• There's now a "Quit A-Dock" command in the dock contextual menu, making it handier to install a new version.
• The tooltip item from the dock contextual menu now has a hierarchical menu to set the user's level.
• Added a "Stop showing in A-Dock" command in running apps submenus.
• Added a shortcut to hide the front app.
• Added a slider in A-Dock Control to set the delay before the contextual menus will auto-pop.
• Added "one-click-sticky-menus" for favorite folders. With this option checked, a single click on a favorite folder in A-Dock will display its contextual menu instead of opening it in the Finder.
• Added the shortcut "ctrl+option+command+click on an app on A-Dock" to quit an application with a single click.
• Redesigned tooltips.
• Redesigned contextual menus.
• Under Mac OS 9, dragging onto a spring-loaded menu can be cancelled by pressing the escape key.
• The Desktop is now spring-loaded. Thus it's possible to drag&drop items to any volume and their subfolders.
Bugs fixed :
• The tooltip font size popup menu was sometimes showing a wrong size. Fixed.
• If a favorite folder contained an alias whose name was different from the original target file, A-Dock would fail to open it. Fixed.
• A-Dock now supports back server aliases as favorites (was broken from version 2.1.4 due to the new architecture to open favorites).
• With two monitors, depending on the 2nd monitor's resolution, it was sometimes impossible to move the dock in some particular positions. Fixed.
• Readjusted the tooltips window when A-Dock is in a screen corner.
January, 2001: Version 2.2.2
• Fixed a memory leak that appears when a locked volume is mounted. The most reported consequence of this leak was the disappearance of favorites, and the inability to quit A-Dock automatically at shutdown.
December, 2000: Version 2.2.1
• Fixed a loading problem with Mac OS 8.5 and 8.6
• Fixed a bug with "spring-loaded-folder-menus" with Mac OS 8.5 and 8.6
• When the dock is locked, adding a favorite is now forbidden (like deleting and moving are).
• When the dock was locked, it was still possible to drag the dock when it was collapsed, by grabbing&dragging. Fixed.
• In A-Dock Control, the skin checking is not done anymore when using the Mac OS appearance mode.
December, 2000: Version 2.2
• Added "spring-loaded-folder-menus". Sounds good no ? Ok, here's the explanation : drag a file onto a folder in A-Dock. After a small delay (or as soon as you press the space bar), the content of this folder will popup, and you'll be able to drag&drop the item onto any item inside the folder, and inside its subfolders. Of course, press option to copy the item, option+command to make an alias, just like in the Finder.
• Added support for Mac OS X's application bundles inside folder's content menus.
• Enhanced skin format.
• The small triangles drawn to show running apps are now loacted inside the handle. Their direction change with the dock position in order to always minimize the size of the dock.
• Slightly modified advanced-tooltip-mode.
• Added new cursors to show the action taking place (move, alias, copy, grab...).
• The "auto-contract" feature is now independent from the "auto-expand" one.
• Added an option in the dock contextual menu to lock A-Dock settings. This could be helpful when a computer is shared among several users. When the dock settings are locked, it's impossible to remove/reorder items and to move the dock. But it's not a safe password protection, just a simple way to prevent people to change your settings, like your child might do by mistake. When invoking back the dock contextual menu, there's an option to unlock A-Dock settings.
• Fixed a potential problem when mounting a locked volume that would cause A-Dock's trash not to be updated anymore.
• Fixed a conflict with TaskMenuBar during drag&drop when the dock was stuck to the menu bar.
October, 2000: Version 2.1.4
• The “Open” command from the contextual menus got broken in version 2.1.x. Fixed.
• Added a “user-level” for the tool-tips, giving more control over which tool-tips will be displayed.
• Running apps are now displayed with an arrow under the icon to reflect the change in Mac OS X beta.
• In some particular conditions (small icons+dock collapsed+lots of icons+dock larger than the screen), then dock could temporarily change to big icons although you didn't request it. Fixed.
• A-Dock no more creates aliases in the Temporary Items folder (that's absolutely allowed for who cares...) as it seems applications like Eradicator, whose purpose is to empty this folder, resolve the aliases (bad!!) and trash the real application instead of just the alias (bad, very very bad) !
• Change the look of the “handle” (the bar at the bottom of A-Dock on which you can click to collapse the dock) to a plain bar that's as long as the dock as some people didn't clearly understand what it was before, and what was its purpose...
September, 2000: Version 2.1.3
• On some systems, the dock didn't appear at startup, only after an application was launched. Fixed.
• If the dock was left collapsed at shutdown, at next startup its length could be wrong until it was expanded. Fixed.
• Until now, the folder's content in A-Dock was displayed in Geneva font (the default font in Finder for lists), which doesn't render properly Japanese names. Added an option to use the system font instead.
• Added an option to have an extra-thin bar when collapsed.
August, 2000: Version 2.1.2
• The 2.1.1 archive did not hold the 2.1.1 extension of A-Dock.... Oops...... Released v2.1.2 to fix that.
August, 2000: Version 2.1.1
• A-Dock was sometimes quitting when launching a favorite under Mac OS 8.5 and 8.6. Fixed.
August, 2000: Version 2.1
New features:
• A-Dock now supports folders and volumes in the favorite section. Contextual menus for these items display the folder/volume content (with their subcontent in submenus down to 5 levels...)
• Drag&dropping an item onto a folder in A-Dock will move the item inside the chosen folder. Like in the Finder, pressing the option key will copy the item, and pressing option+command will create an alias inside the folder. Of course the tooltips reflect the action taking place.
• Added support for clipping creation when dragging text, picture, urls onto folders in A-Dock.
• Added an option to launch the first twelve favorites by pressing the control key and the function keys F1 to F12.
• Added a shortcut to collapse/expand the dock.
• Added a reverse-cycling shortcut
• Added "Get Info…" and "Reveal Original" commands to contextual menus.
• Control-click in the dock where there's no icon displayed will display a menu to quickly access useful settings.
• It's now easier to change a skin : just drag&drop the skin file onto a place where there's no icon displayed in A-Dock.
• Added a user-list for applications that won't show up in A-Dock.
• Added smooth animations.
Bugs fixed:
• A-Dock can now handle the case when an application is running and a copy of it (or another version of it) is a favorite application in A-Dock (previously, A-Dock thought they were the same app).
• Gravité 2 is now disabled in A-Dock due to a severe incompatibility.
• A-Dock could crash when switching from the Mac OS appearance to a skin. Fixed.
June, 2000: Version 2.0.1
Bugs fixed:
• A-Dock could fail to redraw properly on some big screens with big screen-depthes.
• The trash didn't update its size correctly when files were deleted from other drives than the boot drive.
• Tool-tips could be hidden behind the control-strip.
• When the dock was vertical, sometimes A-Dock would select a different item from the one you clicked on
June, 2000: Version 2.0
New features:
• It's now possible to add your favorite applications (or application packages) to A-Dock by simply dragging them onto A-Dock with the shift key pressed. Reordering the favorites works intuitively by drag&drop. Deleting them works like in Mac OS X's dock by dragging them to the desktop.
• Like in Mac OS X's dock, running applications are displayed with 3 dots under the icon.
• Improved tooltips to give feedback about what the users tries to do.
• The trash now shows if it's full or not.
• Added a contextual menu for the trash which lets you empty it.
• The dock can be moved without the command key by simply grabbing and dragging it. If the dock was collpased, you can grab it anywhere inside. If it was expanded, you ca only grab it where ther's no icon displayed.
• Documentation available in an HTML format to work with Apple Help Viewer.
Bugs fixed:
• A-Dock could crash when the user was quitting an application that modifies the system palette (like Photoshop...) if A-Dock was using a skin.
May, 2000: Version 1.3.1
• Tooltips could display wrong info during application switching when using reverse order. Fixed.
• Tooltips didn’t appear depending where the dock was displayed. Fixed.
• FinderPop no longer needed for auto-popping of menus.
May, 2000: Version 1.3
New features:
• Application names can be displayed in tool-tips (small floating rectangles, equivalent to balloon help). The font and size of these tool-tips can be customized to meet your needs.
• Added an option to display the trash at the end of the dock. The trash works like in the Finder. Clicking on it will open the trash folder in the Finder. Dragging an item onto it will put that item into the trash.
• Added an option to display a desktop icon at the end of the dock. Clicking on that icon will hide every application except the Finder to access the desktop. Dragging an item onto it will drag that item onto the real desktop.
• Added the command "Hide Others" in popup menus.
• Option+Shift clicking on an application icon in the dock will switch to that application and hide all the other ones (like if you have selected the "Hide Others" command).
Bugs fixed:
• Fixed a loading problem under Mac OS 8.5 and 8.6
• Option-clicking on an application icon could sometimes fail. Fixed.
May, 2000: Version 1.2.2
New features:
• The dock can be moved also when it’s expanded.
Bugs fixed:
• Reduced time to handle clicks in the dock.
• Better stability.
May, 2000: Version 1.2.1
New features:
• When the dock is minimized, option-clicking will change the look of the dock to a small bar. Option-clicking back will revert to the small icon.
• When the dock is expanded, option-clicking on the front app will hide the app.
• Added an option to use the Appearance Manager instead of a skin.
• Reduced memory needs.
• Improved stability in applications that love to hog the cpu (like internet browsers...).
Bugs fixed:
• When Wapp pro was not installed, it was possible to quit the Finder. Remove that feature due to problems when relaunching the Finder.
• Some minor tweaks in the QuickTime skin for better rendering.
May, 2000: Version 1.2
New features:
• Added an option for small icons. Option-Click on the 2 small lines in the expanded dock to toggle icon size.
• Added a choice for the zone that will expand the tray : either the whole dock when minimized (best solution when the dock is in a screen corner), or a small rectangle 200 x 2 pixels (easier when the dock is not in a corner).
Bugs fixed:
• The popup menu could appear in the wrong position when using the vertical centered positions of the dock. Fixed.
• Fixed a small glitch when displaying the active application when the dock was vertical.
• Fixed a small memory leak when switching skins that could result in unloaded patterns.
May, 2000: Version 1.1
New features:
• New anchored positions are available on each screen edge middle.
• Changed a bit dock positions for a better consistency. You might have to move again the Dock to suit your needs.
• Added a shortcut (by default ctrl + > to avoid conflicts with the built-in cmd+tab) to cycle through applications like the alt+tab from Windows.
• Upgraded the skins with 2 new patterns.
• If A-Dock wasn’t installed at startup or if it has quitted, A-Dock Control is able to (re)launch it for you.
Bugs fixed:
• The alphabetical order still didn’t work properly when Wapp pro wasn’t installed. Fixed for good.
May, 2000: Version 1.0.1
• The alphabetical order didn’t work properly sometimes. Fixed.
• Fixed a problem with the display of the skin name in the control panel.
