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Launchy Portable 2.0 Development Test

Application: Launchy

Category: Utilities

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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.

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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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Cool

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.

  1. The LaunchyPortable.ini is still for 7-Zip.
  2. The version number in the Other\Source\Readme.txt should be for the launcher version.
  3. The Other\Source\Readme.txt mentions 7zfm.exe. That's right, Find & Replace has failed you. Blum
  4. UPX.cmd is still in the source dir.
  5. You're missing an AppSource.txt.
  6. I'd change line 100 to:

    MessageBox MB_OK|MB_ICONINFORMATION `$(LauncherAlreadyRunning) Press Alt + Spacebar to bring ${PORTABLEAPPNAME} forward.`
  7. I'd change the App\Readme.txt to:

    ...are necessary for the application to function...
    

    To make it more generic for other users.

  8. You can pngout the App dir, and the Default Data to save some minor space, script here.

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.

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Sweet

Thanks, I'll update it to Dev Test 2.

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Sounds Good

Sounds Good to me.

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Changes made

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. Wink

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.

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Looks Great

All looks great.

And I forgot to mention, change the 100 on like 170 to 0 to drop the fade.

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FYI

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...

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serious memory leaks

OK. Just what happened and I tried exactly that. Esperaré because I want to try.

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Can you elaborate on the

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

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Leaks

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.

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launchy

last i checked launchy could make itself portable. in the options or settings part. i forgot which.

Na na na, come on!

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Yes

It can. That setting is used by this version. This is merely a formalization into the PAF format.

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Keystroke launcher?

A little more elaboration on what it does might be nice.

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Dev 2 Looking Good

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.

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Project Status

Just wondering what the status of this project is. Hopefully they fixed the memory issues you mentioned above.

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Still flaky on my system

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.

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I haven't had any problems

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.

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Is this project Active?

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?

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Is this project Active?

Also interested in Launchy 2.5 in PAF

There isn´t on the project page
http://sourceforge.net/projects/launchy/files/

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Well by eminent domain

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

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Seems user vf2nsr wants to

Seems user vf2nsr wants to take it over.

EDIT: Beat me!

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Actaully, He can !

Only things matters, If program works and If its updated Wink

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Launchy 2.5 Dev 1

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