Taskbar 5 BETA

Requirements

FreeMiNT + XaAES. Will possibly work under MyAES as well, please test and let me know.
A colour screenmode. Mono is currently not supported.
A properly installed AV-server.
Some RAM to spare. Taskbar will use 400+ Kb of RAM, depending on the size of your icons file.
Recommended: Keyboard Tweaks.

Start menu

Apart from various bugfixes the major difference from the last release is the new start menu. It is now in a window, and has several "panels".

To the left is a vertical row of icons. From the bottom to the top:

Shutdown/reset.
Start TosWin2 shell.
Launch search tool specified by the $FINDER environment variable.
Drives popup-menu.
Home - open your $HOME folder.
System - open the $SYSDIR folder.
Startmenu - the traditional, hierarchial start-menu built from Thing! group files.
Documents - shows the 20 last opened files. The files listed here comes from various sources.

The DHST protocol, as in previous versions of Farmer.
Any files passed to an application by dragging it to it's Taskbar button or startmenu entry.
Any files passed to an application on it's command line.

In the top left there's two icons, one for closing the start menu window and one to pin it to the screen. If it's pinned then it won't automatically close when you select a program/file or the mouse leaves the menu. It can also be freely positioned on the screen by dragging it by the title bar.

Right next to this icon panel is the main start menu panel.

Main start menu panel

Taskbar automatically detects any started application, and adds it to it's internal list of available applications. If the application already exists in this list, it's entry in the list is updated with the last start-up time and the start counter is incremented. This allows Taskbar to show you a list of the most recently used/most frequently used (depending on setting) applications. Besides this it will also add the files shown in the documents menu to this list/"database".

You can also search this list by simply typing when the start menu is opened. It will show the first 20 matches from the list in the search order specified. To select sorting/order click on the button at the top of the list.

Right click on any item in the list for some options:

Details: Opens a dialog showing some details about the file.
Open location: Opens the directory containing the item.
Clear statistics: Resets the start counter and start time for this file. This basically puts it a the bottom of the list.
Ignore statistics: Start count and -time will never be updated for this file. So while it will be searchable, it will always be at the bottom of the list regardless of how many times it's started.
Remove from list: Delete it from the list. The next time it's started or opened it will automatically be added again.

Start menu configuration

Right click on the start button and select "Configuration" to configure the start menu.

Title: The name/title of the start button. Leave it empty to only show the icon. If it starts with a $, the title will be interpreted as an environment variable and the value of this variable will be shown. E.g. "$HOST" will show the hostname.
Save startmenu position: Taskbar will remember the position and state of the start menu. If the start menu is pinned when Taskbar exits, it will automatically be reopened at the same position at the next start.
Prune at exit: When you exit Taskbar any files/applications that no longer exists will be removed from the application/file list. Can potentially slow down exit a little bit if there's a lot of files in the list.
Clear: Will delete the entire application/file list.
Search options

Starts with: Search will match files that starts with your search string.
Contains: Search will match files that contains your search string.
Case sensitive: Search is case sensitive.
Name: Search in application/file *titles* only. I.e. the nicenames given by the application's menu_register() call or the alias defined in Taskbar.
Name and filename: Will also search in the actual filenames. So both "inter" and "intr" will return "Interface", since the filename for Interface is "intrface.prg".
Documents: Include documents in the search. The Documents menu only shows the 20 last opened documents, but the list/database includes all files that has been shown in that menu.

Other stuff

Right click on an application button and select "Configure" to configure how it appears on the taskbar.

Use defaults: Ignore all settings for this application.
Don't display in Taskbar: Same as dragging it's button to the trashcan. The application will not be shown on the taskbar.
Display icon only: Don't display the name, just the icon. Saves space on the taskbar, nice for "alway on" stuff like the control panel, desktop, control panel etc.
Select icon: Select icon for this application. If not selected then the defaul application is used.
Nick: Specify your own name to be displayed for this application.
Autostart. This menu has three options:
- None
- Pinned
- Autostart: This program will be automatically started when Taskbar starts. This replaces the "autostart" group in the old start menu.

Please note that due to a bug in recent versions of XaAES the detection of the topped application is a bit crippled in this version. If the top application has no open windows it's button on the taskbar will not indicate that it's topped.

This beta version does not look in $HOME for configuration files, only in the folder it's started from. So if you're an existing Taskbar user and want to use your Thing! groupfile based startmenu then copy your Index.grp to the same folder as this beta.

Icons

Icons will be available when the RSC file "cicons.rsc" is available in the same directory as taskbar.prg. Taskbar will search this file for colour icons, and all colour icons that is 48x48 pixels or less AND has a title will be available for selection in the application configuration dialog.

The current icon rsc is just a collection of random 16x16 icons for testing.

Disclaimer

I've been using this program on my Falcon060 with MiNT/XaAES for months without issues. However, that does not mean it works flawlessy on your system. I strongly recommend having memory protection enabled when testing/using this software!