Speed searching the GG forums.
by Gonzo T. Clown · in Torque Game Engine · 02/10/2004 (7:32 am) · 22 replies
Ok, I do a lot of searching on various websites, and I came up with this trick to save some time. If you download and install the registry patch from the link, you will be able to search the Garage Games forums and resources right from your address bar without launching to the GG site first. For those that use an address bar on your Taskbar, this will really speed you up. I've submitted a little pic from each.
Registry Patch
Once you have installed the registry keys, you can search like this....
if you want to search the GG forums for the term "lighting", you just enter (WITHOUT QUOTES) "ggf lighting" into your address bar and bingo, you are there and searched before you could normally get to the site.
If you wanted to search the GG resources for mapping info, you would enter "ggr mapping" (without quotes) and presto, you are there.
Just remember, to get to the forums use "ggf" and for resources use "ggr" and always put a space between your prefix and your search term. I did this so I could spend more time working and learning, and less time screwing with links, shortcuts and favs, lol.
Enjoy
EDIT: Works on FireFox as well.
Registry Patch
Once you have installed the registry keys, you can search like this....
if you want to search the GG forums for the term "lighting", you just enter (WITHOUT QUOTES) "ggf lighting" into your address bar and bingo, you are there and searched before you could normally get to the site.
If you wanted to search the GG resources for mapping info, you would enter "ggr mapping" (without quotes) and presto, you are there.
Just remember, to get to the forums use "ggf" and for resources use "ggr" and always put a space between your prefix and your search term. I did this so I could spend more time working and learning, and less time screwing with links, shortcuts and favs, lol.
Enjoy
EDIT: Works on FireFox as well.
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#22
You are correct that if you enter the search terms directly into the FireFox address bar it will not work correctly. But if you have Firefox as your default browser it will work when you enter the terms from the address bar as seen in the first photo. i have always used my taskbar mounted address bar to search and never realized that you couldn't search from the FireFox address bar.
The good thing is, if you already have Firefox open and you search from the taskbar it will open a new tab in Firefox so you don't lose your current page. That's the reason I always search from the taskbar, so I dont actually have to create or open the tab myself. Just click, type, hit enter, done.
If you want to be able to search from the Firefox address bar also then Scott Ross has this suggestion that should work...
03/29/2005 (6:45 pm)
Ed,You are correct that if you enter the search terms directly into the FireFox address bar it will not work correctly. But if you have Firefox as your default browser it will work when you enter the terms from the address bar as seen in the first photo. i have always used my taskbar mounted address bar to search and never realized that you couldn't search from the FireFox address bar.
The good thing is, if you already have Firefox open and you search from the taskbar it will open a new tab in Firefox so you don't lose your current page. That's the reason I always search from the taskbar, so I dont actually have to create or open the tab myself. Just click, type, hit enter, done.
If you want to be able to search from the Firefox address bar also then Scott Ross has this suggestion that should work...
Quote:
examp: search for Resources lighting will get you to:
- http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=result&qtm=lighting
bookmark this, edit properties and change lighting to %s in the location box:
- http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=result&qtm=%s
and add ggr (or what ever) in the keyword box.
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