| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| Rob |
Posted - 03/09/2012 : 07:15:40
From forum member Kingron comes an action which searches Google for the selected text. So, if you highlight a segment of text, this action will copy it to the clipboard then open up a browser and perform a Google search for the selected text:
acSendKeys("{DELAY=50}^c")
acDelay(50)
local s = acGetClipboardText()
s = 'https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&output=search&q=' .. s
acShellExecute("open","rundll32.exe", "url.dll,FileProtocolHandler "..s, nil, 1) |
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| Marcel |
Posted - 04/11/2013 : 19:37:56
Actually, the following works how I want it to, it just makes a sound if there is a no text selected (as it would if text isn't selected and Ctrl+c is pressed) which is just a little annoying. I tweaked the default "Open Link in New Tab / Open New Tab" action.
-- this code does one of three things:
--
-- - if the mouse cursor is a HAND, the link below the cursor
-- is opened in a new tab.
-- - If the mouse cursor is not a HAND and text is not selected
-- a new browser tab is opened.
-- - If text is selected, a Google search is opened in a new tab
-- using the selected text as the search query.
--
-- this action is executed by holding the stroke button and
-- clicking the left mouse button, either over a link or anywhere
-- over the browser for a new tab, with text selected if a Google
-- search is desired.
if acGetMouseCursorType() == "HAND" then
acMouseClick(gsx, gsy, 1, 1, 1)
else
local sb = acGetClipboardText()
acSendKeys("{DELAY=50}^c")
acDelay(50)
local sa = acGetClipboardText()
if sa ~= sb then
sa = 'https://www.google.co.nz/search?q='..sa
acShellExecute("open","rundll32.exe",
"url.dll,FileProtocolHandler "..sa, nil, 1)
else
acSendKeys("^t")
end
end
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| Marcel |
Posted - 04/11/2013 : 19:18:51
Is it possible to detect if text is selected, ready to be copied? I'm just trying to integrate this function with the default "Open Link in New Tab / Open New Tab" action so that if text is selected, a Google search in a new tab will be done. |
| Hax |
Posted - 05/06/2012 : 04:51:24
Thanks for the hint.
I've just combined a S+ gesture with some compiled AHK script (once again!) and now it works like a charm with all those special characters.  |
| Rob |
Posted - 05/05/2012 : 19:14:42
That's because the search string must be URL encoded or the server thinks you're delimiting a query string parameter.
Check these links for more info (I'm pressed for time at the moment and can't put a script together for you):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4297655/lua-string-replace
http://www.lua.org/pil/20.1.html (search for "replace")
You want to replace all "&" with "%26" and for good measure, replace " " with "%20" (in your search string only ["Tom & Jerry" should look like "Tom%20%26%20Jerry" in the URL itself).
Again, I haven't tested anything, but that's the root of the issue. |
| Hax |
Posted - 05/05/2012 : 08:44:18
It doesn't work properly with the ampersand character. For instance, the selected text like "Tom & Jerry" is always getting cut after "Tom". Is there any workaround for this? |
| breakcore |
Posted - 03/12/2012 : 05:35:36
quote:
Originally posted by Rob
Typing from my phone, so I can't give a thorough example for replicating your autoit script, but all strings in lua must have special characters escaped. your g:\other\... should be g:\\other\\...
Thanks! it's working now.
plus the parameter with spaces in it passes correctly only if enclosed additionally with single quotes:
acRunProgram("C:\\app.exe",'"parameter with spaces"',"",0)
otherwise only the part before the first space is passing. i think this shoul'd be described in the action info. |
| Rob |
Posted - 03/11/2012 : 16:33:41
Typing from my phone, so I can't give a thorough example for replicating your autoit script, but all strings in lua must have special characters escaped. your g:\other\... should be g:\\other\\... |
| breakcore |
Posted - 03/11/2012 : 16:06:43
quote:
searches Google for the selected text
I guess it searches opening a default brouser. What if i want to run chrome logged in to a certain profile?
Normally in SI I did that making an Autoit script which was launched by assigned gesture. But in S+ I can't figure out what the correct syntax is for launching program with parameters.
here:
acRunProgram("G:\\Program Files\\AutoIt3\\AutoIt3.exe", "G:\other\scripts\AutoIt\search.au3","",0)
i got this error:
:14:invalid escape sequence near '\0'
ps: here is one string from my autoit script:
ShellExecute("C:\Users\"&@UserName&"\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe","--login-user=***@gmail.com --login-password=*** "&"http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=" & $SearchQuery)
Do lua script have an alternative for that? |
| Hax |
Posted - 03/09/2012 : 08:47:45
If you want to change the language version of Google Search, simply replace "en" with a different country code top-level domain. For instance, "es" for Spanish, "de" for German, "pl" for Polish and so on. |
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