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QSwitch - Windows Task Switcher

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QSwitch is a design study. The design goal is to locate and switch to any open window / application as fast as possible.

  • Open windows are sorted alphabetically by their process names.
  • On a second level, open windows are sorted alphabetically by their titles.
  • On successive levels, the backslash "\" within Window titles is used to group windows hierarchically. This way, especially windows which belong to Explorer can be located very fast.


Filtering

Using a special key (which can be user-defined), only windows of the current foreground process are displayed. The filtered view is also shown, if the user-defined mouse-button is double clicked.


System Requirements

  • Windows Vista or higher
  • Graphics Card with OpenGL driver (i.e. any modern Graphics Card)


Download

Bullet QSwitch Installer (32 + 64 bit)


Github Source Code Repository

Bullet Github


User Interface

Keyboard
- up / down arrow keys: move up or down in list
- left / right arrow keys: jump to first entry of a group within the hierarchy
- home / end: jump to first / last entry
- Enter: bring selected window to front
- ESC: hide QSwitch

Mouse
- left-click onto line: select the line
- left-double-click onto line: bring selected window to front
- left-click into free space to hide QSwitch

Scrolling
- use the scroll-wheel of the mouse


Thumbnail Preview

The thumbnail preview is only shown, if the Aero-style is activated. It won't work with older graphics cards.


SFML

QSwitch uses SFML, which is a very good multi-media library for C++.


Backup

If you wish to backup the configuration of QSwitch, you need to backup the folder "%appdata%\QSwitch"

Note: %appdata% usually resolves to C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming, but you can also enter "%appdata%" in Explorer.


bullet Customer's Responses

"Virtual Print Engine was simple to implement yet provided the Printer Control and Power that we could not find in any other Software Program available on the market."

Dan Climent, President, SoftPoint Systems Inc., Fremont, California, USA

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