DragThing Help | History | 5.0
5.0
Full support for Mac OS X "Panther" with many Panther-only features
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Added a "Window Dock" which can display a list of all open windows, just the currently minimised windows, or the windows of the frontmost application.
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Added an "Open With" popup menu to the Item Options windows, so you can choose which application opens a particular document or URL dock item.
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Added an "Open With" contextual menu item for both documents and URLs.
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Added three new "Metal" dock styles.
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New Panther style labels and selection highlighting.
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New Panther style animation when opening items.
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New Panther style Preferences and Dock Options windows.
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Now using faster Panther APIs for managing icons and drawing text.
New and improved contextual menus
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Added an option to display previews of images in folder and item contextual menus.
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Added an "Open Recent" contextual menu item for applications which tracks documents dropped onto them.
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Added "Add/Remove Row" and "Add/Remove Column" contextual menu items for docks to create and remove spaces without shuffling items around.
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Added a "Label" submenu to folder contextual menus.
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Added an option to show windows in application contextual menus.
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Holding down Command while selecting a file or folder from any contextual menu in DragThing will show that item in the Finder. Holding down Option will show the "Get Info" window.
Cool new dock looks
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New anti-aliased DragThing style tabs.
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Added a new "Compact" tab style.
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Added an option to display large icons in tabs.
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DragThing tabs now truncate automatically if there isn't room.
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More control over the background and translucency.
Dock arranging made easy
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Added an option to keep layers arranged automatically.
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Added an option to reverse the sorting order when arranging layers.
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You can now arrange layers by the most frequently used items.
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Layers arrange by row or column depending on dock orientation.
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Arranging layers by label now sorts into the correct label order.
Hotter hot spots
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Multiple hot spots and actions including bringing DragThing to the front, hiding, showing, and minimising docks.
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You can now use a hot spot to bring DragThing to the front during a drag.
Super sound support
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Added optional sounds effects for actions like inserting and ejecting disks, emptying the Trash, and many more.
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Long shutdown sounds are no longer cut off when quitting DragThing.
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Sounds in "/Library/Sounds/" are now listed correctly.
Desktop Trash the way you want it
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You can now set a custom name for the Desktop Trash and manually position the label.
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Added an option to hide the Desktop Trash name.
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Added a "New Trash" menu item so you can create multiple Trashes in any dock.
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Added "Defaults" button to reset Desktop Trash settings.
Many other great improvements
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Added an option to show the Desktop in the Disk Dock.
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Added an option to show a Network item in the Disk Dock.
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Added an option to suppress drawing labels.
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Added an option to use traditional yellow tool tips.
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Added an option to draw icons in black and white.
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Added an option to switch on hiding of the Apple dock at startup.
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DragThing is now a single icon which can be drag installed.
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Much smarter dock resizing which lets you "push around" items from any edge.
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Improved control over dock anchoring.
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Now display a size indicator while resizing docks.
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Drawers open automatically while editing options.
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Folder contextual menus automatically show the contents of very large folders in a submenu.
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Name bars truncate in the middle again.
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Set a minimum delay for showing contextual menus on click and hold.
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You can now drag URL clipping files to folders in docks.
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Process and Disk Dock items now display labels correctly.
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Reversed scroll wheel direction for horizontal docks.
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Stopped drawers from accidentally opening while a menu is being displayed.
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Icon compression is now automatically switched on when opening big preferences files.
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Fixed crash when dragging a drawer to the middle of the screen.
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Fixed redraw problem when showing contextual menu for tabs.
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Fixed problem with the path contextual menu on certain file servers.
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Fixed problem with "Undo" and "Redo" for text fields.
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Fixed problem detecting preferences files that were already in use.
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Fixed various cosmetic problems on Panther.
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Removed all legacy Mac OS 9 code.
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Mac OS X 10.2 or later only.
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$12 upgrade from previous versions of DragThing.
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Trial period is now two weeks.
5.0.1
- Fixed a problem which caused drawers to disappear when dragged to the top of the right hand side of the screen.
- DragThing can now display previews for video and sound files.
- The Window Dock now highlights the frontmost window of the frontmost application.
- Added an option to choose if layers are sorted by column or by row.
- Added an option to sort layers by kind.
- Added an option to show the kind of a dock item in the Name Bar.
- Holding down option and dragging an item onto a docked folder makes a copy again.
- Holding down command and option and dragging an item onto a docked folder makes an alias.
- DragThing now shows appropriate "Copy" and "Make Alias" cursors when dragging to docks.
- Improved quality of Finder aliases created by DragThing.
- Clicking on a icon's selection area is now treated as a click on the icon itself.
- Added "Special Characters..." item to the Edit menu on Panther.
- DragThing now notices when the system "Appearance" changes and redraws its docks.
- Moved DragThing's Desktop Trash above Path Finder's desktop window.
- "Del" key now deletes selected dock items.
- Dock size indicator now only appears after the size has been changed.
- Folder contextual menus only display contents in a submenu if you ask them to.
- Hot spots for the sides of the screen no longer include the corners.
- Added a "Save a copy as..." button to the preferences upgrade dialog.
- Preferences dialogs now display the version number of files being opened.
- Fixed a problem opening server aliases from the folder contextual menus.
- Fixed a problem with the Desktop Trash appearing full when it was empty.
- Fixed drawing problem with "Fill With Texture" texture mode.
- Textures no longer incorrectly apply to translucent docks with Aqua layer styles.
- Don't show "Minimise" command for windows that can't be minimised.
- Display correct localised name for "Network" item in Disk Dock on Jaguar.
- Fixed -600 error when moving dock items to the Trash with no Finder running.
- Fixed a problem with DragThing not immediately creating another backup preferences file when you clicked "Use Backup".
- This is a free upgrade for registered users of DragThing 5.
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