Change Ctrl-F search tool?

[AEN007]

7January2010

Greetings.
Can users change the search tool that Ctrl-F brings up in x²Lite?
I would like, for example, to use NirSort's tool instead of explorer.exe ...
I have NirSort Search as a folder contextmenu option but
seem to always hit Ctrl-F by instinct first ...
like I do with 2xEx and FreeComm ...

Any helpful replies/insights appreciated.
Thank you.
Regards,
AEN
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[Tuxman]

Changing hotkeys behavior is possible in x²pro.

[Cosmo]

It is possible to change the search tool for the lite version by adding / entering the value SzExtFindFiles. See page 317 of the manual for details.

[AEN007]

16January2010

Greetings.
Thanks (& many thanks) for the replies.

I added an "Open NirSearch" hotkey
to my AHK persisent hotkey script,
so I can easily open NirSearch at any point in time.

I'll take a look at page 317 of the manual as well.

Thank you.
Regards,
AEN
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[AEN007]

It was a bit more complicated than adding

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c:\tools\finder "%s"

because NirSoft SearchMyFiles requires its /BaseFolder switch to have SMyF open with the in focus directory. I finally found that

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"c:\tools\finder" "/BaseFolder" "%s"

worked.

I had hoped that I could use an Environmental Variable (like %ProgramFiles%) in the sz key but could not - even though I have/use EVs in szExternalEditor & szExternalViewer, and they work ... (This makes creating settings.reg easier. The EVs make the keys work under normal XP & PE boots - after I create the necessary EVs in XP & PE ...) Maybe x² in the future would like to support EVs in certain reg keys?

I then decided to move the SMyF exe & cfg to the x²Lite install directory and changed the szExtFindFiles to

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"SMyF.exe" "/BaseFolder" "%s"

I updated my various other links to SMyF to the x²L install directory.

Since Ed² is in the x²L install directory, I changed the szEditor2Path to simply

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Editor2.exe

...