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I like it - but a few problems / questions ..!!
Authored by: alexmathew on Dec 02, '03 08:42:50PM

I like the concept - unfortunately like iKey, I may end up using this for only a fraction of its features due to its complexity! (I use iKey just for automatic pasting of standard text in any app - but thats another story)

With Another Launcher, In notice the following:
1. Clicking on an item (say search icon) gives me a Window with lots of blank rows - only when I scroll down do I find the Search and other functions ..what is the space for? Deliberate or a bug?

2. Is it possible to have a search function for the Addressbook instead of the pop-up that is available now?

3. I would love to have an AVI like iCal status also available through AL - so I should be able to program AL to launch AVI also - right? Someday I will figure this out I guess!

This app rates atleast a 9/10 - the one point for the sheer complexity - which may be necessary.
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Authored by: alexmathew on Dec 08, '03 04:42:04PM

>Here are screenshots of the problem. It only happens with the >BookMarks. AL is setup as an button on the right bottom corner of my >screen.

I see. I'm afraid that's a general OS X problem. Right now, there's not much I can do about it, as Another Launcher uses standard (cocoa) methods for its menus. Thus, to achieve the behavior you expect, I would have to implement my own breed of menus; and I'm not sure if I'm going to do that.

>To lookup names as in the AddressBook Search bar but without the >intrusiveness. So a window similar to the Application abbreviation >window - except that as you type letters it brings up matching Names >and the selecting one shows the information in a window similar to the >drill-down menu now available. Perhaps there is a way to achieve this >now?

No. But it will probably be added in AL 3.1.

>I would love to have an AVI like iCal status also available through AL - >so I should be able to program AL to launch AVI also - right? Someday I >will figure this out I guess!

> http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13299

Thank you! I had misunderstood this in an ".avi" (cf. ".mpeg") way. Not sure if you were asking for this, but you cannot control Avi via Another Launcher. I've been thinking about adding a plug-in interface to Another Launcher for quite some time, though...

I might also eventually implement this functionality directly in Another Launcher, but don't take this as a promise.

Thanks for your explanations!

Peter Maurer.



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