Application: Launchy
Category: Utilities
About:
Launchy is a highly configurable, skinnable keystroke launcher. Think of it as auto-complete on steroids; it allows you to catalog applications on your system and launch them by typing in just a few characters. Version 2.0 is a complete rewrite using Qt and is very slick and fortunately easily made portable. After launching, press alt+space to use it.
Download:
Download Launchy Portable 2.0 Development Test 2
(MD5: 29fd4278d9a2dece6abdf607e9aa5046 | 3.5MB)
Notes:
Launchy Portable development is currently on hold due to memory leaks and massive file handle usage experienced by some users (myself included) leading to an unstable system and in some cases system crashes. When these bugs are fixed in a future version development will resume.
Development Test 2 (2008-03-07):
- Added PortableApps Documents to catalog.
- Updated LaunchyPortable.ini to reflect correct application.
- Fixed typos in Readme.txt.
- Added AppSource.txt.
- Compressed skin png files.
Development Test 1 (2008-03-07):
- Initial release
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I was really pumped to work on this a while back, but then I changed my mind. I can't wait to try it.
Your bug it what I thought it was. Just simple the working directory. Add
SetOutPath "$PROGRAMDIRECTORY"somewhere before the launch and you should be good.Edit: Here's a few small things I caught.
MessageBox MB_OK|MB_ICONINFORMATION `$(LauncherAlreadyRunning) Press Alt + Spacebar to bring ${PORTABLEAPPNAME} forward.`To make it more generic for other users.
Thing that's it, well done! And thanks.
Also, the idea I had at one point was adding shortcuts for PAM's document folders. You'de just have to update the drive letter on the shortcut each time.
Thanks, I'll update it to Dev Test 2.
formerly rayven01
Sounds Good to me.
Dev Test 2 is available. All of your suggestions were done, except I left UPX.cmd in there.. it's less than 1k and useful for re-upxing the source when new versions come out so I prefer to leave it in.
I probably wouldn't bother with png optimization next time either.. it didn't even save enough space to free another block on the device.
Good suggestion on the document folder, although it's not as nice as it could be since Launchy doesn't yet do context launches (launching a txt for instance does nothing instead of opening the file in the default text editor). Indexing actual documents is useless but I added exes, lnks and directories. You'll have to delete your config.ini in Data\Settings to get that change. I used an environment variable so it's not necessary to modify the file for drive letter changes.
formerly rayven01
All looks great.
And I forgot to mention, change the 100 on like 170 to 0 to drop the fade.
Launchy Portable is on hold until a more stable release of Launchy comes out. 2.0 has some serious memory leaks and eats file handles for breakfast until your system runs out, forcing you to reboot...
formerly rayven01
OK. Just what happened and I tried exactly that. Esperaré because I want to try.
Can you elaborate on the memory leak / handles and how to test for it on my system? I've had my PC up for about 12 hours, and launchy doesn't look strange or anything from Process Explorer. So what should I be looking for?
Launchy 2.0
WinXP SP2
There are reports all over the Launchy forums of slowly increasing memory consumption, and I myself have had it take up all available file handles on my system and bring windows to a screeching halt. At that point even killing the process did no good. Errors came up every time I tried to do anything, so I had to reboot to recover.
It's possible it may be related to how often you have Launchy set to update its catalog. The leaks seem to be when it is actually indexing files. When I had problems I had it set to do this every ten minutes.
The problems have been admitted by the developer but unfortunately he's in the middle of porting it to Linux and won't be working on fixes until he's finished that.
formerly rayven01
last i checked launchy could make itself portable. in the options or settings part. i forgot which.
Na na na, come on!
It can. That setting is used by this version. This is merely a formalization into the PAF format.
formerly rayven01
A little more elaboration on what it does might be nice.
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No bugs here. Plugins work good, though does anyone know if there is a way to set the Weby plugin to use FirefoxPortable instead of the default browser on the computer?
I really like the index you've already got setup. It integrates very nicely with my PA stuff. Would love to see this released.
Just wondering what the status of this project is. Hopefully they fixed the memory issues you mentioned above.
I tested the newest version and it's still very flaky on my system. After running launchy for awhile yesterday I had menu items ghosted permanently onto my screen above all applications, explorer windows that would not shut down, and when I killed explorer explicitly my entire system froze. Killing launchy didn't fix any of the above by the way, I had to restart to get back to normal.
I think the culprit may be trying to have Launchy index C:\Program Files. I'm trying it today without that and I'll see if it's any better. Even if that works I'm not really comfortable with a program that can break things that easily.. it should gracefully refuse to index what it can't handle instead of causing weird issues.
formerly rayven01
I haven't had any problems with Launchy as of yet. So maybe rather than releasing Launchy as a portable app, you could just release the launcher for it until it becomes more stable. Have you tried asking the developers if this is a known problem, or have you heard of others with this problem? It could be that it's just your problem.
I have the latest version of Launchy installed on an XP SP3 machine indexing Program Files, my Start Menu, and everything in My Documents. No problems with it yet, but maybe I'm just lucky.
Just wondering if this is still an active development? I see that they have upgraded to 2.5. I just got it and am planning on PA Formatting it for my own use but would consider taking it over if anyone is interested and the original packager is not?
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” Dr. Seuss
Also interested in Launchy 2.5 in PAF
There isn´t on the project page
http://sourceforge.net/projects/launchy/files/
What I meant was the original packager in PA Format is that still active?
I have it all setup and uploaded, will be creating a new thread relatively soon with now link to 2.5 Dev 1 in PAF format
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” Dr. Seuss
Seems user vf2nsr wants to take it over.
EDIT: Beat me!
Only things matters, If program works and If its updated
LaunchyPortable 2.5
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” Dr. Seuss