It uses over 300 MB of “real memory” on my system :).Īugust 10th, 2007 at Aug 10, 07 | 3:54 pm I guess I’ll just re-locate the bar for the time being.Īh that was quick… the update arrived and it’s even called 4.3.2.Īnother question I have: Does LaunchBar use similarly obscene 100MB of RAM on your machine as it does on mine? In their forums it said that it’ll be fixed with the next update. Close investigation gave that the menu is actually there but that it pops out of the bar at the bottom and thus is invisible for me as I have the bar at the bottom of the screen. Looks like I’m not the only one with this problem. LaunchBar 4.3: Yet more user-centric goodness First of all, the databases require login access, and then one of them uses frames (ugh) and the other one only has generic URLs. You might want to communicate with the developer.Īrden: Sadly, things are rather more complicated. The shortcut brings up the bar, and then as soon as I start typing I get a menu of matches. Perhaps something along the lines of a Google search: site: I haven’t consciously changed any options and fiddled with all those which seem menu related but I haven’t gotten the menu back so far :/Įverything working fine for you menu-wise? it just lists the ‘best’ match for whatever I entered and doesn’t show the other options or let me browse folders/albums/addresses. Since I switched to the 4.3 version LaunchBar stopped displaying its menu for me. Next Post: Microsoft Office 2008 delayed until first quarter of 2008Ģ2 Responses to “LaunchBar 4.3: Yet more user-centric goodness” ![]() Previous Post: Excel 2004: Double-click selects trailing comma You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. On Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 at 2:34 pm and is filed under Macintosh. Maybe some GUI scripting might do the trick… ![]() Now all I need is to find a way to submit search requests via LaunchBar templates to on-line databases that do not support explicit search request URLs (in my case, TERMIUM and TransSearch). In that respect, this new LaunchBar feature is going to bring very substantial improvements. Personally, I work in a field (translation) that constantly requires me to look things up. But I think that anyone interested in software innovation and the drive to make things user-centric rather than application-centric ought to be very grateful, not just that an application such as LaunchBar exits, but that its developer continues to improve it in very significant ways. ![]() Of course, as with any abbreviation-based launcher, there is a bit of a learning curve. (You effectively “submit” the selection to the search template, in that very order, as opposed to first invoking the search template and then entering the search request.) And best of all, it doesn’t require the use of the Clipboard at all, which can remain free for other purposes. The first obvious advantage is that there are fewer steps. This has several advantages over the traditional method, which involved selecting the text, copying it to the Clipboard, invoking LaunchBar, typing “ wiki,” pressing the Space bar, and then pasting the Clipboard. You can now “send” the currently selected text (in any application) to LaunchBar for processing, either as the name of something you want to launch, or as a text string to be processed by something that LaunchBar can launch.įor example, when I encounter a text with a reference to a concept that I want to look up in Wikipedia, for example, I can now just select the text, press-and-hold the shortcut to invoke LaunchBar, and then press Tab followed by my abbreviation for submitting a search request to the Wikipedia web site, which is “ wiki.” And the latest version has some new features that make this even more apparent. What I like the most about it is that it is user-centric, as opposed to application-centric. I am a long-time LaunchBar user and I have written about the application before. TidBITS has a very good article about the latest version of LaunchBar.
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