1) The 'Resolve Aliases when Adding Icons' preference was accidentally turned off by default (this is generally bad for new users), so now it is turned on by default. Check your 'Resolve Aliases when Adding Icons' setting. If it is off, turn it on and recreate your bars; if you don't recreate your bars, some dragging and dropping may not work as intended.
2) Fixed a bug where verically oriented bars could show garbage text when dragging a file over it.
Version 1.2.6:
1) Fixed a bug where the jGNE Filter was detached even when it wasn't first in the list of filters.
2) The text for an Icon Bar in vertical mode is now true vertical text -- check it out.
3) When HB doesn't have the necessary system components to run, it gives a slightly more descriptive explanation of the problem.
4) I've included a new version of the Register program (1.2).
Version 1.2.5:
1) Fixed a bug where I was writing to NIL after receiving a drop on the plus sign. This probably wasn't causing many crashes, but I must thank Joshua Juran for discovering this one.
Version 1.2.4:
1) Fixed a bug which caused crashes when clicking on an Icon Bar item that resides on a floppy or other removable media.
Version 1.2.3:
1) I have included the Register program so you can make your Shareware payment through the Kagi Shareware service.
2) A few documentation changes to reflect the inclusion of the Register program.
3) You can select and copy the text from the About HoverBar window.
Version 1.2.2:
1) When possible the GNE Filter is completely removed, so there will be less system memory fragmentation.
2) When Aaron (or other Copland interface utilities) are running, folders, the trash, etc. are drawn with the new style icons.
3) Moved a bunch of strings to the resource fork, and rearranged the existing string resources so non-English versions are easier to maintain.
4) Includes new version (1.0.3) of TSM Fix.
Version 1.2.1:
Note: You will have to reposition your Bars and you may have to re-customize some settings for each Bar the first time you run this version.
1) Fixed a bug so that the modifier keys are successfully stripped when dragging an item from an Icon Bar. This means that you no longer have to release the modifier keys before you complete the drag. The documentation has been changed to reflect this.
2) I replaced some assembly code with c/c++ code in preparation for the native PowerPC version.
3) Converted to UniversalProcPtrs in preparation for the native PowerPC version.
4) Fixed a bug where crashes occurred when turning on Balloon Help with a dialog box in front.
5) By popular demand (and I stress the word 'demand'), Bars can now reside on all screens, not just the main screen.
6) Fixed the problem where icons on an Icon Bar would revert to the generic application/document/etc. icons.
Version 1.2:
1) Rearranged the code which looks for newly running apps and changes in the frontmost app, to remove redundancy and increase speed.
2) By default, aliases are now resolved when adding items to an Icon Bar, although you can turn this off via the preferences. The documentation has been changed to reflect this.
3) When HoverBar cannot run because the proper system components are not present, it will identify specifically which components are missing.
4) The bars should intelligently reposition themselves on a monitor which changes resolutions. HoverBar now assumes that all bars will be positioned on the main screen in a multiple monitor situation.
5) Fixed a bug where the two 'Consume Keystroke' checkboxes in the Preferences dialog didn't properly check or uncheck when clicked.
6) Minor documentation change when explaining the required system software: the references to the 'last item' are now
valid, since the last item now explains where to find the software.
7) Fixed a bug where installing a non-special folder within the System Folder onto an Icon Bar results in a new empty square.
8) You can tell an Icon Bar to not show particular running apps by dropping onto the minus sign the Bar icon which just represents the app. If you installed the Bar icon by dropping it onto the plus sign, dropping it onto the minus once just makes it non-permanent; you must drop it onto the minus sign again in order to prevent it from showing up as a running app. To once again show those running apps which you have chosen not to show, you can click on the 'Clear No-Show App List' button in the Bar's settings dialog, or choose the similarly titled item from the Bar's popup menu. Reinstalling the Bar icon by dropping it onto the plus sign also qualifies it to show up as a running app.
9) Icon Bars now show custom icons for volumes/servers/etc.
10) Icon Bars now show the Trash Can icon instead of a normal folder icon to represent the Trash.
11) Close Clicking (with the Command key, by default) on folders and control panels causes their windows to close in the Finder.
Version 1.1.1:
1) Bug where running apps may not be properly darkened when they are added to an Icon Bar has been fixed.
2) Fixed a bug where you couldn't set the Hide Bars hot key to be whatever it is currently set to.
3) Properly display the Hide Bars/Cycle Bars hot key when there it doesn't have any modifier keys (option, command, control, or shift).
4) Made it clear in the documentation that you cannot remove from an Icon Bar those icons which only represent running apps.
5) Made it clear in the documentation that aliases are not resolved when adding icons to an Icon Bar.
6) Added a note about beta testing in the documentation, and added my WWW page URL.
Version 1.1:
1) Bug where you could remove running apps from an icon bar has been cleared up. You can no longer remove apps from an icon bar, and some of the support has been made for clean (and permanent) removing of running apps from icon bars.
2) An Icon Bar will always be at least the size of a single button. This prevents 'invisible' bars that don't store any icons, and aren't showing any running apps.
3) All bars hide themselves when HoverBar is in the foreground, and the frontmost window is a Dialog or Alert. Before, when HoverBar was showing an Alert or Dialog, you couldn't click on the bars for any immediate effect. I can't use a Dialog/Alert filter procedure, since HoverBar requires a null event to handle clicks within the bars, and the Dialog Manager doesn't give you null events from within the filter.
4) In order to drag an icon from the bar, you must hold down Command-Option when clicking on the icon. I felt that it dangerous to be able to drag from the bar without a modifier key.
5) Fixed preferences dialog so the words "Consume Keystroke" aren't cut off.
6) Indented the "Show Background Apps" item on both the Icon Bar popup menu and settings dialog. This should make it clearer that showing background apps is contingent on showing all running apps.
7) Removed the preferences item "Hide Windows in Background" because its meaning was unclear and the feature was virtually useless.
8) Changed the Icon Size popup menu/submenu title to Button Size.
9) The Icon Bar settings dialog item and popup menu item "Grow Right/Down" now changes back and forth from "Grow Down" to "Grow Right", depending on whether the bar is horizontal.
10) Fixed a weird bug where sometimes a mouse click on a button would be seen, but the subsequent release of the mouse button wouldn't, leaving the button drawn in the down state.
11) Icon Buttons which represent running apps can be set to be drawn in a slightly darker color. This isn't noticeable at all in less than 16 colors, and probably isn't good looking unless you have 256 colors or 16 grays.
12) Changed preferences dialog.
13) Deleted some of the 8 bit color button icons. They weren't really necessary, and they were taking up memory.
14) When you are choosing the single app for a bar to appear under, you can now see and choose the Finder in the open dialog.
15) When you hold down the option key and click on an Icon Button, the frontmost app is hidden before opening the clicked item; the modifier keys for rearranging an icon on a bar is command-shift.
16) The modifier keys for the following Icon Bar button actions are user modifiable via the preferences dialog: Open Item, Close Item, Move Item, Hide Frontmost App then Open Item, Drag Item from Bar, Reveal Item in Finder, Get Info for Item.
17) The modifier keys for dragging a bar when clicking in the content region and showing the popup menu when clicking in the content region are both user modifiable via the preferences dialog.
18) Fixed a bug which incorrectly calculated when a button in the Icon Bar was clicked in.
19) Option clicking on the Icon Button which represents the frontmost app causes all other apps to hide.
20) Clip Bar no longer stores HFS Promise flavors. This caused crashes when dragging files from Anarchie to the Clip Bar.
Version 1.0:
1) Bars may now grow up or left.
2) The Bars hide themselves when a Modal Dialog or Alert is the frontmost window on the screen. REMOVED.
3) Proper implementation of Command-Escape so that you won't have some bars on and some bars off.
4) Fixed 'Remeber' typo in the preferences dialog.
5) Added Clip Bars.
6) Unified Icon/App bar. All the features of both bars, plus better implementation of growing up/left, and three icon sizes.
7) Can toggle the marking of the frontmost app icon.
8) Can have the titlebar be on the top, on the left side, or nonexistent.
9) Fixed a bug where problems like clicking on a NewsWatcher news document corrupts the NewsWatcher preferences. The remedy, however requires that Finder Scripting Extension 1.2 be installed.
10) You can now drag and drop onto folders on the bars. Also necessitates Finder Scripting Extension 1.2.
11) Better Documentationâ•” Hey, what a concept!
12) Shift Click on an Icon, and the finder opens up the window containing the actual file and highlights it.
13) Option-Shift Click on an Icon, and the finder shows the Get Info window for the actual file.
14) The keystroke to hide/show all bars is now customizeable. The default is Command-Escape.
15) There is an option to consume the hide/show keystroke so that it isn't processed by the frontmost program.
