What's new in Bevy 1.1.2
Oct 22, 2016
- Fixed - Various fixes for macOS 10.12 Sierra quirks
- Changed - Alphabetical app sort is now based on the localized name
New in Bevy 1.1.1 (Feb 2, 2016)
- Fixed - New app remover feature was only working on OS X 10.10 Yosemite and later. This has been fixed.
- Fixed - Changed a network security setting that prevented some users on 10.11 El Capitan from accessing the built-in store and activating the app.
- Fixed - Version 1.1.0 was improperly code signed, which should only have affected new users. This has been corrected.
New in Bevy 1.1.0 (Dec 29, 2015)
- New - Support for Dark Mode in 10.10 Yosemite and later
- New - Added the feature to right-click and send an app icon to a pre-designated app for deletion, such as AppCleaner or AppDelete
- New - Hovering over an app icon reveals the version and bundle identifier values
- New - Added an option to ignore the cursor hot spot delay when hiding the main window.
- Fixed - A few internal changes for 10.10 Yosemite and 10.11 El Capitan compatibility
New in Bevy 1.0.12 (Sep 11, 2014)
- Caution 10.6 Snow Leopard or earlier users -- This version now requires 10.7 Lion or newer.
- We apologize to users of older system versions, but it has just become too difficult for us to maintain all of our software applications for all of the various older OS versions. As a result, we had to standardize our code-base and adopt a minimum system version of 10.7 going forward. However, we will keep older versions available for download on our website.
- The app is now properly code-signed for OS X 10.7+
- Updated the internal Sparkle software-update framework
- Updated the internal eSellerate registration framework
New in Bevy 1.0.11 (Feb 26, 2013)
- Caution 10.4 Tiger users: This version requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or newer. Do not update if you are running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
- Fixed - Bevy will now properly report when it is not assigned to "All Desktops" in Mission Control in 10.7 Lion
- New (experimental) - You can now scroll left and right with the trackpad or scroll wheel to switch sets, like tab and shift-tab
New in Bevy 1.0.10 (Oct 1, 2011)
- Fixed - Fixed error handling in color sorting code that could cause a crash when scanning app icons (usually at startup)
- Changed - Improved handling of key presses...
- Changed - Command-W, Escape and Command-Period will now close any window or sheet
- Changed - When filtering app names with the keyboard, Escape and Command-Period now clear your entry, then either will close the window if pressed again
- Changed - You can use the delete key when filtering app names with the keyboard
- Changed - Controls and group dividers are now drawn in black when the window background is completely transparent
- Changed - Rescan All Apps will now force a reload of all app icons instead of reusing existing icons. This can be used to fix an application icon that becomes generic after that application updates itself (using Sparkle or another built-in mechanism).
New in Bevy 1.0.9.1 (Sep 13, 2011)
- New - Added Show/Hide commands to the contextual menu of an app to show or hide the app when it is running.
- New - Added option allowing sort order of Running apps set to be changed from launch order to the same order as other app sets
- Fixed - When Bevy's window was explicitly closed, it would cause a re-open event in the activating app which could open a new window in that app. This behavior has been corrected.
- Fixed - When running with no Dock icon or menu bar, Bevy's window could not be hidden immediately after launch if no other application switch had occurred. This has been fixed.
- Fixed - After deleting all favorite apps, the last one deleted would show up again after restarting Bevy. This has been fixed.
- Fixed - Command-W and Escape now work uniformly on all windows and sheets to close them
New in Bevy 1.0.9 (Aug 16, 2011)
- Caution 10.4 Tiger users...
This version now requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or newer. Do not update if you are running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
This change was necessary to provide the performance improvements and to build a 10.6 Snow Leopard-only version for the Mac App Store. If you are a 10.4 Tiger user, please send us feedback if this is a deal-breaker for you.
- New - Added a new Favorites page to which you can add icons and sort into groups in any order
- New - When dragging, you can hover over the page buttons to switch pages
- New - Added option for animated window resizing which help maintain visual orientation during a drag to Favorites via the button bar
- New - You can now sort icons by color. An intelligent color sort determines the most visually significant color to sort by. There are options for adjusting some parameters that control the sort.
- New - You can now filter app names by typing multiple letters. The first typed letter still incorporates our smart filter, but two or more letters reverts to a substring search.
- New - You can now use the scroll wheel or two-finger scrolling to change the filter letter
- New - When your filter leaves a single app icon available, you can now press return or enter to launch that app
- New - Added a delay setting to the cursor hot spots
- Fixed - Sped up folder scanning by preventing recursion into any package that is not an application package
- Fixed - Corrected the "sort by subfolder" order when displaying icons as a single group
- Fixed - After an app performed a Sparkle update procedure, the app might not launch when clicked on in Bevy. This behavior has been corrected.
- Changed - App icons now display as dots while loading. The question mark is shown only when an app was not found (which could occur at startup when Bevy reads from a cached list of apps, or on the new favorites page which remembers your apps instead of automatically deleting them as occurs in the included page)
- Changed - Icon images are now reduced to the "max icon size" specified in the preferences in order to conserve memory and speed up drawing. They used to be reduced to 128 px, but this size was rarely reachable except on big displays with only a few icons.
- Changed - Added a delay timer after Spotlight updates so that app installs/updates don't cause multiple rescans
- Changed - Window handling code when switching to/from Bevy make window activations look a little nicer
- Changed - Icon opacity during clicks and drags behaves like the Dock
- Changed - The tab key now switches between Included, Favorites and Running pages, and skips over Total and Excluded pages
New in Bevy 1.0.9 Beta 2 (Jul 18, 2011)
- Includes new features, but it is not yet fully tested. As a result, it could have bugs that could corrupt its own preferences, but it won't harm your system in any other way. Play at your own risk.
- New features include a new favorites page, sorting by color, filtering apps with multiple letters, a customizable delay on the cursor hot spot, improved tab key behavior, and numerous other small changes.
New in Bevy 1.0.8 (Jan 8, 2011)
- Caution 10.4 Tiger users... This version now requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or newer. Do not update if you are running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
- This change was necessary to provide the performance improvements and to build a 10.6 Snow Leopard-only version for the Mac App Store. If you are a 10.4 Tiger user, send feedback if this is a deal-breaker for you.
- News - First version submitted to the Mac App Store. For the time being, we will be providing both an App Store version and the eSellerate version via our web site (with Sparkle updates).
- New - Added command-R shortcut for "Rescan All Apps"
- New - Added preference to show/hide the window at launch
- New - Dragging items to the status bar menu now shows the main window for a subsequent drop
- New - Added command-click to reveal an app in the Finder
- New - Changed icon loading code to show app icons progressively as they are read from disk
- New - Added a preference to change the behavior of the status bar icon (icon in menu bar)
- Fixed - Dragging items to Bevy's window now filters apps much faster
- Fixed - Changed Spotlight code to improve the responsiveness and accuracy of file system updates
- Fixed - Changed modifier key handling code to fix a non-working command key during a very specific file drag scenario
New in Bevy 1.0.7 (Mar 15, 2010)
- Add a preference to specify the icon group shown when the window opens
- Reduced the length of the hot spot edges to make a larger gap between them and Expose's hot corners. This makes it less likely to trigger Bevy accidentally when trying to use Expose's hot corners.
- Fixed a bug that caused some icons to appear as a question mark "?" when "Display As" was set to single group and you viewed "Excluded" apps
- Bevy now weeds-out invisible characters from the name and serial number fields that inadvertently get inserted during activation
- Fixed a coordinate bug that caused about a dozen dead pixels under the cursor along the left edge of the left-most icons.
New in Bevy 1.0.6 (Oct 16, 2009)
- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Fixed "Spaces is enabled" dialog so that it no longer appears when Bevy is correctly assigned to "every space"
New in Bevy 1.0.5 (Oct 10, 2009)
- Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: Recompiled the OpenFeedback framework because it was not loading on PPC machines.
- Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: Corrected the encoding of a text file containing the hot keys list which was preventing the preferences from opening.
- Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: "Show dock icon and menu bar" preference now works. When running under 10.4, the application must have write permissions so that the preference can be changed. If your user is an administrator, this should not be an issue. But if you do not have write privileges for the folder that the application is contained in, the preference will not be able to be set and the application will remain faceless.
- Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: The welcome window now shows first page at proper size when opened.
- Added cursor hot spots as an additional trigger method. You can now use a selected corner or edge to trigger Bevy with the mouse like you can trigger Expos and Dashboard.
- With addition of cursor hot spots, the "Hot Key" preference tab has been renamed to "Triggers," and some preferences from the "General" tab have been moved to "Triggers" to group these features together.
- Added a feature to automatically exclude applications with names containing certain strings, such as "firmware," "install," "daemon," "readme" and "remove ". Currently this is a menu item in the "Bevy" menu.
- Added "." as a file name separator to catch the following letter as a significant letter in file names like "Last.fm".
- Sped up the rescanning process, so adding search folders and rearranging the list should be faster.
- Added a quit button to the preferences sheet when Bevy has no menu bar or menu bar icon visible.
New in Bevy 1.0.4 (Jul 20, 2009)
- Fixed a crash that could occur when the foreground application changed, under specific circumstances. One unique case where this could occur was when invoking Time Machine from within Mail.
New in Bevy 1.0.3 (Jul 16, 2009)
- Fixed a layout bug that could display one less app than was actually running when viewing the "Running" group
- Changed the position of the preferences sheet to open just below title bar
- The top margin of the window couldn't be used to drag the window when the preferences sheet was open. This has been fixed.
- Minor fixes to the search folders table in the preferences to prevent sorting and editing (which didn't actually sort anyway)
- Added notes to user guide about using Bevy with Spaces
- Removed hard-coded path for ~/Library/Application Support/ folder which might have created this folder on some non-English system localizations. If you have a non-English localization and your Application Support folder does have a different name, Bevy 1.0.3 will read its files once from the old location then write them to the correct system location.
New in Bevy 1.0.2 (Jun 27, 2009)
- You can now click on the menu bar icon to toggle the visibility of the main window. Click once to show the window, click again to hide it. To open its menu, click-and-hold or right-click (control-click) on the menu bar icon.
- The Display preferences tab has been split into two separate Layout and Color tabs
- Added preferences for the color, stroke and fill for the running application icon marker
- Added preferences for icon padding and spacing. Currently, these fixed pixel values seem to work well because more proportional space is needed at small icon sizes than at larger sizes.
- Removed a debug statement that was printing irrelevant information to the console
- If the option key key was down when you launched an application from Bevy, the window would still show the "Total" group when you next opened the Bevy window. This has been fixed.
- The unzipped application file size is now smaller. A build phase script was fixed that was redundantly compressing aliases/links, resulting in multiple copies of some files in the application bundle.
- Reduced Bevy's memory footprint by discarding unnecessary sizes of application icon variants. Now only 128px icons are retained for each application.
- Bevy now only displays a quit confirmation dialog when the user explicitly chooses to quit when no Dock icon, no menu bar and no menu bar icon are showing. Previously, the dialog would show any time just the menu bar and Dock icon were hidden, which could hang the system restart or shut down until you confirmed the quit.
- Added Rescan All Apps to the main menu and menu bar icon menu.
- If Bevy is not the frontmost app, its window will now automatically hide when it has finished launching so that you no longer have to close it manually.
- If Automatically check for updates is checked in the preferences, Bevy will now also quietly check for updates when launched.
- Added warnings when preferences are set such that mouse and keyboard access are limited.
- Fixed a drawing bug under OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
New in Bevy 1.0.1 (Jun 8, 2009)
- Added a preference to run Bevy in faceless mode where the its menu bar and dock icon are hidden and it does not appear in the system application switcher. In this mode, the only access to Bevy is with the hot key and optionally the menu bar icon if shown.
- The menu bar icon now contains all important menu items for use when Bevy is running in faceless mode and not showing its menu bar. It also shows scanning progress like the dock icon.
- Added a preferences button to the main window for access when Bevy is running in faceless mode and without a menu bar icon
- Changed Bevy's deactivation behavior so the re-open event no longer gets sent to the previous application. This will prevent untitled and default windows appearing when Bevy switches you back to the previous application.
- When showing running apps, the Bevy window now favors the width of screen rather than the aspect ratio of the screen, so it behaves more like the built-in system switcher which grows horizontally. Because Bevy will still wrap the icons to two or more rows if necessary to keep the icon size as large as possible, you can control when the wrapping occurs by adjusting the max icon size in the prefs. The smaller the icon size, the more apps before it wraps.
- Fixed the button bar so that it truncates appropriately when the window shrinks in width
- Fixed a math rounding error that caused the button bar to look a little blurry
- You can now use the escape key or command-w to close the window (unless a sheet is open)
- Altered the show window code slightly so that if the window has been moved and then another app has been brought to the front, choosing show/hide window or clicking on the dock icon will activate Bevy and bring the window to the front instead of hiding it as it did before. So instead of hiding an already obscured window, it will bring it to the front and fix what appears to be the show window command not working.
- Added a timer to the main window to hide the window after 30 seconds if it is moved and you then switch to another app and leave Bevy's window in the background
- When the preferences window was open and you made certain changes, the main window would switch to show included apps, but it shouldn't have. This has been fixed.
- Bevy will now resize its window when screen changes occur, such as a change in display resolution or the Dock being moved or hidden
- Changed the icon highlight color (when you click on an icon) to be a contrasting black or white color instead of white only. Also changed the icon highlight rectangle to be filled instead of stroked.
New in Bevy 1.0.0 (Jun 8, 2009)