cannot open a convosation

RE: RE: Update: EasySearch Plus! V.1.0.0.34 by CookieRevised on 12-05-2005 at 06:03 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Tobiaz
Cookie wrote, that at his PC some errors appears, but, is it on othermachines too!?

My PC isn't that special though. The reason other people might not see the errors is for example because they already had a previous version of this plugin, or already had settings in their registry. So, unfortunatly, yep the plugin contains bugs...

RE: Update: EasySearch Plus! V.1.0.0.34 by Tobiaz on 12-05-2005 at 09:27 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Absorbation
the design of it. i think it could do with some graphics changes

Yes thats a great idea. If you want to help me, please contact me!

quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
So, unfortunatly, yep the plugin contains bugs...

I believe I always still didn't understand, what I make wrong with the plugins... 8-)

Greeez

RE: Update: EasySearch Plus! V.1.0.0.34 by absorbation on 12-06-2005 at 06:27 PM

i have a bug when the search form comes up you can edit the search engine name and what you search for. Making the results not work

RE: Update: EasySearch Plus! V.1.0.110 by Tobiaz on 12-18-2005 at 04:34 PM

Hi at all!
Are there any bugs found!?
If not, I will send my Plugin to the Plugin-Database!

What do you think!? Does it work good enough!?

Thank you

Greeeeeeez Tobiaz

RE: RE: Update: EasySearch Plus! V.1.0.110 by CookieRevised on 12-29-2005 at 01:02 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Tobiaz
Hi at all!
Are there any bugs found!?

after I got a look at the source, lots (unless many were fixed during the updates)

Though I still encounter the errors with your new updates as I posted before...

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Anyways, I've fixed the (old first version) source, added the stuff which you already added with your updates (so you wont loose any functionality like multi-lang, google fight, ...), added some more search engine stuff (fixed some urls, and fixed the non-encoding parsing bug), and send the new source to you. Including precompiled dll, ready to use

happy ~~easter~~ new year...

RE: Update: EasySearch Plus! V.1.0.115 by Tobiaz on 12-29-2005 at 11:21 AM

Yeeeeeees... That's really nice, Cookie!

I already updated the first post. There you can download the lates version!

Thanks again, Cookie!

Greeeeeez Tobiaz

RE: Update: EasySearch Plus! V.1.2.115 by CookieRevised on 12-29-2005 at 02:31 PM

PS: don't forget to update the language download page on your website: http://www.esp-translation.ch.vu/ and to update the german translation file in the setup (I only translated some keys).

Oh, and the English file isn't really needed in the setup either. Though you might wanna place it on the language download page as a template for people who want to translate EasySearch.

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To add to your first post:

quote:
Originally posted by Tobiaz
You can search for Websites, Audio, Videos, Groups, News, Maps and you can do Googlefights!

and encyclopedia

quote:
Originally posted by Tobiaz
To open the Configure-Window, type:
/xESPConfigure

or /xESPConfig

quote:
Originally posted by Tobiaz
To make a QuickSearch type:
/xQS <search text> <search engine> <search type>

Also, the GoogleFight can be done from the command line now:
/xQS <search text1> | <search text2> Google Fight
eg:
/xQS dark vader|yoda g f

quote:
Originally posted by Tobiaz
(for the <search type> part, you can use the first Letter. P.E. for 'Websites' type 'w', or for 'Pictures' type 'p' etc.)

or any abbrivation starting with that first letter for that matter.
(note: these can change per language)
eg: for 'Websites': 'web', 's', 'site', etc... for 'Pictures': 'pic', 'i', 'imag', 'images', etc...

The additional alternative abbrivations for the search engines are:
(note: these are language independant, they are not translatable)
For AltaVista: 'alta', 'vista', 'av'
For Answers: 'answer'
For LookSmart: 'look', 'smart', 'ls'
For MSN Search: 'msn', 'ms'
For PicSearch: 'pic'
For Search.com: 'search'
For Wikipedia: 'wiki', 'wp'
For Yahoo!: 'yahoo', 'y'
And any other word/letter triggers the Google search.

RE: Update: EasySearch Plus! V.1.2.115 by John Anderton on 12-29-2005 at 04:00 PM

Nice (Y)
I have downloaded it already tho i dont have plus! now so i cant use it
I'll have a look at it again when MP!L is out Thanks