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Launcher Changelog

What's new in Launcher 3.8

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New in Launcher 3.0 Final (Nov 20, 2015)

  • The mouse wheel can now be used to switch the pages. This is especially advantageous if you want to swap icons across multiple pages. By default, setting this property is active. Wen annoying that you can disable the variable 'UseWheel = 0' in the Launcher.ini this feature manually.
  • The hint window will now be displayed even if the launcher window is not active. Gone are the days where one has ever clicked on an empty field, just to see a hint. (This behavior is not actually provided by Windows, but is still used by many programs ... especially as Firefox.)
  • If you move the mouse with the left mouse button into the Launcher window, so it is characterized in the foreground. This is particularly useful if you, for example, would like to be a file on the Launcher using drag & drop fall, but only a small piece of this can be seen. The mouse wheel or the 1-8 keys work in this case, to switch the pages. Since the Windows' MouseEnter' event quite like once at too fast movement '' swallowed, possibly slower and clearer mouse movement needed to bring the window to the front.
  • The 'flickering' of the popup menu has been removed.
  • The 'Always in Vordergrund' option is temporarily turned off to avoid visible in Preferences window to logical conflicts.
  • Most extensive additions in almost every language files incl. The new 'Slovak.ini'.
  • The launcher is now significantly 'less sensitive' with changing desktop color depth.
  • The pressed Icon has reduced not smeared edge longer, but is clean.
  • The Preferences window has been completely redesigned and now distributed due to the increasing size over several 'tab'. (Page Control & tabsheets)
  • New effect: IconSize, which enlarges the icon under the mouse easily represents and looks excellent especially with a frameless Launcher.
  • Fits to the also new effect: IconLight indicating brightened slightly the icon of the mouse.
  • You can order the lights even more clearly to lift now 'escape' and the other icons by 'Icon glare' the color. (reduced to grayscale)
  • New effect: When you move the icons 'rocking' it initially slightly back and forth.
  • The switching of the individual pages via mouse wheel now works only when the mouse pointer over the active window is the launcher.
  • Fixed bug in the routine that brings the launcher with the left mouse button and moving the mouse to the Launcher window to the foreground.
  • Through a strong optimization and simplification of the most 'core routines', in conjunction with a sensible conversion of many program sequences, was a quite remarkable increase in execution speed can be achieved. (no more buttons still appear to be depressed during the called program already starts)
  • Fixed range error if a page has been tried by 'Menu / Special Icons / Goto Page' to jump, which is not there.
  • During an exchange transaction the two icons 'Zoom Effect'- and' Icon Highlight' routine optical reasons will now be briefly deactivated.
  • Various double 'clicking sounds' in a 'slow-motion test' discovered and eliminated.
  • Fixed bug, which the Launcher window has moved on closing the Config window.
  • The routine for 'frame drawing' was debugged and optimized.
  • New command: SpinDown switching off hard disks. So far only about the 'IconList.txt' reach and protected for security against directly clicking. To trigger the command must (analogue as well as in the Shutdown / Restart commands) at the same time be down the right mouse button. (Example: 'spindown | 0' to switch off the first IDE drive in the system)
  • New command: EjectCD for opening and closing the CD-ROM drive. So far only about the 'IconList.txt' reach and protected for security against directly clicking.
  • To trigger the command must (analogue as well as in the Shutdown / Restart commands) at the same time be down the right mouse button. (Example: 'EjectCD | R' opens and closes the CD-ROM drive with the letter R: \)
  • To maintain compatibility with older operating systems, the launcher windows can now be dyed using the or key.
  • Fixed cursor problems which were not reset properly
  • Easily corrected rotation point of 'rocking Icons' upwards
  • The 'background-copy routine' (Skins / Glassy) now includes an enlarged or a reduced window. Since the dissolution of the Launcher window (yet) really increases when zooming in, a certain 'blurring' this is intended. The whole routine was restructured and significantly increased by numerous improvements in execution speed.
  • Remains of the cursor is active on the Launcher 'Chevron' button, so a possibly incipient screensaver is prevented from running. (Sleep-Never-Button)
  • Hint window covering any rocking icons and more to replace the icons can be drawn in any direction.
  • Localizing the newly added commands incl. An adaptation of Ctrl + Ctrl.
  • Calculations simplified 'own coordinate system' and accelerated. Thereby an even lower CPU utilization was achieved.

New in Launcher 2.7 Final (Nov 20, 2015)

  • The mouse wheel can now be used to switch the pages. This is especially advantageous if you want to swap icons across multiple pages. By default, setting this property is active. Wen annoying that you can disable the variable 'UseWheel = 0' in the Launcher.ini this feature manually.
  • The hint window will now be displayed even if the launcher window is not active. Gone are the days where one has ever clicked on an empty field, just to see a hint. (This behavior is not actually provided by Windows, but is still used by many programs ... especially as Firefox.)
  • If you move the mouse with the left mouse button into the Launcher window, so it is characterized in the foreground. This is particularly useful if you, for example, would like to be a file on the Launcher using drag & drop fall, but only a small piece of this can be seen. The mouse wheel or the 1-8 keys work in this case, to switch the pages. Since the Windows' MouseEnter' event quite like once at too fast movement '' swallowed, possibly slower and clearer mouse movement needed to bring the window to the front.
  • The 'flickering' of the popup menu has been removed.
  • The 'Always in Vordergrund' option is temporarily turned off to avoid visible in Preferences window to logical conflicts.
  • Most extensive additions in almost every language files incl. The new 'Slovak.ini'.
  • The launcher is now significantly 'less sensitive' with changing desktop color depth.
  • The pressed Icon has reduced not smeared edge longer, but is clean.
  • The Preferences window has been completely redesigned and now distributed due to the increasing size over several 'tab'. (Page Control & tabsheets)
  • New effect: IconSize, which enlarges the icon under the mouse easily represents and looks excellent especially with a frameless Launcher.
  • Fits to the also new effect: IconLight indicating brightened slightly the icon of the mouse.
  • You can order the lights even more clearly to lift now 'escape' and the other icons by 'Icon glare' the color. (reduced to grayscale)
  • New effect: When you move the icons 'rocking' it initially slightly back and forth.
  • The switching of the individual pages via mouse wheel now works only when the mouse pointer over the active window is the launcher.
  • Fixed bug in the routine that brings the launcher with the left mouse button and moving the mouse to the Launcher window to the foreground.
  • Through a strong optimization and simplification of the most 'core routines', in conjunction with a sensible conversion of many program sequences, was a quite remarkable increase in execution speed can be achieved. (no more buttons still appear to be depressed during the called program already starts)
  • Fixed range error if a page has been tried by 'Menu / Special Icons / Goto Page' to jump, which is not there.
  • During an exchange transaction the two icons 'Zoom Effect'- and' Icon Highlight' routine optical reasons will now be briefly deactivated.
  • Various double 'clicking sounds' in a 'slow-motion test' discovered and eliminated.
  • Fixed bug, which the Launcher window has moved on closing the Config window.
  • The routine for 'frame drawing' was debugged and optimized.
  • New command: SpinDown switching off hard disks. So far only about the 'IconList.txt' reach and protected for security against directly clicking. To trigger the command must (analogue as well as in the Shutdown / Restart commands) at the same time be down the right mouse button. (Example: 'spindown | 0' to switch off the first IDE drive in the system)
  • New command: EjectCD for opening and closing the CD-ROM drive. So far only about the 'IconList.txt' reach and protected for security against directly clicking.
  • To trigger the command must (analogue as well as in the Shutdown / Restart commands) at the same time be down the right mouse button. (Example: 'EjectCD | R' opens and closes the CD-ROM drive with the letter R: \)
  • To maintain compatibility with older operating systems, the launcher windows can now be dyed using the or key.
  • Fixed cursor problems which were not reset properly
  • Easily corrected rotation point of 'rocking Icons' upwards
  • The 'background-copy routine' (Skins / Glassy) now includes an enlarged or a reduced window. Since the dissolution of the Launcher window (yet) really increases when zooming in, a certain 'blurring' this is intended. The whole routine was restructured and significantly increased by numerous improvements in execution speed.
  • Remains of the cursor is active on the Launcher 'Chevron' button, so a possibly incipient screensaver is prevented from running. (Sleep-Never-Button)
  • Hint window covering any rocking icons and more to replace the icons can be drawn in any direction.
  • Localizing the newly added commands incl. An adaptation of Ctrl + Ctrl.
  • Calculations simplified 'own coordinate system' and accelerated. Thereby an even lower CPU utilization was achieved.

New in Launcher 2.6.10.26 (Nov 20, 2015)

  • Error in the undo routine fixed (rarely occurring error range)
  • Error (Code 87) fixed under Windows2000, which occurred more then once a
  • Hint window should appear.
  • New menu item: 'Special Icons / staff' (My Documents)
  • Clean-up in the source code (some places even faster at higher stability)
  • By holding down the key, you can now the icons to quickly and comfortably
  • move the Launcher. (Drag and 'click-drop') untimely or spontaneous
  • Program starts are not admitted button while holding down the .
  • Menu items under 'help' has been adjusted accordingly and the corresponding
  • Voice files also.
  • You can now jump to the side of the launcher directly. The entry in the
  • 'IconList.txt' is simply the number of the page. If for example, there a 3 then
  • the corresponding page pitched when clicking on the icon. So you can
  • Simple 'tab' ('applications', 'Games', 'tools' ... etc.) and build yourself
  • own meaningful icons embellish.
  • While stopped, the launcher, the menu is now disabled.
  • All read and write operations are now based for the path of the
  • 'Launcher.exe' and not on the current path. This makes it possible,
  • to start the Launcher without having to be in the appropriate 'Launcher folder'
  • is. (Important for script-views)
  • The AutoHide feature has been enhanced. You'll also works on all four
  • Sides of the screen. If there is the launcher in a corner, then
  • you put the slider determines the primary direction.
  • The launcher window is then preferably either horizontally or vertically from the
  • Screen drawn. (Slide routine was this completely rewritten)
  • The Sparchdateien were supplemented by the words 'horizontal' and 'vertical'.
  • Because logical difficulty was the 'fold' function for the time being times
  • disabled. (In strong protest I let think of something ...)
  • Positioning Error adding buttons and subsequent
  • 'Collapse' has been fixed. (Toll ... correction in a shutdown routine)
  • The number of rows is increased from 16 to 32.
  • Error in the transparency routine corrected. (slight flickering eliminated)
  • The Resize routine has been highly optimized and now also dominates the
  • proportional zoom in Launcher windows in 'upright format' incl. the
  • associated 'Zoom-pegs'.
  • Wen the icon in the - interferes menu, which may hide now.
  • The corresponding entry in the Launcher.ini under [Security] is:
  • ShowAltTab = 0 and is turned on by default.
  • AutoHide sometimes did not work ... Fixed
  • Problems with the 'resize cursor icons' resolved
  • New parameter '[Misc] Slide Speed' in the Launcher.ini defines the time,
  • in the Launcher is drawn from the screen (default: 350ms)
  • The old 'Slide routine' was again completely rewritten while the
  • 'Time Based Movement' mitbeachtet correctly. The window should now move very same
  • moderate and smooth look, at a constant speed on different
  • fast computers. The processor load could also be reduced thereby.
  • In About menu, the current beta version is now displayed.
  • During the 'Hide-operation' the launcher window is not now additionally
  • even transparent. (Has anyway hardly noticed.)
  • The 'Einklappen'ist now a logical part of the' Hide routine '. The window
  • is thereby reduced to 'Chevron-width'. Prerequisite: Only one side, or
  • with the right mouse button to Chevron with links clicked. Everything is practically
  • as before, but with the new Hide routine. Movement is still linear, ie not yet
  • 'Edel-drawer effect'.
  • The background color will be changed on the key. This also avoids
  • an unintended color changes when activating the sleep mode.
  • (About menu and all language files / instructions were. Amended diesbezügl)
  • New Feature: Start Minimized. This refers not to the Launcher, but on
  • the programs or folders that you open. If the called program this
  • Start parameters supported, it opens minimized. Then you just the left click the
  • key and hold. (Alternatively, the right mouse button when clicked
  • hold. The popup menu is thereby turned off shortly.)
  • The swap routine was again greatly improved so that they now also during the
  • Shifting the to be replaced with icon displays. The swap operation at any time by
  • be canceled by pressing the right mouse button the Esc key or.
  • smaller logical fixes and cleanups (eg twice sounds playing etc.)
  • Fixed black screen after the end of the resting state (hopefully)
  • Outsourcing of some routines from OnShowHint, thus avoiding
  • of unötigen calculations
  • Recording of the favorites folder to the menu 'Special Icons'
  • By holding down the key (Resize Zoom without footrests) the Launcher window reserves
  • now its proportions at.
  • The width of the 'chevron buttons' can now be manually changed by INI file. Of the
  • corresponding entry is [size] CheviWidth and can assume values ​​between 0 and 16th
  • Who has only one 'side', which can now switch off completely the Chevron Button, in which one
  • CheviWidth = 0 sets.
  • Fixed a bug where if 'Speed ​​Slide' was equal to zero.
  • AutoHide now function ore also when the launcher is not docked to one side of the screen
  • is. The Chevron Button, however, has to have its standard width of 16, because on
  • this width is reduced the launcher window. (Ex-Stow-routine)
  • The fade-in / fade-out routine should now be on all computers the same speed up and down
  • Dazzle (Time Based instead of Sleep)
  • Is an alternative Hint text awarded, so this is now always alone displayed
  • even if eventually there is a parameter.
  • If you run multiple instances of the Launcher from different folders out, so
  • one can distinguish the Alt-Tab menu this now. The Launcher.exe and Launcher.ini
  • it must be renamed first. (eg Tools.exe + Tools.ini or Spiele.exe + Spiele.ini)
  • The autostart can of course be set separately for each instance.
  • Transparency routine has been modified and should now run 'uniform'
  • New parameter in the Launcher.ini been added. [Position] Start Mini = 1 starts the
  • Launcher minimized. (Default: Start Mini = 0)
  • Relative paths are now detected and displayed correctly.
  • The IconList.txt clearly effiezienter parsed internally by means of the function 'Explode'
  • New Commands: Reboot, Shutdown, Hibernate, Logoff and Standby. This can via the menu
  • Be 'Add Special' selected and are protected against accidental clicking. To the
  • needs to start appropriate command to be pressed when clicking the right mouse button.
  • It will now also * .cpl - files (control panels from the Control Panel) to start clean.
  • The relevant files can currently only from the 'system32' folder on the Launcher
  • are stored.
  • The routine for the coloring of the background ( key) has been debugged and
  • many places highly optimized.
  • New feature: 'Add Special / Goto Page 1-8' allows the direct initiation of the individual
  • Sides of the launcher. Now conveniently select via the menu. (possible 'chevron replacement)
  • The 'Options / Preferences' has got a new slider. The
  • Chevron positions 'Left' and 'None' work, the others are submitted.
  • Chevron position, Left, Right, Top and Bottom have been localized
  • If the Launcher has the focus (eg the Icon-exchange) then you can see the
  • verschiednen pages now by pressing the corresponding number keys (1-8) to jump directly.
  • Moving the icons on the Launcher now works without which one the
  • key to press. This 'explorer-like' behavior is now starting the
  • But 'default setting', can the variable 'EasySwap = 0' in the Launcher.ini
  • will return to the old behavior. (Drag and 'click-drop' with key)
  • The corresponding menu items 'icons Swap' and the Alt-key hint 'Help' is
  • accordingly shown in the menus or hidden.
  • Fixed bug, which could show a black icon when you move.

New in Launcher 2.5.6.25 (Nov 20, 2015)

  • The Preferences window is now in the Z-order always above the
  • Launcher window, even if the latter attribute 'Stay On Top' has clean or hide the Launcher start or when you exit now working again properly (no more black screen on startup)
  • the menu item 'Skins / Transparent' was to avoid confusion,
  • renamed 'Skins / Glassy'
  • Menu 'skins / Glassy' indicates the 'glass effect' now while the
  • Launcher window moves (optionally also brightly colored)
  • strong 'cleanup' in source code with partly visible increase
  • the execution speed at different locations (Delay instead of Sleep)
  • Fixed a bug that caused a crash of the launcher when AutoHide and
  • 'Skins / Glassy' (formerly 'Transparent') used at the same time
  • AutoHide responded incorrectly at a zoom setting of the window
  • new feature: 'Options / Preferences / AutoOpaque' which in a transparent
  • Launcher again represents the window 100% opaque, as soon as the
  • Mouse over it is (On Hover) or when the launcher receives the focus.
  • Listed here is the time of the 'afterglow' in seconds.
  • When you exit Windows, the changes despite 'Save On Exit' were not
  • correct spoked ... Fixed
  • To improve the functionality of USB sticks and CDs, has a function
  • installed which, if a link destination was not found, a
  • the second attempt to start from and indeed of the same drive, the of the
  • Launcher itself was launched.
  • 'Options / Rescan All icons' now includes drives, folders and URLs
  • (not found link objects are no longer deleted from)
  • of recent events a Soccer- and a Formula 1 Skin added ;-)
  • 'Options / AutoHide enabled' was a slider in Preferences-
  • Windows replaced (Range: 0 - 30 seconds)
  • Fixed a bug that showed an access violation in 'Skins / Glassy' and the
  • simultaneous attempt in more rows o Preferences window. columns to generate
  • Disabled sounds now applies again for all sliders.
  • The slider for 'Auto Opaque' disappears if 'Opacity' = 100%.
  • The time to 'AutoHide' was fine scales (0-10 sec. In 250 ms increments)
  • To change the window in size is no longer needed now that
  • hold on, but you can bring up the launcher on every corner. Suppresses
  • you nevertheless the key, then you disable so that 'zoom Pegs'.
  • The variable AutoHide was miscalculated ... Fixed.
  • 'Preferences / Frames' now points to level '3' button on a standard
  • Rare bug fixed which and when you move the Launcher window
  • was the setting 'Skins / Glassy' occur (Free through FreeAndNil replaced)
  • logical errors in the Preferences window fixed (display could be Settings)
  • Localizations completed
  • The entire menu can now be switched off completely.
  • The corresponding entry in the Launcher.ini would '[Security] ShowMenu = 0'
  • and can only be changed manually at the moment. (Default: ShowMenu = 1)
  • The background of the launcher will, where necessary updated accordingly

New in Launcher 2.4.5.24 (Nov 20, 2015)

  • Display the version number in the About dialog corrected (could be wrong) when 'Menu / Options / Preferences' open, then 'folding' and 'AutoHide' not possible, thus preventing logical mistakes
  • 'Menu / Options / Undo' is now anytime available and now also takes into account the previously set language the Hint window now have a shadow (only from Windows 2000 upwards) with 'Menu / Add Special / Network' will be the hint window now always the host name and the LANIP address (es) displayed (WANIP only when manually checking for updates or when 'Check for Updates' checked)
  • after changing the language signaled the Chevron now that unsaved changes exist ('>>' will turn red) and the Preferences dialog is now immediately updated Arab language file added to the skins folder moved to the 'Menu / Options' at the main menu to keep clear when AutoHide is actively clean up and then the variable 'Show Delay' ensures that the launcher will appear with a slight delay on the desktop. This unintentional 'extension', avoided at random lightly touching the edge of the screen. The default value is 250, which corresponds to a quarter of a second. It can be overridden in the Launcher.ini any time with its own values. (Slider to follow) new feature: 'Preferences / Frames' sets the frame thickness determined [0-3] pixels and replaces the function 'Options / DrawFrames' (the latter was removed), the slightly 'clunky' Preferences window was designed visually more discreet parameters in * .lnk files, if available, with read and displayed 'AutoHide' temporarily inactive when the menu is open. This prevents that the launcher during a menu-type 'from the dust' makes. Shortcuts that are based on the 'Microsoft Installer' now properly counted off (eg links the Office package) It may be a hint of alternative text to be specified. This works similarly to the parameter passing. The corresponding delimiter is the double vertical line '||'. (eg 'C: \ WINDOWS \ explorer.exe || Explorer') The sequence 'command | parameters || HintText' is always observed. Holding down the left mouse button over an icon, so then reappears the full text Hint. For each page, the background color can now be set separately. There is only one instance of the launcher allows. The second launch attempt brings the first instance to the foreground.

New in Launcher 2.3.5.1 (Nov 20, 2015)

  • Taking a drive on the launcher, then the hint text additional Lich to the drive letter now the drive name, the total size in MB and the available memory in both MB and in [%] with display
  • When the Launcher is docked on the left edge, the window will be usefully 'rolled up' the 'collapse'
  • In rare cases it could happen that the proportions for a Window enlargement is no longer certain ... Fixed.
  • The hint text appears slightly longer (6 sec.)
  • If multiple network cards in one computer available, as are the corresponding IP addresses in the Hint on the 'Network' icon now clean and shown in sequence (of course only if general Internet
  • Activity is with a hook before 'Check for Updates' allowed)

New in Launcher 2.3.4.24 (Nov 20, 2015)

  • New feature: The context of the icons can now be turned off
  • Fixed: When Windows logon or when users change
  • Setup file overwrites the following files so they are no longer already exists:
  • Launcher.ini, IconList.txt, Icons.Stream
  • Thus one can now safely with the new Setup.exe an existing
  • Overwrite Installation

New in Launcher 2.3.4.15 (Nov 20, 2015)

  • When you insert the Button Launcher now travels no more left or down out of the screen
  • New Feature: AutoHide which the launcher set after a
  • Time from the desktop and pulling down at the same time hides it.
  • (The simultaneous hiding only works on Win2000)
  • Is 'Options / AutoHide Enabled' is checked, then the Launcher after 3 seconds (or 3000ms) drawn from the desktop. The corresponding Entry in the Launcher.ini is AutoHide = 3000th Who another Preferably time, e.g. 8 seconds; the simply changes the 3000 to 8000 from. (comfortable slider not finished yet)
  • Regardless of the setting can AutoHide from the sliding out to force the screen at any time, in which one at the top
  • Of the screen clicks, providing the launcher is also if docked at the top of the screen. The whole thing works natural analog, even at the bottom of the screen.
  • The slides into the screen is done automatically when the
  • Mouse touches the top of the screen and AutoHide is checked, or manually by a mouse click when AutoHide is not enabled.
  • Many smaller optimizations and 'cleanup'

New in Launcher 2.2.3.27 (Nov 20, 2015)

  • 'Keyboard - Shortcuts' renamed to 'Help' and is now directly to find in the main menu
  • Einfärbe routine changed again. If now no dropouts
  • function (eg for games or overlay applications)
  • Zugiffsverletzung eliminated when you exit (only hide then release all my 'Free', not vice versa)
  • Cursor shows during the update process and during
  • 'Rescan all icons' now the hourglass
  • 'Special icons hint' is located correctly displayed
  • Added language file Nederlands
  • Autostart should now also under OS

New in Launcher 2.2.3.19 (Nov 20, 2015)

  • When you start and when you exit the window will now both single and hidden. (Windows 2000). Anyone who does not partout want, putting in Launcher.ini under [Misc] FadeIn = 0th
  • New menu item 'About / Keyboard - Shortcuts', the most important ones Keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys displays.
  • 'Benches' hot now usefully 'pages' and the associated localizations were amended accordingly
  • In the folded state is now ensured that the Chevron is still visible and not disappear from the desktop.
  • If the Arcor server did not answer me, was the remote Verions-
  • Sting empty and led to the mistaken a live update was offered ... bugs.
  • When Live Update of old Launcher will now be 'clean' and ended no longer simply canceled my 'maintenance' (so much time has to be)
  • A small memory leak stuffed (forget a .Free)
  • The range error which occurred sporadically in the choice of color, hopefully resolved cleanly.