SuperTab Changelog

What's new in SuperTab 4.0.1

Mar 6, 2019
  • Fix - Settings: Selecting Settings from within SuperTab was effectively re-isntalling SuperTab Preference Panel instead of merely opening it in System Preferences. Fixed.
  • Fix - Meta Folders: Using a Hot Key on MetaFolders was not working. Fixed.
  • Fix - Tab Row Width: Restored how Tab Row width is determined for cases where no tab rows are split.
  • Fix - Crash: Fixed a rare crash when determining if an application was user-facing or not.. Fixed.

New in SuperTab 4.0 (Feb 25, 2019)

  • Feature - Tab Row Splitting: SuperTab now lets you create up to three Tab Rows per visual row within SuperTab's interface. More Tab Rows without taking more Space.
  • Feature - Recent Folders: You can now instantly access your recently used folders within SuperTab.
  • Feature - Stopwatches: Create stopwatches for when you need to time things.
  • Feature - Countdown Timers: Create timers to make sure you don't miss when a certain amount of time has gone by...
  • Feature - Application Windows: The Application Windows Tab Row can now display windows from all Spaces.
  • Feature - Screen Shots: On Mojave, Screen Shots can now be used to make video captures.
  • Feature - Screen Shots: On Mojave, Screen Shots can now leverage the System Interactive Screen Shot Interface.
  • Feature - Screen Shots: On Mojave, Screen Shots can now display the Post-Processing interface after a screen shot is taken.
  • Feature - Drag and Drop: Users can now drag-and-drop Images and Text Clippings from other apps directly into SuperTab.
  • Feature - AppleScript: SuperTab now offers a simple dictionary of AppleScript events to allow users to interact with SuperTab via AppleScript.
  • Feature - Set Up: SuperTab now presents first-time users with an easy "Setup Wizard" to help them get up and running with SuperTab.
  • Feature - Auto Update: SuperTab now offers Auto Update to ensure users are aware any time a new release is made.
  • Enhancement - Screen Shots: Screen Shots with delays now display a visual countdown until the Screen Shot.
  • Enhancement - Calendar Items: The Calendar Items Tab Row now has a button for creating a quick event.
  • Enhancement - Appearance: Image and video files do not display item name overlays as their visual appearance is faster for identification.
  • Enhancement - Appearance: Volumes / Disk that appear in SuperTab now have a white background to their Item Name Overlays for improved readability.
  • Enhancement - Appearance: Users can now also choose from gray and white for Tab Row Colors.
  • Enhancement - Folder Contents: The "Reveal in Finder" button of the folder is now the first item in the Tab Row to make it accessible when the folder contains a large number of items.
  • Enhancement - Folder Contents: If the folder is the Desktop, there is a new configuration option to include Disk Drives in the Tab Row.
  • Enhancement - Auto Types: Auto Types can now be used to invoke items within SuperTab.
  • Enhancement - Auto Types: Auto Types can ask the user whether to continue or abort the rest of their operation.
  • Enhancement - Control: Shift Scroll and side gestures now also control the Tab Row selection.
  • Enhancement - Meta Folders: Empty Meta Folders now include an "About" menu item to help users understand how to use Meta Folders.
  • Enhancement - Web Pages: Web Pages now have cleaner, square default icons.
  • Enhancement - Upgrade: When a user runs an updated version of SuperTab for the first time, it offers a quick way to register SuperTab.
  • Enhancement - Separators: Left clicking on a Tab Row separator has the same effect as right clicking on it (lets you change its appearance).
  • Fix - Screen Shots: The "Delayed Selected Window" Screen Shot type failed to display any icon. Fixed.
  • Fix - Active Applications: If SuperTab displayed a dialog, the windows in the Active Applications Tab Row would disappear. Fixed.
  • Fix - Meta Folders: Re-ordering of items within Meta Folders didnt always work. Fixed.
  • Fix - Meta Folders: A crash was sometimes occurring when re-ordering items within Meta Folders. Fixed.
  • Fix - Dynamic Submenus: Pausing while on a menu item that can dynamically display a submenu was not creating the submenu properly. Fixed.
  • Fix - Application Windows: Right clicking on a Window in the Application Windows Tab Row sometimes resulted in the selectiong of a menu item taking no action. Fixed.
  • Fix - Screen Shots: Item icon was missing for Delayed Selected Window Screen Shots. Fixed.

New in SuperTab 3.0 (Jul 31, 2017)

  • Feature - Item Name Overlays: Files, Folders, Meta-Folders, Screen Shots, Auto Types, Clipboards Web Sites and Display Configurations can all now display their names overlaid on their icons.
  • Feature - Multiple Monitor Support: You can configure SuperTab to opt which screens it will appear on.
  • Feature - Application Badging: SuperTab now displays badges on Application Icons.
  • Feature - Calendar Items: A new type of Tab Row has been addded that can display your current and upcoming Calendar App events.
  • Enhancement - Performance: SuperTab's activation responsiveness has been fine-tuned to be crisp and fast.
  • Enhancement - Application Windows: Users can now sort by Application or by Recent Use.
  • Enhancement - Application Windows: Users can opt to include separators between Application window sets.
  • Enhancement - Active Applications: Users can opt to display hidden applications with dimmed icons.
  • Enhancement - Active Applications: Users can opt to append the windows of the front most application.
  • Enhancement - Drobbox: Users can now create Dropbox Share Links directly within SuperTab.
  • Enhancement - Trash: The "Empty Trash" function of Dock Items Tab Rows is now done on a background thread to keep from freezing SuperTab during the empty.
  • Enhancement - Auto Types: A scroll bar is now always available in the Auto Type Elements list making it easy to access all elements.
  • Enhancement - Auto Types: A help button has been added to the Auto Type Configuration dialog to aid users in setting up Auto Types.
  • Enhancement - Voice Control: A "Please Wait while Voice Control Starts Up" message is now dislayed on initial invocation of Voice Control to ensure users dont start speaking prematurely.
  • Enhancement - Finder Sidebar Tab Row: Air Drop is filtered out of Sidebar Items since it isn't meaningful to have in the Tab Row.
  • Enhancement - Window Items: Window Items now have a close button.
  • Enhancement - Screen Shots: Screen Shots can now take delayed screen shots when a popup menu is popped up.
  • Fix - Sidebar Items: Users iCloud Drives were appearing as "com-apple-CloudDocs". They now appear as "iCloud Drive".
  • Fix - Preferences Pane: The text "* (Command-Tab activation requires that you grant supertab system access)" was clipped. Fixed.
  • Fix - Web Page Items: Under certain circumstances Web Page Item icons were not rendering. Fixed.
  • Fix - Separator Items: Selecting "Use for All Separators" on a Clock Separator wasn't changing that Clock Separator.
  • Fix - Tags: The internal tag "SuperTab-Internal-Keep" was incorrectly appearing in the tag selector. Fixed.
  • Fix - Preferences Pane: The layout of the Keystrokes section broke with Sierra. Fixed.
  • Fix - Recent Documents: The Recent Documents Tab Row didnt always update correctly. Fixed.
  • Fix - Screen Shots: When Hiding Icons for a screen shot, the aspect ratio of the desktop image wasn't always correct. Fixed.
  • Fix - Tab Rows: Some Tab Rows were displaying their contents even when they were to be suppressed due to expired Trial period. Fixed.

New in SuperTab 2.3.1 (Nov 4, 2016)

  • Feature - Screen Shots: You can now select the file format for each of your Screen Shot Items. Choose from among: PNG, JPG, TIFF, PDF, BMP.
  • Enhancement - Snagit Integration: The Snagit Captures Tab Row is now available regardless of where you have chosen to place your Snagit Captures folder.
  • Enhancement - Snagit Integration: SuperTab has expanded support for extracting the initial image from your Snagit Captures so now all known types of captures can have a preview icon in SuperTab.
  • Enhancement - A debug logging mechanism has been added to SuperTab to allow users to capture debug logs in the field for sending to us to help diagnose and resolve bugs.
  • Fix - Sierra Compatibility: Screen Shots were not always working on Sierra due to new Apple restrictions. This limitation has been resolved.

New in SuperTab 2.3 (Sep 22, 2016)

  • Feature - Snagit Integration: SuperTab now gives you instant access to your Snagit Captures; you can open, preview, copy, share, sort and auto-archive your Snagit Captures all from within SuperTab.
  • Feature - Video Previews: SuperTab will now give you a live pop up preview playback of mp4 and mov video files. Audio for video playback can be globally muted in SuperTab settings.
  • Fix - Screen Shot Best Browser: Sometimes SuperTab would not correctly save the browser you specified as the Best Browser for a given Screen Shot item. This is now fixed.

New in SuperTab 2.2 (Sep 22, 2016)

  • Feature - Voice Control: You can now select or open virtually any item in SuperTab simply by activating SuperTab's Voice Control Manager and asking it to Open or Select the item by name. You can also ask it to Open Applications in the Appliations or Utilities Folders, Hide Background Applications, Take a Screen Shot or Copy/Paste any Clipboard Item's Contents.
  • Feature - Folder & Meta-Folder Label Decorations: You can now add a textual label to Folders and Meta-Folders to help visually identify which is which.
  • Enhancement - Darker Tint Colors: the Decoration Tint Colors have been darkened to visually enhance their appearance and differentiability.
  • Enhancement - Minimum Tab Row Width: Tab Rows now have a minimum width that is the equivalent of 5 Tab Row Items; this is purely for aesthetic reasons.
  • Enhancement - Initial Activation Delay: SuperTab now will not activate until after it has displayed and removed its 'SuperTab is Running' message; this is for aesthetic reasons.
  • Fix - Add Application Folder: when SuperTab asks you to identify an Application it now defaults the Open Panel to the shared System Applications folder instead of the User's Application Folder.
  • Fix - Pasting Clipboard History Item: When pasting an item from the Clipboard History, it will no longer incorrectly get re-added to the Clipbaord History.
  • Fix - Clipboard History Configuration Persistence: If you configured a Clipboard History Tab Row, it didn't always save out the new configuration; this is now fixed.

New in SuperTab 2.1 (Jun 29, 2016)

  • Feature - Clutter Free Folders: you can now have SuperTab automatically move selected files and folders from any folder in SuperTab to the Trash or to one of two Saved Items Folder.
  • Feature - Trash Folder Support: you can now add the Trash Folder to your Dock Items, Custom Items, and Folder Contents Tab Rows
  • Feature - Enhanced Folder Contents Access: you can configure how the Configure Menu for each folder offers you access to its contents. You can opt to display recently accessed items, recently moved items and the full contents of the folder.
  • Feature - You can now selectively hide Applications in Active Applications Tab Rows.
  • Feature - Pressing E while SuperTab is active will open or invoke the currently highlighted item and then dismiss SuperTab (vs pressing O which opens or invokes the currently highlighted item but keeps SuperTab active)
  • Enhancement - SuperTab now has updated Application and Preferences Icons
  • Enhancement - "Copy to Clipboard" option added for Text and Image files in Folder Fonfigure Menus
  • Fix - Clipboard Items were not invoking if CapsLock was on. Fixed.
  • Fix - Folder Contents Tab Row Sorting: Packages (such as Applications) were being treated as folders and not as files. Fixed.
  • Fix - Folder Contents Tab Rows were not always dynamically updating their contents. Fixed.
  • Fix - Pasting Clip Items from Clipboard History Tab Rows was prematurely restoring previous clipboard contents causing the previous clipboard contents to be pasted instead. Fixed.
  • Fix - Invoking an Auto Type Item that contained a "None" Elemant was displaying an error. Fixed.
  • Change - The terminology for hiding Apps in Recent Applications Tab Rows changed from "Make Exempt" to "Do not Show".
  • Change - SuperTab Acknowledgements have been removed from SuperTab and are now hosted on the SuperTab web site.
  • Change - The "Add / Remove from Dock" capability has been removed from SuperTab.
  • Change - The "Move to Dropbox" capability has been removed from SuperTab.
  • Change - The ability to use the System QuickLook to Preview items has been removed from SuperTab.
  • Change - Web Site items that open in Safari will prefer to launch the version of Safari that is in the Applications Folder (as opposed to, say, the Safari in Parallels).
  • Change - Opening Applications in SuperTab now first dismisses SuperTab before opening the Applications, giving a more responsive feel to SuperTab.
  • Change - The Downloads Folder Management features introduced in SuperTab 1.2 have been removed as they are replaced by the new Clutter Free Folders feature.

New in SuperTab 2.0.1 (Mar 28, 2016)

  • Maintenance Release:
  • Fix - The generation of icons of mal-formed PDF files was spuriously crashing SuperTab. Fixed.
  • Enhancement - Registration Interface now indicates SuperTab version for clarity.
  • Enhancement - Registration Interface now includes a Help button to take users to a new Registration Help web page.

New in SuperTab 2.0 (Feb 29, 2016)

  • Feature - Drag and Drop Support:
  • You can now drag files from the Finder directly into SuperTab to add them to Tab Rows, to open them in Apps, to move them to Folders and more. You can also drag certain items out of SuperTab to paste their contents into other Apps. You can also drag and drop items within SuperTab as well to move them, copy them, open them in other Apps and more. It's a veritable Drag-and-Drop Feature Fest!
  • Feature - Clipboard History Tab Row:
  • SuperTab now lets you automatically capture your recent clipboard history for easy re-access. You can configure the number of items in the rolling history - 10, 25 or 50 - and the type: images, text or both. Configure the history so that just a single click will copy a given clipping to the System clipboard or Paste it directly into the frontmost App. Or just Drag and Drop it wherever you need it. It's SuperTab Easy!
  • Feature - Clipboard Items:
  • SuperTab now also lets you create clipboard items so you can keep any text or image in SuperTab long after it may roll out of your clipboad history. Use clipboard items to keep oft-used snippets of text, or frequently pasted images. Just paste text or an image directly into a clipboard item or simply drag a clipping from your clipboard history to capture it permanently. Note that Clipboard Items replace Cubbyholes in SuperTab -- Cubbyholes are still supported but are now deprecated.
  • Feature - Capture Screen Configurations:
  • SuperTab has the new ability to capture any Screen Configuration of your Mac (number, size and relative location of your Screens) into new compact, simple Screen Configuration Item. Just configure your screens as you want, then capture them in a Screen Configuration item. Then later, when you want to reconfigure your screens to that configuration, just click on the item and SuperTab will instantly re-establish that configuration for you! You can capture any number of configurations to perfectly suit your set up!
  • Feature - Spotlight Searches:
  • You can now also add Saved Spotlight Searches to Custom Items Tab Rows. This allows you to instantly access the results of the saved searches directly in SuperTab (or in the Finder).
  • Feature - Extended Meta-Folders:
  • Meta-Folders have been extended to now allow you to add Screen Shot Items, Web Sites and Auto Type items to them directly. This allows you to move Screen Shot, Web Site and Auto Type items out of your Tab Rows and into Meta-Folder and isntantly free up space in your Tab Rows for more important items.
  • Feature - Additional SuperTab Configuration:
  • Because everyone loves things their own way, we've added even more customization options to SuperTab: you can now specify a backdrop for SuperTab, with control over its color, opacty and blur amount. As well, you can now specify a maximum width for SuperTab's interface, making it more pleasing to the eye on large monitors.
  • Feature - New Tab Row Configuration:
  • We've added the ability to customize various Tab Rows in SuperTab. Just click on the "Gear" icon in the name of the Tab Row to access its features and settings.
  • Enhancement - Screen Shots: Taking Screen Shots has never been easier or more powerful in SuperTab than with the new 2.0 features:
  • You can now have your Desktop Icons hide during screen shots.
  • You can now take multiple, back-to-back Screen Shots by holding down the Command Key.
  • You can now specify Applications other than Preview to have your Screen Shots in after you take them.
  • You can now instantly create a new Tab Row of your Saved Screen Shots for easy access.
  • You can now take Delayed Selection Screen Shots.
  • You can now take Delayed Selected Window Screen Shots.
  • You can now right click on a Screen Shot item to instantly view your Saved Screen Shots. Then you can easily act on them via a submenu to view them in preview, show them in the Finder, share them via email, copy them to the clipboard, delete them and more.
  • Enhancement - The Active Applications tab Row now has Hide all Background apps option to keep only the current App visible for a super clean working environment.
  • Enhancement - The All Windows and Front Application Windows Tab Rows have been combined into a single Tab Row with custom configurability:
  • You can choose to display all windows or only those of the front App.
  • You can now you exclude minimized windows or include them by dixplaying placeholder windows for them.
  • You can now press the W key to close a window in the Windows Tab Row.
  • When possible, windows now appear with their actual appearance (instead of as a generic window icon).
  • Each window is now badged with the icon of the App that owns it for easier identification.
  • Enhancement - Folder Contents Tab Rows now allow you to sort the order of the contents by Name, Size, Creation Date or Modification Date. You can also list files first, folders first, or as naturally mixed.
  • Enhancement - Custom Items Tab Rows now have nice icons in its menu list of items to add to it.
  • Enhancement - Custom Items Tab Rows now offer the option of a quick selection of common system folders when adding a folder to the Tab Row.
  • Enhancement - Your Home folder, Utilities folder and Library folder have been added as options for Folder Contents Tab Rows.
  • Enhancement - System Preferences now has a submenu in its configuration menu that list all preference panes for fast, direct access.
  • Enhancement - Any menu that has a lot of items will show a truncated list but will also have a "-- More -- " menu item. Clicking this item will display the remainging items. Additionally, simply scrolling the mouse wheel will also expand the menu and scroll through its contents.
  • Enhancement - To help users be confident that SuperTab is running, SuperTab now displays a "SuperTab is Running..." message upon launch.
  • Enhancement - PDF files now show preview images of their contents within SuperTab.
  • Enhancement - Dock Files and Dock Application Tab Rows have been combined into a single Tab Row that is configurable to display Dock Files, Dock Applications or both.
  • Enhancement - SuperTab now sports a new highlight color for decoration menus, resulting in a better contrast, more El Capitan-like appearance.
  • Enhancement - You can now invoke the highlighted item in SuperTab using the Enter key as well as the Return key.
  • Fix - If a screenshot item is marked to save to a Cubbyhole but the Cubbyhole no longer exists, mark screen shot as not saving to that Cubbyhole.
  • Fix - The pop up preview image for given item when displayed below the item was obscuring the item's name. now lowered to ensure the item's name is visible.
  • Fix - The Preference Pane Range Max and Min item icon size slider was broken on Yosemite. fixed.
  • Fix - Clicking outside of an item chooser interface (ie "Let me choose" screen shot) to dismiss is was leaving ST in an unusable state
  • Fix - Fixed crash in application manager that was CFReleaseing a nil (CFRelease(processInformation);)
  • Fix - KVO Deallocation crash fixed related to imaging a hot key view for custom items configure menus.
  • Fix - SuperTab now delays invocation of a clipboard item until after all modifier keys are no longer pressed (since some actions won't take place with modifiers pressed).

New in SuperTab 1.3 (Nov 17, 2015)

  • Enhancement - Added Compatibility with Mac OS X 10.10 "El Capitan"
  • Fixed: Recent Applications Tab Row displaying empty contents
  • Fixed: Recent Documents Tab Row displaying empty contents
  • Fixed: Non-Responsiveness of SuperTab on some user's Macs

New in SuperTab 1.2 (Nov 17, 2014)

  • Feature - Browser Downloads Management: You can immediate manage your downloads from within SuperTab. You can:
  • See your active downloads (and the download progress of the downloads if they originated in Safari)
  • Move downloaded Items to a new "Saved Downloads" folder on your Desktop.
  • Move downloaded Applications directly to the Applications folder.
  • Move downloaded files directly to your Dropbox (if you have Dropbox installed).
  • Move downloaded files directly to the trash -- move all, or only items "older than" an age that you choose.
  • Share downloaded files via email.
  • Feature - Tab Row Item Decoration: You can now "Decorate" most items in your Tab Rows. You can decorate them by "badging" them with one of several pre-provided image or by "tinting" them with one of five colors. This allows you to customize the appearance of similar looking items to make it much easier to distinguish between them.
  • Feature - Descriptive Pop Up Views for Screen Shots: When a Screen Shot item is highlighted in SuperTab, a new view pops up which describes the configuration of the Screen Shot. This allows you to more readily identify which Screen Shot item to use for the type of screen shot you want to take.
  • Feature - Web Site Tab vs Window: Web Site items can now be configured to specify if the open in a new tab or in a new window.
  • Feature - "None" Separator: A new "None" separator has been added. Selecting this Separator results in a blank space as a Separator instead of an Separator image.
  • Feature - SuperTab De-registration: SuperTab now lets users de-register SuperTab so that they can re-register it with a different email / registration code pair.
  • Feature - Quit All Applications: Users can now Right-Click (or Control-Left-Click) on the empty space of an Active Applications Tab Row and opt to quit all running applications.
  • Feature - Hide Other Applications: Users can now Right-Click (or Control-Left-Click) on the empty space of an Active Applications Tab Row and opt to hide all running applications other than the currently active application.
  • Enhancement - Yosemite Images: Various images and UI elements have been updated to better match the Yosemite look and feel.
  • Enhancement - New Separator Images: The images that you can choose for your Tab Row Separators have been updated with better, sleeker looking images.
  • Enhancement - Pressing Command to Dismiss SuperTab: If SuperTab is activated by double pressing Command and then the User Interface is persisted, the Interface can now be dismissed by again pressing Command.
  • Enhancement - Finder Activation: When selecting the Finder from within SuperTab, the Finder will no longer open a new window (when it has no other open windows).
  • Enhancement - Tab Row Item Highlight: The highlight ring of Tab Row items adjusts its width and corner radius as it gets smaller; this produces improved appearance for small items.
  • Enhancement - Tab Row Item Hot Keys: The menu item for an Item that has a hot key is now named "Hot Key" instead of "Set Hot Key..."; the item is still named "set Hot Key..." if the item has no hot key.
  • Enhancement - Meta-Folder Add Items: The menu item to add items to a Meta-Folder has been renamed from "Add Item" to "Add Items" to indicate that the user can select multiple items to add at the same time.
  • Enhancement - Upgrade Dialog: The layout of the dialog's text has been improved for better appearance.
  • Enhancement - SuperTab Web Site Items: Web Site Items (such as those that come with the initial SuperTab configuration) now use built-in images for their icons instead of generating the icon images from the SuperTab website (Doing so was skewing the website analytics).
  • Enhancement - Missing Meta-Folder Item: Selecting a Meta-Folder item that is missing used to result in nothing; now an alert is displayed.
  • Enhancement - Default Tab Rows: If selecting "Make Command-Tab..." or "Make Option-Tab..." activate a given Tab Row when it is already selected will now de-select that Tab Row as the default and revert the default for that key sequence to the Active Apps Tab Row.
  • Enhancement - Tab Row Messages: The color of Tab Row messages has changed from Teal to Orange for better contrast and readability.
  • Addition - SuperTab QuickStart Guide: A new menu item has been added to the Tab Row configure menu to provide immediate access to the SuperTab QuickStart Guide.
  • Addition - Dock Items: The Finder now appears in Dock Items and Dock Applications Tab Rows.
  • Removal - Preview Menu Item: The Preview menu item (used to preview an item in QuickLook) has been removed from the configure menus of Applications and Folders. It was pretty much useless.
  • Removal - Create Desktop Alias Item: The Create Desktop Alias has been removed from the configure menus of Applications and Folders. No one was using it.
  • Fix - Tab Row Color: The color the user selected for Tab Rows in the SuperTab Settings sometimes didn't get correctly handled; as such, when the user returned to the Settings they would indicate that "SuperTab" blue was the selected color when it wasn't. Fixed.
  • Fix - Volume Items: Volume items were not behaving as folders, which they essentially are. Fixed.
  • Fix - Folder Contents Tab Row: Under certain circumstances items in the Folder Contents Tab Row could appear too small. Fixed.
  • Fix - System Shut Down: SuperTab was interfering with the clean shut down of the System if the user had too many applications configured to be always running. Fixed.
  • Fix - Pop Up Menus: Sometimes the configure pop up menus of items were too low on screen and that cause inconvenient scrolling to occur in the menu. Fixed.
  • Fix - Pop Up Views: Sometimes the pop up preview of an Item's contents was scaled down to fit on screen, but the background view it was displayed in was not similarly scaled. Fixed.
  • Fix - Item Icon Update: Tab Row Item's that were previosuly not able to be found (they were moved or deleted) would continue to display the missing "?" icon even after they were re-located. Fixed.
  • Fix - Folder Contents Tab Row: When moving an item to the trash from within a Folder Contents Tab Row, the item sometimes would incorrectly show with the missing item "?" icon. Fixed.
  • Fix - Custom Items Move to Trash: The "Move to Trash" submenu item for Items in a Custom Items Tab Row never worked. Fixed.
  • Fix - Cubbyhole Crash: If unknown clipboard content type was added to a cubbyhole, showing the cubbyhole's preview pop up could crash. Fixed.
  • Fix - Recent Applications Tab Row: Missing applications were incorrectly showing up with a "?" icon; now they are simply not shown.

New in SuperTab 1.1 (May 22, 2014)

  • Feature - Dropbox Contents: Added a new Tab Row Type that displays the user's Dropbox Contents; added a "Move to Dropbox" menu item to the configure menu for files and folders. Only available if Dropbox is installed.
  • Feature - MetaFolder Items: Added a new MetaFolder Item to Custom Tab Row Add Item button. A MetaFolder Item can be thought of as a virtual "container" of any user-added files, folders & apps. Clicking the MetaFolder pops up a menu of the added files for quick access.
  • Feature - File Configuration Menu: added the ability to share a file via email.
  • Feature - Custom Tab Rows: Added ability to add individual System Preference Panes to Custom Tab Rows
  • Feature - Separator Items: Added a new Sepator Item to Custom Tab Row Add Item button. These are used to visually separate items in a Custom Tab Row.
  • Feature - PDF Document Items: PDF items now display an image of their first page as their icons.
  • Feature - PDF Document Items: PDF items now support pop up previews of their contents.
  • Feature - Text Document Items: Text Document items now support pop up previews of their contents.
  • Feature - Web Sites: The user can now specify if they want an associated Auto Type to be automatically invoked or manually invoked after invoking a Web Site item. (Sometimes Auto Types automatically invoke before the Web Site has loaded, limiting their effectiveness.)
  • Enhancement - Tagged Items Tab Row: added a new "Info..." menu item to help message the issue of Finder Tag discovery; added ability of SuperTab to remember discovered tags to ameleorate issue of Finder Tag discovery; added ability of user to instruct SuperTab to forget remembered Finder Tags.
  • Enhancement - Web Site Item Icon: enhanced the abilty of SuperTab to successfully render preview icons of Web Site Items.
  • Enhancement - Web Site Item Auto Type Delay: Added the ability to hold down any modifer key while invoking a WebSite Item to delay the execution of an associated Auto Type until the modifer key is lifted.
  • Enhancement - Introduction: There is a new introduction dialog that appears on the initial activation of SuperTab to show the basic of basics to users and offer them to view the QuickStart Guide
  • Enhancement - Upgrade: There is a new upgrade dialog that appears on the upgrade of SuperTab that informs Mavericks users that the should re-grant SuperTab System Access to prevent upgrade side effects.
  • Enhancement - About Box: The sub-about box for MASShortcut has been widened to enhance appearance.
  • Enhancement - Recent Apps: Users can now right-click (or control-click) on the background of a Recent Apps Tab Row and reset the Tab Row's app exemption list.
  • Enhancement - Auto Type Items: When configuring an Auto Type the first "significant" action (i.e. with configurable data) is now automatically selected.
  • Enhancement - Tab Rows: Tab Rows now adjust their size and location to accomodate the System Dock when it is arranged to be on the "Left" or "Right".
  • Enhancement - Settings: The Desktop image used for setting Hot corners is now an image of the Mavericks Desktop.
  • Enhancement - Web Site: There is a new menu item in the Web Site configure menu to allow the user to directly configure any associated Auto Type.
  • Enhancement - Folder Contents: When drilling down into folder contents, sub menus for files now support Show in Finder, Share via Email and Move to Dropbox.
  • Enhancement - SuperTab Core: SuperTab's idle cpu usage has been reduced with various improved internal efficiencies.
  • Enhancement - Active Apps: When pressing Q to quit an app in the Active Apps tab row, the next app is auto selected (instead of resulting in no app selected at all).
  • Change - Tab Rows: The left and right "more" images that indicate there are more icons the user can scroll to have changed from red dots to actual arrows.
  • Change - Auto Type Items: The create new action + button in the Auto Type configure dialog has been moved to better indicate that pressing it will create a new tab action at the top of the list.
  • Change - Custom Tab Row: The "Custom" Tab Row has been renamed to "Custom Items". Existing Custom Tab Rows are unaffected.
  • Change - Finder App: SuperTab will now NOT let you Quit the Finder. (Force Quit is still available)
  • Change - AppleScript Items: Selecting (aka invoking) an AppleScript document now executes it and users can open it in Applescript Editor via the configuration menu. It used to be the other way around.
  • Change - Tab Row Scrolling: if you cause the items in a tab row to scroll, now only that tab row scrolls (All tab rows used to scroll together).
  • Change - Missing Recent Documents: SuperTab was displaying a "?" for Recent Documents that could not be found. Now, SuperTab simply does not show missing items in a Recent Documents Tab Row.
  • Change - Settings: the Overview section of the SuperTab settings has been removed as the information it contained is more readily available and more thorough on the SuperTab website.
  • Fix - Tab Rows: The left hand "more" image indicator was not appearing whenever there was just one icon that was out of view. Fixed.
  • Fix - Tab Rows: Creating a new Tab Row out of the System Preferences folder resulted in a significant degradation of responsiveness of SuperTab. Fixed.
  • Fix - Tab Rows: If the user invoked an item's configure menu via control-clicking on it, and then clicked on an item in the same Tab Row to dismiss the menu, the item they happened to click on would be invoked. Fixed.
  • Fix - Item Previews: Pop Up Previews of items with contents too large to fit on screen were simply extending offscreen. The Pop Up views are now properly cropped.
  • Fix - Item Previews: If there wasn't enough room for an item's preview to display above its Tab Row, it would always display below the Tab Row, even if there was LESS space below than above. Fixed.
  • Fix - Recent Documents: Recent Documents would incorrectly regenerate icon images (for PDFs and Image files) each time SuperTab was activated. Fixed.
  • Fix - Screen Shots: Screen shots whose name had quotes (") in them didn't work. Fixed.
  • Fix - Default Configuration: The Tab Row and Tab Row Item Configuration for new users has been entirely changed becuase not all items worked properly on all user systems.
  • Fix - Cubbyhole Previews: A potential crash when displaying a Cubbyhole pop up preview has been fixed.
  • Fix - Re-mounting Volumes: SuperTab was inadvertantly causing volumes to get remounted during various activities. Fixed.
  • Fix - Initial Tagged Item: If a Tagged Items Tab Row was the default for Command- or Option-Tab, the Tab Row's Button Item was incorrectly initially selected and not the first actual item. Fixed.
  • Fix - UI Terminology: Changed inconsistent usage of legacy name Tab Bar vs Tab Row in UI Messages to now all correctly be Tab Row. Fixed.
  • Fix - Hot Key Dialog: Long Item names were incorrectly truncated. Also changed button name to "Click to Start" to be more self evident what to do. Fixed.
  • Fix - Best Browser menu in Web Site: the user-selected best browser was sometimes erroneously changed and the web site would open in the wrong browser. Fixed.
  • Fix - Confirmation Dialogs: the confirmation dialogs (e.g. "Are you sure you want to...") were not showing up under certain conditions on Macs with multiple screens. Fixed.
  • Fix - Tagged Items Tab Row Messaging: some messages were at times incomplete. Fixed; messages were not always changing when they should to reflect the current state of the Tab Row. Fixed.
  • Fix - Registration Dialog: some users encountered registration problems due to copy & pasted email addresses and/or registration codes which had preceding or trailing spaces. SuperTab now automatically strips such spaces. Fixed.
  • Fix - Cubbyholes: pasting a cubbyhole's contents added one too many return characters at the end. Fixed.
  • Feature - Settings: A new Options section has been added to the SuperTab Settings, where you can:
  • Select the background color of Tab Rows from a predefined set of colors.
  • Specify the opacity of Tab Rows, from 25% transparency up to 100% Opaque.
  • Specify the minimum and maximum size of Tab Row Items within Tab Rows.
  • Choose the conditions where SuperTab's Interface will persist (without having to hold Command or Option).