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deltaone
deltaone
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01/12/2015
deltaone
deltaone
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please, make possibility to apply *.exe filter before search (make search only in *.exe files) ...

+ make option - show window start menu (currently - host programs) on top when use compact menu mode ...
+ make option - show recent used items on top when use compact menu mode ...
thx
edited by deltaone on 01/12/2015
edited by deltaone on 01/12/2015
edited by deltaone on 01/12/2015
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deltaone
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01/12/2015
deltaone
deltaone
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one more, when use unlinked item check, insert new option - "work directory", where program can search missing .exe for auto substitution ...
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deltaone
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02/12/2015
deltaone
deltaone
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simple run mode - run menu and exit (without hotkeys and etc) ...
option for item - run as administrator ...
option - ESC key close all menus and exit SyMenu ...
edited by deltaone on 02/12/2015
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VVV_Easy_Symenu
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02/12/2015
VVV_Easy_Symenu
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"option for item - run as administrator ..."
I like it too:
Add "UAC shield icon" for programs that need UAC: Add to the Configuration Form an option to report to SyMenu to add the "UAC shield" to the program icon (as windows do). (See http://www.ugmfree.it/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=362#post923).
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sl23
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03/12/2015
sl23
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Not sure if it's what you are looking for, but I added an app that shows StartMenu when clicked. If that's not waht you want, then maybe KkMenu will do more. It can be set to show any number of predefined folders dynamically. ie it can show start menu folders and will show any changes made to them. You can also click on the folders within KkMenu to open that folder. It's tricky to configure til you get the hang of it though. If you need help feel free to ask.
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Gianluca
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03/12/2015
Gianluca
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1) Apply *.exe filter before search (make search only in *.exe files)
Useful! Maybe I can add a new contextual switch, like the SY/FS, to activate this filter. It's in my TODO list now.

2) Show window start menu (currently - host programs) on top when use compact menu mode
No need for this. I'm working on a better feature: you'll be able to decide for every built in item, if and where to show it. The compact menu will disappear because you'll be in charge to create your own preferred menu. In my developing version I currently have a single bar with all the elements, built-in and my custom items, inside the title bar. A super compact menu smile

3) Show recent used items on top when use compact menu mode
Same as above.

4) When use unlinked item check, insert new option - "work directory", where program can search missing .exe for auto substitution
Well it seems a lot of work for me to have a little helpful feature. In my experience the check is a rarely used option because the unlinked items are not so disturbing in SyMenu.

5) Simple run mode - run menu and exit (without hotkeys and etc)
Are you speaking about a sort of safe mode? Well it's a possible future implementation. Currently you can avoid the Autoexec on start pressing SHIFT during the SyMenu start up but I will think about a more comprehensive safe mode.

6) Option for item - run as administrator
You can have it with the Action modifier but don't worry it's an option that I really need for myself... sooner or later you'll have it.

7) Option - ESC key close all menus and exit SyMenu
Not at all. ESC is already used to exit the contextual menu, both inside the configuration and SPS form. I don't want that a user inadvertently exits from a form because of an ESC key and much less that it shut down SyMenu.

8) Add "UAC shield icon" for programs that need UAC
Possible but with a low priority.
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deltaone
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05/12/2015
deltaone
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5) Simple run mode - run menu and exit (without hotkeys and etc)
How it works:
1. Insert flash drive
2. Open flash drive
3. Runs CyMenu - appear program menu
4. Select item
5. Item start needed program
6. CyMenu automaticly closed / unloaded from memory
7. Safety remove flash drive
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Gianluca
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09/12/2015
Gianluca
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Why don't we think to a different approach? I mean a more general one.
For example I can implement a command line switch for that particular operation.

The feature allows you to directly write in the command shell something like this:

d:\SyMenu>SyMenu.exe -xx"Irfanview"

The result would be that the command:
- opens SyMenu without autoexec on start
- runs the program
- exits SyMenu without autoexec on close.

Naturally you can create a simple shortcut with the proper parameter to avoid the keyboard fingering. From that moment it's a simple double click matter.

Why should you pass through SyMenu to execute a program? Isn't it a simple command to execute the program a more immediate means? Where is the usefulness of this approach?
I can see some advantages:
1) You can execute a program only remembering its SyMenu name and not the exe name and path
2) You can execute a program that, for example, need a Java machine (read here for a simple example), without complex commands
3) You can have a smart solver for relative paths and removable unit's letters (it's SyMenu, isn't it?).

Frankly, even with this extension, it doesn't seems to me a really useful feature. Anyway the discussion is open because, here, the users are in charge smile
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Glenn
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15/12/2015
Glenn
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I'll guess that what deltaone meant is that he wants to see the SyMenu once, so that a command can be chosen, not known ahead of time, but that SyMenu would then exit after a single menu selection is made.

This is useful when you just want to run one thing, but you don't know ahead of time which thing. So everything is configured in the SyMenu. When you need something from that flash drive, you insert it, Click on "SyMenu Once" (a shortcut that passes a command line option, say --once) and causes SyMenu to exit after one menu item is selected.

If, when you plug in the flash drive, you know you need more than one thing, you click the regular SyMenu shortcut, and SyMenu stays around until you explicitly exit.
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