Auto-Run for Catalog Items?

[Garonne]

Hi Don,

not sure if this fits your plans for XYplorer, but did you ever think about adding timed auto-start options to Catalog Entries?

(Like: Monthly (by day(s) or weekday(s)), weekly (by weekday(s)), once a day (by time or first startup), hourly (at a specific time each hour))

It's not important, but I would enjoy to see something like that added.

[admin]

Not part of my plans.

[eil]

@Garonne since XY has no any timer-functionality, i'd advice you to make some AHK script for that task. Yeap, you'll need to delve into that, but if it's really desired - that's the solution.

[Garonne]

Nah. Just as I stated in my original question, I was just curious.

I've got PortableApps Launcher on my USB-Stick and it works quite well. And a different one to do daily or automatic starts of tools. But since development of the latter one has ceased, I was thinking if one of my preferred tools that gets fired up every time I use my stick (a.k.a. XYplorer) might be a possible substitution to replace said tool.

But since it's still running. I'm not in a hurry to find a replacement soon.

[mazot]

Thought I would play about to try and find a solution. Not sure it is exactly what you want but can be altered to work with programs.

schedule.zip

(4.48 KiB) Downloaded 40 times

To make use unzip into scripts folder. Enter folder and you will find :-
_Timers.xys
Daily.xys
HOURLY.xys
minuteTimer.xys
monthly.xys
msg_beep.xys
weekly.xys
As you can see there is a minuteTimer.xys and a msg_beep.xys Extras.
The first (_Timers.xys) script links all others and can be placed in the Catalog or from a User Button.
Of Course you can place the individual scripts as necessary.
Only disappointment for me was I could not get ONSTART to work.
I am sure there must be a way round this problem.

[Garonne]

I'm going to take a look at those, but it was basically a curiosity question.

XYplorer is my primary Explorer, especially when I'm carrying my "Important Tools"-USB-stick around. Right now, I'm starting a program on the stick that's opening a menu and all my tools run from there (some automatically). But this program hasn't seen updates in like forever, and documentation sucks, too. So I was hoping to remove that program and be able to use XY to do it.

But for now the tool is still working, so I'll live.