Lacuna Launcher (ll) 
by App's Apps 
www.appsapps.info

version: 1.0
release date: 12-12-2008

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Lacuna launcher is donationware. If you like it and find it useful, please consider making a donation to help 
support it's development. 

http://donationcoder.com/donate/19278

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Have you ever wished you had more control over the way applications are launched? 
	Set a delay for launching applications at startup? 
	Space out the launching with a pause in between them? 
	Control the order in which applications were opened? 
	Launch many aplications with a single shortcut?

Well, now you can. 

Lacuna Launcher will allow you to set a group of files to be opened with a single shortcut by creating a text 
file with the paths to all the files you wish to open.

You can include applications (.exe), shortcuts (.lnk), internet shortcuts (.url), images, music, movies, 
anything that is a file on your system that you wish to open.

Just open the included "list.txt" file in notepad and make a list with the paths to files you want to open. 
Place one per line. You can add as many as you like. 

NOTE: If you want to launch files with command line parameters, create a shortcut with the parameters set, 
and use the path to the shortcut file (.lnk) in the list, instead of a direct path to the application. 
Web pages can be launched through the use of .url files.

When you want to launch the entire group, just click the ll.exe file and they will all be launched, one right 
after the other, in the same order that they appear in the list.

The command line parameters give you more control over timing of the launches and the ability to create 
multiple lists and specify which you would like to use.

Example:

"C:\Program Files\Lacuna Launcher\ll.exe" "C:\Documents and Settings\Yourname\My Documents\another_list.txt" 60 10

The first part is the path to Lacuna Launcher. This is enclosed in quotes and followed by a single space. 
The second part is the path to the list file you wish to use, enclosed in quotes and followed by a single space. 
Then comes the number of seconds you want it to wait before it begins launching files in the list, followed by a space. 
Finally, the number of seconds you want it to wait between each file launched.

In the example above, Lacuna Launcher will open the files and programs in the list named "another_list.txt". 
It will wait 60 seconds before it begins launching files, and it will pause for 10 seconds between each file it launches.

You can use this method either from the Run dialog or as a shortcut target.

You can place a shortcut with command line parameters in your startup folder, include the paths to all of 
the applications you want to start in your list, and then remove all of the other shortcuts from the folder, 
leaving only Lacuna Launcher's shortcut. 
This may also be a helpful aid to spot when applications try to add thenselves to your startup folder.

You can set up multiple lists for various tasks, and place the shortcuts on your desktop or Quicklaunch.

Let's say you have a number of tools that you need to launch to do a particular job, like maybe webdesign. 
You could list all the paths to all the tools you use for this, your page builder, various browsers, etc., in a 
.txt file and use Lacuna Launcher to launch them all with a single click.




