BrandonTools

Yeah, definitely don't do scrollbars. Ctrl+up/down is fine with me...you should mention that someone on the project page so that people know that it's possible.

ryanwagner:

Yeah, definitely don't do scrollbars. Ctrl+up/down is fine with me...you should mention that someone on the project page so that people know that it's possible.

Whats wrong with scrollbars?  The start menu has them already when you go to All Programs. 

For the Start Menu it is okay since you often don't have folder names that fit the entire width, but when displaying websites I would rather have them utilize the full width of the Start Menu. Otherwise there is some valuable space being given up to the scrollbars.

Something else I considered is only showing the scrollbars when the mouse is over that area.  I might revisit that at some point.

0.7.4 is out and now includes the necessary merge module for MSVCR80.  This should include both the x86 and x64 versions.  Please let me know if you still receive this error!

 

Also, about five minutes after 0.7.4 went up I posted a very slightly tweaked version labelled 0.7.4a.  If you were really sneaky and downloaded the non-"a" version, the only change is one that should make installing Startlets / Gadgets from the web faster.

I just installed 0.7.5 on one of the computers where I had not installed the libraries on, and now I get the same error message and the hook module is not found. Instead of saying "found" it says "null".

I do not have those libraries installed (at least I didn't download them from the link you provided, it might be installed from some other program).  Anyways, this is what I get:
 

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Start++ BETA
A problem was encountered when trying to load the Start++ hook DLL.

Exception:
Value cannot be null.

Parameter name: ptr
File:  SPPHookDll32.dll
Application:  C:\Program Files\Brandon Paddock\Start++\Start++.exe
HookModule:  null
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OK   
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Weird... the merge module is supposed to fix that =/

Unfortunately I don't have any time to do a new build before I leave, and won't be home until September 7th.  For now I'll add a link to the libraries to the download page.

found a bug, try erasing everything from the search box after searched anything(i searched weather 00961)the start menu goes blank instead of showing your recent programs and pinned programs

yes, I have the same issue

Installing  the VC++ libs fixed "the value cannot be null" issue for me.

Anyway, I don't like the new release, can you provide the 0.6 release for download?

For some reason everytime I run a startlet, when running from the start menu even though Start++ is not running is enabled, Start++ opens the Start++ configuration dialogue instead of running the command.

It's frustrating not to be able to revert back - especially when I won't be using any gadgets or search startlets.

Hi

Same problem

All the text blown up  (big font) so its enourmus and unreadable

 

I absolutely love the tool (I am using 0.7.5).. I almost there for completely giving up google desktop (as the Microsoft Desktop Search and together with Start++ absolutely boost my productivity..)

The only (last thing) that I am looking for the start++ can search the google bookmark (you know like the google toolbar in IE / firefox).. which one you signed in, you can search the google bookmark while it also search google as well?

atomi:

Installing  the VC++ libs fixed "the value cannot be null" issue for me.

Anyway, I don't like the new release, can you provide the 0.6 release for download?

For some reason everytime I run a startlet, when running from the start menu even though Start++ is not running is enabled, Start++ opens the Start++ configuration dialogue instead of running the command.

It's frustrating not to be able to revert back - especially when I won't be using any gadgets or search startlets.

Starting in 0.7.x Start++ is really more designed to run in the background in order to function... the old "hook" mechanism (the one that works when Start++ isn't running) was not completely reliable, since it relied on the Start menu's built-in search functionality to surface the correct shortcut as the first result - which won't always happen if you have conflicting shortcuts in the menu. 

That said, I didn't mean to break that functionality in 0.7.x, so I'll try to post a new version with that fixed shortly (for users who disable the "Run In Background" option).  I could post 0.6, but I'd rather not... Start++ is very much still in BETA and it isn't feasible for me to support every previous release - especially when there are known issues in that version (memory leaks, the IE crash conflict, etc).

I found a bug with the zoom factor setting for the start gadgets.

My local settings are set to fr-CA, which uses the comma instead of the period for the decimal separator. This means that I need to enter 0,8 instead of 0.8 in order to indicate an 80% zoom. This seams to causes some problems :

• First, when opening the application for the first time, I get an input format exception when your app imports the default gadgets. Since in your XML files it is stored as 0.8, it is not able to import that.
• Second, the zoom factor is not applied when a start gadget is displayed. The only way it works is when I use whole values (like 2 or 3) but that is not very useful.

My suggestion would be to use whole numbers for this setting. So for example, 80 instead of 0.8 to represent 80%, and do the division programmatically before using the value. If the value needs to be formatted, use the invariant culture (assuming you use .net) so the formatting uses the period no matter what.

And thank you for this great utility!