Launchy 2.7.0 released

You did povide an em:updateURL so your extensions is unlikely to be available on update.mozilla.org (well, atleast for the update function)

http://www.bengoodger.com/software/mb/extensions/packaging/extensions.html says:
"It is recommended you do not supply this field if you are listing your extension with a host such as update.mozilla.org and just use the default update service provided by that host."

Greet work! Thank you very much! :-D

True, but someone said that he updated his Launchy with the updater function in Mozilla Firefox 0.9.

Comment by Henrik Gemal at June 14, 2004 01:02 PM | Permalink

> True, but someone said that he updated his Launchy with the updater function in Mozilla Firefox 0.9.

True, but your extension will not be retrived via update.mozilla.org and might get blocked by default due to the the xpinstall whitelist.

Maxwel, are you talking about me? =P
http://minghong.blogspot.com/2004/06/update-your-extensions-now.html

Comment by minghong at June 14, 2004 03:13 PM | Permalink

Yes. I just couldn't remember the URL

Comment by Henrik Gemal at June 14, 2004 03:25 PM | Permalink

oops, my message referred to a wrong person. I should refer you (Gemal) instead... but copied the name above (Maxwel)...

Comment by minghong at June 14, 2004 03:37 PM | Permalink

Still problems with arguments in launchy.xml.

I can see that the argument option is beeing used now - but the way the URI is appended to the command line doesn't work with Netscape 6 (the only program I have that benefits from an argument).

I get the following command when choosing Netscape with launchy (seen in the statusbar):

Running [path to executable] [argument],[URI]

- i.e. the URI is appended directly at the end of the argument, using a comma. This makes Netscape think that the URI is part of the same argument (a profile name) used in [argument].

The URI should - as far as I can see - be appended with a single space and no comma. This command will at least work in Netscape 6.

By the way - I now have two launchy-items in my context menu - the first one works fine, the second is empty. I have upgraded from 2.6 to 2.7.

A small extra comment - it is difficult to see which user posted what text with your changed layout for the comments. Some kind of divider line or border would IMO make it easier.

> it is difficult to see which user posted what text... Some kind of divider line or border would IMO make it easier.
Exactly what I want to say... =P

If AOL gotta releases Netscape 7.2 this summer, it should do that asap. Because both Mozilla suite and Firefox are much different to Netscape 7.1 and soon probably no extensions will work in Netscape 7.1.

Comment by minghong at June 14, 2004 05:48 PM | Permalink

Jens: Two Launchy items could be because Launchy is install in both global chrome and personal chrome.

But it could also be because I've change the file to overlay.

So I would recommend to delete your chrome directory and reinstall your extensions.

Exactly what command line doesn't work in Netscape 6? Do it work if you use the Windows command line?

Comment by Henrik Gemal at June 14, 2004 10:38 PM | Permalink

this works fine be me. There's a bug in the status line of Launchy 2.7.0

<application>
<label>Mozilla</label>
<type>7</type>
<command>c:\program files\mozilla.org\nightly\mozilla\mozilla.exe</command>
<arguments>-editor</arguments>
</application>

Comment by Henrik Gemal at June 14, 2004 10:55 PM | Permalink

Gemal, your Launchy's icon is not shown in the extension manager of Firefox 0.9 final. I don't want to file a bug as this is just a minor "bug"...

Comment by minghong at June 15, 2004 11:21 AM | Permalink

I'll wait till Mozilla 1.7 Final before I reinstall the extensions.

The command line that won't work in Netscape follows here (this time copied from the debug prints in the javascript console):

launchy: About to run:
C:\Programmer\OldBrowsers\Netscape6\netscp6.exe -P Netscape6profil,http://html-faq.dk/2003.asp

If I replace the comma with a space and run the command in windows, it works fine.

BTW: Nice borders here - that's a major improvement.

Like I said the statusline doesn't show the correct command line being executed.

You can to pass an array to the spawn function and I forgot to fix that when I print out the status line text.

I'll fix this minor bug in Launchy 2.8.0

Comment by Henrik Gemal at June 15, 2004 01:23 PM | Permalink

So both the status line text and the debug text from the console are shown incorrectly?

Then I can't understand why Netscape doesn't launch, since it works fine when the command line (with space instead of comma) is entered in Windows.

So both the status line text and the debug text from the console are shown incorrectly?

Then I can't understand why Netscape doesn't launch, since it works fine when the command line (with space instead of comma) is entered in Windows.

You can download Launchy 2.8.0 from
http://download.mozdev.org/launchy/

Comment by Henrik Gemal at June 16, 2004 02:30 PM | Permalink

Sorry for the double post yesterday - but at times the response time when posting comments here is very long.

Anyway - for some reason my profile got corrupted yesterday and I have used some time today installing RC3, making a new fresh profile and putting back the extensions I use (this is a rather annoying process - hope that the new "FireFox way" also will be ported for Mozilla.

But now launchy won't even install! The page claims that:

"You do not have Software Installation enabled! Go to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Software installation and enable it."

But I have enabled software installation - and other extensions install without problems. Why is this?