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QuickLaunch helps you to quickly start any installed application.

Simply start to enter the name of an application and QuickLaunch will find all programs matching these initial letters and show them in a list.
You choose an app from that list with the CursorUp/Down keys and launch it by hitting Return. Escape quits QuickLaunch.

This app was compiled with gcc4 and runs on Haiku Alpha 3.

For running in a newer nightly image, see comments.


Changes in 0.9.1:

• Show version info to distinguish different versions of the same app.
• Home/End key jump to first/last item.
• Shift+Return will keep the QL window open.
• Added script to add QL to the Deskbar tray. Remove via context menu (Removal will only work with Haiku > r35402, for lower revisions, open Terminal and enter "desklink --remove=DeskButton".)

Changes in 0.9.2:

• Add setup window to toggle version and path information.
• Ignore user definable folders.
• Make main window horizontally resizable.
• Remember window position and size.

Changes in 0.9.3:

• Ignore path information wasn't loaded correctly.

Changes in 0.9.4:

• Added Control+Return to open an app's location in Tracker.
• Added live-truncating of strings on window resize.
• The query now returns only app names beginning with the search string and now starts right after entering the first letter.
• Better handling of different system font size settings.
• Less restrictive window size limits.

Changes in 0.9.5:

• Ignore Trash on all volumes, not just on /boot.
• Be stricter on the apps' signature. They have to conform to the standardand start with "application/x-vnd". This avoids listing e.g, libraries.
• PageUp and PageDown keys now work in the result list.
• Case-insensitive sorting.

Submitted On:

20 Aug 2010

Submitted By:

Humdinger (Humdinger)

Submitted On:

27 Aug 2011

File Size:

62.13 Kb

Downloads:

274

License:

MIT

File Version:

0.9.5

File Author:

Humdinger

Rating:

Total Votes:5

Comments  

 

+1 # New 0.9.5 — Humdinger 2010-05-17 09:32

Since I can't seem to find time to improve the source a little bit, I put up version 0.9,5 with the improvements I made at BeGeistert 022.

I also realized, that providing a gcc-2-only version doesn't really make sense. Haiku is released as gcc2/4 hybrid and if anyone uses a pure gcc version, it'd be probably a gcc4-only build.

So, I'll ask Karl to remove the gcc2-version of QuickLaunch.

Regards,
Humdinger

 

 

+1 # RE: New 0.9.5 — karl 2010-05-18 06:32

Just saw this now; I've removed the GCC2 version.

 

 

+1 # RE: RE: New 0.9.5 — Humdinger 2010-05-18 11:51

Thanks! I planned to mail you directly. Good to see you're always on top of things. :)

Regards,
Humdinger

 

 

+1 # RE: QuickLaunch — andertxu 2010-06-15 17:57

This program rocks, just add terminal and URI (ftp ,http,mailto ) support like this app
http://haikuware.com/directory/view-details/info-management/file-management/littleshell , and it would be a ultra-killer app .(The last app lacks support to detect applications which are not in the shell path)

 

 

+2 # RE: RE: QuickLaunch — Humdinger 2010-06-16 08:57

I don't see how adding these features improves this app launcher. Web+, Mail and Terminal start more or less instantly, so why not open these apps (if they aren't running already) and type in the URL or command directly.

Otherwise, thanks for the feedback!
Humdinger

 

 

+1 # RE: QuickLaunch — karl 2010-06-15 18:08

hm, lots of cool apps I've never even noticed until someone points them out :)

 

 

+2 # Really nice — hey68you 2010-06-17 00:21

Hi Humdinger,

I've been meaing to try this for a while. It's really a great app (the successor to Bart Launcher :).

Regards,
hey68you

 

 

+1 # Recompiling for newer Haiku revisions — Humdinger 2010-08-20 09:19

With newer Haiku revisions, it may become necessary to recompile QuickLaunch. Recently (around r382xx) there were changes to the layout API, resulting in a "symbol xy not found" when starting QuickLaunch.

Unfortunately, this puts us in a bit of a conundrum, because Haikuware only has one archive per entry, I cannot put up one version working with Haiku alpha2 and one for current revisions.

What you can do, is recompile QuickLaunch yourself. Get Paladin, open the QuickLaunch.pld file and "make" (ALT+M) the project. A new QuickLaunch binary is created in the source folder.

I'll update the source in a minute, because in SetupWindow.cpp there was erroneously a "#include " which isn't needed any more and creates an error. If you stumble upon that, remove the line from the top of the file, or re-download the QuickLaunch packet in a few minutes...
Sorry about that.

 

 

+1 # RE: Recompiling for newer Haiku revisions — Humdinger 2010-08-20 09:24

Hmm, I wanted to link to Paladin without success. The editor buttons don't work. The URL is http://haikuware.com/directory/view-details/development/ides/paladin

Also, the include-line was mauled. it should be #include EscFilter.h in pointy brackets. Hope it's readible now...

 

 

+1 # RE: RE: Recompiling for newer Haiku revisions — karl 2010-08-20 11:00

Quote:

Hmm, I wanted to link to Paladin without success

should work now.

 

 

0 # RE: QuickLaunch — koki 2010-08-24 10:20

This is the most awesome utility app that Haiku has, and it keeps getting better. I love it!

If possible, please add the ability to prompt the user whether to add QL to the Deskbar upon first run (like ProcessController does).

 

 

0 # added some stuff — fengshaun 2010-09-11 23:54

I just added some things to QuickLaunch if you don't mind. Things such as Web search, Run command, and url opening. I'm not sure if I should release it under a different name or (preferrably) as a new version. Contact me as soon as possible so I can send you the sources I have.

Thanks a lot for this app.

 

 

0 # New build for newer nightly Haiku images — Humdinger 2011-08-27 01:17

As the layout API still changes a bit until R1, some things may break along the way...
This recently happened and therefore requires a recompile of the app. To have QuickLaunch still working for Alpha 3 users, I won't touch the archive here on Haikuware.

For everyone using at least a nightly Haiku image newer than round about r42692 (when I realized it has broken), get this gcc2hybrid compiled QuickLaunch version at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21023348/QuickLaunch.zip .

 

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