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• The best of both worlds

  PowerJack > 2022-12-03 05:52

  Hi everyone!
  I am posting this for discussion.
  
  I really love the flexibility of QAP and my favorite menus have grown over the last few years and often it takes time to navigate through the menu structure.
  And I hate to remember hotkeys.
  Some time ago I started to use a keyboard launcher (find-as-you-type) in parallel to the QAP menu structure.
  No question, ALL my favorites are still defined in QAP. 
  
  For the keyboard launcher I use the QAP feature 
  Can I display the QAP menu or launch QAP favorites from the command-line or from a batch file?
  which means utilizing QAPmessenger.exe.
  (QAPmessenger.exe ShowMenuLaunch "> somePath > targetFav")
  
  (+) Using a keyboard launcher for the most frequently used "targetFav" is faster than navigating through my QAP menu structure.
  (+) If "targetFav" is a submenu, QAP shows the submenu right at my mouse pointer and I can navigate further from there.
  (--) I have to teach the keyboard launcher my frequently used favorites and link them with a QAPmessenger call.
  
  When I forgot to add the QAPmessenger arguments (ShowMenuLaunch "> somePath > targetFav") recently, I was greeted with a QAPmessenger dialog telling me how to call it correctly. Nothing wrong with that. But I was wondering why QAPmessenger couldn't be my keyboard launcher. 
  
  QAP already has a "Search for favorites" feature in the QAP customize window. My idea would be that a call like "QAPmessenger.exe SearchFavorites" could prompt me with a search box and ALL my QAP favorites would be readily available (without teaching a separate tool).
  
  I guess not so many fellow QAP users live in both worlds (keyboard strings and menu structure).
  But I might be wrong, and other QAP users would also welcome to get "the best of both worlds" on one tool?
  
  +

• RE: The best of both worlds

  joeNOR > 2022-12-03 14:29

  Well, since I live in those worlds, there are at least two of us!
  
  Nice idea but, I would prefer to have that function in QAP it self. F.ex. hit some key combo and search box pops up (along the lines of Executor, Launcy and a bunch of others) that searches only the QAP menu structure.
  
  Why use a third-party tool (or something) to call QAPmessenger who then calls QAP?
  QAP is always running.
  
  ...or maybe BOTH, have that function in QAP and also callable with "QAPmessenger.exe SearchFavorites"?
  (@Jean: Sorry, us greedy users just wanting MOAAR! )
  
  Regards,
  joeNOR

• RE: The best of both worlds

  Jean Lalonde > 2022-12-03 15:52

  In French, we say "avoir de la suite dans les idées"... (could not find a good translation for this).
  
  In other words, this looks like a recurrent topic :-)
  
  Previous discussions
  https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...php?tid=82
  https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...hp?tid=567
  
  On the wishlist:
  https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...php?tid=90
  
  This should make this item higher in my priorities :-)

• RE: The best of both worlds

  Jean Lalonde > 2022-12-14 15:45

  A beta release of the new feature "Search QAP and Go" is available in v11.5.99.4 here:
  https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...25#pid5925

• RE: The best of both worlds

  Jean Lalonde > 2023-01-22 13:53

  This feature now simply named "Quick Launch" is now available in v11.6.
  https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...p?tid=2262
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