Quick Access Popup 12.2.1 + x64

- when importing or exporting favorites with the "Import/Export Settings" command, fix bug when the "[Favorites]" section is larger than 65,532 characters (QAP now imports or exports favorites line by line instead of copying the section as a whole because of size limit)
- display a progress popup text when importing or exporting favorites
- when saving favorites, stop doing an internal backup of the "[Favorites]" section of the ini file as "[Favorites-backup]" when its size is larger than 65,532 characters (this backup section is unused and is copied only for debugging)

Announcement:
* users who made a donation with QAP v9 or before, please see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/upgrading-donor-code/
* Merry Christmas and Happy New Decade 2020 !
 
- fix bug preventing to revert a Live Folder back to a normal favorite folder
- fix bug in dropdown list when selecting a favorite position and a menu contains a line separator
- improve how Live folder document icons and favorite documents default icons are retrieved from the associated applications files
- allow to add control panel items using the "Add this Folder" context menu command (for control panel items supporting the Explorer context menu)
- get localized name of an item added with an CLSID using the Explorer context menu and QAPmessenger (for example, items added from control panels with the "Add this Folder" command)
- for Directory Opus and Total Commander users, fix a bug when trying to open items added with a CLSID
- Dutch language file update

Snippet Quick Add
- new QAP Feature "Snippet Quick Add" displaying a dialog box where you can create a snippet and its hotstring in one step, with the content of the Windows Clipboard used to suggest default values for the name and content of the new snippet
- you can add the "Snippet Quick Add" feature to a menu by selecting "Add Favorite", choose the type "QAP Feature", section "QAP Menu Editing" and select "Snippet Quick Add"
- in "Options", section "Snippets and Hotstrings", you can set the default submenu where the snippets added with the "Snippet Quick Add" dialog box are stored
- to promote the use of snippets, a new menu "My Snippets" is added to your menu with the "Snippet Quick Add" feature and an example of snippet including an hotstring (you can move or remove this menu in the "Customize" window)
 
Configurable hotkeys for Alternative menus features
- redesign the section "Alternative Menu Hotkeys" of the "Options" dialog box allowing to assign various keyboard hotkeys for Alternative menu features ("Open in new window", "Edit a Favorite", "Copy a Favorite's Path or URL", "Run as administrator", "Open the Containing Folder in a New Window" and "Open the Containing Folder in the Current Window")
- available hotkeys are: Left + Shift, Left + Control, Left + Shift + Control, Right + Shift, Right + Control and Right + Shift + Control
- to use these hotkeys, open the main QAP menu and, before clicking a favorite, press one of the six hotkeys combination to activate its associated feature
- improved Alternative menu QAP feature "Open the Containing Folder...", including support for Special folders
- an error message is displayed when an Alternative menu feature is not supported for a given favorite type
- see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-launch-alternative-menu-features-directly-from-the-regular-p
opup-menu/
 
Various improvements
- new QAP feature "Window Always on Top" that toggle the always on top property of the selected window (you can add this feature to a menu by selecting "Add Favorite", choose the type "QAP Feature", section "Window Management" and select "Window Always on Top"); see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-make-the-active-window-always-on-top/
- a tooltip message is displayed when the "Always on Top" property is turned OFF for a window
- in the "Enter your donor code" dialog box, add a link to remove an existing sponsor code if it was entered by error
- in "Edit Favorite" dialog box for "Folder" favorites, in "Windows Options" tab, support user variables "{...}" and environement variables "%...%" for Explorer window position Left, Top, Width and Height values
 
Bug fixes
- now open some Special folders in Directory opus lister instead of an external window
- fix a bug breaking the Alternative menu when saving any change in the "Options" dialog box
- fix various bugs when opening a group of folders, when adding a favorite after deleting multiple favorites and when positioning Explorer window on active monitor
 
Language updates
- French, German, Korean, Portuguese, Brazilian-Portuguese and Italian language update for v10.3

- add menu item "Open QAP Settings Backup Folder" to the "File" menu
- fix bug when opening folders from DOpus favorites submenus
- support UTF-8 characters in Sponsor Name
- reintroduce Simplified Chinese language (ZH-CN), thanks to ilaoyao
- Korean language update

Fix bug in sponsor name code verification on system with some int'l Windows configuration (new sponsor codes will require this version v10.2.1 or more recent)
Sort Live folders menus, Clipboard menus and Edit Favorite treeviews using user's locale setting to sort correctly int'l characters (for example sorting "?" or "?" with "e")
When a folder is launched from a menu open with QAPmessenger (new feature in v10.2), disable features for Explorer requiring to set window position that do not work in this situation
Fix bug hotstrings default options being lost after saving options
Fix bug to update file manager configuration after a new selection is saved in Options
Improve error handling if a folder is not found when saving options and add diagnostic code in case the Settings Folder value cannot be read from registry (Setup installation only)
Language updates for German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Korean; removed untranlsated languages bits for other languages

 
Add/Edit Favorite
- in "Basic Settings" tab, add the option "Hide this favorite" to hide a favorite from menu but keep its shortcut/hotstring active
- in "Menu Options" tab, add links to select icons from Window files Shell32.dll and ImageRes.dll
 
Placeholders
- two new placeholders that can be used in Snippets or favorites file paths
  - {Input:prompt} asking user an input when the favorite is launched
  - {Now:format} with format based on AHK date-time formats
(see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-insert-values-in-favorites-location-or-parameters-using-plac
eholders/)
 
QAPmessenger
- when using QAPmessenger to open the QAP menu with parameters ShowMenuLaunch or ShowMenuNavigate, support a 2nd parameter (between double-quotes) to indicate what menu to show ("Main" menu by default)
(see https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-display-the-qap-menu-from-the-command-line-or-from-a-batch-f
ile/)
 
Options
- in "Popup Menu" tab, replace the simple mouse trigger exclusion list with an option to make this list a "blacklist" (as actual, default value) or a "whitelist" (block the mouse trigger in all applications windows except those in the list)
- in "Menu Appearance" tab, add distinct options for hotstrings reminders (do not display, display abbreviated or complete), and options to display shortcut and hotstrings reminders distinctly on the left side (between parenthesis after the name) or to align them to the right side of the menu
(see https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/what-are-the-essential-global-options-to-know/)
 
Bug fixes
- fix bug in "Add Active Folder or Web page" command making adding web pages more reliable
- fix bug when calling a submenu by its hotkey and when the menu name starts with "Main" (or its translation in other languages)

Customize window improvements
- the "Settings" window has been renamed "Customize" and has been lightened to give close to 50% more room to the favorites list
- a new menu bar with "File", "Favorite", "Tools", "Options" and "Help" menus is available in the "Customize" window and in the QAP system menu (right click on QAP icon in Notification zone)
- various buttons for features and links were removed from the "Customize" window and were moved to the new QAP menu bar
- the Search box is now hidden under the submenus dropdown list to save space and a magnifying glass icon allows to reveal it
- new keyboard shortcuts were added: press F1 for a complete list of shortcuts
 
Other improvements to the Customize window
- QAP features names can now be edited, using the default localized name if name is left empty
- the Search box now filters items from the menu currently in the "Customize" window instead of from the top menu (Main)
- in the items list, the "parent menu" item ("..") was removed and arrows for parent menu (up) and previous menu (back) are now more visible
- when adding or editing a favorite of types Folder, Document or Application, QAP now checks if the file exists (except if the location includes a placeholder)
- in the tree view, when adding a favorite of type "Special Folder" or "QAP Feature", a new node at the end lists all "Special folders" or "QAP Features" in alphabetical order
- after saving a new or edited favorite, the submenu in the "Customize" window is changed to the favorite's destination menu
- a new dialog box facilitates the input of the "Sponsor code", this command is available from the "Enter your sponsor code" menu item in the "Help" menu
 
Revamped Options window
- a new "Options" window with sections tabs on the left: "General", "Settings Window", "Menu Icons", "Menu Appearance", "Popup Menu", "Popup Hotkeys", "Alternative Menu Hotkeys", "File Managers", "Snippets and Hotstrings", "User Variables" and "Database"
- more advanced options and some options previously found only in the quickaccesspopup.ini file are now available under the "Menu Advanced Options", "Launch Advanced Options" and "Various Advanced Options" tabs
- new options under the "Customize Window" tab of the "Options" dialog box allows to select if this window is open at startup (default on for new users) and to select to display the new QAP menu bar in the "Customize" window, in the QAP System menu or in both locations (the default setting)
 
Easy Setup installation changes
- for new installations, the default Settings Folder is now under "My Documents\Quick Access Popup" (instead of user's AppData folder)
- Settings Folder can now be changed in "Options", "General" section, with a dialog box asking if user wants to copy its actual settings to the new folder or use the settings already in this new location (or create new settings, if necessary)
- QAP now uses a Windows Registry "Run" key to set QAP as a startup program (the old startup file shortcut is deleted), this option being enabled by default for new installations (for installations in portable mode, the startup file shortcut is kept and is disabled by default)
- QAP now deletes temporary folders older than 7 days if they were not removed when quitting QAP as it should be normally done
 
Various changes
- a new options for "Live Folders" allows to display or not icons and file extensions in menu, and to include or not hidden and system folders/files in the menu
- retrieve more icons for document favorites and items in the "Recent files" menu
- support environment variables (like %TEMP%) in temporary, working and backup folders
- refresh dynamic menus (Clipboard, Reopen a Folder, Directory Opus Favorites, Drives, Repeat Last Actions, Frequent Files, Frequent Folders, Recent Files, Recent Folders, Current Windows and TC Directory hotlist) when they are part of a submenu open using a keyboard shortcut or an hotstring
- support relative path, system, user variables, and "file,index" icon format for alternative tray icon, and use the pick icon dialog box to select an alternative tray icon
- when saving an application favorite having Parameters, turn the "Activate if running" option off if it is also enabled (these two options cannot be used together)
- stop displaying the Parameters text box for favorites of type Folder (this parameter had no effect in this type of favorites)
- fix various small bugs not discovered when developing v9
 
Language
- thanks to volunteer translators, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Korean, Portuguese and Portuguese Brazilian language has been updated to v10 (looking for someone to take over Spanish translation)
- for English proofreading, thanks to Greg F.
 
Internal changes
- implement object oriented data model (using classes, etc.) for favorites data
- upgraded the AutoHotkey runtime to v1.1.30.03 (dated April 4, 2019)
 
Announcements:
* looking for someone to take over Spanish translation
* users who made a donation for QAP before v10, please see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/upgrading-donor-code/

* Announcement #1: Quick Access Popup v10 is on its way. Expect it before the end of summer.
* Announcement #2: Looking for someone to take over the Spanish translation of Quick Access Popup.
 
- when in Settings window's search result, hide the "Move" button (this command is not supported from search result)
- swap "Copy" and "Move" buttons (to avoid having an empty space when in search result)
- when loading favorites, if a Special Folder name is empty (probably after having used v10 before reverting to v9), use the Special Folder default name (working on v10, I realized that this change was required to ensure full forward/backward compatibility if reverting to QAP v9.5.3 after having used QAP v10)

- fix bug in dynamic menus (Recent items, Frequent items, Drives) when numeric shortcuts are enabled and menu item includes an ampersand (&)

- fix bug in dynamic menus (Recent items, Frequent items, Drives) when numeric shortcuts are enabled and menu item includes an ampersand (&)
- fix bug when cancelling the "Select Hotstring" dialog box was erroneously deleting the hotstring

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Pre v10 release
- in anticipation of the launch of Quick Access Popup v10 (expected later this year), changes in release v9.5 will make things smoother if user need to revert to a v9 release after having run v10 release
- FYI, only the startup process needed changes in regard with v10 new startup process
- v10 settings file will be backward compatible with v9 settings files
 
Minor changes
- feature set in this release v9.5 is the same as in previous version v9.4.1.5 except the following change
- add in "Options", "More" tab, "Quick Access Popup Database", new chekbox "Retrieve icon when refreshing Frequent folders and Frequent files menus (avoid if you often have offline files)" to bypass icon retrieval when refreshing Frequent items menu; enable this option if you never have offline network files in your Recent Items Windows folder
- fix bug, update the short name for menu when browsing the list of running application in "Add Favorite" for "Application" type
- fix bug for Directory Opus users, check if DOpus lister exists before opening a folder in order to protect the last used folders

Fix bug when filtering apps in List Applications window and in Current Windows menu when running with a language other than English
Update dropdown menu labels in "List Applications" window (dropdown menu not localized at this time)
When copying a favorite, keep the original favorite in the item position dropdown list
Make sure the default theme Windows is selected when the value is empty in ini file
Fix link to website in "Check for update" dialog box
Fix bug when searching for "Live" folders type in Settings Extended Search
Fix bug when checking if a favorite app is already running to activate it instead of launching it
Exclude some "ghost" Windows Apps from Current Windows menu (aka Switch menu)

- in the "Easy Setup" installer, removed the optional task to import settings from Folders Popup (ancestor of Quick Access Popup, latest version v5.2.3, September 2016)
- Folders Popup users wanting to convert their settings to Quick Access Popup must first install QAP version v9.4.1.3 (or before), and then upgrade to the latest QAP version
- no change for users doing portable installation with the ZIP file

- use custom folder icon from desktop.ini for Live folders top menu item; if there is no dektop.ini file, use the icon defined for the parent Live folder favorite; else use the default icon for Live folders
- in dynamic menus "Current Windows" and "Reopen a folder", use the custom folder icon from desktop.ini if it exists
- fix bug when excluding mouse trigger in a file dialog box and when process name is used as an exclusion criteria
- update to German, Spanish, French, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese language files