PortableApps Menu Clone (SmithTech Portable Menu 1.0.0.27) (Testers / TrueCrypt Users Needed)

Nice.
looks even better than the red one

will set mirror when i come back from Subway's

hehe

(I don't really use truecrypt so I won't be much help with that.)

I do like the simplicity of the Substitute Drives function in the options menu.

However, in the "Folder Options" I would like to be able to change the names of the folders that appear on the menu.

Otherwise I think this is a really solid menu. Congratulations on a job well done.

*EDIT*
Also, it would be nice to be able to change the logo in the top-left corner to one of my own in the Options menu. Thanks again

*EDIT #2*
I tried applying NeoRame's "Crystal Neo" theme to it, but there seems to be a problem with the Drive capacity bar. I know for a fact that my drive is at least half full, but the menu displayed it as this

What's up with that?
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Can you also change the next version so that it will only launch apps when Double-Clicked on?

Thanks.
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Its impossible to translate all the truecrypt options and the word truecrypt volume in Avanced Options/Applications because it's not in the .locale file.

It's done and it's here: http://whibo.4shared.com
In advanced options/applications the words TrueCrypt Volume are in english. In french, it's Volume TrueCrypt.
All the menu is in french except for that. Good job. It's your better menu in term of multilingual.

I fought tooth and nail with PAM to get it to show a friendly name for apps. The appinfo.ini stuff alluded to in some posts here seems broken or bogus. It looks in the version resource for the Product name, but that's restrictive too.

I don't use NSIS for my own portable apps, I use JScript and the Windows Script support in the OS, and a simple tiny script packager, to make the launcher. I can create and save registry data on the fly with simple scripts. It's so much easier... but I can't control what goes into the packaged script's EXE file, so PAM just shows the exe file's name foobarportable or whatever. Ugly.

Well, what do you KNOW! By typing *.js into the SPM's Application Path browse file/open window, I can see my original JScript, and IT RUNS!!! No more needing an EXE to package it. This is so GREAT. Now I can simply write and test the JScripts directly. If I put a debugger statement into it I can debug it in MSE - this is really nice.

I REALLY LIKE the applications setting. Please don't supersede it with a scanner unless the scanner's job is to auto-fill the applications settings. Let us tailor the names that show in the menu and continue to enter things as the runnable file... please.

If you change Start Minimized to False then spm 1.0.0.20 shows an error message and then appears with "endless" bogus menu entries. Changing it back to true (in the XML) restores correct behavior.

How does <Cleanup> work? Are those things run before SPM exits?

What are the <AutoRun> and <ExitArgument> tags for? To set an <Icon> do you edit the XML?

How do you activate the help button (it's not showing on my system). What does it connect to?

Holy catfish! You're releasing like a Tasmanian Devil (the Warner Bros one).

[edited - brain fade! this is related to how SPM is started!!] Another thing I hope you'll keep: When you launch an app from the menu, the current directory is at the root. This is very useful. I'll grab the latest release now.

THANK YOU SO MUCH

I seem to be having an issue. When I 'check' that this application is on a truecrypt volume, the link in the main menu (when I hover over it) becomes the TrueCrypt Volume Drive letter (in my case H:) plus the $truecrypt\appname. ie. H:\$truecrypt\PortableApp\FirefoxPortable. Thus the link doesn't work.

Also I seem to be getting a second entry on the menu sometimes. Advanced Options.Application only shows one, but Main Menu two. One with the $truecrypt\ other without.

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First issue: Only the first 17 items in the main menu will execute. Leaving the last three unusable. It doesn't matter where you are (scrolling through the list). If you scroll down more, then that entry will execute, but only if it's item 1-17, but not 18-20.

Second issue: Once you add an item in Advanced Options.Applications, if you try to Remove an item I get a popup error 'Interface not supported' and the item will not remove. Once I shutdown spm.exe then I can go remove the item but not if I add something first.

I too wish I knew Pascal. It's been exactly 20 years since I wrote a line of code in Pascal. Totally pre-Windows.

Keep up the great work. I like where things are going.

Might wanna add that to the main post.

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Just one maybe strange question:

May I use PStart's scan functionality to create me an App-list in .xml-format? Or will such a list not be supported by your app? Asking because my list will be to long to do it manually...

First: The autorun with arguments seems broken. The Exit argument works, but I can't get TrueCrypt to run with start arguments. Also tried to autorun Firefox, no go.

Second: The icons only seem to 'refresh' when exiting options. It use to 'refresh' once you left the menu then came back.

Third: When icons do refresh after leaving Options, the very first icon doesn't seem to come in until exiting Options again. (That icon, and a few others, are scrolled off the screen then I leave Options) EDIT: That first icon doesn't come in even if it is visible when I leave Options.

v.26 - Changed browse button on apps options page to default to one directory above the apps parent directory (i.e. the portableapps directory)
Doesn't seem to work with a TrueCrypt volume.

Nice Job!!!

Can you add the ability to sort Apps by folders? like "security", "accesories", "internet", "office", "games", etc, etc...

Thanks in advance

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I did it. It's here: http://whibo.4shared.com
Bugs in Advanced Options/ Applications:
Not enough place to write the translation of autorun
TrueCrypt Volume stay in english.

Hi!

Mirror

It works with the Documents,Pictures,Videos and I think the Explore buttons but not with apps.

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I thought it would be good to provide a way to catch removal of the USB flash drive and have spm exit automatically. Things are going great with 1.0.0.27. Thanks again!!

Anyway,I found this at CodeProject:

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/system/DriveDetector.asp

It is for C#, but it's mostly Windows API stuff that could probably be duped in Pascal. I'm not sure what happens if an app refuses the "pending removal" -- and what's a pending removal anyway if you just yank the drive out of its socket??? Well, the main thing would be to trap the actual removal and cause spm to exit. I'm not familiar with spm (haven't looked at sources), but maybe it could also kill progs launched from SPM as well? Just an idea for your copious spare time

1.0.0.27 - at least on my (rather vanilla) system... the icons are clipped on the right and bottom.

http://solo.dc3.com/spm1.png

I think they are suppose to be that way. They are on mine too. Artistic license?

I am trying to change the directory that 'Video' points to (on the TrueCrypt volume) and it will not accept it.

I just remembered that adding apps its a small sort of hassle, what with having to navigate to each app and then add it into the config gui.

Just to make things a bit easier until you have scanning up and runnings, make a Convey addon, that when an exe is passed to it, will automatically add that file. Then when configuring settings, each file you wanted to add will be there, and you wont have to do much navigating.

like the current QL addon, "add to ST menu" [or something of the sort] would appear in the send to menu, and adding apps in rapid succession would involve simply right clicking their exes.