OpenUsing CMM - Version History

A common complaint has been that the usefulness of type sensitive configuration was limited by the length of file names in Finder (31 characters). It is now possible to extend the type list by taking advantage of Finder comments.
It is now possible to place applications in the OpenUsing Folder. Thanks to Michael J. Barber for arguing in favour of this one.
Running Apps are now sorted by name (thought of this one myself).

A major rewrite of the folder scanning and menu loading code. No changes from users point of view, but code is now much nicer!

Fixed a bug which prevented use with MSIE5 (and possibly other applications). Thanks to "Joon", Junichi Ohtake and Lisa Thompson for bug reports.

Uses resources for all text. This allows third parties to easily translate OpenUsing into languages other than English. If you do, please send me a copy!

Fixed a tiny memory leak (4 bytes per use).
Fixed a more serious memory leak (hundreds of bytes each time advanced user dialog was used).

Further enhancements to type sensitive configuration. Please read Advanced Options section for details.

separator lines are not inserted as the first or last item in a menu, and consecutive separator lines are not inserted (thanks to Remi Zara for bug report).
special folder "Running Apps" now works with ampersand suffix (as documented).
"Add Application" script now works with non-english versions of MacOS (thanks to Erich Kick & Remi Zara for bug reports). You will need to replace this script and/or alias manually.
Fixed a conflict between Kaleidoscope and OpenUsing. The wrong popup menu was displayed in the advanced user dialog box. Thanks to Don Geisz for spotting this one!
Fixed a problem with MacOS 8.1 where some folder aliases were ignored.

Added type sensitive configuration feature. Thanks to Joshua Justice for this suggestion.

Added the ability to open files using a running application, by providing a list of running applications in the OpenUsing submenu. Thanks to Stefan Witzgall for suggesting this feature. Please read the Configuration section to see how to activate this new feature.
Fixed a bug where separator lines were sometimes not displayed. Thanks to Martin Muntenbruch for his detailed bug reports.

Added ability to use folder aliases anywhere in the "OpenUsing Folder". You can even make the "OpenUsing Folder" itself a folder alias. Thanks to Otto Wyss for this suggestion.
If the name of a folder in the "OpenUsing Folder" ends with an ampersand (&), then the contents of that folder are loaded into the current menu without creating a submenu. Try it out, you'll soon see what this means. Thanks to Vincent Jalby for this suggestion.

Rewrote some of the menu loading code. Simplified code and reduced memory usage. This hopefully also addresses a mysterious error reported by J. Wehking.
Recompiled with Interfaces & Headers 3.2.
Only report 'load' error if different to last error. This only affects errors that are detected when the contextual menu is populated. Errors resulting from choosing a menu item that belongs to OpenUsing are always reported. This is to prevent the same error being reported every time you try to use the contextual menu. But since the error message appears only once - read it carefully!
Put a relevant description in the code fragment resource.
Easier to read font for this read me file (Geneva).
Reinstate version number in advanced user dialog.

Fixed a bug which caused OpenUsing to fail when the icon selected was that of a server or removable media. Thanks to Alan Eshelman and Alarik Skarstrom for bug reports.
No longer displays folders that contain only ignored items.
Fixed keyboard scrolling problem in advanced user dialog.
Fixed problem of advanced user dialog not automatically cancelling itself.

Finally got a copy of MSIE to formally test the plugin.

a problem found causing contextual menus to fail completely in MSIE (and potentially other applications) was fixed (hopefully).
keyboard shortcuts (O, C & B) now work even when caps lock is active!

Simplified operation.
Dialog box no longer appears by default.
Vastly improved handling of situations where application chosen does not recognise the file(s).
Vastly improved handling and reporting of errors.
When a bad alias is encountered, offer to select it in Finder.