Brief overviewABCLaunch is a mouse-less launcher.
ABCLaunch incrementally searches applications whose name matches keywords you input.
How to use- Launch ABCLaunch, then you can find "ABC" menu in the menu bar.
- Hold down "Command + F11", and you can see a window titled "ABCLaunch"
- Input a part of a file's name.
e.g. "s"
ABCLaunch search files incrementally, so you don't need to type the full name like "Safari". - Open a file with one of below methods.
- Push return to open the first item.
- Push Command + num (1-9) to open the 'num'th file listed in ABCLaunch window.
- Select a file and push return.
- Double click a file.
RequirementsABCLaunch 0.6.3:Universal Binary
Mac OS 10.3.9 or later
Please note that ABCLaunch 0.6.3 has been tested only on iMac Core 2 Duo (2.16 GHz) Mac OS X 10.4.9. If you notice something wrong under other environments, it would be very helpful to let me know. :)
ABCLaunch 0.6.2:Tested on following environments.- iBook/G3/800(32VRAM) Mac OS X 10.3.9.
- iBook/G4/1.33 Mac OS X 10.4.5 (Thanx, Mr. Kawai)
DonationAlthough ABCLaunch is free, I don't refuse any donations.
If you feel ABCLaunch is worth donating $10 or whatever you feel is an appropriate amount, please click the below button.
Thanx a lot. :-) DownloadHistory
| 0.6.3 | Apr. 3. '07 | | Universal Binary (finally). | | An indicator showing a searching status only appears when searching. |
| | 0.6.2 | May. 19. '05 | | Bug fix: there was no way to activate again after activaing another application during setting the hot key. | | Bug fix: Japanese input method did not work. | | Command + R shows the first item when no selection. |
| | 0.6.1 | Apr. 2. '05 | | Bug fix: didn't show the current hot key in the menu. |
| | 0.6 | Apr. 1. '05 | | Made the search window compact. | | Can specify more keys as the hot-key. e.g. command + space. | | Command + R shows the selection of results in Finder. | | Bug fix: small bugs. |
| | 0.5 | Feb. 23. '05 | | Can specify arbitrary keys as the hot-key. | | ABCLaunch has its application icon. | | Bug fix: cannot sometimes adjust widths of columns. | | Bug fix: Other small bugs. |
| | 0.4.2 | Feb. 7. '05 | | Bug fix: There remain dusts on the window after searching. | | Bug fix: Other small bugs. |
| | 0.4.1 | Jan. 31. '05 | | Bug fix: 0.4 cannot run under some environments. |
| | 0.4 | Jan. 30. '05 | | Return (enter) opens the first item. | | Show icons in results. | | Enable to specify the number of items which are shown. | | Show an indicator which represents if it is during search or not. | | Make search more efficient. | | Bug fix: saving widths of columns of the path and the name. |
| | 0.3.5 | Jan. 6. '05 | | Bug fix: Finder didnt come front when open files and directories |
| | 0.3.4 | Jan. 5. '05 | | Bug fix: To set up was required at the first running. | | Make rehash more efficient. |
| | 0.3.3 | Nov. 14. '04 | | Bug fix: Escape as a shortcut of input methods didn't work. | | Add cut (command+C), paste (command+V), copy (command+C) and select all (command+A). |
| | 0.3.2 | Oct. 26. '04 | | Bug fix: failur in placing file types for some applications. | | Bug fix: files which doesn't have any applications to open with. |
| | 0.3.1 | Jul. 23. '04 | | Bug fix: full keyboard access. | | Bug fix: query field doesn't receive Return. | | Bug fix: alternative back ground color of results of search. |
| | 0.3 | Jul. 15. '04 | | New options to show or hide types and paths of files. | | Double click and return can now open a file. | | Fix bugs. |
| | 0.2 | Jan. 12. '04 | | enable to hide the status menu in the menu bar. | | enable to specify paths to ignore during rehashing. | | show the kind of files in the search results. | | show the sheet window to indicate the rehashing explicitly. | | fix the bug of failing to save the position of the window. | | fix the bug of failing to save the width of columns of search results table. | | fix the other bugs. |
| | 0.1 | Oct. 11. '03 | the first release |
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