Glidel is a system extension that extends the drag-and-drop abilities within System 7 and later. You can select any file, folder or volume icons (this is called a selection), and drag it to:
* The Open, Print, Get Info, Sharing..., Duplicate, Make Alias, Put Away options (and Reveal Original starting with system 7.5) on the Finder File menu;
* Any application or folder in the Apple menu, including those accessible via a third-party hierarchical menu utility such as BeHierarchic, NowMenus, HAM, or OtherMenu;
* Any currently running application, via the Application menu on the right-hand side of the menu bar.
Revision
1.0.0 This first release was supposed to work,
1.0.1 Fix a bug due to a confusion between a file ID ref and a file ID,
1.1 - It does no more break when the mouse button is released outside a menu,
- Glidel checks really that it is an application which is requested (thanks to Gustavo Rivera),
- File menu management,
1.2 - Compatible with system 7.0(.1),
- Better Finder selection management,
- Check that the requested application is able to open the document(s),
- Add a Finder balloon help,
- Right volumes handling via File menu items,
2.0 - Better Finder selection management (the hell with it !),
- Better memory management,
- Fix a bug appearing on slow computers (mine is just like that),
- Right File menu items states management,
- File menu "Sharing…" item management,
- Aliases making,
- Fix the treatment when the mouse button is released outside a menu,
- Compatibility with BeHierarchic 1.0.5, NowMenus 4.0.1, Super Boomerang 4.0.1p, OtherMenu 1.2.2 and
AliasMenu 1.1,
- Proper documents opening,
- Cursor changing when Glidel is used (merci Guillaume Lessard and Jacques-André Régnier),
- Menus states management,
- Applications menu handling,
- Compatible with ApplWindows 2.0.2,
- Finder windows list handling within the Applications menu using ApplWindows 2.0.2,
2.0.1 Compatible with ApplWindows 2.0.2 Hot Spot (merci Bernard Frangoulis),
2.1 - Fix a bug preventing an application or control panel to be launched after a Finder restart,
- Compatible with A3 monitors (merci Jean-Louis Dubreucq),
- Fix a bug appearing with 68000 microprocessor equipped computer,
- Installation of errors messages (it is never too late),
- Right use of Super Boomerang 4.0.1p Recent Folders item (thanks to Rex Simonsen),
- Documents opening when the application is already launched,
- Prevent an application from coming to the front when an incorrect attempt is made to drag an object above one of
its windows,
- Better document type checking,
- at last, folders and volumes windows no more get opened when the Finder selection is moved or copied into them,
or when aliases are made there,
2.2 - Fix a bug preventing once OtherMenu Folder folder and AliasMenu Items folder sub-folders opening when
one attempts to drop into them via the menus bar (capito ?),
- Right icon(s) when making alias(es),
- Suitcases become accessible just as folders or disks (use with care, though),
- Better compatibility with OtherMenu (thanks to Mark Nagata),
- No more outline trailing in the menus bar,
- Right alias making in case of a stationnary pad,
- Cursor as a rotating watch in case of a lengthy alias making,
- Glidel becomes a shareware program. It should happen,
- Error message in case of unsufficient memory,
- Fix a bug happening with scrolling menus (thanks to Olof Backing),
- Finder windows list handling within the Applications menu using PowerBar 1.1,
- Better compatibility with 68000 microprocessor equipped computer,
- Compatible with MenuChoice 1.8 (see the limitations though),
- Compatible with System 7 Pro,
- Error message when an already launched and unable to communicate application is requested to open a document
that it did not create (thanks to Mark Nagata),
- Any type of document can be opened by any application, provided it created it,
- Control key and option key are meaningful even when depressed at the last moment,
- Compatible with the Drag Manager,
- Documents type is checked even if the application program is already launched,
- Fix a bug in the errors management (a must),
- Consolidate Super Boomerang hierarchical menus management
2.2.1 - Fix a bug in floppy disk alias making when both ApplWindows and SoundMaster are present,
2.2.2 - Work around a problem due to CEToolbox extension, related to the items Restart and Shut Down of the Finder
menu Special. In this case, CEToolbox restart the Finder without first stop it. This is fixed (merci Bruno
Cocquio),
- Compatible with the MightyMenus control panel 1.0.1 (that was really tough),
- Better cursor management,
- Fix a bug preventing once folder(s) opening when one dropped first something into the the System Folder through
the menus bar (capito ?),
- Finder windows list handling using OtherMenu Windows external,
2.3 - New Read Me file (thanks to David M. Axler),
- Compatibility with CopyDoubler Lite. Glidel was rewritten at that time and should be compatible with any
programme creating hierarchical menus,
- Better alias management (merci Frank Lefebvre),
- Compatibility with the drag manager under system 7(.0.1) and 7.1 (thanks to James Walker),
- Command key management for destination window opening,
2.4 - Compatibility with PopupFolder,
- Better alias making for shared containers or through a network,
- Better File menu management,
2.4.1 - Compatibility with system 7.1.2,
- Better errors messages management,
2.4.2 - Better error recovery,
- Better memory management,
2.4.3 - Better resources management,
- Better memory management,
- Better compatibility with Macintosh Easy Open,
2.4.4 - Compatibility with system 7.5,
- Compatibility with Macintosh Drag and Drop 1.1, which is part of system 7.5,
- Better aliases making, especially their labels,
- Inversion of the meaning of the option key in case of alias making,
- Miscellaneous enhancements,
2.5 - De-selection of the Finder objects after the operation,
- Compatibility with AutoMenus Pro 1.5,
- Better memory management, for instance with AliasMenu,
- Right QuickDraw GX desktop printers alias icons creation,
- Super Boomerang is no more recognized by its name but by its type and creator instead,
- For developpers, installation of a Gestalt selector, the selector being Gldl of course,
- Glidel works fine even if the Finder view is not by icon,
- Glidel causes no more a floppy insertion request if it is ejected and if the selection belongs to it,
- Miscellaneous fixes,
- New online address,
2.5.1 - Glidel works fine even if the Finder view is by list,
2.6 - Glidel works with Now Menus 5.0.1 (thanks to Mark Nagata),
- The selection skids no more when reaching the menu bar, as it sometimes happened,
- Right desktop printers aliases icons, when QuickDraw GX is missing,
- Bug fix when the selection is in the trash of a locked volume,
- Glidel deals with the menu of PopupFolder 2.0,
- Right Fonts folder alias icon, when file sharing is on,
- Miscellaneous improvements,
2.6.1 - Right folder alias icon, in case of a custom icon and access denied,
- Glidel works with BeHierarchic 3.0 sub-menus (thanks to Don Hessong),
- Glidel redraws properly a window if the Finder view is by list and if the action result is a pure move (thanks to
Don Hessong),
- Installation of an alert when an attempt is made to move or copy the trash, the catalogs icon or the mailbox,
- Miscellaneous improvements,
2.6.2 Improved behaviour after a programme that hid the menu bar failed to restore the desktop region, e.g. some game,
2.6.3 Glidel works with BeHierarchic 3.0.1 sub-menus, and the subsequent releases I hope, (thanks to Joel Sass),
2.7 - Glidel takes into account the new file menu item revealed by the Finder Alias Extensions Enabler system
extension or equivalent software,
- Glidel works also with PopupFolder old versions sub-menus (thanks to Dana Nau),
2.7.1 - Correction of this Read Me file (thanks to Olof Backing),
- Glidel works with AliasMenu menus items when they have keyboard equivalents (thanks to Charles Brunet),
2.8 Glidel is compatible with the control panel Now Tabs, part of Now Utilities 6.0 (thanks to Mitch Crane),
2.9 - Glidel is compatible with the control panel Finder Windows 1.1 (thanks to Graham Herrick),
- Glidel can now be disabled temporarily when dragging the selection, by holding down the Shift Lock key (thanks
to Pierre-Xavier Grézaud),
3 - Compatibilty with the system extension WinMenu,
- Distinction between the two ways Super Boomerang can list the recent folders in the menus,
- Bug fix,
3.1 - Better detection of the Finder selection drag start,
- No more faked by an icon erased while view is by icon,
- Compatible with Desktop PrintMonitor 2.0,
- Better compatibility with Super Boomerang,
- Bug fix when QuickDraw GX is installed,
3.2 - Compatibility with RelaxFinger (thanks to Yasuhiro Endoh),
- Compatibility with AutoMenus Pro 3.2.1 (thanks to Yasuhiro Endoh and Enid Gleich),
3.2.1 Compatibility with the control panel Now Autotype, part of Now Utilities (thanks to Walter Bohle),
3.3 Compatibility with BeHierarchic 3.1,
3.4 - Compatibility with Church Windows 2.0 (see the hereabove limitations though),
- Right icon(s) when making alias(es) of MS-DOS or ProDOS floppy disks,
3.4.1 - Compatibility with StuffIt Browser, part of StuffIt Deluxe (thanks to Michel Treisman, Mark Nagata and Bruno
Cocquio),
- US version documentation corrected (thanks to Mark Nagata),
3.4.2 Right icon(s) when making alias(es) of special folders such as the full trash or the Fonts folder or even a suitcase
when Aaron system extension is installed,
3.5 - Compatible with Mac OS 8,
- With Mac OS 8, the Finder selection is at last despatched according to its elements types when dropped onto the
system folder shortcut in the menu bar,
- With Mac OS 8, any local version of Glidel works with any local version of the system,
- More speed with system 7.5 and later,
- Software simplification (thanks to Graham Herrick),
- Compatible with the control panel FileTyper Menu 5.3,
- Fix of a very old and begnin bug occuring very sparsely, and characterized by a spurious throw of the selection
into the system folder when the mouse button was released over the menu bar but outside any titles or icons,
- Significant drop of the licence fee, from 25 to 10 USD,
3.5.1 Proper installation at startup,
3.6 - English version messages written in better english (thanks to Rowland ?),
- Fix of a very old and begnin bug occuring very sparsely, and characterized by a spurious throw of the selection
when the mouse button was released over an item of an invalid menu,
- Get rid of the 30 hierarchical sub-menus limit. Now, the hierarchy is limited only by the available memory,
- Improvement of the code robustness,
- Compatible with the OtherMenu 2 system extension new fonctionnalities (thanks to Brian Clark and James
Walker),
- Work around a serious bug of the system 7 Finder that could lead to a disk corruption. This was happening when
replacing either an open file or a catalog containing an open file,
3.7ß2 - Compatible with the AliasMenu 2 control panel new functionalities (thanks to Benoît Widemann),
- Improvement of the code robustness,
- Automatic set up of the e-mailer (thanks to Benoît Widemann) to get the author in touch via About Glidel…,
3.7 - Better compatibility with the appearance manager, part of Mac OS 8, although no trouble has been noticed,
- Scrolling and management of the help text are fixed in About Glidel…,
- End of Glidel!
3.8 - Management of the About Glidel… help dialog compatible with the appearance manager,
- Possibility to replace Glidel using itself (the problem started only with version 3.7),
- Fix of a cursor glitch with Kaleidoscope 2.0.1 control panel arrow cursor option (thanks to Peter Grandmaster),
- Compatibility with AtEase (thanks to Roberts Mac and especially Peter Mulderry),
- English language text improvment (thanks to Bob Frezza),
3.9 Only released as ß version. Compatibility with BeHierarchic 4.0.1;
4 - Compatibility with J. Foucher's Wapp Pro control panel;
- Compatibility with version 4.0.1 of F. Octave's BeHierarchic control panel. Beware! Version 4.1.1 is not
compatible with Glidel. Before a new version of BeHierarchic becomes available, I can provide you with version
4.0.1;
- Full compatibility of the help display with the appearance manager and Kaleidoscope;
- When making alias, proper handling of the new icon type that came with Mac OS 8.5;
- When making alias, proper handling of desktop printers icons with Mac OS 9;
- When making alias, proper handling of special folders icons (Mac OS 8);
- Access to the author’s site;
- It is now possible to edit any Glidel resource even when it is not installed;
- It is now possible to pay with a check drawn on a US bank or with credit card, USD currency;
- Slight revamping of Glidel icon,
4.0.1 - Under system 7, compatibility with Super Boomerang, part of Now Utilities (thanks to Mark Nagata);
- Fix of the help display under system 7 (thanks to Mark Nagata);
- Better compatibility of the help display with the appearance manager and Kaleidoscope,
4.1 - Compatibility with Turlough O'Connor's FinderPop;
- Improvement of the help text wrapping (thanks to Mark Nagata),
4.1.1 - Better compatibility with FinderPop (thanks to Turlough O'Connor);
- Better compatibility with Apple Menu Options (thanks to Peter Mulderry);
- Substitution of the ellipsis by 3 periods in About Glidel… (thanks to Mark Nagata);
5 Glidel handles any application selection (just the Finder one with System 7),
5.0.1 Glidel triggers only when the selection is a combination of files, folders or volumes (thanks to Brian Clark),
5.0.2 Glidel does no more emit an alert at the end of a poorly coded application selection drag (thanks to both Peter
Hartmann and Peter Mulderry),
5.1 - Compatible with AutoMenus Pro 4.0,
- The Glidel user’s manual is now packed as Glidel help, a folder best located within the System Help folder,
- Partially compatible with ActionMenus (see Glidel help),
- Both the About and Registration dialogs are now modeless. In other words, you can move them and switch to
another application when they are open,
5.1.1 - Fixed a nasty bug that caused a crash when clicking the About Glidel... dialog collapse box,
- About Glidel... is triggered as soon as invoked, even when the About your Macintosh... dialog is frontmost,
5.1.2 - Compatibility with AliasMenu submenus (thanks to David youaredavid),
- File menu items not processed by Glidel are now disabled (thanks to Benoît Widemann),
5.1.3 - When an application is launched by Glidel, the menu bar displays its name, as does the Finder,
- When displaying the About Glidel... dialog, Glidel handles odoc and pdoc Apple events. In this case, Glidel
quits gracefully instead of hanging. This is more likely to be of interest just for developers,
- Glidel can also launch appe applications or, more generally, any file containing a SIZE resource. Once again, the
latter one should be of interest just for developers,
5.2 - Yooo from Japan was kind enough to translate Glidel in Japanese language (thanks to Yooo from Japan),
- Applications that are not of APPL type are recognized as such in the Applications menu,
5.2.1 - Fix of an error message related to registration (thanks to Mark Nagata),
- Improvement of the registration process when several documents or applications are opened at startup.
