https://ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=682 SyMenu - General discussion & questions - SyMenu shortcuts don't work if active app Elevated - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mon, 05 Nov 2018 16:29:13 GMT Mon, 05 Nov 2018 16:29:13 GMT https://ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=682 Mon, 05 Nov 2018 16:29:13 GMT https://ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=682 Other software are able to do that so it's only a problem in my code but, until now, I haven't found the trick to solve this issue.


Your workaround is a bit too complex, I agree with your idea to make the floating button appears again (https://www.ugmfree.it/SyMenuManual.aspx#Advanced_menu_Options_General).

If it is too big for you, you can change the image with one more appropriate (https://www.ugmfree.it/SyMenuManual.aspx#Customization).]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2018 09:20:35 GMT https://ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=682
Yes, you got the gist of my problem. Executing the already running SyMenu.exe again does work, but takes about 3 seconds on my system (I'm running on an SSD with 16GB RAM...). Also, I'm not sure there's a solution for the other SyMenu configured Hot Key (i.e. Shortcut for Search).

So to recap:


For users like me that are running SyMenu non-elevated, I'm not finding what-I-find-to-be a convenient solution to using the SyMenu Hot Keys when they are also running apps elevated.

If the active window is elevated, SyMenu doesn't provide a way to use the SyMenu Hot Keys; and the only option available is to e.g. pin SyMenu to the taskbar and re-launch SyMenu by clicking on the taskbar icon and wait a few seconds for the Main menu to appear before I can then press "S", "S", "Enter" to get to the search box.

Oddly, I created a windows shortcut to SyMenu.exe and setup a shortcut key, but that didn't work... although if it did, it's not much different than the taskbar icon approach.

If anyone has a solution (or if I'm missing something), please let me know, otherwise I'd like to propose this as a feature request. I seem to recall a floating icon when I installed this a long time ago. Decided I didn't like it, but maybe it's time to revisit what that offers.

My current solution is to define a hotkey in AutoHotkey that, when the active window is elevated, activates the Taskbar (which is non-elevated) and then sends the SyMenu Hot Keys. That displays the SyMenu search box immediately.

And again, thanks Gianluca for this terrific sofware!

edited by sffdb8 on 03/11/2018

edited by sffdb8 on 03/11/2018]]> Sat, 03 Nov 2018 02:04:50 GMT https://ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=682
I assume that your real question is: "Is there a way to display SyMenu contextual menu programmatically?"
Just in case the response is yes.

Since SyMenu allows only one instance from a certain path, you have to execute the already running SyMenu.exe executable twice. You can execute it even from the command line.

Instead of opening a second instance, SyMenu pops up the contextual menu from the previous instance.

If you real question was different, please explain it better.]]> Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:32:44 GMT https://ugmfree.it/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=682
Since SyMenu app doesn't behave as a typical window, I can't minimize/maximize/restore it. Is there another way to display SyMenu programatically e.g. using WinAPI ShowWindow?]]> Mon, 11 Jun 2018 01:35:30 GMT