NANY 2011 Release: Quick Cliq

[Apathetic_Coding]

NANY 2011 Entry Information

Application Name	Quick Cliq
Version	1.2.12
Short Description	Quick Cliq is a portable menu based application launcher and productivity tool with features that you won’t find anywhere else!
Supported OSes	Windows XP - 7
Web Page	http://apathysoftworks.com/software/qc
Download Link	http://apathysoftwor.../quick-cliq-download
System Requirements	Windows XP - 7
Version History	Full version history - http://apathysoftwor...update/changelog.txt
Author	Apathetic_Coding & Pavel (Not a DC member.... yet!)

Description
From the website:
Quick Cliq speeds up your daily computer activities by giving you links to folders, files, programs, URLs and command line operations. It also offers window management, extreme clipboard manipulation, and note taking capabilities. All of this is provided in a compact menu that you can show anywhere and within any application or window through customizable hot keys and mouse gestures.

Features
A Moderate List:

Spoiler

* Easy and quick access to folders, files, programs, links, e-mail templates, and  command line operations
* Run an unlimited number of shortcuts with one item!
* Unlimited number of shortcuts and menus available that are fully customizable
* Access to Open/Save dialogs and fast folder switching in explorer
* 9 extra clipboards - with advanced editing functions (See below)
* Hide and show windows
* Memos that hold commonly used text and can be sent to an active window or placed on the clipboard
* Customizable Hot keys and Mouse Gestures for each feature
* Special shortcut type which will allow you to navigate a directory in a menu
* Drag & drop interface and Windows Explorer context menu integration lets you add any shortcut with just few clicks
* Save any menu you have created as an S-Menu file that you can run outside of Quick Cliq
* A Recent menu that will log recently closed folders so that you can access them quickly
* Ability to turn off any feature/option you don’t currently need

The Clipboard Features
* The clipboards can hold binary data (files/folders) as well as application specific data
* View and Edit any clipboard in it's native format or plain text
* Append data to any clipboard making it a useful list making tool
* Basic text formatting
* Clean all formatting from the clipboard leaving only plain text (remove HTML formatting)
* Convert copied files to their full file path
* Save the clipboard’s content to a file

Planned Features
Future planned features include: Plugable menus, a run box to quickly run your menu items or commands directly from the keyboard (similar to FARR but nowhere as good! ), and an "actions" shortcut type that will allow you to perform some basic functions like shutdown, or set the system volume.

Screenshots
Main Menu Layout
Add/Change Window -  Where ya make your menus
Clipboard Viewer in action


Usage
Installation
Just Unzip the application and run it - It is completely portable!

Using the Application
Just run the application and read the message box that pops up on first run.
Open the main menu with the default hotkey - Win + Z
Or the default mouse gesture - Hold the right mouse button down and drag down then release (you only need to drag a few pixels)
Go to the Add/Change item at the bottom of the menu to start adding some items!
Here is a link to the full documentation

Uninstallation
Just delete it!

Known Issues
None that we haven't squashed yet! But be sure to let us know if you find one!

Quick Cliq is in active development so please let us know what you think we are doing wrong or right and of any bugs if you find some. The better our user base is the better the application will be. You can send us feed back or submit a bug right within the application. Look for the Feedback menu at the top of the main window.


_{Updated to version 1.1.1.0 - 12/13/2010}

[Apathetic_Coding]

Updated to version 1.1.1.5 

[cranioscopical]

Thanks for sharing this through NANY!

[mouser]

written up on ghacks as part of NANY 2011 coverage 

http://www.ghacks.ne...r-productivity-tool/

[Apathetic_Coding]

Oh cool! Thanks for letting me know mouser 

[epopuI]

Useful right menu addition - keep up the great work on Quick Cliq  - very useful piece of software - I saw it first in a ghacks RSS 

[deano]

Enormously impressed by this.  Really, really useful and easy to use.  Thanks so much!  As this will probably replace the utility that I paid for so I shall make a few donations.

[Beth UK]

This is a cool NANY offering! Will try out some more!

[Apathetic_Coding]

Thank you so much deano! It means so much when some one really appreciates something that took so much work.

[Apathetic_Coding]

thanks Beth UK. You guys let me know if you have any ideas for the app... It is still under heavy development.. i think we will incorporate pastebin into the clips menus in the next major update.

[leeloogirl]

I have a few ideas... well... not my ideas of course, but some things available in the current application that I'm using for fast folder switching: foldermenu3. Its been great so far, and is portable too, and although it works flawlessly, it hasn't been updated in some time now.
Feature requests:

• Option to make it context sensitive: use only with certain apps (explorer, open/save dialogs, notepad, user defined apps, etc.) not everywhere. Kind of the "off" feature it already has, but the inverse ("ON" only for certain programs)
• Option to add apps to switch folders (make it recognize address bar so it can send selected folder shortcut)
• Option to always change folder when clicked (instead of using middle click to change folder)
• Option to navigate a shorcut (with modifier key) even when menu entry is not defined as a folder menu
• Option to hide "files" from folder menu entries, or show only folders
• Option to reorganize QC extras, like move "recent" entries to the top, and make it the first option of the menu
• Couldn't use the "recent" list, as it never saved anything (list was always clear). I think that it should keep track of the folders clicked inside QC, instead of trying to keep track closed folders or windows recent list. Like: say I have a "Files" folder shortcut entry in QC. Normal shortcut, not folder menu. You add an option to navigate any entry using, let's say, right click. I right click "Files" entry and navigate to a folder inside it, and open a folder named "Texts". The recent entries could have "Files/Texts", even though it's not part of my current QC menu structure.
• If it can send the shortcut path to explorer (or any address bar), it should read it; so instead of integrating QC to the rightclick menu in explorer, add a "add favorite here" directly from QC (my point of view is that is kind of redundant to realize you don't have a folder in QC, and have to go to the explorer menu to add it)
• Add a drives list.
• Add an option to open menu with middle mouse button (instead of gestures). This way you can use: middle mouse button to open QC, normal click to change/switch folder (or open it when using QC in desktop), and right click to navigate an entry.

QC has great potential.
Would love to see it evolve.
Keep up the great work.
Thanks!!!

[DeVamp]

Looks lovely.

Time to play a little with it.

Thanks for sharing with us :-)

[rover3500]

I think it's Great,does so much but u can disable what u don't want.I like quick access right click to stuff.Well done.

[Mulleflupp]

Really love this app, it is a real time saver! A few thoughts though, in the hope that it actively developped:

• The "Folder Switcher" doesn't seem to work in MS Office (Word, Excel) Open/Save dialogues.
  I know that I can just copy the path to the clipboard and paste in there, but it would be perfect if it worked directly.
• It would also be great if the folder switcher could work in existing Windows Explorer windows instead of opening each time a new one.
• There is a dark grey, slight transparent square of about 2×2 cm appearing irregularly while mouving the mouse, especially when the pointer moves over the Windows task bar.
  The competitor I have been using so far and which could handle these MS Office dialogues was the "Folder Menu" (http://foldermenu.sourceforge.net/).

Keep up the great work otherwise!

[chashnniel]

unfortunately there is no settings for opening a direction in the current tab(it just always open in a new tabs really annoy me)