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Brief overview
ABCLaunch is a mouse-less launcher.
ABCLaunch incrementally searches
applications whose name matches keywords you input.
How to use
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Launch ABCLaunch, then you can find "ABC" menu in the menu bar.
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Hold down "Command + F11", and you can see a window titled "ABCLaunch"
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Input a part of a file's name.
e.g. "s"
ABCLaunch search files incrementally, so you don't need to type the
full name like "Safari".
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Open a file with one of below methods.
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Push return to open the first item.
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Push Command + num (1-9) to open the 'num'th file listed in
ABCLaunch window.
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Select a file and push return.
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Double click a file.
Requirements
ABCLaunch 0.6.3:
Universal Binary
Mac OS 10.3.9 or later
Please note that ABCLaunch 0.6.3 has been tested only on iMac Core 2 Duo (2.16 GHz) Mac OS X 10.4.9.
If you notice something wrong under other environments, it would be
very helpful to let me know. :)
ABCLaunch 0.6.2:
Tested on following environments.
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iBook/G3/800(32VRAM) Mac OS X 10.3.9.
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iBook/G4/1.33 Mac OS X 10.4.5 (Thanx, Mr. Kawai)
Donation
Although ABCLaunch is free, I don't refuse any donations.
If you feel ABCLaunch is worth donating $10 or whatever you feel is an
appropriate amount, please click the below button.
Thanx a lot. :-)
Download
History
| 0.6.3 |
Apr. 3. '07 |
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Universal Binary (finally).
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An indicator showing a searching status only appears when searching.
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| 0.6.2 |
May. 19. '05 |
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Bug fix: there was no way to activate again after activaing
another application during setting the hot key.
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Bug fix: Japanese input method did not work.
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Command + R shows the first item when no selection.
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| 0.6.1 |
Apr. 2. '05 |
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Bug fix: didn't show the current hot key in the menu.
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| 0.6 |
Apr. 1. '05 |
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Made the search window compact.
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Can specify more keys as the hot-key. e.g. command + space.
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Command + R shows the selection of results in Finder.
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Bug fix: small bugs.
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| 0.5 |
Feb. 23. '05 |
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Can specify arbitrary keys as the hot-key.
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ABCLaunch has its application icon.
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Bug fix: cannot sometimes adjust widths of columns.
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Bug fix: Other small bugs.
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| 0.4.2 |
Feb. 7. '05 |
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Bug fix: There remain dusts on the window after searching.
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Bug fix: Other small bugs.
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| 0.4.1 |
Jan. 31. '05 |
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Bug fix: 0.4 cannot run under some environments.
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| 0.4 |
Jan. 30. '05 |
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Return (enter) opens the first item.
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Show icons in results.
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Enable to specify the number of items which are shown.
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Show an indicator which represents if it is during search or not.
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Make search more efficient.
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Bug fix: saving widths of columns of the path and the name.
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| 0.3.5 |
Jan. 6. '05 |
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Bug fix: Finder didnt come front when open files and directories
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| 0.3.4 |
Jan. 5. '05 |
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Bug fix: To set up was required at the first running.
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Make rehash more efficient.
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| 0.3.3 |
Nov. 14. '04 |
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Bug fix: Escape as a shortcut of input methods didn't work.
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Add cut (command+C), paste (command+V), copy (command+C) and
select all (command+A).
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| 0.3.2 |
Oct. 26. '04 |
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Bug fix: failur in placing file types for some applications.
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Bug fix: files which doesn't have any applications to open with.
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| 0.3.1 |
Jul. 23. '04 |
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Bug fix: full keyboard access.
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Bug fix: query field doesn't receive Return.
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Bug fix: alternative back ground color of results of search.
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| 0.3 |
Jul. 15. '04 |
| New options to show or hide types and paths of files. |
| Double click and return can now open a file. |
| Fix bugs. |
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| 0.2 |
Jan. 12. '04 |
| enable to hide the status menu in the menu bar. |
| enable to specify paths to ignore during rehashing. |
| show the kind of files in the search results. |
| show the sheet window to indicate the rehashing explicitly. |
| fix the bug of failing to save the position of the window. |
| fix the bug of failing to save the width of columns of
search results table. |
| fix the other bugs. |
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| 0.1 |
Oct. 11. '03 |
the first release |
last update : Jun. 14, 2008
Kenichi Kurihara
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