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Apollo 1.22
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Apollo version history
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30th October 1995: v1.22 release (Eagle 1.5, Converter 5.0, DropConfigure 1.2)
• added option for "Quit" and "Quit others" in window submenus
• will now launch Eagle automatically if it's not running
(but it must be in the Extensions folder)
• internal changes: now uses universal headers and many references
to low-memory globals have been removed
• bug fixes:
• no longer creates desktop alias of system file when DA running,
even occasionally
• creates desktop aliases in desktop folder of volume on which application
resides rather than always on system volume, to work around a drag-and-
drop bug in the Finder
• no longer asks whether to launch in "less" memory than preferred if
less is in fact more
9th January 1995: v1.13 release (DropConfigure 1.1)
• fixed or worked round conflicts with 4th Dimension and the
system 7.5 Control Strip
• fixed an occasional problem causing crashes on application
startup when the Recent Apps group was active
• made black-and-white menus on greyscale or colour screens prettier
15th November 1994: v1.12 release
• fixed the bug I'd failed to fix with v1.11. Also fixed a few others
I had introduced in v1.11 related to the Localiser and DropConfigure
14th November 1994: v1.11 release
• failed to fix nasty bug in 1.1 concerning purging icons and the
Volumes group
1st November 1994: v1.1 release (Eagle 1.4, Converter 5.0, DropConfigure 1.0)
• now requires at least system 6
• "active edge" popups
• has separate settings file
• optional dynamic "volumes" group
• supports proper, genuine, colour icons in all menus (system 7)
• added "temporary desktop alias" feature to application settings
• new Italian and Spanish translations
• restored switch-launching support under system 6 uniFinder
• improved implementation of the Recent apps group:
• choosing an app from the group moves it to the top,
so apps chosen from the group tend to stay there
• apps already in Apollo's menus don't appear in the
Recent apps group when launched other than by Apollo
• the group is saved only at shutdown/restart, rather
than after each change, so launching applications is
faster: however, a crash necessitating a reboot means
that any changes are lost (system 7 only)
• background-only applications (of type appe) can now be added
to Apollo's menus (allows relaunching of Eagle, for example)
• window submenus now optional and have optional filtering to
remove dubious-looking windows (such as pallettes)
• "purge" command removed: can now just delete prefs file and restart
• top-level dynamic folder menus now list parent folders
• dynamic folder menus work under system 6, though rather limited
• fixed "I can't find it" dialog to default to original folder
• releasing mouse button now aborts build of folder submenu
• bug fixes:
• no longer crashes after item deleted from application's
submenu when Other and/or Default enabled at top
• no longer loses double-click when app with long name
launched under uniFinder (present since 0.5!)
• fixed some crashes with applications having MenuHooks
(notably beta versions of Eudora)
• fixed conflict with NewLook (by using up-to-date copy
of Default CDEF)
• active groups with many folders and control panels
now work properly (used to lose some entries)
• window-switching menus now work with ResEdit and work
better with some other programs
• alphabetically-sorted window-switching menus no longer
crash with very long window names (was a problem
particularly with Eudora)
• no longer crashes on 040 machines after failing to load
at startup and displaying a notification
• fixed some problems with folder aliases in dynamic menus
• first-class documents' application settings now work
• no longer crashes on window popup when more than 16 windows open
• window-switching menu now works even if modifier keys
held down for far too long (ie until button release)
• Eagle can now be relaunched if it has quit for some reason
• longstanding bug in menu ordering when using Other application
to put a new application into a group (often appeared at the start)
28th November 1992: shareware 1.0 release (Eagle 1.21, Converter 4.0)
• "active group" concept added: choosing group name launches
all items in the group
• folder dynamic submenus now work three or four levels deep
(restriction imposed by Apple)
• top-level folder submenus are saved at shutdown, so pop up
much faster the first time after restart
• added window-switching menu for the frontmost application,
with its own popup modifier combination (yes, yet another)
• application-switching menu now has submenus for each
application containing their open windows (system 7 only)
• added "groups at top/bottom" option for main menu
• added "recently used applications" group
• added 15-second timeout for auto-drop
• optional icons in all menus (system 7 only)
• system heap grow resource now updated as appropriate
(may have been the cause of crashes in the past)
• contains code to print registration form, better
About… dialog and a little registration sermon
• Eagle is now a system extension
• Documentation is now in DOCMaker format
• bug fixes:
• keyboard switching now works under system 6 if menu
font is not the system font
• "Desk Accessories" now checked in switching menu
when appropriate
• doesn't crash when system's 'scrn' resource is missing,
and handles invalid 'scrn' resources better (was
causing funny depth & colour setting changes)
• only sets sound level when needs to be changed
• fixed conflict with BFD INIT when auto-drop on
• folder and disk aliases no longer fail to open
• various bugs which caused occasional crashes during
configuration fixed
• problem with sound volume settings fixed - it was a bug
of quite amazing stupidity
• problem with checkmarks and apple symbol in system font
with non-Roman script fixed
• crash when adding app to "excludes" list if system 6
system folder opened in standard file dialog
• failure to open folders in folder submenus if not on
startup volume
• dynamic menu for folder containing only invisible items
now appears as "empty", not "no suitable items"
• reversion of popup menus to 12 point after running
some Microsoft and Claris programs
• startup crashes when "icons in menu bar" set to "none"
• failure to recognise "DA Handler" (system 6)
• improved handling of low memory conditions (system 7)
• crashes after application settings dialog
• no longer says "volume unavailable" if user cancels
volume mounting
• converter no longer removes Purge… menu command when
updating from 0.8
5th May 1992: v0.8b3 release (Eagle v1.1, Converter v3.2)
• folders in the menus can now have dynamic submenus, updated
as their contents change: however, these only work one
level deep for now
• folder selection dialogs more closely follow Apple guidelines
• changes made to screen depth by Monitors control panel and
the like (DepthGauge) now immediately reflected in default
depth setting (previously had to wait for restart)
• better handling of Quit and Open in non-English systems
• added "purge" menu command
• Application settings dialog now shows whether an app has its
own settings or not
• bug fixes:
• application switching menu now works under system 6
(was destroyed in 0.8b2)
• apps with menu metacharacters ('(', '/' etc) in their names
now inserted properly in app switching section of main menu
(system 6 as well as system 7)
• SE startup problem worked around
• apple symbol restored on early Macs under system 6
• conflict with TOM√INIT worked around (not Apollo's fault)
• default "open" folder can now be root folder under system 6
• default application settings can now leave default "open" folder
folder unchanged, as advertised
14th April 1992: v0.8b2 release (Eagle v1.1, Converter v3.1)
• "auto-add" in DA part of configuration dialog now on by default
• bug fixes:
• moving a DA or an app with settings to another group
no longer makes Apollo fail to load subsequently
• style of new groups now as defined in preferences dialog
• first-class documents now not disabled under system 6
8th April 1992: v0.8b1 release (Eagle v1.1, Converter v3.0)
• "application settings": each app can have its own screen depth,
sound level, colour/b&w setting, default document (opened if no
other document specified) and default "open file" folder
• can now have "first-class" documents in main menu and groups
• improved internal data structures: much reduced memory requirements
• internal aliases for disks under system 7
• when launching "other app", holding option key down when
app selected from dialog now brings up "other doc" dialog
• in "set switching key" dialog, delete without modifier
clears the key (sets to <none>)
• not loaded at startup if shift key or mouse button held down
• can now exclude DAs and extensions (notably CEIAC) from
keyboard switching rota and app popup menu (system 7)
• now better at finding "Quit" in app's File menu (system 6)
• if group name chosen from main menu and group contains item with
same name, item is launched
• can now have "Other…" and "Default" in document submenus
• can draw the menu in any font and size
• bug in Eagle fixed: Eagle now v1.1
• bug fixes:
• keyboard switching under 6 with DAs active now works all the time
• serious problems with folder aliases fixed
• fixed a bug which prevented opening of a folder when it
referred directly to a disk
• cosmetic bugs fixed:
• in Configuration dialog for folders (happened when folder
ID was very large)
• in application switching part of preferences dialog under
system 6 (non-colour QuickDraw)
• when drawing small icons (configuration dialog arrows and
menu bar icons)
• apps with menu metacharacters ('(', '/' etc) in their names
now inserted properly in app switching section of main menu
• fixed a problem causing crashes with old MacWrite under uniFinder
• missing error messages under system 6 restored
• bug when "renaming" app with submenu fixed
• crash when adding a running DA to the menu fixed
• can now add DAs from alias to DA file
• fixed further conflicts with QUED/M
• fixed (I think) a conflict with Type Reunion which was causing
lots of crashes at random times in applications with font menus
• fixed further bug in group rename dialog
• fixed bug when deleting non-empty group and its entries
31st December 1991: v0.7b2 release (Eagle v1.0, Converter v2.0)
• Eagle v1.0 introduced
• includes application switching menu & keyboard switching
• supports control panels and folders under system 7
(with a little help from Eagle)
• popup menu appears more rapidly when menu structure is complex
• much improved configure dialog (again):
• app & da dialogs merged: control panel and folder options added
• "build group" option added (not folders)
• popup menus everywhere!
• holding down option key when choosing "Other application…" now
allows selection of a document for the new application
• Finder and MultiFinder now treated as applications,
so can be included in menu and launched (no documents, though)
• more robust handling of very low memory situations (was causing
crashes, particularly with DarkSide)
• much better handling of aliases
• automatic menu drop-down added (ugh!)
• active areas in menu bar can now extend right into corners:
optional, as this causes problems with some other extensions
and screen savers when auto drop-down enabled
• bug fixes:
• now doesn't give error -192 when DA file is lost
and then found again
• conflict with Nisus macros & top-left corner fixed
• problem with Finder not saving window positions or
emptying trash under uniFinder fixed
• group names longer than 31 characters now rejected:
used to cause crashes
• launches under pre-7 systems when DA is active now work
• fixed (or rather worked around) a problem which caused crashes
when certain applications (Red Ryder and QUED/M) were frontmost
• fixed problems when moving items from a deleted group when
items with the same name were already in the main menu
• fixed problem with document list in configure dialog when app
with document list was selected and moved to another group and
the same app then added to the main menu (didn't happen very often!)
8th November 91: v0.6b1 release (Converter v1.0)
• now compiled under THINK C 5
• better handling of low memory launches under system 7
• documents from an app's submenu now opened if app already running
• optional icon at left of menu bar
• active area at top left made larger
• configure dialog changed to show groups under applications:
also made more responsive
• proper handling of DAs under system 7
• nicer About box
• groups can be renamed
• bug fixes:
• now works on Mac Plus/Classic under system 6
• apollo submenu conflict with White Knight and some other apps
• groups menu conflict with Type Reunion
• menus with same IDs as Apollo's lost colour info: now don't
• standard file current directory settings improved
• groups and apps having the same name and app added after group
• active rectangle in top right corner without icon there now works
• aliases now resolved before launching
• problem when item moved from group to main menu was new last
item in main menu
• conflict with ShortCut (changes not saved) fixed
• pictures in Preferences dialog changed to PICT 1 format
• Remove Document button in Configure Application dialog
now disabled when new app selected
26th September 91: v0.5b1 release (first release)