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Introduction

Plancoin is a "boss key" program: it allows you to hide some selected windows in one keypress.

It lets you set up two hot keys: one to hide the windows and show them back, and one to show the Plancoin Settings window. The program then runs in background and responds to the hot keys.

Plancoin Settings window

To determine which windows must be hidden, you have to set up a list of sentences. In the Include mode, every window whose title contains one of the sentences will be hidden. This mode is the default one. In the Exclude mode, every window whose title does not contain any of the sentences will be hidden.

You can also choose to mute the sound when hiding windows.

As Plancoin needs to run in the background all the time, it has been designed to use as few system resources as possible.

Downloads

Download Plancoin here

Plancoin is also available as a zip file (without installer). Download it here

Source code

Version history

2007-05-10 - Plancoin 0.3

  • Added an option to load Plancoin when Windows starts.
  • Added an option to mute the sound when hiding windows.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the desktop icons to disappear in some cases.

2007-02-01 - Plancoin 0.2

  • If you forget the hotkey thats shows the dialog settings, you can now launch a second instance of Plancoin. This will show the Dialog settings from the first instance.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the settings from being saved.

2006-02-10 - Plancoin 0.1

  • First public release

Awards / Reviews

Softpedia "100% FREE" Award

"There are many situations in life when you don't want people around you to know what exactly you are doing onto your computer. [...] you need a small and effective "boss key" application, which is capable of switching the look of your "working environment" with a single key press. That's exactly what Plancoin does."

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

See the GNU General Public License for more details.

About

Plancoin was written in C++ using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0. The installer was built with NSIS 2.23.

To keep it small and fast, only Win32 API calls were used (no MFC).

Plancoin is part of the Wistinga Projects.

Plancoin PAD file. (What is PAD ?)