DragThing Version 1.5.1 of 25th January 1996 by James Thomson
Welcome to DragThing!
DragThing is an application dock designed to tidy up the icons littering your desktop. Simply drag an application from the Finder onto an empty square in a dock and then drag documents onto it as normal. Double-click a docked application to launch it or bring it to the front. In addition, the docks can contain files, folders, disks and servers and there is also a option to display the currently running processes in a special dock.
It requires at least System 7.5 (or 7.1 with Drag & Drop, AppleScript and the Scriptable Finder) and a Macintosh with a minimum of a Motorola 68020 or PowerPC 601 processor. The application is distributed as a fat binary with both regular 68K and native PowerPC versions included.
DragThing may be used freely - all I ask is that if you really like DragThing and keep using it, you send me something cool in return. See the manual for more details on what is considered cool and how DragThing may be distributed.
Important note for existing users of DragThing!
There have been reports of a rare crash on opening DragThing on a PowerMac, after quitting an old version and immediately starting up the new one, especially if the machine has been up and running DragThing for many days without restarting. It is recommended that you quit the old version and restart your machine before running the new version (not forgetting to remove any startup aliases). After restarting, everything works normally.
Note to programmers!
The crash takes the form of an PowerPC illegal instruction error during a call to AEObjectInit() to initialise the ObjectSupportLib and I believe it to be a bug in MacOS rather than DragThing. I'm currently investigating it but I haven't been able to duplicate the problem on a machine here. If you have macsbug installed and DragThing crashes on opening after quiting an old version, please, please try and get a stack crawl or a stdlog so I can see what is happening. A list of extensions and OSL related things would also be very helpful.
