SearchEdit - SearchEdit - search.ini Editor for Opera

SearchEdit - search.ini Editor for Opera

By Alexs. Wednesday, 9. April 2008, 19:44:15

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SearchEdit is a Java-based editor for Opera's search.ini. It allows moving, editing and deleting existing search entries from the search.ini as well as adding/removing separators.
SearchEdit works with search.ini from Opera 9 and higher.
For more information read the tutorial or go to the Forum.

Version 0.4

(en, de, fr, lu)

SearchEdit ist ein auf Java basierender Editor zum Bearbeiten der search.ini, man kann damit die Suchmaschinen editieren was mit Opera leider nur sehr eingeschränkt möglich ist.
SearchEdit funktioniert mit der search.ini von Opera 9 und höher.
Für mehr Informationen lesen Sie das Tutorial, bei Fragen das Forum.

Ecrit en Java, SearchEdit est un éditeur externe pour modifier le fichier de configuration des moteurs de recherche (search.ini). Avec cet outil on peut éditer les machines de recherche ce qui est malheureusement que trés limité possible avec les moyens de bord d'Opera.
SearchEdit fonctionne avec les fichiers search.ini d'Opera 9 et ultérieur.

Download language file Download source	Changelog history Bug reporting
Author: mikko facts and translations	Online readme – new editing search.ini – Video

Tutorial – die ersten Schritte

Comments

Tamil # 15. April 2008, 08:34

Please upload soon English version of SearchEdit.

mikko link gives 404 Not Found error.

mikko211 # 15. April 2008, 10:22

thx.
the release of the english version is tonight.

PS: sorry, my account was renamed.

Tamil # 15. April 2008, 10:24

Originally posted by mikko211:

the release of the english version is tonight.

Luxor # 15. April 2008, 11:54

Looking forward to the English version

mikko211 # 15. April 2008, 17:54

English version is online!

Tamil # 16. April 2008, 04:06

Originally posted by mikko211:

English version is online!

Thanks.

Luxor # 16. April 2008, 11:31

Downloaded thanks.

Maverick # 17. April 2008, 17:21

Super gemacht.

z@h3k # 17. April 2008, 21:57

it's really nice tool.thanks.

mikko211 # 18. April 2008, 18:15

czech version is released. thx kucikk for translation.

next SearchEdit-version will support external language-files.

mikko211 # 19. April 2008, 11:51

polish version is released. thx Zizzfizzix for translation.

erich_k # 12. May 2008, 19:56

Thx, this will save me countless hours putting order in my searches!!!

z@h3k # 13. May 2008, 05:33

Will you release a new version nowadays?

mikko211 # 13. May 2008, 10:32

a new release (v0.3) comes next. now the program is ready without translation. if this work done, we will release the next version.

z@h3k # 9. June 2008, 14:05

Hello,
WHat happened for the third release?

Bausch Patrick # 9. June 2008, 15:28

Will be released soon...

mikko211 # 16. June 2008, 18:01

ZAHEK, version 0.3 is released.

z@h3k # 16. June 2008, 19:59

ooh great:) thanks:)

grogge # 18. June 2008, 07:55

Nice tool, but will there be a port to .NET/Mono?

mikko211 # 18. June 2008, 10:23

thx.

no. and why? java supports the same main-platforms as mono and .net.
ikvm dont porting awt/swing-applications too.

nizamx # 23. June 2008, 10:09

So great tool. I wish when I open this tool, it loads search.ini automatically. Thanks lot.

mikko211 # 23. June 2008, 10:33

you can load your search.ini automatically. add path to your search.ini (as first parameter) to command line. you can use this with the batch/script-file too.

see (only in german):
http://my.opera.com/alexs/blog/searchedit-uber-die-kommandozeile-starten

Bobby # 13. July 2008, 06:52

Works great! Makes life so much easier

Would like to add 1 suggestion to a wish list:

Have the seperator box checked on the item that the seperator will follow. At present when I open my search.ini file no checks are shown--all boxes are empty, & I always have to reopen Opera to find out where the seperators are.

Thanks again! Great Job

Marcus Haßmann # 23. July 2008, 15:07

Am I right that SearchEdit isn't able to detect the name of a search engine if the "name"-key is empty and there is a nameid only (in search.ini)?

I red that it is possible to detect the name by reading out the nameid from languagefile.

I searched for some nameids in language file but couldn't find all ids.
Am I right that you leave out the names because of this reason?
Is there a way to find out the missing nameids/names?

Regards,
Marcus Hassmann

Bausch Patrick # 23. July 2008, 16:03

You have to select your language file in : File-> Preferences : Opera (tab)

Afterwards the names should be displayed like this : http://files.myopera.com/Philo007/searchedit/searchnx1.png

Marcus Haßmann # 24. July 2008, 06:29

I tried this with the english and the german language file. In both cases SearchEdit shows the corresponding names for the nameid.
Thank you for the tip.

+ google has id 17171 but I could not find this id in any language file
+ opera has id 69678 but I could not find this id in any language file
+ yahoo has id -1752296930 and I could find this id in both language files

Where are nameid 17171 or 69678 defined?

Marcus Haßmann # 24. July 2008, 09:27

I got an answer in the general opera newsgroup:

"Those are probably still using the old pre-Opera 9 language file id numbers, and should be updated. Have a look at <URL:http://my.opera.com/nafmo/blog/show.dml/189902> and <URL:http://my.opera.com/nafmo/blog/show.dml/197345> for details on the change."

I have to read out the names programmatically and can't update language file id numbers on the users system.
Where are the old names in?

Marcus Haßmann # 24. July 2008, 09:50

I installed Opera version 8.02 and took a look into language file for id 69678. And I found an entry 69678="Amazon".

So how does Opera 9.52 read out the name for id 69678 when there is no nameid in language file?

Bausch Patrick # 24. July 2008, 15:56

Actually the google string is 1632215285

Unfortunately some strings are "hardcoded" (happens often in weeklys) so that they are not definied by the language file. In the case of search.ini SearchEdit shows - if the string is known to us - the names from his own language file.

I guess that the old string numbers are now hardcoded...

mikko211 # 24. July 2008, 18:50

the hardcoded strings in opera are hardcoded in SearchEdit too.

Marcus Haßmann # 25. July 2008, 05:23

Kk, thanks a lot for your answers.
I think I will implement hardcoded strings too.

mikko211 # 25. July 2008, 10:02

for help you can see inside source code of SearchEdit.

Marcus Haßmann # 29. July 2008, 07:32

I took a look into SearchEdit code.
Thank you very much.
It was very helpful!