Copyright: Copyright © Roman Štìdronský 1998


TrayRun 2.6

Would you like to have a possibility how to quickly and easily start your favorite and often used applications, but you don't want to go deep into hierarchical structure of the Start button or to remember amount of complicated keyboard shortcuts? If you would, then program TrayRun is right for you.

TrayRun manages list of applications that are represented by small icons in a right part of Taskbar. After clicking by left mouse button on selected icon, an associated application will be immediately run. It is advantageous that Taskbar is all the time visible and you can runs your application quickly and without long thinking.

At first run dialog window Settings will be automatically displayed. You can create and further adjust list of applications. Dialog is designed in order that at once less experienced user has needed comfort and an expert is not hold back. Running program you can call dialog through local menu, which appear after right mouse button click over any application icon in Taskbar. If you wish for communication in Czech, simply change implicit English in dialog Language .

New item can be inserted into list by two methods. One of them is using button Insert or alternatively command Insert in local menu available in list through right mouse button. After that new item with unfilled parameters (icon title, full program path, command line parameter, program priority, window show state, icon file and icon) will appear in list. Parameters can be edit by hand or you can mark application in Find program dialog and in this case parameters will be sets automatically. Second method, how to add an application to list, is drag-and-drop. In Explorer you select executables and drop them onto icon list and several applications will be automatically inserted. Of course it is possible to reorder items, delete them and further change parameters.

 Insert

 Find program / icon file

 Move left

 Move right

 Delete

To start TrayRun immediately after starting Windows, create an shortcut and move it to the folder Start Menu - Programs - Startup.

Program is designed for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0.

Copyright © Roman Štìdronský 1998

xster05@st.vse.cz

http://sorry.vse.cz/~xster05


List of applications which small icons are displayed in the right part of the Taskbar.

Item order can be changed by dragging, from the local menu or by buttons. You can add new item by assistance of Insert button or using drag-and-drop of executable file from Explorer or other file manager.


Title displayed when the mouse cursor stops over Taskbar icon.


Executable file name with full path. You can write it manually or find with a help from dialog with file filter for *.EXE, *.COM a *.BAT.


Command line parameters.


Icon file with an icon representating an item in the Taskbar. By default programs’s icon is used but it is possible to set any other file of type *.EXE, *.DLL, *.ICO a *.ICL. You can use or manual editing or find dialog or drag-and-drop an icon file from Explorer or other file manager.


Icon. Some file types content more icons for selection.


Move selected item to the left.


Move selected item to the right.


Insert a new item.


Delete selected item.


Open a dialog for finding an executable file.


Open a dialog for finding an icon file.


Save setings and close dialog.


Close dialog without saving.


Sets the priority, which will be used for an application start. Idle priority means that application run only when the system is idle and are preempted by the processes running in a higher priority class. Normal priority indicates a normal process with no special scheduling needs. High priority indicates a process that performs time-critical tasks that must be executed immediately for it to run correctly. A high-priority class process preempts normal-priority or idle-priority processes. Realtime priority indicates a process that has the highest possible priority. The real-time priority process preempts all other processes, including operating system processes performing important tasks. Be extremely careful to use this prirority, because of possibility of no response of operating system (for example mouse is unresponsive, windows are not repainted etc.).

Note: These settings can be override by holding a CTRL or SHIFT key when starting an application. CTRL sets the idle priority and SHIFT sets high priority.


Show state of an application. It can be or normal size and position or minimized to the Taskbar or maximized over whole screen.