F² - Favorites on steroids [V2.0.1]

[MBaas]

This is a dream come true! (I've been mulling over this for years and finally I got the tools to do it )

I found the list of Favorites..hmm, eh, not so easy to navigate when it had more than 2 or 3 entries and I wanted to enhance the usability of Favs.
So here is my little tool:

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Essentially it presents your favs in a nice menu (in a hierarchy that you defined). Additionally you can explore the folder hierarchy of your favs and there's also a search option to pick a fav.

All this from XY's list of favorites! (You can extend the title gets with additional info for F²)

Installation:

The .zip contains two folders:
[*]app -put this into %APPDATA%\F2 or a subfolder of xyscripts
[*]xys - these files are copied into the Scripts folder. Update F2.config.xys and set the paths appropriately.

That's all!
Run F2.xys. Update favs to tweak the menu structure. Repeat until you're happy.

There's also a GitHub repo with even more details - and you can share issues there instead of here - however you wish. I'm listening everywhere!


Download:
https://github.com/mbaas2/F2/releases/download/v2.0.1/F2-2.0.1.zip

[admin]

Looks great!

[highend]

Corrected your folder from %APPDATA\F2% into %APPDATA%\F2 to not confuse users

[MBaas]

Corrected your folder from %APPDATA\F2% into %APPDATA%\F2 to not confuse users

Upps - thanks!

[Horst]

This gives a script error on every start.
First it displays

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Clicking the Main entry

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Using Continue it goes on and works.

Then it displays the real menu but on a strange screen position

[MBaas]

Sorry, there was some info missing in my doc: when you launch the macro, you need to load "fy.xys","main"

The syntax error is puzzling, as I did not see it during testing, but can easily be fixed by changing that line to "

if (exists($c))

". (Sorry, I can't yet commit the changed code as I have already added more stuff that I need to cleanup first)

[Horst]

Sorry, there was some info missing in my doc: when you launch the macro, you need to load "fy.xys","main"

Don't understand, there is no fy.xys in the scripts folder.
So where should I put the load command ?

[MBaas]

Sorry, typo. I meant when you load F2 xys

[Horst]

Sorry, typo. I meant when you load F2 xys

Ok, that works from a User defined button.

[MBaas]

Just released v1.0.2

• New Features
  • added new menu-item to go to recent folders + hotlist items (I wonder if that is too specific for my way of using it - should I perhaps put these into a separate user-editable include file? Fedback welcome!)
• Fixes
  • entries w/o an associated menu were not shown in the menu - they now appear as top-level items

[MBaas]

Updated to 2.0.0

Seems a high jump - but as a proponent of SemVer I had to bump.

New features

• Add the variable "$P_F2_FAVTAG"; to your F2.config.xys to define the label of a tag that F2 will assign to your favorites.
  Set the field to "" to not use this feature.
• "favmen-suffix.txt" is automatically renamed to "favmen-end.txt" and there also is a "favmen-start.txt" and
  "f2-settingsmen.txt" which you can use to add items to the start of the F²-menu and to its separate "Settings" option
  which helps to keep the menus clean and focussed. Also some previously hardcode items found their way into "favmen-start.txt" so it's all configureable now
• The "Settings" menu is callable using a dedicated label not too surprisingly named "Settings". These options can be used as an alternative route to edit favorites and rebuild the menu.
  use config "P_F2_CFGINMAIN" to control if you want the settings included in the main menu (=true) or not. They are always accessible via "Settings" too.

Improvements

• Favorite editing handles environment-variable-based icon paths correctly in the preview.
• Updated doc

Fixes

• Favorites without an associated menu path are shown again as top-level menu entries.
• Top-level menu sorting now places normal entries in alphabetical order instead of pushing them to the end.
• Menu generation now merges labels that differ only by accelerator markers
• Editing or adding a favorite now writes back the full favorite line, preserving the target folder/file path and properly quoting the title/icon definition.
• Existing favorite detection is more robust for quoted paths and paths with trailing separators.

Breaking changes (sorry!)

• renamed label "addcurritem" to "AddEditcuritem"
• Internal renaming: "xyFavMenu" → "F2Helper" (*** Sorry, but this means you'll have to rename the file in the config $P_F2_EXE ***)

[Horst]

Using the newest version there is a small problem.
The entry "Recent Locations.." is always called twice
regardless if I make a selection or simply press the Ok or Cancel button.

[MBaas]

Yup, you're right, I'm seeing that as well - but I'm rather clueless as to why this happens... Hopefully I'll find it...

[Horst]

It also happens using Manage Favorite Folders and Manage Favorite Files.

[MBaas]

really weird...