Rewrite of WindowShade X Cocoa part is going well - I am expecting it to be done by tonight. Meanwhile, I cleaned up a lot of code and built up a foundation that will serve well for the addition of minimize-in-place functionality later on in the next major WSX update. If all goes well, WindowShade X 2.1.2 will be out this week.
On the other hand, we'll be releasing an update to Application Enhancer tonight tomorrow. It fixes no major bugs (simply because we are not aware of any ;), but gives a few nice little fixes to the APE Manager tool, and fixes two small memory leaks (6 bytes per running application, whoop!). Also, a thing that is long overdue is APE SDK 1.2.1 - now with better documentation, example code, ProjectBuilder templates and more.
Posted by slava at 10:16 AM
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Make sure when you add the Minimize in Place function you allow the option to have them shrink down to a side you specify. Rather than just "in place" which gets in the way.
The MIP Dock was so buggy I had to turn it off. I can't wait to try your version.
Posted by: Jason Anderson on January 20, 2003 8:58 PMOff topic, but…
When using FruitMenu and there is a broken alias in it and you select that alias to launch something it just does nothing instead of bringing up a dialog asking what to do.
Hi Slava,
Have u tried apple's MIP with Transparent Dock's
"magnify minimized windows thumbnail" feature?
THAT is the way I think WSX should make the little
windows look. Metal apps become metal thumbnails,
aqua apps... well u get the idear. and they are all
the same sized little square.
U should check it out! I would post a pic, but thas not
possible.
ANOTHER very important thing: when moused over
the windows should display their name like the Dock does now.
And choice of size (32, 48, 64, 128) would be cool too
bye :)
Posted by: panicX on January 21, 2003 3:46 PMI saw some cool potential in your WindowShade X program. when setting the window to transparent, I was surprised that the window was still active and received mouse actions. but the whole point of minimizing is to temporarily DISMISS the window. is there a way to make the window transparent to the eye and invisible to the mouse?
you could make a marked change in OS usability if the window would keep updating (new email for instance) but would be inactive to the mouse. to make that window active, double click the title. I’m looking forward to seeing this approach to layering information like an onion, as opposed to the conventional window method. have anything like this planned for a future release?
unsanity is great, does apple ever talk to you?
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