Jumplist-Launcher

Jumplist-Launcher

The newly introduced jumplists, which appear when you right-click on an icon in the superbar, help improving the workflow a lot, but if you want combine multiple programs in one icon, you’re screwed.

The ‘Jumplist-Launcher’ comes to rescue!

It lets you add up to 10 60 programs or files within self-defined groups inside a jumplist, but see yourself:

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Changelog

Version 7:

• You can choose one default-entry which will be opened if you click on Jumplist-Launchers Superbar-icon. An entry will be added to your Jumplists which opens the configuration-window of the Jumplist-Launcher
• The interface has been revised agaom (special thanks go to Heiko Eckendorf for the concept)
• The issue where people were unable to create Jumplists is finally fixed

Version 6:

• Every element can now be executed with command-line arguments (doesn’t make much sense for non-executable files though)
• Shortcuts added via drag’n'drop will be dissolved to their target. This includes their arguments.
• If somehow an icon couldn’t be loaded it will now be replaced by a question mark instead of throwing cryptic error messages at you
• The interface and workflow to add files have been revised
• People who weren’t able to change the max. number of jumplist-item should now be able to do so

Version 5:

• groups and entries in the treeview can now be moved via drag’n'drop
• after deleting items in the treeview icons don’t become mixed up anymore
• after adding files via filebrowser the correct icon will now be shown in the treeview

Version 4:

• You can now optionally create a tasklist instead of the normal one. This ones max. number of items isn’t bound to the max. number of recent items, however there is no setting for max. tasklist entries
• fixed strange behaviour when moving items in the TreeView (e.g. files become groups)
• multiple items can now be moved at once
• the icons-folder will be created if it doesn’t exist (fixes the “Datei “…\iconInfo.dat” kann nicht erstellt werden.” bug)
  

Version 3:

• You can add single files to the jumplist by dragging the file on the superbar entry of Jumplist-Launcher while holding the shift-key
• Folder icons can be changed now
• fixed a bug where icons are mixed up when you delete a folder icon
• No more “Fehler beim Holen der Daten…” Error, instead it just disables the ability to set the number of entries in the registry if the value couldn’t be read
  

Version 2:

• Up to 60 (before only 10) jumplist-items possible
• You can change the maximum number of jumplist-items inside the program
• New items are added in the correct groups now
• Ordner können auch der Liste hinzugefügt werden
  

Features

• no installation and rubbish in the registry
• Creates jumplists with up to 10 60 programs or files which can then be directly started
  (Warning: The setting Max. Jumplist-Items changes the number of possible entries globally for the whole Windows-environment)
• the jumplist entries can be grouped
• An entry can be assigned to be opened upon left-clicking the superbar-icon of the Jumplist-Launcher
• Every entry may contain command-line arguments
• after creating the jumplist, no program needs to run in the background
• you can have multiple Jumplist-Launcher-Icons (with different files/programs) on your superbar by copying the folder
• files can be dragged into the Jumplist-Launcher from Windows-Explorer
• Icon and name of the entry can be customized
• Jumplist-items can be added by dragging single files on Jumplist-Launchers taskbar-icon while holding the shift-key

Requirements

• Microsoft Windows 7 RC

Benutzung

1. Start Jumplist-Launcher.exe
2. Add Groups by clicking the ‘Add Group’ button and rename them by clicking on their name in the treeview
3. Add files/programs by either clicking on the ‘…’ button or directly dragging them into the Jumplist-Launcher window
4. You can reorganize the order of groups and files by selecting them in the treeview and pressing the up or down-button
5. if needed change the number of max. Jumplist-items
6. When you are done, click on ‘Create Jumplist’ to save everything and Create the jumplist
7. Pin the program to the superbar
8. Close the programm

Known issues

• Changing the maxmimum number of Jumplist-entries changes the number of recently used files all across Windows 7
  This can’t be fixed at the moment because both numbers are represented by only one number in the registry

To-Do

• Multiple taskbar entries with different icons with just one instance of the program
• Save settings as a XML-file
• any ideas?

FAQ

Q: The program gives weird error-messages
A: The data is likely to be corrupt. In order to start fresh, delete all content of the icons-folder but
the folder itself and the ’settings.dat’ which is located in the Jumplist-Launcher-folder

Q: How can I have Jumplist-Launcher pinned on the superbar with my own icon
A: Create a shortcut of the Jumplist-Launcher.exe and pin that to the taskbar

Q: 10 60 files/apps only? …I need more
A: You can copy the whole Jumplist-Launcher folder and paste it somewhere else.
Both Jumplist-Launcher.exe use different datasets and therefore can have different files/programs linked to them