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ecaradec:
I must say that I'm a super fan of FARR, I'd love it if this can inspire you mouser. I'm not sure I have enough perseverance to work on such a project over as many years as FARR, but I'll do my best.

I've been trying to find a launcher to love for years now. Of course I have FARR installed, and I use it literally a dozen times a day...

BUT... (and here's my big but) there are a some programs that I want available under as a pop-up for faster launching. The closest I've managed to get is 8start, which brings up a little grid of shortcuts when I middle-click the mouse. QuickCliq does something similar. But they ain't perfect.

Will this thing be able to do that?
-timns (November 18, 2011, 04:23 PM)
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I don't think so, it will still be a keyboard launcher, not really something that can be used usefully with a mouse.

I have to say, the posted screenshots are quite attractive.
-kyrathaba (November 18, 2011, 10:00 PM)
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Thanks,  :Thmbsup:

ecaradec:
Here is a first beta (check for the link in the announcement post ), which is more a proof of concept at this point. I'm just happy with the way commands works, even if there is only a few. Here is what you can do with it :

You can run an application by typing it's name

You can type windows path like that and browse the file system (tab works for completion )
c:\...

You can type text either with a ' prefix which will give text a boost, or just continue to type until there is nothing left but text and it will be automatically known

You can use this text in 2 ways. Once you get a text hit the right arrow then the down arrow to get a list of what is available at this point. There is two operation you can send a mail to a contact (this doesn't work yet ) or you can search a website. Type 'search with' then hit the right arrow to select which website to search.

You can try actions on applications too, you can open, get the properties and other things detected from the context menu.

Hit 'return' at any point to run the current action.

If you want to quit, just type quit in the first pane.

I hope it'll give you a sense of what will be possible by making this a little bit more concrete. I'm quite happy with it, I find that it looks great ;).

ewemoa:
Tried to run it, but got something about not being able to find MSVCP100.dll.

ecaradec:
ok I added it to the package can you try it again ?

ewemoa:
Thanks for the update.

It runs now.  When I tried typing "fi" (no quotes), got an error with details:

AppName: qsll.exe    AppVer: 1.0.0.1    ModName: qsll.exe
ModVer: 1.0.0.1    Offset: 00002253

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Then the app went away.

"quit" worked :)

Some other combinations also caused crashes (e.g. "c" -- I was about to type a path).

I'm testing this on Windows XP Pro SP3.

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