Questions tagged [jump-list]

A jump list represents a list of items and tasks displayed as a menu on a taskbar button in Windows 7 or later.

A jump list in Windows 7 or later displays a list of items when right clicking on a taskbar button. The list can display recent items, pinned items, or tasks as defined by the application.

In C# it can be implemented using the JumpList which contains JumpItems, either JumpPath or JumpTasks. The JumpList class is described at MSDN as:

Represents a list of items and tasks displayed as a menu on a Windows 7 taskbar button.

Source: MSDN

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Can i open directory from jump list

Im writing WPF application and want to add ability to call jump list and open program configuration, app.config or log directory from it. Is it possible(cant find the way to do that..just JumpTasks with application path and JumpPath with path to…
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How to customise Windows Taskbar's Immersive Context Menu (Jump List) for Java application

How to customise Windows Taskbar's Immersive Context Menu (Jump List) for Java application? (Add custom items to it) I have JavaFX program (executable exe file), when I run it, it has an icon in taskbar (like other normal programs), its Immersive…
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Splash screen is pinned to taskbar, main screen shows additional taskbar entry

In my application, when you pin the installed app to the Taskbar from the Start Menu, and then launch the application from the pinned icon, the splash screen shows as if it is running from the pinned icon but once the main screen shows a new icon is…
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Set icon for Task in Jump List (Windows)

I am trying to set up a icon in the Tasks section of the Jump List for my Electron app. I already successfully set up a icon in the task bar. But I also want to set up my icon in the Tasks section of the Jump List. How can I do that? I already…
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Need help using System.Windows.Shell.JumpList.SetJumpList();

I'm really new to this so this is probably a very simple thing to answer but anyhow... I need to use the method in the title to set a new jumplist for my windows form app, but i don't know what parameters it takes and where to get them. I've read…
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can I set the AppUserModelID of an arbitrary process launched through a jumplist?

I have a simple console application written in C++ that acts as a stub for launching another application through it's jumplist. Purpose is to add jumplist abilities to applications that do not support this. Call it stub.exe. When running stub.exe it…
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C#: Clean recently used files from jumplists

Is there a way to clean the some items form the Windows Jump-List using C#? (An applications Jump-List appears when you click right on the applications icon in the Windows 7 Taskbar.) I would like to clean the menu items representing the recently…
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Handling a Jump List event when a file is picked from the "Recent" list of files for a UWP Windows 10 app

I'm working on a UWP Windows 10 app in C#/Xaml, and I'm planning to extend use of its jump list. So, I know how to handle custom Jump List tasks (such as new file, open file etc.), but for the files in its most recently used list, I've no idea at…
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Cannot jump to newer position in jump list

For some reason, I cannot jump forward with ; gives me the error beep. works just fine. I don't see any remapping going on either. Any ideas what might be the problem? I'm using vim 7.3 on win7 EDIT: I just found out does the same…
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Windows 7 Jump List

I think that is what this is called: I want to be able to add stuff like that to my program. Such as an open button and other buttons that would execute a method within the app. This is in C#, by the way. I DID look into the Windows 7 API Code…
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Can we add a common Jump list Task to all running applications on WIndows 7+

Before Windows 7 came, right clicking on any application on taskbar use to popup a menu like shown in picture below. All the menu items that you see below 'maximize' and above 'close' are the custom menu that I had added. I had developed a…
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How to use Windows 7 features in my simple .net application without any new API?

I want to use windows 7 features like icon overlay, and thumbnail tasks but my question is that can i do it without using any other API on just my plain .net 3.5. i recently enabled jumplists on an application in my c#.net 3.5 using the Shell…
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Cannot assign void to an implicitly-typed local variable in WP 8.1

I am developing a music player app in WP 8.1 & I am trying to implement Jump List feature into it. To implement jump list, I am following the sample given here. I am making some necessary changes to the available code & that's how I am implementing…
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How to get appUserModelId for any app in windows 7/8 using vc++

I want to find out recent/frequent items from jumplist of any app. I know that we can do this using IApplicationDocumentLists interface. But we need appUserModelId for that. So now my problem is to find out appUserModelId for any app, given its exe…
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JumpList won't work using QWinJumpList

I have following code in main.cpp: QApplication a(argc, argv); QWinJumpListItem wjli(QWinJumpListItem::Link); wjli1.setArguments(QStringList(QString("as"))); wjli1.setDescription("Some Text"); wjli1.setTitle("Some Text"); QWinJumpList…
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