Thing Reporter Release Notes

This document provides late-breaking news about Thing Reporter version 1.0.2 for MacOS from Unthinkable Research. You may want to print this document for reference purposes.

Thing Reporter is a simple application that provides basic information about the globally registered components installed on a MacOS computer.  

System Requirements

Thing Reporter requires MacOS version 8.1 or later, and QuickTime 3.0 or later.  Thing Reporter runs on any PowerPC-based MacOS computer, including third-party clones; it does not run on 68K-based MacOS computers.  Thing Reporter has not been qualified under any release of MacOS X at this time, although it is our intent to provide a Carbon–compliant version of this software at a future date.

Version 1.0.2

Changes In This Release

• Fixed a bug where the QuickTime version was not being decoded correctly.

• Added Balloon Help to the “Components” window and to the menus.

• Added additional navigations keys to the “Components” window.  The left and right arrow keys now navigate between the columns.

• Fixed a bug where the “Components” window contents were not updated properly (in particular, the open instances column).

• Fixed a bug where a Type 3 error dialog would be displayed if Thing Reporter were launched with all extensions disabled.

• You can quickly scroll the list in the “Components” window when the list is sorted by name, type, subtype, or manufacturer by typing an alphanumeric key (0 – 9, a – z, or A – Z).  The list will scroll to the first component whose name (or type, subtype, or manufacturer) starts with the key that was typed.

Known Bugs
None.

Version 1.0.1

Changes In This Release

• Fixed a bug on MacOS 8.1 systems where launching Thing Reporter would result in a dialog that indicated the file “WindowsLib” couldn’t be found.

• Code optimizations to improve the speed of building the component list.

Known Bugs
None.

Version 1.0

Changes In This Release
None to report – this is the first public release.

Known Bugs
None.

Contact Information

Bug Reporting
To report a bug in Thing Reporter, send an e-mail to bugs@unthinkable.com with a subject line of “Thing Reporter Bug”.  Please include the following information:

• Computer model (e.g., Power Macintosh G3/300)
• Installed memory (e.g., 128 MB)
• MacOS version
• QuickTime version
• Description of bug, including detailed instructions on how to reproduce
• If there is a specific component that is causing a crash, let us know what it is

Other
For information on other products from Unthinkable Research, visit our web site at http://www.unthinkable.com.  You can also send e-mail to info@unthinkable.com.

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Updated May 8, 2000