21/07/2010 Topic: Thanks for adding features to v1.11 Gianluca Administrator	Thanks nicedreams. What is the Windows start menu??? Gianluca
27/07/2010 Topic: Feature Request - Change Skin Gianluca Administrator	Hello verzase. SyMenu contextual popup is fully customizable in its graphical aspect too. So if you like a particular skin, you can implement by yourself. By the way, I would like to see the best graphical customizations of SyMenu. If someone has customized SyMenu in a very pretty way and let me know the used parameters, I can implement that skin as one of the default SyMenu schemas. No prizes for winners! Gianluca
03/08/2010 Topic: Feature Request - Change Skin Gianluca Administrator	I could implement a feature to customize menu size but not program font. Icons are easily customizable from Configuration - Options - Startup. Click on native Application icons and choose your new icons. SyMenu will replace default icons with yours. Regarding SyItem icons you can freely change the proposed ones from the main configuration form. Gianluca
22/09/2010 Topic: Any development news? Gianluca Administrator	Hello Coastie. The SyMenu development is discontinued in this period. I'm working hard on my real job and I'm writing some article for the developer community. If someone would like to read my last work can go here http://www.codeproject.com/KB/ajax/AjaxAndAspNET.aspx Regarding SyMenu I would like to focus on bug fix and not on new implementations until 2011 at least. Thank you for your patience. Gianluca
26/10/2010 Topic: Any development news? Gianluca Administrator	Hello Coastie, hello to all. This week I've restarted SyMenu developing to release a new version within this 2010. I have several new features to implement and in some weeks I'll write down a post to explain better all the news. Gianluca
11/11/2010 Topic: Any development news? Gianluca Administrator	And here we are. The new features of 1.12 version will be these: Items marked to be deleted, appear now with a strikethrough font and could be individually restored untill saving the configuration Configuration form remember its last size and position according to current screen resolution Unlinked items could be directly deleted from its form Extended compatibility to .NET Framework 4.0. Now SyMenu is compatible with 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0 SyMenu setup allows now to directly configure certain options (automatic update, drive letter overlay on task icon, shotcut manager enabling, configuration files backup New option to decide if configuration file has to be backed up I think that I could release it during next month of December. Gianluca
26/11/2010 Topic: Any development news? Gianluca Administrator	SyMenu 1.12 is out! Good work. Gianluca
17/02/2011 Topic: see development and the future of SyMenu Gianluca Administrator	Hello PoWi. You're right. The only problem is that I'm not so organized and I haven't scheduled next releases yet. I only take track of any feature I would like to implement and that the users ask to me. We can open a sort of poll to understand which features are the most wanted. What do you think? These are, in no particular order, my todo list. Update SyMenu updater with the right date; create a list of recent used programs; escape of special characters in SyMenu configuration files; if a proxy is blocking the online version checker ask the user his network credential; activate and deactivate the "Item manager" menu entries according with currenctly selected item; add delete and reset entries in "Item manager" menu according with currenctly selected item; provide Batch import of a function to import the folder structure in addition to element; add a new filter on Batch import that allows the user to include elements through their extension (currently it allows to exclude items); double click on task icon has to open SyMenu configuration form; show popup on task icon hover and not only with click (or optionally choose); validation tool for translation files; developer framework; user activation of the file logging; shortcut to make SyMenu popup on click of a customizable mouse button; different icon sets to choose; shows all running application on SyMenu current drive (check executable file path from currently active process); specify the autoexec with the client-pc-name. If it is not specified the autoexec is executed on every pcs. Let me know. Gianluca <em>edited by Gianluca on 2/17/2011</em>
17/02/2011 Topic: different autoexec-programs for different clients Gianluca Administrator	Great. Added to my todo list. Gianluca
20/02/2011 Topic: see development and the future of SyMenu Gianluca Administrator	It's true. The SyMenu search feature doesn't work for all items when you run SyMenu in Windows Vista and Windows 7 because these OS include in their start menu all elements from programs menu, from control panel and from the built-in search engine. SyMenu can only link items mapped to real files (all items from programs menu and some from control panel). The Windows control panel shows dynamic elements too (for example Programs and features, Mouse, Keyboard...). Besides SyMenu can't link to dynamic results from system built-in search engine even if it returns physical files because they aren't mapped to a real menu, ie they are not links but real files located in the entire file system. In my personal experience this is a limitation only for certain elements. For example I hate that SyMenu can't include the task manager program because it is not linked in any Windows menu. In this case I workaround this limitation implementing a SyItem that directly links to the Task manager (the program is located in C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe). Another example is the Windows Program and features tool. It's possible to link it in a SyItem mapped to C:\Windows\System32\appwiz.cpl. The question now is: why SyMenu can't link this kind of programs directly? The reply is simple: SyMenu scans the host's file system only in the places where Windows stores the menu links, because its purpose is not to be a local search engine. A local search engine is a different thing than SyMenu. To cover this lack I have a proposal for all the SyMenu users. I can implement a new file type with a proprietary extension that is able to describe SyPrograms and Window command items. When you drag and drop this kind of item onto SyMenu it is able to unpack it and to create the corresponding SyItem so it become available in your SyMenu. In this way every user could map any Windows program and resource and share it with all the other users through SyMenu web site. For example to map task manager this mapping file could be a text file called "Taskmanager.symenu" with a content like this: Type=SyProgram Name=Task Manager Path=C:\Windows\System32\taskmgr.exe IconPath=http://www.ugmfree.it/public/icons/taskmgr.exe.ico Description=It's the Windows task manager Parameters= For system info element ("SystemInfo.symenu") the content could be: Type=WindowsCommand Name=System Info Path=C:\Windows\System32\systeminfo.exe IconPath= Description=It's the Windows task manager What do you think about this? If I receive a lot of feedbacks about the usefulness of this feature I could start to implement it otherwise the process of importing this kind of element could be manual (if you implement the two element I've posted above they work for real). Gianluca
21/02/2011 Topic: see development and the future of SyMenu Gianluca Administrator	Hello PoWi. 1) If I enable the search to return something like *firefox the corresponding items will be more and you'll have to type more keys to find what you need. For example in my SyMenu "fi" now corresponds to FIrefox, FIddler, FIle splitter, Firewall, but if I enable the search of "*fi" SyMenu will return also libre ofFIce (7 items) and ipconFIg. If I write "fi" surely I don't want to open Libre Office so I think that your proposal will produce noise on the search results. I advise you to simply change the name Portablefirefox.exe in Portable Firefox because SyMenu doesn't search between the file names but between the SyItem names and a SyItem name could be different from the corresponding file name. 2) Ok one vote for it. 3) The search engine is already available with hotkey. In Configuration - Options menu into tab Hot keys you can choose if you want to open the menu or the search bar with the main SyMenu shortcut (default ALT+F1)
21/02/2011 Topic: see development and the future of SyMenu Gianluca Administrator	1) It's not possible to enable * as a wildcard. The program is not built for that. 3) Well... the Windows key modifier is a bit strange because it's difficult to not bubble the event to the system. The other modifiers work better so please replace it in main shortcut with ALT, CTRL or SHIFT or a combination of these. You can use Windows modifier to create shortcut for any program configured in SyMenu because in this case the bubbling of the event is not a problem.
21/02/2011 Topic: see development and the future of SyMenu Gianluca Administrator	1) No because of the reasons I've already explain. 2) I'll surely try to manage Win-key modifier. Well your suggestion is really good and could be developed with the recent program list feauture.
21/02/2011 Topic: see development and the future of SyMenu Gianluca Administrator	Ahahahah... do you really think that making a web site with a complete poll system could be so easy? Well I eventually can open a new thread with the right title and the list of todo items. Please remember that SyMenu is a non profit project and I'm not working on it at full time. The community of SyMenu users, with a big exception of my brave and really valuable translators (by the way... thanks again to all of you for your work!!!!), doesn't help in any way my project, doesn't make donations, doesn't post on this forum, doesn't contribute in any way. I'm a bit disappointed about this so my efforts in the project are getting less and less.
21/02/2011 Topic: see development and the future of SyMenu Gianluca Administrator	This is the message that I write down almost two years ago in the home page of SyMenu section of my web site: Help SyMenu If you want to help SyMenu to become the best USB laucher on the web you can contact me. I'm searching for: A team coordinator: I need a person organized, capable, nice and English speaking, who would like to help me in coordinate all the valuable member of SyMenu team (translators, beta testers and graphic designers), forum users and web site users. Translators: a translator must know English quite well and has to be experienced with IT terminology Graphic Designers: I like to offer SyMenu with its customized icons set and a trendy look but, unfortunately, I'm not an artist Beta testers: SyMenu is always in development and I need help to test intermediate versions .NET programmers: in a short-term I'll release a framework to create application for SyMenu. I need help in developing the framework and I need new applications to publish as SyMenu application. So let me know if you want to collaborate. I haven't found no one yet except for translators. This is the reason because I'm disappointed.
04/07/2011 Topic: Possible To Get Right Click Context Menu Option? Gianluca Administrator	Hello. Contextual menu on right click is a Windows standard function. It's not possible neither appropriate change this functionality especially by a portable application because a portable app must not leave any footprint on the system it runs on. SyMenu probably could intercept the right click and manage this event without changing the system (I mean without changing system registry) but sincerely who cares losing Windows contextual menu? It's a very useful tool to lost. If you want to add SyMenu as a new item on Windows contextual right click menu instead, try this link. You can map on your new entry the SyMenu executable full path. In fact if you re-launch SyMenu when a session is already active you'll see SyMenu contextual menu pops up without starting a new fresh one. If this solution can fit your need please let us know! Thanks Gianluca
05/07/2011 Topic: Possible To Get Right Click Context Menu Option? Gianluca Administrator	Reading your reply I realize that what you probably need is a fast way to popup SyMenu at all. But this is an already available feature. Go to SyMenu main form, select Configuration - Options menu, go on Hot Keys tab and enable shortcut manager. It works only with keyboard but it is a very time-saving way to use SyMenu. It allows you to use SyMenu entirely with keys, especially if you check the Set focus on search bar flag. Give it a try. Gianluca
29/09/2011 Topic: New 1.13 version is finally out Gianluca Administrator	Hello to all. The new SyMenu version is out since yesterday. I post here this news beacuse there is one of the new feature that needs a clarification. The full list of the new features is this: Added links to Control Panel tools and commonly used Windows 7 programs in Search items bar New Turkish translation Customizable proxy settings manager to check for update Item Manager menu changes accordingly to currently selected SyItem New icon set Bug fix The feature that I want to explain in deep is the first one. With Windows 7 (and Windows Vista too, but I hope that no one use it anymore) Microsoft released a great number of new applet for our control panel. The process was becoming since the release of XP's SP2 but since W7 is not ignorable anymore. I chose a list of these new applets that I think could be useful to everything. The list is accessible through the SyMenu search bar as any other host programs. The applet names are the English ones. If I forget something very useful please let me know and I'll add it on the next release. Control panel applets recognize by SyMenu Accessibility Options - access.cpl Programs and Features - appwiz.cpl Bluetooth Devices - bthprops.cpl People Near Me - collab.cpl Color Management - color.cpl Display Properties - desk.cpl Windows Firewall Management Device Manager - hdwwiz.cpl Internet Options - inetcpl.cpl Regional and Language Settings - intl.cpl Infrared - irprops.cpl Game Controllers - joy.cpl Mouse (control mouse) - main.cpl Mail - mlcfg32.cpl mlcfg.cpl Microsoft System Configuration Utility - msconfig.cpl Sounds and Audio Devices - mmsys.cpl Modem - modem.cpl Network properties - netcpl.cpl Network Connections - ncpa.cpl User Accounts - nusrmgr.cpl Gateway Services for NetWare properties - nwc.cpl Data Sources (32-bit ODBC) - odbccp32.cpl Password - password.cpl Power Options - powercfg.cpl Speech - sapi.cpl Scanners and Cameras - sticpl.cpl System - sysdm.cpl Phone and Modem Options - telephon.cpl Desktop Themes - themes.cpl Date and Time - timedate.cpl Action Center - wscui.cpl Automatic Updates - wuaucpl.cpl These are some useful Windows programs that SyMenu search bar can find DirectX Diagnostic Tool - dxdiag.exe Microsoft Management console - mmc.exe Paint - mspaint.exe Notepad - notepad.exe Windows Features - optionalfeatures.exe Performance Monitor - perfmon.exe Registry Editor - regedit.exe Windows Task Manager - taskmgr.exe Write - write.exe About Windows - winver.exe
29/09/2011 Topic: New 1.13 version is finally out Gianluca Administrator	Hello PoWi. The little banner you can see at the bottom of SyMenu contextual menu is a link to my new project. ghezee.com is a web site where I'm exploring a new way to intend classified ads. Instead to work on sale proposals ghezee works on contract proposals. In this way a person who intends to buy something can set the selling conditions and can choose his contractor (seller) basing his chose on price, reliability and quality. The big difference between other ads web site is that in ghezee, users don't have to search for what they want because the stuff they want search for them. I invite you to read the info pages to better understand how it works. http://www.ghezee.com/HowItWorks http://www.ghezee.com/Faq Gianluca
06/10/2011 Topic: New 1.13 version is finally out Gianluca Administrator	I'm very sorry that you are so annoyed by the ad! No it is not possible to remove that because I thought to remove it from SyMenu in next version. So you can remains on 1.12 or wait for 1.14.

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