New Features & Major Changes
Several optimizations for Mac OS 9.0. Huge speed improvement resulting from optimization of memory management. Can apply settings of parent window like version 1.x. - The Contextual Menu plugin no longer tries to relaunch the Window Tamer background application if it has quit. See the full description of the new behavior.
- You can't apply settings saved under a different version of Mac OS than you are currently running. This prevents problems created by numerous changes in the Finder that have been made with every revision. For example, if you saved some settings using Mac OS 8.5, you cannot apply them under 8.6 or 9.0. Simply resave the settings under the new version of Mac OS.
- Changes to the underlying frameworks: many reliability improvements have been made, plus speed optimizations whenever possible. Window Tamer 2.1 is slightly smaller than version 2.0 because of optimizations to many algorithms.
- Extensive testing under Mac OS 8.1, 8.5 and 8.6 resulting in several minor bug fixes.
Bug Fixes/Changes
Saving settings when control panel is already running works properly. Fixed a rare problem where the control panel would get an error from the daemon upon launch. Correctly records when user chooses positioning type "None". Correctly reports errors when trying to Tame or Save Settings from Popup windows. Only toggles view type under Mac OS 8.1 when position is changed. Reports when corrupted preference file has been deleted. - Presumably fixed an elusive, irreproducible problem with the Contextual Menu plugin crashing the Finder. After poking around for hours in MacsBug and looking at several StdLogs sent with bug reports I'm still not sure what was going on. The problem may have been related to an Optimizer bug in CodeWarrior Pro's C/C++ compiler because since I updated to Pro 5, the problem seems to have disappeared. If you still encounter this crash and you have MacsBug installed, please send me a StdLog.
- Interface bug fixes. Fixed the text in the Advanced Options tab of the control panel that said "let's insert some filler text here", plus other minor alignment issues. Also fixed a problem where menu items would not be properly disabled/enabled after viewing the About box.
- Fixed a minor memory leak that surfaced if an error occurred while taming a window or saving window settings.
- Disabled erroneously enabled error reporting in the Contextual Menu plugin. Occasionally an error notification would pop up while the user was trying to open the contextual menu. Apple would certainly frown on this behavior.
- Fixed annoying error messages when trying to record a script with AppleScript Script Editor. More correctly, Window Tamer now ignores any Apple Events it doesn't recognize.
Miscellaneous Changes
Updated installation scripts. Changed documentation creator to Apple Help Viewer.
New Features
- Added Horizontal, Vertical, Diagonal Left and Diagonal Right positioning for convenience (thanks to Paul Schreiber for this suggestion!)
Bug Fixes/Changes
- Fixed problems saving Small Icon/Small Button views under 8.5 and 8.6 (this time for real!)
- Removed a superfluous call to EventAvail() when launching the control panel from the Contextual Menu Plugin
- Miscellaneous bug fixes to underlying frameworks
Known Problems
- Minor cosmetic problems in the control panel when using Mac OS 8.1. Please note that these problems do not inhibit functionality. They seem to be due to problems with the pre-1.1 versions of the Appearance Mananger, but I'll do my best to fix them in the next release.
New Features
- Allows multiple view settings to be saved and recalled
- All functionality is now accessible through the contextual menu plugin
- Redesigned control panel interface once again to support multiple saved settings, plus "classic" mode that retains the functionality of Window Tamer 1.x
- Supports Standard Views in Mac OS 8.5 and later
Bug Fixes & Changes
- Fixed bug with the Appearance Manager that prevented registration information from being properly recognized
- Fixed problems with registration information not being properly saved in some cases
- Miscellaneous bug fixes with saving Icon/Button views
New Features
- Redesigned and simplified the user interface in the control panel
Bug Fixes & Changes
- Fixed a memory leak that eventually caused "Out of Memory" errors
- Fixed some problems with the Finder quitting on some machines with 603/603e processors
New Features
- Added more Appearance Manager support in control panel
Bug Fixes & Changes
- Fixed bug with the Appearance Manager that prevented registration information from being properly recognized
- Fixed problems with registration information not being properly saved in some cases
New Features
- initial version
Bug Fixes & Changes
- none