Configuring the Program Launch Bar

Add program icons for graphics and multimedia applications to the Program Launch bar, and use these icons to launch the program. Once you have added programs to the launch bar, you can easily remove or edit the program location.

Another way to use the Program Launch bar: Drag a thumbnail of an image onto a program icon to open the image in that application.

To add programs to the launch bar:

  1. Choose Tools > Program Launch Bar to open the Edit Program Launch dialog.

  2. To activate the Program Launch Bar, mark the Show Program Launch Toolbar check-box.

  3. If you want to display large application icons, mark the Use Large Icons check box.

  4. Click Add to open the Edit Program Launch dialog.

  5. In the Program Command Line group box, click the Browse button to open the Browse dialog.

  6. Select the program.exe file (example psp.exe), and then click Open to return to the Edit Program Launch dialog.

  7. In the Display As field, enter the name of the application.

  8. Mark the file types that you want to open from the Supported File Types group box.
    For example, a certain application might be capable of working with both JPEG and GIF files, but you want it to edit GIF files. In this case, you would only click to select the GIF (.gif) option and use it to launch and open GIF images.

  9. Click OK to return to the Edit Program Launch dialog.

  10. Click Close to return to the main window, with the icons of the Program Launch Toolbar activated.

Note:

The appearance of the icons depends on the type of files currently selected. Icons that appear “dimmed” (and can’t be selected) are set to edit certain types of files (e.g., GIF files). In this case, there are no files selected of the type supported by the application.

Related Topics

Configuring the Toolbars

Configuring Tool Options

Setting Image View Options