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[joebodo]

Download the latest version to support the following.

Register a callback for the tray menu items in the initialization function

[TotalBalance]

joebodo,

A really awesome program/script. I really hope you keep updating with new features and support. When appropriate, I also hope you release the code, I'm sure I"d learn a lot.

Couple questions:
* Do you plan to put together a help file?
* I'm having a little trouble figuring out how best way to setup hotkeys to call other AHK scripts I've written - what do you recommend as a best practice.
* Is there a way to search on folders. I realize I could create shortcuts for my most used folders, but that would take some time to setup. Any suggestions?

Thanks again for a great effort.

P.S. You may want to consider uploading Redstone to AutoHotKey.net
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Lars

[joebodo]

I uploaded the code. You can find the link on the initial post. The code is the most recent version of the application and contains primarily changes to the plugin management.

* Do you plan to put together a help file?

My ultimate plan was to make this so easy to use that a help file would not be needed. Unfortunately, some of the UI elements and location of some functionality is not intuitive. What I would like is to have is some help text show up within the UI (maybe add a ? button somewhere).

* I'm having a little trouble figuring out how best way to setup hotkeys to call other AHK scripts I've written - what do you recommend as a best practice.
The hotkey functionality was originally written to only support internal functions. I also saw how this would be useful to assign hotkeys to any application. I plan to work on this in the future.

* Is there a way to search on folders. I realize I could create shortcuts for my most used folders, but that would take some time to setup. Any suggestions?
If you have a few folder locations that you would like added to search results, just navigate to the path within Redstone (enter something like c:\Program Files), then right click on the subfolder and click Add to List->History. If you would like to index only folder names (as opposed to file and folder names), let me know and I can add this option.

Joe

[melvster]

Really nice script.

Slight issue importing skype contacts from config.ini

1) The recent user is not in the reg on some versions of skype (Im running on win2k), but on latest xp it is fine

2) Importing a username with a . is escaped to .2E in config.ini so the import cant handle .

Otherwise keep up the great work!

[JoeSchmoe]

Hi, Joe,

Thanks for a very impressive script, and especially thanks for posting the source. I was just looking at ndroid earlier today, and while it looks like a terrific product, I really want a program that will let me tinker with the source.

Speaking of the source, I downloaded it and was pretty much floored by the number of files. Now that you've taken the plunge and uploaded the source, any chance of you providing us with a little background on the overall architecture or other tips that might help us read it? I couldn't even figure out where to start...

[TotalBalance]

[Red Hat Boy]

Nice program. Really.
I'm getting a funny error: when I open your script from Xplorer2 it works fine, but when I try to launch it from another script...I get

[Red Hat Dude]

Don't know why it can't be launched from another script (I haven't taken the time to look over your code yet) but I have a solution: create a shortcut to RedStone.ahk...

[joebodo]

You may want to try setting the working directory to the Redstone's location.

You can pass the working directory to the run command. Example:

Run, %command%, %dir%, UseErrorLevel

[joebodo]

A very rough start on the documentation (I hate documenting).

http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dzv5kx3_191cgm3jxf6

[JoeSchmoe]

Hi, Joe,

thank you for the documentation. It was very helpful. I still don't feel like I fully understand the program, but that definitely helped with the code.

I just found what might be a very minor bug, and thought that I would tell you about it. When I choose the "System" plugin, I get an alert. The title is, "Windows - No Disk" and the text is "Exception Processing Message c0000013 ..." When I hit cancel, it shows me the regular display, but many of the items show up twice, and many of the ones that show up don't have icons.

By the way, this only happens when I run Redstone.ahk from the source rather than using the compiled version. With the compiled version, there isn't as much of a problem (I say, "as much of a problem" because some of the items show up with Window's generic "executable" icon).

Also, is there a way to set a hotkey so that you open Redstone to a specific filter? For example, there are a number of files that I use extremely frequently. I would like to put them in my favorites filter. Suppose I could open Redstone to my favorite's filter by pressing !{spacebar}. I just press that, then the first one or two letters of the file's name, then enter, and the file pops up immediately. That sounds terrific, but it hinges on being able to get to the favorites filter very rapidly.

Thanks again for an amazing program.

[joebodo]

Thanks for the feedback. Here's how to address showing the favorites via a hotkey:

I changed CRL_Filter.ahk as follows:

[joebodo]

I modified the UI Show command to determine if the window is already visible. Here's the updated source for the method:

[ahklerner]

You can alse use

[JoeSchmoe]

Hi, Joe, thanks a lot for those ideas. They are working quite well, and I have Redstone running on every computer I work on (I have an autoplay AHK script on my USB flash drive, and I use Redstone to launch my portable applications, etc.)

I have to say, I'm very surprised that there isn't more buzz about this particular script. Many people seem interested in launchers, and this one seems very full featured and configurable. Further, it is built on a very clever and easily extensible architecture and is open-source. I've thought a good amount about why there isn't more activity on the forum thread, and I can think of two issues:
1.) It was closed-source at first, and people stopped reading the thread, so they don't know that it's now open source. I don't know if there is much that can be done about this.
2.) It's a huge, sprawling program (by AHK standards; and not to say that there aren't much bigger programs), and people don't know how to use/extend/modify it well. I know that for me, while the design looks intuitive in retrospect, I didn't know many of the design conventions at first (such as, for example, the very heavy reliance on context sensitive right-click menus), and that made it rather frustrating as I was trying to learn the program.
3.) I haven't been using it for terribly long, but the progam seems like it could use a little refinement. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the system plugin is buggy when I use it. Also, sometimes it takes a couple of clicks before the context-sensitive menu pops up. Finally, for a little while, even when the "Toggle on top" box was completely empty, (no up or down wedge) the window insisted on staying on top of other windows. (For the record, I never use the compiled version; I just run Redstone.ahk.)

Anyway, I know you hate documentation, but I think that this is too good of a program to have die out, so I thought I would offer to help with it. If you'd like, I could write up a short tutorial on using the program and post it in the forum. I'm extremely busy, so it might take me a week or two (or even more) to do it, but, if you are interested in fixing bugs and refining the program some more, I'd love to feed you bug reports as I find them. Ideally, we could smooth out the code a little more before posting the tutorial so that if new people try it out, they will won't be turned off by any rough edges.

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