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Popup oddness Thread last updated on 2003-12-22 07:24:51

Posted by member 28487 on 2003-12-21 18:28:13

I'm using Popup2-2.1.6 and have tried to add an entry to my popup menu to launch the task manager.
I added:
TaskManager "C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr.exe"
to evars.rc

Then I added
*Popup "$TaskManager$"
to popup.rc just after the text editor entry.

After a recycle and a restart of litestep, the entry hasn't appeared in my popup.
I've looked in the popup2 docs and it doesn't appear to say anything about specifically refreshing the popup list.
Am I just missing something blatent?

I'm running LS 0.24.7 RC1 on WinXP Pro with Austerity as my theme.

Posted by member 1 on 2003-12-21 19:02:18 link

yup...you missed the name...proper entry would be...

*Popup TaskManager "$TaskManager$"

Just a side-note though...why not use the Ctrl+Shift+Esc hotkey to pull it up?

Posted by member 28487 on 2003-12-21 19:59:11 link

Actually I've realised I made a typo in my original post, I should have copied and pasted really. My actual entry into popup.rc is
*Popup "task manager" "$TaskManager$"

The hotkey... well up until now I didn't know about it. That and I'm lazy, the hotkey method means moving at least one hand to the keyboard. :-)

Posted by member 1 on 2003-12-21 20:04:52 link

try *Popup TaskManager taskmgr.exe and see if it works

Posted by member 28487 on 2003-12-21 20:26:39 link

I tried that initially, before making the evar, but I've just tried it again to make sure with no luck.

Posted by member 1 on 2003-12-21 20:35:51 link

and if you do the hotkey it comes up?

Posted by member 36955 on 2003-12-21 21:12:26 link

hmmm... well, it works for me... does actually typing $TaskManager$ into lsxcommand do anything?

Posted by member 1 on 2003-12-21 22:05:39 link

Im thinking something along the lines of not having enough rights to get there for some reason since calling the app doesn't work.

Posted by member 28487 on 2003-12-22 06:51:42 link

The hotkey works fine and running
c:\litestep\litestep.exe !execute "$TaskManager$"

also works.
Typing $TaskManager$ into lsxommand runs the task manager.

As for permissions, my user account has admin rights on this machine...

Just did a bit more testing, it was around 2am last night when I started this. If I copy the text editor line and put a copy of it directly below it works fine. I also made an entry to calc.exe which also works fine.
So it seems that for some reason it doesn't like the task manager entry specifically.

Posted by member 28487 on 2003-12-22 07:24:51 link

Ok, feel free to berate me in anyway you like. As it was 2am last night when I did this I managed to put a typo in popup.rc.
Instead of *Popup I typed *Popop. I'm an idiot.

Better go check that I didn't make any typos during mounting windows shares on my linux box which I was also doing at 2am last night.