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command to popup QAP menu
xhansx > 2024-02-20 11:52
I'm a very happy user of QAP, but I still don't like to use the middle mouse button to activate the menu. In
https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...rs#pid5311 I suggested to make it possible to popup the menu by moving the mouse to one of the windows corners, but Jean didn't like the idea to constantly monitor mouse movements, and probably he's right.
So now I installed WinXCorners which does mouse monitoring and executes a command when the mouse hits a corners. You can configure the command for a particular corner, but I don't know which command to use to popup QAP's menu, when QAP is already running.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Hans -
RE: command to popup QAP menu
Jean Lalonde > 2024-02-20 15:10
> You can configure the command for a particular corner, but I don't know which command to use to popup QAP's menu, when QAP is already running. Any ideas?
Sure. Here it is:
"C:\Program Files\Quick Access Popup\QAPmessenger.exe" ShowMenuLaunch
Adapt if the path to your QAP installation is different. More info that you could find useful t configure various movements for each corners:
https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-d...atch-file/ -
RE: command to popup QAP menu
xhansx > 2024-02-21 07:56
Yes, this works. Thanks! I now have a much better start menu by hitting the lower left corner.
There is one (slight) problem. executing the command while the popup menu is visible yields an error message. Sometimes (but not always) there is a underlying message box. See attached screen image.
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RE: command to popup QAP menu
Jean Lalonde > 2024-02-21 23:25
Is QAP running when you launch QAPmessenger? This error message suggest that it does not. -
RE: command to popup QAP menu
xhansx > 2024-02-22 04:21
Yes, it is (it starts with windows).
I think you can easily reproduce the situation, if you install WinXCorners.
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RE: command to popup QAP menu
Jean Lalonde > 2024-02-22 07:55
What if you enter this command at the Windows Run dialog box (Win + R):
"C:\Program Files\Quick Access Popup\QAPmessenger.exe" ShowMenuLaunch -
RE: command to popup QAP menu
xhansx > 2024-02-22 09:28
That works, however, if I run this batchfile
@echo off
"C:\Program Files\Quick Access Popup\QAPmessenger.exe" ShowMenuLaunch
timeout 5
"C:\Program Files\Quick Access Popup\QAPmessenger.exe" ShowMenuLaunch
it fails at the last line -
RE: command to popup QAP menu
Jean Lalonde > 2024-02-22 14:49
But why would you call QAPmessenger two times? -
RE: command to popup QAP menu
xhansx > 2024-02-23 07:00
That's not something you want to do, but something that might accidently happen when you use hot corners to trigger the popup. The error does not occur when you press the middle mouse button while there a popup menu visible, so there must be a way to prevent the error. -
RE: command to popup QAP menu
Jean Lalonde > 2024-02-23 16:25
I can add code to prevent consecutive calls to QAPmessenger within a too short delay. What would be a minimum delay required for accepting a new call to QAPmessenger? One second? -
RE: command to popup QAP menu
LaurentG > 2024-02-24 03:00
Hi Jean,
I'm not really concered, but I'm not sure that this delay between two consecutive calls would be the solution to Hans problem.
Wouldn't it rather be possible to QAPMessenger to check if the menu is currently displyed, and do nothing if it's the case ? (at least if the command is ShowMenuLaunch) -
RE: command to popup QAP menu
Horst > 2024-02-24 07:44
I agree with LaurentG's suggestion if there is something to change at all.
The solution using screen edges is not practical and produces unnecessary problems.
I' using a simple screen gesture using Strokeit. -
RE: command to popup QAP menu
Jean Lalonde > 2024-02-24 09:16
> Wouldn't it rather be possible to QAPMessenger to check if the menu is currently displyed, and do nothing if it's the case ?
I don't think it can be done safely. QAP knows when a menu is displayed. Then it waits for the user to select an item. But if the user dismiss the menu (click outside the menu or hit Escape), it never receive the info. In this case, QAP would never display the menu again.
> (at least if the command is ShowMenuLaunch)
The delay could be applied only when the command is ShowMenuLaunch. But is there is a better solution not requiring changes in QAP? -
RE: command to popup QAP menu
Jean Lalonde > 2024-02-24 09:41
@Hans: Is there an option in WinXCorners to prevent consecutive events? It would be more normal to find the solution in this tool because the issue you face can happen for any command launched with it. -
RE: command to popup QAP menu
xhansx > 2024-02-25 09:35
As I said before, it not a big problem for me. But if you want to support other methods og triggering the popup, you might think about it again.
I think using a delay is adding more confusion (you sometimes get an error message, sometimes you don't). The suggestion in the error message (make sure QAP is running) does not describe what is going wrong, and the other message (could not close previous instance of this script) suggests the script can check whether it is already running, so I do not quite understand why it is difficult to handle this situation.
But than again: it's not a big issue for me. -
RE: command to popup QAP menu
Jean Lalonde > 2024-02-25 13:26
There is an option I can set when launching QAPmessenger that might change this behavior.
Can you try it? Download this file, extract QAPmessenger.exe and replace the current version in your "Program Files\Quick Access Popup\" folder?
(temporary link removed) -
RE: command to popup QAP menu
xhansx > 2024-02-25 14:42
The behaviour is somewhat different now. If I hit the hot corner, the popup opens, if I hit the corner than a second time, nothing happens (that's okay), but when I hit it a third time, the error message occurs.
If I open the menu by the middle mouse button, and than hit the hot corner, the error message pops up right away. -
RE: command to popup QAP menu
Jean Lalonde > 2024-02-25 17:07
When you send a command (when you hit a corner), QAPmessenger first send a message to QAP to check if it is available. After QAP responds "OK", QAPmessenger sends the command and QAP execute it. But when the QAP menu is open, QAP is waiting for user selection and cannot at the same time respond "OK" to QAPmessenger (QAP is not multi-thread). This probably why you see this message when the menu is already open. Not sure how to work around this... -
RE: command to popup QAP menu
xhansx > 2024-02-26 03:39
I added the (modified) QAPMessenger to the QAP menu to see what happens.
When I start popup via the mousebutton and then select QAPMessenger from the menu, the popup is reopened. When I select it again, the popup closes, unless I wait until QAPMessengers stops running (checked on task manager details): then it reopens again.
When I start popup via the hot corner and then select QAPMessenger from the menu, the popup is closes, unless I wait: then it reopens.