Dave's Quick Search Deskbar 3.1.6.0

"Glenn Carr" <[email protected]> Sun, 20 Apr 2003 23:50:01 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.desktop.dqsd.announce
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sorry for the long delay.  I've bundled up the latest bits into a new
release, 3.1.6.0:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42081&release_id=15422
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-- What's new for 3.1.6.0 (20-Apr-2003)

Enhancements

* Moved txp search to computers->reference subcategory.  Added a usage
example.
* Added windowOpenFeatures that can be set in local preferences to further
customize the search windows that open up (from anonymous poster via Brent
Beardsley)
* Performance improvement to calendar (Will Dean)
* Performance improvement to inline style generation (used by calendar and
message boxes) (Will Dean)
* added edit local stylesheet menu option and a new variable to set for the
css editor called cssEditorExe so you can use TopStyle, Dreamweaver, etc
(from Brent Beardsley)
* added Belgian National Holidays (from Joris Verhuyck)
* Modified the US holidays file for 2003
* created an empty localsearches folder
* added swedish strings to strings.js
* Ctrl-Del to clear the history

New Searches

* abt - Search About.com
* alistapart - Search the A List Apart site (from Sarah S.)
* bio - Search the Biography.com database (from viking mel)
* blb - Search the bible at BlueLetterBible.org (from Brent Beardsley)
* bta - Search Betanews for new beta software (from Paul Hounshell)
* ccase - new function to convert case of a string - lower, upper, caps.
(from Sarah Sweeney)
* cs - ConsumerSearch.com search meta-reviews of other reviews (from Gregory
Krohne)
* ct - Search Content Type List (from Brent Beardsley)
* dqsd - Search the DQSD mail archive (Gregory Krohne)
* dseek - downseek.com software search
* dyndns - search dyndns
* encyfr - Search the encyclopédie Voila with Hachette Multimédia
* evolt - Search evolt.org (from Sarah S.)
* fs - FindSounds.com sound file search (from Gregory Krohne)
* hb - Hotbot.com search (from Gregory Krohne)
* htmlh - Search htmlhelp.com (from JB)
* mag - Search newspaper and magazine articles (from viking mel)
* mb - MapBlast.com LineDrive search (from Gregory Krohne)
* mg - Search MajorGeeks site for shareware and freeware
* nyse - enter a company name and get the lookup symbol and a short
description of that company (from viking mel)
* otn - Oracle Technology Network search (from Gregory Krohne)
* phpb - Search PHPBuilder (from Sarah Sweeney)
* rss - Searches syndicated RSS content feeds from sites and blogs (from
Aaron Vance).
* rw - Search the Ripe Whois Database for IP addresses
* thelist - Search evlot.org's thelist archives (from Sarah S.)
* tldp - Search The Linux Documentation Project (from Brent Beardsley)
* tr - Search ThomasRegister (from Brent Beardsley)
* tucows - search tucows (from Sarah S.)
* ubs - search for used books at http://www.used-books.org.uk/cgi/books.cgi
* wa - Search WebAttack for shareware and freeware
* wf - Search Watchman Fellowship for info on cults (from JB)
* winf - Brian's Buzz WinFind

Bug Fixes

* Installation script now sets approved shell extension registry key for
WinNT and it's descendants (from Brent Beardsley)
* Fix for bug [ 643947 ] up/down keys incompatible with Japanese (from Gregg
Tavares)

Modified Searches

* aj - updated Ask Jeeves search (from Sam Mulube)
* amaz - added /referral switch for building referral links for Amazon
* babel - updated to work again (from Brent Beardsley)
* chap - updated to work again (from Sarah Sweeney)
* configure - localized it and added Reload menu option, fixed bug when
addons directory did not exist (from Brent Beardsley)
* ebay - added about, all, feedback, items, my, and user switches (from
Darrick ? and Brent Beardsley)
* fe - now allows you to specify an extension name instead of only the first
letter (from Matthew McDougal)
* freetrans - updated to work again (from Brent Beardsley)
* php - added ability to search through the Smarty manual and for PEAR
packages
* sf - added status switch (from Brent Beardsley)
* telfr - updated accordingly to the web site
* yg - added mygroups switch to go to mygroups page (from Brent Beardsley)

Miscellaneous

* Corrected documentation in help for adding a local, user search.
* New holiday database - holidays.cs.xml for the Czech Republic (from Jiri
Sedlacek)
* New holiday database - holidays.gb.xml for England and Wales (James
Robertson)



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