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Longer MRU lists

Postby Dobermaniak » 15 May 2024 00:31

Is it possible to make the most recently used list longer than 10 items? I used to use long jumplists in Windows 7 but in Windows 10 apparently I only have a choice between disabling jumplists or regularly reporting their contents to microsoft (haven't even bothered to try Wireshark on 11 :/ ). I was hoping to set this to 40 items but I can't find any option for that.

If not, is it possible to lengthen the MRU list in the .ini file in %appdata%? I could make a menu in AHK to parse that list if nothing else is possible.

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Re: Longer MRU lists

Postby Lotesdelere » 15 May 2024 11:48

The jumplist is managed by the OS, VLC can't do anything about that.

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Re: Longer MRU lists

Postby Dobermaniak » 15 May 2024 16:50

Sorry, I meant the list in VLC's Media menu, it still works

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Re: Longer MRU lists

Postby Dobermaniak » 22 May 2024 17:24

I figured it out but this might be a topic for a different forum now.

I went to the source code and I'm pretty sure it just needs changing the maximum value in a for loop from max(..., 10) to max(..., 30) in vlc/modules/gui/qt/menus.cpp around line 1590 or so (v3.0.20)

I can't figure out how to compile VLC tho, I followed the instructions (not the ones in the wiki, saw the warning and followed the instructions in the new location ofc) in a Debian Bullseye VM with LLVM, and even unmodified v3.0.20 source code compiles to .exe's that always give error 0xc000007b on Windows and/or complain about missing libvlc.dll or libssp-0.dll depending on which .exe I run and where I place it.

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Re: Longer MRU lists

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 22 May 2024 20:24

You should only need to overwrite the Qt plugin DLL from your VLC install with the one you compiled, if that your only change.
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Re: Longer MRU lists

Postby Dobermaniak » 23 May 2024 01:00

Yeah, that was my only change. Replacing the file didn't seem to work, VLC would then open a command line window, so I guess I did something wrong.

However I then realized I was compiling everything in debug mode, after I did another compile with the "-r" switch, I got a .zip file which I unzipped in VLC's C:\Program Files folder and everything works now :D Thanks for the help guys


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