What's new in DragThing 5.0?

This is a major new version of DragThing which now requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
It costs US $12 to upgrade to DragThing 5 from any previously registered version of DragThing. The trial period for this version has been extended to two weeks so you can try all the new features before you buy.

Here is a list of new features, improvements, and other changes in DragThing 5.0.

Full support for Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther" with many Panther-only features

Added a "Window Dock" which can display a list of all open windows, just the currently minimised windows, or the windows of the frontmost application.
Added an "Open With" popup menu to the Item Options windows, so you can choose which application opens a particular document or URL dock item.
Added an "Open With" contextual menu item for both documents and URLs.
Added three new "Metal" dock styles.
New Panther style labels and selection highlighting.
New Panther style animation when opening items.
New Panther style Preferences and Dock Options windows.
Now using faster Panther APIs for managing icons and drawing text.

New and improved contextual menus

Added an option to display previews of images in folder and item contextual menus.
Added an "Open Recent" contextual menu item for applications which tracks documents dropped onto them.
Added "Add/Remove Row" and "Add/Remove Column" contextual menu items for docks to create and remove spaces without shuffling items around.
Added a "Label" submenu to folder contextual menus.
Added an option to show windows in application contextual menus.
Holding down Command while selecting a file or folder from any contextual menu in DragThing will show that item in the Finder. Holding down Option will show the "Get Info" window.

Cool new dock looks

New anti-aliased DragThing style tabs.
Added a new "Compact" tab style.
Added an option to display large icons in tabs.
DragThing tabs now truncate automatically if there isn't room.
More control over the background and translucency.

Dock arranging made easy

Added an option to keep layers arranged automatically.
Added an option to reverse the sorting order when arranging layers.
You can now arrange layers by the most frequently used items.
Layers arrange by row or column depending on dock orientation.
Arranging layers by label now sorts into the correct label order.

Hotter hot spots

Multiple hot spots and actions including bringing DragThing to the front, hiding, showing, and minimising docks.
You can now use a hot spot to bring DragThing to the front during a drag.

Super sound support

Added optional sounds effects for actions like inserting and ejecting disks, emptying the Trash, and many more.
Long shutdown sounds are no longer cut off when quitting DragThing.
Sounds in "/Library/Sounds/" are now listed correctly.

Desktop Trash the way you want it

You can now set a custom name for the Desktop Trash and manually position the label.
Added an option to hide the Desktop Trash name.
Added a "New Trash" menu item so you can create multiple Trashes in any dock.
Added "Defaults" button to reset Desktop Trash settings.

Many other great improvements

Added an option to show the Desktop in the Disk Dock.
Added an option to show a Network item in the Disk Dock.
Added an option to suppress drawing labels.
Added an option to use traditional yellow tool tips.
Added an option to draw icons in black and white.
Added an option to switch on hiding of the Apple dock at startup.

DragThing is now a single icon which can be drag installed.
Much smarter dock resizing which lets you "push around" items from any edge.
Improved control over dock anchoring.
Now display a size indicator while resizing docks.
Drawers open automatically while editing options.
Folder contextual menus automatically show the contents of very large folders in a submenu.
Name bars truncate in the middle again.
Set a minimum delay for showing contextual menus on click and hold.
You can now drag URL clipping files to folders in docks.
Process and Disk Dock items now display labels correctly.
Reversed scroll wheel direction for horizontal docks.
Stopped drawers from accidentally opening while a menu is being displayed.
Icon compression is now automatically switched on when opening big preferences files.

Fixed crash when dragging a drawer to the middle of the screen.
Fixed redraw problem when showing contextual menu for tabs.
Fixed problem with the path contextual menu on certain file servers.
Fixed problem with "Undo" and "Redo" for text fields.
Fixed problem detecting preferences files that were already in use.
Fixed various cosmetic problems on Panther.