Appetizer 1.1 (RC2 available)

Thanks, glad it's working without any bugs!

For the default skin, try giving it a name, followed by (Default) "Black Glass (Default)"

Right, I'll add that to my todo list

For resizing, the cursor should change to the sizing arrows instead of the hand if at all possible

Should be - I need to check which cursors are available.

label on the second instance is displayed as IconPanel.PopupMenu.NewGroup

That's strange, as I don't think this string still exists. Could it be that the second instance you are launching is an old version of Appetizer?

I'd suggest doing a .paf.exe installer now that you're at 1.0.

I've never done a paf installer but will take a look at it. In the meantime, if somebody's motivated enough to do it, I could host it on Sourceforge. As an icon for the splash screen, we can use ZachHudock 256x256 icon: http://patrickpatience.com/nascent-project/zachhudock/images/images/my_i...

That shouldn't be difficult to do, but I don't think that will be a priority for the next version. Just out of curiosity, how would you use this feature? Do you use some icon packs or something? If so maybe we could try to integrate them in some way to Appetizer. Just wondering.

Weird, it should only do that in debug mode. Does it do it as soon as you start Appetizer? Which settings are you using? Could you post the contents of your Settings.xml file here?

You mean the ".bat" files are shown with the default icon?

Edit: in the next version, the dock will display better default icons for common types (.txt, .bat, .com, .ini, etc.)

Thanks, I'll add these two strings. I've also corrected "Deutch" to "Deutsch".

Oops, I commented out the lines to launch a shortcut to do some testing and forgot to uncomment them. That was dumb... I'm going to fix that right now.

I didn't receive your emails - did you send them to here?

Actually the "x" button is the hide button - when you press it the app is minimized to the system tray. To use the multilaunch button, have a look at the help file in "Launching several application simultaneously". Thanks for testing!

I'm going to try to make some themes of my own, so I'll take requests too.

That's great, let me know if you come accross any problem. As you've probably already noticed the main files to change are:

ArrowButtonUp.png |
ArrowButtonOver.png | The three states of the arrow button
ArrowButtonDown.png |

BarBackground.png - The main window background
BarInnerPanel.png - The panel where the icon are
OptionPanel.png - The panel where the option buttons are

OptionButtonUp.png |
OptionButtonOver.png | The small option buttons
OptionButtonDown.png |

All the button states except for the "up" state are actually optional, so if you don't need them, delete them.

You can also fine tune the skin using Skin.xml but that's optional too. You may want to fill the "author" and "name" fields though.

# There's no real need to call it "AppetizerPortable", just call it "Appetizer" (e.g. follow Toucan's lead)

I don't like much the "portable" appended to the name of all the app either but I think I'm going to leave it to keep the PAF more "standard compliant". Anyway, I think the simplest way to use Appetizer is to get the zip file and drop its contents at the root of the drive

# You're missing a help.html and associated graphics. You might want to fix that

Thanks! I will add that.

1 suggestion on the hotkey. Make it toggle visibility, rather than automatically show the window. (if Appetizer is the active window, then hide it.....if Appetizer window is on desktop but covered by another window, or if Appetizer is hidden, bring to front or show the window)

I actually thought that's how it was working. I'll check that to see if there is bug somewhere.

Add the Desktop as a place to import icons from

Thanks, I'll add that. I'm also thinking of having an option to import a user-specified folder, but that's slighlty more complex.

# Make it to be possible tohave kinda different quick launch group(user-defined)

That would make the use (and implementation) of the multilaunch functionality a lot more complicated, and I'd rather try to keep it simple. The way I see it, not many people would need more than one group anyway - normally you just launch appetizer, then start the multilaunch group once, and that's it.

# As i commented in the actual PNOTES beta, the installer don't dettects the app when running 8·P

Thanks, I actually didn't do any test on that. I'll have a look into it.

Thanks, I'll take a look at that. Are you using a special theme like "zune"?

I did try to skin the popups too, but I never managed to get to work properly so went back to normal popups. I might give it another try some day.

# Could U please change the apps icon back to former MLBs one (that prune-olive-lemon? or whatever is nearly invisible on darker/smaller task bars, ie. on my netbook).

The previous icon was just meant to be temporary. I actually prefer it because it's more visible, but it's too generic and the USB sign makes it look like it's only for USB keys, when it can also be used as a "normal" app. Well, if you or somebody else have some suggestions on how to make the olive icon more visible, I'm open to it

# These ugly yellow windows tool tips should be skinned again (like MLB)

I'll see if it can be done with wxWidgets.

I am finding the pop-up to organize groups VERY Slow and tedious. There is a several second delay between when you move one link and when you can move the next. Likely caused by writes to the USB. Is there a way to cache that and speed it up a little?

Ok, this is supposed to be optimized already. I'm going to check why it's not as fast as it should be.

I prefer the way the PATCHED PAM handles groups. Right Click on the link and use a drop down menu to assign the group to put it in

Good point, and that should be quite easy to add this feature.

Also, when you open the dialog to create a group it does not automatically give the focus the the group name. You have click on that field to type in it. Seems a little awkward.

Thanks, will check that.