Re: LaunchPad 02
Al Getz wrote:
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> Hi again Antonio,
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> I put your replies in quotes here...
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> "Create a new button for every running program or active folder etc."
> Yikes 
Are you sure you would want that? I dont think it's too hard
> to do. I think i like the 'active folder' button maker, but what do
> you mean by 'active folder'...i was thinking it would sorta be cool to
> have a "Windows Explorer" with buttons instead of icons he he, and
> every folder is a tab button. Is this what you mean? No reason why
> i cant keep generating new versions i guess until we get something
> really cool.
I do not mean this, see below.
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> "Close every running prog. after creating the button."
> This wouldnt be hard to do either, but do you mean a "close all" button?
> Do you have to close EVERY running program that often, or would you want
> to 'stock' the button to close only those programs you want?
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> "I refer to the option of a possible selection of the running instances: "
> "I mean to be prompted if to create a button or not for every program found."
> Oh ok i see what you mean now, so you can sort of save the 'run state' of
> your computer, then later click a single button to get all the programs
> up and running again so you can continue with your work. This sounds
> really good. Many times i like to halt working on something and come
> back to it later, but i dont want to have to leave all the windows
> open that im working with so i close everything (or at least most). Later
> when i come back i have to figure out where everything is again and open
> everything *again*, one by one.
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Excellent! you are interpreting here what I "exactly" meant. I daily use
Hibernate, but this cannot help to close and reopen any kind of project
by itself, just shut down the computer and restart after sleeping.
However my idea was focused on a single project or task, not to the whole
run state of the system: other windows might be opened while I answer to
your message (I'm following my previous example now), as they are in fact.
I am not interested to gather all these in one single group, since some
of them do not concern this job, but may be needed for others. I think
rather to the chance to (1) open a project (let's call it so), by the
launch of a group of buttons, (2) do what I have to do then (3) close it
("close all" means all its components) with one touch, then open another
one if ready.
To do that of course we need to have created those groups the last time
we closed each of them, possibly how you describe in the next paragraph.
> I can see this being VERY handy, but what if we have a particular, say, text
> file up like say "MyNotes.txt" in Notepad or Edita or another text editor,
> we'd have to have a way to not only open Notepad AGAIN but with MyNotes.txt
> loaded into it. If this is possible (havent thought about it much yet) then
> we will have a VERY handy tool here...sortof like a 'computer state
> saver/restorer'.
> Hibernate does this, but you have to go into hib mode and we dont always want
> that of course.
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The same should apply to the Addresses of the "active folders" (I mean the
Explorer folders in view); I always have 3 or 4 opened on the second (dual
head) monitor.
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> All good ideas which i will incorporate into the button launcher.
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> Probably start with the one where you can open several programs
> with only one button. I'll just have to figure out how to get
> the name of the file that has been opened or else we'll have to
> type that in ourselves, like maybe this (all on one button as
> you suggested):
>
> open Notepad "c:\download\mytext1.txt"
> open Path\Edita "c:\download\myfile.ew"
> open Path\MyEditor "c:\mypath\myotherfile.ew"
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Perhaps there is no need to give a name to every single button,
once a name is given to the group itself, according to its task.
Or this could simply be the tab's name, if you decide to use tabs
to separate projects; but it is the same if you prefer "parent" buttons.
>
> Yeah, this is *too* good. Im going to have to start thinking about this
> right away
>
> Maybe it's not that hard after all:
> point a button to a .bat file that opens all the above files!
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It could be not so easy. :|
I guess you have to use the "call" command to do that inside a .bat,
or the batch execution might be abandoned after the 1st program run;
but I don't really see the need to fall into the windoze darkness
since we can control the execution from EU. Perhaps the shellExecuteEx( ),
or what's in your library, inside a For/End For could better supply.
> Heck, we can do this now!!! :)
> I think i'll try this right now...
>
> Thanks for all the good ideas!
We'll enjoy this new tool for "our" running!
antonio
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> Al
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> My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"
>
> From "Black Knight":
> "I can live with losing the good fight,
> but i can not live without fighting it".
> "Well on second thought, maybe not."
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