Originally, Launchy was designed to be useful for people with multiple versions of Dyalog installed on their Windows machine(s).
However, over the years it evolved into an all-singing-all-dancing tool that allows to manipulate all sorts of parameters, so it's now a useful tool even if you have ony a single version of Dyalog installed on your machine.
Launchy simplifies the process making adjustments like...
- setting certain flags like
PropertyExposeRootand others - specifying the workspace size
- setting debug flags
- specifying additional command line parameters
- running (or ignoring) a user defined
setup.dyalogscript - starting the APL interpreter in elevated mode (admin rights required)
- giving the interpreter a Ride
In addition to its main goal Launchy offers these features:
- Start any major version of Ride installed on your machine
- Store DSS credentials in the Registry
- Patch either the currently selected or all installed versions of Dyalog
- Edit the Registry entries for the currently selected version of Dyalog
- Display the online help for the currently selected version of Dyalog
- Open a Windows Explorer on...
- the installation directory of the currently selected version of Dyalog
- the help directory of the currently selected version of Dyalog
- Edit Launchy's INI file(s)
- Edit version-specific or -agnostic files
config.dcfgfor the currently selected version of Dyalog - Start the Registry editor for the currently selected version of Dyalog.
Launchy is self-contained and does not rely on anything. It is a "bound executable", meaning that it can run even on a machine with no Dyalog installed at all, although this would not make too much sense of course.
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Have a look at the "launchy_manual.html" file which provides details. This file will be shown in your default browser by pressing F1 in Launchy or by selecting "Help > Help on Launchy" from Launchy's menu bar.
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Pay attention to the INI file which should be self-explanatory for programmers.