Launchy

Hello!
I've rewritten my Gcal Launchy plugin so that it will work in the new version of Launchy as well. It lets you post events to your Google Calendars by using Google's Quick Add syntax. Here's the download link:

http://www.davidkarlsson.info/launchy/gcal.zip

To install it you have to unpack the zip file into your Launchy directory and then restart Launchy. To authenticate your account the plugin uses ClientLogin so you'll have to enter your login information to the plugin's settings. As with the first version of the plugin, this information is only sent to Google's servers over a secure connection about every two weeks when the authorization token returned by Google expires.

The syntax for adding items is abit different in this plugin compared to the old one. Adding events to your default calendar works exactly the same as with the first version though:

gCal <tab> quick add syntax <enter>

but if you want to add items to another calendar than your default calendar the syntax looks like this now:

gCal <tab> quick add syntax <tab> calendar name <enter>

To quickly bring up your calendars in your browser you can use the shortcut: gCal <tab><enter>. The plugin has only been tested on two computers so far, one with Vista 32bit and the other with XP SP2.. so some feedback would be much appreciated.

I'd also like to add that I'm not entirely happy with how this plugin works on a technical level. I still had to make use of WinHTTP for the connections that requires SSL because I never managed to get QHttp/QSslSocket working with OpenSSL properly. If any developer here has managed to get QHttp with SSL working for Launchy please let me know because I really would like to get rid of the WinHTTP dependency.

Finally, on a side note, for those looking for a Launchy 2.0 compatible version of my Todoist plugin I'd like to mention that it is done and that I sent it to the guy behind Todoist on Tuesday this week but that I still haven't got any response from him about it yet. So hopefully that will get released within the next couple of days as well. :)

//David

David:

Great news! Thanks a lot!

At least, it works well with such quick add syntax `gCal <tab> Dinner with Someone 7pm tomorrow <tab> blah` on Windows 2000 SP4.

leal

Thanks for this! Really useful!

This plugin is amazing! Now all I really need is a more advanced calculator plugin.

When I run gcal from Launchy I get:
you are attempting to open a file of tyhpe 'application extension' (.dll)
OPEN WITH and CANCEL button

I'm using Win XP SP2
I have entered Gcal Apps userID and pw. Does it not work with Google Apps calendars?

This is a great plugin. I have one minor problem, although it's very easy to work around.

Typing the following does not work, although it does using Quick Add in Google Calendar:
Dinner with Robert & Donna next Saturday 6pm

Replace the "&" with "and" and it works fine. It seems that there is some problem parsing an ampersand.

Again, a very minor problem in an incredibly useful tool. Thanks!

Hi mccalix!
You're right the ampersand messes up the request to Google and a 400 Bad Request is returned. Careless of me not to test the plugin with such characters before releasing this. I will fix it and upload a new version as soon as I can.

Thanks for letting me know about this issue!

Thanks for the nice tool. Would you mind adding support for multiple accounts? If not, could you just make a second plugin, name it gcal2 or something, and make launchy think there are two accounts? I would do this if you made the source avail.

Thanks!

I David,

Your plugin seems to be awesome, but I have a big problem at work : the Proxy there is an autoconfig URL, which doesn't allow me to use proxycfg. In order to configure WinHTTP application, it seems you have to use WPAD, and then you call WinHttpGetProxyForUrl to do the autoproxy lookup. If I understood well. Is it possible to do that with you plugin ?

Thanx a lot !

Hi,

thanks for a great plugin. I have one problem:

when I enter a date in a request such as:
gCal ► Call David 2/26 and then press Tab again to enter it to a special calendar, it changes the entered text to
gCal ► Call David 2\26.gCal.args

and the argument is not transmitted correctly and the appointment is added to the current day as
Call David 2\26.gCal.args

Seems like a small bug, would be great if it could be fixed some time.

Thanks and regards,
Oliver

Hey Oliver,
I'm aware of this issue already but I don't think there's anything I can do to fix it. My guess is that this happens because Launchy tries to interpret the forward slashes as being part of a path to some file on your system(?) If anyone knows of a way to fix this please let me know and I will update the plugin.

Thanks! I'm glad you like the plugin.

//David

Since the plugin makes use of both WinHttp AND QHttp atm I don't think the plugin would work even if you managed to correctly configure your proxy settings for WinHttp. I actually want to get rid of the WinHttp dependency altogether so that I can use QHttp's proxy functionality for the plugin. But until I figure out a way to get SSL working with QHttp I have to stick with WinHttp because the authorization requests sent to Google are made using https.

I've now fixed this issue so you should be able to post events with ampersands in them to your calendars. You can get the new version from my site.

This plugin is simply amazing. I use it everyday


I also used everyday Remember the milk. My account is accessible through Gcalender. The RTM account shows as a calender.

But I was wandering if it is possible to have access to my RTM account(Remember the milk) and be able to enter my tasks via the Gcal plugin if my RTM account is integrated in my Google calender account. I tried it several times but obviosly it doesn't work. Maybe it's me but or maybe there is a short cut that i can use.

launchy + todoist plugin is a great tool, got addicted to the setup in a day!

THANKS!

*gasp* This is so awesome. :)

Amazing, thanks a lot!

AWEsome plugin

I'm running into problems with entering events into different calendars though. Some of my calendars work, some do not.

gcal[tab]test Sept 8[tab]Amy's Calendar
works fine

gcal[tab]test Sept 8[tab]A Marketing
never shows up

I can get events to appear in 5 of my 8 different calendars - my top calendar and 3 shared calendars that were created by someone else (Google Apps domain sharing) and shared with me. The 3 calendars I can't get events to appear in are 3 that I created, two which are sharing with individuals, one not shared. I tried setting in the Settings to match the calendars that work, but no luck.

Any suggestions?

Puzzled
Kyle

I'm sorry for the question in advance, but how do you "change the settings" so I can log in using this plugin?

A couple of notes about using the gcal plugin with Google Apps accounts. I use Google Apps for my calendar, so was very pleased that this plugin even partially works to get content into my calendar.

Unfortunately, there seem to be two problems:

1. It only works for my default calendar. If I do the second tab and specify a calendar, the event just doesn't appear in my calendar at all. This is true even if the calendar I specify is my default calendar. The only way to get something into my calendar is to just do "gcal[TAB]event details", and it goes into my default calendar.

2.I can't pull up my calendar with gcal[TAB][Enter], as should work for this plugin. When I try that, it goes to the google page asking me to register for Calendar.

I think both of these could be solved either with an upgrade to this plugin with an option for people using Google Apps to specify their domain name. The plugin could then construct the url which is only slightly different from the default urls.

Cheers,
Andy

Can anyone write a thoroughly or in-depth guide on how to make this work? I don't even know what to do right after downloading the plugin and extracting them on the Plug-In folder.

Yeah, i dont get it to. Could somebody write a short step-by-step manual?

What about what's written here?
http://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4704430
(The original message of this thread)

Thanks for this plugin. Is there a way to use it to add a task rather than an event? That would be pretty helpful.