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Is it possible to launch a favorite from the command line/a script?
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Is it possible to launch a favorite from the command line/a script?
joeNOR > 2021-09-28 23:49
Pretty much what the heading says.
With QAPmessenger we can launch a menu or sub-menu from the command line, script or a program.
Can this also be done with favorites?
Regards,
joeNOR -
RE: Is it possible to launch a favorite from the command line/a script?
Jean Lalonde > 2021-09-29 07:25
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RE: Is it possible to launch a favorite from the command line/a script?
joeNOR > 2021-09-29 07:37
No, not ADD, but LAUNCH an already existing favorite from a script or the command line... like we can launch menus with QAPmessenger.
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RE: Is it possible to launch a favorite from the command line/a script?
Jean Lalonde > 2021-09-29 09:21
Oh, I misread your post. No. I can investigate to see how easy it would be to implement it.
What kind of use cas do you see for this feature (compared to launching the file/folder directly from the batch or command line)?
(I'll move your post to the "Suggestions" section) -
RE: Is it possible to launch a favorite from the command line/a script?
joeNOR > 2021-09-29 10:55
You moved it to suggestions! Nice!
I have lots of use cases for this, and this is going to be a long-winded one (I do really miss the spoiler-tag sometimes
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Background:
As you know I use QAP on several machines, and I've spent at fair amount of time putting together a system with Shared Menus, User Vars, placeholders, the Input function and QAPmessenger.
QAP is kind of a hub where everything is shared (I have a very small amount of favorites that contains direct drive/folder paths).
This is applications, groups, "documents" (not documents, but files associated with applications), folders etc.
Everything is already there, I can change or add a Shared Menu and this propagates to several other machines, and I don't have to change a thing......User Vars ftw!
So since it's all there I would like to just make a "call" to QAP instead of defining all the details in a script, from the command line or from another application.
I could probably write a couple of pages with examples, but I'll restrain myself to two very different ones.
Example 1: FullEventLog by NirSoft
My favorite looks like this.
UserVars:
{nirsoft64}=C:\PathTo\TheNirsoftTools
{FELVstatic}=/ShowCritical 1 /ShowError 1 /ShowWarning 1 /ShowUndefined 0 /ShowInformation 0 /ShowVerbose 0 /AutoRefresh 60 /RunAsAdmin
Application path:
{nirsoft64}FullEventLogView.exe
Parameters:
/ChannelFilter 2 /ChannelFilterStr "Application,Security,System" /LastTimeFilterUnit {Input:TimeUnit 1-sec,2-min,3-hrs,4-days} /LastTimeFilterValue {Input:Enter Period} {FELVstatic}
Use Case:
I sometimes run jobs/scripts that write error messages to the Windows Event Log. I would like to let the job finish, send an email (or other kind notification) and then start EventLogViewer, with filters that show only Warnings and Errors, as the QAP favorite already do.
Now, I could do all that in the script, but what I need is in QAP, including the tool for sending emails.
So, instead of maintaining another script with direct references, why not just "call" QAP? ....I thought!
Example 2: Floating Toolbar
I'm currently looking at a couple of simple tools to give me a "floating toolbar" on the desktop, but I don't want to manage another little thingy with direct configuration to often used tools.
Again, everything is already there, in QAP. If I could "call" QAP to avoid having another config file to maintain, that would be useful.
(Other examples are: A CSVreader that starts at the end of a job, and loads the resulting .csv. Jumping to Ms-Settings and other settings from outside QAP. Utilize the SEL_LOC and CUR_LOC placeholders from outside QAP....and a lot of others that are tool specific. )
I hope this was understandable, posted in a hurry....
...and as usual, I'm probably a fringe case, but it would be very cool to be able to call any type of favorite.
Regards,
joeNOR -
RE: Is it possible to launch a favorite from the command line/a script?
Horst > 2021-09-29 11:51
I have an good example of a usefull start of an QAP favorite from external.
I run some tools updating trees which are part of a QAP live folder favorite.
I would like to start the Favorite "Refresh Live Folders and Shared Menus" from this tools
because the normal refresh intervall is set to 15 minutes. -
RE: Is it possible to launch a favorite from the command line/a script?
Jean Lalonde > 2021-09-29 14:24
Good examples. Thanks you. Added:
https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...p?tid=1723 -
RE: Is it possible to launch a favorite from the command line/a script?
Jean Lalonde > 2022-01-11 15:17
This feature can be tested in the beta release v11.5.3.9.1. Please give feedback on this page:
https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...p?tid=1872