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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: middle click on desktop to get quick launch or 'start menu'

« on: April 14, 2008, 07:59 PM »

ShortPopUp (http://www.digitallis.co.uk/) and AutoHotkey can be used together to get a LINUX like menu… middle click (instead of right click) to get a menu of your applications.  to use ShortPopUp all you do is create a folder (lets say... \My Documents\SPU) and place shortcuts (or files or folders) inside along with the ShortPopUp.exe (you need to tell ShortPopUp what folder to start in, so techniclly it does not have to be in the same folder).  anything inside here will show up in the menu when ShortPopUp is called.  folders can be expanded, so you can place a shortcut to your start menu folder to get all of your applications.  see the help file for all of its features.  here is how I use it with AutHotkey...

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AutoHotkey script...

;ShortPopUp Access
~MButton:: ;middle mouse button
    Process, Priority, , High
    Run, %A_MyDocuments%\SPU\ShortPopUp.exe -useinifile shortpopup.ini, %A_MyDocuments%\SPU
return

!Space:: ;Alt+Space (in case your hands are already on the keyboard)
    Process, Priority, , High
    Run, %A_MyDocuments%\SPU\ShortPopUp.exe -useinifile shortpopup.ini, %A_MyDocuments%\SPU
return
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ShortPopUp ini file (shortpopup.ini), place in the same folder as ShortPopUp.exe...

-sort 2
-display 3 xp flat rounded
-dieonmouseout 1000
-menusforshortcutstofolders
-noavailablecheck
-dothumbnailsontooltip
-iconsforfolders
-block ".ini"
-maxmenuwidth 500
-menuxalignment left
-menuyalignment top
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: middle click on desktop to get quick launch or 'start menu'

« on: April 13, 2008, 05:44 PM »

i had tried intellipoint, but it did not work with my mouse (which is just your average Dell usb mouse).  then i tried X-Mouse Button Control, which did work, but it is uses up about 10 mb ram.  autohotkey only uses about 3 mb ram...  and it can also be used for so much more.

i'll post my autohotkey script tomorrow, with some basic instructions on using shortpopup.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: middle click on desktop to get quick launch or 'start menu'

« on: April 11, 2008, 03:58 PM »

If you knew how to make an autohotkey script that when you click the middle mouse button, it would push the windows key, and then somehow move the start menu to where the mouse is, that would work, I could do part of that, but I dunno if I could make the start menu move to the mouse.

-nite_monkey (April 08, 2008, 10:58 PM)

i used autohotkey to launch shortpopup... which works well!  thanks!

shortpopup is here... http://www.digitalli...uk/pc/downloads.html
autohotkey is here... http://www.autohotkey.com/

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: middle click on desktop to get quick launch or 'start menu'

« on: April 04, 2008, 07:36 PM »

actually, i used to use bblean and this is the only feature i miss... but i have no desire to run an alternative shell just to get a handy launching feature.  i guess i will have to keep making the long trek to the bottom of my screen to launch an application (which is really annoying w/ dual monitors).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: middle click on desktop to get quick launch or 'start menu'

« on: April 04, 2008, 04:52 PM »

previously there was a tool that could do this. it was called Start Or Switch but i'm not sure whether it still works in newer OSes such as WinXP, 2K, etc.

-lanux128 (April 03, 2008, 10:16 PM)

looks like that project is dead.  could not download nor could i find it with google

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: middle click on desktop to get quick launch or 'start menu'

« on: April 03, 2008, 09:41 PM »

how about a utility to give the 'unix/linux' type feature of right clicking on the desktop to get an application menu (only use the middle click or ctl+right click)?