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How can i get hotspots to auto popup a dynamic folder, like a fodler of my old startmenu for example, and not have it pop up 50 windows for the split second my mouse is over it? It wasnt fun having to end task on litestep.exe to stop them from opening.

Setup a Popup for it

Maybe it will help by showing the current code i have for it.

*ckHotspot 1 36 16 16 !popupdynamicfolder "$LiteStepDir$shortcuts" .none

That code is unuseable because will will keep creating new folders as long as the mouse is in the hotspot, it also doesnt open a popup menu, but opens an explorer window at the shortcuts dir.

If you mean open the folder with your folderviewer:
(Edit the xs so they are the correct coordinates)

*ckHotspot x x x x C:\Path\to\folder !none

If you mean open a popup with just that folder:
(Edit the xs so they are the correct coordinates)

*ckHotspot x x x x !Blah !none
*Popup !New !Blah
*Popup "Old Startmenu" !DynamicFolder:"C:\Path\to\folder"
*Popup ~New

If you mean something else, be more specific cause I guess I'm not understandin ya.

I have problems with ckHotspots, too:

*ckhotspot x x x x "!alert in" "!alert out"

the out !bang is execute until LS crashes!

Yup...as it should be...you told it to

Thanks, the second one with creating a new popup is very close to want i wanted. But it will create a little popup that has just the entry within the qoutes, then from that the menu i want opens, how can i set it up so that when the hotspot activates it goes right to the full menu?

changes.txt:
- Added [popup2 / allelimo / 2002-04-30]
*Popup "Start" !new !Blah !PopupFolder:$dirStuff$

Awsome, thanks, exactly what i wanted.

One more quick question, what is the syntax for positioning a menu?

Ah, found it, nm.

If you use that root-level popup thingy a lot you might want to try using this:

- added !PopupDynamicFolder as a regular !bang that can be used anywhere (thanks snol)
Syntax:
!PopupDynamicFolder

then you don't have to add a separate *Popup line.