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Topic: Suggested Change (Additional Items Menu)

I have made a code change as a suggested contribution, and submitted this as a 'pull request' for (possible) inclusion into the main application.

The contribution contains a number of minor corrections to code spelling, along with the ability to add external applications into the FSB menu.  I have found this to be useful to my work.

1. Create a directory 'Addiional' in the location where FSB is launched from.  If the directory doesn't exist then the application continues to behave as it does currently.

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2. Place a copy of lnk (shortcut) files that you wish to be made available from within FSB into the directory.

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3. When FSB is launched, the Tools ... Additional menu will contain a direct link to your shortcut, allowing it to be launched from the application.

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Re: Suggested Change (Additional Items Menu)

Hello ab,
This looks very useful. I'll definitely add it to the FSB distribution.
What do you think to add shortcuts key combinations for fast run. For example Ctr+Shift+1 for the first link, Ctrl+Shift+2 for the second...

The best is that the user will be able to put links to his MetaTrader, FST... and this links will not be overwritten by the installer after an update of FSB.

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Re: Suggested Change (Additional Items Menu)

Popov wrote:

What do you think to add shortcuts key combinations for fast run. For example Ctrl+Shift+1 for the first link, Ctrl+Shift+2 for the second...

I think this would work well, code has been updated to sort the list (so assuming that a user doesn't change the files, then the shortcut keys should remain the same), and assign Ctrl+Shift+F1 through Ctrl+Shift+F12.

I used the function keys rather than number keys as we have two extra keys to work with.

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Popov wrote:

The best is that the user will be able to put links to his MetaTrader, FST... and this links will not be overwritten by the installer after an update of FSB.

I have tried a few different ideas to make this work for me, and ended up with this approach of reading lnk files directly.  As they are just shortcuts they should be fairly easy to work with for anyone, and I assume would survive a version upgrade.

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4 Reply by ab (edited by ab 2012-02-12 05:28:20)

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Re: Suggested Change (Additional Items Menu)

This feature has been incorporated accepted into the working codebase, and documented has been added at to the user manual under at Custom Commands.

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Re: Suggested Change (Additional Items Menu)

What I think now is that we can make the installer to search for FST or MT4 installations and to put links in the "Additional" folder automatically.
The same can be done in FST.
For that purpose I have to make the installer to save the installation path of FSB and FSt in the windows registry. MT4 already writes his path  there.
Also we can make eventually the script to rank FST always on the first place and to have constant short cut of Ctrl+Shift+F1.

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Re: Suggested Change (Additional Items Menu)

That should work nicely.  Perhaps we should change the current code to only automatically issue Ctrl+Shift+F5 -> F12 (8 keys in total), and reserve the F1 -> F4 for items that are inserted during setup.

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