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• New beta release v11.1.0.9.2/3 - Drag&Drop, Broken Locations/Links, New Free Edition

• New beta release v11.1.0.9.2/3 - Drag&Drop, Broken Locations/Links, New Free Edition

  Jean Lalonde > 2021-01-13 15:25

  Welcome to this new beta phase that precedes the launch of QAP v11.2. The main change in this release concerns the free version of QAP. The free version of QAP v11.0 and v11.1 required a license that could be obtained for free at https://shop.quickaccesspopup.com. This license expires after three months.
  
  With version v11.2 (and these beta versions), it is no longer necessary to have a license to run QAP. However, when executed without a valid license, the software will work with certain limitations. Exceeding items in the menu will be disabled. These limitations are:
  
  - the number of items in the menu cannot exceed 100 items;
  - the number of items inside Live Folder menus is limited to 50 items;
  - only one Shared Menu can be included in the menu.
  
  Users with a valid license (paid or free) will not see these limitations. Current users with a free license will see the limitations when their license expires after its three-month term. These users will be invited to get a subscription or lifetime license on QAP Shop website.
  
  Other changes in this beta release are:
  - "Special Searches" including a report of favorites with broken locations or broken links (error 404);
  - "Drag & Drop" to move items in a menu using your mouse;
  - and many other smaller improvements as describes below.
  
  Version BETA: 11.1.0.9.2 and 11.1.0.9.1 (2021-01-13)
  
  Free Edition
  - at the first launch of QAP Free Edition (ie QAP running without a valid license), QAP shows information about limitations:
    - the number of items in the menu cannot exceed 100 items
    - the number of items inside Live Folder menus is limited to 50 items
    - only one Shared Menu can be included in the menu
  - items exceeding the limits of the Free Edition will be disabled
  - the dialog box about limitations is also shown when at least one limit is exceeded
  - when there is not installation left for the current license, when a license expires or when an invalid license code is saved, QAP runs as Free Edition
  - add "Free" to the version number in QAP window title when running Free Edition
  
  Drag and Drop
  - implement Drag & Drop items inside a menu (thanks to LV_Rows class from Rodolfo U. Batista aka Pulover)
  - update the text in the "Drag & Drop Help" dialog box (under the "Help" menu)
  
  Special Searches
  - add the submenu "Special Searches" under the "Tools" menu and move the "Search All Favorites" under this menu
  - add "Search Favorites not used in the last n days" showing menu items not found in the QAP database (some items may be reported falsely as unused; the database info will improve as you use this new release)
  - add "Search Folders, Documents or Applications not found" menu item under "Special Searches"
  - add "Search Broken Favorites Links (404)" menu item under "Special Searches"; display progress info while searching for broken links
  
  Bug fixes and improvements
  - optimize saving time by updating the progress tooltip only once for each step (saving favorites, reloading favorites and rebuilding the menu) instead of updating it at each submenu processed
  - display the wait cursor (blue circle) while saving favorites, reloading favorites and rebuilding the menu
  - fix a bug retrieving the web page title when adding a Link favorite using the command "Add Active Folder or Web Page Express"
  - fix bug when showing hand cursor whne the mouse hovers some of the "Customize" window buttons
  - fix bug when moving favorites up or down in the list to also move the dates and stats columns if the "Display dates and stats columns" option is enabled
  - send hotstring ending character when executing a snippet in macro mode
  - fix a bug retrieving the current location for {CUR...} placeholders when the current location is the Desktop
  - improve retrieving the selected file or folder for the {SEL...} placeholders
  - improve dialog box message when installing a new license and deleting previous license info
  - fix bug hiding the convert settings file encoding dialog box
  - in "Check for update" dialog box show only the download button for the current installation (setup or portable)
  - add UTM codes to URL in the application
  - fix bug when saving the options after the maximum number of Live folder items was exceeded
  - when identifying the Edit control used to change folder in a file dialog box, get the control having the focus and, if it is an Edit control, use it, else use Edit1 (or Edit2 in some case) as before (this should fix an issue in UltraEdit and other app's "Open" and "Save As" dialog boxes)
  - redesign the "About Quick Access Popup" dialog box and add credits for contributors
  
  Language update
  - Spanish and Chinese language update for v11
  
  Version BETA: 11.1.0.9.3 (2021-01-17)
  
  - optimize saving time by removing the tooltip displayed when saving favorites and rebuilding the menu; instead, display the wait cursor (blue circle) while saving and rebuilding the menu
  - fix bug when searching broken links and URL contains a placeholder
  - before searching broken links, display a warning message in a dialog box
  - under "Tools, Special Searches" menu, do not display the menu item "Search Favorites not used in the last ~1~ days" if the QAP usage database is disabled
  - when identifying the Edit control used to change folder in a file dialog box, fix bug getting the control having the focus and, if it is an Edit control, use it, else use Edit1 or Edit2 (as before)
  - fix bug when selecting the "Customize" menu item from the QAP tray menu while the QAP main window is open with a search result displayed
  - for subscription licenses, show license expiration date in "About" dialog box
  - French translation update
  
  Version BETA: 11.1.0.9.4 (2021-01-19)
  
  - fix bug causing error message at startup about special folders
  - internal changes related to license management
  
  Version BETA: 11.1.0.9.5 (2021-01-19)
  
  (there was a compilation error in v11.1.0.9.4 - please replace it with v11.1.0.9.5)
  - fix bug causing error message at startup about special folders
  - internal changes related to license management
  
  Version BETA: 11.1.0.9.6 (2021-01-27)
  
  - improve reliability when getting the location of a selected file on the Desktop dynamic folder
  - language update for v11.2 German, French, Korean, Portuguese, Brazilian-Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Deutsh; remove obsolete translations in Russian and Chinese language files
  
  Download link:
  This beta test phase is over. Thanks for your help.

• RE: New beta release v11.1.0.9.2 - Drag & Drop, Broken Locations/Links, New Free Edition

  dr Winchell > 2021-01-13 20:49

  Hi Jean,

  • I like the new feature of 'Search Folders, Documents or Applications not found'. This helped me clean up a bunch of items.
    
  • The 'Search Broken Favorites Links (404) behaves strangely. It pretty much locks my computer while it is running and only shows an hourglass (no progress). It then finds one entry that when I check it, is not broken. Do you want me to send you the details?
    

  The 'saving time by updating the progress tooltip only once for each step...' doesn't appear very much and if you move the cursor, disappears.
  
  Thanks for a great tool!

• RE: New beta release v11.1.0.9.2 - Drag & Drop, Broken Locations/Links, New Free Edition

  Jean Lalonde > 2021-01-13 20:55

  Hi Dale.. Thanks for the feedback. I'll comment with more details tomorrow. But if you could send me your ini file by email. I would check your broken links.

• RE: New beta release v11.1.0.9.2 - Drag & Drop, Broken Locations/Links, New Free Edition

  Jean Lalonde > 2021-01-14 11:23

  Dale,
  
  > The 'Search Broken Favorites Links (404) behaves strangely. It pretty much locks my computer while it is running and only shows an hourglass (no progress).
  
  When I tried it with the links in the settings file you sent me, QAP was hanged while checking the DHL link (it does not lock your computer, only QAP). And it shows this message in a small popup:
  
  
  
  Did you see it? It explains that some link may take time to respond and shows the link currently checked. Maybe I should display it in a dialog box prior to scanning but this would require an extra click in an "OK" button. 
  
  In this case, the link includes the {Clipboard} placeholder. This module cannot process the placeholders (because there is no real interaction with the user). So it is sending the link including the placeholder {...} code. Should these codes be deleted instead? Probably. Or should links with placeholders be skipped (not tested)? it The same should be done when scanning files.
  
  > It then finds one entry that when I check it, is not broken.
  
  For me also, when entered directly in the browser the DHL link takes a fraction of second to respond. But because the AWB parameter is wrong (it contains "{Clipboard}"), the DHL site shows an error message. I cannot explain why it takes more time to respond when scanned by QAP but I think the DHL sites does return an "error" code (like "404") instead of the "success" code "200" (a HTTP code that you do not necessarily see in the browser). Broken links is a kind of "mined ground" with many potential surprises...

• RE: New beta release v11.1.0.9.2 - Drag & Drop, Broken Locations/Links, New Free Edition

  Jean Lalonde > 2021-01-14 11:28

  Dale,
  
  > The 'saving time by updating the progress tooltip only once for each step...' doesn't appear very much and if you move the cursor, disappears.
  
  Yes. It disappears when moving the mouse. QAP has little control on the visibility of this tooltip. I think I will only change the cursor to the "wait" blue circle while the three steps are executed, without showing any tooltip.

• RE: New beta release v11.1.0.9.2 - Drag & Drop, Broken Locations/Links, New Free Edition

  Jean Lalonde > 2021-01-14 11:35

  Rennie,
  
  Happy New Year to you too:-)
  
  > I just installed the latest beta version and I have a couple of pop-up errors concerning the "Special Folders". Particularly, I notice that it tries to open Desktop and Pictures and it displays an error window that says it can't open those folders, I notice that the folders that it trying to reference are on my OneDrive..
  > I am using DOPUS and the other "Special Folders" seem to work as expected.
  
  At first glance, I would say that it not related to anything changed in this beta release. It would help if I could see what happens (screen capture or video capture, if this is possible). Does it happen with your regular QAP settings file or with a new test file?

• RE: New beta release v11.1.0.9.2 - Drag & Drop, Broken Locations/Links, New Free Edition

  Jean Lalonde > 2021-01-16 10:43

  (2021-01-13 22:31)Rennie Schmid Wrote: Happy New Year Jean,
  
  I just installed the latest beta version and I have a couple of pop-up errors concerning the "Special Folders". Particularly, I notice that it tries to open Desktop and Pictures and it displays an error window that says it can't open those folders, I notice that the folders that it trying to reference are on my OneDrive..
  
  I am using DOPUS and the other "Special Folders" seem to work as expected.
  
  Regards
  
  Rennie

  
  The issue reported earlier in this thread by Rennie was not caused by the beta release. Some Special folders favorites in his menu were broken after the Windows user name (used in some special folders names like "C:\Users\YourUserName\Desktop") was changed when updating Windows.
  
  I'll move his post to the main QAP Support forum section as this can be of interest for other users in the future.
  
  Thanks.

• RE: New beta release v11.1.0.9.2 - Drag & Drop, Broken Locations/Links, New Free Edition

  dr Winchell > 2021-01-16 11:31

  (2021-01-14 11:23)Jean Lalonde Wrote: Dale,
  
  > The 'Search Broken Favorites Links (404) behaves strangely. It pretty much locks my computer while it is running and only shows an hourglass (no progress).
  
  When I tried it with the links in the settings file you sent me, QAP was hanged while checking the DHL link (it does not lock your computer, only QAP). And it shows this message in a small popup:
  
  
  
  Did you see it? It explains that some link may take time to respond and shows the link currently checked. Maybe I should display it in a dialog box prior to scanning but this would require an extra click in an "OK" button. 
  
  In this case, the link includes the {Clipboard} placeholder. This module cannot process the placeholders (because there is no real interaction with the user). So it is sending the link including the placeholder {...} code. Should these codes be deleted instead? Probably. Or should links with placeholders be skipped (not tested)? it The same should be done when scanning files.
  
  > It then finds one entry that when I check it, is not broken.
  
  For me also, when entered directly in the browser the DHL link takes a fraction of second to respond. But because the AWB parameter is wrong (it contains "{Clipboard}"), the DHL site shows an error message. I cannot explain why it takes more time to respond when scanned by QAP but I think the DHL sites does return an "error" code (like "404") instead of the "success" code "200" (a HTTP code that you do not necessarily see in the browser). Broken links is a kind of "mined ground" with many potential surprises...

  
  Thanks for the reply Jean. I have 8 of those shortcuts to DHL, UPS, FedEx and TNT, 4 are of type Link and 4 are of type App (not sure if there is any difference) and they all have {clipboard} in them. Only that one DHL hangs.
  
  Best Regards.

• RE: New beta release v11.1.0.9.2 - Drag & Drop, Broken Locations/Links, New Free Edition

  Jean Lalonde > 2021-01-16 14:56

  Thanks for the follow-up, Dale.
  
  About links including {...} placeholders, I reviewed my code and these links were not supposed to be scanned. There was a bug that I fixed. Folders, document and application file locations with placeholders were already excluded. I will add the following warning before scanning links:
  
  Warnings
  - Some broken links could take time to respond.
  - Password protected links may be wrongly identified as broken.
  - Links including {...} placeholders will not be checked.

• RE: New beta release v11.1.0.9.2/3 - Drag&Drop, Broken Locations/Links, New Free Edition

  Jean Lalonde > 2021-01-17 13:51

  Version BETA: 11.1.0.9.3 (2021-01-17)
  
  - optimize saving time by removing the tooltip displayed when saving favorites and rebuilding the menu; instead, display the wait cursor (blue circle) while saving and rebuilding the menu
  - fix bug when searching broken links and URL contains a placeholder
  - before searching broken links, display a warning message in a dialog box
  - under "Tools, Special Searches" menu, do not display the menu item "Search Favorites not used in the last ~1~ days" if the QAP usage database is disabled
  - when identifying the Edit control used to change folder in a file dialog box, fix bug getting the control having the focus and, if it is an Edit control, use it, else use Edit1 or Edit2 (as before)
  - fix bug when selecting the "Customize" menu item from the QAP tray menu while the QAP main window is open with a search result displayed
  - for subscription licenses, show license expiration date in "About" dialog box
  - French translation update
  
  See the download link in the original post above.

• RE: New beta release v11.1.0.9.2/3 - Drag&Drop, Broken Locations/Links, New Free Edition

  LaurentG > 2021-01-18 11:58

  Hi Jean,
  
  I did a test of this beta 11.0.9.3, and I have found a slight issue :
  First of all, I installed it on a new Pc (a virtual machine, actually) and NOT as an update of an existing QAP.
  When it install, the initial menu contains entries to "special folders" : Destop, MyDocuments, Pictures and Download.
  But on the laptop onto which I installed the beta, these special folders are NOT in C:\Users\{username} but rather in D:\Users\{Username}
  
  As a result, even if the link to My Documents works fine, the three others (Desktop, Pictures and Downloads), that are created to C: drive, obviously do not work.
  Moreover, at each QAP startup, QAP generates three error boxes saying that these three folders do not exist.
  
  On the other hand, if I use QAP parameterization to remove these three entries, and then re-create them, as "Special folders" and selecting them in the provided list (and NOT by selecting directly their exact location in folders tree), they are created with the exact target on D: (that mean that Windows know correctly them)
  
  This is clearly not a big issue, but it will be the first image (not very positive...) that new users will have from QAP in case they have moved their "My..." folders on an alternative place.
  And as used to say one of my teachers : "Attention : vous n'aurez pas une deuxième chance de donner une première impression" (I let you to translate in English, it will be better than if I do it myself !)

• RE: New beta release v11.1.0.9.2/3 - Drag&Drop, Broken Locations/Links, New Free Edition

  Jean Lalonde > 2021-01-18 13:04

  Hi Laurent,
  
  Thanks for reporting this. Could you try to do the same installation from scratch using the current v11.1 release to see if you have the same result on this VM. I ask because I do not see what would explain this issue in the beta release specifically.
  
  Jean

• RE: New beta release v11.1.0.9.2/3 - Drag&Drop, Broken Locations/Links, New Free Edition

  LaurentG > 2021-01-18 14:28

  Hi Jean,
  
  you're right, it's not new, or not COMPLETELY new.
  In v11.1, the same "wrong" entries are created, but on the other hand, there is no error message at QAP startup. Only in case these entries are used.
  And the same in 10.5.6
  
  So, the issue exist for long time, but was less "visible" before, due to the fact that there were not 3 error messages poping up at QAP startup...

• RE: New beta release v11.1.0.9.2/3 - Drag&Drop, Broken Locations/Links, New Free Edition

  joeNOR > 2021-01-19 03:53

  I'll dare to chime in on this.
  
  What LaurentG describes seems strange, I don't know how QAP does this, but if you use the functions in Windows (my shell: post is an example of that) it shouldn't matter what the folder names "seems" to be.
  If you try to got to the Desktop, Program Files, Downloads etc it should work no matter what those folders are named in the localized version/language of the installed Windows system.
  
  Or did I misunderstand something?
  
  Regards,
  joeNOR

• RE: New beta release v11.1.0.9.2/3 - Drag&Drop, Broken Locations/Links, New Free Edition

  Jean Lalonde > 2021-01-19 11:04

  Version BETA: 11.1.0.9.4 (2021-01-19)
  - fix bug causing error message at startup about special folders
  - internal changes related to license management
  
  This release fix the bug identified by Laurent and Rennie about error messages displayed at QAP startup. Issue about Special Folders locations is still under investigation.
  
  See download link in the top message.
  
  @joeNOR: QAP gets the location of Special Folders like "Images" or "Downloads" in the Windows registry. It has never been an issue in the last 5 years. We are still looking into it.

• RE: New beta release v11.1.0.9.2/3 - Drag&Drop, Broken Locations/Links, New Free Edition

  LaurentG > 2021-01-19 12:14

  Hi Jean,
  
  I said nonsense! QAP works perfectly!
  
  I was wrong to believe that QAP had never been installed on the VM on which I was doing my tests ... In fact it was (a version 10.x).
  And so my install was actually an UPDATE ... which respected the pre-existing menu.
  However, this forgotten install had undoubtedly been done BEFORE I moved the "My ..." directories, and I had not updated the QAP menu afterwards (since I had even forgotten that QAP was installed on this VM).
  
  So I proceeded to a complete uninstallation of the old version (and checked that the ProgramData and AppData directories were purged), then carried out a "really from scratch" installation.
  And suddenly, no problem, the Special Folders entries are pointing to the right place !
  
  Sorry to bring up an issue that actually didn't exist ...

• RE: New beta release v11.1.0.9.2/3 - Drag&Drop, Broken Locations/Links, New Free Edition

  Jean Lalonde > 2021-01-19 12:58

  There was a compilation error in v11.1.0.9.4. Please replace it with v11.1.0.9.5.
  
  Version BETA: 11.1.0.9.5 (2021-01-19)
  - fix bug causing error message at startup about special folders
  - internal changes related to license management
  
  See download link in the top message.

• RE: New beta release v11.1.0.9.2/3 - Drag&Drop, Broken Locations/Links, New Free Edition

  Jean Lalonde > 2021-01-19 13:24

  (2021-01-19 12:14)LaurentG Wrote: Sorry to bring up an issue that actually didn't exist ...

  
  No problem, Laurent. Investigating this made me review very old code (written at the time of Folders Popup).
  
  The issue that is revealed by these findings is that QAP does not react timely when the Windows user changes the location of some special folders. In the QAP settings file, these locations are saved "hard-coded" (ie "C:\Users\UserName\Pictures") instead of a code that could be converted to the real path dynamically when the folder is launched. Because changing the location of these folders becomes more easier with Windows 10, dealing with this change should be improved in a future release.  Added to the wishlist: https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...p?tid=1430

• RE: New beta release v11.1.0.9.2/3 - Drag&Drop, Broken Locations/Links, New Free Edition

  Jean Lalonde > 2021-01-27 18:09

  Version BETA: 11.1.0.9.6 (2021-01-27)
  - improve reliability when getting the location of a selected file on the Desktop dynamic folder
  - language update for v11.2 German, French, Korean, Portuguese, Brazilian-Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Deutsh; remove obsolete translations in Russian and Chinese language files
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