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What does “Wapp Floater” do?
"Wapp Floater" is the palette companion of "Wapp pro". It displays all the opened windows of the front application in a floating palette.
Clicking on an item in the palette will bring the corresponding window to the front like if you had selected the window from Wapp pro's menu.
In the Finder, you can also drag&drop items onto the palette items. Drag & drop in Wapp Floater works like in the Finder : dragging an item will move it to the desired folder. Holding down the option key while dragging will copy the item, and holding down option and command keys will create a shortcut.
Wapp Floater works like a drawer. When it's collapsed, it is reduced to a small tab :
Clicking on the tab will expand the drawer to show all the windows opened in the front application. The drwaer will remain expanded until you click back on the tab.
You can also expand it temporarily by moving the mouse over the tab. The drawer will expand itself after a quick moment (this can be changed using Wapp Floater Control). If you move the mouse outside of the drawer, it will collapse automatically after some time.
When the drawer is collapsed, you can change its position. Hold down the command key and click&drag the small tab. The drawer will adjust its position on the sides of the screen, depending where you mouve the mouse.
You can also resize the drawer's width when it is expanded. At the bottom of the drawer, there's one or two (depending if the tray is in a screen corner or not) small resize "boxes". Click&drag one "box" like a regular window.
Requirements
• Mac OS 8.5 or better
• Wapp pro 2.3.2 or later!!
Installing "Wapp Floater"
To install Wapp Floater, drag both "Wapp Floater" and "Wapp Floater Control" over the active system folder icon. Anwser yes when the Finder ask you to put items in the Extensions Folder and Control Panels Folder and then restart your Mac.
Bugs and comments
Send me bugs reports, comments or suggestions by e-mail or mail.
Shareware
"Wapp Floater" is $2 shareware. You can try it out for 15 days. After that period, if you decide to keep "Wapp floater", please support shareware and pay the shareware fee. It enables you to use any future version of Wapp Floater and it helps me develop more cool stuff.
Registering
You have several choices to register :
• either you register online at http://order.kagi.com/?Q7R&S for secure connection or http://order.kagi.com/?Q7R for non-secure connection.
• or you send me $2 cash to my postal address. But this will be longer to process your registration.
Distribution
"Wapp Floater" may be freely distributed via electronic bulletin boards, user groups and person to person. When distributed, all accompanying files are to be distributed too.
"Wapp Floater" can be put on any other site or included on any CD-ROM, but please tell me if you do, so I can send updated versions when available.
Legal stuff
This software is provided "as is". Every effort has been made to ensure it will not cause any damage, but the author does not make any warranty. The author denies responsibility for any damage caused directly or indirectly by the software. Use it at your own risk. Some jurisdictions may not allow this limitation of the warranty, so it may not apply to you.
Version History
March, 2000: Version 2.0.1
Fixed a potential problem of registration not being correctly saved.
March, 2000: Version 2.0
Wapp Floater is now a drawer.
It can be positionned on every side of the screen. When the drawer is collapsed, it is reduced to a small bar. Clicking on the bar will expand the drawer to display all the windows of the current application. Clicking back on the bar will collapse the drawer.
It supports auto expanding/collapsing.
If Navi iRae 1.7.1 or newer is installed, when listing Finder's windows, control-clicking (or clicking&holding if FinderPop is installed) on a folder in Wapp Floater will display the content of the folder in a popup menu.
The sounds are now automatic. If you choose sounds to be played in the Appearance control panel, then Wapp Floater will play sounds.
December, 1999: Version 1.1.3
Damned Universal Headers 3.3. Fixed another bug with Mac OS 8.6 !!
Clicking in the close box now only hides the floater. To make it visible again, press the shortcut defined in Wapp Floater Control.
When trying Wapp Floater for the first time (which means no preferences file created), the window could disappear when clicking on it. Fixed.
December, 1999: Version 1.1.2
Fixed a crash at startup under Mac OS 8.6 introduced with version 1.1.1.
December, 1999: Version 1.1.1
Added support for multi-users under Mac OS 9.
November, 1999: Version 1.1
Added support for contextual menus and drag&drop for the Finder's windows.
Added support for mac OS 8.5+ cursors.
Reduced memory needs.
Added an option to auto-dock the palette if less than 2 windows are visible.
