New release v9.2.1 now available - optimized menu refresh

[Jean Lalonde]

This v9.2.1 includes internal improvements making the menu refresh time faster and more stable. Update is recommended for all users. See IMPORTANT note below. More info: Fine tuning v9.2 - UPDATED for v9.2.1.

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.

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[Francisco Oldani (Peni)]

Great! No delay observed in my sistem with 'Attach all dynamic menus ...' and 'Quick Access Popup ...' options enabled. Good work! :-)

[Dan Bromberg]

Jean,

  So far I have not done so, but if I accidentally upgrade by not migrating my 'ini' file, does

that mean I've lost all my changes and am stuck with your defaults, or can I still get them back?

Dan

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[Jean Lalonde]

> Great! No delay observed in my sistem with 'Attach all dynamic menus ...' and 'Quick Access Popup ...' options enabled. Good work! :-)

Thank you Francisco :-)

>  if I accidentally upgrade by not migrating my 'ini' file, does that mean I've lost all my changes and am stuck with your defaults, or can I still get them back?

Hi Dan. Did you check the QAP knowkedge base page https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/how-do-i-install-a-new-version-of-quick-access-popup/ ?

I suppose you install QAP using the portable zip file (there would be no issue with the Setup install). QAP never deletes the quickaccesspopup.ini settings file or the QAP database. Normally, you would unzip the files overwriting the existing files in your QAP folder. The settings and database files are not part of the zip file. QAP creates them only if they do not exist in the app's folder.

[Dan Bromberg]

Hi Jean,

   That's good to know - would hate to have my configuration overwritten (and so far I never had a problem when you've issued an upgrade).

Dan

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