Feature Request: Parameter in UserSettings and custom icons

[hanjo]

Hi,

first of all: great App!

Sometimes I'm getting links to Office documents (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), that I would like to open directly in the respective app.

This is possible by using C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\protocolhandler.exe as the browser with the argument ms-excel:ofe|u|https://... (for Excel)

to make this work, it would be required to have a parameter for the URL though that I can put into the LaunchArgs. Something like %URL% or $1, so the LaunchArgs would become ms-excel:ofe|u|%URL%

For the same use case, it would also be helpful to select a custom icon, since the icon of protocolhandler.exe is a generic Office icon, which obviously becomes confusing if you configure it three times for Excel, PowerPoint and Word.

Let me know what you think!

Thanks

• [x] Custom Icons
• [x] Parameter in UserSettings.json

[U-C-S]

Yeh.... This might be possible and quite a easy one. I'll try to include it in v0.7

[U-C-S]

Added both of them in v0.6.2

For CustomIconPath - you might need to use full absolute path of the icon.

Report any issues on those if you got time.

[grentninja]

Ello! Just another suggestion related to the custom icons. Is it possible to support GIF image extensions? I would be great for more customization :>

[U-C-S]

GIFs.... I never thought about them. I don't know whether the underlying framework of Hurl (named WPF) supports it or not. Will look into it again.

[grentninja]

It's alright if it's not possible, just a wacky suggestion of mine lol

[hanjo]

I extracted 256x256 PNGs with alpha channel from the office executables and was able to use them using the CustomIconPath. Working nicely, thanks! Also the URL substitution works, e.g. using "ms-excel:ofe|u|%URL%". As @U-C-S wrote in another issue already, this currently only works for the main LaunchArgs, not the AlternateLaunches LaunchArgs. Here is the full example for Excel:

    {
      "Name": "Excel",
      "ExePath": "C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\root\\Office16\\protocolhandler.exe",
      "LaunchArgs": "ms-excel:ofe|u|%URL%",
      "Hidden": false,
      "AlternateLaunches": null,
      "CustomIconPath": "C:\\Users\\...\\Pictures\\Icons\\Excel.png"
    }