Blaze (DotNET launcher)

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Midas
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Blaze (DotNET launcher)

#1 Post by Midas »

I haven't seen Blaze (http://blaze-wins.sourceforge.net/) mentioned around, probably because its development stalled way back in 2010. Nonetheless, it claims portability so a post is in order (untested!).

Blaze appears to be very well documented -- there's even a PDF quick guide available. FYI, DotNET requirement is v3.5.
  • [url]http://blaze-wins.sourceforge.net/[/url] author wrote:Blaze is an innovative utility designed to automate most of the unique recurrent tasks that arise from everyday usage. Such tasks can be launching applications, making small calculations, sending emails, inserting recurrent excerpts of text or even renaming files. With Blaze, you don't have to worry about the start menu items or desktop shortcuts. With a few keystrokes things just happen.
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Download Blaze last portable release (v0.5.6.10 beta, dated 2010-04-05) from https://sourceforge.net/projects/blaze-wins/files/.

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Re: Blaze

#2 Post by smaragdus »

@Midas

This is a good find, thanks for submitting it.

I did a brief testing of Blaze and although unfinished,

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not very stable (the indexer- BlazeIndexer.exe, crashed several times when I tried to rebuild the index manually) and abandoned long ago (the last version- 0.5.6.10 Beta, was released on 2010-04-05) in my opinion it is more than a decent launcher, especially when compared to Electron monstrosities like Cerebro, Hain, Zazu (in fact Electron made me love .NET). Blaze is really portable,

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data and settings files (cmd.db, index.db, user.ini) are saved in User sub-folder inside program folder. But being a .NET program Blaze is not stealth, creating LOG files in AppData (Blaze.exe.log - C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v2.0\UsageLogs\Blaze.exe.log and BlazeIndexer.exe.log - C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v2.0\UsageLogs\BlazeIndexer.exe.log).

Blaze has excellent documentation and for me it is a shame that it had been abandoned before it reached a stable release.

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Blaze - program in action:

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Blaze - settings - general:

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Blaze - settings - indexer:

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Blaze - settings - plugins:

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Blaze - assistant:

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Blaze - tray control:

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Links
Softpedia - http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Lau ... laze.shtml
Softpedia - http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-S ... laze.shtml
AlternativeTo - https://alternativeto.net/software/blaze/

When a small open source project is abandoned almost always there is no one to take it over.

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Re: Blaze (DotNET launcher)

#3 Post by Midas »

Thanks for testing, smaragdus, and for confirming my first impressions about Blaze.

While I'm am no fundamentalist and have been known to shirk DotNET in the past, I pretty much hold the same opinion on the current slew of Electron applications -- right now, it seems the main programming trends are all about squandering user resources for no reason at all... :evil:

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