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NANY 2011 Release: Cautomaton
worstje:
Guess what time it is? NANY update time! :Thmbsup:
JoTo brought a little problem to my attention involving a certain program through /v, and he wondered whether I could make it work since the match and positional options were too unreliable for him to depend on due to the many localizations of the program in question. Turns out it I could work around the bug in the other program in Cautomaton, and thus update v0.9.5 was born!
Merry christmas, happy new year, have a NANYful time!
v0.9.5 (2014-12-23)
This one deserves an update, doesn't it? Well.. it happened entirely due
to a good friend telling me Cautomaton was not delivering the goods. He
was right, although it technically is a bug in another shell extension.
Thus, a work-around was born. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, etc!
Added: a work-around for buggy shell extensions that refuse to heed /v.
Cautomaton now tries to invoke it a second time by scanning manually
through the menu to find the menu item in question and retrying the
invocation while mimicking an actual user. This method is however not
as efficient as a verb invocation usually ought to be; depending on the
shell extensions that are installed on a system, there could be a lot
more activity involved in the background. Verb invocations should be
the most reliable option to begin with, so I expect little trouble. :-)
mouser:
Just played with the new features -- worked great. This is a very specialized app but it works a charm when you need it :up:
worstje:
Well, you stole the surprise away now, mouser!
For those unaware.. he's talking about the long-anticipated (by an imaginary someone, I'm sure! :tellme:) release of Cautomaton v1.0.0! It introduces the support for invoking a context menu on multiple files that I've wanted to put in there since the moment I started implementing Cautomaton several years ago.
Thank you to mouser for testing v1.0.0, for organizing NANY for yet another year, and to everyone else I say... have a good 2015!
v1.0.0 (2015-01-03)
Over four years have passed - most of which consisted out of my eternal
procrastination - but at long last, magical version v1.0.0 has come. Who
ever said Cautomaton was in eternal beta? Not me. (It was implied, though!)
Added: the long-awaited support for multiple files!
The first file listed is the primary source for the context menu that
will be loaded. This matches the normal Windows behaviour: the one you
right-click on determines the way the context menu is built up.
Added: support for files in arbitrary locations. So now you can create a
context menu that applies to "D:\Donkey.txt" and "E:\Elephant.bmp".
Known issue: Windows versions prior to Vista may have odd-looking menu's
when dealing with multiple files. Menu items may be missing, doubled
and/or placed in weird positions. I _think_ this may not happen any
longer, but I lack (the will to set up) a proper test environment for
such old OSes at this time. This issue should not affect invocation
that relies on verbs or text matching; as long as the items appear
somewhere invocation should still work.
Added: yet more debug messages (/d). Most are of a very technical level
and inspired by the above features, but in case of problems these might
just help one find a cause (and maybe a solution) for an issue they are
experiencing.
cranioscopical:
It's nice to see one here ;)
Just had a quick play with the new version (nearly said 'it' but IainB might have caught me out).
Didn't manage to break anything so far, contrary to real life.
:Thmbsup:
worstje:
If it had broken, I'd blame Windows XP. Buggy piece of #@$%#$%. Ahum...
Thanks for giving a whirl. Duly appreciated!
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