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Author Topic: LaunchBar Commander Screencast Videos  (Read 40797 times)

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LaunchBar Commander Screencast Videos
« on: August 09, 2010, 02:59 PM »
I'm going to try to do more screencast videos of some of my programs; this thread is for LaunchBar Commander.

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Re: LaunchBar Commander Screencast Videos
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2010, 03:00 PM »
Here's video #2 for LaunchBar Commander, showing how to create your first dock/launchbar.

https://www.donation...c/3ds/lbc2/lbc2.html
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Re: LaunchBar Commander Screencast Videos
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2010, 04:48 PM »
Video #3 demonstrates how to trigger launch bars as pop-up menus using hotkeys, and also demonstrates how to use a launch bar that has been minimized to the system tray:

https://www.donation...c/3ds/lbc3/lbc3.html

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Re: LaunchBar Commander Screencast Videos
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2010, 09:22 PM »
Video #4 shows how you can drop files onto dock buttons, and how you can access command/folder properties using the right-click context menu:

https://www.donation...c/3ds/lbc4/lbc4.html
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Re: LaunchBar Commander Screencast Videos
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2010, 09:23 PM »
Video #5 discusses folder nodes (menus) and plugin-generated menus:

https://www.donation...c/3ds/lbc5/lbc5.html
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Re: LaunchBar Commander Screencast Videos
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2010, 10:29 AM »
mouser,
Thanks for taking the time to do these screencasts.  I've only been able to watch #2 so far but it already explained a couple of things I've been wanting to do.  I'll be watching the rest tonight.
 

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Re: LaunchBar Commander Screencast Videos
« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2010, 12:09 PM »
glad someone finds them helpful!
i guess i have a few more to do.. any requests for areas to cover?

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Re: LaunchBar Commander Screencast Videos
« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2010, 01:30 PM »
Video #6 discusses working with Menu Nodes:

https://www.donation...c/3ds/lbc6/lbc6.html
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Re: LaunchBar Commander Screencast Videos
« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2010, 01:33 PM »
Video #7 discusses Dock Behavior and Appearance Options:

https://www.donation...c/3ds/lbc7/lbc7.html
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Re: LaunchBar Commander Screencast Videos
« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2010, 06:17 PM »
Thanks so much for these videos.  I've now watched #2 and #3.  I found #3 especially interesting, since I had never thought much about assigning hot keys, but after watching the video I assigned hot keys to the Everything search engine and to System Restore (i.e., the screen that lets me either use a restore point or set a new one).   I suspect that mostly I'll continue to access LBC from the system tray and launch programs from it with the mouse, but I love the idea that I can also launch programs via the hot keys.

Again, thanks for this terrific program and for the very helpful videos.  And for this wonderful site, and and and...  :Thmbsup:

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Re: LaunchBar Commander Screencast Videos
« Reply #10 on: August 23, 2010, 02:22 AM »
Cool videos  :).
I saw them two days ago, then I created a bar adapted to my workflow and now is the launcher I use. I'll open a thread to detail my experience, many thanks !

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Re: LaunchBar Commander Screencast Videos
« Reply #11 on: September 09, 2010, 09:20 AM »
Great idea and some really useful info on LBC. Particularly liked #7 on Behaviour and Appearance and #3 on Hotkeys.

A pointer on Appearance that answered an issue for me. In my setup I use small icons, caption style to right with caption alignment left. I had quite a few tabs in my toolbar and found that if you uncheck "All same width" then the tab only takes up as much space as it needs. ( i.e avoids "Nero" taking up as much room as "TuneUp Utilities 2010", for example )   This enabled me to squeeze in a few more tabs on the toolbar.

LBC is a great app - many thanks for all the good work, Mouser.  :Thmbsup:

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Re: LaunchBar Commander Screencast Videos
« Reply #12 on: September 09, 2010, 09:24 AM »
thanks for the feedback guys  :Thmbsup:

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