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In the start menu there is a limit of 200 commands. Why?
Menu easy to edit, I would like to see the possibility to add at least 500-1000 commands (or to infinity).
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Wouldn't it be better to be able to have more than one start menu?
Or to combine the functionality of a regular menu dropdown & start menu.

Wherein commands could be mixed between them without issue.

They would both support the normal menu layout, for building the menu and submenu's
except a startmenu item might have a different opening tag... in fact it could be similiar to the current buttonbar layout.

e.g.
START
<buttonBarFields>
STARTEND
or:
BUTTONCMD
<buttonBarFields>
BUTTONCMDEND
or even:
CMD
<buttonBarFields>
CMDEND


Thus we can just have menu items. And fill them with the commands as needed --- regardless whether they happen to be an internal commmand or external command/program.
*BLINK* TC9 Added WM_COPYDATA and WM_USER queries for scripting.
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Re: Start Menu Limitation

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LonerD wrote:I would like to see the possibility to add at least 500-1000 commands (or to infinity).
You can do by using Start Menu Editor

I documented this feature in Ultra TC Editors help file> Start Menu Editor> Hints and Tips
Total Commander start menu is limited to only 199 items, including separators and submenus entry. If you want more than 199 items in TC start menu, do the following:

1. Run any text editor program (e.g. Notepad) and open the program INI file "ultra tc editors.ini"
2. Create the key StartMenuMaxItems under [StartMenuEditor] section.
3. Set the key StartMenuMaxItems to desired value.

Important:
Don't use TC built-in editor to edit the start menu otherwise all items above the first 199 items will be lost.
Only the first 199 items will be exported to the file "Totalcmd.inc" when you choose the command Export To Totalcmd.inc....
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Where will the extra start Menu items be saved using your suggestion?
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In Wincmd.ini under [user] section ;)

It was discussed before here http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=10579

Ghisler said he don't know how it work, he is the only person who can explain to us how it work.
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ts4242 wrote:
LonerD wrote:I would like to see the possibility to add at least 500-1000 commands (or to infinity).
You can do by using Start Menu Editor
Thank you, I did not know about this option in Start Menu Editor.
Can I assign an icon for all those> 199 menu items, or only for the first 199?
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LonerD wrote:Can I assign an icon for all those> 199 menu items, or only for the first 199?
Where you need to assign icon?
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ts4242 wrote:
LonerD wrote:Can I assign an icon for all those> 199 menu items, or only for the first 199?
Where you need to assign icon?
In Start Menu for all programs if it more than 200.

Already checked out - the icons in this case are invalid for added programs. :(
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LonerD wrote:Already checked out - the icons in this case are invalid for added programs. :(
I cannot do anything for that, maybe Ghisler check and find a solution.
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