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mouser:
hotkey works if "Delay on Unhiding" option is disabled.
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and if "delay on unhiding" is checked, what is the behavior?

songless:
hotkey works if "Delay on Unhiding" option is disabled.
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and if "delay on unhiding" is checked, what is the behavior?
-mouser (September 02, 2010, 01:18 PM)
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Bar only shows if I press the hotkey several times.

mouser:
ok i'll fix that too.

superboyac:
Thanks for bringing this up.  Auto-hiding is a subject that has been on my mind for years, but I've never really talked about it much.  I have never seen an auto-hide implementation that I have been completely satisfied with.  I probably mentioned something here about LBC years ago.

For me, I'm not talking about bugs or anything like that.  There's nothing that's actually broken or buggy.  What I'm going to talk about is what is the best way to do an auto-hide thing from an end-user standpoint.  So here goes:
Delay control for the user:
I feel this is a MUST before I'll even consider using any auto-hide feature.  The user needs to be able to set the delays for the thing to pop-out AND to pop back in.  There needs to be two fields somewhere in the options where the user can set these values in milliseconds or something.  Personally, I like zippy action: I don't want to wait at all.  I would set it to zero.  As soon as my mouse touches the hotspot, I want the thing to pop out instantly, no delays, no jerkiness, ideally no animations (for me, it adds delay).  And same goes for it popping back in.  As soon as my mouse leaves the area, I want it to disappear immediately.  No delay or anything.

Most of the time, when developers do an auto-hide thing, there are no additional tweakable elements to that.  The typical options provided are things like always on top, position, and dockable or no.  But to be able to fine-tune the actual popping in/out behavior is the key.  Everyone is going to like different speeds.  People like me want it fast.  Others like it to linger around a little bit to prevent accidental pop outs.  But the option needs to be there so the user isn't always frustrated.  It's one of those things where you may really love the software, but the popout is just annoying enough to not make you want to use it so much.  I know I've run into that.

In LBC's defense, mouser implemented the independant feature of having the menu activated by a hotkey and it appears right under the mouse cursor.  I love that so much, i've totally forgotten about the auto-hide.  In fact, when that feature was implemented, my use of LBC increased quite a bit.

mouser:
songless can you try this beta:
https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/LaunchBarCommander/downloads/beta/LaunchBarCommanderSetup.exe

and go into general options and uncheck the full screen untopmost.

hopefully this should fix the delay to unhide on hotkey trigger too.

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