LaunchBar Commander has a slightly different focus than some other launch bar tools:
It's designed for power users who value efficiency over eye candy - although you can choose some nice appearance skins for the program, if you are looking for a super fancy animated mac-style dock with dancing icons, LaunchBar Commander is not the tool for you (but see the help file for links to other freeware/shareware alternatives you might like).
It's designed to store docking bar configurations in self-contained files - so you can back them up easily, move them to other computers, switch between configurations, etc.
It emphasizes the use of highly configurable Menus rather than just buttons - you can build hierarchical menus of any depth and varying types.
It has a very powerful tree configuration tool which supports copy and paste, drag and drop, easy temporary disabling, multiple configuration files, etc.
Multiple dock support - a single instance of the program can support multiple docks and tray menus.
Robust support for virtual file menus - confgure menu items to give you access into specific folders, with many options.
Drag and drop runtime support - drop files onto buttons to open them with the specific program, or add them to the launch bar.
Smart tree building - extracts icons and descriptions from files and pictures.
Advanced button and menu types - including switchable Tool Buttons, Batch Buttons, Virtual Links, and more coming soon.
Smart icon retrieval - use application icons, standalone .ico files, or even .bmp files.
Special menu building blocks for Start Menu, MyDocuments, etc. More coming soon (control panel, printers).
Works great on removable usb flash type drives - will auto adjust to changing drive letters and requires no installation
Optional use of skins to get the perfect look to match your background wallpaper.
Easily toggle launchbars to tray mode so you can use them as tray menus when you don't want them taking up space on your desktop.
Freeware
Whats new: >> [Feature] You can now drop urls and url shotcuts onto items (like browsers) that accept them, in the same way you can drop files onto items that accept files.
[Feature] You can now drop urls and url shortcutes onto an empty space to create new items to launch those urls (just like when dropping files)
[MajorFeature] New node type: Paste Text/SendKey simulator -- you can paste preset text into last active window, or simulate the pressing of global hotkeys (function keys, contrl/alt/shift etc). Supports both Ctrl+V use for fast pasting large block of text, or one-by-one character simulation which can support virtual keys and can work in any target window (even a dos box).
[MajorFeature] You can now use the virtual commands "paste" and "sendkeys" in menus built from text files, plugins, or commandline output. This makes it fairly easy to use LBC to show a large menu (stored in a plain text file) of things to past into the active window.
[Feature] New node type for MenuContents from File -- which allows you to specify a text file whose contents will be used to build menu dynamically. This feature was actually already possible using the MenuContents from Commandline node by specifying a .txt file, and could be used by .lbctool files to support plugin-like use of text file menus, however the new node type also allows you to manually specify some menu content text directly in the node configuration itself. I don't recommend using this for large menus but for quickie stuff and testing it can be useful.
[Feature] Portable zip now uses ConfigDir_Default.ini which is overridden by the presence of a ConfigDir.ini file, so users unpacking the contents won't overwrite any custom ConfigDir.ini they may have.
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