New release v9.2 now available with Frequent Items menus, User Variables, new and improved Placeholders, etc.

[Jean Lalonde]

This new v9.2 release includes a lot of exciting new features. See it below and in the What's new page with lots of infos and video demos.

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 {Clipboard} and {SEL_LOC} Placeholders

- the new "{Clipboard}" placeholder can be used to insert in favorites paths and snippets content the current content of the Windows Clipboard (if it contains text)

- 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)

 

Improved Placeholders

- replace all placeholders ("{Clipboard}", "{LOC}", "{CUR_LOC}" and "{SEL_LOC}" and their variants) in favorite's "Location", "Parameters" and "Start In" fields (for all types of favorites supporting these options)

- also replace these placeholders in Windows Apps parameters

 

Placeholders in Snippets

- placeholders "{Clipboard}", current location "{CUR_LOC}", 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 v1.2 (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

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