rcons - quake-style shell wrapper for windows

[deseven]

Inspired by Yakuake and Guake.
Tested on XP/Vista/7/8.
Default hotkey is ctrl-tab, you can change it (along with many other options) in rcons.ini (located in appdata) or tray menu.

Download: 1.1.3, installer
Screenshot: click me

[deseven]

32 downloads so far
any comments, suggestions, bug reports?

[IceSoft]

32 downloads so far
any comments, suggestions, bug reports?

As far as I know: shell wrappers will get a first answer after ~146 downloads.
So be patient please.

[deseven]

Oh yeah, right, forgot about that.
Thanks

[Danilo]

1. It does not give the focus to the shell input window after start (HideOnStart = false)
   (It works after switching to the shell input by hotkey (gives correct focus), but it does not work after startup.)
2. Default keyboard shortcut ALT+TAB is used by Windows for app switching, so it does not work. After changing rcons.ini to CTRL+TAB it works fine (maybe use CTRL+TAB as default):

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   ; possible values are: a-z, 0-9, f1-f12, tab, caps, return, tilde, tilde_alt
   Hotkey = TAB
   
   ; possible values are: ctrl, shift, alt, ctrl-shift, ctrl-alt, alt-shift
   HotkeyModifier = CTRL

3. It shows a Window in the Taskbar and nothing happens when clicked. Maybe hide the Taskbar entry and use an SysTray Icon with Popup-Menu for 'Quit', 'Switch' and 'Options' menu?
   
4. What is the space on the right side for?
   
   
   If the space on the right side is useless (not used), is it possible to resize the shell input to the full width of the screen/window? Alternatively set the width of the rcons window in the .ini file?
5. I set "WindowHeight = 1200", but the Window is still smaller at screen resolution 1920x1200. (1200 should be full screen). At height 1200, the rcons window is like 1150 or so - the Taskbar is visible, maybe you can make it real fullscreen (over taskbar)?

Other than the 5 points above, it could be useful when working with the shell / command line. Thanks!

[deseven]

1. Will be fixed in the next version.
2. Default shortcut is actually ctrl-tab, you can redownload the archive to check it.
3. That's kinda strange, i can't repeat that on my win7. I'll see what i can do.
4. Well, it's cmd.exe "feature", you can't actually resize the window's width as in usual window, it's always fixed. You can change the screen buffer size by running cmd.exe standalone, right clicking on the title and selecting defaults (or properties).



5. That's another cmd.exe "feature" You can't resize it pixel by pixel, it all depends on the screen buffer size and font size. So, when you enter 1200 for "WindowHeight" you'll actually get window's height around 1200 but not really 1200. I can ignore that and set the window height to desired value, but then you'll get some empty space at bottom.

Thanks for your help

[deseven]

updated to 1.1.0

Changelog:

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+ program icon (thanks to VisualPharm)
+ tray icon with menu
+ preferences window
+ about window
+ option to show/hide vertical scroll
* rcons will now look for a config in the appdata first
* fixed lost focus on start if HideOnStart = false
* possible workaround for vista to remove taskbar entry

[Danilo]

updated to 1.1.0

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+ program icon (thanks to VisualPharm)
+ tray icon with menu
+ preferences window
+ about window
+ option to show/hide vertical scroll
* rcons will now look for a config in the appdata first
* fixed lost focus on start if HideOnStart = false
* possible workaround for vista to remove taskbar entry

Thanks, works fine now on Win7 64bit! SysTray menu entry "rcons" is always disabled here.

[deseven]

SysTray menu entry "rcons" is always disabled here.

it's ok, i use it as some kind of title

[deseven]

updated to 1.1.1

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+ manual update checking
* version information now available in the tray menu
* left click on the tray icon will now show/hide rcons window

installer also available
if no one wants to add something then looks like it's done

[Zebuddi123]

Hi deseven Thanks i like this very much.

Would just like to point out that should you do an update check whilst the con window is down ( (my screen 2048 x 1152 ) have set rcon to 1000 height) the message requester sits z order underneath the rcon window and is not accessible. although you can click on the rcon icon in the taskbar and close window that way.

but great really like this and useful


Zebuddi.

[deseven]

Thanks, i'll fix that in the next version.

[deseven]

It seems that many 3rd world antiviruses don't like SetParent() calls
virustotal

[TomyB]

Not even 3rd world antiviruses

Comodo Firewall also doesnt like it.

But i like your app. Im using the older version without the av alerts.
Everything works fine. But i also dont like the splitscreen.

[deseven]

i've managed to reduce antivirus activity in the latest version (1.1.3).
virustotal