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Gianluca

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22/09/2014 Topic: version 3.03 Gianluca Administrator	How many items do you have on the first level menu?
22/09/2014 Topic: version 3.03 Gianluca Administrator	Ok. It's a bug of the latest version. The maximum height of the previous version was 800px now it's reduced to 600px so to workaround that reduce your list moving some of the main level elements to a sub menu until the scrolling disappear. I'll fix it in the next release.
22/09/2014 Topic: version 3.03 Gianluca Administrator	You've not found it because it is not a new SyMenu tool but an interesting built in Windows tool that now SyMenu links. You can find it searching with the SyMenu search bar.
23/09/2014 Topic: New version 3.03 Gianluca Administrator	The new SyMenu version is finally out. Well, this release has been a real pain with false positive antivirus detections and the problem of the broken PAF plugin (http://www.ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=250) but eventually every problem has been solved now. On the other hand you can find some new fantastic features in this version such as the browsable folders thing. For a complete list of the news take a look at the changelog. Well the new features introduced in the last versions are a lot and now I'll begin a stage of consolidation above all for the PAF plugin. If you have feedback, bug reports, proposals, criticals or simply you want to express your opinion, let me know through this forum or with a private messagge. Enjoy.
24/09/2014 Topic: Gestures request Gianluca Administrator	The gestures are already very highly customizable. So if you have a conflict with a certain host program you can disable the gesture for the conflicting SyItem or change it with another or change/disable it for your host program. If instead you intend to be able to manage the gesture according to different computers... well it is a too particular feature to implement. I think that too few users could get advantage from that.
28/09/2014 Topic: hotkey not working Gianluca Administrator	Hi PoWi. I checked the code and I found and fixed the bug. I can released the fixed version in a few weeks because I'm in developing of new features. In the meanwhile your workaround is correct: force the reload of SyMenu after the first run and the shortcuts will come back.
07/10/2014 Topic: Remove floating desktop Icon? Gianluca Administrator	Thanks for your support. The Start menu button is easily removable. You have to go to the configuration form than open the menu Advanced - Options. Into the tab Startup you have to uncheck the flag "Start menu button". Done. edited by Gianluca on 08/10/2014
08/10/2014 Topic: New version 3.03 Gianluca Administrator	Hi Andreas. My idea is a bit different than yours. Currently the sub folders accessible from a browsable folder have no "SyMenu effects" if you click on them. This is a correct behavior because sometime you have to click on a folder to force the opening of its submenu even if the folder has already grabbed the focus. For this reason your proposal to use the right click or the double click is abstractly correct since I can't use the normal click. But a correct proposal is not necessarily a homogeneous one in the SyMenu world where you are never forced to use right or double click to obtain a result. My idea is to involve the Executor Modifier in the game. So if you click on a sub folder of a browsable folder you obtain no effects, but if the Executor Modifier is in "Open Folder" mode you will open the folder, if it is in "File Properties" mode you will see its properties. In that way I can keep a consistent way to work inside SyMenu. What do you think of it?
08/10/2014 Topic: New version 3.03 Gianluca Administrator	Yes my proposal was for a future version only. Well if executor modifier changes its mode automatically whenever you are focusing a folder, the problem of left clicking to force the opening of submenu remains: the effect will be that SyMenu opens Explorer and not the submenu and this is not correct. So you'll have to press CTRL key and then left click or press enter key to obtain the desired effect (open the folder in Explorer). Surely Executor modifier will not work only on the last leaf of the folder tree but wherever you want.
14/10/2014 Topic: New version 3.03 Gianluca Administrator	...and the new version (3.04) with the executor modifier extended feature is out. Let me know what do you think.
22/10/2014 Topic: Menu Position Choices Change ? Gianluca Administrator	If you click the SyMenu icon located in the taskbar notification area, the contextual menu will appear right here. Anyway you have several other options. You can use a gesture or a shortcut, either customizable, to make it appears in various locations of your screen (change them in Configuration form - menu Advanced - menu Options - tab Hot keys). Otherwise if you prefer mouse clicking you can use the Start Menu replacement button (http://www.ugmfree.it/SyMenuManual.aspx#Advanced_menu_Options) that is freely movable and makes the contextual menu appears next to it.
22/10/2014 Topic: Menu Position Choices Change ? Gianluca Administrator	The right side toolbar represents the same configuration I use in my PCs but I can't reproduce your bug. Anyway I suggested you to use the "Start Menu button replacer" that is a different thing from the toolbar icon you are showing in your picture. Read the manual and have a look at my picture. The yellow bordered floating image is the (movable) Start Menu button replacer, the green bordered icon is what you are using.
23/10/2014 Topic: Menu Position Choices Change ? Gianluca Administrator	Ok. Again the dual screen bug... I already know that and its resolution is becoming increasingly urgent.
25/10/2014 Topic: What triggers marquee scroll? Gianluca Administrator	Hi Gary. Welcome to the forum! Scrolling on actual need is certainly possible but very demanding in terms of performance. As you certainly observed the width of every submenu is variable and depends on the larger item included inside the submenu itself. This calculation is automatic and I only have to set a maximum width limit to avoid too large menus. If I have to calculate the actual need of room to activate a marquee I should do really heavy calculation to obtain the real space occupied by every label (it is a calculation based on the graphics rendered on your screen according with the font and letters used) and comparing it with the dynamic menu width. I fear that you should wait too much only to see the submenu. So I implemented a good compromise implementing the customizable marquee options (never, always on focus) working on labels longer than 34 characters. Why do the behavior of your exactly equal labels seems so different? Well the two labels are not so equal. Since the '&' character is a special character in .NET menu, it has to be escaped and so it is longer than it seems. Give a look at the SyMenuItem.xml (SyMenuItem.zip) and you'll see that. Well, this is not a explanation but it only demonstrates that the marquee is buggy, because it should be based on the real string lenght and not on the escaped string. I put this bug in my TODO list but sincerely, in this period I'm working on a new revolutionary feature that completely transform SyMenu and these not blocking bugs are not my primary thoughts when I go to sleep
01/11/2014 Topic: What triggers marquee scroll? Gianluca Administrator	Well indeed within some days/weeks I'll publish in the forum a depth description of the next mysterious new feature because I certainly need some help to test and to implement it. Anyway if someone wants to join in this phase, at present I'm studying, analyzing, planning and building the monster, he'll be welcome. I need experts (real experts) of portable applications and, if possible, developers experienced in xml schema (xsd). Is any of the SyMenu users brave enough for this?
03/11/2014 Topic: What triggers marquee scroll? Gianluca Administrator	Ok Gary. Your expertise and your willingness will be surely useful in the test phase. Currently I would need someone who usually works with xml schema. Anyway stay tuned for next posts about this issue... we will see incredible things in the future
11/11/2014 Topic: Change Log for v.3.04.5400? Gianluca Administrator	Hi. My fault. The what's new info was correctly referred to 3.04 but the title was still on 3.03. Now it is corrected. http://www.ugmfree.it/SyMenuDownload.aspx#changelog edited by Gianluca on 11/11/2014
08/12/2014 Topic: SyMenu suite Gianluca Administrator	PoWi wrote: I also like the integration of suites. Please have a look at "Windows System Control Center": http://www.kls-soft.com/wscc/index.php So, basically - and correct me if i'm somehow wrong on this one - said "System Control Center" is nothing but: * redundant shortcut to SysInternals (which can already be handled perfectly via PortableApps, SyMenu, Keybreeze, Launchy and plenty of other no-install launchers) * redundant shortcut to NirSoft Utils (same as above) * set of system icons for ca. 60% of the built-in system settings available normally via built-in GodMode dir So, out of serial-cat-killer curiosity: apart from CHIP's sign on the website and a "cold war-ish" main color, what does it have that makes it Special instead of "special"? Well I checked this wscc that I haven't seen before and I think that their choose is interesting and innovative. Essentially you have to download what you need every time you need to use it, unless you uncheck a certain option (Delete downloaded installation files). Than you have a more traditional installation feature. Personally I find the behavior of this launcher interesting because it essentially explores a cloud based program suite but I don't like a similar approach for SyMenu. Call me traditionalist but I prefer a solution where I have my programs available locally. It's faster, more reliable and I can install whatever I like without depending on the choose of someone else.
08/12/2014 Topic: Feature Request [Batch Import improvement] Gianluca Administrator	Dear jemail. Nothing is simple in SyMenu How SyMenu can identify an unwanted duplication for a program? It's a really difficult task to accomplish. In my personal configuration I have several duplicate programs. For example I need different configuration for the same program or different program version. On the other hand I could have duplication unidentifiable automatically. Think about two program that have different executable name but are essentially the same (for example program1.exe and program1portable.exe). Well I don't tell you that this task is impossible but that the approach to the problem, in my view, should be different. 1) SyMenu needs this feature extensively even for configuration out of control like mine (hundreds of programs configured...). So the Catch-the-duplicates features should be callable independently from the batch importer. 2) It has not to be an automatic cleanup feature but a sort of report. In that way the system can report without risk all the duplications: the certain ones and the suspected ones. In the second group the system can report the rare cases in which two programs with different names are the same. With the report the user can decide if a duplication is a real one or not and cleanup by himself. Problem. Since months I'm working on a new feature for SyMenu that I think could be released during the first months of 2015 so I have no time for that for a while. Solution. All the information needed for this kind of report are already available through the SyMenu plugin system. So if a .NET developer wants to implement the Catch-the-duplicates feature immediately, let me know. I could collaborate with the analysis and documenting the API to call.
08/12/2014 Topic: Import from flashdrive? Gianluca Administrator	First reply. http://www.ugmfree.it/SyMenuManual.aspx#Item_Manager_menu_batch_import Second reply. Add a SyFolder click the button in the red circle and choose your preferred icon.