What's new in Shortcat 0.7.9 Beta
Jun 5, 2018
- Updated beta expiry date
- Work has stalled due to me founding a startup focused on supporting sex workers through technology. Read my Medium post for more details.
New in Shortcat 0.7.8 Beta (Jun 6, 2017)
- Updated beta expiry date
- Work has resumed on Shortcat. Stay tuned!
New in Shortcat 0.7.7 Beta (Jun 1, 2016)
New in Shortcat 0.7.6 Beta (Jun 1, 2015)
New in Shortcat 0.7.5 Beta (Dec 8, 2014)
- Last version compatible with Mountain Lion
- Added support for Yosemite’s dark menu bar mode.
New in Shortcat 0.7.4 Beta (Oct 6, 2014)
- FEATURE: Now supports the Dock!
- IMPROVEMENTS: Improved scoring algorithm based on proximity to element under cursor
- Re-enabled element information popover on Yosemite
New in Shortcat 0.7.3 Beta (Sep 4, 2014)
- Disables the element information popover on Yosemite as a bug in Yosemite causes the functionality to break.
- Accessibility permission popup updated for Yosemite.
New in Shortcat 0.7.2 Beta (Sep 1, 2014)
- FEATURE: Element information is displayed when an element is selected or moused over
- No longer reports a keyboard shortcut is taken if it’s not enabled
New in Shortcat 0.7.1 Beta (Jul 1, 2014)
New in Shortcat 0.7.0 Beta (Jun 2, 2014)
- Now requires 10.8 Mountain Lion and above
- Adds experimental modal mode. Enable in Preferences:
- Use Cmd+R while active to refresh enumerated elements. Useful where it takes time for elements to change (browsers)
- Known issues:
- Modal mode doesn’t resume in some cases due to elements classified as TextFields (Finder’s list view)
New in Shortcat 0.6.5 Beta (Apr 7, 2014)
- Last version compatible with 10.7 Lion (see blog post: http://blog.shortcatapp.com/post/61828269178/dropping-lion-10-7-support )
- EXPERIMENTAL: Now supports searching non-Latin languages with Latin queries (Example: You can now match “日本万歳” with either “nippon” or “にっぽん”)
- Link element’s Description attribute is now searchable
- Fixed non-Roman language case insensitivity matching issues
- No longer crashes when a shortcut that uses Control is mapped to Escape
New in Shortcat 0.6.4 Beta (Dec 17, 2013)
- Fixed a bug where Shortcat would incorrectly use best match from previous valid resultset when there are no matches
- Fixed an issue where Shortcat would not click correctly
- Title elements should be searchable again
New in Shortcat 0.6.3 Beta (Nov 18, 2013)
- Fixed a bug where Shortcat couldn’t enumerate within iframes
- Improved check box and radio button clicking
New in Shortcat 0.6.2 Beta (Nov 11, 2013)
- Last version compatible with 10.7 Lion, see blog post
- Fix a few random crashes
- Fix crash on Lion when opening up Preferences
- Don’t use discrete GPU
- Using Shortcat to click menu bar icon now works correctly
- Overlay now updates correctly when screen configuration changes
- Element actioning improvements:
- Checkbox and radio buttons are now pressed rather than clicked
- Sliders are now accessible
- Fixed label width in Usage view
New in Shortcat 0.6.1 Beta (Oct 30, 2013)
New in Shortcat 0.6.0 Beta (Oct 28, 2013)
- Revamped engine allows for much faster matching at expense of slower enumeration
- Overlay now restricted to active screen for performance reasons
- Overlay works on multiple screens on Mavericks
- Attempted to make overlay more readable
- Shortcat now works without an active window
- Better text extraction for menu items
- Decreased memory usage
- Massive enumeration performance improvement in WebAreas:
- Requires Safari 7 to be installed
- Applies to Safari and apps that use WebViews
- Added opt-in metrics collection:
- Please help us out by enabling it in Preferences -> Advanced!
- Details here
New in Shortcat 0.5.3 Beta (Sep 19, 2013)
- Fixed an issue where if you press Return before query completes, it can action the result of an earlier query
- Unresponsive menu bar items should no longer cause Shortcat to stall
- Shortcat should now work with multiple instances of an application
- Remove “Show Dock Icon” as it conflicts with some apps
- Bug fixes for Mavericks
- Remove O, W and I from shortcut letters
- Fixed Name and Email text clipping in License view
- Begin transition to SSL for updates
- Updated support link
- Fix crash when cancelling out of adding a license
New in Shortcat 0.5.2 Beta (Aug 19, 2013)
- Title/Label UI elements now link correctly to their labelled element
- Fixes Charts, Shapes, Sections, etc. drop downs in Pages
- and more!
- Add a Force Keyboard Layout feature. Can be found in Preferences -> Advanced
- Role searching now searches subroles! Example: .zoom for the green zoom button
- Add option in preferences to automatically check for updates
- Add option in preferences to automatically download updates
- Fix label wrapping issues on Lion in the preferences
New in Shortcat 0.5.1 Beta (Jul 15, 2013)
- Fix a hang/crash on start for 10.7 Lion
New in Shortcat 0.5.0 Beta (Jul 15, 2013)
- Shortcat now searches the menu bar
- Added licensing! Buy a license to support Shortcat development!
- Make Control+ and Tab/Shift+Tab element selection more responsive
- Add ‘Check for updates’ to menu
- Pressing Control+ rapidly no longer triggers Mouse To and Focus functions
- Matching elements with shorter text are now prioritised higher
- Changing screen configuration/resolution no longer breaks the overlay
- Preferences window no longer shows up when activating Shortcat and it was open
- Underscores now tokenises properly
New in Shortcat 0.4.3.1 Beta (Jun 10, 2013)
- Fix crash when pressing Tab or Shift+Tab when there are no elements
New in Shortcat 0.4.3 Beta (Jun 10, 2013)
- Menu bar icon is back! You can turn it off in the Preferences
- Dock icon is now hidden by default
- Now supports table headers
- All search fields are now searchable
- Cmd+Tab while Shortcat is active no longer activates the previously active app
- Tab and Shift+Tab now cycles through element results
- Help and Description for radio buttons now being searched on
- Fixes some crashes
New in Shortcat 0.4.2 Beta (Jun 4, 2013)
- If you haven’t read the changelog for v0.4.0, please read it below!
- Fixes crash when trying to select an element when there are no results
- Fixes setObjectForKey crash
- Check for known issues at this Trello board
New in Shortcat 0.4.1 Beta (Jun 3, 2013)
- Fix hang on startup on 10.7.x
New in Shortcat 0.4.0 Beta (Jun 3, 2013)
- Important update! Please read as many things have changed.
- Major interface changes, please read the README for more details.
- Selecting elements has changed: Instead of Space [shortcut], it’s now Control+[shortcut].
- Tapping Control once will move cursor over element. Double tap Control will focus element.
- Scoping via Shift has been removed for now. Needs reworking.
- . now supports element-class searching. .button will only show buttons, etc. See README for more details.
- Preliminary support for non-Roman languages has been added!
- You can now use IMEs in the query field
- Basic matching of non-Roman languages should now work
- Major performance improvements
- Menu bar icon removed. Access the preferences via Cmd+, after activating Shortcat, or launch Shortcat again.
- Added crash reporting. Please submit crash reports!
- Improved usage tracking, see Usage pane in the preferences.
- Reduced memory usage and fixed some memory leaks.
New in Shortcat 0.3.13 Beta (Mar 21, 2013)
- Added better usage instructions and some protips to the README. Check out the TL;DR and Protips section
- Fixed a bug where all elements were clicked in top left; Only links are clicked in top left
- Minor tweaks to matching
- Shortcat archive should no longer be bugged with The Unarchiver
New in Shortcat 0.3.12 Beta (Mar 9, 2013)
- Modifiers now work when clicking links
- Clicking links now attempt to click from top left corner
- Extend beta expiry to July 2013
- Engine rewrite taking much longer than expected
New in Shortcat 0.3.11 Beta (Feb 18, 2013)
- Extend beta expiry to May 2013
- Currently undergoing significant rewrite for major performnace improvements; stay tuned!
New in Shortcat 0.3.10 Beta (Dec 10, 2012)
- Application switch and window change will now deactivate Shortcat
- Extend beta expiry to March 2013
New in Shortcat 0.3.9 Beta (Dec 3, 2012)
- Able to use Option-based shortcuts to activate Shortcat
- New menu bar and search icons by @infinityrobot
- Added optimized app icons for different resolutions
- Clicking links within Help menu now works correctly
New in Shortcat 0.3.8 Beta (Nov 20, 2012)
- Added ability to mouse over the top matched element by double tapping Control.
- Improved shortcut assignment:
- Fixed a regression where shortcut assignment was not splitting words correctly
- Ignores the scheme in URLs (i.e. ignores http://)
New in Shortcat 0.3.7 Beta (Nov 12, 2012)
- Added preferences window
- Added ability to specify shortcut in preferences. Activation shortcut will have been reset. Please change it to your shortcut of choice again.
- Add ability to start Shortcat on login in preferences
New in Shortcat 0.3.6 Beta (Nov 12, 2012)
- Added ability to double-click. To double-click, simply double tap Enter when activating an element.
- Overlay is now Retina-enabled.
New in Shortcat 0.3.4.1 Beta (Oct 10, 2012)
- A fix (hopefully) for query field occasionally not accepting input
- Prevent scoping when a query is already in progress
- Bring app to front when showing dialogs
- Beta expiry changed to January 1st, 2013