From Laurent:

“But icon for the first line is always the standard icon “iconFolderLiveOpened”.
Maybe this could remain the default option, but It would be great to be able to define two other options :
1) the standard icon “iconFolderLiveOpened” except if a specific icon is defined in corresponding desktop.ini
2) the same icon than the one defined in QAP for the liveFolder”

I would not make it an option. More an order of choice to use he first available:
– the desktop.ini icon from the folder (this could be different icons in sub levels),
– the Live Folder favorite icon (always the same in sublevels)
– the default iconFolderLiveOpened

Done in v9.4.1. Allowing to replace any icon from the JLicons.dll file.

See DOpus forum post.

Leo said:
This should work:
“C:\Program Files\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\DOpusRT.exe” /acmd Prefs LAYOUT=”My Layout”
PS: Don’t forget layouts can be organised into sub-folders. Easy to handle, but also easy to overlook.

Format for layouts in sub-folders:
“SubFolder/Sub2/MyLayout”

I would put this liust as a submenu of the “Directory Opus Favorites” menu (new QAP Feature in v9.3). It could also be a separate QAP Feature but my first guess is that DOpus users would love to have both of them together. You can comment on thit by email or in the .
Jean

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Done in v9.3.1

From Laurent:
currently, live folders do NOT show hidden sub-folders.
Maybe this is the best option in most of the cases.
Nevertheless, it would be great to be have an option, when defining a specific live folder, to include in its subfolder list, hidden subfolders.

PS:
Another option, maybe even better, could be to apply in QAP same rules than in Win Explorer,
based on user’s preferences, (defined in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Hidden)

– If hidden files and folders are currently displayed in Win Explorer, display them in LiveFolder’s subfolder list
– but if they remain hidden in Win Explorr, do not display them as well in QAP
– and the same about System files (HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\ShowSuperHidden)

Or a mix of my original proposal and this new one….

The parameter is asked to user in a dialog box when user launches the favorite.

Until this is done, users can use the new {Clipboard} placeholder for this. Put “{Clipboard}” (with the quotes) in the Parameter field and copy the content for the parameter to the Windows Clipboard before launching the favorite.

“C:\Program Files\Quick Access Popup\QAPmessenger.exe” ShowMenuLaunch “> SubMenu1 > Submenu2”

Suggestion received by email.

“Most users are right-handed. So they normally have the right hand on the mouse and the left is at the keyboard. This works perfectly when items are numbered from 1 onwards. It doesn’t work the same when the first entry begins with 0 instead of 1. The left hand (if you want to use the keyboard for quicker access) needs to travel all the way to the right side to hit the 0 instead of just using the left little finger to reach up to the 1. This is even more important when using a split ergonomic keyboard.”

Done in v9.3.

Done in v.9.4 (not specifically done for group items, available for all Folder favorites when using Windows Explorer or Total Commander)

Would be {DROPBOX}, {GOOGLE_DRIVE}, {ONEDRIVE} and {ICLOUD}
(ask on the support group for others)

For example: “{DROPBOX}\MyFolder\”

Could be auto detected for

Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/locate-dropbox-folder

Google Drive: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13454508/how-do-i-find-the-onedrive-skydrive-and-googledrive-folders-without-the-api

OneDrive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\OneDrive
https://stackoverflow.com/a/29562190/2327946

Done in v9.2.

In current version (v9.0.x), “Settings” and “Add/Edit Favorite” windows position and size are remembered and saved in the ini file. The first time they are displayed at the center of main monitor (if system has multiple monitors). But other dialog boxes (“Add Favorite Type”, “Options” and secondary dialog boxes) are always positioned at the center of the main monitor.

The request is to open these windows at the center of the monitor where is located the main “Settings” window. This will also apply to the first time the “Add/Edit Favorite” window is open (after that its position will be remembered as now).

FYI, the position of the “Settings” and “Add/Edit Favorite” and “Move favorite” (and “Move favorites”) is remembered to allow the display of long submenu paths in the “Settings” list or in the other dialog boxes “Menu” drop down lists. In my view, it is not necessary to remember the position and size of the other dialog boxes.

You can discuss this request in this thread.

Note to myself: see my function ActiveMonitorInfo().

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Done in v9.4

Replace the placeholder “{Clipboard}” with the current content of the clipboard in favorite “Parameters” property for all type of favorite supporting parameter (or “arguments”): application, documents, links, FTP, etc.)

Examples of use:
Application favorite for Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer -> Parameter: “? {Clipboard}” (include the quotes in the parameter) will search for the text in the clipboard
Windows App favorite for Edge -> Parameter: {Clipboard} (no quotes) will search for the text in the clipboard

Application favorite for Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer -> Parameter: “? \”{Clipboard}\”” (include the quotes in the parameter) will search for the exact expression in the clipboard
Windows App vavorite for Edge -> Parameter: “{Clipboard}” (including quoted) will search for the exact expression in the clipboard

Done in v9.2.

Done in v9.1.1.

Suggestion from jhalter.

Additional suggestion from Laurent:

I would personnally suggest is to follow, in QAP, rules as they are applied in Windows Explorer.
Thanks to these rules
– some extension are never displayed (based on NeverShowExt key in registry), which is in particular the case for .lnk
– and other extensions can be hidden or displayed, based on user choice, thanks to Explorer option “Masquer les extensions dont le type est connu” (sorry, I don’t know the exact wording in english)

Done in v9.0.1

– add the “Extended Search” checkbox after the “Search” text box in the “Settings” window
– by default, the “Extended Search” is not checked, and search filters only based on the favorites name
– if the “Extended Search” is checked, search covers favorite name, type, shortcut, hotstring trigger, location (file or folder path), snippet content, FTP login name and password, and advanced settings “Parameters” and “Start in” folder

Done in v9.0.1.

Ad in “Menu” tab of “Options” windows an option to set the number of seconds between scheduled refresh of the QAP menu including Live Folders and Shared menus (during refresh the menu is not available)

Done in v9.0.1.

Done in v9.0.1.

Suggestion from Horst.

Done in v9.3.

Stop Computer Combo would be:

“Logoff”
“Shutdown”
“Reboot”
“Power down” (shutdown and turn power off)
“Force” (checkbox for above actions – may cause data loss)

“Suspend” (DllCall(“PowrProf\SetSuspendState”, “int”, 0, “int”, 0, “int”, 0))
“Hibernate” (DllCall(“PowrProf\SetSuspendState”, “int”, 1, “int”, 0, “int”, 0))
“Disable wake events” (checkbox)
“Suspend and Disable wake events” (DllCall(“PowrProf\SetSuspendState”, “int”, 0, “int”, 0, “int”, 1))”Hibernate and Disable wake events” (DllCall(“PowrProf\SetSuspendState”, “int”, 1, “int”, 0, “int”, 1))

“Turn monitor off”
“Start screen saver”
(see examples in https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/PostMessage.htm)

Done in v9.0.1.

Done in v9.0.1.

Actually, the “Move” button is visible only if more than one favorite is selected (it replaces the “Edit” button).

To do:
– add “Move” button, allowing to move one or multiple favorites
– disable the “Edit” button if multiple favorites are selected

Done in v9.0.1

From David.

This is to force lister window restore if window is minimized, regardless of default behavior.

Suggestion from Chase
A way to sort the files by date modified would be amazing since I am looking for the most recent file most of the time.

Done in v9.0.1.

Allowing to view long submenu names in the menus dropdown list.

Suggestion received by email.

An existing QAP Feature list the folders from the C:/Users/[User]/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Recent Windows folder. The request received by email is to add another QAP Feature that would list Recent documents (or files) from the Recent folder.

Received by email: “Right now a “temp” folder is created in the QAP dir when I run QAP. I’m running QAP on my Google drive folder (to have QAP with settings synced to my other Windows devices, which works great). Would it be possible to redirect that temp folder to the %temp% folder in windows? That way the QAP temp folder would not be synced to Google Drive all the time.”

Suggested by Leon by email.

Could close windows of all running application, or could put a list of running applications in a dialog box allowing user to select what apps to close (all apps selected by default).

Done in v9.0.1.

Suggestion from ltdeta:

Placeholder like:
{CUR_FILE} = full folder with selected file name
{CUR_FILENAME} = selected file name

Done in v9.2.

Suggestion from Luke.

From Luke.

if not A_IsAdmin
Run *RunAs "%A_AhkPath%" "%A_ScriptFullPath%"

Idea from Joe.

Support hotstrings, sequences of characters (abbreviations) automatically replaced (expanded) by the snipped content.

See this discussion for those interested in the technical of it.

Done in v9.0.1.

From Jörg.

“On notebooks one hardly ever finds a middle mouse button. So you have to compensate for that by using a keyboard shortcut to open QAP. I wonder if it would be possible to use the context menu key (the one between Alt Gr and Ctrl)? I can’t remember that I ever used that key and I bet I’m not alone. That key would be perfect as a middle mouse replacement. It’s code is E05D.”

This key is called AppsKey in AHK. Also called “Menu key” or “Context menu key”. This is the key that invokes the right-click context menu.

Unicode encoding (UTF-16) (NOT Big Endian)

See issue reported by Doğan.

Request received with a donation:

Hi Jean Thank you so much for developing Quick Access Popup (QAP); it is most appreciated. I find QAP does everything I need. For me it is perfect. However, I just have one request. Please can you add, say a ‘switch’, such that you can toggle QAP to either stay on top or act as it does now? I ask because I love the drag and drop feature QAP has. I like to set-up a lot of folders etc at any one time. If QAP could ‘stay on top’ then doing ‘drag and drop’ would be super. Otherwise, I absolutely love QAP. It answers a problem that I find with Windows. Any software that does that is to be applauded. Wishing you well in its future development Many thanks

Request from Wayne.

Suggestion from Rahim.

I would add the search box between the menu selection dropdown list and the top of the favorites list. The search result would appear instead of the favorites list. It would be filtered according to the content of the search text box. There would be no search button. The search result would appear automatically as the search text is entered or modified. An “X” at the end of the search text box would remove the filtering and restore the normal list. The search scope would include only the favorites name and location.

See http://www.quickaccesspopup.com/welcome-to-quick-access-popup-beta-test/#comment-14497

From Helge. Similar to the “Add Favorite” QAP feature but each dedicated to one favorite type:

“Add Text Snippet”

“Add Document favorite”

“Add Folder favorite”

etc.

Done in v9.0.1.

From Nath.

Currently, QAP triggers exclusion list is checked for apps main window (by their name or class name – see Can I block the QAP menu trigger (middle mouse button) if it interfere with one of my other apps?). QAP triggers exclusion list is not applied to app’s dialog boxes (“child” windows).

There is a request for the QAP exclusion list to be check not only the current window name/class but also, if it current window is a dialog box (class name “#32770”), to this window’s parent window.

See this thread.

Request from Michael.

Michael:

An obscure one I guess… when you define a hotkey (say Ctrl+F9) for an application Favorite it gets saved in the settings file against the application’s EXE path. This makes sense, however if you have several favorites defined using the same EXE path – except that each have different command-line params – they automatically all get associated with the same hotkey.

For example I have defined several scheduled tasks in Windows, each with different command line params, e.g.:
C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe /run /TN “NoUAC\UAC Revo Uninstaller Pro”

As it stands I don’t think QAP supports this approach (hotkeys against an EXE that has multiple matches but different params).

Granted, this one’s a bit out of the ordinary, and QAP does work fine if you define these as menu popups alone (no shortkey).

Jean:

Obscure but interesting one… Actually, favorite hotkeys are associated to “location”, regardless of other settings (Advanced setting, Live Folder settings, etc.). This is a limitation of the current design.

The solution would be to associate hotkeys to a combination (concatenation) of the location and parameters (and maybe of other settings like “Start In” or “Live Folder” settings), for example:

Hotkey1=C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe /run /TN “NoUAC\UAC Revo Uninstaller Pro”|+^x
Hotkey2=C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe /run /TN “SomethingElse”|+^y

This may not be so hard. But backward compatibility may be an issue…

Suggestion from Helge.

Suggestion from Helge.

Assuming a list of shared menus existing on a shared drive, in a rather large organization. Each shared menu external ini file would be saved in a sub-folder. All users would have read access to all these folders. Each shared menu would be managed by one or more users having write access to this external setting’s sub-folder.

In QAP, show a directory of registered shared menus and allow user to “subscribe to” (add) the shared menus of his choice. Subscribing could be done from a sub-menu within QAP menu, or from a dialog box opened by a button in the Settings window. Check boxes or check menu would allow to select one or more menus.

Offer a way for sysadmin to automatically add a shared menu at next (or first) use of QAP. Let user confirm the addition and position of this shared menu. User could change the name or position of this menu, as with any favorite.

More details in these posts from Helge:
http://www.quickaccesspopup.com/quick-access-popup-wishlist/#comment-12318
http://www.quickaccesspopup.com/quick-access-popup-wishlist/#comment-12348
http://www.quickaccesspopup.com/quick-access-popup-wishlist/#comment-12358

From Lukas:

Use {CUR_DIR} for opening a folder relative to the current one.

I was searching the help everywhere but couldn’t find a way to handle this.

I have a lot of project folders and all of them have the same structure. As an example:

Project1
– 3D
– Post
– Output

Project2
– 3D
– Post
– Output

I would like to have a menu entry saying “Post” and by clicking it it opens the folder relative to my currently opened folder.
Maybe that’s already possible since there is the {CUR_DIR} variable for running applications.
I just can’t get it to work.

From Horst:

As QAP knows how to open applications with enhanced rights, it should be possible to open a normal application favorite with enhanced rights by using a keyboard modifier like Shift-click on the favorite. This would eliminate the need for additional favorites with enhanced rights option set.

From Steffen:

Right now, when selecting “Add this Folder Express” the favorite is added at the top of the list. Using “Add This Folder”, the default entry is at the bottom of the list. I find this a little inconsistent. I would prefer if the favorite is also added at the bottom of the list when using express. Or give us a choice in the settings.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
“QuickAccessPopup”=”C:\\Program Files\\Quick Access Popup\\QuickAccessPopup.exe”

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Notes in my personal email:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?fs=1&source=atom#inbox/1586e346d5ca6e40

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Update 2018-11-17

QAP will continue to use the Startup shortcut as primary way to autostart QAP because this allow users to set their own working directory using the “Start In” option in the Startup Shortcut. But, for users who prefer to use the Run registry key (that is not supported now because this method returns no working directory), QAP will support (when this item will be done) the new parameter “/Working:…” with the path to the working directory (e.g.: “/Working:C:\Quick Access Popup”).

Done in v9.3.1.1

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Update 2019-10-03

QAP v10, when installed using the Easy Setup EXE file, now uses the Run registry key to memorize the startup option. The Startup shortcut is now only used if QAP was installed in portable mode with the ZIP file.

From BorisB (#4)

From BorisB (item #1)

See this post: https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/74348-send-command-when-switching-to-russian-input-language/#entry474543

Help from an AHK developer using a russian keyboard would be greatly appreciated on this one.

From Robert.

See this post form Helge.

From pleaides
http://www.quickaccesspopup.com/quick-access-popup-wishlist/#comment-12207

See:
http://www.quickaccesspopup.com/how-do-i-enable-total-commander-support-in-quick-access-popup/#comment-11791

After discusison on TC forum:
– check the[FileSystemPlugins] section of WinCdm.ini for a variable name (var_name) that would be used in the [DirMenu] section in the following format:
cmd#=cd ///var_name/etc.
(note: I’m using forward slashes here because WordPress tend to remove backslashes from posts – so in the examples in this page, replace forward slashes with backslashes)
– once found, it the value for this variable in [FileSystemPlugins] contains “VirtualPanel.wfx” this is a VirtualPlaner location

At this time, I do not plan to fully support TC file system plugins but at least, exclude the unsupported entries in the TC Hotlist menu in QAP.

Store the destination (optional) so next time the dialog is opened the destination name is filled.

Add placeholder for %DATETIME% (format YYYYMMDDHHMMSS).

Request from Topoto.

Example of DirMenu section in WinCmd.ini:

[DirMenu]
RedirectSection=hotlist.ini

hotlist.ini is in the same folder as WinCmd.ini. Probably relative path to its directory.

Add to Options dialog box a section to list apps to exclude from the Current Windows menu by listing their window title (beginning of).

Done in v9.4.1.