Workaround or warn about Office/Firefox default links not working

[Jonno12345]

Workaround with custom shortcuts works okay, but isn't immediately obvious to users. Make this clearer.

[ethanhs]

So, what work around have you used for Word? I have my start menu almost exactly as I want it except for Word. Thanks for the awesome tool!

[Jonno12345]

You can follow the steps written up here for the time being..!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=66358399&postcount=57

[ethanhs]

Ah, of course! Thank you. Perhaps you could make a little tour of the app, pointing out useful things such as this on first run?

I could write this if you want actually.

[Jonno12345]

@ethanhs Apologies for the delay, have been away the last month and am just picking up on some of the bugs and enhancements again. Ideally I'm going to try and work out a way to identify these issue shortcuts (So far, mostly just Office, Firefox and in some cases Chrome) to automatically apply these workarounds.

That said, I haven't quite worked out how to catch these yet, and I have almost no documentation at all at the moment, so anything you're willing to contribute I'd be very happy to include :)

[ethanhs]

Give me a few days and I can start working on this. I was thinking showing something generic on the first run of the program would make the most sense. So that we don't need to check if the tile works or not. (Speaking of, I may have a method of getting the image of the tile to compare, but that is a different issue)

[Jonno12345]

I've added a quicker way to create these now (There's a 'Quick Build Custom Shortcut' button when you click on any normal shortcut in the list). Should shortcut a lot of the steps required in making a custom shortcut.

[ethanhs]

Great! I will look at how to go about this. I'll also try to dig up the old script I was experimenting with to get an image of tiles. As I remember, as part of the accessibility api, one can get the rect of each tile, so then it is a matter of getting the image from the rect of the tile we are looking for. Not entirely sure how to do that for a hidden/minimized window yet. :/

EDIT: it seems that is not really possible, except for this approach

Or maybe not. PrintWindow seems not to work with DirectX drawn windows

Perhaps throw the start menu off screen, so normal screen capture techniques could work?
Seems over all a bit too hacky and not worth the effort.