2.9 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.0
1.6.2 | 1.6.1 | 1.6 | 1.5.1 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 1.0.2 | 1.0.1 | 1.0
2.9
- Added German language support.
- Added an option to draw the dock tabs and backgrounds in the style of the current Theme.
- Added support for using Appearance sound effects.
- Added an option to draw the tabs with a cool metallic gradient.
- Added a language switching menu to DragThing Lite.
- Added an option so DragThing doesn't automatically come to the front when running scripts.
- Names of plug-ins are always drawn in the correct font in the language menu.
- You can now double-click language files to switch language.
- Switching language is now scriptable.
- Modifying the application lists in the Dock Options and Preferences window is now scriptable.
- Fixed -1708 error when using the minimise in application option with the Process Dock.
- Fixed icon for language plug-ins.
- Fixed problem with hidden docks showing at startup.
- Fixed problem with docks jumping down a few pixels at the top of the screen.
- Fixed problem with HTML help on Mac OS 8.6 and added a searchable index.
- Various other minor fixes.
2.8
- New multilingual support, with language "plug-ins" for English, French, Italian, and Japanese, and a universal installer.
- Added the ability to hide and show docks depending on which application is at the front.
- Support for Mac OS 9 packages.
- Now you can hide items from the Process Dock by just dragging them into a list in the preferences window, and selectively show them again.
- New HTML based manual.
- Added AppleScript support for editing hot keys.
- Added option to disable hot keys in hidden docks.
- Added option to confirm the selection when you find a missing item.
- Added back the checkbox to disable opening the Layer Options when you double-click a tab.
- No longer create the "Recent Documents" folder if it is missing.
- Smarter handling of the backup file.
- Fix a crash when the preferences file is full.
- Fixed the last -1000 error when adding items with corrupt custom icons.
- Many other minor fixes and tweaks.
2.7
- The "Find" button in the missing items dialog now searches your disks - at last!
- Added extensive checks for preference file corruption.
- Fixed -1000 error adding files with 8.5 custom icons to docks on older systems.
- Fixed looking for missing items at startup.
- Fixed contextual menu for URL items.
- Only hide applications that appear in the Process Dock.
- Many other minor fixes and tweaks.
2.6
- Full support for Mac OS 8.5, including Navigation Services, 32-bit colour icons, anti-aliased text, and the new Appearance Manager.
- New dock styles, including flat and rounded slots for items, and stunning gradient fills.
- Twice as many colours, including new dark colour schemes with light text.
- Colour sets can be saved and loaded for swapping with other people.
- Includes a full set of Bondi colours for the iMac!
- Due to popular demand, window floating can now be set on a per dock basis in any combination!
- Hot screen edges as well as hot corners to bring DragThing to the front.
- Added a new Finder-style "Move To Trash" menu command and shortcut.
- Fixes a problem dragging URLs from Netscape.
- Fixes a number of cosmetic bugs under 8.5.
- Many more user interface enhancements and fixes.
- Now includes a new Mindvision VISE 5.5 based installer with uninstall.
- Supports Internet Config 2.0 for opening URLs.
- Recompiled with Metrowerks C/C++ 2.2.
2.5
- New DragThing Lite now included - it's a smaller, easier to use DragThing for the rest of us.
- Dock windows can be set to 'pop' to the front when dragging into them - all the benefits of floating windows without losing the desktop space.
- Windows now fit around the tabs when the title bar is hidden, freeing up more valuable desktop space.
- Tabs and current item name bar can finally be placed vertically at the left and right hand side of docks.
- Optional sound effects.
- Tabs can also be placed at the far side of docks.
- Docks can be resized from the top and left by clicking and dragging.
- Added hot keys for hiding and showing applications.
- Added Finder-style arrange menu for sorting docks.
- Added option to enable Contextual Menu plug-ins with DragThing.
- Added menu item and "Command-F" shortcut for opening "Find File".
- Added option for showing item notes in the current item name bar.
- Works with Default Folder 2.8.2 so clicking on a dock item in an Open/Save dialog takes you there.
- Works with the URL Manager Pro 2.0 Contextual Menu plug-in.
- Support for UserLand Frontier 5.0 scripting, including shared menus.
- Worked around problem causing crash when using the FreePPP Control Strip module with DragThing.
- Fixed rare crash when moving the mouse over floating windows.
- Various improvements to make producing localised versions easier.
- Dock positioning relative to corners now fully automatic.
- New register window with scrolling help text.
- Register window now picks up name and organisation from Internet Config settings.
- Other minor user interface tweaks, bug fixes, and changes to the manual.
- Recompiled with Metrowerks C/C++ 2.0.
2.1
- Added full support for Mac OS 8 contextual menus, including:
- a menu with recent documents opened for application dock items
- a menu with the contents of folder and disk dock items
- a menu to hide, show and quit Process Dock items
- quick access to common commands like Get Info, Show Original and Minimise
- Added option to float docks on a per dock basis.
- Added startup and shutdown folders for automatic execution of AppleScripts.
- Added option not to execute AppleScripts when double-clicking them.
- Added option to click empty spaces in docks to add items through an Open File dialog.
- Much improved command-tabbing to switch between applications.
- Much improved auto-minimising of floating dock windows.
- Fixed a bug causing the Process Dock to stop working and floating docks to hide after running games.
- Fixed a bug causing the Process Dock to move when games switched resolution.
- Fixed a bug causing hot keys to be lost occasionally.
- Fixed a bug causing only the first item of a multiple selection to be opened with floating docks.
- Fixed a bug executing AppleScripts when the DragThing Scripts folder was not present.
- Fixed a bug stopping files with short names from appearing in the Settings menu.
- Made serial number entry more forgiving about leading and trailing spaces.
- Added some useful information about registering to the Register window.
- Other minor user interface tweaks, bug fixes, and changes to the manual.
- Recompiled with Metrowerks C/C++ 1.8.
2.0
- Fully scriptable and recordable.
- Now can switch between different settings files on the fly.
- Mac OS 8 Appearance Manager/Kaleidoscope/Aaron/Church Windows savvy user interface.
- Added option to hide all other applications automatically when switching.
- Added option to grey out the icons of hidden applications.
- Added sliders to control delay before switching.
- Added save menu item to do an immediate backup of preferences.
- Now can drag OpenDoc stationary and drag to many more applications.
- Better handling of preferences to avoid corruption, and smarter fixing of problems.
- Can rotate minimised docks.
- Notes for any item.
- New Scripts and Settings folders and menus.
- Command-key equivalents in all dialogs.
- Drag & drop text editing and intelligent copy & paste in all text fields.
- Lots of user interface tweaks.
- Fixed bug when dragging items with null type and creator to dock items.
- Fixed bug truncating names on 2-byte character systems.
- Many other fixes.
- Kagi registration scheme.
- No longer expires after a year of being released.
- Recompiled with Metrowerks C/C++ 1.7.1.
- Also available in registered copies:
- Added option to float the dock windows above all applications.
- Added hot keys to switch between applications, launch items, bring DragThing to the front, and more.
1.6.2
- Added option to draw window contents to match the Mac OS 8 default appearance.
- Added option to use translucent dragging of icons under System 7.5.3 or later.
- Added view by name only option in the View menu.
- Added "Open Location" window for opening an entered URL with the appropriate helper application.
- Now accept "Get URL" events and open the URL with the appropriate helper application (and it's scriptable too).
- Now detect if Aaron is installed and automatically change appearance options to match.
- Worked round a bug in the 7.5 colour picker that was causing DragThing to crash with Balloon Help on.
- Fixed a few cosmetic bugs that were really bothering me.
- Fixed a few mistakes in the balloon help and documentation.
- Some other minor user interface changes.
- Recompiled with Metrowerks C/C++ 1.5.
1.6.1
A beta version of DragThing 1.6.1 was accidentally uploaded to AOL by one of my beta testers. There were a number of problems with it and it is hard to distinguish from the release version, so I have bumped the version number up by one for the final release to avoid complications. If you see any version 1.6.1 of DragThing it is actually a beta, and should be upgraded to 1.6.2.
1.6
- Now you can drag URLs into docks and double-click them to open with Internet Config installed.
- Now you can import HTML files to create docks of URLs and export them to HTML again.
- Now you can rearrange the layer folder tabs by dragging and can move layers between docks.
- Now you can change the name of dock items without changing the name of the original.
- Now you can copy and paste custom icons for dock items.
- Added option to double the speed of drawing docks showing item names by caching data in memory.
- Added option to double the speed of startup by not checking for bad dock items.
- Added options to show the full path, icon and filetype of the current item at the bottom of the dock.
- Added option to use the real system WDEF (and worked round a problem caused by Aaron 1.3 ).
- Added option to turn off zoom rects.
- More routines for detecting and fixing problems with the Preferences file.
- Much faster live dock window growing.
- Much smarter hot corners on multiple monitor systems.
- New about window with links to the DragThing web page.
- New preferences window with multiple pages of options.
- Lots of user interface enhancements and some other new options and bug fixes.
- Recompiled with Metrowerks C/C++ 1.4.5.
1.5.1
- Fixed -50 error at startup when an application with a custom icon was running.
1.5
- Added multiple layers to docks with folder tabs to switch between them.
- Added option to show the name of the item under the cursor at the bottom of the dock window.
- Added option to cache the icons of dock items & other data in the Preferences file for faster startup.
- Added option to highlight the running applications in all docks.
- Added window to edit the colour schemes.
- Added Label menu for dock items.
- Added "Find
" button to the missing file alert box.
- Added "Launch Finder" button to the "Finder not running" alert box.
- Now a dragged dock window will snap to the edges of the screen and other docks when close.
- Now you can select and drag more than one dock item at a time just like in the Finder.
- Now with live dock window growing.
- Now you can resize the dock item squares and minimised docks on a per dock basis.
- Now the Process Dock shows custom icons and labels for running applications.
- Now icons for stationery files show up properly.
- Now alert boxes and dialogs appear on the correct screen with multiple monitors.
- Now hot corners work on multiple monitors.
- Now full slot clicking can be set independently of single-click setting.
- Now holding down Command and Control while clicking an item removes or quits it.
- Now easier to localise into different languages.
- Documentation rewritten and now distributed in eDOC & PDF formats with an Apple Guide file.
- Various other minor (and not so minor) changes.
- Recompiled with Metrowerks C/C++ 1.4.
1.1
- Now can change the dock font and size.
- Now can change the dock colours.
- Now can hide dock window title bars and show dock names in the title bar.
- Now title bar position can be changed independently of dock orientation.
- Now you can type the name of an item to select it like in the Finder.
- Now position of dock windows can be stored relative to a specific corner.
- Now accepts files dragged from Find File and other applications.
- Added Window menu to switch between docks (with Command-key shortcuts).
- Added Import and Export commands to load and save a dock as a folder of alias files.
- Changed the Dock Options window to include the single-click and minimise/maximise options.
- Fixed crashing bug when dragging items into the Finder.
- Fixed bug with folder icons being corrupted.
- Fixed bug causing a phantom click when clicking on a minimised dock in the background.
- Fixed bug in window positioning after a resolution switch.
- Yet more minor application and documentation changes.
- Recompiled with Metrowerks C/C++ 1.3.
1.0.2
- Now keeps a backup copy of the Preferences file.
- Now checks for missing dock items at startup and flags them with a red question mark over the icon.
- Changed dock WDEF to System windoid style with zoom box to minimise/maximise docks.
- Changed Dock Options dialog into a non-modal window.
- Fixed potential problem when getting custom icons from files.
- More minor application and documentation changes.
1.0.1
- Now you can drag items in docks onto other items in docks.
- Added new large icon with name view.
- Added experimental ability to lock docks.
- Dragging multiple items to an empty square in a dock will add them all if there is enough space.
- Fixed bug in window positioning on multiple monitors.
- Fixed crashing bug when opening the Preferences window on some Macs.
- Some other minor application and documentation changes.
- Recompiled with Metrowerks C/C++ 1.2.1.
1.0
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