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multiXFinder Changelog

What's new in multiXFinder 0.4.1

Feb 6, 2012
  • Initial support to Lion. It needs testing.
  • It is possible that the Spotlight menu to be corrupted if you run a system update for Tiger or Leopard Slow while it is disabled. Now you can repair it automatically turning it off again.

New in multiXFinder 0.4.0 (Sep 4, 2009)

  • MultiXFinder is Snow Leopard ready, mostly 64 bit compatible.
  • Lots of code changes, modernizations and refinements.
  • Fixed a small bug in Spotlight detection on Leopard.
  • Updated MenuCracker to version 2.0b1.

New in multiXFinder 0.3.3 (May 4, 2009)

  • Minor fixes.
  • Removed some old code.
  • Removed shadows.
  • Partial interface redesign.
  • Full Italian localization.
  • Full French localization by Yann Ricquebourg.
  • Partial localizations for Japanese, German and Duch.
  • Updated icons and images.

New in multiXFinder 0.3.2 (Mar 15, 2009)

  • Now you can view your hidden processes holding Control and Shift while clicking on the menu.
  • Minor menu optimizations.

New in multiXFinder 0.3.1 (Mar 6, 2009)

  • Added "Resume All" menu item.
  • Removed some debug code from the menu.
  • Now the authorization window is automatically brought to front and correctly assigned to System Preferences.
  • Optimized a bit the preference pane.

New in multiXFinder 0.3.0 (Mar 2, 2009)

  • Now the Rules work on Intel Macs too;
  • Minor menu optimizations.

New in multiXFinder 0.2.2 (Feb 27, 2009)

  • Stop/Resume Application Advanced Features rewritten to be fast and more reliable.
  • Now the updater should automatically appear in foreground (Jack Overfull vs MXFupdater, take #3: who will win the struggle?).

New in multiXFinder 0.2.1 (Feb 25, 2009)

  • Removed several glitches related to the spotlight activation/deactivation.
  • Small inteface changes.
  • Small updater improvements.
  • Now the installer automatically turns on the "Enable access for assistive devices" option, needed for "Full Screen" and "Resize Window" to work properly.

New in multiXFinder 0.2.0 (Feb 23, 2009)

  • Added some shortcuts (click the menu, then do the keystroke).
  • Moved "Full Screen" and "Resize Window" to a new "Advanced" part of the menu. Advanced it's on optionally or by control-clicking or option-clicking the menu.
  • Added Stop and Resume advanced menu items: they will sigstop and sigcont the front application.
  • Added a "Reload Menus" advanced menu item (Got bored of giving "killall SystemUIServer" from the Terminal...).
  • Added optional shortcuts for the first nine applications of the menu.
  • More straight forward "Special Features" tab, now known as "Rules".
  • Full interface refit to make it more consistent.
  • Now the apps are always sorted by name.
  • Now the Dock is automatically hidden when the "Full Screen" menu item is selected (if the general rule "Dock Hiding" is on "Show Dock" it also comes back automatically when you switch app).
  • Now when an app refuses to resize it's front window to full screen a normal resize event is sent. This works only with apps that explicitly refuses to do so, some apps (eg: Firefox) simply ignores it.
  • Now the "Full Screen" menu item works on Tiger too.
  • Tracked down a fixed a bug introduced in version 0.1.1 that caused the "Do not list in application menu" feature to not work. It still will not work on Leopard, tough, since it uses deprecated calls that needs to be rewritten.
  • Tuned, formalized, expanded and documented Public framework (Interested devs: see Public.documentation, in the sources, for full documentation).
  • Rewritten some code that will be deprecated when we will port it to 64 bit.
  • Code cleaning.
  • Removed the separator (never worked well) and the controller (used in multiXFinder only to turn Separator on).
  • Now the updater is automatically brought to front when launched and reloads the Preferences Pane at the end of the update if needed.

New in multiXFinder 0.1.2 (Feb 19, 2009)

  • added "Full Screen"/"Resize Window" menu item!
  • The MXFUpdateChecker login item now works on Tiger too;
  • now on Leopard when the spotlight menu is disabled the other menus are immediately moved accordingly;
  • multiXFinder will no longer loads the Spotlight two times, as it could happen in some situations;
  • preliminary (32 bit only) Snow Leopard support;
  • removed useless "Hide All" menu item;
  • added Italian localization to the menu;
  • added some tooltips;
  • Fixed a bug that caused the MXFUpdateChecker to display the "Updates available" window if the server was unreachable;
  • Introducing the multiXFinder Public Framework (documentation and formalization will follow);
  • The menu is now automatically reloaded after an update;
  • Improved build and buildrelease procedures;
  • The menu is now automatically reloaded instead than disabled after an update done with the installer of after an upgrade from ASM 2.0.2 (and some old commercial versions);
  • Esthetic improvements for MXFUpdateChecker (the optional "check for updates" login item).
  • Faster installation procedure.

New in multiXFinder 0.1.1 (Feb 17, 2009)

  • Fixed a bug that on Leopard caused the Spotlight menu to not be immediately launched if an user with it enabled disabled the "Always show Spotlight menu".
  • Now the "Show All" menu item works on Leopard too.
  • Added optional check for updates at login.
  • Now Installer automatically removes its cache file (was removed at reboot in 0.1.0).
  • Minor cosmetic fixes.
  • Some code cleaning.

New in multiXFinder 0.1.0 (Feb 17, 2009)

  • First public release.