Shortcut Creator

[Contro]

MMMMM

Failed to find path.
 
I have installed windows xp several times in the same pc. I usually install many programs as portables. So I can take advantage.

Is It possible to use environmental variables and the path found ?

Best Regards

[Contro]

I try multiple instances and receive this window. But there is not help file.

Shortcut Creator

 

[ewemoa]

New version uploaded -- minimally tested.

SHA1: 58bd28e144e2d191e9466a015b15c35a3e39d555

Changes include:

• Environment variable substitution support for locations in ini file
• Allow multiple instances to run at the same time -- remember to change hotkey setting
• Menu item "Choose Location..." brings up a dialog to choose a folder to create shortcuts in
• Archive no longer contains sample ini, if there is no ini file, one should be created by the program
• Archive only contains a single executable
• Tray icon menu changes
• Credits
• Cosmetic changes

Please let me know if you experience any problems.

[Contro]

Seen ewemoa.
I'll try and will comment

Best Regards

Shortcut Creator

Shortcut Creator

[Contro]

Is something strange.
I have been manipulating the ini.

1. With only one option :The program fails when I let only one option.
1=%userprofile%

2. The program is more powerful , but is not "ultra-fast". The interesting point when only one option is desired is inmediately creation.

By example : (extracted fromo autohotkey forum by author None )


^+s::
Clipboard=
Send ^c
ClipWait
Loop, Parse, Clipboard,`n,`r
  {
  SplitPath, A_LoopField ,,,,OutNameNoExt
  FileCreateShortcut, %A_LoopField%, %A_Desktop%\%OutNameNoExt%.lnk
  }
SoundBeep ; Play the default pitch and duration.
Return

Probably the 80% users only need one option.

Now for the rest without loose powerful.

3. the program fails in the recreation of the ini file. I close the program. I edit the ini file. But after the environmental variables are not recognized.

4. Feature one to many .

I select the icon or subfolder in the active window  I am. And automatically the same shortcut is created in all active windows i have opened selecting the option "Active Windows" or similar.
The option "This active Window" is irrelevant because the windows xp system come with that option almost directly.

5. Please everybody. Perhaps the best way of fast linking wil be two or more hotkeys. One , by example, to send the icon to the desktop, and other to open the general selection table.

[ewemoa]

Thanks for the feedback.

Is something strange.
I have been manipulating the ini.

1. With only one option :The program fails when I let only one option.
1=%userprofile%

-Contro (June 05, 2010, 02:24 PM)

I tried:

[Select]

[Settings]
; hotkey for activation, see AutoHotkey 'Hotkey' command docs
Hotkey=^+c
; destination locations to choose from
1=%userprofile%
; total number of locations to display (starting at 1)
Total=1

and it worked fine here -- may be I misunderstood.  Would you mind providing your full ini file?

2. The program is more powerful , but is not "ultra-fast". The interesting point when only one option is desired is inmediately creation.

There is a sleep command in the loop that forces a pause.  May be I can rearrange the code so that the sleep only happens if there is more than one item to make a shortcut of.

Do you have any comments, skwire?

3. the program fails in the recreation of the ini file. I close the program. I edit the ini file. But after the environmental variables are not recognized.

I don't understand what you mean by "recreation".  Would you mind elaborating?

If you don't mind, perhaps you could provide step-by-step instructions on an example case demonstrating the issue and how you think it should behave.  Then I can try to reproduce it locally.

BTW, the tray icon menu should contain some menu items that might be handy, in case you haven't seen them:

• Open Configuration File
• Reload Configuration
• Exit

Have you tried them out?

4. Feature one to many .

I select the icon or subfolder in the active window  I am. And automatically the same shortcut is created in all active windows i have opened selecting the option "Active Windows" or similar.
The option "This active Window" is irrelevant because the windows xp system come with that option almost directly.

Hmm, I don't understand.  Would you mind showing me some screenshots?

Perhaps the best way of fast linking wil be two or more hotkeys. One , by example, to send the icon to the desktop, and other to open the general selection table.

Let's come back to this after addressing the other points.  Perhaps you can bring it up again later?

[Contro]

Understood. I'll try the best of my own documentating.

I'll take screenshots or even a video.

Best Regards

[skwire]

There is a sleep command in the loop that forces a pause.  May be I can rearrange the code so that the sleep only happens if there is more than one item to make a shortcut of.
Do you have any comments, skwire?

-ewemoa (June 05, 2010, 03:42 PM)

That small of a sleep shouldn't make that much of a difference.  I put it in there as a failsafe against a user selecting many thousands of files and having their computer act unresponsive while that many shortcuts were created.  Take it out...see if anything changes for Contro.

[ewemoa]

That small of a sleep shouldn't make that much of a difference.  I put it in there as a failsafe against a user selecting many thousands of files and having their computer act unresponsive while that many shortcuts were created.  Take it out...see if anything changes for Contro.

-skwire (June 06, 2010, 07:15 AM)

Thanks for the suggestion.  I will try that.

[Contro]

General idea :

Shortcut Creator

Screenshots explaining the general idea.

[Contro]

One to many create several shortcuts according to the number of tabs opened in the browser, o windows opened, or predefined by an ini text file (like the example to create six shortcuts known the target paths)

[ewemoa]

Thanks for the further explanation.

I am working on digesting it (and my food ).

[Contro]

Thanksss ewemoa. Excuse my english.

I am working hard trying to depurate my work system with expedients and incidences. My references are very simple : 125.09 , where 125 is the number of the expedient, and 09 is the year.
But sometimes I need reorganize the expedient-incidence, because affect to the same contact several times , or affect to several contacts. O have a common environmental incidence with peculiar rules. Reagrupating with shorcuts permits me a perfect organization maintening a simple reference code like 125.09. Save space and accurate information with no duplicates.

Incidences are numerated stiled : 0130.10 , where 10 is the year

an finally very quick ideas or consulting with no reference at all , but with linking in goldmine and with several external documentation in several folders that may need reagrupping or relate with additional shortcuts.

Is more simple for me use shortcuts in some folders that linking all this with Goldmine.

The use with Firefox (or IE) is because i need the web to collect information. I can reference quickly with shortcuts to certain webs, forum, etc.

I use Phrase Express to automation with certain processes i need with goldmine or other elements.

Finally : I think intensive use of shortcuts make my work more easy.



By example : I wanto to get a software or script to make menu photo and this expedient need several parallel aims or partial objectives. In these partial objectives i would like to put a shorcut to the main aim or objective. But this partial objective are shared with other expedients.

So I need a special relation. Sobreyective (i don't know if is the correct word).

Revising the expedient I can reorganize dynamically according to my needs with simple shortcuts, forming a neural network . In programation i think are procedures or something like that. The basic points you need many times.

I use Goldmine 5.5 (an old version as a CRM). Or freemind to organize certain ideas.

When I have to solve a problem in the time and open several expedients or incidences that may be related to the prior ones, i would like to use shortcuts too in a simple way. Before I close an incidence I revise any other relation with the rest of interacting elements.

 

[ewemoa]

I don't have any significant experience getting AutoHotkey to work with Firefox.  My guess is it is unlikely I would come up with anything useful in relation to Firefox any time soon.

With regard to the Windows Explorer one-to-many features I'm still considering and researching.

[ewemoa]

I made an attempt at supporting a few things.  Here's an example ini file:

Code: Text [Select]

1. [Settings]
2. ; hotkey to bring up menu
3. Hotkey=^+c
4. ; destination locations (numbered starting at 1) to choose from
5. ; absolute path
6. 1=C:\
7. ; environment variable support
8. 2=%TEMP%
9. ; multiple locations, separate by |
10. 3=C:\WINDOWS|C:\
11. ; hotkey for location(s)
12. 4=^+d::C:\Documents and Settings
13. 5=^+p::%USERPROFILE%|%TEMP%

Now to explain what is different.

First, no need to specify Total= in settings any more.  Just make sure to start at 1 and increase by 1 each time.  (Lines 6-13).

Multiple destinations may be specified for a single menu item -- just separate them using the | character (sometimes called 'pipe' or 'vertical bar').  (Lines 10 and 13).

A menu item may have an associated hotkey -- using the hotkey the popup menu can be bypassed altogether.  (Lines 12 and 13).  (Put the hotkey string after the leftmost = on the line, and put two colons right after the hotkey string.)

If the earlier was code was still in-development, this is even more so

  http://ewemoa.dcmemb...reateShortcutsIn.exe

SHA1: 34336f348fc6d8ff0f056b2518ff597c213952d7

[Contro]

I don't have any significant experience getting AutoHotkey to work with Firefox.  My guess is it is unlikely I would come up with anything useful in relation to Firefox any time soon.

With regard to the Windows Explorer one-to-many features I'm still considering and researching.

-ewemoa (June 08, 2010, 03:35 AM)

I have intended in the firefox specialized forums get information about this addon. When I have good information I'll put here.

[Contro]

I made an attempt at supporting a few things.  Here's an example ini file:

Code: Text [Select]

1. [Settings]
2. ; hotkey to bring up menu
3. Hotkey=^+c
4. ; destination locations (numbered starting at 1) to choose from
5. ; absolute path
6. 1=C:\
7. ; environment variable support
8. 2=%TEMP%
9. ; multiple locations, separate by |
10. 3=C:\WINDOWS|C:\
11. ; hotkey for location(s)
12. 4=^+d::C:\Documents and Settings
13. 5=^+p::%USERPROFILE%|%TEMP%

Now to explain what is different.

First, no need to specify Total= in settings any more.  Just make sure to start at 1 and increase by 1 each time.  (Lines 6-13).

Multiple destinations may be specified for a single menu item -- just separate them using the | character (sometimes called 'pipe' or 'vertical bar').  (Lines 10 and 13).

A menu item may have an associated hotkey -- using the hotkey the popup menu can be bypassed altogether.  (Lines 12 and 13).  (Put the hotkey string after the leftmost = on the line, and put two colons right after the hotkey string.)

If the earlier was code was still in-development, this is even more so

  http://ewemoa.dcmembers.com/tmp/CreateShortcutsIn.exe

SHA1: 34336f348fc6d8ff0f056b2518ff597c213952d7

-ewemoa (June 08, 2010, 08:15 AM)

I'll try and comment.

I have observed in the shortcut the possibility to comment :

a) Select the icon
b) create the shortcut
c) select the shortcut - right click properties - direct access tab - commentary

This image in my system :



I would like to modificate the script CTRL+SHIFT+S to modify during the shortcut copy the comment in it.

[Contro]

To follow the firefox addon for shortcuts
http://forums.mozill...p?f=38&t=1917131
  from Spins

[Contro]

I would like to try one list.
I'll comment. With some path in my local net.

Best Regards

P.D. Please leave one option in the right menu to launch any application.

[Contro]

Fails because my list is too long :

[mouser]

please don't use imageshack images -- attach images to posts instead.

[Contro]

And I don't see the sixth line created in my ini file. Can't I create new lines ?

[Contro]

please don't use imageshack images -- attach images to posts instead.

-mouser (June 10, 2010, 09:35 AM)

Understood mouser

[ewemoa]

Fails because my list is too long :

-Contro (June 10, 2010, 09:31 AM)

Perhaps the following idea will work:

Define environment variables for each of the separate paths and then use those in CreateShortcutsIn.ini.

For example, suppose there are the following six paths one wants to use for a single menu item:

• C:\Documents and Settings\User\Red
• D:\Documents and Settings\User\White
• E:\Documents and Settings\User\Yellow
• F:\Documents and Settings\User\Black
• G:\Documents and Settings\User\Green
• H:\Documents and Settings\User\Blue

One can use a batch file or other means to define environment variables such as:

• set RED=C:\Documents and Settings\User\Red
• set WHITE=D:\Documents and Settings\User\White
• set YELLOW=E:\Documents and Settings\User\Yellow
• set BLACK=F:\Documents and Settings\User\Black
• set GREEN=G:\Documents and Settings\User\Green
• set BLUE=H:\Documents and Settings\User\Blue

(If a batch file is used for this, one idea is to use it to launch CreateShortcutsIn.exe.)

In CreateShortcutsIn.ini, one might have:

Code: Text [Select]

1. [Settings]
2. ; hotkey to bring up menu
3. Hotkey=^+c
4. ; destination locations (numbered starting at 1) to choose from
5. ; absolute path
6. 1=%RED%|%WHITE%|%YELLOW%|%BLACK%|%GREEN%|%BLUE%

I tested something like this just now, and it seemed to work fine here.

Note: It is important that the environment variables are defined before CreateShortcutsIn.exe is launched.

[ewemoa]

And I don't see the sixth line created in my ini file. Can't I create new lines ?

-Contro (June 10, 2010, 09:36 AM)

I don't understand the problem being described.

Would you mind posting your ini file or one that reproduces the problem for you?