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LaunchBar Commander is a "launch bar" tool where you place your favorite programs and documents on a bar on your screen where you can easily run or open them.
A launch bar typically docks to one sider of your screen where it is always visible as a kind of reminder of your most useful tools, but it can also be free floating, or minimized to the system tray where it acts as a pop-up menu, visible only then you need it.
LaunchBar Commander has a slightly different focus than some other launch bar tools:
| • | It's designed for power users who value efficiency over eye candy - although you can choose some nice appearance skins for the program, if you are looking for a super fancy animated mac-style dock with dancing icons, LaunchBar Commander is not the tool for you. |
| • | It's designed to store docking bar configurations in self-contained files - so you can back them up easily, move them to other computers, switch between configurations, etc. |
| • | It emphasizes the use of highly configurable Menus rather than just buttons - you can build hierarchical menus of any depth and varying types. |
| • | It has a very powerful tree configuration tool which supports copy and paste, drag and drop, easy temporary disabling. |
| • | Multiple dock support - a single instance of the program can support multiple docks and tray menus. |
| • | Robust support for virtual file menus - confgure menu items to give you access into specific folders, with many options. |
| • | Drag and drop runtime support - drop files onto buttons to open them with the specific program, or add them to the launch bar. |
| • | Smart tree building - extracts icons and descriptions from files and pictures. |
| • | Special menu building blocks for Start Menu, MyDocuments, etc. More coming soon (control panel, printers). |
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