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  QapQap > 2024-11-06 16:10

  I plan to use QAP to use with save dialogue boxes to get to folders quickly.
  
  Using default QAP settings, to get to the folders list you go Middle Mouse Button > In The Works > Recent Folders > and then you have a list of folders to choose from.
  
  Is there a way to customize QAP so that the list of folders to choose from appears on the first menu (so that the list of folders to choose from can be accessed after a single middle mouse click, without any further navigation)?

• RE: Get to recent folders quicker?

  Jean Lalonde > 2024-11-06 16:28

  Not sure I get your point. Of course, you can create a menu containing the folders you want and you can assign a hotkey specific to this menu. This gives quick access to this list of folders.
  
  Not exactly related to your question but it could be of interest for you: you can configure applications to exclude from the Recent Folders to make it more :
  
  https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/what-ar...exclusions
  
  Also, you could be interested by this command "Reopen Current Folder in Dialog Box" (Shift+Ctrl+U).
  
  See:
  https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-c...ve-as-etc/ (see the section "Reopen Current Folder in Dialog Box")
  https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/video-r...ialog-box/

• RE: Get to recent folders quicker?

  QapQap > 2024-11-06 17:56

  (2024-11-06 16:28)Jean Lalonde Wrote: Not sure I get your point. Of course, you can create a menu containing the folders you want and you can assign a hotkey specific to this menu. This gives quick access to this list of folders.
  
  Not exactly related to your question but it could be of interest for you: you can configure applications to exclude from the Recent Folders to make it more :
  
  https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/what-ar...exclusions
  
  Also, you could be interested by this command "Reopen Current Folder in Dialog Box" (Shift+Ctrl+U).
  
  See:
  https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-c...ve-as-etc/ (see the section "Reopen Current Folder in Dialog Box")
  https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/video-r...ialog-box/

  
  I wasn't sure if it was technically possible in QAP. 
  
  Just to confirm, middle mouse click, and recent folders are there without having to navigate any further.

• RE: Get to recent folders quicker?

  Jean Lalonde > 2024-11-06 18:04

  > Just to confirm, middle mouse click, and recent folders are there without having to navigate any further.
  
  If the file you are looking for is in a folder from the "Recent Folders" menu, yes (if I get you question right). All you'll have to do after is to select a file in the folder and click "Open", for example.

• RE: Get to recent folders quicker?

  QapQap > 2024-11-11 23:12

  Hi Jean, 
  
  So I could not find a way to get QAP to instantly show me the list of recent folders after clicking the middle mouse button.
  
  To clarify, what I wish to do is get direct access to the list of recent folders, without having to navigate any submenus. (therefore if I am at a file saving menu, I invoke QAP using a single middle mouse button click. At this point I am presented with a list of recent folders, where I select the one I want with a single left click of the mouse, and I am then done).
  
  I therefore have assumed this is not possible, so as a workaround, I removed the default middle mouse click that invokes QAP, and mapped the quick folder access to the middle mouse click - Was this assumption correct?
  
  At this point, I had now achieved what I was looking for.
  
  .... Until I decided that I would like to access recently opened files. I can of course access QAP from the botton RHS system tray & access it that way, but it would be nice to have the recently opened files menu appear underneath the list of recent folders. (Within a sub menu for the recently opened files would be fine) - Is this possible?
  
  Thanks for any assistance you may be able to provide.

• RE: Get to recent folders quicker?

  Jean Lalonde > 2024-11-12 08:02

  EDIT 1: I wrote this after reading only the beginning of your message :-)
  
  > So I could not find a way to get QAP to instantly show me the list of recent folders after clicking the middle mouse button.
  
  Yes you can.
  
  1) Go to "Options, Popup Hotkeys" and for the first item "Quick Access Popup Mouse button", select a hotkey of your choice other "Middle mouse button".
  2) Edit the submenu "In the works, Recent Folders" and, under "Menu Options" change the "Shortcut" to "Middle mouse button".
  
  EDIT 2: The "Recent Folders" menu content cannot be changed. You can't have recent files (or a submenu) added to it. What you could do is a submenu "My Recent folders and files" containing both "recent folders" and "Recent files" as submenus.

• RE: Get to recent folders quicker?

  QapQap > 2024-11-12 18:07

  Thanks Jean, 
  
  For now, I have set middle mouse button as shortcut for direct access to the contents of recent folders.
  
  And Ctrl + Middle mouse button as shortcut for Quick Access Popup.
  
  Having instant access to the list of recent folders is convenient, but I guess it only saves a second of menu navigation.
  
  One unexpected outcome with the 2 above shortcuts, is that  Ctrl + Middle mouse button will sometimes bring up both items side by side, which is almost what I was looking to have merged into 1 item (though this does not always work).
  
  Thanks for your effort in making QAP.
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