Hi folks, long time. Hope everyone's well. 

I was playing around with docks and launchers with the objective of launching 
any program I want with a single click (out of a choice of lots of programs). I 
decided that since powerpro is always running on any computer I own, I'd do 
things the PP way instead.

The objectives were:
- One click launch
- Little to no screen real estate (threw out all the docks)
- Nice looking 
- Easily extensible

Here's my attempt:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/files/Picture_gallery/Ravi/Bar.png
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/files/Picture_gallery/Ravi/Menu.png

A mouse bump to the top of the screen shows the bar. Hovering on the 
appropriate button shows a "menu" and then a click launches the program. The 
"menu" is really a PP bar that hides after a click, or disappears if unused (an 
idea I got from Alan Martin here a few years ago!).

The added benefit of doing things this way is that I can also have PP scripts 
etc. on the buttons.

Hope someone finds that useful someday - the config isn't very portable at the 
moment, so not worth exporting, but I'm happy to answer questions if anyone has 
any.

-- 
Ravi (http://shell-shocked.org)




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