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<H1 align="center">Favalias Documentation</H1>
<H5 align="left">URL : <A href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/favalias">http://sourceforge.net/projects/favalias</A> </H5>
<H5 align="right">email : <A href="mailto:jcmag@yahoo.com">jcmag@yahoo.com</A></H5>
<H3 align="left">About</H3>
<P align="left">The Favalias application enables you to launch your favorites
application using <A href="#aliases">aliases</A> (if you type "iis", it will
launch IIS Manager, "word" will launch MS Word, "query" will launch MS Sql
Server Query Analyser...) and manage your <A href="#favorites">favorites</A>
web sites in an XML file (so you can use them with any browser). You can also
perform a Google search by typing any other text.</P>
<P align="left">You can make <A href="#addins">addins</A> (written in any .NET
language) to call your own code using an alias. For example : typing "pwd" will
call some code that generate a strong password, "babel en_fr" will call the
Babelfish web service to translate a sentence from English to French,
"htmlenc" will encode a string into an html string...
</P>
<P align="left">The Favalias application appears in the StatusArea, so you can
launch your applications or web sites quickly. You can also use a shortcut key
("win-S" by default) to activate it.</P>
<H3 align="left">Preferences</H3>
<UL>
<LI>
You can specify the files used to store your favorites web sites and aliases.
<LI>
You can specify your favorite browser.
<LI>
<DIV align="left">You can change the shortcut key used to activate Favalias.</DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">You can specify a proxy.</DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">
<DIV align="left">You can change the transparency of the main form with the slider.</DIV>
</DIV>
</LI>
</UL>
<H3 align="left"><a id="aliases">Aliases</a></H3>
<UL>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">Built-in commands :</DIV>
</LI>
<UL>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">"<FONT color="#ff3300">!</FONT>" : reload the aliases file.</DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">"<FONT color="#ff3300">run <EM>anApplication withArguments</EM></FONT>"
: run an application, you could transmit some arguments.</DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">"<FONT color="#ff3300"><EM>aURL</EM></FONT>" : if "<EM>aURL" </EM>
starts with "www." or "http://" or "https://", it will launch your browser to
see the specified url. You can hit "ctrl+Enter" to complete the URL (it will
add automatically www. and .com like the IE address bar).</DIV>
</LI>
</UL>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">
You can drag'n drop some text from another application.</DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">
Ctrl-J and Ctrl-N enable you to navigate in the command history. "<FONT color="#ff3300">cls</FONT>"
will clear this history.</DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">Favalias uses an auto-complete combobox, so it will show you all
your aliases, and you can quickly complete a command by pressing the "tab"
key.
</DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">The Favalias application is shipped with a demo
file, examine it to see how to add your own aliases (go to
"Options-Edit aliases"). You can use environment variables (like
%ProgramFiles% or %SystemRoot%) and %BROWSER% to launch the browser
you have configured in the "preferences" menu.</DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">You can also launch your aliases using the "aliases" menu.</DIV>
</LI>
</UL>
<P align="left"> </P>
<H3 align="left"><A id="favorites">Favorites</A></H3>
<UL>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">You can quickly add a favorite by drag'n drop (with the Ctrl key
pressed) a link from your browser onto the Favalias form.</DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">To manage your favorites, go to "Options-Edit favorites".</DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">To load the favicons (if the web sites provide one), click
"Options-Load favicons". It will launch asynchronous web requests to retrieve
them.</DIV>
</LI>
</UL>
<H3 align="left"><a id="addins">Addins</a></H3>
<P align="left">Go to "Options-Edit aliases" to choose the addins you want to use.
This form displays the applications available in the 'addins' directory.</P>
<P align="left">Addins available with Favalias :</P>
<UL>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">
<DIV align="left">"<FONT color="#ff3300">gg</FONT>" : perform a Google search.</DIV>
</DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">
<DIV align="left">"<FONT color="#ff3300">alarm</FONT>" : display a message when it is time.</DIV>
</DIV>
<LI> <DIV align="left">
<DIV align="left">"<FONT color="#ff3300">pwd <EM>length</EM></FONT>" : generate a
strong password of the given length (for example : "pwd 10" could generate
"khN9P%4je1").</DIV>
</DIV>
<LI>
"<FONT color="#ff3300">md5 <EM>filePath</EM></FONT>" : generate an MD5 hash
value for the specified file.
<LI>
<DIV align="left">"<FONT color="#ff3300">sysinfo</FONT>" : display the environment
variables set on your machine.</DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">"<FONT color="#ff3300">htmlenc</FONT>/<FONT color="#ff3300">htmldec</FONT>"
: encode/decode strings in html strings</DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">"<FONT color="#ff3300">urlenc</FONT>/<FONT color="#ff3300">urldec</FONT>"
: encode/decode strings in URL-encoded strings</DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">"<FONT color="#ff3300">babel</FONT>" : translate words using the
Babelfish service</DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">"<FONT color="#ff3300">lingo</FONT>" : translate words using
WorldLingo web site</DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">"<FONT color="#ff3300">sqlconnec</FONT>" : a SQL Server
ConnectionString builder</DIV>
</LI>
</UL>
<P align="left">You can develop your own functions to extend the Favalias
application. To do such addins, follow these instructions :</P>
<UL>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">Create a class (with your favorite .NET language) ; this class
must implement the "<FONT color="#993300">Favalias.Interfaces.IFavaliasAddin</FONT>"
interface. To do that you have to reference the FavaliasInterfaces.dll.</DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align="left"> Implement the following method : <FONT color="#993300">public
void Execute(string[] args, Hashtable parameters)</FONT><FONT color="#000000">.
"args" will contain the arguments transmitted with the alias,
and "parameters" will contain : the alias name used to called this
addin ("aliasName" key), the user's browser ("browser" key), the proxy IP and
port ("proxyIP" and "proxyPort" keys), the application folder ("appFolder"),
the user's favalias application data folder ("appDataFolder"), the addins
folder ("addinsFolder").</FONT></DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">Create a file named "aliases.xml" and add xml configuration for
your addin (see the Addins project to see an example). The most important
XmlElement is "Command" where you must type "<FONT color="#993300">dll <EM>assemblyName</EM>
<EM>className</EM></FONT>". "<EM>assemblyName</EM>" is the name of your dll
(without the .dll extension), and "<EM>className</EM>" is the full name of your
class (with the namespace). You can specify an icon for your addin, use the
"icon" element to reference your icon that must be embedded in the dll.</DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">Compile your class in a dll and embed the "aliases.xml" file in
it (in VS.NET choose "Embedded resource" for the "Build Action"
property of the file, or use /resource with your compiler).</DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">Copy this dll in the [AppFolder]\Addins folder ([AppFolder] is
[ProgramFilesFolder]\Magnon\Favalias by default).</DIV>
<LI>
<DIV align="left">
Launch Favalias, go to "options-edit addins", select your addin
command(s) and try it !</DIV>
</LI>
</UL>
<P align="left">New in v0.5 : you can develop ".exe" addin and specify whether you
want to launch it in a new process (use "<FONT color="#ff3300">exe <EM>yourExeName </EM>
/p</FONT>") or in the same process as Favalias (in a new AppDomain, don't
specify /p).</P>
<P align="left">(If you want some examples, see the Addins and
SystemInfoAddin projects that are shipped with the source code).</P>
<P align="left"> </P>
<H5 align="right">email : <A href="mailto:jcmag@yahoo.com">jcmag@yahoo.com</A></H5>
<H5 align="right">URL : <A href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/favalias">http://sourceforge.net/projects/favalias</A>
</H5>
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