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startUsing?by ~SuprVillain

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[Above pic is due to show, well, a picture. Any item that has a shortcut arrow will FAIL to launch, that's the problem...]
[Also, the UI now inherits it's background color from the common color of the desktop's wallpaper]

No update as of late, because of a way that Win 8 works. I am having an issue with shortcut links actually working, so I have decided to take mstex and import the new menu UI form to it, and to modify it as needed. If this solves the issue, then I will release that.

Also, if that works as i hope, i will be adding in several other forms, allowing for the user to truly pick what menu type they want. Fullscreen like Gnome 3's launcher, simplestart ui, mstex ui, mstartex ui, etc... I cant help but wonder if i should just make a library of the basic functions, and make a rainmeter like scripting function, letting people actually DESIGN there own UI in code, and then they can zip it up and distribute it.

(Eventually a GUI designer will be made, so those that find making RM skins "hard" will have a heads up on making a skin...)

This is not an original idea, mstex had a feature like this, but this idea goes past what mstex had. A "frmMenu" will honestly NOT exist in code at all, but will be made and generated in runtime at loading of the skin. It should be a very small app.

Is this a good idea? A Scriptable Start Menu that is designed like how rainmeter is done (simple .ini code), you just choose the UI to use, and it works? As how mstex works fine in 8/7/vista/xp, that will be the base... (.Net 3.5 at most, not 4.5)

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=PeterRollar Feb 9, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Scriptable startmenu sounds good.

Let it come.
Btw. Vistart also has a prob to launch.ink stuff on Windows8.

~SuprVillain Feb 9, 2013 Hobbyist Artist

yeah i figured it out. I have to set the app as an auto-elevate to Admin, and it wont have that issue. Win8 has some folder permission issues it seems.

=PeterRollar Feb 9, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Good to hear that you can solve it. Was wondering since a while why this happens.

~SuprVillain Feb 9, 2013 Hobbyist Artist

yeah it is a folder permissions issue. Once I get the code in, i will release alpha 1.

=PeterRollar Feb 9, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Okay.

~M-Awesome Feb 7, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

lol all the features ur gonna add - it shouldn't be called 'simple' start anymore lol just saying

~SuprVillain Feb 8, 2013 Hobbyist Artist

yeah, I was just wondering how it would be if i dumped all apps like it in to one executable. Not that I will, but it would be neat.

~M-Awesome Feb 8, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

well its good that you are working on the features first -

always do the design last in my opinion

~DeathShot39 Feb 7, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

I feel like this could end up being a more powerful version of OS X's Launchpad...

~SuprVillain Feb 7, 2013 Hobbyist Artist

Like my app Launchpad? Check my gallery, it's almost the same code that was done before mstex and mstartex and such. Thats why I was debating adding all of those apps to one exe, and the user can choose what UI they want to use.

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