• A new setting gives several choices for the position of the menu on the menu bar.
• There is now an option, turned on by default, to issue a warning before launching an application into less than the preferred amount of memory.
• Balloon help in the settings dialog.
• New Copy File external.
• New Paste Clip external.
• New Monitor Depth external.
• The CNVT shell is now an application, to fix clipboard conversion problems. When launched by OtherMenu, it can use OtherMenu to report errors.
• Corrections in the Memory Map external. Who knows, it might even work right in 24-bit VM now. Also, you can now turn off the warning alerts when quitting applications.
New in 1.2.2:
• Previously, a file name that began with a hyphen was displayed in the menu as a separator line. This has been fixed.
• Previously, the settings dialog and many externals displayed a watch cursor when used in the Finder. This has been corrected. (Let me know if I missed one.)
• You now have the option of setting the menu title to “Other” rather than an icon. It takes up more room on the menu bar, but is easier to hit.
• The sample code for externals is no longer in the main OtherMenu release, but is available as a separate file called “OtherMenu Developer Kit”.
• The Quit Finder external can be reconfigured to quit any other single application.
• Adjusted the memory parameters of Volume Watch to make it more reliable. Also made the path relative to the System Folder rather than the root of the startup volume, for benefit of foreign users whose System Folder is not named “System Folder”.
• Changes in Memory Map that may make it give better information if you are using VM with 24-bit addressing. However, I haven’t been able to find any testers who use 24-bit VM.
New in 1.2.1:
• Fixed submenu delay settings and improved the settings dialog.
• Fixed conflict with ApplWindows and possibly other extensions. The symptom was that if you tried to select a window from the application menu, nothing happened.
• Modified the Hard to Soft Wrap external for better compatibility with applications that use private clipboards. Modified Windows external for better recognition of modal dialogs. Modified Memory Map external to allow quitting selected applications.
• Added the Volume Watch background application. See “About Volume Watch” for more information.
New in 1.2:
• This release is primarily to fix conflicts with other extensions that affect directory dialogs, such as Default Folder and Shortcut.
• New “Hard to Soft Wrap” external that alters text on the clipboard. This is actually a shell around a Clipboard Magician CNVT module. Users familiar with ResEdit could use it to change most other Clipboard Magician modules into OtherMenu externals. (I say “most” because CM CNVTs that call other CNVTs will not work.)
New in 1.1:
• Within a directory dialog, you can use OtherMenu to select a folder or file.
• Several settings can be changed using a dialog that comes up when you select “About OtherMenu” with the shift key held down. One may turn off the startup icon, set the size of the menu cache, and modify timing parameters of hierarchical menus.
• Put Away can now unmount disks without the Finder running.
• There is a new Quit Finder external.
• I have done some work to speed up menu-building.
• The menu bar doesn't get drawn during startup.
• In the Move/Rename external, the OM Folder button in the Save dialog now works.
