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Shaun,
Once again I want to thank you for a great tool.
I just upgraded to version 1.55 (I do not recall my previous version). I have my taskbar on the left side of my screen (vertical). When I log in, the only portion of SmartStartMenu that appears is the menu button. The combo box does not appear. The combo box will appear if I unlock my toolbar and resize it. This did not happen in the previous version that I had (if you need to know this, in a couple days I will have access to my old PC where I can get this informtion)
Thanks
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Darn. I got some compalints about the default size being to small and I made it a little bigger. I bet it clips now on your machine.
Try this: Unlock the task bar, resize so you can see the combo, then rezise SSM itself to be a smaller, then resize your task bar back down. You should be able to get it back to the old size an work the way it used to on your machine.
Please let me know if this helps or not, and thanks again for the feedback!
-Shaun
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Shaun,
I do not see a way to resize the SSM combo box. The only thing that I could see that allowed me to do that was resizing the toolbar when the taskbar is in its horizontal position. I have my task bar vertical. In that configuration I can not see how to resize the SSM.
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I tried it and you are right... there is no way to change the width in that mode... the impl changes to a height thingy. Sorry about that, my bad. I'm a little confused... I put my bar on the left side and had to make it almost as thin as it is tall when it is on the bottom to have my combo size and position calculations give up. How skinny are you running it? Can you send me a screen shot at shaun@planetharrington.com? Thanks again for your help.
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The link for downloading the 64-bit version seems to take me to the same page as that of the regular download. And that version does not seem to load into the windows taskbar on my 64-bit Windows XP. Could you please look into that.
Thanks,
Ashish
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i really like what you say about that.
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how to erase the backcolor and set it to "transparent"?
I don't like the "green" backcolor ,only want to set it to "transparent" to fit the taskbar color .when i use windows themes,can it auto fit?
i have erase the combox,only "myimage" button is left.when i changed the band size,it shows the background color,very ugly.
sorry,my english is poor.
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"I don't like the "green" backcolor ,only want to set it to "transparent" to fit the taskbar color ."
You can set it the desktop background color using the settings dialog. If you want to change the code you can change the vaule of BKGND_COLOR defined at the top of SimpleBarDlg.cpp or just remove the part of the code that drops a rectangle down under the combo... this can be found in CSimpleBarDlg::OnEraseBkgnd().
"when i use windows themes,can it auto fit?"
I don't understand the question.
-Shaun
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BTW - Have you noticed that I try my best to answer all your questions but you have not answered any of mine?
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where is msi.lib and srchband.lib?
when i rebuild the solution,generate 4 error
error 162 fatal error LNK1104: can not open file “msi.lib” ssmband
error 177 fatal error LNK1104: can not open file “msi.lib” UnitTest
error 199 fatal error LNK1104: can not open file “..\..\ssmband\debug\srchband.lib” ssmcmxcfg
error 204 fatal error LNK1104: can not open file “..\ssmband\debug\srchband.lib” ssmcmx
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'msi.lib' is a part of the Win32 SDK... in a vs6 environment it is found in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\PlatformSDK\Lib".
'..\..\ssmband\debug\srchband.lib' is the product of the 'ssmband' project.
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Are you building a localized (translated) version?
I would love to be able to provide an outlet for your results if this is the case!
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First, I really want to thank the author for such a excellent tool which can increase my work productivity!
And I have a suggestion, you know most programs in the Start menu have a corresponding uninstall item and I want these items to be ignored when locating a program unless I explicitly entered the work 'uninstall'
So I believe that you know what you can do
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Thanks for the suggestion... it has been made before so I will see that the priority is bumped up.
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Thanks, if possible, you can make it work like the Internet search engines by support the -(minus) symbol, for example, if the user did not setup any filter and when he/she input the string:
adobe -uninstall
then ignore all the uninstall items.
this is because we want everything to be controlled in the "input box".
Edwin
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I can't update the article right now for some reason out of my control... but the new version is up and has at least one key improvement. When you type and then press enter without waiting for the list to pop-up and a match to be selected only *commands* would run... link items and the such would not. So if you have "cftp" asscotiated with say CuteFTP and typed "cftp" then enter without waiting for the pop-up nothing would happen. Now the matches are found and the auto selected one is started. Type cftp+enter as fast as you want and CuteFTP will start now.
If this does not makes sense to you don't worry about it too much... just get the new version and try it out... I think you will like it.
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I've been looking at a lot of launchers recently, and SSM looks like it might be the best one for my needs. It's a nice piece of work. However, I can't get it to work. I've tried it on two machines, one running XP Pro SP2 and the other XP Home SP2. In both cases I was able to enable the SSM toolbar. The SSM box appeared in the toolbar, and then SSM started indexing (or at least that's what I think it's doing -- I see one or more directory paths appear in the box).
On one machine, the indexing seemed to complete and I was able to actually enter text in the SSM box and see potential matches pop up, but SSM crashed moments latter when I attempted to change its settings via the Settings dialog.
One the other machine, the crash appeared to occur during the indexing process: "C:\" appeared in the SSM box, then the crash occurred. I tried killing off the processes one by one for all the applications I have that I suspect might somehow interfere with SSM, then re-enabling the SSM toolbar and trying again, but the crash keeps occurring as the same point.
On both machines the crash produced the same error dialog, then SSM disappeared from the toolbar, then all the icons on the toolbar momentarily disappeared, then the toolbar reappeared without SSM. The caption of the error dialog is "explorer.exe - Application Error" and the message is "The exception unknown software exception (0xc000000d) occurred in the application at location ....".
Any suggestions on how I might get SSM working? Thanks.
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Is a known issue... something that you are indexing is hosing SSM. It is an item in one of the locations that you are having SSM scan. The file likley corrupt. I obviously need to make the scan code deal with these items in a better manner. Been trying not to make changes to the old code base (I'm working on a 2.0 code base now) but this sounds like a big enough problem to jump back to the old code base and fix. I'll see what I can do about that. In the meantime, the only thing I can think of is using process of elimination with the scan locations to find the offending file. If and when you do find it, if you can send me a copy for me to add to the test matrix that would be awesome.
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More info: I set my local machines here to scan "c:\"... something I don't suggest you do unless you turn off the *scan on startup* option. It took a moment but they made it through their respective scans... serveral times now. I have a file that another user sent me that he claimed was the offending file on his system and that file was even scanned on one of the systems here with no problems.
I even produce corrupt version of both exe and lnk files and scanned those with no problems. I wondering if this may have more to do with an actual disk error... you might try diskchecking and even defragging?
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Any luck finding the offending folder or file?
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Hi,
if you have mistyped and you'll correct the eg. the first letter, the new typed letter will always be at the end of the inputbox, so you have always to retype the whole word - and this is always a big thing ! 
O.k. is not a real prob but so I have had a reason to write again and ask (again )for the implementation of:
Impersonate user... "run as".
thanks again Pit
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Sorry about the slow response... been pretty busy these days.
I have done the run as feature yet. I do plan to work it into the 2.0 version though. I'm done with the framework for 2.0... just have to wrap it up with a new UI and then add some new features. I'm targeting the month of June for 2.0.
Also, the new web site is up. I took some brutal reviews from web designers that prompted me to learn a little more about web design and update the site with what I learned. It has a much more professional look and feel now. Doing the are was hard for me but I learned a lot in that area too.
Please check it out and let me hear your guy's thoughts on it.
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Hi,
I think this software is awesome. You did a great job.
The only thing missing is to be able to select multiple files in a window and be able to copy all the paths to the clipboard. It's very useful for creating batch file.
Is this possible with the current release??
Thanks!!
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Thanks!
Yes, should have always been there I think... I will add the enhancement for the next release.
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Hi,
I installed your smart start menu on a windows 2000 system and it works great. I wanted to install it on one of my windows XP machines. I ran the installer and followed the instructions but, the smartstartmenu tool bar doesn't appear in the list of toolbars that I can add.
Any ideas?
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