miere43 / cmdbar

Command Bar

A thing that appears on your screen.

Requirements

• Windows Vista/7/8/10. XP and older are not supported (because we are using DirectWrite and Direct2D).

cmds.ini

• Commands are loaded from cmds.ini, currently hardcoded to D:/Vlad/cb/cmds.ini.

[open_dir]
name=dls
path=D:\Downloads
[run_app]
name=subl
path=D:\Soft\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe

Common params

• name - string - command name.

open_dir params

Opens directory in Windows Explorer

• path - string - path to directory to open.

run_app params

Launches application. All arguments from Command Bar text field will be passed to the application (notepad D:\yay.txt will work as expected).

• path - string - path to the application to launch.
• shell_exec - bool - use ShellExecute instead of CreateProcess to launch application.
• run_as_admin - bool - run app as administrator (when shell_exec is true).
• args - string - args that will be passed to the application (when shell_exec is true) alongside with Command Bar text field arguments (args come first).
• work_dir - string - working directory for app (when shell_exec is true).

Param data types

• string - string, parsed as is without expanding environment vars or escaping characters (but string is trimmed from tabs/spaces).
• bool - boolean, true values: 1, true, yes, y; false values: 0, false, no, n