Change log
Release notes are presented in reverse chronological order. Beta versions release notes are in the beta versions change log.
Version: 11.6.3.3 (2024-04-27)
- stop showing the snippet default prompt when using a snippet on the Desktop (for example when renaming a Desktop file)
- fix a bug with the working directory when launching an application from a shortcut file (.lnk) in a Live folder
- when opening a document from the QAP menu, add the document's parent folder in the "Recent folders" menu
- add an option under "Various Advanced Options" to set the "Maximum number of seconds to wait when the Clipboard is busy" (default 5 seconds)
- stop waiting after 1 second when opening the menu from QAPmessenger and the menu is not ready
- fix a bug when getting the current location in "Add this folder" dialog boxes and in some placeholders
- prevent loading Customize window in an invisible position if invalid position was remembered at last exit
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Version: 11.6.3.2 (2024-01-23)
- in current location placeholders "{CUR_...}", support a fallback location used when the current location cannot be detected; insert the fallback location after "|", for exemple "{CUR_LOC|c:\fallback_location\}"
(seee: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-insert-values-in-favorites-location-parameters-or-snippets-using-placeholders/#current)
- fix a bug in the placeholder {Now} wrongly calculating the last day of month (as in "{Now:ld}")
- for some favorites without shortcut, fix a bug showing erroneously in menus the reminder "None" instead of nothing
- fix a bug when saving a favorite with a placeholder in its location, alerting erroneously that the favorite does not exist
- fix a display issue in "Options, File managers" when QAPconnect was selected
- in DOpus Favorites dynamic menu, handle the situation when DOpus favorites folder is empty
- update Portuguese language file
Version: 11.6.3.1 (2023-10-17)
- fix a bug breaking the "Reopen current folder in dialog box" command and possibly other QAP features commands
Version: 11.6.3 (2023-10-16)
Options
- reorder options sections in "Options" dialog box and menu
- add new option under "Menu Icons" to set a custom icon for "Link" favorites and, if present, use it instead of the default browser's icon
- duplicate the "Open Customize window at Startup" option in "General" section
Customize window
- when the "Customize" window is active
- add support for extra mouse button (side buttons) to navigate Forward and Backward in submenus
- support for extra mouse button (side buttons) to navigate Forward and Backward in submenus
- support Alt+Right and Alt+Left to navigate backward and forward in submenus (in addition to existing hotkeys Shift+Ctrl+Right and Shift+Ctrl+Left)
- update the "Customize Window Shortcuts Help" dialog box (F1) under the "Help" menu
- add button on the left side of the window to launch the favorite selected in the "Customize" window
- enable this button for launchable favorite types Folder, Document, Application, Special, URL, FTP, QAP and Group (not applicable for Snippet)
Various improvements
- support the new placeholder "{SelectedText}" and replace it with the text currently selected in the active window
- check if the Clipboard is free before refreshing the "Clipboard" menu
- QAP is now compiled with AHK runtime v1.1.37.1
- update language files for French, Italian, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese and German
Version: 11.6.2.3 (2023-08-29)
Import/Export
(see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-backup-import-or-export-my-favorites-and-settings/)
- review and clarify the "Import Settings" and "Export Settings" dialog boxes user interface
- in "Import/Export" dialog box, replace the generic word "Settings" with the more specific words "Options" and "Favorites"
- split the "Export/Import Settings" menu in two distinct entries: "Export Options and Favorites" and "Import Options"
- add the menu bar entry "File, Import Favorites" (opening the "Add Multiple Favorites..." dialog box)
- add text at the bottom of the "Import Options" dialog box directing to import favorites with "File, Import Favorites"
- remove the "Import Favorites" button and the "Favorites" checkbox from the "Import Options" dialog box
- remember the last "Import Options" file selected in the previous import
- support placeholders in the import/export source/destination filename path: supported placeholders are {Now+calculation:format}, {Settings_...}, {Clipboard}, {Input:prompt}, {Menu:prompt}, {RandomText:...}, {RandomNumber:...} and {GUID}; see https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-insert-values-in-favorites-location-or-parameters-using-placeholders/
Other bug fixes
- when using "Export Options and Favorites", fix bug preventing the export of the options section for Alternative menus modifiers
- when setting a favorite keyboard shortcut, fix bug preventing from using Shift+0, Shift+1 to Shift+9
Version: 11.6.2.2 (2023-07-11)
- in the "Advanced Options" tab of "Edit Favorite" dialog box (for Application, Document and Link favorites), remove the 250 characters limit for the "Parameters" text box
- display this text box on one line if it is not longer than 60 characters and on two lines if it is longer (scrollable)
- when launching a favorite with parameters, check that the command does not exceed the Windows limit of 8191 characters
Version: 11.6.2.1 (2023-07-05)
- fix bug adjusting the width of Quick Launch dialog box based on font setting introduced in previous release
- fix bug preventing the use of < and > as hotkeys (undo incomplete fix in previous release)
- add to "Multiple Add, CSV" a 12th column for "FavoriteDisabled" field with possible values: 0 (favorite enabled and visible, default value), 1 (favorite disabled and hidden) or -1 (favorite enabled but hidden in menu, shortcut/hotstring active).
- avoid error during menu refresh if the Clipboard is used by another application and not released within 1 second
Version: 11.6.2 (2023-06-01)
Customize the fonts of the "Customize" window
- under "Options, Customize window", customize the font size of:
- the "Customize" window labels (from 6 to 12 points, default 8)
- the favorites list (from 6 to 16 points, default 8)
- and of the "Quick Launch" search (from 6 to 16 points, default 8)
- you will have to reload QAP after changing one of these options
Add Multiple Favorites
- support adding favorites from a CSV files (see the format description here: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-add-multiple-favorites-in-one-click/#csv)
- for sources with filters, support multiple strings filters (for example "abc xyz" to filter items with "abc AND xyz")
- support filter when adding from source "Folder"
Various improvements
- in Favorites Names, expand Environment variables, User variables and Placeholders
- fix bug preventing the use of < and > as hotkeys
- add this note to the "Select Shortcut" dialog box: If your keyboard layout has AltGr (or AltCar), select both Ctrl and Alt checkboxes to use this key as a modifier
- fix bug when icon resource in a desktop.ini file has no comma
- stop reopening a Group menu after selecting "Launch all items"
Version: 11.6.1.5 (2023-04-11)
- update RECOMMENDED for users of Windows 11 (for better support of Explorer tabs)
- detect current tab in Win 11 Explorer to return the correct current location with placeholder {CUR_...} and the correct selected item with the placeholder {SEL_...}
- make sure the added favorite names are unique when adding multiple favorites from a settings file "Favorite, Add Multiple Favorites, QAP Settings File (flat view)"
- fix bug when launching a favorite the the option "Reopen this menu after launching items" enabled
- show minimize button in the Custormize window
- Dutch language file update
Version: 11.6.1.4 (2023-02-23)
- update STRONGLY RECOMMENDED for all users of v11.6+
- fix bug preventing from changing folder in a dialog box when the QAP menu was open using the keyboard shortcut (Win + W, if you kept the default setting)
- blocked applications in "Keyboard shortcuts" in "Options, Launch Advanced Options" now only block the favorites keyboard shortcuts but not anymnore the main QAP menu keyboard hotkey (Win + W, if you kept the default setting)
Version: 11.6.1.3 (2023-02-21)
- fix bug not identifying the active window and breaking some placeholders replacements when checking that Main menu hotkeys are not blocked in "Options, Various Launch Options"
- fix bug when validating a favorite path including a {SETTINGS_...} placeholder causing an unwanted error message
- fix bug saving options when dark mode is enabled
- fix bug when editing a favorite with location is not found from the Quick Launch search result
- fix visual bug in "Add Favorite - Select type" dialog box when types label are larger that the available space in some language German
- change how "text mode" Snippets are use the Clipboard when pasting to the active window (to avoid or minimize issues in interaction with Quick Clipboard Editor)
Version: 11.6.1.2 (2023-02-09)
- fix bug blocking hotkeys unexpectedly
- when exporting or importing settings, support environment variables and QAP user variables in file path
Version: 11.6.1.1 (2023-02-04)
- fix bug breaking the use of tabs in Win 11 Explorer since the roll-out of Windows 11 build 22621.1105 (started Jan 10 2023)
Version: 11.6.1 (2023-02-04)
Quick Launch
- when opening a favorite Folder from the Quick Launch box, change folder (navigate) if the window under the Quick Launch box is a file manager or dialog box
- new checkbox "Change folder in file manager and dialog boxes" under "Options, Customize Window" (default enabled); if disabled, folders are always open in a new Explorer window
- when the database is disabled, sort quick launch search result my Menu order
Various improvements
- expand placeholders inside User variables
- expand {SETTINGS_...} placeholder when parsing icon resource
- disable Submenus and Groups when all their items are disabled or hidden
- in menu label for Groups, show the number of items that are not disabled
Bug fixes
- fix bug to add AutoHotkey script files (extension .ahk) as Application favorite when adding them from a Windows Explorer context menu or using drag and drop to the Customize window
- new JLicons.dll file v1.6.5 fixing an error in v1.6.4 (user with PORTABLE installation must overwrite JLicons.dll in the working directory with the file in the ZIP file)
- fix some encoding issues in French language file
Version: 11.6 (2023-01-22)
Quick Launch
https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-quickly-search-qap-to-launch-one-of-my-favorites/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ibBAh9_Bsc
- a new quick way to launch your favorites: type a few characters and press Enter or double-click your item in the search result
- "Quick Launch" searches in the name of all the favorites in your QAP menu and in the content of your "Recent/Frequent Files" and "Recent/Frequent Folders"
- to show the "Quick Launch" box:
- for new installations: the feature is automatically added under the "My QAP Essentials" menu and is associated with the Shift+Control+Q keyboard shortcut
- IMPORTANT! users UPGRADING to v11.6 must add this feature to their menu (add a favorite of type "QAP Feature" and select the feature "Quick Launch")
- in both cases, the "Quick Launch" box can be open from the "Customize" window menu "Tools, Quick Launch"
- you can search one or more sequence of characters (for example "qui pop" to search items having "qui" AND "pop" in their name)
- "Quick Launch Options" under "Options, Customize window"
- a checkbox to use "Extended search" to search in all properties instead of only in the favorite name (default is disabled)
- checkbox to include or not "Recent/Frequent" menus items in "Quick Launch" search results (default is checked)
- the initial height of "Quick Launch" window (default is 10 rows)
- set the order of "Quick Launch" search result by "Usage" (default sort order), by "Favorite name" or by "Menu order"
- the "Quick Launch" box is displayed...
- always on top and is closed automatically when you select an item in the search result, when you click the Close button or when you hit Escape
- initially at the center of the main monitor and is afterward displayed at its last location (if the box ever becomes invisible, for example, after a change of monitors configuration, it can be centered again on the main monitor using the menu "Tools, Restore 'Quick Launch' window position")
- Alternative menu features
- show the "Alternative menu" in "Quick Launch" by right-clicking an item or using the "Alternative menus" modifiers hotkeys (see "Options, Alternative Menu Hotkeys")
- features supported are "Edit a Favorite", "Copy a Favorite Path or URL" (or snippet content), "Run as administrator" and "Open the Containing folder"
Placeholders
https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-insert-values-in-favorites-location-or-parameters-using-placeholders/
- {Menu:...} placeholder replaced with the selected item in a popup menu
- {Menu:text1|text2|text3} show a menu with the specified items
- menu text can be preceed with a short label and the tilde (~) separator, for example {Menu:label1~long or multiline text|label2~another item|...} if text is long or includes line breaks
- for better readability in the "Edit favorite" dialog box, the labels can include line breaks and tabs (that will not be displayed in the menu)
- make the first menu item bold when it has a label but no content (to make it look like a title)
- {RandomText:...} and {RandomNumber:...} placeholders replaced with random text, random integer or random floating point numbers
- {RandomText:text1|text2|text3} is replaced with one of the three pieces of text (for example, {RandomText:Today|Tomorrow|One of these days})
- {RandomNumber:x|y} is replaced with an integer number between integers x and y (for example, {RandomNumber:5|10})
- {RandomNumber:x|y|n} is replaced with a floating point number between x and y with n decimals (for example, {RandomNumber:0.5|1.49|2}
- {GUID} placeholder replaced with a GUID (Globally Unique ID) of 32 hex digits (128-bit)
- {SETTINGS_LOC}, {SETTINGS_DIR}, {SETTINGS_DRIVE}, etc. placeholders replaced with the path (or part of the path) of the QAP Settings ini file
Hotkeys exclusion
https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-block-the-qap-keyboard-shortcuts-if-they-interfere-with-one-of-my-apps/
- under "Options, Launch Advanced Options", add an option to disable/enable ("exclude" or "include only") all QAP keyboard shortcuts (favorites shortcuts, Main and Alternative menus shortcuts and Alternative menus features shortcuts)
High DPI screens
- new hires images for QAP dialog boxes ("Customize", "Welcome" and "Startup Tips") for better display results on high DPI screens (hires images are used when resolution is 144 DPI or higher)
- in "Add Favorite - Select Type" dialog box, fix icons alignement on both regular and high DPI screens, and make these icons clickable
Bug fixes
- fix bug when opening a folder in Windows 11 Explorer when active tab is not the first tab
- fix bug when a macro Snippet is calling another QAP favorite using its hotkey
- prevent editing dynamic menu items with the Alternative menu feature "Edit favorite"
- fix bug when using drag and drop to move favorites in the Customize window when the database usage stats are displayed
Various improvements
- new JLicons.dll file v1.6.4 (user with PORTABLE installation must overwrite JLicons.dll in the working directory with the file in the ZIP file)
- merge dark mode beta options in "Options, Customize Window" and "Options, Menu Appearance" into a new official option under "Options, General", default to true
https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/does-qap-support-windows-dark-mode/
- force QAP theme to "Windows" when dark mode is enabled in QAP and active in Windows
- in the "Customize" window, you can now search one or more sequence of characters (for example "qui pop" to search items having "qui" AND "pop" in their name)
- new option to expand environment variables in a snippet, in "Add favorite", type "Snippet", "Advanced Settings" tab
- in "Special Folders", add "Environment Variables" under the "Power User" section
- add the QAPmessenger command "ShowMenuDynamic" to display QAP Feature dynamic menus ("Recent/Frequent Folders", "Current Windows", "TC Directory Hotlist", "DOpus Favorites", etc.); menus must be present in the QAP menu
- when gathering usage statistics, consider "Parameters" (in favorites "Advanced options") to distinguish favorites (before this change, favorites with the same location but with different parameters were counted together)
- French, Italian, Korean, German, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese language files update
Version BETA: 11.5.99.9 (2023-01-15)
- add icons to "Quick Launch" to items in search result
- make sure the width of the "Quick Launch" box does not exceed the right end of the monitor
- in "Quick Launch", show items found in "Recent/Frequent Documents" before "Recent/Frequent Folders"
- fix bug when opening a folder in Windows 11 Explorer when active tab is not the first tab
Version: 11.5.10 (2022-11-07)
- when running on Windows 11 22H2 (build 22621.675 released October 18 or more recent) and preferred file manager is Windows Explorer:
- add in "Options, File Managers" a checkbox to open folders in a new tab of active (or last used) Windows Explorer instead of in a new Explorer window
- change method to navigate folder in the active tab using internal Windows object (change not visible to user)
- fix bug enclosing document path in double-quotes if path includes .com or .exe followed by space, also fixing bug when using the "Launch with" option in some situations
- speed up pasting of URL in browser when opening a Link favorite to change page (navigating) in current browser
- fix some French language encoding errors and a typo in Russian language file
Version: 11.5.9 (2022-10-27)
- support for Windows Explorer with tabs new in Win 11 22H2 (build 22621.675 released October 18) to change folder in the active tab
- when adding multiple favorites (under "Favorite" menu) from a folder, get all properties from shortcut (.lnk) files: icon, working dir, arguments and window state
- increase the reliability of Link favorites when navigating a browser a new page with option "Always open Links in new tab or window" disabled (in "Options, Various Advanced Options")
- fix bug to support "Add Active Folder or Web page Express" when called from Tray menu (QAP icon in notification zone)
- fix the "Rigth Shift" typo (unnoticed since Oct. 2019!)
- use new code signing certificate (thanks to donors for their help sharing the expense!)
Version: 11.5.8.2 (2022-09-08)
Thanks to all users who contributed on Indiegogo or Paypal to my campaign for the renewing of the software certificate that makes Quick Access Popup available for free in complete confidence and safety!
- fix bug introduced in v11.5.8 activating by error the last focused window when using QAPmessenger
- fix bug when cancelling a change in the "Change hotstring" dialog box from the "Manage hotstrings" list
- Dutch language file update
- v11.5.8.2 fixes a last minute bug in v11.5.8.1
Version: 11.5.8 (2022-08-29)
Dynamic menu exclusions/inclusions
- in "Options", rename the section "Menu Exclusions" to "Menu Exclusions/Inclusions" to control the content of "Recent Folders", "Recent Files", "Frequent Folders", "Frequent Files" and "Current Windows" dynamic menus
- in this section, add radio buttons "Exclude" (default) and "Include only" to determine if the "Folders", "Files" and "Current Windows" criterias are used to remove ("Exclude") items or to select the only items to add to the menu ("Include only")
- for "Current Windows" add a dropdown list of running applications to help adding one of the running apps to the criteria
- see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-filter-out-items-in-current-windows-recent-or-frequent-menus/
Navigate in browsers
- when launching a Link favorite when the QAP menu is open over a browser window, navigate the current browser tab to this URL instead of opening the link in a new tab
- supported browsers are Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Edge
- you need to enable this option in "Options, Various Advanced Options" by disabling the new checkbox "Always open Links in new tab or window"
- see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/how-do-i-add-favorite-link-url-to-my-menu/
Reopen menu after launching items
- in Add/Edit favorite "Basic" tab for Menu items, add the option "Reopen this menu after launching items"
- select "Close this menu" if you don't need to open another favorite from this menu
- this option also applies to Group items having the option "Also display this group in a submenu"
- see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/how-can-i-gather-numerous-favorites-in-a-clutter-free-popup-menu/
Various
- fix bug with the QAP Messenger "NavigateFromMsg" not navigating folders in Explorer or links in browsers
- fix some encoding errors in italian language file
- update to French, German, Italian, Korean and Portuguese Brazilian language files for v11.5.8
Version: 11.5.7.1 (2022-07-13)
- support multiple files or folders selection using the Alternative menu features "Copy/Move the selected file to a favorite folder" (available with Windows Explorer, Windows Desktop and Directory Opus)
see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/what-are-the-power-menu-features/
- when opening the main menu, stop selecting the file or folder under the cursor and deselecting other items
- reverse to previous method of detecting dialog boxes (as in release v11.5.6) fixing issue with AutoCAD's (and possibly other software) dialog boxes
- keep the "Update Quick Access Popup?" dialog box open if user clicks "See change log" or "Visit web site" buttons
- fix bug when the folder or file location includes ".com " (.com followed by a space) or ".exe " (as in c:\something.com etc\file.txt)
- when using an Alternative menu features, stop showing confirmation dialog box for document having the "Launch with" option "{ActiveWindow}"
Version: 11.5.7 (2022-05-25)
Move or Copy Selected file/folder
- add QAP Features "Move Selected File" and "Copy Selected File" available in the Alternative menu
About Alternative menu, see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/what-are-the-power-menu-features/
- add Alternative menu features "Move Selected File" and "Copy Selected File" to "Options, Alternative Menu Hotkeys"
About Alternative menus hotkeys, see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-launch-alternative-menu-features-directly-from-the-regular-popup-menu/
Menu Icons
- add a new option under "Options, Menu Icons" to set "Document Default Icons Replacements"; default document icons are used in QAP dynamic menus (like "Recent Files"), in the "Manage Icons" window and as default icons for new Document favorites; they are normally configured in Windows but you can now override them with your list of custom icons; each custom icon is associated to documents type(s) by their file extension(s), for example "txt=c:\my_icons\text_icon.png"; you can specify multiple extensions separated with "+", for example "xlsx+xlsm=c:\my_icon\excel_icon.png"
About Document default icons, see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-use-my-own-documents-icons-instead-of-those-configured-in-windows/
- get Link (URL) favorites default icon from the entry in the Windows Registry for the default browser configured in Windows (instead of using the icon associated to the html file extension)
- in "Options, Menu Icons" the "QAP Icon Replacements" list now support image file (.png, .bmp, .gif, .jpg)
- new option under "Options, Menu Icons" to set an "Icons custom folder"; this folder is open using a link in the "Select Icon" dialog box
- in "Tools, Manage Icons" dialog box, calculate the number of rows considering the screen scaling (making obsolete the "Manage Icons number of rows", now moved to "Various Advanced Options")
- in the "Manage Icons" dialog box, make the "Previous" and "Next" buttons easier to access by moving them to the center on each side of the "Close" button
Placeholders
- process placeholders in the "Launch with" property of Documents, URLs and FTP favorites
- new placeholder "{ActiveWindow}" allowing, for example, to open a text file in the active editor when the "Launch with" field of a document contains "{ActiveWindow}"; QAP asks for confirmation before launching the active app
About ActiveWindow placeholder, see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-insert-values-in-favorites-location-or-parameters-using-placeholders/#activewindow
- when a Snippet or other favorites contains an {Input:...} placeholder, abort the execution if the input is cancelled or returned empty
Various
- Custom Hotkeys: in "Change shortcut" dialog box, add link to enter a hotkey code or a scan code (SCnnn) manually
About keyboard shortcuts, see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-launch-my-favorites-with-keyboard-or-mouse-shortcuts/
- Close Menu: if the "Add Close to menu" option is enabled (in "Options, Menus Appearance"), add the "Close menu" item to menus that can be open with a shortcut or a hotstring
About the Close menu, see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/what-is-the-close-menu-issue/
- QAP Messenger "LaunchFavorite": when launching a favorite from QAPmessenger, detect the last active file manager window and use its location to expand the "current location" placeholders (e.g. {CUR_LOC})
- QAP Features: prevent changing the name of the QAP Features "Repeat Last Action" and "Repeat Last Actions" menu to avoid issues caused by some code relying on their unchanged name
- Adding File Shortcuts: in "Add Multiple Favorites", when adding file shortcuts (.lnk files) from a folder, add the extracted location instead of location of the shortcut (processing file shortcut properties, like its icon, is not supported at this time)
- in "Add Favorite - Select type" dialog box and "Add Multiple Favorites" dialog boxes, replace buttons to navigate between these two dialog boxes with more discrete links
- File Dialog Boxes: new code to detect file dialog boxes (please report issues if QAP can't change folder in some file dialog boxes)
- language files updated for French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese and Korean
Version: 11.5.6 (2022-03-14)
Date-time placeholders
- in placeholders support new format {Now:ld} for last day of the month
- support date calculation with syntax {Now[sign][value pairs]:[format]}, where:
- [sign] is "+" or "-"
- [valu pairs] is one or more pairs of a number and a unit identified by one of the letters "smhdMy" (case sensitive) for seconds, minutes, hours, days, months or years
- for example "{Now+1d:yyyy-MM-dd}" for tomorrow, "{Now-1y6M:yyyy-MM-dd}" for a date 1.5 year ago or "{Now+3h30m:HH:mm}" for in 1.5 hour from now
- see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-insert-values-in-favorites-location-or-parameters-using-placeholders/#datetimecalc
Bug fix
- fix bug in open group with group in menu option if launch width property is "0" instead of empty (very, very rare situation)
- fix bug in url having arguments
Version: 11.5.5 (2022-02-28)
Groups
- in "Edit Favorite" dialog box, "Basic Settings" tab, add a checkbox to "Also display this group in a submenu"
- when a favorite of type "Group" has this new option enabled, clicking the group item shows a popup menu including the group members, allowing to launch them individually, and an additional entry to "Launch all items" to open all group members
- at this time, this group menu is "detached" from the main menu
Various improvements
- fix bug in Total Commander when using an item from the TC Hotlist
- if there is no target path, the folder is open on the configured side (Active, Left, Right or Destination)
- if there is target path in the TC Hotlist, open the folder on the active pane and the target path on the destination pane
- for Directory Opus users, when opening a folder on a Windows virtual desktop, QAP now detects if DOpus is already running in this virtual desktop before launching a new DOpus instance
- in "Edit Favorite" dialog box for Snippets, in "Advanced Settings" tab, add a checkbox "Never prompt for this snippet", to be used when a snippet does not require an application window to be active when it is launched
- disable the "Edit" entry in "Customize" window context menus when there are more than one item selected
- in "Options, Popup Menu", replace the application inclusion/exclusion language with more appropriate vocabulary
- language files translation for v11.5.4 and 11.5.5
- updated version of AutoHotkey runtime v1.1.33.10
Version: 11.5.4 (2022-01-18)
Autoexecutable favorites or groups
- add the "Launch at startup" option on "Basic tab" of the "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box for all types of favorites including "Groups" (except "Text Separator" and individual group members)
- press the Shift key while launching QAP to bypass the autoexecution of these favorites
- in "Tools, Special Searches", add a new item "Search Favorites Launched at Startup"
- see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-launch-a-favorite-or-group-of-favorites-at-qap-startup/
Launch QAP favorites from the command line
- add the command "LaunchFavorite" to QAPmessenger tat launches the favorite specified in the second parameter (between double-quotes)
- for example, if the favorite "FavName" is in the Main menu, launch it with: C:\...\QAPmessenger.exe LaunchFavorite "> FavName"
- if the favorite "FavName" is in a submenu, launch it with: C:\...\QAPmessenger.exe LaunchFavorite "> SubMenu1 > SubMenu2 > FavName"
- if the favorite name includes ampersand (like "&FavName" or "FavName && Co.c"), make sure you enter them as they appear in the Favorite name
- See: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-display-the-qap-menu-from-the-command-line-or-from-a-batch-file/
Total Commander and Directory Opus side options
- the following changes are for users who selected "Directory Opus" (DOpus) or "Total Commander" (TC) in "Options, File Managers"
- add an option in "Options, File Managers" to open favorites of type "Folder" or "Special Folder" in the "Destination" pane
- when opening a "Group", add two options to open favorites of types "Folder" or "Special Folder" in the "Active side" or the "Destination" side
- fix an "infinite loop" bug when opening a group in TC when it contains a Special folder (like "My Computer")
- in "Options, File managers", when the option "the current TC/DOpus tab" is selected under "File manager preferences", disable the irrelevant options "Use tabs instead of opening a new window" and the side options below this checkbox
Total Commander Directory Hotist
- when opening a folder from the QAP Feature "TC Directory Hotlist", open the folder in the active pane and, if specified in WinCmd.ini, open the "Target path" in the target pane
- note: TC commands like cm_OpenDesktop or cm_OpenDrives are currently not supported in QAP TC Directory Hotlist (these entries are skipped in the "TC Directory Hotlist" menu)
Various bug fixes and improvements
- fix issue when calling the "Always on top" QAP Feature from the popup menu on an Explorer.exe window
- after executing the "Always on top" command, add a confirmation popup when turning it "On" or when the command fails
- fix a bug when positioning a secondary dialog box when the main window is maximized or close to top-right of a screen
- Italian language file update
Version: 11.5.3.1 (2021-12-21)
- fix bug introduced in v11.5.3 expanding by error environment variables (like %windir%) in snippets content
- in the "Select favorite type" dialog box, fix bug adding a favorite of the type previously selected user click Continue without having selected a type
LAST CALL - IMPORTANT NOTE TO USERS OF VERSIONS v11.0 to v11.4
Quick Access Popup v11.0 to v11.4 will STOP WORKING when the QAP license server will be shut down on December 31st, 2021. Since v11.5, Quick Access Popup reverted to the free software model and a license is not required anymore. The free version contains no limitation, no donation popup window or "Support this software" menu item like the previous free releases. To avoid any inconvenience, upgrade to QAP v11.5+ immediately here: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/download-quick-access-popup/.
Version: 11.5.3 (2021-11-30)
Settings file (quickaccesspopup.ini)
- prevent the error message "An error occurred while reading this settings file" displayed when QAP tries to load incomplete settings files
- instead, QAP will revert to the previous favorites list and inform the user that the last saving was incomplete
- now make an internal backup of the [Favorites] section of the ini file even when the size of the section is larger than 65532 chars
- more info: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/qap-stops-loading-with-an-error-message-what-can-i-do/
Screen scaling
- in various QAP windows, adapt buttons centering on screens with scaling (under Windows 10: Settings, Ease of Access, Display) often used by users with High-DPI screens
- more info: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/why-are-buttons-icons-so-small-in-the-settings-window/
Bug fixes
- fix bug when user variable content includes an equal (=) sign
- fix a bug preventing loading of a new language file when language is changed immediately after installation
- fix bug in Customize window showing bold text (labels and listview) by error in dark mode
Other improvements
- expand environment variables (like %windir%) in favorites parameters (a new ini value "ExpandEnvVarsInParameters=0" allows to disable expansion if required)
- add an option under "Various Advanced Options" to keep file extension when setting the "Short name" for a Document or an Application favorite
- new JLicons.dll file v1.6.3 including icons for a new project to be announced (user of the portable version must replace the previous JLicons.dll file)
- addition of Russian language in the setup program
- Russian translation file update
Version: 11.5.2.1 (2021-11-10)
- fix a bug when launching an URL or Document favorite with values in both "Launch with" and "Parameters" fields
Version: 11.5.2 (2021-11-04)
Windows 10 Dark mode compatibility (beta)
https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showthread.php?tid=1763
- new dark mode option for menus under "Options, Menu appearance" (requires Windows 10 version 1903/build 18362 or more recent)
- new dark mode option for "Customize" window under "Options, Customize" (only for the "Customize" window at this time, not other QAP dialog boxes)
- display dark mode "Customize" window and menus if Windows 10 dark mode for apps option is enabled in Windows Settings (Personalization, Colors)
- dark mode compatibility options are released as a "beta" options and could be changed or removed based on users feedback
- known issue: menus including column breaks do not support dark mode
Customize window - Drag and drop
- fix bug in the favorites list when using drag and drop to move more than one favorite at a time
- support drag and drop of multiple favorites with contiguous selection (with Shift+Click) or non-contiguous selection (with Ctrl+Click)
Debugging Placeholders and User variables
https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-insert-values-in-favorites-location-or-parameters-using-placeholders/#debugging
- add under "Options, Various Advanced Options" an option to display or not the debug option in "Add/Edit Favorites", "Basic Settings" tab
- when launching a favorite with debug option enabled, display a dialog box with the location, parameters and start in option with placeholders and user variables expanded
- debug option is available for Folders, Documents, Applications, Links, FTP sites and Snippets (text and macro)
Reusable Input placeholders
https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-insert-values-in-favorites-location-or-parameters-using-placeholders/#input
- when pasting a favorite with a placeholder {Input:Prompt}, place the content entered by the user in a temporary user variable named based on the Input's prompt (e.g. for "{Input:Email?}, the variable name is "{Email?})
- this temporary user variable allows to re-use the content entered by the user more than once in the current favorite
Version: 11.5.1 (2021-10-25)
Live Folders
https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-a-submenu-be-updated-live-with-the-content-of-a-folder/
- in "Edit favorite" dialog box, "Live Folders" tab
- add a checkbox "Exclude folders" when "Include documents" is selected (if there are multiple levels of folders, folders are excluded only in the deepest level)
- support wildcards (* and ?) and regular expressions (in addition to a list of extensions) to specify which documents to "Include/Exclude" in Live Folders
- enter extensions separated by spaces (for example "bak bk")
- or wildcards expressions separated by spaces ("*.bak "my file??.ext" *copy*.*")
- or enter a regular expression with "Regex:"
- add a dropdown list to select "Size of icons" in the Live Folders:
- select a custom size (from 16 to 64 pixels)
- inherit the size from the parent menu
- use the default size from "Options, Menu Icons" dialog box
- choose to display no icon in this menu
Groups
https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-launch-a-group-of-favorites-in-one-click/
- new option "Launch and wait" to enter a delay (in milliseconds) to wait after a favorite in a group is launched before launching the next favorite in the group
- for favorite if type "Application" in a group:
- new option "Wait until the program finishes" before launching the next favorite in the group
- new option "Stop in case of error" to interrupt group opening if an application favorite returns a non-zero error code (show an error message if group opening was stopped)
- new option to launch the application in a "Minimized" window
- for favorites included in a group, rename the "Menu Options" tab to "Group Member Options"
- increase the optional delay after each group member to a maximum of 999,999,999 ms (167 minutes)
Various
- add icons in "Add Favorite Type" dialog box
- in "Edit Favorite" dialog box for "Link" favorites, under the "Menu Options" tab, add the text box "Enter favicon.ico URL"
- when opening a "Document" favorite, if the location does not exist, offer to edit the favorite
- fix bug adding an undesired character at the end of snippets in some situations
- fix bug not opening folder on the specified side when opening a folder with Total Commander
- French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean and Dutch language files update
Version: 11.5.0.1 (2021-09-26)
Directory Opus:
- when creating the DOpus "Favorites" and "Layouts" menus in QAP, support "shared" and "portable" DOpus installations (in addition to the default "private" setup)
- when first running QAP, check if DOpus is installed by looking at the Windows registry (instead of looking the "Program Files" folder)
Various additions and bug fixes
- fix broken link to the website in QAP Startup Tips
- for new installations, show a welcome dialog box; add menu item "Show welcome window again" under the "Help" menu
- add menu item "Make a donation" under the "Help" menu
- update license text for freeware model
- Dutch translation update
Version: 11.5 (2021-09-06)
- QAP returns to FREEWARE/donorware model
- remove license validation and various license related menu items or labels
- remove donation/get license incentives in main menu and tray menu (QAP icon menu in notification zone)
- add a "Make donation" menu item under "Help" menu (linking to Paypal only for the moment)
- fix bug with the Check for update link in "Options, General" tab
- fix label error in "Options, File Managers" for Directory Opus options
Version: 11.4 (2021-09-01)
SUMMARY
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- Search and replace: search values in all the favorites of the selected types (folders, documents, applications, links, FTP sites and snippets) and replace these values (location or content, favorite name, icon resource or parameters fields) one at a time or all in one step.
see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-search-and-replace-values-globally-in-my-favorites/
- Special folders: new location codes for some Special Folders allowing to change their location in Windows without breaking the favorite (conversion of existing Special folder favorites is NOT backward compatible).
- Multiple improvements in: "Add Multiple Favorites" command, Total Commander support, "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box and Shared menus.
- Bug fixes: fix various unnoticed or rarely visible bugs in the "Customize" window, "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box, "Add Multiple Favorites" command, "Options" window, CMD/PowerShell support, Total Commander support and others.
IN DETAIL
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Search and replace
- new menu item "Search and replace" under the "Tools" menu
- new "Search and replace" dialog box to search and replace values in location or content, favorite name, icon resource or parameters fields
- select the types of favorites included in the search and replace command: Folder, Document, Application, Link (URL), FTP Site and Snippet
- in the "Confirmation" dialog box, indicate for each favorite if you want to:
- "Find next" favorite (skip this one)
- "Replace this favorite"
- "Replace all favorites" (all remaining favorites at once)
- or "Stop" to interrupt the search and replace command
- search starts from the menu currently in "Customize" window and covers all its submenus
- the new QAP feature "Search and replace" under the "QAP Menu Editing" section allows to launch the command from your QAP menu
Special Folders
- internal change (in the Settings file) to use new location codes for some Special Folders, allowing to change their location in Windows without breaking the favorite
- Special Folders updated are: Common Desktop, Common Start Menu, Common Startup Menu, Desktop, Downloads, History, My Music, My Video, Pictures, Programs Folder (Start Menu), Public Folder, Public Libraries, Quick Launch, Recent Items, Start Menu, Startup, Templates, Temporary Files and Windows directory
- replace existing Special Folders favorite's locations with the new codes *** Take note that this conversion is NOT backward compatible. If you need to revert to an older version of QAP, the location for the updated Special Folders will not be recognized in the older version. They will show as "* Unknown Special Folder *" (with a random number to make the menu entry unique) and you will have to re-create these Special Folders entries.
- before saving favorites after this conversion, QAP creates a backup named QuickAccessPopup-HOME-backup-special_folders-[date and time].ini
- when a desktop.ini hidden file is found in a Special Folder, QAP uses the localized name and the icon defined in this file
- two new Special Folders items "Send To" and "System32"
Welcome dialog box
- a new more friendly "Welcome" dialog box is shown at the first QAP launch
- it includes buttons to "Save license code or to "Try the free version" and a link to the "QAP First Steps" video
Add Multiple Favorites
- when loading favorites from a "QAP Settings file (flat view)", load all item's properties (parameters, etc.), not only name and location
- when adding from "Special Folder" list, stop showing the codes in the "Content" column and show their default names instead
- when loading favorites from a "QAP Settings file (tree view)", fix a bug when adding an item in an existing submenu, stop creating a duplicate submenu
Customize window
- fix a bug not updating correctly the menu navigation buttons up/back/forward when the "Customize" window is open from a "Customize" menu item in the QAP menu not located in the Main menu
- in the favorites list, fix a bug not enabling the "Save" button if moving a favorite by continuously pressing the up/down button until the top/bottom of the list is reached
- in the "Select icon" and "Manage icons" dialog box, replace the next/previous text button with arrow buttons and remove duplicate "Cancel" buttons in "Select icon"
- fix a bug when showing the "Customize" window from an external command and when the previous content of the favorites list was a search result
- fix a bug in favorites list when using drag and drop to move an item and dropping it beyond the first or last item of the list, sometimes causing an "empty favorite name" error
- add the menu item "Share QAP" under "Help" menu to open QAP website referrer page
Add/Edit Favorite dialog box
- for Application favorites, stop updating the short menu name when the location is changed; update the name only when the location is changed using the "Running applications" dropdown list
- when adding or editing a favorite in a sorted menu, in the menu options tab, fill the position dropdown list with the read-only message "menu sorted automatically"
- when getting the name for a regular favorite folder, check if we can get it from a desktop.ini hidden file, else continue as before and use the last part of the path
- fix a bug when trying to open a favorite not found after user selected to edit the favorite
Options
- in "Options, Alternative Menu Hotkeys", rename the button "Reset default modifiers" to "Reset to saved modifiers" (to restore modifiers to their currently saved value) and add a new button "Reset to default modifiers" (to reset the modifiers to their default value)
- fix a display bug when opening the "Popup Menu" tab using the link "excluded applications" under the "Popup Hotkeys" tab
Shared menus
- create backups for Shared menus ini file (one per day for the last five days)
- the backup is created in the same folder as the Shared menu file except if a value "BackupFolder=" is found under the "[Global]" section of the Shared menu settings file
File managers
- in "Total Commander Directory hotlist", support the hide menu character for submenus
- fix bug when the "Total Commander Directory hotlist" is saved in a redirected file
- add support for One Commander in QAPconnect file managers
- add the most recent QAPconnect-default.ini file to QAP Settings folder if a QAPconnect.ini file already exists
- fix a bug when changing the folder in a CMD, PowerShell, ConEmu or Terminal windows and when the file manager preferences is set to "open in the current Windows Explorer window" (or "the current tab")
Various issues
- "Icons larger than expected" issue in the "Select icons" and "Manage icons" dialog boxes: try to solve this intermittent and infrequent issue by setting the size of the icons again when changing page
- "Menu keyboard focus issue": after the change in v11.3.0.1 trying to fix this intermittent issue, add a new option in the Settings file that determines if the mouse move is done or not; this option must be inserted in the ini file under the [Global] section, as "MovePointerAfterHotkeyKeyboard=1" to do the mouse move (else, the situation is as in v11.3 and before)
- "201 hotkeys have been received in the last 0ms": intermittent and infrequent issue that seems to be caused by the change in v11.3.0.1 for the previous issue; not inserting the value "MovePointerAfterHotkeyKeyboard=1" (or setting it to 0) seems to resolve this issue
Language updates
- Italian, Russian, German, French, Korean, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese language translation for search and replace
Version: 11.3.0.1 (2021-05-25)
- revert some changes done in v11.3 under the title "Retrieve icon automatically for favorite links":
- stop loading the web page title and the web site favicon together in the same command (you can retreve the favicon under the "Menu options" tab);
- prevent disabling favorite name text box when retrieving the web page title;
- retrieve web page title and website icon using HTTP requests as before v11.3 (until additional testing of the new commands using asynchronous HTTP requests)
- change menu labels under "Tools" menu to "Manage hotkeys", "Manage hotstrings" and "Manage icons"
- mitigate the "menu keyboard focus issue" (probably caused by Windows) by moving the mouse pointer at the menu position when the menu is open with a keyboard shortcut
- fix minor bug when retrieving the icon of a favorite document in dynamic menus (like "Recent Files")
Version: 11.3 (2021-05-11)
In short:
- Custom icons size for each submenu
- Improved "Select Icon" dialog box
- Retrieve website icons automatically for favorites links (favicon)
- Shortened long paths in "Recent..." and "Frequent..." menus
- Tips and tricks shown when you launch QAP
* You must see this new video about improvements in menu icons! *
* https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/beautiful_menus-c4u *
Menu Icons Size
- allow to set custom menu icons size for each submenu
- for each menu, a new dropdown list in the "Menu Options" tab of the "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box, allows to:
- select a custom size (from 16 to 64 pixels) for this menu
- inherit the size from the parent menu
- use the default size from "Options, Menu Icons" dialog box
- choose to display no icon in this menu
- the Main menu always has the default icon size
Menu Icons Selection
- improve the "Select Icon" dialog box when selecting an icon for a favorite
- support for image files (*.png, *.bmp, *.gif, *.jpg) in addition to previously supported icon files (*.dll, *.exe, *.ico, *.ocx, *.cpl)
- image file (*.png, *.bmp, *.gif, *.jpg) must be square and between 16x16 and 64x64 pixels
- support keyboard navigation and selection of menu icons
- move links to select banks of icons in dll files (JLicons.dll, Shell32.dll and ImageRes.dll) from the "Edit Favorite" dialog box to the "Select Icon" dialog box
- in the "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box, "Menu Options" tab, fix a bug if user hits Cancel in "Edit icon resource" dialog box
Startup tips
- tips and tricks shown when you launch QAP- you can choose the interval between tips in "Options, General" or you can browse them as you wish- each tip includes links to dialog boxes or Knowledge Base web pages
Customize window
- keep moving items in favorites list when holding the mouse click on "Up" and "Down" arrow buttons in "Customize" window
Retrieve icon automatically for favorite links
- a new button to retrieve the web site icon (favicon) and assign it to the added or edited favorite (replacing the existing icon if it has one)
- website icon images are saved in the folder "icons" under the QAP working directory (it is created the first time if it did not exist)
- when adding or editing a favorite of type "Link", rename the button "Get title" to "Get title and icon" and retrieve both
- retrieve website icon and webpage title using asynchronous HTTP requests with a timeout after 10 seconds (each) avoiding hanging QAP if the website does not respond
Various
- added a new option in "Options, Menu Appearance" to shorten long paths in "Recent Folders", "Recent Files", "Frequent Folders" and "Frequent Files" menus
- for new installations, under the "In the Works" submenu, move the "Recent Folders" and "Recent Files" menus to the top
- in the "Free Edition", limit "Frequent Folders", Frequent Files", "Recent Folders" and "Recent Files" menus to 5 enabled items
- add two QAP Features "Current Folders" and "Current Applications" to show only open folders or only running applications as an alternatives to the "Current Windows" menu that shows both (add a favorite of type "QAP Feature" and select the category "Dynamic Menus")
- when building a menu, prevent the unexpected situation where a favorite would not have a short name for the menu by giving it a temporary name
Translation
- French, Italian, Spanish, German, Korean, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Chinese language files updates
- fix encoding errors in some translation files
Again, don't miss this new video about improvements in menu icons!
https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/beautiful_menus-c4u
Version: 11.2.0.3 (2021-03-09)
Help friends and colleagues discover the benefits of QAP with this 2 minutes video:
https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/save_clicks-c4u
Bug fixes in this maintenance release
- fix bug showing sometimes wrong content in the "Customize" window when it was open using a shortcut
- fix bug in snippets causing the ending character wrongly added when pasting the snippet using a shortcut or the menu
- when the selected language is other than English, fix bug showing the translation of "None" in the startup tip if user selected no mouse or no keyboard hotkey for the QAP menu
Version: 11.2.0.2 (2021-02-07)
Bug fix
- fix bug when a menu with automatic sorting includes an item with a pipe (|) character in its name
Improvements
- after saving with "Add Active Folder or Web Page Express", avoid showing briefly the Customize window
- do not add an hotstring ending key to snippets when the option "Do not wait for Ending key" is enabled
- Russian translation for v11.2.x
Version: 11.2 / 11.2.0.1 (2021-02-01)
Special Searches
- add the submenu "Special Searches" under the "Tools" menu and move the "Search All Favorites" under this menu
- add the "Search Folders, Documents or Applications not found" menu item under "Special Searches"
- add the "Search Broken Favorites Links (404)" menu item under "Special Searches"; display progress info while searching for broken links
Drag and Drop
- in the "Customize" window, items can now be moved up or down in a menu using Drag & Drop (thanks to LV_Rows class from Rodolfo U. Batista aka Pulover)
- to move a favorite above or below the visible list, drag the mouse over or above the list to scroll its content
Free Edition
- when executed without a license (or with an expired or invalid license), QAP runs with the following limitations:
- the total number of items in the menu cannot exceed 75 items;
- the total number of items inside Live Folder menus is limited to 50 items;
- only one Shared Menu can be included in the menu.
- at its first launch, QAP shows information about limitations (user with a license can select "Help, Manage your license" to save their license)
- items exceeding the limits will be disabled
- the dialog box about limitations is also shown when at least one limit is exceeded
- when running in Free mode, the tag "Free" is added to the version number in QAP window title
Improvements
- Saving favorites: optimize saving time by showing a "wait" cursor instead of showing the submenu currently processed
- Placeholders: improve retrieving the selected file or folder for the {SEL...} placeholders
- Licensing: improve dialog box message when installing a new license and deleting previous license info; for subscription licenses, show license expiration date in "About" dialog box
- Check for update: in the dialog box show only the download button for the current installation (Easy Setup or Portable ZIP)
- Changing folder in a dialog box: improve changing folder in applications having more that one text field in the "Open" or "Save As" dialog boxes (technical note: when identifying the Edit control used to change folder, use the control having the focus if it is an Edit control, else use the control "Edit1" as before; this fixes an issue in UltraEdit and other app's file dialog boxes)
- "About" dialog box: redesign the "About Quick Access Popup" dialog box and add credits for contributors
Bug fixes
"Customize" window:
- fix bug when showing hand cursor when the mouse hovers some of the window buttons
- fix a bug retrieving the web page title when adding a Link favorite using the command "Add Active Folder or Web Page Express"
- fix bug when moving favorites up or down in the list to also move the dates and stats columns content if the "Display dates and stats columns" option is enabled
- fix bug when saving the options after the maximum number of Live folder items was exceeded
- fix bug when selecting the "Customize" menu item from the QAP tray menu while the QAP main window is open with a search result
Launching favorites
- send hotstring ending character when executing a snippet in macro mode (except if the hotstring option "Omit the ending character when pasting snippets" is enabled)
- fix a bug retrieving the current location for {CUR...} placeholders when the current location is the Desktop
Startup
- fix bug causing error message at startup when Special folders locations was changed
Language update
- German, French, Korean, Portuguese, Brazilian-Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Deutsh language files language update for v11.2
- Spanish and Chinese language update for v11
- remove obsolete translations in Russian and Chinese language files
Version: 11.1 (2020-12-02)
Exclusions in Recent/Frequent menus
- see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-filter-out-items-in-current-windows-recent-or-frequent-menus
- add new section "Menu Exclusions" under the "Options" menu with zones for folders and files exclusions in "Recent" or "Frequent" menus
- move the "Current Windows Exclusions" option from "Various Advanced Options" to "Menu Exclusions"
- filter out items in "Recent Folders" and "Frequent Folders" if their path is under one of the items in the "Folder Exclusions" list of the "Menu Exclusions" options
- filter out items in "Recent Files" and "Frequent Files" if their path is under one of the items in "Folder Exclusions" or if their extensions is one of the items in "Files Exclusion" of the "Menu Exclusions" options
- support wildcards * and ? when filtering files and folder in "Frequent" and "Recent" menus
Add Multiple favorites / Import Favorites
- see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-add-multiple-favorites-in-one-click/
- add a new source in "Favorite, Add Multiple Favorites" named "QAP Settings File (tree view)" allowing to import favorites by selecting the menus or submenus to import
- this imports favorites of any types from the selected .ini file with all their properties
- rename existing source from "QAP Settings File (items)" to "QAP Settings File (flat view)" to distinguish it from the new source
- this new feature replaces the "Import Favorites" with a stronger validation against duplicate favorite names
- in "File, Import/Export Settings", disable the "Favorites" checkbox and add a button "Import Favorites" opening the "Add Multiple Favorites" dialog box with the source "QAP Settings File (tree view)"
Various improvements
- support comments in user variables list; any lines not starting with { is treated as a comment
- add the "Suspend Hotkeys" menu to QAP System menu (right-click on the QAP icon) and keep it under the "Tools" menu
- in the "Options, Customize Window" section, add the new checkbox "When saving a favorite, check if an existing favorite has the same location or content"
- when replacing an hotstring trigger with a snippet's content, by default keep the ending character (this is an new behaviour for existing snippets with hotstrings)
- add the hotstring option "Omit the ending character when pasting snippets" for situations where the user wants the ending character to be removed when pasting a snippet (applicable only to hotstrings for "Text Mode" snippets)
- when saving a favorite, if its location does not exist, offer to save the favorite anyway (default is No)
- when expanding user variables in locations or elsewhere, also expand environment variables embedded inside user variables
- do not open "Add/Edit Favorites" and other dialog boxes inside the "Customize" window while favorites are being saved (preventing save errors in some situations)
- in the "Add/Edit Favorites" for menu and shared menus, save space (needed when editing a shared menu) by moving the automatic sort options to a new dialog box
- display extended error codes in case of SQLite database error
Bug fixes
- fix bug to enable the "Save" button in "Add Multiple favorites" dialog box when selecting all items
- fix bug when adding multiple favorites in an empty destination menu
- fix bug when escaping the "Change Hotstring" dialog box and fix bug when loading favorites in "Manage Hotstrings" dialog box with "See all favorites" option enabled
- fix minor display bug and delete temporary files when cancelling the save license process
Language update
- German, Italian, Brazilian-Portuguese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese and French language files update
- Looking for translators to update Spanish and Russian language files
Version: 11.0.7.1 (2020-11-13)
- fix a bug introduced in v11.0.7 causing undesired items being added to the "Recent Folders" and "Frequent Folders" menus
- exclude applications in "Recent Files" and "Frequent Files" menus (revert to pre-v11.0.7 state)
Unwanted items in these menus will disappear by themselves after some time as new recent items will replace them. If you wish to remove them immediately, flush the QAP database (see menu "Options, Database"). Sorry for the inconvenience.
Version: 11.0.7 (2020-11-11)
Avoid delays caused by network drives offline
- see updates Network drive help page: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-create-favorites-on-network-drives/
- new option under "Options, Menu Advanced Options" to specify if network drives with UNC path ("\\...") or with drive letters can sometimes be offline (enabled by default)
- new option under "Options, Menu Advanced Options" to specify what drive letters are assigned to network drives that could be sometimes offline
- avoid an unexpected delays when refreshing dynamic menus by not checking if a file exist or if it has a custom icon for favorites saved on a network drive that can be offline (dynamic menus are: "Frequent Folders", "Frequent Files", "Recent Folders" and "Recent Files")
- when refreshing the "Drives" menu (under "My QAP Essentials"), avoid retrieving label and free space for drive letters assigned to network drives that can be offline
Other bug fixes or minor improvements
- fix bug when adding favorite from a submenu QAP feature like "Add Favorite - Special Folder" under "My Special Folders"
- include applications in "Recent Files" and "Frequent Files" menus
- under "Options, Various Advanced Options", in "Delays (in ms) during Snippet execution", make configurable a 4th delay executed after sending the snippet and before restoring the Clipboard, delay increased from 100 ms to 150 ms
Version: 11.0.6.1 (2020-10-31)
- fix a bug when saving the license in v11.0.6 released yesterday
- in "Add Multiple Favorites" dialog box, add a checkbox to select or deselect all rows
- fix bug always showing the "Cancel changes" dialog box in "Options" when active file manager is Total Commander
- when opening a menu from QAPmessenger, validate that the menu exists and display an error message if does not exist
- adjustments in the way QAP gets a unique system identifier for license management (may require for a small number of users to delete an obsolete code in the "Manage License" command - see https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showthread.php?tid=1256)
- add links to tutorial videos in "Help" menu and "Help" dialog box
- new option under "Advanced Menu Options" to "Show advanced Settings file menu items under the 'File' menu"
- update French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese language files
Version 11.0 SUMMARY
- new licensing system replacing the sponsor codes with various paid licenses and a free edition
*See the "License Help page" at: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/how-do-i-setup-or-manage-my-qap-license/
- add multiple favorites in one step: folders, documents, applications, Special Folders or QAP Features to a specified submenu or group
- improvements to: Customize window, Live folders, Windows Terminal support, Directory Opus and Total Commander support
License processing
- implement a new licensing system replacing the sponsor codes; new licenses are available for a modest price and a free edition is also available
(more info: https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showthread.php?tid=1208)
- when users launch QAP without a valid license, it displays the "Manage License" dialog box where users can get a license on QAP website or to enter their license they
- the "Help, Manage your license" menu in the "Customize" window allows to manage the license on QAP website (using a password sent when getting the license), remove installations, etc.
- the "About" dialog box now displays the license info with a link to copy the info to the Clipboard
- the new QAP feature "Manage License" allows to insert this feature anywhere in your QAP menu
- new license text in the "About" dialog box, setup file and portable zip file
Add Multiple Favorites
- a new menu "Favorite, Add Multiple Favorites" in the "Cuszomize" window allows to add various favorites to a menu or group in one step;
- multiple favorites sources are:
- add favorites folders or applications from the "Current Windows";
- add items from the "Recent Folders" or the "Recent Files";
- add items from the "Frequent Folders" or the "Frequent Files";
- add multiple QAP Features or Special Folders;
- add folders, documents or applications favorites from a selected folder;
- add any favporites from any QAP settings file.
- the list in the "Add Multiple Favorites" dialog box can be filtered by keywords or sorted
- optionally a checkbox excludes from the list the favorites already found in the QAP menu
Customize window
- right-click entries in the favorites list of the "Customize" window to open a contextual menu allowing to "Add", "Edit", "Remove", "Copy" or "Move" the selected favorite(s)
Live Folders
- in favorites folders with "Live folder" option enabled, the option "Refresh this Live Folder menu only with the command 'Refresh Live Folders'" will prevent refreshing this live folder menu each time the menu is refreshed
- allow "Live folder" option in favorite folders inside groups
Various improvements
- replace the old (an unfriendly) Windows "Select Folder" dialog box with a more workable dialog box (thanks to Flipeador) where the folder can be changed with the QAP menu
- for Directory Opus and Total Commander users, add an option in "Options, File Managers" section to set the default side (lister or pane) for new tabs to "Left" (or top), "Right" (or botton) or "Active side"
- add support for the Windows app "Windows Terminal" (with same features as for CMD command line or PowerShell)
- optimize the menu refresh when items are on an offline network drive (UNC)
- in portable ZIP file, update readme.txt file and merge Update_instructions.txt
Small bug fixes
- fix bug not removing the small status popup window when using the "Refresh Live Folders and Shared menus" command
- fix bug when saving changes to the properties of a Shared menu
Translation
- German, Italian, Portuguese-Brazil, Portuguese, Korean and French language files update for v11
Changes in v11.0.1
- adjustments to "About" and "Manage your license" dialog boxes
- Chinese language file updated for v11
- fix bug with Frequent menus in Korean language
Changes in v11.0.2
- fix bug when validating license on some systems (most probably only some Windows 7 versions)
- diagnostic code added for license validation
Changes in v11.0.3
- encode license code in quickaccesspopup.ini file to prevent copy of the code by end-users without the consent of the license buyer
- internal adjustments to license code management and installation count (requires re-saving licenses)
- fix bug (EDD bug?) in deactivate license (installation) trying first by adding / at the system unique id and, it it fails, with the id alone
- in Manage License dialog box, make Continue button default; in Save license code dialog box, make Save button default
- remove old forgotten "support this software" dialog box in portable version
- Dutch language file update
Changes in v11.0.4/v11.0.4.1
- private release for testing changes with selected users
Changes in v11.0.5
- fix bug getting the unique system id used to count the installations for a license (may require to remove obsolete installation codes on the website)
- remove irrelevant options and info from the "Manage your license" dialog box and add a link to the License help page
- add a link to the License help in the "Help, About" dialog box
- clarify language in "Save your license" and make the "Continue" button the default button (allowing to save the license by pressing Enter)
- Italian language file update
Version: 10.5.6 (2020-08-24)
- fix bug when selecting an .ico file in "Edit Favorite"
- fix error in startup message for sponsor users
Version: 10.5.5 (2020-08-12)
- in the "Sponsor this software" dialog box, add a button for credit cart sponsoring payment (as an alternative to PayPal)
- in Setup program final screen, add a checkbox for credit card sponsoring payment (as an alternative to PayPal)
- in "Edit Favorite", when changing folder location for a favorite already having a custom icon, preserve this icon except if the folder has a Windows custom icon configured (in desktop.ini)
- in "Edit Favorite", when selecting an icon, if the selected file is an .ico file, select the icon automatically (instead of showing a list of "one" icon)
- enable the "File, Save" and "File, Save & Close" menu items after changing shortcuts or hotstrings in the "Manage Shortcuts/Hotstrings" lists
- add a message to user if a moved or copied favorite has been renamed because a favorite with the same name existed in the destination menu
- in "Import/Export" dialog box, validate that the export destination folder exists and, if not, offer to create the destination folder (plus other minor improvements in this dialog box)
- fix internal bug when moving a group to another submenu
Version: 10.5.4 (2020-07-21)
- fix bug when loading the Alternative menus modifiers (default modifiers remained active even after they were changed in Options)
- add a button in "Options, Alternative Menu Hotkeys" to reset the default Alternative menu modifiers and an help link about Alternative menu modifiers
- fix bug with Directory Opus Favorites "Layouts" submenu
- stop opening the "Customize" window when double-clicking the QAP icon in the Notification zone
- fix bug in the installer when QAP working folder path included something between curly brackets {...}
Version: 10.5.3 (2020-07-11)
- fix bug to support favorite Link's "Parameters" option allowing, for example, to add the "-incognito" Chrome's parameter to open a window
- remove ending backslash of folders path when saving favorite folders them to settings file or to database, except if folder is a root like "C:\"
- also remove ending backslash when loading them from ini file (for folder saved before this release)
- fix bug when suggesting a favorite short name for menu when folder's path ends with backslash
- allow to edit or paste the icons file path when selecting a favorite's icon
- new JLicon.dll file v1.6.1 fixing wrong icon for live folders
(NOTE for portable version users: extract this icon file from the ZIP file and replace the previous one in QAP folder)
Version: 10.5.2 (2020-06-27)
- when adding a favorite, retrieve custom folder icon in hidden file desktop.ini if it exists
- for portable installation, check icons file JLicons.dll version and display error message if the file is outdated
- fix bug when adding an item from a QAP feature in submenu
- fix bug checking for duplicates when loading favorites
- fix bug when using the command "Restore Customize window position"
- fix bug when items in Total Commander Hotlist menu contain ampersand (&)
- when building TC Hotlist menu, disregard end of menu indicator ("--") in main menu (as TC tolerates this syntax error)
- fix internal bug when restoring favorites after user chacelled changes in the "Customize" window
Version: 10.5.1 (2020-06-19)
- when building Live folders, retrieve localized sub folders names (if it exists in desktop.ini file)
- when adding a folder and retrieving suggested "Short name for menu", retrieve localized sub folders name (if it exists in desktop.ini file)
- when checking for an update on QAP website, improve caching and error checking
- add diagnostic code when checking for a newer version (contact me on the forum if you experienced issues with the "Check for update" command not reporting a newer release)
- fix bug in "Sort" menus when selecting the "Customize Window Options" item
- fix bug causing an error message when disabling the "Display dates and stats" checkbox in "Options, Customize Window"
- fix other bugs when sorting menus
Version: 10.5 (2020-06-12)
Six new Windows Special Folders favorites
- new QAP Special Folders entries...
in "Basic" section: "Windows Search"
in "Power User" section: "Notification Area Icons", "Task Manager", "Disk Management"
in "Sysadmin" section: "Event Viewer" and
in "Hardware" section: "Computer Management"
- to use these new items, add them to your menu by adding a favorite of type "Special Folder" (https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/how-do-i-add-windows-special-folders-to-my-menu/)
Automatic sorting of submenus (in "Edit Favorite" dialog box for iems of types "Menu" or "Shared menu")
- new option allowing to automatically sort favorites in the menu
- sort by "Name", "Type", "Hotkey", "Location or content", "Created date", "Modified date" and, if the QAP database is enabled, by "Last used date" or "Usage" level
- for more info: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-sort-the-favorites-in-my-menu/
Open a subfolder automatically (in "Edit Favorite" dialog box, "Advanced Settings" tab)
- new option for favorites of type "Folder" to open automatically one of its subfolder based on its date
- open the most recently or most anciently created, modified or accessed subfolder
- for more info: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/what-are-the-advanced-options-for-favorite-folders/
Favorites list in Customize window
- in "Options, Customize Window", a new option to display additional columns in the favorites list: last modification date, creation date, last usage date and usage level (the same options also applies to the search result list)
- a new "Sort" button on the left side of the "Customize" window opens a popup menu allowing to sort the favorites in the displayed menu by any column (this does a one-time sorting in regular submenus or change the sort criteria in automatically sorted menus)
- in the "Sort" menu, two additional entries allow to edit the current menu and access the "Customize Window" options
- right-clicking in the favorites list, open the "Sort" menu allowing to sort the items or access the "Edit this menu" or "Customize Window Options" dialog boxes
Various bug fixes
- fix a bug in the installer (setup mode only) when checking for the Explorer context menu option
- when adding a favorite with the "Add Active Folder or Web page Express" command or with the context menu entries "Add Folder/File to QAP menu Express", make the ampersands "&" visibles automatically in favorite name by doubling them ("&&")
- fix bug when setting the submenu for items added from context menu entries "Add Folder/File to QAP menu Express" or other QAPmessenger commands
- fix bug updating the created date and last modified date when saving favorites and when converting UTC time to local time (and, at load time, fill the empty dates with current date-time for items that were not filled previously because of this bug)
Various improvements
- add support for ConEmu (a console emulator) similar to support for Windows Console (command line) and PowerShell (https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-change-folder-in-windows-command-line-cmd-or-powershell/)
- new JLicon.DLL icon file v1.6 with icons used in "Customize" window "Sort" popup menu to flag the current sort criteria
- in "Options", the "Show QAP menu" option from "Customize Window" option was moved to the "Menu Advanced Options" section
- feature removed: "Starting number" option in Shared menus files is now not supported (this option has been deprecated since v8.1.9.1)
- update French, Korean, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese (fix some file encoding errors in this language), Russian, German, Italian, Dutch and Chinese language files for v10.5
Version: 10.4.2 (2020-05-08)
- support relative path for Total Commander wincmd.ini configuration file (path relative to QAP folder)
- fix bug making Explorer window un-maximized when using "Add Active Folder or Web page Express" command
- fix bug making the Alternative menu commands not being executed in some situations
- fix bug causing a loop when opening a special folder in Total Commander using the "Open in new window" Alternative menu command
- fix bug with the "Edit a favorite" Alternative menu command opening the wrong favorite in some situations
Version: 10.4.1.1 (2020-05-01)
- fix bug introduced in v10.4.1
Version: 10.4.1 (2020-05-01)
- fix bug when adding a favorite with "Add Active Folder Express" that could cause duplicate menu item names and menu becoming "off-by-one"
- add code to fix duplicate favorite names that would be found when loading favorites
Version: 10.4 (2020-04-19)
IN SHORT
- COPY and MOVE SUBMENUS and groups
- IMPROVED SEARCH tool with more actions on found items and optional advanced view
- Improved navigation in submenus, groups and search results
- Other various improvements, including new Russian language
- More info: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/what_s_new-in-v10_4/
Copy and move submenus and groups
- allow to copy a single submenu or group and its contents (moving was already possible)
- allow to copy or move multiple submenus or groups and all their contents (using shift+click or ctrl+click to select multiple items)
- when copying or moving favorites, add [!] to their name when an existing favorite has the same name (instead of aborting the copy/move)
Search
- improved "Search" tool in the "Customize" window
- add three buttons on the left side of the Search result:
- "Sort" button to sort by any search result column
- "View menu" button to open a popup menu with the favorites currently in the search result (duplicate menu names are appended with the "[!]" suffix to make them unique)
- "Open submenu" to open in the Customize window the submenu containing the selected item in the search result
- when editing a favorite from the search result, stay in the search result (instead of changing the menu to the edited favorite as before)
- allow to move multiple favorites from search result (multiple copy was already possible)
- show all favorites in the search result when selecting the new menu item "Search All Favorites" under the "Tool" menu of the "Customize" window or when setting the search filter to "{All}"
- in "Extended search", also search based on the favorite's menu path
- when searching favorites in the "Customize" window, use the locale settings making (e.g. "é" considered as "e")
- when favorite names include an ampersand (&) as a keyboard shortcut, search names wtih or without the ampersand
New Options for Search tool
- add an option in "Customize Window" section to set the "Search scope" to all favorites from main menu (default) or ton only favorites under the menu currently displayed in the "Customize" window
- add an option to display additional columns in search result with dates and statistical info: date modified, date created, last usage date and usage frequency (QAP must me restarted after changing this option)
- when QAP window is maximized and showing additional columns, squeeze larger columns to show all columns in the available space
- do not display last used and usage stats columns if database disabled
- add an option in section "Customize Window" to make the use locale settings optional when searching favorites (default enabled)
Previous/Next arrows
- in the "Customize" window, add "Next" arrow in addition to the "Previous" arrow, allowing to browse backward and forward in QAP already visited menus, groups or search results
- add hotkeys Shift+Ctrl+Left to return to previous menu and Shift+Ctrl+Right move forward in visited menus in the "Customize" window
- display the list of menu and groups already visited in the previous/next menus when hovering these arrows buttons
Various
- when saving a new, edited or copied favorite, alert user if an existing favorite in any submenu has the same location and some other properties
- when clicking the "Sort" button in the "Customize" window, sort favorites based on user's locale setting (taking into account all non-English characters)
- in the "Customize" window, add an icon on the bottom left side to open a popup menu with the favorites in the menu or group currently displayed
- add the QAP feature "Favorites in Customize window" to show a menu with the current content (a sumenu, a group or a search result) of the "Customize" window (this dynamic menu can only be added to the "Main" menu)
Bug fixes
- fix bug when activating a running application instead of relaunching it if this option is selected in Application favorites
- fix bug playing favorite's sound
- fix bug when launching with the "Run as administrator" option enabled
- fix various other minor bugs
Language
- add Russian language file
- update of language files for German, French, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch language and Simplified Chinese languages (still looking for new a Spanish translator)
Version: 10.3.6 (2020-03-09)
Total Commander
- add active folders in left and right panes of Total Commander when building the "Current windows" and "Reopen a Folder" dynamic menus, and support active folder in TC for the "Reopen Current Folder in Dialog Box"; at this time, re-opening the active TC folder in a file dialog box is currently not supported for some Windows Special Folders like "My Computer" or "Recycle Bin", but this can be improved in a future release.
Snippets
- fix bug doubling backticks when editing snippets
- fix bug when setting the default submenu in "Snippet Quick Add" dialog box
- the submenu where a snippet added with the "Snippet Quick Add" is saved is the current menu in the "Customize" window (if it is visible) or the menu where the "Snippet Quick Add" feature was called (for example, "My Snippets" default submenu)
- removed the option "Submenu for Snippet Quick Add" in "Options", "Snippets and Hotstrings" section (use instead the same approach as for "Add Favorite - QAP Feature" and "Add Favorite - Special Folder" described above)
- fix bug centering buttons in the "Snippet Quick Add" dialog box
Various improvements
- when clicking the "Sort" button in the "Customize" window, sort favorites based on user's locale setting (taking into account all non-English characters)
- add prompt "Click an icon to select it" to the new "Select icon" dialog box introduced in the last release
- fix bug showing the "Customize" window when calling some features from the QAP System menu (right-click on the QAP icon in Notification zone)
* Still looking for a SPANISH translator to take over the current translation.
Version: 10.3.5 (2020-02-29)
- replace Windows "Pick icon" small dialog box (crashing QAP on some systems) with custom and larger "Select icon" dialog box
- fix bug when a Shared menu settings file is not found
- add a checkbox in the Setup program to make optional the creation of Start menu icon when installing QAP; uninstall and reinstall QAP (keeping your data in the QAP Settings folder) because this option is maintained if you only update QAP
Version: 10.3.4 (2020-02-06)
- save and restore maximized state when exiting with "Customize" window maximized
- fix bug with "Drives" menu when the option "Attach dynamic menus..." is unchecked
- fix bug when menu path exceeds the Windows limit of 259 or 260 (rare because normally, the operating system does not allow creation of folder path of this length)
- fix bugs when reading usage statistic from database
- correction for the "Repeat last action" and "Repeat last actions" menu items in Simplified Chinese (ZH-CN)
- Dutch language update
Version: 10.3.3 (2020-01-18)
- add new Special folder "Applications" (can be added in the "Power User" section)
- fix bug when saving the "Options" causing the lost of the Snippets "Macro mode" default value
- fix bug when adding a favorite from context menu or using QAPmessenger, now add the favorite to Main menu instead of the last shown menu
- fix bug causing menu name too long error in some situation when building the menu
- in favorites list, display QAP features default localized name and Special folders default names instead of repeating the custom name
- Dutch language update
Version: 10.3.2 (2019-12-31)
- when importing or exporting favorites with the "Import/Export Settings" command, fix bug when the "[Favorites]" section is larger than 65,532 characters (QAP now imports or exports favorites line by line instead of copying the section as a whole because of size limit)
- display a progress popup text when importing or exporting favorites
- when saving favorites, stop doing an internal backup of the "[Favorites]" section of the ini file as "[Favorites-backup]" when its size is larger than 65,532 characters (this backup section is unused and is copied only for debugging)
Version: 10.3.1 (2019-12-22)
- fix bug preventing to revert a Live Folder back to a normal favorite folder
- fix bug in dropdown list when selecting a favorite position and a menu contains a line separator
- improve how Live folder document icons and favorite documents default icons are retrieved from the associated applications files
- allow to add control panel items using the "Add this Folder" context menu command (for control panel items supporting the Explorer context menu)
- get localized name of an item added with an CLSID using the Explorer context menu and QAPmessenger (for example, items added from control panels with the "Add this Folder" command)
- for Directory Opus and Total Commander users, fix a bug when trying to open items added with a CLSID
- Dutch language file update
Version: 10.3 (2019-11-24)
Snippet Quick Add
- new QAP Feature "Snippet Quick Add" displaying a dialog box where you can create a snippet and its hotstring in one step, with the content of the Windows Clipboard used to suggest default values for the name and content of the new snippet
- you can add the "Snippet Quick Add" feature to a menu by selecting "Add Favorite", choose the type "QAP Feature", section "QAP Menu Editing" and select "Snippet Quick Add"
- in "Options", section "Snippets and Hotstrings", you can set the default submenu where the snippets added with the "Snippet Quick Add" dialog box are stored
- to promote the use of snippets, a new menu "My Snippets" is added to your menu with the "Snippet Quick Add" feature and an example of snippet including an hotstring (you can move or remove this menu in the "Customize" window)
- see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-create-a-snippet-using-the-clipboard-and-define-its-hotstring-in-one-step/
Configurable hotkeys for Alternative menus features
- redesign the section "Alternative Menu Hotkeys" of the "Options" dialog box allowing to assign various keyboard hotkeys for Alternative menu features ("Open in new window", "Edit a Favorite", "Copy a Favorite's Path or URL", "Run as administrator", "Open the Containing Folder in a New Window" and "Open the Containing Folder in the Current Window")
- available hotkeys are: Left + Shift, Left + Control, Left + Shift + Control, Right + Shift, Right + Control and Right + Shift + Control
- to use these hotkeys, open the main QAP menu and, before clicking a favorite, press one of the six hotkeys combination to activate its associated feature
- improved Alternative menu QAP feature "Open the Containing Folder...", including support for Special folders
- an error message is displayed when an Alternative menu feature is not supported for a given favorite type
- see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-launch-alternative-menu-features-directly-from-the-regular-popup-menu/
Various improvements
- new QAP feature "Window Always on Top" that toggle the always on top property of the selected window (you can add this feature to a menu by selecting "Add Favorite", choose the type "QAP Feature", section "Window Management" and select "Window Always on Top"); see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-make-the-active-window-always-on-top/
- a tooltip message is displayed when the "Always on Top" property is turned OFF for a window
- in the "Enter your donor code" dialog box, add a link to remove an existing sponsor code if it was entered by error
- in "Edit Favorite" dialog box for "Folder" favorites, in "Windows Options" tab, support user variables "{...}" and environement variables "%...%" for Explorer window position Left, Top, Width and Height values
Bug fixes
- now open some Special folders in Directory opus lister instead of an external window
- fix a bug breaking the Alternative menu when saving any change in the "Options" dialog box
- fix various bugs when opening a group of folders, when adding a favorite after deleting multiple favorites and when positioning Explorer window on active monitor
Language updates
- French, German, Korean, Portuguese, Brazilian-Portuguese and Italian language update for v10.3
Version: 10.2.2 (2019-11-11)
- add menu item "Open QAP Settings Backup Folder" to the "File" menu
- fix bug when opening folders from DOpus favorites submenus
- support UTF-8 characters in Sponsor Name
- reintroduce Simplified Chinese language (ZH-CN), thanks to ilaoyao
- Korean language update
Version: 10.2.1 (2019-11-04)
- fix bug in sponsor name code verification on system with some int'l Windows configuration (new sponsor codes will require this version v10.2.1 or more recent)
- sort Live folders menus, Clipboard menus and Edit Favorite treeviews using user's locale setting to sort correctly int'l characters (for example sorting e acute or E acute with "e")
- when a folder is launched from a menu open with QAPmessenger (new feature in v10.2), disable features for Explorer requiring to set window position that do not work in this situation
- fix bug hotstrings default options being lost after saving options
- fix bug to update file manager configuration after a new selection is saved in Options
- improve error handling if a folder is not found when saving options and add diagnostic code in case the Settings Folder value cannot be read from registry (Setup installation only)
- language updates for German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Korean; removed untranslated languages bits for other languages
Version: 10.2 (2019-10-27)
Add/Edit Favorite
- in "Basic Settings" tab, add the option "Hide this favorite" to hide a favorite from menu but keep its shortcut/hotstring active
- in "Menu Options" tab, add links to select icons from Window files Shell32.dll and ImageRes.dll
Placeholders
- two new placeholders that can be used in Snippets or favorites file paths
- {Input:prompt} asking user an input when the favorite is launched
- {Now:format} with format based on AHK date-time formats
(see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-insert-values-in-favorites-location-or-parameters-using-placeholders/)
QAPmessenger
- when using QAPmessenger to open the QAP menu with parameters ShowMenuLaunch or ShowMenuNavigate, support a 2nd parameter (between double-quotes) to indicate what menu to show ("Main" menu by default)
(see https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-display-the-qap-menu-from-the-command-line-or-from-a-batch-file/)
Options
- in "Popup Menu" tab, replace the simple mouse trigger exclusion list with an option to make this list a "blacklist" (as actual, default value) or a "whitelist" (block the mouse trigger in all applications windows except those in the list)
- in "Menu Appearance" tab, add distinct options for hotstrings reminders (do not display, display abbreviated or complete), and options to display shortcut and hotstrings reminders distinctly on the left side (between parenthesis after the name) or to align them to the right side of the menu
(see https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/what-are-the-essential-global-options-to-know/)
Bug fixes
- fix bug in "Add Active Folder or Web page" command making adding web pages more reliable
- fix bug when calling a submenu by its hotkey and when the menu name starts with "Main" (or its translation in other languages)
Version: 10.1.1 (2019-10-18)
- when loading the settings, add protection against invalid theme value
- get the default values for new Live Folders options (hide icons, hide extensions, show hidden files and show system files) from user's preferences in Windows registry
- revert the default value for the option "Start Numeric Menus Shortcuts at 1 instead of 0" to the default value in v9
- QAPmessenger update v1.4 ready: adapt language selection based on changes in settings files location in QAP v10
Version: 10.1 (2019-10-14)
(including bug fixes in v10.0.1 to v10.0.9)
Customize window improvements
- the "Settings" window has been renamed "Customize" and has been lightened to give close to 50% more room to the favorites list
- a new menu bar with "File", "Favorite", "Tools", "Options" and "Help" menus is available in the "Customize" window and in the QAP system menu (right click on QAP icon in Notification zone)
- various buttons for features and links were removed from the "Customize" window and were moved to the new QAP menu bar
- the Search box is now hidden under the submenus dropdown list to save space and a magnifying glass icon allows to reveal it
- new keyboard shortcuts were added: press F1 for a complete list of shortcuts
Other improvements to the Customize window
- QAP features names can now be edited, using the default localized name if name is left empty
- the Search box now filters items from the menu currently in the "Customize" window instead of from the top menu (Main)
- in the items list, the "parent menu" item ("..") was removed and arrows for parent menu (up) and previous menu (back) are now more visible
- when adding or editing a favorite of types Folder, Document or Application, QAP now checks if the file exists (except if the location includes a placeholder)
- in the tree view, when adding a favorite of type "Special Folder" or "QAP Feature", a new node at the end lists all "Special folders" or "QAP Features" in alphabetical order
- after saving a new or edited favorite, the submenu in the "Customize" window is changed to the favorite's destination menu
- a new dialog box facilitates the input of the "Sponsor code", this command is available from the "Enter your sponsor code" menu item in the "Help" menu
Revamped Options window
- a new "Options" window with sections tabs on the left: "General", "Settings Window", "Menu Icons", "Menu Appearance", "Popup Menu", "Popup Hotkeys", "Alternative Menu Hotkeys", "File Managers", "Snippets and Hotstrings", "User Variables" and "Database"
- more advanced options and some options previously found only in the quickaccesspopup.ini file are now available under the "Menu Advanced Options", "Launch Advanced Options" and "Various Advanced Options" tabs
- new options under the "Customize Window" tab of the "Options" dialog box allows to select if this window is open at startup (default on for new users) and to select to display the new QAP menu bar in the "Customize" window, in the QAP System menu or in both locations (the default setting)
Easy Setup installation changes
- for new installations, the default Settings Folder is now under "My Documents\Quick Access Popup" (instead of user's AppData folder)
- Settings Folder can now be changed in "Options", "General" section, with a dialog box asking if user wants to copy its actual settings to the new folder or use the settings already in this new location (or create new settings, if necessary)
- QAP now uses a Windows Registry "Run" key to set QAP as a startup program (the old startup file shortcut is deleted), this option being enabled by default for new installations (for installations in portable mode, the startup file shortcut is kept and is disabled by default)
- QAP now deletes temporary folders older than 7 days if they were not removed when quitting QAP as it should be normally done
Various changes
- a new options for "Live Folders" allows to display or not icons and file extensions in menu, and to include or not hidden and system folders/files in the menu
- retrieve more icons for document favorites and items in the "Recent files" menu
- support environment variables (like %TEMP%) in temporary, working and backup folders
- refresh dynamic menus (Clipboard, Reopen a Folder, Directory Opus Favorites, Drives, Repeat Last Actions, Frequent Files, Frequent Folders, Recent Files, Recent Folders, Current Windows and TC Directory hotlist) when they are part of a submenu open using a keyboard shortcut or an hotstring
- support relative path, system, user variables, and "file,index" icon format for alternative tray icon, and use the pick icon dialog box to select an alternative tray icon
- when saving an application favorite having Parameters, turn the "Activate if running" option off if it is also enabled (these two options cannot be used together)
- stop displaying the Parameters text box for favorites of type Folder (this parameter had no effect in this type of favorites)
- fix various small bugs not discovered when developing v9
Language
- thanks to volunteer translators, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Korean, Portuguese and Portuguese Brazilian language has been updated to v10 (looking for someone to take over Spanish translation)
- for English proofreading, thanks to Greg F.
Internal changes
- implement object oriented data model (using classes, etc.) for favorites data
- upgraded the AutoHotkey runtime to v1.1.30.03 (dated April 4, 2019)
Announcements:
* looking for someone to take over Spanish translation
* users who made a donation for QAP before v10, please see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/upgrading-donor-code/
Version: 10.0.6 (2019-10-13)
- for better backward compatibility, in folder "Live Folder Options" tab of favorite folder, replace "Show Icons" and "Show File extension items" with "Hide Icons" and "Hide File extension" and make these default values OFF (this could require adjustments for users who edited Live Folders favorites with releases between v10.0.1 and v10.0.5)
- when saving an application favorite having parameters, turn the "activate if running" option off if it is also enabled (these two options cannot be active together)
- stop displaying the Parameters text box for type Folder (this parameter had no effect in this type of favorite)
- fix bug in Folder favorite Windows Options, select Normal state by default
- when validating positions, accept empty values dot the positions values (X, Y, W and H) and open the window at its default position
- fix bug when opening a LiveFolder menu using a shortcut or hotstring
- fix bug when reloading QAP after an hotstring option was changed
- fix bug when removing a favorite from a search result list
- add some labels in Options, General tab for better clarity
Version: 10.0.5 (2019-10-06)
- fix bug when changing an hotstring from the "Manage Hotstrings" window and hitting cancel
- debug Settings folder when "/Working:" command-line parameter is used in Easy Setup mode
- for Easy Setup users, in Options, General tab, disable the "Settings Folder" control and display an error message if the parameter "/Working:" was used to change the Settings Folder
Version: 10.0.4 (2019-10-03)
- fix bug when expanding user variables
- fix bug when refreshing the Clipboard menu and the Windows Clipboard contains an URL longer than 260 chars (Windows menus limit)
- fix bug supporting "file,index" icon format for alternative tray icon; support relative path, system and user variables in alternative icon path; use pick icon dialog box to select alternative tray icon
- fix bug supporting relative path, system and user variables in temporary and backup folders
- fix error message if trying to flush the database when its file does not exist
- fix various typo errors in Options, File Managers tab, and in other dialog boxes
- make sure every message box and input box cannot be dismissed other than by clicking its OK or Cancel buttons
Version: 10.0.3 (2019-09-29)
- fix bug introduced in v10.0.1 when a submenu contains a disabled item or a column break, the next item being offset
- fix issue preventing situation where Special folders names would be empty (for example when favorites are imported from another system)
Version: 10.0.2 (2019-09-29)
- fix bug introduced in v10.0.1 when a submenu contains a disabled item or a column break, the next item being offset
- fix issue preventing situation where Special folders names would be empty (for example when favorites are imported from another system)
Version: 10.0.2 (2019-09-28)
- fix bug when using the Alternative Menu command "Edit a Favorite" or when editing a favorite after QAP reported its location could not be found if the edited item's is preceded by disabled items or column breaks
Version: 10.0.1 (2019-09-25)
Customize window improvements
- the "Settings" window has been renamed "Customize" and has been lightened to give close to 50% more room to the favorites list
- a new menu bar with "File", "Favorite", "Tools", "Options" and "Help" menus is available in the "Customize" window and in the QAP system menu (right click on QAP icon in Notification zone)
- various buttons for features and links were removed from the "Customize" window and were moved to the new QAP menu bar
- the Search box is now hidden under the submenus dropdown list to save space and a magnifying glass icon allows to reveal it
- new keyboard shortcuts were added: press F1 for a complete list of shortcuts
Other improvements to the Customize window
- QAP features names can now be edited, using the default localized name if name is left empty
- the Search box now filters items from the menu currently in the "Customize" window instead of from the top menu (Main)
- in the items list, the "parent menu" item ("..") was removed and parent menu (up) and previous menu (back) arrows are now more visible
- when adding or editing a favorite of types Folder, Document or Application, QAP now checks if the file exists (except if the location includes a placeholder)
- in the tree view when adding a favorite of type "Special Folder" or "QAP Feature", a new node at the end allows to list all "Special folders" or "QAP Features" in alphabetical order
- after saving a new or edited favorite, the submenu in the "Customize" window is changed to the favorite's destination menu
- a new dialog box facilitates the input of the "Sponsor code", this command is available from the "Enter your sponsor code" menu item in the "Help" menu
Revamped Options window
- a new "Options" window with sections tabs on the left: "General", "Settings Window", "Menu Icons", "Menu Appearance", "Popup Menu", "Popup Hotkeys", "Alternative Menu Hotkeys", "File Managers", "Snippets and Hotstrings", "User Variables" and "Database"
- more advanced options and some options previously found only in the quickaccesspopup.ini file are now available under the "Menu Advanced Options", "Launch Advanced Options" and "Various Advanced Options" tabs
- new options under the "Customize Window" tab of the "Options" dialog box allows to select if this window is open at startup (default on for new users) and to select to display the new QAP menu bar in the "Customize" window, in the QAP System menu or in both locations
Easy Setup installation changes
- for new installations, the default Settings Folder is now under "My Documents\Quick Access Popup" (instead of user's AppData folder)
- Settings Folder can now be changed in "Options", "General" section, with a dialog box asking if user wants to copy actual settings to the new folder or use the settings already in this new location (or create new settings, if necessary)
- QAP now uses the Windows Registry "Run" key to set QAP as a startup program (the old startup file shortcut is deleted), this option being enabled by default for new installations (for installations in portable mode, the startup file shortcut is kept and is disabled by default)
- QAP now deletes temporary folders older than 7 days not removed when quitting QAP (as it should be normally done)
Various changes
- a new options for "Live Folders" allows to ask to display or not icons and file extensions in menu, and to include or not hidden and system folders/files in the menu
- retrieve more icons for document favorites and items in the "Recent files" menu
- support environment variables (like %TEMP%) in temporary, working and backup folders
- refresh dynamic menus (Clipboard, Reopen a Folder, Directory Opus Favorites, Drives, Repeat Last Actions, Frequent Files, Frequent Folders, Recent Files, Recent Folders, Current Windows and TC Directory hotlist) when they are part of a submenu open using a keyboard shortcut or an hotstring
- fix various small bugs not discovered when developing v9
Language
- thanks to volunteer translators, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Korean, Portuguese and Portuguese Brazilian language has been updated to v10 (looking for someone to take over Spanish translation)
- English proofreading, thanks to Greg F.
Internal changes
- implement object oriented data model (using classes, etc.) for favorites data
- upgraded the AutoHotkey runtime to v1.1.30.03 (dated April 4, 2019)
Version: 9.5.3 (2019-08-24)
- when in Settings window's search result, hide the "Move" button (this command is not supported from search result)
- swap "Copy" and "Move" buttons (to avoid having an empty space when in search result)
- when loading favorites, if a Special Folder name is empty (probably after having used v10 before reverting to v9), use the Special Folder default name (working on v10, I realized that this change was required to ensure full forward/backward compatibility if reverting to QAP v9.5.3 after having used QAP v10)
Version: 9.5.2 (2019-07-15)
- fix bug in dynamic menus (Recent items, Frequent items, Drives) when numeric shortcuts are enabled and menu item includes an ampersand (&)
Version: 9.5.1 (2019-07-15)
- fix bug when cancelling the "Select Hotstring" dialog box was erroneously deleting the hotstring
Version: 9.5 (2019-06-11)
Pre v10 release
- in anticipation of the launch of Quick Access Popup v10 (expected later this year), changes in release v9.5 will make things smoother if user installing QAP with the "Setup executable file" needs to revert to a v9 release after having run v10 release (this will not be required for users installing QAP with the "portable zip file")
- FYI, only the startup process needed changes in regard with v10 new startup process
- v10 settings file will be backward compatible with v9 settings files
Minor changes
- feature set in this release v9.5 is the same as in previous version v9.4.1.5 except the following change
- add in "Options", "Menu" tab, new chekbox "Retrieve icon when refreshing Frequent folders and Frequent files menus (avoid if you often have offline files)" to bypass icon retrieval when refreshing Frequent items menu; enable this option if you never have offline network files in your Recent Items Windows folder
- fix bug, update the short name for menu when browsing the list of running application in "Add Favorite" for "Application" type
- fix bug for Directory Opus users, check if DOpus lister exists before opening a folder in order to protect the last used folders
Version: 9.4.1.5 (2019-02-27)
- fix bug when filtering apps in List Applications window and in Current Windows menu when running with a language other than English
- update dropdown menu labels in "List Applications" window (dropdown menu not localized at this time)
- when copying a favorite, keep the original favorite in the item position dropdown list
- make sure the default theme Windows is selected when the value is empty in ini file
- fix link to website in "Check for update" dialog box
- fix bug when searching for "Live" folders type in Settings Extended Search
- fix bug when checking if a favorite app is already running to activate it instead of launching it
- exclude some "ghost" Windows Apps from Current Windows menu (aka Switch menu)
Version: 9.4.1.4 (2019-02-17)
- in the "Easy Setup" installer, removed the optional task to import settings from Folders Popup (ancestor of Quick Access Popup, latest version v5.2.3, September 2016)
- Folders Popup users wanting to convert their settings to Quick Access Popup must first install QAP version v9.4.1.3 (or before), and then upgrade to the latest QAP version
- no change for users doing portable installation with the ZIP file
Version: 9.4.1.3 (2019-02-14)
- use custom folder icon from desktop.ini for Live folders top menu item; if there is no dektop.ini file, use the icon defined for the parent Live folder favorite; else use the default icon for Live folders
- in dynamic menus "Current Windows" and "Reopen a folder", use the custom folder icon from desktop.ini if it exists
- fix bug when excluding mouse trigger in a file dialog box and when process name is used as an exclusion criteria
- update to German, Spanish, French, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese language files
Version: 9.4.1.2 (2019-01-21)
- display a clean error message if user who installed QAP v9.4+ with portable zip file did not update JLicons.dll file to v1.5 (QAP loading icon missing error)
- fix bug when opening group of folders in Directory Opus or Total Commander and the "Use tabs" option is disabled, now open each folder in a new window
- when opening the first folder of a group in Directory Opus, if the app is not running, add a delay after launching it to prevent an intermittent bug leaving the new tab empty
- fix bug when changing hotkey for Alternative menu features leaving previous hotkeys alive until QAP was reloaded
- in "QAP Icon Replacements", support replacement with another QAP icon from JLicons (e.g. "iconFolderLive=iconFolder")
- in "Check for update", add support for Alpha branch, in addition to Beta and Master (prod) branches
Version: 9.4.1.1 (2019-01-10)
* Note: User installing the portable version (ZIP file) from a version ealier than v9.4 must update the JLicons.dll file to v1.5. *
- fix bug introduced in v9.4.1 in the "Switch Settings file" command found under the QAP system menu "Settings file options" (right click the QAP icon in the Notification zone)
- when filtering the "Current Windows" menu for exclusions (intruduced in v9.4.1), fix a bug when excluding Windows Applications (Universal Application Platform)
- fix URL of the help link in the "QAP Icons Replacement" dialog box under the "More" tab of "Options"
- fix small bug with localized labels for modifiers in "Change shortcut" dialog box
Version: 9.4.1 (2019-01-04)
New features
- QAP Icon Replacements: add new section under the "More" tab of "Options" to set replacements for QAP menu icons found in JLicons.dll
- Current Windows Exclusions: add new section under the "More" tab of "Options" to set application exclusions for the "Current Windows" menu (aka "Switch")
- in "More" tab of "Options" dialog box, rename the "Exclusions list" button "QAP Mouse Button Exclusions"
Bug fixes
- fix bug in "Add/Edit favorite" dialog box where "Windows Options" tab had a wrong label and "Advanced Settings" tab being not available
- fix bug when, in "Options", "Hotkeys" tab, user cancelled the "Change shortcut" dialog box by hitting "Cancel"
Other changes
- for Folder favorites, when "Live Folders" is selected, explain why some options are not available in "Windows Options" and "Advanced Settings" tabs
- internal changes converting QAP icons management, command line parameters and mouse button names using class objects
- update to Dutch language file
Version: 9.4 (2018-12-21)
* Note: User installing the portable version (ZIP file) must update the JLicons.dll file to v1.5. *
Opening Explorer windows on multi-monitor systems
- if the default file manager in "File Managers" tab is Windows Explorer, the tab includes a new option "On a multi-monitor system, always open the Explorer window on the active monitor" when system has more than one monitor
- detect the active monitor based on the mouse position (if favorite folder was launched with mouse trigger) or else based on the active window position
Maximize folder on multiple-monitors systems
- show the "Window Options" tab in "Add/Edit favorite" dialog box for favorites of types Folder, Special and FTP when Explorer or Total Commander is the active file manager (Directory Opus users should use DOpus Layouts instead)
- when, in the "Window Options" tab, the window state is "Maximized" or "Minimized", allow to select on which monitor to open the new Explorer or Total Commander window (monitor 1 by default)
QAP windows position
- on "General" tab of the "Options" window, new option "Open Settings window on Active monitor" to open the QAP "Settings" window on the active monitor when system has more than one monitor
- detect the active monitor based on mouse or active window position
- always position other QAP windows relative to the center of the main "Settings" window or of their parent window
- remember width of the "Add/Edit/Copy/Move Favorite" window in ini file (useful when menu paths become long)
- remove tray menu command to "Restore dialog box position"
QAP icons
- new version of JLicons.dll v1.5 with new icons for the QAP app itself (regular icon, loading icon, admin icon, etc.)
- use icons QAP loading, QAP master and QAP beta from JLicons.dll instead of from the QAP temporary folder
- JLicons.dll v1.5 also includes improved "Live Folder" and "Live Folder opened" icons
Other changes and bug fixes
- in "Options", "Basic" tab, add the option "Main settings file backup folder" to select a destination folder for backups of the main settings file (quickaccesspopup.ini); backup are created only for main ini file; Shared menu settings files and Alternative settings files (open with the "Switch Settings file...") are still backuped in their own folder
- in "Live Folders" and in "Add/Edit Favorite", when resolving a Windows File Shortcut (.lnk file) that does not return a target location, keep the .lnk file name as location
- add copyright and company name, and update description in file version info of QAP executable and setup files
- add the "TryWindowPosition=1" option in quickaccesspopup.ini to show the "Add/Edit Favorite" tab "Window Options" for favorite types "Document", "Application", "URL" and "Windows Apps"; but there is no official support for these options because most applications for these favorite types block window positioning; you can try this option and... all the better if it works for some apps!
- update language files for French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Portuguese and Korean
Version: 9.3.2.1 (2018-12-11)
- in "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box for type Snippet, moved "Fix width font" and "Font size" controls under the content box
- fix bug introduced in v9.3.2 when moving a favorite of types Folder, Document or Application or when copying multiple favorites of the same types
- fix other small bugs
- update Portuguese language file
Version: 9.3.2 (2018-12-07)
Windows file shortcuts in Live Folders
- retrieve "Name" (without .lnk extension), "Start In" and "Arguments" (parameters) properties from file shortcuts when building Live folders
- fix bug retrieving icon from file shortcut in Live folders
Import Windows file shortcuts to menu
- add context menu entry "Import Shortcut to Quick Access Popup menu" to import a Windows file shortcut into a new favorite with its name (without the .lnk extension), its icon and, for applications, its "Start In" and "Arguments" (parameters) properties
- add registry keys for the "Import Shortcut" command in the ManageContextMenu.bat batch used by portable installation users to enable or disable context menus
Various improvements
- before saving a new favorite of types Folder, Document and Application, check if location exists and, if not, return to the "Add/Edit favorite" dialog box
- in "Add/Edit favorite" dialog box for types Folder, Document and Application, trim unneeded double quotes if they enclose the favorite location
- remove exclamation marks enclosing Live folder names in menu; replace "!Folder!" with "Live Folder" in Settings window "Type" column
- user variables (like "{Dropbox}") are now supported in every file path where environment variables (like "%TEMP%") are supported in QAP (icon files, shared menu names, etc.)
Bug fixes
- handle correctly the situation where user cancels the command when asked for admin privilege after enabling or disabling the context menus (in "Options", "Menu" tab)
- center buttons correctly in some dialog boxes
- set icon for "Repeat Last Actions" menu when dynamic menu items are open
- when displaying the "Menu key" hotkey text, replace internal name "AppsKey" with "Menu key" as well as the other internal name "sc15D"
Version: 9.3.1.3 (2018-12-01)
- fix bug in dynamic menus when menu numeric shortcuts are enabled
Version: 9.3.1.2 (2018-11-29)
Version: 9.3.1.1 (2018-11-29)
- add command line parameter "/Working:[path]" used to set QAP working directory (useful when creating a "Run" registry key to autostart QAP without using Startup shortcut file)
- fix bug when items in dynamic menus (like "Live Folders", "Recent Folders", "Last Actions", etc.) contained an ampersand
- fix bug when displaying default QAP feature or Special folder icon in Edit favorite dialog box
Version: 9.3.1 (2018-11-22)
QAP windows management
- restore Add, Edit, Copy or Move Favorites dialog boxes and Settings window to their default position (center of main monitor) after screen configuration changes to make sure QAP windows remain visible in the new configuration; screen configuration changes are adding or removing monitor, changing screen resolution and changing primary monitor
- resetting the dialog box positions from QAP tray menu does not require a QAP reboot anymore
Directory Opus
- add "Layouts" submenu to QAP Feature "Directory Opus Favorites" menu
- add option to add or not the "Layouts" submenu to "Directory Opus Favorites" menu
- fix bug when setting up icons for the QAP features "Directory Opus Favorites"
Total Commander
- fix bug when setting up icons for the QAP features "Total Commander Hotlist"
Bug fixes and other improvements
- change load sequence to fix bug when showing the donate dialog box at startup (aka "Invalid owner error")
- optimize writing to database when collecting usage data from Windows Recent Items
Version: 9.3 (2018-11-14)
Directory Opus Favorites menu
- add the new QAP feature "Directory Opus Favorites" under the "Dynamic Menus" category
- at first QAP launch, add the QAP feature "Directory Opus Favorites" to main menu if DOpus is selected as supported manager (NOTE: users upgrading to this release must add the QAP feature manualy)
- fix bug when opening a group of folders in Directory Opus and DOpus is not launched, or when the first group item is not a folder
Total Commander Hotlist menu
- when builing Total Commander Hotlist menu, support path redirected by "RedirectSection=" value under [DirMenu] (in addition to supporting "AlternateUserIni=" under [Configuration]), with path relative to folder of wincmd.ini
- at first QAP launch, detect Total Commander ini file location and save it to the settings file
- fix bug when opening a group of folders in Total Commander when the first group item is not a folder
Various improvements
- add the option "Start Numeric Menu Shortcuts at 1 (instead of 0)" in "Options", "Menu" tab
- add "Refresh Live Folders and Shared menus" and "Open QAP working directory" items to Tray menu (QAP system menu)
- always close the "Update Quick Access Popup" dialog box after any buttons is clicked
- change QAP icon to gray "loading" icon at the beginning of QAP load sequence and set the normal blue icon when loading is complete and menu can be open
Performance improvements
- when checking if a path in Windows Recent Items is a document, if path is on a server (starting with "\\"), check if server is offline and if yes avoid trying to retreive info from the file
- when checking if a file in Windows Recent Items exists, if path is on a server, return that file does not exist if server is offline
- stop refreshing the Windows Apps list at each startup, do it at first QAP launch before adding the "My Windows Apps" menu to ini file, on demand when user adds a Windows App favorite or when RefreshWindowsAppsListAtStartup=1 in settings file
- when refreshing the "Clipboard" menu, do not refresh the menu if the Clipboard size is greater than 10,000 bytes to avoid too long delay before showing the menu (the maximum value can be changed using "ClipboardMaxSize=" in settings file)
Bug fixes
- fix bug in "Options", stop changing the QAP temporary folder from %TEMP% to QAP working folder by error
- after Settings import, reset the QAP temporary folder to %TEMP% to avoid dependency on local folder from other system
- fix bug in "Settings" tool tips labels were inversed for "Sort" and "Always on top" buttons
Version: 9.2.1 (2018-10-23)
- optimized the code refreshing QAP menus using new tools offered by the SQLite database
- refresh "Recent folders", "Recent files", "Frequent folders", "Frequent files" and "Drives" menus from a preprocessed field in the database
- refactor the background task collecting recent items to also preprocess "Recent folders", "Recent files", "Frequent folders", "Frequent files" and "Drives" menus
- in "Options", change database options button name in the "More" tab from "Frequent Items database" to "Quick Access Popup database"
- the option to attach dynamic menus to main menu is now true by default ("Settings", "Options" button, "Menu" tab, first check box in second column)
- when refreshing the "Clipboard" menu, reduce the maximum size accepted to handle Windows Clipboard data from 50,000 to 10,000 characters (this could become an option in future release) and display specific messages in "Clipboard" menu if Clipboard is empty, too large or has no path/url
- fix bug when installing SQLite files on 64-bit system when user runs QAP with 32-bit executable
- update to German, Korean, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and French language files
IMPORTANT note about the "In the Works" menu: Now that menu refresh time has been optimized, it is now recommended to "attach" the "Recent folders", "Recent files", "Frequent folders" and "Frequent files" menus to the QAP main menu. Make sure the "Attach all dynamic menus to QAP main menu" option is checked ("Settings", "Options" button, "Menu" tab, first check box in second column). For new installations, this option is now checked by default.
About performance: Menu refresh code was seriously optimized in this release. Do not expect huge increases in performance. Moving data collection to a background task speeds up menu refreshing but rebuilding the menu as you request it still takes a minimum amount of time. My goal with this release was to make it as quick as possible and, as important, to deliver stable "show time" regardless of the time Windows sometime takes to reply to queries about recent folders, recent files or disk free space. For more info, see the UPDATED page:
https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/fine-tuning-v9-2
Version: 9.2.0.1 (2018-10-09)
* Some users reported performance with v9.2 issue when launching QAP of showing the QAP menu. This release adds diagnostic code that will help fix this issue.
* For more info, see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/fine-tuning-v9-2
- change attached/detached menu option to include "Frequent Folders", "Frequent Files", "Recent Folders", "Recent Files" and "Drives" menus
- add diagnostic code and timers for to UsageDb, refresh dynamyc menus and refresh full menu
- other small internal changes
Version: 9.2 (2018-10-02)
FREQUENT ITEMS
Frequent Items QAP Features
- new "Frequent Folders" and "Frequent Files" QAP Features showing a menu with the ten most frequently used folders or files (excluding folders or files not found) sorted by frequency
- categorize "Frequent Folders" and "Frequent Files" QAP Features under the section "Dynamic Menus" of the QAP features list in the "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box
- if, in early usage, "Frequent Folders" and "Frequent Files" menus are incomplete, a notice is added to explain that the menus will improve with QAP usage
Frequent Items menus options
- reorganize "Options" dialog box tabs: remove "Exclusions" tab and add the "More" tab with buttons for "Exclusions list", "Frequent Items Dabatase" and "User Variables" options dialog boxes
- in the "Frequent Items Database" options dialog box:
- show QAP Privacy Statement
- enable/disable Frequent Items database checkbox
- collection interval for Windows Recent Items (in seconds, minimum 60, default 60)
- number of days covered by the Frequent Items menus (default 30 days)
- maximum size of the database in MB, decimal values allowed (default 3 MB)
- checkbox to show the favorites frequency index in Frequent Items menus and in "Settings" window
- button to "Flush Recent Items database"
Frequent Items database technical notes
- a background task collects (for user's usage only) Windows Recent Items and QAP usage in an SQLite local database named QAP_Frequent.DB
- QAP is now distributed with files sqlite3.dll and sqlite3.def (32-bit or 64-bit - appropriate version is used according to user's system)
- when maximal database size is exceeded, QAP removes oldest items until the maximal size minus 10% is respected
- when exiting QAP, it creates a backup of the database under the name QAP_Frequent.DB-BK, always overwriting the previous copy (this allows scheduled backup programs to copy the backup file even when the live database is locked by QAP)
"In the Works" menu
- at first launch of QAP, a new "In the Works" menu is added to Main menu including items "Frequent Folders", "Frequent Files", "Recent Folders", "Recent Files" and "Current Windows" (aka "Switch")
- this menu is added at the top of Main menu for new users or at the bottom of Main menu for users upgrading to v9.2+
- assign to the "In the Works" menu the QAP icon and the Shift + Control + W shortcut
- users upgrading to v9.2 can remove the duplicates "Recent Folders", "Recent Files" and "Current Windows" (aka "Switch") items previously in the "My QAP Essentials" menu
Recent Items menus
- "Recent Folders" and "Recent Files" are now refreshed from the Frequent Items database (keeping the previous method if Frequent Items database is disabled)
- Recent Items menus are now always attached to the Main menu (because they are now built more reliably from the database)
PLACEHOLDERS
New {SEL_LOC} Placeholders
- the new placeholders "{SEL_LOC}" inserts in favorites paths and snippets the path of the item currently under the mouse pointer or the item selected in the the file manager window
- the "{SEL_LOC}" placeholder variants are: "{SEL_LOC}" (full path), "{SEL_NAME}" (file name only), "{SEL_DIR}" (directory), "{SEL_EXT}" (extension), "{SEL_NOEXT}" (file name without extension) and "{SEL_DRIVE}" (drive letter)
- the "{SEL_LOC}" placeholder is supported when using Windows Explorer and Directory Opus (this feature is currently not available in Total Commander)
Placeholders in Snippets
- placeholders for selected item "{SEL_LOC}" and their variants are now replaced in Snippet content
- placeholders can be inserted in both in "Text" and "Macro" modes Snippets
- when displaying a prompt before launching a Snippet, placeholders in prompt text are expanded
- tip: if a Snippet includes a location placeholder, use the "Prompt before launching the snippet" option in "Advanced Settigns" to allow moving from the Explorer window to the window where the snippet must be pasted
- tip: if you need to insert the name of a placeholder "as-is" in a Snippet, preceeds the opening bracket with backtick (eg: "`{Clipboard}")
User Variables and Cloud Drives Placeholders
- user variables are custom placeholders that can be inserted in favorites properties and snippet content
- the button "User Variables" under the "More" tab of the "Options" dialog box opens the "User Variables" dialog box
- at its first launch (or when user variables list is empty), QAP creates user variables for these cloud drives (if detected): "{Dropbox}", "{Google Drive}", "{OneDrive}" (SkyDrive) and "{iCoudDrive}"
VARIOUS
Improvements
- allow sorting of favorites list when filtered using the Search field
- language of QAPmessenger v1.3 (used to send Windows Explorer contect menu commands to QAP) is now translated
- when an error message is displayed because a Shared menu ini file is not found, offer to skip future error messages for this Shared menu file
- add "NeverQuotes=1" to QAPconnect file manager properties to skip enclosing of location path between double-quotes when it includes space(s)
- rename the QAP feature "Switch" to "Current Windows"
Language
- update of Brazilian Portugueze, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish language files
- language files include text of QAP Messenger v1.2
Version: 9.1.2 (2018-09-10)
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Placeholders in snippets, file and folder paths
- in Snippet's content and in favorite's "Location", "Parameters" and "Start In" fields (for all types of favorites supporting these options):
- [NEW] replace the placeholder "{Clipboard}" with the current content of the Windows Clipboard (if it contains text)
- [IMPROVED] now replace the placeholders "{CUR_LOC}", "{CUR_NAME}", "{CUR_DIR}", "{CUR_EXT}", "{CUR_NOEXT}" and "{CUR_DRIVE}" with current location (Explorer window under mouse pointer or active Explorer window) in all fields listed above
- [IMPROVED] now replace the placeholders "{LOC}", "{NAME}", etc. with favorite's location (etc.) in all fields listed above (except in Snippets)
- also replace these placeholders in Windows Apps "Parameters" field
Bug fixes
- fix bug with shared menu catalogue path and environment variables
- when extracting the "Short name for menu" of a favorite folder from its location, stop stripping the text after the last dot of the folder name
Language files
- addition of Korean translation, thanks to Maeng Bong Kyun (https://blog.naver.com/meangkim)
- update of Dutch, German, Italian and French language files
- add Korean and Dutch language to setup program
Version: 9.1.1 (2018-08-23)
Various improvements
- add an option in "Alternative Hotkeys" tab of the "Options" dialog box to determine if notifications are displayed or not when using an Atlernative Menu feature (default true)
- support for environment variables (like %TEMP%) and relative paths (relative to QAP working directory) in "Start In" option, in "Advanced Settings" of favorite Applications
- add a "Play" button beside the play sound option in "Add/Edit favorite" dialog box, "Advanced Settings" tab
- add date created and date modified properties to favorites, using universal time (UTC), allowing in a future version to sort favorites by created or last modified date
- rename the QAP feature "Add This Folder or Link" to "Add Active Folder or Web page"
- update to Spanish language file
Bug fix
- fix bug when active file manager is Directory Opus or Total Commander and the option in "File managers" tab is "the current window"
Version: 9.1 (2018-08-10)
Windows Apps
- support Windows Apps (downloaded from Windows Store or pre-installed in Windows 10, also called Metro Apps under Windows 8, Universal Applications, UWP applications)
- automatically add the submenu "My Windows Apps" to your Main menu with sample of Windows Apps installed with Windows 10 (created only if you run QAP under Windows 10; you can move or delete this submenu if you wish)
- new favorite type "Windows App" in the "Select Favorite Type " dialog box
- adapt the "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box for a Windows Apps:
- select the Windows App to add in a dropdown list of Windows Apps installed on your system
- click the "Refresh" button to include freshly installed Windows Apps
- select the last dropdown list entry "Custom Windows App" to add manualy a Windows App identifier
- in the "Advanced Settings" tab, the "Parameter" option is available
- known limitations: at this time, QAP could not retrieve the "friendly" localized app name and its icon, but you can change the app's name or icon as you wish
- technical note: the Windows Apps list is refreshed by a PowerShell script running silently; the list is automatically refreshed at QAP launch, unless the [Global] value "RefreshWindowsAppsListAtStartup=0" is added to the QAP ini file
- see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/how-do-i-launch-windows-apps-windows-store-universal/
Favorite Sound
- add capability to play a sound after any menu item is launched
- the favorite sound location field is added to "Advanced Settings" tab of "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box for all types of favorites
- support for sounds from a sound as file (wave, mp3, midi, etc. depending on your system configuration), a system sound or your own sound sequence
- see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-play-a-sound-when-i-launch-a-favorite/
Various improvements and bug fixes
- add QAP Feature "List Applications" used to analyse properties of currently open applications and windows (mostly for debugging use)
- sort favorite in Settings window without considering the ampersand (&) in their names
- optimize "Recent Folders" and "Recent Files" menus refresh when these menus are attached to the Main menu
- fix bug to prevent shared menu file name to be empty or only ".ini"
- set default icons when adding Shared menu from Catalogue
- update links to QAP website from http:// to https:// (Yes! QAP website is now more secure with an SSL certficate.)
- update of all language files, thanks to translators
Version: 9.0.7 (2018-07-27)
- fix bug remembering window position and size when moving the "Move favorite" dialog box when used for only one favorite
- when using drag-and-drop to add a favorite to a menu in the "Settings" window, insert the new favorite after the selected one (instead of before)
- in the "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box for QAP Features, add help links for all remaining features
- change English labels "Remember window position" to "Remember Settings window position" (in "Options") and "Hide this favorite in menu" to "Disable this favorite" (in Add/Edit Favorite dialog box)
- update to all localized language files
Version: 9.0.6 (2018-06-10)
Shared menus and Time zones
- shared menus now fully support menus saved on cloud shared drive (Dropbox, etc.) when users are working accross different time zones
- note 1: before v9.0.6, sharing menus on cloud drives was possible but some modification alerts could be skipped or sent at inapropriate time
- note 2: there never was issue when sharing menus using network drives because the file's timestamp is the same for all users regardless of time zone
- add to add/edit shared menu the "Drive hosting the shared menu":
- "Network" (default option, backward compatible pre-v9.0.6), get last modified time of shared menu from file's date-time
- "Cloud" option (Dropbox, Gogle Drive, OneDrive, etc.), get modification time from each PC's UTC time (for better sync messaging, users shold sync their clocks on a time server)
Shared menus refreshing
- before showing the "Settings" window, refresh all external menus that were changed since last load and rebuild main menu
- in "Settings", when opening a shared menu, check if the menu was modified by another user and, if yes, refresh it before displaying it and rebuild the main menu
- when changing a favorite in a shared menu and the menu was modified by another user since last load (should be very rare), refresh and reload the menu, rebuild the main menu and inform user that its last change cannot be saved
- when loading a shared menu, if it is already locked by the current user (because something unexpected happened and the lock was not released previously), unlock the menu immediately
Various
- display tooltips during saving favorites and rebuilding the menu (not only when rebuilding)
- sound debug beep also when refreshing shared menus and live folders on-demand
Version: 9.0.5 (2018-06-03)
- fix bug with icon when adding a link (URL) favorite with the "Add this Folder or Link Express" command
- minor language updates for all languages
Version: 9.0.4 (2018-05-20)
- fix bug subfolders of Live folders are now also sorted according to Live folder's options
- fix bug default icon is now set when adding a file with the "Add File to Quick Access Popup menu Express" extended context menu (Shift + Right click a file in Windows Explorer to show the "extended" context menu)
- show "Set Windows folder icon" link in "Add/Edit favorite" only for Folder favorites and only if a location has been entered (use this command to sync Windows folder icon with favorite's icon)
- remove unsupported hotstrings options "Do not conform to case" and "Do not keep ending key"
- Spanish language update (QAP Features descriptions in "Add/Edit Favorite")
Version: 9.0.3 (2018-05-12)
- optimize recent folders and recent files menu refresh when these menus are attached to the main menu (refresh time will be shorter when only one of the "Recent Folders" or "Recent Files" is used)
- close all windows now default with window lines unchecked
- Hotstrings: restart QAP automatically when an hotstring's options are changed, display an alert for the first change (avoid intermittent glitches)
- Hotstrings: remove unsupported options "Do not keep Ending key" and "Do not conform to typed case"
- Dutch language file update and minor updates to EN, DE and ES language files; add Dutch language to Setup script
Version: 9.0.2 (2018-05-06)
- fix bug showing the Settings window empty or with wrong content under certain conditions, especially when used in non-English language
- fix display bug when adding line separators of column breaks in Settings
- other minor improvements
- Italian language update
Version: 9.0.1 (2018-04-28)
Scheduled refresh
- new option to refresh periodically the Live Folders menus and Shared Menus (during the short refresh period, the menu is not available)
- set the "Interval between refresh (seconds)" in "Menu" tab of "Options" windows
- recommended interval is 300 seconds (5 minutes) or more and minimal interval is 30 seconds
- use the check box "Beep before and after refresh (debug)" to help estimate the time required to refresh the menu
Tree views when adding QAP features and Windows Special folders
- in "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box, replace dropdown lists new tree view lists help selecting new QAP features or Windows Special folders
- QAP Features and Windows Special folders are grouped in the tree view by categories
- each QAP features has a description and is linked to a FAQ page on QAP web site
- you can double click an item in the tree view to add immediately the new QAP feature or Windows Special folder
Hotstrings
- an hotstring is a small sequence of characters used as trigger to expand an abbreviation into the full text of a Snippet (auto-replace) or to launch any type of favorite
- a new "Hotstrings" section is added to the "Menu Options" tab in "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box
- in the "Change hotstring" dialog box, you set the trigger (abbreviation) and options: Case sensitive, Do not conform to typed case, Expand inside other words, Keep hotstring abbreviation, Do not wait for Ending key, Do not keep Ending key (see FAQ page for explanations of options: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/what-are-hotstrings/)
- due to large number of options combinations (taking into account case-sensitivity and other options), QAP does not validate that hotstring triggers are unique; in case of duplication, depending on various options, only one of the favorites having the same hotstring will be triggered
- in "Options", "Hotkeys" tab, a new button "Hotstrings default options" opens a dialog box where you can set default values for options of newly created hotstrings (these defaults do not impact existing hotstrings)
- the "Manage Hotkeys" window now has two tabs: the existing list of Favorite Shortcuts is inserted in a first tab and a second tab now lists the Favorites Hotstrings
- a new QAP feature named "Hotstrings" opens the "Manage Hotkeys" window in the "Hotstrings" tab
- the QAP feature "Hotkeys" has been renamed "Shortcuts"
Settings window improvements
- a new "Sort" button on the left side of the "Settings" window to "Sort all or selected favorites in list"; sorting stops at the first line separator or column break, if present
- a new "Move" button on the right side of the "Settings" window to move one or multiple favorites to another sub menu (no more need to edit a favorite to move it to another menu)
- the "Hotkeys" button has been moved to the bottom of the "Settings" window and now has two distinct labels: "Shortcuts" to manage shortcuts and "Hotstrings" to open directly the Hotstrings tab
- remove support for old black and white buttons (already deprecated since v8.1.1)
Extended Search in favorites
- in "Settings" window, a new check box "Extended Search" beside the "Search" text box gives more power to the Search tool
- by default, with the "Extended Search" not checked, the Search tool only filters favorites based on their name
- if the "Extended Search" is checked, search also covers favorite type, shortcut text, hotstring trigger, location (file or folder path), snippet content, FTP login and advanced settings "Parameters" and "Start in" folder
Sort Live folders
- new "Sort" options in "Live Folders Options" of favorite folders allow to sort the content of Live folders by file name, extension, size or modified date
- Live folder content can be sorted ascending or descending
- default sort order is alphabetically by file name
Close computer QAP Features
- new QAP Feature "Close Computer Control Center", a dialog box giving full control on the way you close or suspend your computer with commands "Power down", "Shutdown", "Restart" and "Logoff", with option to force closing or not; "Sleep" or "Hibernate", with options to suspend immediately or not, or to disable wake events or not; "Turn monitor off", "Put monitor in low-power mode" or "Start screen saver"
- new individual QAP Features to "Restart computer", "Logoff user", "Sleep computer", "Hibernate computer", "Turn monitor off", "Put monitor in low-power mode" and "Start screen saver"
Add Favorites QAP Features
- twelve new QAP features to add a favorite for each type of favorite
- when adding a favorite using any of the "Add Favorite" QAP features (including "Add this Folder or Link"), the default parent menu of the new favorite is now the same menu where the QAP feature was launched
- when adding a favorite with "Add this Folder or Link Express" QAP feature, the new favorite is immediately added to the same menu where the QAP feature was launched
- the position of the new favorite is set accordingly to the options "When adding automatically, add a favorite at..." top or bottom, in the "Menu" tab of the "Options" window
- at first QAP launch, when creating the default QuickAccessPopup.ini file, the item "Add Feature - QAP Feature" is added at the top of the "My QAP Essentials" menu and the item "Add Feature - Special" is added at the top of the "My Special Folders" menu
Other new QAP Features
- "Close All Windows" shows a list of all the windows of running application where you can close all or selected windows in one click
- "Reopen Current Folder from Dialog Box" will open a new Windows Explorer window and load the folder that is active in the dialog box
- "Switch to default settings file" reloads the normal QAP settings file QuickAccessPopup.ini
- various QAP features for existing features that were available only in Tray menu but can now be added in any menu: "Restore Settings Position", "Check for update" and "Edit Settings file"
Tray menu (right-click on QAP icon in Notification zone)
- group some Tray menu options under a new sub menu "Settings file options"
- add the item "Switch to default settings file" to the Tray sub menu "Settings file options"
Keyboard shortcuts (internal changes)
- internal keyboard shortcuts management has been simplified and now allows to have various shortcuts for the same location with different parameters
- in the settings file QuickAccessPopup.ini, shortcuts are now saved with the favorites info (in the [Favorites] section instead of the separate [LocationHotkeys] section as before)
- the existing shortcuts in the [LocationHotkeys] section are automatically upgraded to the new favorites shortcuts format
- IMPORTANT NOTE: once you upgraded to a version greater than v9.0 (or beta release v8.7.1.92), you should not revert to an earlier version (if whenever you have to do it, your keyboard shortcuts will be lost)
Other minor improvements
- Shared menus: prevent user from changing the location or file name of a Shared menu (avoiding errors); if the file for a shared menu has been renamed or moved, first remove the shared menu and create a new one with the moved or renamed file
- Snippets: when displaying a prompt waiting to send a text snippet or execute a macro snippet, QAP now accepts Escape to cancel the snippet
- Drag & Drop: when adding a file shortcut (.lnk) using drag and drop, set the default name of the favorite to the name of the shortcut
- File Shortcuts (.lnk): when adding a file shortcut with the "Add favorite" dialog box or using drag and drop, get the favorite default icon value and, for applications, the "Parameters" (command line arguments) and "Start In" working directory values from the file shortcut (this is already done that way when adding the shortcut using the Explorer context menu)
- Add favorite: reorder the types of favorites radio buttons in the "Select Type" dialog box when you add a favorite
- Windows Explorer: opening a folder that is already open in another Explorer window now brings the existing window to front (instead of creating a new window) except, of course, if you click inside an existing Explorer window, in which case it changes the folder inside this window
- Windows Explorer instances: before this release, opening a folder in a new window was creating a new Explorer instance for every new folder; now, the window for a new folder is created under the existing Explorer instance and only one Explorer instance is created by QAP (unless user open the Alternative menu "Open in new window" or if user adds an argument to the folder in "Advanced Settings" in which cases QAP must create new Explorer instances)
- Exclusions: add the capability to exclude menu mouse trigger (by default, Middle mouse button) by process name in addition to window title and class name (the process name is usually the name of the executable file of an application, for example: NOTEPAD.EXE) and add detection of process name when using the "Get window info" button below exclusion list in "Exclusion" tab of the "Options" window
- make sure location ends with backslash for app's Save As dialog box (like with Notepad++ v7.5.6) trying to save instead of navigating if location does not end with backslash
- QAP development framework AutoHotkey has been upgraded to v1.1.28.00
Language
- language updates for Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
- removed Sweedish language (not updated since v8.0)
Version: 8.7.1.2 (2018-02-23)
- prevent user from changing the location or file name of a Shared menu (avoiding errors); if the file for a shared menu has been renamed or moved, first remove the shared menu and create a new one for the moved or renamed file
- message to confirm before creating a new (empty) external menu
- using Snippets, when waiting to send a text snippet or execute a macro snippet, accept Escape to cancel the snippet
Version: 8.7.1.1 (2018-01-21)
- fix bug introduced in v8.7.1 making the menu miss the QAP features names after user saved changes in the Hotkeys dialog box
- fix bug "unknown" icons displayed for some favorites in menu after saving favorites for the first time after first launch after installation
- fix bug write file version number to executable files (32-bit and 64-bit)
- add executable files version number to setup executable file
- compiled with new AHK runtime v1.1.27.03 and display AHK runtime version in About dialog box
- update to traditional Chinese (ZH-TW) language file
Version: 8.7.1 (2017-12-30)
Run as administrator
- new checkbox "Run as administrator" in Options, first tab, to launch QAP as an admnistrator (ie: with elevated privileges)
- display a security alert when selecting the "Run as administrator" option and when launching QAP as administrator
- when running as administrator, embed the Windows UAC (User Access Control) logo in QAP icon in the Notification zone
- add the "[admin]" tag to QAP application name when running as administrator
- administrator security alert, "[admin]" tag and QAP tray icon with UAC logo are displayed only if QAP is running as admin because of the "Run as administrator" option (ie: not if user launched QAP as administrator by other means)
- launch QAP with normal privileges if user decline elevation (ie: do not enter the admin password when requested)
- more info here: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-launch-qap-with-administrator-privileges/
Bug fixes
- in Live Folders, fix icons for items with extension .url (links) or .lnk (shortcuts)
- fix bug when Directory Opus had multiple listers and wrong lister was sometimes activated after opening a folder in new tab
- fix bug in French version to remember the "Add/Edit favorite" dialog box width
Various
- the QAP startup shortcut (created when user select the "Run at startup" option) now includes the "/Settings:" parameter if user switched settings file (QAP will reload with the changed settings file)
- add a random number to QAP temporary folder name to make sure we have distinct folders in case multiple QAP instances are launched
- use the Windows UAC (User Access Control) logo as default icon for the Alternative menu "Run as administrator"
- new JLicons.dll icons file v1.4 including Windows UAC logo icon and QAP icon with UAC logo
* User installing QAP in PORTABLE mode, make sure you update your JLicons.dll file
- Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, German, Spanish and French language update
Version: 8.7 (2017-12-06)
New QAP Features
- new QAP feature "Repeat Last Actions" displaying a submenu with the last 10 items selected in the popup menu
- adding a new submenu "Repeat Last Actions" to the "My QAP Essentials" menu for new installation only (* existing users must add it themselves *)
- when an item is selected from the "Repeat Last Actions" menu, it is moved to the top of the menu
- new option in "Options", "Menu" tab, to select the number of items in "Repeat Last Actions" menu (default 10)
- new QAP feature "Repeat Last Action" (singular) to repeat the last item selected in the popup menu (* users must add it themselves to their menu *)
- new QAP Feature "Recent Files" displaying a submenu with recent files as remembered by Windows
- adding a new submenu "Recent Files" to the "My QAP Essentials" menu for new installation only (* existing users must add it themselves *)
- adding a new submenu "Repeat Last Actions" to the "My QAP Essentials" menu for new installation only (* existing users must add it themselves *)
- the "Recent Files" submenu contains the same number of items as the "Recent Folders" submenu
- new option in "Options", "Menu" tab, to display the refreshed folders "Recent Folders", "Recent Files" and "Drives" attached to the main menu (with a refresh delay that may vary at each menu popup) or detached as stand-alone menus refreshed on demand (as before this release)
Russian keyboard support
- various adjustments for systems where current input language (keyboard) is Russian (language code 0419)
- if Russian keyboard is detected, replace Windows + W and Shift + Windows + W menu keyboard hotkeys with equivalent keys on Russian keyboard (ASCII Unicode 1094)
- at first execution, do not assign default hotkeys to favorites if running on a system with Russian keyboard
- change method of initialization of shortcuts in "Settings" window to avoid errors with Russian keyboard
Temporary folder
- add an option in "General" tab to select the folder where the QAP temporary folder is created (and deleted when you exit QAP)
- for new installation starting with this version, the default temporary folder is created in Windows %TEMP% folder (e.g. C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Temp)
Other improvements
- support navigation (change folder) in PowerShell window as in the command-line console (CMD)
- add an item to the QAP system menu (richt-click on QAP icon menu in Notification zone) labeled "Restore Settings window position" that move the "Settings" window to its default position and size, in case it would become invisible following changes by user in screens configuration
- when activating a running application with Applications favorite option "If the application is already running, activate it instead of launching", activate it only if it has the requested admnin (UAC) level (elevated or normal), if not, launch a new instance with the required admin level (if the application supports multiple instances)
- allow resize of dialog box shown when selecting a destination menu for copied or moved multiple favorites, allowing to see longer destination menus and save window last position to ini file to restore it when using this dialog box again
- add code to be more specific when detecting a file dialog box (Open, Save As, etc.) and exclude non-file dialog boxes (Preferences, Options, etc.)
Bug fixes
- changes in Manage Icons window were not saved if favorites were part of a shared menu
- could not use the Alternative menu feature "Edit a favorite" for running apps favorites if the "If this application is already running, activate..." option was enabled
- default hotkeys for QAP features in "My QAP Essentials" were not correctly initializes when creating the settings file at first execution
- bug in error message when a hotkey was not available in current keyboard layout
- opening Special folder "Control panel" in Directory Opus was causing a blank tab to be added
- make sure the application window does not stay minimized when activating a running application with Applications favorite option "If the application is already running, activate it instead of launching"
Language updates
- update to Traditional Chinese (ZH-TW, back to v8.1), Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Spanish, Dutch and French language files
- English language revision (thanks to Richard for proofreading)
Version: 8.6.4 (2017-11-29)
- fix bug: changes in Manage Icons window were not saved if menu was part of a shared menu
- fix bug: could not use the Alternative menu feature "Edit a favorite" for running apps favorites if the "If this application is already running, activate..." option was enabled
- give temporary menu name to unknown QAP feature (this should only happen if switching back from a version with a new QAP feature to an earlier version where this QAP feature is unknown)
- Traditional Chinese (ZH-TW) translation update (back to v8.1, thanks to Jess) and English language proofreading (thanks to Richard)
Version: 8.6.3 (2017-11-16)
- make "Add this Folder or Link" work with recent versions of Firefox (tested with v56)
- fix bug when adding a link with "Add this Folder or Link" from the QAP icon menu
- fix display bug in "Edit favorite" dialog box when very long web page title is retrieved as favorite name
- fix bug when assigning an hotkey to an Alternative menu feature for the first time
- update to Brazilian Portuguese language file
Version: 8.6.2 (2017-11-06)
- for new inslallations only, add default hotkeys to QAP features:
"Add This Folder or Link" -> Shift + Control + A
"Reopen Current Folder in Dialog Box" -> Shift + Control + C
"Clipboard" -> change from Shift + Control + C to Shift + Control + V
(existing users can add it themselves in the Edit Favorite dialog box, Menu Options tab)
- fix bug display hotkey title in error messages when a hotkey is not available in current keyboard layout
- update to Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Spanish, French and Dutch language files
Version: 8.6.1 (2017-10-29)
- fix bug default icon not set properly when adding a favorite
- block popup menu during menu refresh launched with QAP feature Refresh Live menus
- add link for monthly donations in Support freeware dialog box
Version: 8.6 (2017-10-26)
Add this Link
- the QAP Feature "Add This Folder" has been renamed "Add this Folder or Link" and now detects URL locations in browsers as well as folder locations in supported file managers
- when adding a link, QAP retrieves the web page title automatically as default favorite name; if the URL returns an error (this can happen even for valid pages), it leaves the favorite name empty
- when adding or editing a favorite link, a button allows to retrieve the page title from the web page
- a tooltip is displayed when retrieving web page title (in case fetching the tile takes some time)
Copy multiple favorites
- support copy multiple favorites (still excluding menus and groups)
- multiple copy stops when an existing favorite in the destination menu has the same name as the copied favorite (as for multiple move in previous versions)
- an error message is displayed when user ask to move or copy multiple favorites to their actual location
Text Separators
- a new favorite type "Text Separator" allows to insert text entries as headers or sub-headers in the QAP menu (selecting these entries in the menu has no effect)
- a new "T" icon in the left column of Settings window can be clicked to add Text Separators
- by default, Text Separators have no icon but one can be selected in the "Menu Options" tab
Favorites icons management
- QAP now allows favorites to have "no icon"
- in add/edit favorite dialog box "Menu Options" tab, a new link labeled "no icon" selects the "no icon" pseudo-icon (the "forbidden" sign with a diagonal bar)
- the "no icon" icon can also be selected in the JLicons.dll file
- the favorite icons taken in JLicons.dll are now saved in the settings file by their name (e.g. "iconFolder") instead of the "file,index" format used for icons from other files
- current icons from JLindex.dll in the settings file are be converted from "file,index" format to names (e.g. "iconFolder") the first time settings are saved with this version (and future versions)
- in add/edit favorite dialog box "Menu Options" tab, a new link labeled "select in JLicons.dll"
- a new icon file named JLicons.dll v1.3 including the new iconNoIcon pseudo-icon will be automatically updated for Setup users (for portable installation, make sure the previous file is replaced)
Unicode conversion
- QAP now save its settings (QuickAccessPopup.ini) with Unicode encoding, allowing more international and special characters to be saved in favorites location, snippets content or favorites names
- QAP still supports existing settings file saved in ANSI encoding but it offers to do the conversion when QAP is loaded with this version (and future versions)
- if settings file is encoded in ANSI, QAP displays a dialog box offering the user to:
1) convert its settings file to Unicode encoding (for better int'l and special characters support);
2) not convert (value "DoNotConvertSettingsToUnicode=1" is added to settings to remember this choice);
3) or ask again at next startup.
- the dialog box includes a link to a FAQ web page for explanation and help (https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/why-converting-the-settings-file-to-unicode-and-conversion-troubleshooting/)
Various
- the option "Always open folders in current file manager window" in Options, "Files mamagers" tab is added to always change folder in the current Explorer, Total Commander or Directory Opus window, except when using the Alternative menu "Open in new window"; this applies to favorites of types Folder, Special Folder and FTP
- improve visibility of the "Explorer context menu" option in Options "Menu" tab
- new value SendToConsoleWithAlt in Global settings, default 1 (true), to use the ALT+0nnn ASCII codes when changing folder in a command-line window (CMD)
- partial update of all language files (complete updates in next versions), full update of the French language file
Bug fixes
- fix bug when changing folder in command-line window (CMD) with some international keyboard input language (by using the ALT+0nnn ASCII codes)
- fix bug when opening an application favorite with {CUR_LOC} and when location is empty (this was happening when the current window was not an Explorer window)
- fix bug when user cancels the pick icon dialog box, now QAP keeps the selected icon
Version: 8.5.2/8.5.3 (2017-09-08)
- v8.5.3 fixes a comment typo in v8.5.2 preventing the app to load
- reverting change from v8.5.1 causing issues for users having special characters in their favorites paths : at QAP startup, STOPS converting QuickAccessPopup.ini to Unicode encoding if it is encoded in ANSI (until more tests are done)
- if your QuickAccessPopup.ini was corrupted using v8.5.1, go to your working directory (https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/whats-the-qap-working-directory/), rename QuickAccessPopup.ini-ANSI-BK to QuickAccessPopup.ini
- for new installations, this change is maintained: create new settings file QuickAccessPopup.ini with Unicode encoding
Version: 8.5.1 (2017-09-07)
- create new settings file QuickAccessPopup.ini with Unicode encoding; this change allows the use of extended characters in favorite's name, location or content
- at QAP startup, check if QuickAccessPopup.ini encoding is ANSI and, if yes, convert it to Unicode encoding and inform user
- fix bug expand placeholder {CUR_LOC} in application favorite's working directory before checking if directory exists
- fix bug display "Reset default hotkey" in Select hotkey dialog box when there is no default
Version: 8.5 (2017-09-04)
Menu key
- you can now use the Menu key (also called Context menu key or Application key) to pop up the QAP menu or launch any favorite
- to select the Menu key, in the "Select Hotkey" dialog box, click on the "menu key (application)" link below the hotkey selector
- this hotkey can be combined with any modifiers (Shift, Alt, Ctrl or Win)
Snippets
- major improvements to make Snippets easier to create and edit
- a button in snippet add/edit favorite dialog box to enlarge the snippet content text box
- font size selector for snippet text box
- check box to display a snippet with fixed font (useful for code snippets)
- display preferences saved with each snippet
- default preferences for snippets can be selected in Options, General tab
- when launching a snippet with the "Prompt before" option, QAP also accepts Space to kick-off a snippet (in addition to Enter)
- change help link to new FAQ page about snippets (see improved FAQ content about Snippets)
Reopen Current Folder in dialog box
- a feature I should have included much earlier... Warning: to take advantage of it, existing users must add themselves this new feature to their menu
- new QAP feature "Reopen Current Folder in dialog box" allowing to reopen in a dialog box the current location in Windows Explorer
- the current location is the folder currently displayed in the active (or in the last active) Windows Explorer window
- current location is also detected in Directory Opus or Total Commander if one of these file magagers is enabled
Hotkeys
- set QAP feature default hotkeys for "Reopen Current Folder" to Shift + Ctrl + C (of course, you can change it at any time)
- change QAP feature "Clipboard" default hotkeys from Shift + Ctrl + C to Shift + Ctrl + V
- this change is only for new installations - exising users must do this change themselves, if they wish
Various
- the "Ctrl + Ctrl" option has been moved to the "Alternative menu" tab in Options dialog box, and its presentation has been improved
- add a link beside the "Check for update" checkbox in the Options dialog box to check for update immediately
- check if the "Start in" folder location exists before launching a favorite and do not launch it if the location is not found
- offer to edit the favorite when one of these folder locations is not found: folder, document or application location, "Launch with" application location or "Start in" folder location
Language
- new! Dutch language is now available, thanks to Ric Roggeveen
- German translation update for changes since v8
- updates for Spanish, Italian and French language files, thanks to translators
Bug fixes
- fix an error in QAP 32-bit executable file preventing the Windows Explorer context menus to work with QAP installed in portable mode
- allow favorite location to be a UNC root path (like \\127.0.0.1\ or \\MyDomain\) assuming the location is online because Windows does not allow to check if an UNC root location is available (on my system, Windows 10 defaults to the "Documents" folder if the UNC drive is not mounted)
- fix bug when adding a QAP feature and when its default hotkey is already in use for another favorite
- fix bug when processing backtick (accent grave) in snippets (used for code snippets) and add help about backticks in add/edit dialog box
- fix bug Alternative menu hotkey reappearing after delete when returning to Options dialog box until QAP is restarted
- fix bug && displayed in Drag & Drop help window title instead of &
- add diagnostic code to track the "71 hotkeys limit" bug - if someone encounter this error message, please contact me
Version: 8.4.2 (2017-08-18)
- stop creating Windows Explorer context menu for Windows Shortcuts (.lnk files) because of potential security issue
- if you need to remove this context menu see the FAQ (https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/how-can-i-remove-the-windows-explorer-contextual-menu-for-windows-shortcuts-lnk-files/)
Version: 8.4.1 (2017-08-05)
- fix bug maximum of Live Folders items exceeded (500 items limit) by error
- fix bug last Live folder item duplicated when numeric shortcuts are enabled
Version: 8.4 (2017-08-01)
- add "Always on top" option to Settings window to ease drag and drop
- update drag & drop help message
- remember window location when drag & drop a folder favorite to Settings window
- add a tab about Shared Menus in Help window
- add tooltips over left column buttons in Settings window
- fix bug when icon resource filename includes a coma
- fix links in Options tabs and fix links to Shared menu FAQ page on website
- Spanish, Brazilian-Portuguese, Italian and French language updates
Version: 8.3 (2017-07-20)
Search
- add search text box to filter favorites in all submenus in Settings window
- add an X button to empty the filter text box and restore the full favorites list
- filtering is done based on the existence of the search string in the favorites name (only) in all menus and submenus
- filtering is case insensitive
- filtered favorites are displayed in the order they were found, starting from top main menu
- in filtered favorites list, the Edit button, Enter key or double-click open the edit favorite dialog box with the selected favorite
- double-clicking a menu favorite in filtered favorites list opens this menu unfiltered
- after edition of a favorite, the regular favorites list is restored in the location of the edited favorite
- the Remove button or Delete key removes a favorite from the filtered list (with confirmation before deleting a menu and its submenus); after deletion, the filtered list remains active
- in filtered list, only single selection is available, allowing edition or deletion of only one favorite at a time
- left columns buttons to move favorites or insert separator buttons (and their associated hotkeys) are disabled in filtered list
- in filtered list, the Add button (and its associated hotkey Ctrl-N) adds a new favorite at the top of the main menu
- changing menu using the dropdown list, using back or top arrows and closing and re-opening the Settings window restore the regular unfiltered list
- in Settings window, the new shortcut Ctrl-F moves the cursor to search box
Shared menus
- complete rewrite of Shared menus file locking (reservation to avoid conflicting changes by simultaneous users)
- when opening the add/edit favorite dialog box, QAP checks if the favorites belongs to a Shared menu and displays a message if the menu is read-only, locked (reserved) by another user or if it was changed since QAP was launched
- when saving a favorite (or when moving a favorite using arrows in Settings, or when adding a separator or a column break), QAP checks if the favorites belongs to a Shared menu and, if yes, checks if the shared menu was locked or modified since the dialog box was opened and, if yes, displays a message
- after a favorite in a shared menu is saved in QAP "internal" memory, QAP locks (reserves) the shared menu file until the changes in shared menu are actualy saved to the settings file QuickAccessPopup.ini, preventing other users from editing this shared menu
- QAP display "Read-only" in the Settings window's content column and prevent opening this menu in the Settings window if it is saved in a folder where the user has no write access and for shared menus of type "Centralized" where user does not have write-access for this menu
- when creating a Shared menu of type "Centralized", QAP automatically adds the current username to the write-access list (preventing the user to be locked out of its own new menu)
- in "Centralized" Shared menus write-access list, names can also be separated by semicolon (in addition to comma)
- a shared menu cannot be added under another shared menu
- QAP now supports Shared menu file locking when changes are done using the "Manage icons" window
- in Settings window column labeled "Content", QAP now displays the Shared menu settings file location
New Explorer Context menu for Windows shortcuts
- add an Explorer context menu for Windows shortcuts file (.lnk files) labeled "Import Windows shortcut to Quick Access Popup menu" to import shortcut settings to QAP favorites
- QAP imports the following settings from Windows shortcut: working directory (for application favorites), window state (for folder favorites) and icon settings (for any type of favorites)
- note for user of portable version: the file ManageContextMenu.bat has been updated to include the new context menu "Import Windows shortcut to Quick Access Popup menu"
Various
- add Settings shortcut F1 to open the Help window
- add Settings shortcut Ctrl-H to display the Favorites Shortcuts Help window
- update the Favorites Shortcuts Help window
Bug fixes
- fix bug having various side effects after user made changes to Settings and cancelled these changes with the Cancel button
- fix bug when opening a folder and active window is QAP Settings window
Version: 8.2.3 (2017-06-24)
- fix bug blocking removal of multiple favorites when user answers no when asked to confirm removal of a submenu
- fix label display bug under Remove button preventing showing the number of selected favorites
Version: 8.2.2 (2017-06-08)
- Fix display bug in Settings, change cursor to hand when mouse over some icons and labels
- In Shared menus, verify if user has write access when opening a collaborative menu in Settings and give appropriate error message if user has no access
- In Shared Menus Catalogue, replace "&&" in menu names with single "&"
- Change QAP feature label "Add shared favorites menu from catalogue"
- In the Add Favorite dialog box, add info about Live Folder Options in Folder tip
Version: 8.2.1 (2017-05-19)
- multi-user change collision bug fixed
- add QAP feature to "Add a Shared menu from the catalogue"
- add tip below Shared menu catalogue list about double-click on a line to view the shared menu info
- when create Shared menu, force user to select the Shared menu type (no default type)
- support relative paths and environmenet variables for Shared menu file path
- fix bug in Add/Edit Favorite of type Shared menu when browse for external file and cancel
Version: 8.2 (2017-05-14)
Shared menus revamped
- three type of Shared menus
1) Personal: menu shared on different computers by the same user
2) Collaborative: menu on a shared drive for a team or a workgroup (every member can edit the menu)
3) Centralized: menu on a shared drive maintained by one or more menu administrator(s)
- new "Shared menu" tab in shared menu favorites to select shared menu type (radio buttons), name and options
- options for "Centralized" shared menus: list of users with right to edit the shared menu (coma separated list), message about shared menu access shown to users without access
- Shared menu options are saved in the "[Global]" section of the share menu ini file, in variables "MenuName", "WriteAccessUsers", "WriteAccessMessage" and "MenuType"
- in favorites list, display Shared menu name and display "Read-only" if current user does not have write access to the centralized menu
- when adding a Shared menu, get the favorite name from the menu ini file if the variable "MenuName" exists
- deprecate the option "Number of the first favorite" in shared menu files (now favorites always starting at 1 but starting number in old menu are still supported)
Shared menus catalogue
- new option in "General" tab to "Enable Shared Menu Catalogue" and select the "Catalogue root folder"
- when user adds a Shared menu and when the catalogue is enabled, give user the option to select the Shared menu from a dialog box
- new Shared menu dialog box containing the shared menu files under the catalogue root with menu names, paths and checkboxes to select menu(s) to add to QAP popup menu
- in Shared menu dialog box, button "Add selected shared menu(s)" to add selected menu(s) from catalogue to the QAP menu at the current menu and position in favorites list
- in Shared menu dialog box, button "Add another shared menu" to browse the file system for any Shared menu settings file and add it to current position in favorites list
- in Shared menu dialog box, respond to double-click on a row by showing Shared menu info and a button to open the settings file in a text editor if it is not read-only
- new "ExternalMenusCataloguePathReadOnly" variable (in QAP ini file only) to prevent user from changing the catalogue root folder when value is 1, and display an error message if user tries to change the root if read-only
Shared menus mutli-user edition
- alert message when user tries to edit an external menu that was modified by another user or on another computer, based on last modification date-time
- reserve external menu when user loads a Shared menu in Settings or when user add or move favorites to a Shared menu, user and computer name are savec in the Shared menu variable "MenuReservedBy"
- release Shared menu reservation when user saves or cancels settings changes or quits QAP
- store and read last modified date in Shared menu ini file and update it only when favorites or external menu properties are changed, not when only reserved without changes
- in "About" dialog box, display user name and computer name
Other changes
- new Alternative menu QAP features "Open the Containing Folder in the Current Window" and "Open the Containing Folder in a New Window" to open the folder containing the selected document, application or folder favorite in the current window or in a new window
- in Export file name, translate placeholder "%A_Now%" to current local date-time and "%A_NowUTC%" to current Coordinated Universal Time (based on computer time), using "YYYYMMDDHH24MISS" format
- in "Import/Export Settings", remember lats destination file in quickaccesspopup.ini when exporting and restore last used file name in when exporting settings
- in "Live folders", exclude folders with the Hidden (H) attribute (keeping those having System attribute without the Hidden attribute)
- enlarge submenus dropdown lists to 500 px in "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box
- disable the popup menu during settings saving
- remove Patreon donation option; add Paypal links to make donations in EUR and CAD funds
- update to Spanish, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese language files
Bug fixes and improvements
- fix bug in Setup program when updating QAP causing QAP Explorer context menus to be re-enabled even if user turned them off in Settings
- fix bug "Open this menu" button missing in "Edit favorite" dialog box for Shared menus favorites
Version: 8.1.1 (2017-03-19)
Import/Export
- in Import/Export Settings, save destination file to QuickAccessPopup.ini when exporting and restore last used file name in Export dialog dox
- in Export file name, translate placeholder "%A_Now%" to current local date-time and "%A_NowUTC%" to current Coordinated Universal Time (based on computer time), using "YYYYMMDDHH24MISS" format
Alternative menu
- two new Alternative menu QAP features to open the folder containing the selected document, application or folder favorite 1) in the current window or 2) in a new window
Various improvements
- in Live folders, exclude folders with the Hidden (H) attribute (keeping those having System attribute without the Hidden attribute)
- in Edit Favorite dialog box for a favorite of type Group, add a button to open the group in the Settings window
- enlarge submenus dropdown lists to 500 px in Add/Edit Favorite dialog box
- split Options dialog box first tab "General" in two tabs ("General" and "Menu") to make some room for future options
- remove "Use Classic buttons" option in "General" tab ([Global] value "UseClassicButtons" still supported if present in ini file)
- remove Patreon donation option; add Paypal links to make donations in EUR and CAD funds
- tooltip "Saving..." and disable "Cancel" button in Settings during saving
Bug fixes
- support relative paths and environment variables in Live Folders
- fix bug prevent editing favorites in read-only external menu from the Edit Favorite Alternative menu
- (Setup program updated 2017-03-30) fix bug when updating QAP in setup mode causing QAP Explorer context menus to be re-enabled even if user turned them off in settings
Version: 8.1 (2017-02-20)
Shortcuts
- display favorites shortcuts in a new column in the Settings
- when creating a favorites shortcut, support left only or right only keyboard modifiers for Shift, Alt, Ctrl and Win keys
- support different shortcuts for favorites with the same location (if they have different names), allowing them to have different options (in other words, favorite shortcuts are now linked to "name + location")
- update menu and dialog box labels to include menu shortcuts (underlined character, using the & special character)
Various
- in QAP Mouse Hotkey exclusion list, also exclude hotkey in app's dialog boxes when the app's title or class name is prefix an asterisk (*)
- add the QAP Features "Run as administrator" to the Alternative menu (Shift + Middle mouse button or Shift + Windows + W)
- new batch file from Dogan Celik to install/uninstall Windows Explorer context menus registry keys, working as-is with portable version (see instructions in batch file)
- group members can now be disabled (same as favorites being hidden in menu), change disable checkbox label for group members
- renamed the icon file iconQAP.ico to QuickAccessPopup.ico using the same ico file name for context menu registry keys in app, setup and portable batch
Bug fixes
- cover exceptional situation where icon "file,index" for an extension is badly encoded in registry (including ")
- fix bug when double-clicking on empty line in Hotkeys list
- fix bug in Hotkeys list, when change hotkey, enable save button only if a hotkey was changed
- fix bug when Menu hotkey in Options is changed from None to a keyboard shortcut
- add delay when changing folder in dialog box to help with an intermittent issue in in some apps like Firefox (delay in milliseconds stored in quickaccesspopup.ini [Global] variable WaitDelayInDialogBox with default 100)
Version: 8.0.4 (2017-01-11)
- v8.0.4: fix bug in Manage Hotkeys list not retrieving correct favorite on double-click
- v8.0.4: alert about menu shortcuts to user when inserting ampersand (&) in short name for the menu
- v8.0.4: update to Chinese and French language file
- v8.0.3: fix small issue with check for update command
- v8.0.2: fix Settings dialog box issue with Chinese translation
- v8.0.2: update to Sweeden, Italian, Portuguese, French and Spanish language files
- v8.0.1: update current year in About dialog box
- v8.0.1: add NbLiveFolderItemsMax default value to QuickAccessPopup.ini to make it easier to change this value
- v8.0.1: links updated in Support freeware dialog box
Version: 8 (2017-01-03)
Live Folder options
- To enable a Live Folder favorite, add or edit a Folder favorite and go to the new tab "Live Folders Options". In this tab you can select:
- the checkbox "Live Folder" to transform this favorite into a menu (and submenus) refreshed with the current content of the folder (and its subfolders)
- an option to set the "Number of subfolders levels to include in the Live Folder menu" (1 by default - keep it low for large folders)
- an option to "Include Documents" in the Live Folder
- an option to "Include" or "Exclude" documents by file extensions
- an option to split Live Folder menu in columns of a given "Number of items per column (0 for no column break)"
- Add the new QAP Feature "Refresh Live Folders menus" to your menu to refresh Live Folder on-demand (normally, Live Folder menus are refreshed when you launch QAP of when you save changes in Settings)
- QAP adds items to Live Folders up to a maximum of 500 items; if this number is exceeded, it displays an alert message
- You can edit a Live Folder favorite in the "Settings" window or using the Alternative menu "Edit a Favorite" (Shift+Middle Mouse Button or Shift+Win+W) and also by clicking any item in a Live Folder menu with Shift+Ctrl menu modifiers pressed
- More info: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-a-menu-be-updated-as-the-content-of-a-folder-changes/
New menu icons
- QAP now uses new color icons from the shared file JLicons.dll installed with QAP
- In "Easy Setup" mode, this file JLicons.dll is saved in the shared applications folder "C:\ProgramData\JeanLalonde"
- In "Portable" mode, the file JLicons.dll is included in the portable ZIP file and must be kept in the same folder as QAP executable file
- This change frees QAP from its dependency on Windows files shell32.dll and imageres.dll
- Using this icons library, menu icons can now be enabled on Windows Server versions.
- Icons from: www.icons8.com
Manage Icons
- The new "Manage Icons" dialog box gives an overview of your current favorites menu icons with buttons to pick a new icon or reset the default icon for each favorite
- Click the new button "Icons" in the Settings window (lower right) or add to your menu the QAP Feature named "Icons"
- In Options (General tab), the numeric value "Manage Icons window rows" alloow to set the height of the window in case the height is calculated based on inaccurate info returned by Windows (this happens sometimes)
Various improvements
Settings window
- New color buttons in Settings window and a new option (first tab) to "Use classic QAP buttons" (black & white) if you prefer the old style buttons
- Stop rebuilding all menus after each add or edit favorite
- Replace the "Save" button in Settings with two buttons: "Save & Close" and "Save & Reload", the latter keeping the Settings window open after reloading the menu (this replaces holding the Shift or Alt modifier keys when clicking the Save button in previous versions)
- When changes are unsaved in the Settings window, if the QAP menu is called or if a favorite is launched via hokey, QAP will prompt user for one of these actions: "Save" - save settings, "Settings" - go to settings or "Cancel" - just cancel the requested action
- Add a confirmation prompt before deleting a group in Settings
Manage Hotkeys window
- New item order column in Hotkeys list to sort initialy favorites with hotkeys following the QAP menu order
- Stop displaying group members in Hotkeys list (this was useless since hotkeys could not be assigned to individual group members)
- In the "Change hotkey" dialog box, new links "Enter" and "Escape" allow to select Enter or Escape as hotkey (idealy associated with keyboard modifiers like Shift, Alt or Ctrl)
Shared menus
- When saving a Shared menu settings file, compare the last modified date after saving and display an error message if the date was not updated (probably because the target file is read-only)
- Display an error message if a new Shared menu settings file cannot be created (probably because the target folder is read-only)
- Automatically append the .ini extension when selecting a Shared menu settings file
- Note that Quick Access Popup still does not manage conflicts if a Shared menu is modified by different users at the same time (see Shared menu help page for more info)
Other improvements
- New option in Options window (Menu hotkeys tab) to enable left or right double Ctrl hotkey (press left or right Control key twice) to open main QAP menu
- Add .cmd extension to the list of supported application extensions (with .exe, .com, .bat, .ahk and .vbs) when adding a favorite by drag and drop or using Explorer context menus
- Append .ini extension if destination export file has no extension when exporting settings
- Replace the "QAP working" notification when rebuilding menu with a small popup message listing the updated menus, close to mouse cursor location
- Record Windows Explorer window position when adding a folder from Windows Explorer context menu (allowing to restore this window position in the "Window Options" tab when launching the folder)
- Add to QuickAccessPopup.ini the setting "AlternativeTrayIcon" under "[Global]" section to set a tray icon replacement (replacement file must be an .ico file)
- In Options, General tab, the new checkbox "Add automatically at the top of menu" makes sure favorites added automatically with "Add this folder", "Add this folder Express" or "Add favorite" from Windows Explorer context menus are added at the top of main menu (by default they are added at the top and, if unchecked, they are added at the bottom)
- Support the new placeholder "{CUR_LOC}" in folder, document and application favorites locations allowing to create favorite with a location relative to the folder where the QAP menu is opened
- Add up/down buttons to numeric values in various settings in Options and Add/Edit favorite windows
- When installing an update with the "Easy Setup" mode, reduce the number of pages (clicks) in setup procedure from 7 to 3
Bug fixes
- Fix bug working directory not being shown in edit favorite advanced setting tab for application favorites
- Changes made in Hotkeys list window are now properly cancelled if user cancels changes in Settings window
- Fix bug when editing a QAP Feature or Special folder favorite from Alternative menu, QAP Feature or Special folders drop down list is now correctly initialized
Language updates
- Update to Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chineese (TW), Brazilian-Portuguese and German language files
Version: 7.5.4.3 (2016-10-30)
- Reduce the number of pages (clicks) in setup procedure from 7 to 3 when installing an update
- Language update for German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian-Portuguese and Chineese (TW)
- Fix bug working directory not being shown in edit favorite advanced tab for application favorites
Version: 7.5.4.2 (2016-10-13)
- add external menu values external path and loaded in menu object backup
- when loading submenu favorite from ini file, recreate menu path in case the value is empty (possible for settings saved with v7.4.0.2 to v7.4.2)
Version: 7.5.4.1 (2016-10-09)
- Fix bug when canceling changes to Favorites list in Settings, that could then potentially cause loss of data if saving new changes to settings file after cancellation
Version: 7.5.4 (2016-09-23)
Application favorites
- in advanced settings, support placeholders {CUR_...} for current location where this favorite is launched: {CUR_LOC} (full folder), {CUR_NAME} (last folder), {CUR_DIR} (folder containing last folder) or {CUR_DRIVE}
- in advanced settings, add a check box to set the "Start In" directory (working directory) to the current location where this favorite is launched
- more info in https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-pass-the-current-folder-as-parameter-to-an-application-launched-with-qap/
Various bux fixes or little improvements
- backup [Favorites] under the name [Favorites-backup] section in settings file before save the new favorites
- when using Add this folder command, if folder path starts with "ftp://", add an FTP favorite
- in Settings, block backdoors allowing to enter in read-only shared menu or to move items to these menus
Total Commander
- in TC Directory Hotlist, support folders relying on file system plugins like VirtualPanel (stop checking if file exist before launching these folders with TC)
Directory Opus
- fix bug then folder includes special characters (like ') when getting the current lister in DOpus (used in Add this folder and in current location placeholders)
Language updates
- German, Sweeden, Portuguese, Brazilian-Portuguese and Italian
Version: 7.5.3 (2016-09-15)
(release for translators only at this time)
- block all ways to enter in read-only shared menu in Settings or to move items to a read-only shared menu
- backup [Favorites] under the name [Favorites-backup] section in settings file before save the new favorites
- when using Add this folder command, if folder path starts with "ftp://", add an FTP favorite
Version: 7.5.2 (2016-09-12)
(Sorry for multiple updates in last days... Once found, I did not want to leave this bug out anymore)
- fix bug main settings backup files being deleted/overwritten when the main menu includes a shared menu
Version: 7.5.1 (2016-09-11) * Must upgrade for v7.5 users
- fix bug: after switching settings, QAP menu hotkeys could not be read and modified in Options
Version: 7.5 (2016-09-11)
Import/Export Settings
- add "Import/Export Settings" menu to Tray menu (right-click QAP icon in Notification zone)
- add "Import/Export Settings" to QAP Features list allowing to insert this feature to your QAP menu
- choose to import or export any or all of these settings groups: favorites, hotkeys, alternative menu hotkeys, global settings and themes
- export QuickAccessPopup.ini sections to any existing or to a new configuration (.ini) file
- import from any existing .ini file complying with QuickAccessPopup.ini structure
- replace or append favorites to the destination settings file
- check for unsaved settings before importing or exporting setings
- reload QAP after settings import
Switch Settings file
- add "Switch Settings file" menu to Tray menu (right-click QAP icon in Notification zone)
- add "Switch Settings" feature to QAP Features list allowing to insert this feature to your QAP menu
- change the settings file (.ini) to any file complying with QuickAccessPopup.ini structure
- check for unsaved settings before switching settings file
- reload QAP after switching to a new settings file
- settings file can be configured from command-line parameter "/Settings:", for example: QuickAccessPopup.exe "/Settings:C:\My Folder\My Settings.ini"
- settings fle name can include environment variable and support relative paths based on the QAP working directory
Other changes or bug fixes
- Total Commander "TC Hotlist" menu can be updated when AlternateUserIni parameter is used in [Configuration] section of wincmd.ini
- QAP feature to "Switch" applications now excludes "ghost" Windows 10 apps (pre-loaded by Windows but never used)
- context menus now use QAPmessenger.exe v1.1 with diagnostic code saved to QAP working directory when debugging is activated
- addition of xplorer2 (v3.2.0.2) to list of supported alternative file managers in QAPconnect.ini
- include external menus in hokeys manager list
- display localized favorite type in hotkeys manager list
- German language update
Version: 7.4.3 (2016-08-23)
Bug fix
- revert change done in in v7.4.0.2 and save again to settings the path (for example: "> submenu-1 > submenu-2") for favorites of types Menu, Group and Shared; this fixes the broken shortcuts for favorite of these types.
- NOTE for users of Shared menus: favorite shortcuts for items inside shared menus will work only if shared menus has same path from main menu (Main > submenu-1 > submenu-2) on all QAP installations that include this shared menu (this does not impact read-only external menus)
Version: 7.4.2 (2016-08-22)
** This version fixes a bug in v7.4.1 released yesterday **
- fix a bug not showing some icons for favorite Special folders (My documents, etc.) and possibly other folders
New features:
- Alternative menu features available in regular menu using keyboard modifiers when selecting a favorite in the popup menu (Shift for "Open in New Window", Control for "Copy Favorite Location" and Shift+Control for "Edit Favorite")
- when clicking the "Save" button in the "Settings" window, save the favorites without closing the "Settings" window if Shift or Control is pressed
Language files
- updated Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Portuguese-Brazilian, German and Sweden language files
Icons and desktop.ini (Windows folder icons)
- when building a menu, if an icon has a relative path, make it absolute based on the QAP working directory
- when retrieving an icon from a desktop.ini file, if the folder location has a relative path, make it absolute based on the QAP working directory before reading desktop.ini
- when retrieving an icon from a desktop.ini file, if the icon resource file has a relative path, make it absolute based on the favorite folder (not the QAP working directory)
- when creating a desktop.ini file if the icon resource file is located in the favorite folder itself, create the icon resource file without its path in order to make it relative to the folder and movable with the folder
Other improvements or bug fixes
- feature change: when using "Add This Folder", the "Use default window position" option is now checked (QAP still records the current window position but user must uncheck the option to restore window position when opening the favorite folder)
- simplifiy "Change folder in dialog boxes" option (no more double checkbox)
- show the "Change folder in dialog boxes" alert just before opening a favorite instead of before showing the menu and show it only the first time the user selects a favorite folder over a dialog box
- display proper error message when trying to launch a Link favorite with invalid URL
- fix bug for beta testers, check for update prompt was not skipped for new beta version after user asked to skipped it
- fix a bug in v7.4.1 not showing some icons for favorite of type "Special"
Version: 7.4.1 (2016-08-21)
Same features as v7.4.2 except:
- fix a bug in v7.4.1 not showing some icons for favorite of type "Special"
Version: 7.4 (2016-07-31)
New in v7.4: Hidden favorites (disabled favorites)
- add favorite option "Hide this favorite in menu" in all types of favorites
- hidden favorites are displayed in favorites list and hotkeys list with type name between parenthesis
Bug fixes
- fix bug when column breaks are inserted in submenus
- make Total commander open folders in new window in the TC active pane instead of always in the left pane
- close QAP automatically if it is running when updating or uninstalling with setup tool
Version: 7.3.2 (2016-07-03)
- completely fix bug Directory Opus and Total Commander path not saved to ini file
- add a note to dialog box about Windows delay when changing folder icon with desktop.ini
- update to Spanish, French, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese language files
See the new VIDEO about MANAGING MENU ICONS in Quick Access Popup
https://youtu.be/yy7ACOK0JZY
Version: 7.3.1 (2016-06-26)
- fix a compilation error in v7.3 impacting icons display
- adapted icons management to new icon file imageres.dll dated 2015-10-30 in Windows 10
- minor bug fixes
Version: 7.3 (2016-06-22)
Context menus
- context menus for: Explorer folders and files icons, Explorer background (white space) and Desktop background
- context menu actions (right-click): Add Folder to menu, Add File to menu, Show menu
- context menu advanced actions (Shift + right-click): Add Folder to menu Express, Add File to menu Express, Show Alternative menu
For the standard "Easy one-step" installation users (Setup)
- change to setup procedure to create registry keys for QAP context menu at installation and removed them when user uninstalls the app (using Inno Setup tool)
- add a check box in Option ("General" tab) to enable/disable QAP Explorer context menus (enabling or disabling scripts will ask to run with elevated administrator privileges)
- creation of the context menus help page (https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/explorer-context-menus-help/)
- fix bug in the uninstall procedure that was not properly checking that QAP was not running before uninstalling it (now, QAP must be closed by the user before installing and uninstalling it)
- fix bug that prevented the Startup folder shortcut to be removed when uninstalling the app
Changes for portable installation users
- addition to the portable package of the scripts to add and delete manually QAP Explorer context menus: QuickAccessPopup-InstallContextMenus_reg.txt and QuickAccessPopup-RemoveContextMenus_bat.txt (see instructions in these files)
- addition of the executable file QAPmessenger-1_0-32-bit.exe required to send commands from the Explorer context menus to QAP (this file should be saved in the same folder as the QAP executable file)
Other changes (all users)
- add a check box in Add Application favorite dialog box (in "Advanced Settings" tab) to run favorite application with elevated privileges using the "Run as" command
- for QAP users upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10, add the utility to adapt references to icons in the new Windows 10 icons files (see the startup menu "Update QAP Icons from Window 7 to Windows 10" or run the file "QAPupdateIconsWin10-1_0-32-bit.exe")
- when "Add This Folder" command is called from QAP icon in the Notification zone, reactivate the last used file manager window to detect the folder to add
- when called from QAP icon in the Notification zone, display the popup menu a little higher than the taskbar area (preventing occasional overlap)
- disable QAP hotkeys when changing hotkeys, solving assignement issues in some situation
- change license to the Apache License, Version 2.0 (still freeware and open source)
Version: 7.2.2.1 (2016-05-25)
- change Add This Folder icon for an icon identical in previous and current version of Windows 10 icons file (imageres.dll)
Version: 7.2.2 (2016-05-24)
Snippets:
- implement macro snippet commands Sleep, SetKeyDelay and KeyWait
- add configurable prompt before pasting a text snippet or launching a macro snippet
- fix bug Alternative menu Edit a favorite and Copy favorite location not working with snippets
- fix bug when launching Snippet using Alternative menu "Open in new window"
Shared menus (aka External menus)
- in Add Favorite dialog and other boxes, change "External menu" to "Shared menu"
Other:
- new language Portuguese (PT), thanks to Luis Neves
- new language Simplified Chinese language (ZH-CN), thanks to Jess Yang
- do not display "None" in startup notification if mouse or keyboard hotkey is not used
- in What's new dialog box, add a vertical scroll bar when the text zone is very long
- if a startup shortcut for FoldersPopup exists after QAP installation, remove it
- fix bug double-click on separator was displaying wrong message "cannot be copied"
Version: 7.2.1 (2016-05-03)
SNIPPETS
- add new favorite type "Snippet" to paste pieces of text from the QAP popup menu or hotkeys
- snippet is pasted to the active window at the current insertion point
- an option in "Advanced settings" can make a snippet be sent as "Text" (default) or as "Macro"
- snippets of type "Text" are pasted to the active window using the clipboard (the original clipboard content is preserved)
- snippets of type "Macro" are sent as keystrokes supporting AHK special characters (handle with care - see help page)
- if snippet is selected by clicking on Taskbar, on QAP icon in Notification area (Tray icon) or on Desktop, a keyboard pause allows user to select the insertion point and press the Enter key to start pasting (timeout after 10 seconds)
- in snippet text, end-of-line and tab characters can be processed automatically or entered as special codes (`n for new line and `t for tab)
- add help link in Add/Edit favorite for snippets
EXTERNAL MENUS
- add "External menu" favorite type allowing to load favorites from a shared .ini file
- external menu can be modified as regular submenus
- external menu can be made read-only by adding the value "MenuReadOnly=1" in the ini file [Global] section
- first favorite number in external settings file can be configured in "Advanced settings"
- external menu settings file path supports relative paths, environment variables, UNC and HTTP paths
- if external menu settings file cannot be loaded properly, give an error message, display menu as unavailable in Settings favorites list and block menu editing
- removing an external menu from QAP menu does not delete the external menu settings file
- add help link in Add/Edit favorite for external menus
Bug fixes
- fix bug Settings window occasionally opening inavertandly when clicking on the QAP tray icon (when Total Commander and Directory Opus as file manager only)
- option "Open Menu on Taskbar" is now considered
- column breaks now inserted in menu when called from a hotkey and now inserted at the correct position in submenus
- stop checking for prod update if user decide to download the newest beta version
- stop launching directory opus when refreshing the list of open folders in listers if directory opus is not running
- add the auto-detection of .ahk and .vbs extensions when user add a favorite using drag-and-drop to the settings window
Other
- French, Italian and Swedish language update new v7.2 features
- new runtime v1.1.23.5 from AHK
Version: 7.2.1 (2016-05-03)
- incomplete release, fixed by v7.2.1
Version: 7.1.10 (2016-04-03)
The "close menu issue" identified in previous version has been solved by adding an option allowing users facing this issue to append a "Close this menu" item to all menus. For more information, please read https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/what-is-the-close-menu-issue/.
- add the option "Add Close to menus" to prevent the "close menu issue" (Options dialog box, first tab)
- if option "Add Close to menus" is on, add "Close this menu" to main, alternative menu and dynamic menus
Minor bug fixes
- Start in folder (Working directory) in application favorites now properly passed to the application
- exclusion list in Options is now considered only for QAP mouse button (middle mouse button by default), not for keyboard hotkey (Windows+W by default)
- set window info and menu position for alternative menu hotkey command
- set menu position when menu is called from a hotkey
- correctly set target window when favorite is called from a favorite hotkey or when submenu is called from a menu favorite hotkey
- better error messages if a target app (Explorer, Console, other file manager, etc.) is unknown when trying to open a favorite
Version: 7.1.9 (2016-03-28)
Sorry for the numerous updates in the last week. I'm fighting against an intermittent issue probably caused by Windows preventing users from closing the popup menu by clicking outside of the menu or by hitting the Escape key as they would do normally. I tried various method to get around this issue but, in the end, these changes had side-effects worst than the initial issue. For this reason, I reverted some of these changes and will start a beta test with users accepting to give feedback about this issue and some new features (see website page "Support / Beta Test Page"). Until this issue is resolved, I added the QAP Feature named "Close this menu" that you can insert in the main menu to close the menu by clicking this item.
- reverting to v7.1.4 before tentative patches to fix the "close menu issue", keeping the following changes in v7.1.5 to v7.1.8:
- add the QAP feature "Close this menu" to force closing the menu when the issue is present
- add the "Close this menu" to the default menu created at first QAP execution (actual users must add it manually - Settings, Add buton, QAP Feature, Close this menu)
- various bugs not related to the "close menu issue"
- addition of Chineese Traditional (Taiwanese Mandarin, ZH-TW), thanks to Jess Yang, and update to other language files
Version: 7.1.8 (2016-03-25)
- fix the issue closing the popup menu by clicking elsewhere or hitting Escape key (internal changes to keep focus on scripts hidden window and on script's popup menu)
- fix bug "Open Menu on Taskbar" option not being considered (menu was always shown regardless of the option)
- fix bug in "Add This Folder Express" window position not correctly saved
- avoid writing diag info if diag mode is off
- fix wording for Traditional Chinese language in about text and language dropdown menu
Version: 7.1.7 (2016-03-22)
- fix "Add This Folder" bug caused by safety coded introduced in v7.1.5
- addition of Chineese Traditional language (Taiwanese Mandarin, ZH-TW), thanks to Jess Yang
- update to Spanish and Sweeden language files
Version: 7.1.6 (2016-03-20)
- v7.1.6 is fixing (another) version number error in v7.1.5
- v7.1.5 and v7.1.6 have the same feature set
Version: 7.1.5 (2016-03-20)
- safety code to keep the focus on the popup menu, preventing the issue where, in some situations, the menu was not closed when clicking elsewhere or hitting Escape
- add the QAP feature "Close this menu" to force closing the popup menu if the issue mentionned above is still present
- add the "Close this menu" to the default menu created at first QAP execution
NOTE to actual users: If you want to use it, add this new QAP feature to your main menu manually. Go to "Settings", "Add" buton, "QAP Feature", "Close this menu" and save it.
- update to Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese language files
Bug fixes:
- additional code to fix bug mouse pointer staying in "wait" state by error when saving options
- keep command line parameters when reloading after changing language or theme in options
Version: 7.1.4 (2016-03-14)
- v7.1.4 is fixing a version number error in v7.1.3
- v7.1.3 and v7.1.4 have the same feature set
Version: 7.1.3 (2016-03-14)
- fix bug "Display Menu Icons" option being unchecked be error after saving options
- fix bug mouse pointer staying in "wait" state by error in some situations
Version: 7.1.2 (2016-02-21)
- in upgrade dialog box, stop quitting QAP before downloading the new setup or portable install file (let user quit QAP during install)
- fix website URL if user checks for update, already has at the current version and decide to visit the website
- fix bug in disabling Display menu icons checkbox in Option when running on a server OS (menu icons are only supported on workstations)
Version: 7.1.1 (2016-02-15)
- fix black background bug on check for update screen for users using themes
- fix wincmd.ini validation bug when adding a QAP feature
Version: 7.1 (2016-02-14)
NEW FEATURES:
- more friendly upgrade process with dialog box, direct download links and easy access to change log (will be visible when upgrading from 7.1 to next version)
- add "Shutdown Computer" and "Restart Computer" QAP features (existing users, select in "Add favorite" dialog box, and select favorite type "QAP Feature")
- add a "Restart Quick Access Popup" menu in the QAP system menu (right-click on the QAP icon in the Notification Area) to reload QAP after changes to the ini file
- create the QAPconnect.ini file from a default master if it does not already exist in the working directory (QAPconnect.ini will not be overwritten anymore when installing a new version)
TOTAL COMMANDER USERS:
- add the "TC Directory Hotlist" QAP feature showing the TC hotlist content in a hierarchical submenu
> for new users, "TC Directory Hotlist" menu is added to QAP main menu at the very first use of QAP if Total Commander is detected during installation
> existig users select in "Add favorite" dialog box, and select favorite type "QAP Feature" and choose "TC Directory Hotlist"
- add an option in "Options", "File Managers" tab, to set the TotalCommander WinCmd.ini file location
- support relative path and environment variables for WinCmd.ini path
- support Windows environment variables in TC Directory hotlist locations
BUG FIXES
- fix a bug in code refreshing Clipboard menu causing crash in some situations
- fix a bug in check for update, not remembering when user want to skip the new version
- make Total Commander and Directory Opus application paths saved in ini file as portable values (relative path including environment variables)
Version: 7.0.6 (2016-02-07)
- added Italian translation (thanks to Riccardo Leone!) and fixes to German translation
- add a one-time message informing users who open the QAP menu in a dialog box that an option has to be enabled in order to change folder in a dialog box
Version: 7.0.4/7.0.5 (2016-02-03)
- "Run at startup" and "check for updates" options enabled by default only when using the setup install mode (not enabled in portable install mode to make QAP fully compliant with The Portable Freeware Collection)
- allow top and left positions to be negative in "Add/Edit favorite" dialog box, "Window Options" tab
- fixes in English text and German translation
- in v7.0.5 only version number was changed for internal reason
Version: 7.0.3 (2016-02-03)
- fix a typo in Paypal code making QAP donation being sent as Folders Popup donation
- support negative window positions which are normal in multi monitor workspaces
- updated translation tool for production version
Version: 7.0.2 (2016-02-01)
- temporarily removed code supporting PATH in Clipboard menu refresh causing slow down or crash when Clipboard contains URL
Version: 7.0.1 (2016-02-01)
- Initial release
- See https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/whats-new-in-quick-access-popup-compared-to-folders-popup/ for list of changes