On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 10:22 AM Craig Richards <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I pretty much always have Squirrel open.
And it doesn't have the functionality you're looking for? (I am not
being incredulous or snarky or anything. I genuinely don't know,
because I don't use it. But I could *imagine* that a full-featured
database IDE *might* have the feature you want.)
I don't have any kind of start-up complaints [...]
My reference to using ACS schemas was more around me not having set up some
sensible filters although I will re-iterate that it seems pretty slow to
bring back the window with the columns and key constraints in
I bring up AutoHotkey and Windows Startup because maybe you can
preload this "slow window". I actually don't know ACS very well, so
I'm just kind of imagining what you might be talking about. In an
earlier post you also mentioned there's a lot of "clicking around".
Maybe that will go away once you've set up some filters, but maybe
there will still be some left. Whatever's left might be a good
candidate for AutoHotkey.
The main idea I was going for was: Don't forget that you can simplify
and automate quite a lot of things, not just which applications get
open at startup. Because you can put an AutoHotkey script in the
Windows Startup folder, you can effectively automate *anything* at
startup, including clicking on things and pressing keys. I set up a
lot of hotkeys at startup. The possibilities are limited mainly by
your own imagination. And of course not everything makes sense to run
at startup. You can write scripts that are run on demand, either by
hotkey or double-clicking.
In short, whenever I hear "that's slow" one of my first instincts is:
Can you move it to startup, to amortize the cost, and pay it while
going to the bathroom or getting coffee? And whenever I hear "that
takes a lot of clicks" or "that takes a lot of typing" one of my first
thoughts is: This is definitely a candidate for AutoHotkey. (There are
also Python libraries such as PyAutoGUI which can do some of what
AutoHotkey does, if you want to stick to Python.)
John Y.
midrange.com
