Aqua-Soft Forums@sharknut The question about indexing of contents that are not stored in files was already answered *cought* =P
@firecracker6 What is flickering exactly? Also, provide information about your machine and your system....
SearchSpy Spotlight clone.
I just updated to the new version; the flickering has been reduced greatly in this release. However still occurs when you start typing in the search bar. The flickering is of the entire desktop, or desktop icons
Also, in the Options tab of the preferences window, changing the rightclick menu results from window to SearchSpy does not save when restarting the application and reverts back to "Windows" upon a restart.
Also, with SearchSpy's right click menu selected, rightclicking on returned results and choosing: "open folder" does not return the proper directory with the desired file but returns another folder containing one of the results in the list. (misaligned?)
Also, when you first click on the systray icon, the searchbar appears with the cursor blinking in the text field, this leads me to start typing a search immediately, but I discover that the text field does not have focus and I need to re-click back into the text field... Could this be fixed so that once the systray icon is clicked, the text field would be have focus to immediately start typing?
- Shadows (without need of any external app).
Could you please tell me how to enable shadows? Do you mean Shadows for the SearchBar?
Also, my earlier question about whether or not SearchSpy could return Folders as results went unanswered, but upon doing some searches it seems that no, SearchSpy does not return Folder results. Could you possibly provide an option in the program to "Return Folders in Search Results" ? Is this programmatically possible? A humble request 
My System is an HP Laptop Pavilion zd8000 series, 1gb ram, WindowsXPProSP2 Fully updated, with FlyakiteOSX3Beta4, Vanim, AVG Free Antispyware, WB5 via Stardock Central, GDS, TopDesk, Strokeit mouse gestures, Konfabulator 2.1.1.
I have a couple of suggestions...
-Floating button (position anywhere on screen [or dock to taskbar])
-Customizable hotkeys
-The option to change the SearchSpy text on the search bar
-When you click off of the search bar, make it go away.
Other than those things, I'm pretty sure this is the best Spotlight clone I've used.
Great work
I have a couple of suggestions...-Floating button (position anywhere on screen [or dock to taskbar])
-Customizable hotkeys
-The option to change the SearchSpy text on the search bar
-When you click off of the search bar, make it go away.
Other than those things, I'm pretty sure this is the best Spotlight clone I've used.
Great work
1. You can move the menu by simply dragging the blue area
2. I'll try to.
3. SearchSpy is the name of the app. Don't know yet if I'll let people put "Spotlight" there:p
4. I can be anoying to some people.
@firecracker6 Shadows suposed to be enabled if you enabled them in windows. They're not big. (Look like the ones in popup menus). I used the same shadow as windows because any other kind of shadow would be a pain to create. I'll work on the bugs, thanks for the feedback.
On the Spotlight button?1. You can move the menu by simply dragging the blue area
On the Spotlight button?
No. I meant you can simply drag the menu like you drag a window. Just click into the SearchSpy name (or any place near it) and drag.
It seems as if I spoke too early. Even when using GDS I still get the same error messages when lcoking my computer- please see the screen shots below.
Also, in the Options tab of the preferences window, changing the rightclick menu results from window to SearchSpy does not save when restarting the application and reverts back to "Windows" upon a restart.
I get this problem also.
thanks but I still can not search from the bar-only from the larger window-why is this happening?
Please help me!
Oh wow dude, thanks soooooooo much.
theres no way i can express my graditude and imagine how u could have done this.
it almost seems like you scrunched all the spotlight clones together into one whole..... *THING*
well i would like to know, is there a setting for like "always ontop" or like "never ontop?"
thanks again.
Ghostboy11:cool:
After playing around with this program a bit I have a few suggestions/questions about features
1) Is there any way to desaturate the colour of the SearchSpy Menu so that I can get a milk-like colour/look.
2) Also can you launch the search window from the menu? For example Shift+Return opens the search window with the results. Rather than having to click on "Show All". Possibly encompased by the already mentioned hot-key functionality.
3) While search spy cannot return chat/email results- is there any way to compare the full number of file results to the full number of all results returned next to the search box- and some way indicate that "There may be x-number of email/chat/other results" from this comparison. This may also link to a GDS search page that includes these results...
REALLY GREAT! This is definatly the very best one out there! And also the most functional.
Ähm, i'm sure someone has ask you before but is there a possibility for full language spport? Something like language.ini?
toner
I still can not search from the search box-can someone please help me?
please please help me-i can not seem to figure out why i cant search
Me to, the cursor will not appear in the search box to enable me to start typing
Nice. Any way to show preview images of photos and movies in the main window?
oh dear, im lost... uhm how do i use this... after typing, it does not give results...
hm.. the searchspy systray for me immediately disappears when i start searchspy. only after playing around with the preferences, it shows up.
any idea why this is happening?
edit: nevermind, i found out my shortcut to searchspy had -noicon as a parameter.. =
this is the first spotlight clone that i actually like keeping open, since it can be placed at the bottom
is it possible to remove the shadow? and possibly changing the "SearchSpy" text <.<;
Here we go again i fear with a good app that works for some and not for others and for the ones it wont work for we are doomed the spend the next few months asking questions and waiting for little or no help on this forum..is it all worth it i ask myself often.....and then come back for more !
When people spend months developing apps why dont they just spend a few hours writing a few instructions and tips and including it with the program, it would save us all a lot of time.
P.S. thanks for a great app ...........
-Floating button (position anywhere on screen [or dock to taskbar])Great work
I believe what he is asking for is a spotlight icon like in OS X, where it is integrated into the taskbar, not the system tray.
I believe what he is asking for is a spotlight icon like in OS X, where it is integrated into the taskbar, not the system tray.
No, I'm asking for a floating button so us objectbar users can use it, too.
No, I'm asking for a floating button so us objectbar users can use it, too.
Objectbar users can already use it. As stated in the very first post! Just use the parameter -noicon at the end of the shortcut to SearchSpy. So your icon in ObjectBar shortcut would look someting like: Path to SearchSpy/SearchSpyMenu.exe -noicon
Simple, eh? 
That being said, I would really like a floating button that could be added to the taskbar like Sean was asking for. One that the user could define which image was used or a default image with the same color-shiftability. Also, I'd like to second the addition of a saturation slider so that we can have grays and whites as well.
Thanks for this great application and we all look forward to its developement!
It does not search. May this happen cause I refuse the prog to connnect to the internet with my zonealarm?
To get it right, I am not a flamer but I want a desktop search only and I don't like it to connect to the internet WHATSOEVER! =(
It should only index and search my hdd, what does it on the web?! Please help, I am looking for a good spotlight clone!
GDS runs as a small webserver on your computer.. so maybe by blocking SearchSpy you have blocked its access to localhost on port 4664 so it cannot query GDS for search results.
No, I don't have GDS installed because of the webaccess and the fact it sends data to the web! But instead I use the local host prog as indexer; SearchSpy actually claims access to internet, no local access! What am I doing wrong?