Plugin should use Putty.exe indexed by Launchy

[GoogleCodeExporter]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Putty.exe is not in PATH environment variable
2. putty.exe is visible to launchy. say if i type putty without this
plugin, it lauches putty.exe.
3. now after installing the plugin type ssh/putty <tab> should find putty
and work properly

What is the expected output?
plugin should recognize putty.exe visible to launchy

What do you see instead?


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?


Please provide any additional information below.
This is more of a feature request rather than a issue.
Please try to provide this feasibility in v2.0 support plugin.

This mainly helps those who use putty in portable mode.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mail.pra...@gmail.com on 20 Dec 2007 at 9:52

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I don't believe that it is possible to query the Launchy catalog from a plugin. 
Therefore, even if Launchy has "PuTTY.exe" or "PuTTY.lnk" in its index, this 
plugin
still must know where to look for PuTTY.exe.

There is a setting for the location of PuTTY.exe in the options dialog if you 
do not
want it in your PATH.  You /may/ be able to use relative paths from the Launchy
executable.  This would help if both Launchy and PuTTY were on a flash drive 
whose
drive letter can change.  Does that help?

There is also another possibility: multiple computers with a shortcut to PuTTY 
in the
Start Menu, but different locations for PuTTY.exe...  It would be nice to have
support for this setup, but as of right now, it's not due to not being able to 
query
the catalog.

Original comment by matthew....@gmail.com on 20 Dec 2007 at 6:02

• Changed title: Plugin should use Putty.exe indexed by Launchy
• Added labels: Priority-Low, Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium, Type-Defect

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Thanks Matthew for your immediate interaction.

I think the second option using relative path would atleast help Portable 
users. I 
am not sure if this plugin supports relative path. Let me test it once and 
update 
the thread.

We can ask for a Feature request Launchy to Expose API's for accessing catalog 
from 
plugins. Difficult at this stage though. Just to be optimistic.

Original comment by mail.pra...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2007 at 8:27

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Relative path works, and this isn't technically feasible at the moment, so I'm
closing this issue.

Original comment by matthew....@gmail.com on 28 Apr 2008 at 1:58

• Changed state: WontFix