ANN: Dave's Quick Search Deskbar 3.1.4.3 (beta)

"Glenn Carr" <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:00:18 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.desktop.dqsd.announce
Message-ID <[email protected]>
A new version of DQSD is available now.  As usual, there are new and updated
searches, as well as some bug fixes.  There are also some internal changes
to help add-on writers.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42081&release_id=11793
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-- What's new for 3.1.4.3 beta (October 23, 2002)

New aliases

* dhr and w3r, from Glenn Carr and Will Dean

New Searches

* cheapcd - Buy Cheap CDs Online at Wholesale Cost, $5 under Retail (from
Steven J. Heil)
* md5 - calculate an md-5 digest for a string (from Brent Beardsley)
* tgn - Search the Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names (from Tim Aiello)
* arin - Search the Arin Whois database at www.arin.net/whois (from Tim
Aiello)
* ubl - the Ultimate Band List by ArtistDirect (from Darren Greenberg)
* viam - Find a map to any place in Europe with viamichelin.com
* cowp - Search for lyrics and chords for country songs (from Brent
Beardsley)
* egw - Search Ellen G. White's writings (from Brent Beardsley)
* ostk - Search Overstock.com for items (from Brent Beardsley)
* tinyurl - tinyurl.com is a link-shortening redirector (from Brent
Beardsley)
* sl - Search StudyLight.org for verses and Hebrew and Greek words

Modified Searches

* ascii - added link to www asciitable com so an ascii table will pop up if
no parameters are specified
* multi - added ability to have multiple searches with different arguments
and allow commas in arguments
* setiq - added delay parameter
* wpfr - reset persistent parameters
* bg    - added ability to search for phrases

Enhancements

* Added InstallationDirectory property to Launcher
* Added FindSubMenu, FindMenuItem, GetMenuItemCount, InsertMenuItem,
InsertSeparator, InsertSubMenu functions to MenuBuilder
* Added GetSpecialFolderLocation and GetFolders functions to Launcher
* Added GetMenuString, GetMenuItemID, EnableMenuItem, DisableMenuItem
functions to MenuBuilder

Bug Fixes

* Fix for tooltips problem on scrolling menus (bug 617639)  (DQSDTools.DLL
changes, version.js NOT changed to force upgrade)
* Remove HTML tags from menu item search names
* Stop indicating as '[local]' aliases defined in aliases.txt
* Sub categories and searches are now sorted properly in the help menu
* Fix for GetFiles and GetFolders in Launcher to close the FindFirstFile
handle when finished so files and directories don't
  stay locked



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