The Launcher

A fast configurable launcher

Status: in development (expect breaking changes)

Build

For Windows without cgo (CGO_ENABLED=0), the raylib.dll v5.5 is included in this repository.

For other OS or Windows with cgo, check raylib-go Requirements.

Automatic build

Use the python script to build the program and create a ready to use .zip file.

python build.py

Manual build

Use this command to build for release

go build -ldflags "-H=windowsgui -w -s"

• -H=windowsgui remove console window, it greatly improves performances
• -w -s reduces final binary size by stripping debug symbols

The final executable should be shipped with

• Fonts directory containing used fonts
• config.toml
• raylib.dll (for Windows)

Limitations

• The launcher can not start TUI programs (e.g.: vim)
• There can not be comments in the config.toml file

Controls

ToDo : write this

Configuration

ToDo : write documentation about config.toml syntax, and a few concrete examples.

Example rules

Static rules

Typed	Description	Command
Desktop	Open Desktop folder	explorer.exe <desktop_location>
Documents	Open Documents folder	explorer.exe <documents_location>
SVN	Open SVN folder	explorer.exe C:\SVN
py	Start python script	pythonw.exe python_script.pyw

Dynamic rules

These rules will use regular expressions. Not implemented yet.

Typed	Description	Command
py {arg}	Start python script with args	python_script.pyw {arg}
r/{sub}	Go to r/{sub}	firefox.exe https://www.reddit.com/r/{sub}/
r/{sub} {search}	Search on r/{sub}	firefox.exe https://www.reddit.com/r/{sub}/search/?q={search}
r {search}	Search on Reddit	firefox.exe https://www.reddit.com/search/?q={search}

Resources

• Font Cascadia code : https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code
• Raylib DLL : https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/releases/tag/5.5

ToDo list

List of ideas to implement in no particular order

• GUI: Manage mouse scroll to scroll rules
• Misc: Simplify Rule.GetDisplayStrings
• GUI: Improve selected row display
• Rule: Manage environment variables in rule Exe/Args
• GUI: Ctrl + Z / Ctrl + Shift + Z to undo/redo
• Rule: Add regexp management in rules
• GUI: Ctrl + V to paste text (use rl.GetClipboardText)
• Misc: Comment the code some more
• Commands: Add standard commands
• Commands: Add /config - edit configuration file
  • Add setting for default editor
• Commands: Add /reset - reset all LastUse values
• Misc: Refactor GUI_Start function (Create a GUI class with methods) ?
• Misc: If config.toml is not found, create it with a few examples dummy rules