What's new in GrowlVoice 2.0.3 Build 30
Oct 28, 2013
- Added a short welcome process to easily add an account on first launch
- Small visual interface updates
- Various Snow Leopard bugfixes
- Small visual updates to the GrowlVoice icon
- Pressing a global shortcut with the corresponding GrowlVoice window already open now properly dismisses it
- Fixed a bug caused by automatic text replacement that could cause strange characters to show up in received messages
- Fixed a bug that could cause the GrowlVoice preferences window to open when clicking a Growl notification
- Fixed a bug that caused a jarring "pop-in" of the GrowlVoice preferences window
- Fixed a bug that could cause the cursor to start in the compose text message field instead of the number field
- Various small crash fixes
- Text messages can be populated via the GrowlVoice URL scheme with the new message argument (growlvoice:123456790?text&message=message)
New in GrowlVoice 2.0.1 (Apr 19, 2012)
- Fixed multiple bugs that could cause a crash on the removal of an account
- Updated the error handling and display of the accounts preference pane
- The inbox will now correctly deselect messages once they've been archived, deleted, or marked as spam
- New bug and crash reporting framework
- Feedback is now submitted via email
- General updates and stability improvements
New in GrowlVoice 2.0 (Mar 9, 2012)
- Full interface overhaul (light & dark themes)
- Added support for starred, voicemail, text, history inboxes
- Full redesign of the text conversation interface
- Clickable links in conversations
- Support for multiple Google Voice accounts
- Full message search
- Full support for Google Voice inbox shortcuts
- New GrowlVoice icon by TJ Kohl
- Complete rewrite of back-end Google Voice synchronization architecture
- Multithreaded to improve performance
- "Infinite" scrolling in inboxes
- Improved and added to message marking abilities (star, mark as spam, etc.)
- Ability to hide unread count in menu bar icon
- Ability to hide contact images in inboxes
- Account labels
- New feedback and crash reporting system
- Many bugfixes
- Added support for opening URLs with the schemes: "tel:" (e.g. tel:1234567890), "sms:" (e.g. sms:1234567890), and "growlvoice:" (e.g. growlvoice:1234567890?text, growlvoice:1234567890?call)
New in GrowlVoice 1.7.2 (Oct 18, 2011)
- Compatibility with Growl 1.3
- Fixed a bug that could cause the inbox count in the menubar to display an incorrect count
- Updated the GrowlVoice app icon
- Visual tweaks
New in GrowlVoice 1.7.1 (Sep 17, 2011)
- Fixed a bug that could cause GrowlVoice to think that a working Google Voice account isn't properly set up
- Fixed a bug that could prevent a GrowlVoice from sending a text in Snow Leopard
- Reorganized the GrowlVoice "welcome" window
New in GrowlVoice 1.7 (Sep 14, 2011)
- Added an "anchor" button that toggles whether the GrowlVoice window is dismissed by losing focus, replacing the "x" button
- The "Address Book" contact preference now applies to all contact info on all messages, not just for searching contacts
- Added a customizable shortcut to open the GrowlVoice inbox
- Added a preference to enable archive/delete/mark keyboard shortcuts for the inbox
- Added the ability to navigate the inbox with the arrow keys, j/k, and enter/return
- Added a menu similar to the "gear" menu in the inbox accessible by right-clicking on the GrowlVoice menubar icon to provide quick access to options without opening the inbox
- Small interface/artwork changes
- New placeholder contact image
- Changed the count displayed in the GrowlVoice icon in the menubar display the count of unread messages in the inbox rather than the total number of unread messages
- All text fields now scroll smoothly
- Added selective coloring of voicemail transcriptions
- Fixed a bug that could cause turning off spelling correction system-wide in Lion to not take effect in GrowlVoice
- Fixed a bug that could cause the message action drawer to get "stuck" on the screen when a message window was closed
- Fixed a bug that could cause contact images to not display correctly
- Fixed a bug that could cause a voicemail transcription to appear twice
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when a message was sent while an text autocorrect prompt was displaying
- Fixed a bug that could cause the text reply window to hang momentarily when opened
New in GrowlVoice 1.6.1 (Aug 2, 2011)
- Fixed a bug that forced text autocorrection on Snow Leopard
- Rewrote the Google Voice login process, GrowlVoice now only requires an application-specific password with two-factor authentication enabled
- Improved error logging
New in GrowlVoice 1.6 (Jul 26, 2011)
- Replaced inbox menu with inbox window for easier management of messages
- Fixed a bug that could prevent login to Google Voice
- Slight changes to the look and feel of dropdown windows
- Minor updates for OSX Lion
New in GrowlVoice 1.5.2 (Jun 29, 2011)
- Minor OS X compatibility updates
- Fixed bug that could prevent users with 2-step verification from logging in to Google Voice
- Small interface tweaks
New in GrowlVoice 1.5.1 (Jun 1, 2011)
- Fixed a bug that could cause the contact search menu to "stick" to the screen after a contact was selected with the mouse
- Fixed a bug that could cause html-encoded characters to appear in phone names
- Fixed a bug that could cause Address Book phone number labels to be incorrectly displayed
- Updated with 32-bit support, which was unintentionally removed in the previous version
New in GrowlVoice 1.5 (May 14, 2011)
- Added support for contact images
- Added the ability to suppress all notifications from menu
- Added a "drawer" to the dropdowns that allows for quickly calling, texting, archiving, deleting, or marking unread
- Added the ability to send a text message and keep the dropdown window open using option-return
- Added "delete" menu items to the inbox menu message menus
- Added open/close animations to dropdown windows
- Added the titles of the missed notifications to the description of the "Multiple New Messages" basic notification
- Updated look of dropdown windows
- Removed the behavior that caused clicking test notifications to open empty dropdowns
- Fixed an error that causes contact name prefixes and suffixes to be omitted from search results
- Changed name of "Contacts" in general preference to "Search" to indicate
- Fixed an bug that caused the text conversation to scroll "over" its borders instead of under them
- Fixed a bug that could cause a specific voicemail message in the inbox to prevent display on the inbox menu.
- Fixed a bug that could cause an extra line to be inserted after a message in a text conversation
- Fixed bug that could cause inbox menu items' text to display white when not highlighted
New in GrowlVoice 1.4.1 (Apr 20, 2011)
- Added tokens to the contact search/selection field
- "Reply to Last Message" shortcut now functions as "View First Inbox Message" shortcut
- Added an option to cycle through your inbox menu messages via repeated pressing of the "View First Inbox Message" shortcut
- Added timestamps to the inbox submenu
- Added support for Google Voice's recorded calls feature
- Added an "Action" submenu to the "Inbox" submenu to perform actions (mark as read/archive) on all displayed messages
- Added a "fade-in" when opening dropdown windows
- Fixed a bug that caused a message from an "unknown" sender to prevent display of "inbox" menu
- Fixed a bug that caused a recorded call to prevent display of "inbox" menu
- Fixed a bug that caused text messages to be updated when they didn't need to be
- Fixed a bug that could cause the menubar icon to disappear
New in GrowlVoice 1.4 (Apr 5, 2011)
- Added new "Inbox" submenu in the GrowlVoice menu that allows you to view and perform actions on the messages in your inbox
- Added the ability to customize the look and feel of the text message reply dropdown
- Added the ability to search the Address Book in addition to Google Contacts for your contacts
- Updated the menu bar icon to be more noticeable when there's unread messages
- Small changes to the dropdown interface
- Added an option to withhold notification of a new voicemail until Google Voice finishes transcribing it
- Pressing return in the number field in the "place call" dropdown now initiates a call
- Added the ability to toggle missed/text/voicemail notifications on/off
- Added the ability to search contacts for "nameless" companies
- Fixed bug that caused GrowlVoice to require the discrete graphics card on MacBook Pros
- Fixed bug that caused an error sound when escape was hit to close texting dropdown windows
New in GrowlVoice 1.3.1 (Mar 2, 2011)
- User can now assign keyboard shortcuts to composing a text, placing a call, and replying to the most recent notification
- Now compatible with Google's two-way authentication system
- New preference menu to select a "preferred phone" for making calls
- Small update to icon
- Changed the behavior of the basic notifications so that they won't interrupt an already-open dropdown window
- Reworked the login mechanism to better handle errors and no longer report failed logins as successful
- Fixed bug that causes only the first thousand contacts to be downloaded for people more than a thousand contacts
- Pressing escape in any of the text boxes in a dropdown now closes the dropdown window
- Fixed a bug that caused an inability to paste into an empty contact search bar
- Added a button that appears in the dropdown windows if a basic notification fires when that window is open, allows you to click to reply to the notification
- GrowlVoice now stores cookies between launches
- Now uses past previously fetched contacts to populate the contact search field while updating contacts
- Added a "start at login" checkbox to first-launch welcome configuration window
- Small dropdown UI changes
- Fixed some small memory management issues
New in GrowlVoice 1.2 (Feb 12, 2011)
- New interface for composing text messages
- New interface for placing calls
- Overhaul of the dropdown window interface
- Text reply now updates thread on display
- Fixed crash caused by attempting to log in multiple times
- Various small bug fixes